The Top Books Ever in the Public Domain

Whether you want to bite your fingernails down to nubs with a hair-raising thriller, get swept off your feet by a juicy romance collection, get a little too real with historical fiction, or escape to a new worlds with fantasy, we’ve got at least a book for you on our 50 top books ever in the public domain. What follows is a list of fantastic reads that you won’t be able to resist;

1. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus – By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

2. Pride and Prejudice – By Jane Austen

3. A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
By Charles Dickens

4. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale
By Herman Melville

5. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
By Edgar Allan Poe

6. A Modest Proposal
By Jonathan Swift

7. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
By Robert Louis Stevenson

8. A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens

9. Et dukkehjem. English
By Henrik Ibsen

10. Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad

11. The Gift of the Magi
By O. Henry

12. Don Quixote
By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

13. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll

14. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle

15. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People By Oscar Wilde

16. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
By Henry David Thoreau

17. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain

18. Dracula
By Bram Stoker

19. The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)
By Richard Muther

20. The Scarlet Letter
By Nathaniel Hawthorne

21. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
By Charlotte Brontë

22. Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka

23. The Yellow Wallpaper
By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

24. Grimms’ Fairy Tales
By Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm

25. The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde

26. Ulysses
By James Joyce

27. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
By Mark Twain

28. The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
By Kate Chopin

29. The Souls of Black Folk
By W. E. B. Du Bois

30. Ion
By Plato

31. Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens

32. The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4)
By Richard Muther

33. Anthem
By Ayn Rand

34. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
By Frederick Douglass

35. Il Principe. English
By Niccolò Machiavelli

36. Peter Pan
By J. M. Barrie

37. War and Peace
By graf Leo Tolstoy

38. The War of the Worlds
By H. G. Wells

39. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
By Harriet Beecher Stowe

40. The Memoirs, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson – By Thomas Jefferson

41. Treasure Island – By Robert Louis Stevenson

42. The Hound of the Baskervilles
By Arthur Conan Doyle

43. Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

44. Emma
By Jane Austen

45. Little Women By Louisa May Alcott

46. The Republic – By Plato

47. The Brothers Karamazov – By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

48. Dubliners – By James Joyce

49. Pygmalion – By Bernard Shaw

50. Wuthering Heights – By Emily Brontë