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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
Melville, Herman
188,210 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 46 (College)Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
183,505 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 58 (Graduate)A Room with a View
Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
142,569 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 38 (High School)The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer
139,227 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 52 (Graduate)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
132,311 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 36 (High School)Crime and Punishment
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
125,245 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 43 (College)The Mysteries of Udolpho
Radcliffe, Ann Ward
117,670 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 59 (Graduate)Carmen
Mérimée, Prosper
112,176 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 41 (College)The Secret of Chimneys
Christie, Agatha
112,143 Gutenberg downloadsen2021Difficulty 36 (High School)The Green Mummy
Hume, Fergus
106,137 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 44 (College)The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
105,900 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 38 (High School)Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
Brontë, Charlotte
103,010 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 50 (College)A Honeymoon in Space
Griffith, George Chetwynd
100,540 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 44 (College)The Blue Castle: a novel
Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
98,187 Gutenberg downloadsen2022Difficulty 46 (College)My Life — Volume 1
Wagner, Richard
95,789 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
94,492 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 37 (High School)The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William
93,902 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The Monk: A Romance
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory)
93,858 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)The Lady of the Lake
Scott, Walter
89,724 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 53 (Graduate)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
89,208 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
89,014 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 41 (College)The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Leblanc, Maurice
88,520 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 45 (College)The String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Rymer, James Malcolm & Prest, Thomas Peckett
88,406 Gutenberg downloadsen2019Difficulty 40 (High School)Meditations
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome
87,287 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 50 (College)Le Fantôme de l'Opéra
Leroux, Gaston
87,013 Gutenberg downloadsfr2020The Yeoman Adventurer
Gough, George W.
84,557 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 35 (High School)Middlemarch
Eliot, George
84,181 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
83,600 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 64 (Academic)Roméo et Juliette Tragédie
Shakespeare, William
83,550 Gutenberg downloadsfr2006Thuvia, maid of Mars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
81,388 Gutenberg downloadsen1993Difficulty 44 (College)Manon Lescaut
Prévost, abbé
80,853 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 50 (College)Eloisa : $b or, A series of original letters
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
79,893 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
79,438 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 39 (High School)The King in Yellow
Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
78,814 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 47 (College)The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2
Stevenson, Burton Egbert
78,028 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 41 (College)Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
77,685 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 46 (College)The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Wollstonecraft, Mary
77,483 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 55 (Graduate)A farewell to arms
Hemingway, Ernest
77,348 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 30 (Middle School)The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
77,283 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Colonna, Francesco
76,687 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 62 (Academic)Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Franklin, Benjamin
76,567 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 56 (Graduate)The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
76,206 Gutenberg downloadsen1992Difficulty 39 (High School)The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
75,993 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
75,317 Gutenberg downloadsen2002Difficulty 42 (College)Modern English biography, volume 2 (of 4), I-Q
Boase, Frederic
74,682 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 47 (College)Twenty years after
Dumas, Alexandre & Maquet, Auguste
74,574 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 51 (Graduate)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
73,937 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 57 (Graduate)The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Bédier, Joseph
72,250 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 41 (College)Life on the Mississippi
Twain, Mark
71,674 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 48 (College)The Blue Lagoon: A Romance
Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
68,986 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 39 (High School)Catriona
Stevenson, Robert Louis
68,522 Gutenberg downloadsen1996Difficulty 34 (High School)Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William
68,033 Gutenberg downloadsen1997Difficulty 38 (High School)A Study in Scarlet
Doyle, Arthur Conan
66,652 Gutenberg downloadsen1995Difficulty 44 (College)Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
66,470 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (College)Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Alcott, Louisa May
66,277 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 41 (College)Erotica Romana
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
65,741 Gutenberg downloadsen2005Difficulty 42 (College)I am a woman
Bannon, Ann
65,662 Gutenberg downloadsen2025Difficulty 33 (High School)The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sidney, Philip
65,432 Gutenberg downloadsen2023Difficulty 73 (Expert)The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan
65,125 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 42 (College)The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Poe, Edgar Allan
63,847 Gutenberg downloadsen2000Difficulty 49 (College)Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Douglass, Frederick
63,607 Gutenberg downloadsen2006Difficulty 58 (Graduate)Love and Freindship [sic]
Austen, Jane
63,405 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 54 (Graduate)Sonnets from the Portuguese
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
62,714 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 39 (High School)The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Unknown
62,488 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 62 (Academic)Complete Short Works of George Meredith
Meredith, George
62,485 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 42 (College)Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
Dumas, Alexandre
62,473 Gutenberg downloadsen1999Difficulty 49 (College)A pair of blue eyes
Hardy, Thomas
62,448 Gutenberg downloadsen2008Difficulty 46 (College)As You Like It
Shakespeare, William
62,424 Gutenberg downloadsen1998Difficulty 35 (High School)Undine
La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de
62,394 Gutenberg downloadsen2001Difficulty 52 (Graduate)The Red Lily — Complete
France, Anatole
62,185 Gutenberg downloadsen2004Difficulty 43 (College)Around the World in Eighty Days
Verne, Jules
61,541 Gutenberg downloadsen1994Difficulty 48 (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)Dracula
Stoker, Bram
59,207 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 42 (College)Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Dickens, Charles
56,085 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 43 (College)Under the Red Dragon: A Novel
Grant, James
53,012 Gutenberg downloadsen2017Difficulty 53 (Graduate)The Sex Life of the Gods
Knerr, M. E. (Michael E.)
51,171 Gutenberg downloadsen2012Difficulty 35 (High School)The Misplaced Battleship
Harrison, Harry
48,226 Gutenberg downloadsen2007Difficulty 37 (High School)Only a girl's love
Garvice, Charles
48,001 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 56 (Graduate)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 Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty
Dumas, Alexandre
45,627 Gutenberg downloadsen2013Difficulty 38 (High School)The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California
Aimard, Gustave
45,520 Gutenberg downloadsen2014Difficulty 58 (Graduate)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)Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times
James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)
44,724 Gutenberg downloadsen2015Difficulty 50 (College)Cameron of Lochiel
Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe
44,272 Gutenberg downloadsen2016Difficulty 51 (Graduate)What Will People Say? A Novel
Hughes, Rupert
43,618 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 45 (College)The Passionate Elopement
MacKenzie, Compton
43,002 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 49 (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)On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau
Hillern, Wilhelmine von
40,390 Gutenberg downloadsen2011Difficulty 54 (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)Cynthia's Chauffeur
Tracy, Louis
36,897 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 42 (College)The Silent Barrier
Tracy, Louis
36,426 Gutenberg downloadsen2010Difficulty 41 (College)