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Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
208,430 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Frankenstein; or, The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
182,729 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
168,089 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
121,623 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
96,353 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Unknown
94,005 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
81,893 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
78,131 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
76,146 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
71,859 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
70,535 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
67,762 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 48 (College)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
62,659 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
62,172 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
57,519 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 50 (College)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
57,282 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
53,906 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 42 (College)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
53,383 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
53,145 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
52,959 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)The Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
52,851 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 37 (High School)A Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
50,704 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 47 (College)The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
50,662 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 43 (College)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
50,307 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
48,773 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 51 (Graduate)A Biblia Sagrada, Contendo o Velho e o Novo Testamento
Unknown
47,118 Gutenberg downloadspt2020Les enchantements de la forêt
Theuriet, André
47,001 Gutenberg downloadsfr2026The Yellow Wallpaper
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
46,806 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 33 (High School)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
46,606 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
46,518 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Prince
Machiavelli, Niccolò
45,102 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 63 (Academic)Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
44,534 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
43,773 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Enchanted April
Von Arnim, Elizabeth
42,814 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 44 (College)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
Twain, Mark
42,779 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas
42,218 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
42,092 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
40,595 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 45 (College)The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Rymer, James Malcolm & Prest, Thomas Peckett
40,572 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 40 (High School)The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
40,216 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 60 (Graduate)History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Fielding, Henry
39,679 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
38,602 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
38,574 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 34 (High School)Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
38,268 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 39 (High School)Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Leroux, Gaston
38,259 Gutenberg downloadsfr2020The Adventures of Roderick Random
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
37,646 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 79 (Expert)Ulysses
Joyce, James
37,607 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 33 (High School)Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimm, Jacob & Grimm, Wilhelm
37,383 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 35 (High School)A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Swift, Jonathan
37,350 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 71 (Expert)The silent Baltic : $b or, Detained near Kiel
Knox, Marcus
37,335 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 48 (College)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
37,306 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
37,222 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
Unknown
37,188 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 49 (College)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
37,075 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
36,044 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 36 (High School)Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
35,636 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 47 (College)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
35,174 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)Barry Locke, half-back
Barbour, Ralph Henry
33,952 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 40 (High School)Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau, Henry David
33,667 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
33,392 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)A Doll's House : a play
Ibsen, Henrik
32,656 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 30 (Middle School)Second Treatise of Government
Locke, John
32,127 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 74 (Expert)The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington
31,979 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Wilde, Oscar
31,888 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 35 (High School)Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
31,688 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 36 (High School)Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
31,124 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 41 (College)The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
30,902 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
30,834 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 48 (College)The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
30,771 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 39 (High School)Beyond Good and Evil
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
30,201 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 66 (Academic)The call of Cthulhu
Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
29,992 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 63 (Academic)The Souls of Black Folk
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
29,969 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 56 (Graduate)El crimen y el castigo
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
29,958 Gutenberg downloadses2020Poirot Investigates
Christie, Agatha
29,928 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 34 (High School)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
29,881 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Murder on the Links
Christie, Agatha
29,614 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 36 (High School)The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
29,238 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 40 (High School)The Man in the Brown Suit
Christie, Agatha
29,124 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 38 (High School)A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Dickens, Charles
28,618 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 40 (High School)Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
28,518 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The problem of Cell 13
Futrelle, Jacques
28,419 Gutenberg downloadsen2018Difficulty 39 (High School)The Time Machine
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
27,738 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
27,559 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)Whose Body? A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh)
27,392 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 39 (High School)An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Smith, Adam
27,367 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 64 (Academic)The Republic
Plato
26,842 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 62 (Academic)Changeling, and Other Stories
Byrne, Donn
26,601 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 43 (College)Washington Confidential
Lait, Jack & Mortimer, Lee
26,580 Gutenberg downloadsen2020Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
26,053 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)The wheel of earth
Sandburg, Helga
25,951 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 35 (High School)The mysterious Mr. Quin
Christie, Agatha
25,718 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 36 (High School)Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]
Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
25,701 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 35 (High School)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
25,500 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)Herman Melville
Mumford, Lewis
25,410 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 66 (Academic)The innocence of Father Brown
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
25,386 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 47 (College)A guide to the history of physical education
Leonard, Fred Eugene
25,383 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 69 (Academic)On Liberty
Mill, John Stuart
25,348 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 60 (Graduate)Los miserables - Tomo 2 (de 2)
Hugo, Victor
25,344 Gutenberg downloadses2026The Swiss family Robinson
Wyss, Johann David
25,237 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The anatomy of revolution
Brinton, Crane
25,201 Gutenberg downloadsen2026Difficulty 59 (Graduate)