50x50 Recovering the Classics Book List
The books on this list are in the public domain and have been compiled in conjunction with New York Public Library, the White House and the Digital Public Library of America.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark
Aesop's Fables
Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
Agnes Grey
Bronte, Anne
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Ambassadors
James, Henry
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Anne of Avonlea
Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L.M.
Arabian Nights: Tales from 1,001 Nights
Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules
Art of War
Tzu, Sun
Awakening
Chopin
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Beautiful and Damned
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Call of the Wild
London, Jack
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
Communist Manifesto
Marx & Engels
Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rostand, Edmond
Daddy-Long-Legs
Webster, Jean
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolai
Doctor Dolittle
Lofting, Hugh
Doll's House
Ibsen, Henrik
Don Quixote
Cervantes, Miguel
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Dubliners
Joyce, James
Eight Cousins
Alcott, Louisa May
Emma
Austen, Jane
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Far From the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Federalist
Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Flappers and Philosophers
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flatland
Abbott, Edwin
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Grand Inquisitor
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm Brothers
Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
Heidi
Spyri, Johanna
House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Howards End
Forster, E.M.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor
Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde, Oscar
Inferno
Alighieri, Dante
Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
Jacob's Room
Woolf, Virginia
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
Jo's Boys
Alcott, Louisa May
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Verne, Jules
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
Jungle
Sinclair, Upton
Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kim
Kipling, Rudyard
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
King Solomon's Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
Lady with the Dog
Chekhov, Anton
Leaves of Grass
Whitman, Walt
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington
Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor
Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances
Little Men
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Princess
Burnett, Frances
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Lost Continent
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
Man in the Iron Mask
Dumas, Alexandre
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
Middlemarch
Eliot, George
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass, Frederick
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
On Liberty
Mill, John Stuart
On the Origin of the Species
Darwin, Charles
Paradise Lost
Milton, John
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Peter Pan
Barrie, J.M.
Phantom of the Opera
Leroux, Gaston
Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan, John
Pollyanna
Porter, Eleanor H.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Professor
Bronte, Charlotte
Red Badge of Courage
Crane, Stephen
Return of Tarzan
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Robin Hood
Pyle, Howard
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
Room with a View
Forster, E.M.
Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Secret Garden
Burnett, Frances
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Song of Hiawatha
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Swann's Way
Proust, Marcel
Swiss Family Robinson
Wyss, Johann David
Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Tales of the Jazz Age
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Theory of the Leisure Class
Veblen, Thorstein
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Frederich
Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tristam Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
Twelve Years a Slave
Northup, Solomon
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules
Ulysses
Joyce, James
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo
War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G.
What Maisie Knew
James, Henry
White Fang
London, Jack
Wind in the Willows
Grahame, Kenneth
Winesburg, Ohio
Anderson, Sherwood
Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank
Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Twain, Mark
Aesop's Fables
Age of Innocence
Wharton, Edith
Agnes Grey
Bronte, Anne
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis
Ambassadors
James, Henry
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anna Karenina
Tolstoy, Leo
Anne of Avonlea
Montgomery, L.M.
Anne of Green Gables
Montgomery, L.M.
Arabian Nights: Tales from 1,001 Nights
Around the World in 80 Days
Verne, Jules
Art of War
Tzu, Sun
Awakening
Chopin
Babbitt
Lewis, Sinclair
Beautiful and Damned
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bleak House
Dickens, Charles
Brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Call of the Wild
London, Jack
Canterbury Tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles
Communist Manifesto
Marx & Engels
Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Cyrano de Bergerac
Rostand, Edmond
Daddy-Long-Legs
Webster, Jean
David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
Dead Souls
Gogol, Nikolai
Doctor Dolittle
Lofting, Hugh
Doll's House
Ibsen, Henrik
Don Quixote
Cervantes, Miguel
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Dracula
Stoker, Bram
Dubliners
Joyce, James
Eight Cousins
Alcott, Louisa May
Emma
Austen, Jane
Ethan Frome
Wharton, Edith
Far From the Madding Crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Federalist
Hamilton, Madison, Jay
Flappers and Philosophers
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flatland
Abbott, Edwin
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary
Good Soldier
Ford, Ford Madox
Grand Inquisitor
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm Brothers
Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan
Heart of Darkness
Conrad, Joseph
Heidi
Spyri, Johanna
House of Mirth
Wharton, Edith
House of the Seven Gables
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Howards End
Forster, E.M.
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo, Victor
Idiot
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Importance of Being Earnest
Wilde, Oscar
Inferno
Alighieri, Dante
Invisible Man
Wells, H.G.
Jacob's Room
Woolf, Virginia
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
Jo's Boys
Alcott, Louisa May
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Verne, Jules
Jude the Obscure
Hardy, Thomas
Jungle
Sinclair, Upton
Jungle Book
Kipling, Rudyard
Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kim
Kipling, Rudyard
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
King Solomon's Mines
Haggard, H. Rider
Lady with the Dog
Chekhov, Anton
Leaves of Grass
Whitman, Walt
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Irving, Washington
Les Miserables
Hugo, Victor
Leviathan
Hobbes, Thomas
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances
Little Men
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Princess
Burnett, Frances
Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May
Lost Continent
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Madame Bovary
Flaubert, Gustave
Man in the Iron Mask
Dumas, Alexandre
Mansfield Park
Austen, Jane
Metamorphosis
Kafka, Franz
Middlemarch
Eliot, George
Moby Dick
Melville, Herman
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Dickens, Charles
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Douglass, Frederick
Northanger Abbey
Austen, Jane
Oliver Twist
Dickens, Charles
On Liberty
Mill, John Stuart
On the Origin of the Species
Darwin, Charles
Paradise Lost
Milton, John
Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Peter Pan
Barrie, J.M.
Phantom of the Opera
Leroux, Gaston
Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Pilgrim's Progress
Bunyan, John
Pollyanna
Porter, Eleanor H.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, James
Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Pride and Prejudice
Austen, Jane
Professor
Bronte, Charlotte
Red Badge of Courage
Crane, Stephen
Return of Tarzan
Burroghs, Edgar Rice
Robin Hood
Pyle, Howard
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe, Daniel
Room with a View
Forster, E.M.
Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Secret Garden
Burnett, Frances
Sense and Sensibility
Austen, Jane
Siddhartha
Hesse, Herman
Song of Hiawatha
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Swann's Way
Proust, Marcel
Swiss Family Robinson
Wyss, Johann David
Tale of Two Cities
Dickens, Charles
Tales of the Jazz Age
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Hardy, Thomas
Theory of the Leisure Class
Veblen, Thorstein
This Side of Paradise
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Three Musketeers
Dumas, Alexandre
Through the Looking Glass
Carroll, Lewis
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Nietzsche, Frederich
Time Machine
Wells, H.G.
Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Tristam Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
Turn of the Screw
James, Henry
Twelve Years a Slave
Northup, Solomon
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Verne, Jules
Ulysses
Joyce, James
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
War and Peace
Tolstoy, Leo
War of the Worlds
Wells, H.G.
What Maisie Knew
James, Henry
White Fang
London, Jack
Wind in the Willows
Grahame, Kenneth
Winesburg, Ohio
Anderson, Sherwood
Woman in White
Collins, Wilkie
Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Baum, L. Frank
Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Emily