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99 Works
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
135,445 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
117,126 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
115,954 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The City of God, Volume I
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
102,512 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 61 (Academic)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
88,359 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
81,187 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
81,100 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
78,974 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
74,985 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
73,700 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
67,843 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
66,390 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
63,757 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
60,267 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
55,916 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
55,276 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
55,255 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 50 (College)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
54,195 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
52,111 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
52,049 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
48,906 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Brothers Karamazov
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
46,293 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 48 (College)The Enchanted April
Von Arnim, Elizabeth
45,810 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 44 (College)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
45,099 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 36 (High School)Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Leroux, Gaston
43,827 Gutenberg downloadsfr2020The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
42,952 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 43 (College)The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
42,519 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Cranford
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
42,484 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (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)The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
42,392 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 62 (Academic)Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D)
Unknown
42,103 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
41,534 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 47 (College)History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Fielding, Henry
41,340 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 51 (Graduate)The Adventures of Roderick Random
Smollett, T. (Tobias)
41,248 Gutenberg downloadsen2003Difficulty 79 (Expert)Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark
41,091 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude
Bidwell, Austin
38,127 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Wollstonecraft, Mary
38,116 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
38,017 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
37,400 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Unknown
36,667 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
Twain, Mark
36,541 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Malet, Lucas
34,954 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
34,322 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
33,768 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 59 (Graduate)The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sidney, Philip
33,663 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 73 (Expert)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
32,717 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 42 (College)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
32,701 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 40 (High School)The murder of Roger Ackroyd
Christie, Agatha
32,447 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 39 (High School)Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler : $b Roman
Jacques, Norbert
31,208 Gutenberg downloadsde2015Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
31,203 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
31,021 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 65 (Academic)Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Dickens, Charles
30,413 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 43 (College)The Green Mummy
Hume, Fergus
29,838 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 44 (College)Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
29,433 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 37 (High School)Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimm, Jacob & Grimm, Wilhelm
29,414 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 35 (High School)The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
29,413 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 60 (Graduate)The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Leblanc, Maurice
29,111 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
29,067 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
28,766 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Misplaced Battleship
Harrison, Harry
28,765 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 37 (High School)Under the Red Dragon: A Novel
Grant, James
28,630 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
28,540 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
28,422 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
28,192 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Walter
27,922 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Sex Life of the Gods
Knerr, M. E. (Michael E.)
27,853 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 35 (High School)That Girl Montana
Ryan, Marah Ellis
27,847 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 40 (High School)The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)
27,741 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 34 (High School)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
27,692 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
Hobbes, John Oliver
27,606 Gutenberg downloadsen2009Difficulty 41 (College)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
27,533 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
27,494 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)A farewell to arms
Hemingway, Ernest
27,160 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 30 (Middle School)A Honeymoon in Space
Griffith, George Chetwynd
27,045 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 44 (College)The Yeoman Adventurer
Gough, George W.
26,670 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 35 (High School)War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo, graf
26,645 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 51 (Graduate)King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Malory, Thomas, Sir
25,764 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
25,545 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
Equiano, Olaudah
25,521 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 48 (College)The Monk: A Romance
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
25,102 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
24,865 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
24,854 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 64 (Academic)Thuvia, maid of Mars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
24,852 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 44 (College)I am a woman
Bannon, Ann
24,468 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 33 (High School)Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q
Boase, Frederic
24,364 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 47 (College)The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
Suetonius
24,314 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 68 (Academic)The Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
24,218 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 40 (High School)Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
Day, Holman
24,026 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
23,506 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 52 (Graduate)A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Verne, Jules
23,399 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 45 (College)Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
23,094 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)Manon Lescaut
Prévost, abbé
23,052 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
22,522 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
22,232 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 48 (College)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
22,220 Gutenberg downloadsen1992Difficulty 39 (High School)Roméo et Juliette Tragédie
Shakespeare, William
21,844 Gutenberg downloadsfr2006The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
19,200 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)Catriona
Stevenson, Robert Louis
18,898 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 34 (High School)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
17,797 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 38 (High School)