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Hand-picked reading lists from the public-domain library — by theme, era, author, and length. Speed-read each one free.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Every Arthur Conan Doyle work in the public-domain library, collected in one place.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Life on the Mississippi

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Every Mark Twain work in the public-domain library, collected in one place.

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 3 (of 3)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Pride and Prejudice

Most Read of All Time

The public domain's greatest hits, ranked by reader downloads.

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The City of God, Volume I

of Hippo, Saint Augustine

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Doorstop classics worth the journey — settle in for the long haul.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

Mary Wollstonecraft

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Short Classics Under an Hour

Complete works you can finish in a single sitting at speed-reading pace.

Pride and Prejudice

A Room with a View

E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

Tales of Old England

Drawing rooms, moors, and London fog — classic fiction set in England.

Pride and Prejudice

A Room with a View

E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Growing-up stories — innocence, ambition, and the first hard lessons.

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Wuthering Heights

Psychological Novels

Interior dramas of guilt, obsession, and the restless mind.

My Life — Volume 1

Life on the Mississippi

Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison: Fifteen Years in Solitude

The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay

Mary Wollstonecraft

Memoirs, letters, and the lives of remarkable people.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

The divine comedy

Dante Alighieri

Verse to read slowly — sonnets, epics, and song.

Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 3 (of 3)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The City of God, Volume I

of Hippo, Saint Augustine

Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The Confessions of St. Augustine

of Hippo, Saint Augustine

Philosophy to Start With

Foundational works on how to think, live, and reason.

Pride and Prejudice

The Blue Castle: a novel

L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

Courtships, heartbreaks, and the long road to the altar.

The King in Yellow

Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

T. (Tobias) Smollett

Gothic & Horror

Haunted houses, restless spirits, and the things that wait in the dark.

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete

T. (Tobias) Smollett

Adventure & the High Seas

Shipwrecks, treasure maps, and journeys to the edge of the known world.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

The Green Mummy

Detective & Mystery

Whodunits, sleuths, and locked-room puzzles — the stories that built crime fiction.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

The essential Sherlock Holmes collection — follow the world's greatest detective through foggy Victorian London as he solves impossible crimes with razor-sharp logic.