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100 Works
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
160,099 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
136,926 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
103,120 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
101,658 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
93,752 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
82,955 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
77,916 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Wollstonecraft, Mary
77,483 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
76,803 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Leblanc, Maurice
75,744 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
75,709 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
75,458 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
74,985 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
74,616 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
70,250 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
68,850 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
67,570 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 50 (College)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
66,277 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Walter
65,496 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Green Mummy
Hume, Fergus
63,760 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 44 (College)The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Unknown
62,488 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
61,696 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
61,311 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell, Austin
60,600 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
60,345 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 40 (High School)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
60,197 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
59,207 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 42 (College)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
57,647 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
56,561 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 38 (High School)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
56,499 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
56,111 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Dickens, Charles
56,085 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 43 (College)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
55,276 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)Under the Red Dragon: A Novel
Grant, James
53,012 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
51,412 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Sex Life of the Gods
Knerr, M. E. (Michael E.)
51,171 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 35 (High School)Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler : $b Roman
Jacques, Norbert
50,371 Gutenberg downloadsde2015Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
50,171 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
48,253 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)The Misplaced Battleship
Harrison, Harry
48,226 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 37 (High School)A Honeymoon in Space
Griffith, George Chetwynd
48,192 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 44 (College)Only a girl's love
Garvice, Charles
48,001 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
47,886 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Malory, Thomas, Sir
47,553 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 52 (Graduate)One of the Six Hundred: A Novel
Grant, James
47,272 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
46,380 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The Yeoman Adventurer
Gough, George W.
46,309 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 35 (High School)That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day
Dehan, Richard
45,295 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Linnet: A Romance
Allen, Grant
45,280 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 48 (College)The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition
Scott, Walter
45,209 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 55 (Graduate)The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Malet, Lucas
45,009 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Leroux, Gaston
43,827 Gutenberg downloadsfr2020Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
43,692 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 64 (Academic)That Girl Montana
Ryan, Marah Ellis
43,636 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 40 (High School)What Will People Say? A Novel
Hughes, Rupert
43,618 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 45 (College)The Monk: A Romance
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
43,597 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
Hobbes, John Oliver
43,343 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 41 (College)Thuvia, maid of Mars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
43,298 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 44 (College)The Passionate Elopement
MacKenzie, Compton
43,002 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 49 (College)The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Rymer, James Malcolm & Prest, Thomas Peckett
42,455 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 40 (High School)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
42,397 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)Manon Lescaut
Prévost, abbé
41,835 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts: Novelle
Eichendorff, Joseph, Freiherr von
41,607 Gutenberg downloadsde2011Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Day, Holman
40,865 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Doctor Cupid: A Novel
Broughton, Rhoda
40,554 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 44 (College)A farewell to arms
Hemingway, Ernest
40,474 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 30 (Middle School)Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q
Boase, Frederic
40,160 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 47 (College)Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark
40,040 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
39,855 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 65 (Academic)The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
39,676 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
39,510 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
39,111 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
38,989 Gutenberg downloadsen1992Difficulty 39 (High School)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
38,780 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)Emily Brontë
Robinson, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances)
38,713 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
38,454 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes
Henry VIII, King of England
38,325 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Moods
Alcott, Louisa May
38,039 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 40 (High School)Roméo et Juliette Tragédie
Shakespeare, William
37,428 Gutenberg downloadsfr2006The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
37,076 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)Cynthia's Chauffeur
Tracy, Louis
36,897 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 42 (College)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
35,917 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Erotica Romana
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
35,444 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 42 (College)Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
35,327 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
34,825 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)I am a woman
Bannon, Ann
34,771 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 33 (High School)Catriona
Stevenson, Robert Louis
34,502 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 34 (High School)Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
34,421 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 46 (College)Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Colonna, Francesco
34,180 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Bédier, Joseph
33,981 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
33,906 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 39 (High School)The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2
Stevenson, Burton Egbert
33,846 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 40 (High School)As You Like It
Shakespeare, William
33,694 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)The Red Lily — Complete
France, Anatole
33,677 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 43 (College)The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sidney, Philip
33,663 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 73 (Expert)The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot
Day, Holman
33,627 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 35 (High School)Complete Short Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
33,405 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 42 (College)Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Courtship
Unknown
32,499 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Love and Freindship [sic]
Austen, Jane
32,226 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 54 (Graduate)A pair of blue eyes
Hardy, Thomas
31,824 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 46 (College)