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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Blue Castle
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis
My Life — Volume 1
Richard Wagner
Eloisa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Novels

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The Blue Castle
Lucy Maud Montgomery
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch
George Eliot
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Charles Dickens

Science Fiction

Thuvia, maid of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
The Misplaced Battleship
Harry Harrison
Time Crime
H. Beam Piper
Lone Star Planet
H. Beam Piper
The Ambulance Made Two Trips
Murray Leinster
The Shunned House
H. P. Lovecraft
Occasion ... for Disaster
Randall Garrett
The Dunwich horror
H. P. Lovecraft
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
Space Station 1
Frank Belknap Long
Supermind
Randall Garrett
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
From the Earth to the moon
Jules Verne

Horror

Dracula
Bram Stoker
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M. R. James
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson
The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce
The Shunned House
H. P. Lovecraft
Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu
The Trial
Franz Kafka

Adventure

Moby Dick
Herman Melville
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
Maurice Leblanc
Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien de Troyes
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney
The Blue Lagoon
Henry de Vere Stacpoole
Catriona
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie
The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
The Secret Adversary
Agatha Christie
Mr. Standfast
John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan

Romance

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Ann Radcliffe
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster
Carmen
Prosper Mérimée
The Blue Castle
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The Monk
Matthew Gregory Lewis
Eloisa
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien de Troyes
A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
Manon Lescaut
Abbé Prévost
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Philip Sidney

Poetry

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
Edgar Allan Poe
The Lady of the Lake
Walter Scott
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Erotica Romana
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake
The Aeneid
Virgil
The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Ballad of the White Horse
G. K. Chesterton
Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell
Dante Alighieri
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Hesiod
Shakespeare's Sonnets
William Shakespeare

Plays

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
As You Like It
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
Oedipus King of Thebes
Sophocles
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9]
William Shakespeare
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
William Shakespeare
The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 7 of 9]
William Shakespeare
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophy & Ethics

The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine of Hippo
The Republic of Plato
Plato
Symposium
Plato
Apology
Plato
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Marcus Aurelius
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Vātsyāyana
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
Francis Bacon
Phaedrus
Plato
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Phaedo
Plato
Utopia
Thomas More
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children & Young Adult Reading

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery

Humour

The Seven Dials mystery
Agatha Christie
Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare
Love and Freindship [sic]
Jane Austen
The Green Mouse
Robert W. Chambers
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
P. G. Wodehouse
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Tobias Smollett
Occasion ... for Disaster
Randall Garrett
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Supermind
Randall Garrett
The Passionate Elopement
Compton Mackenzie
Gargantua and Pantagruel
François Rabelais
The Pickwick Papers
Charles Dickens
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Laurence Sterne