Books First Published in 1900s: Free EPUB Editions

The 1900s is the hinge between the long nineteenth century and the modern novel: Conan Doyle settled Holmes, Chesterton began Father Brown, and the Edwardian children’s book arrived.

Everything below was first published between 1900 and 1909 and is on editions.ink in EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB.

Books first published in the 1900s

Ordered by year of first publication. The list is generated from the book pages, so new releases land here automatically.

Year	Title	Words	Reading time
1900	Sister Carrie — Theodore Dreiser	156,358	~10 h
1900	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum	39,409	~3 h
1902	The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle	59,000	~4 h
1902	The Monkey’s Paw — W. W. Jacobs	4,033	~1 h
1903	The Call of the Wild — Jack London	32,000	~2 h
1903	The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois	68,747	~5 h
1905	The Gift of the Magi — O. Henry	2,130	~1 h
1905	The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton	129,036	~9 h
1905	The Return of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle	112,155	~7 h
1905	The Scarlet Pimpernel — Baroness Orczy	88,000	~6 h
1906	The Jungle — Upton Sinclair	149,277	~10 h
1906	White Fang — Jack London	75,212	~5 h
1907	The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar — Maurice Leblanc	53,974	~4 h
1907	The Mystery of the Yellow Room — Gaston Leroux	73,826	~5 h
1908	A Room with a View — E. M. Forster	65,493	~4 h
1908	Anne of Green Gables — L. M. Montgomery	102,267	~7 h
1908	The Man Who Was Thursday — G. K. Chesterton	57,901	~4 h
1908	The Wind in the Willows — Kenneth Grahame	61,472	~4 h

Questions readers ask

How many books on editions.ink are from the 1900s?

18 titles, about 1,330,290 words, roughly 89 hours of reading.

What should I read first from this decade?

The Gift of the Magi is the shortest, at about 0.1 hours.

How are the dates chosen?

By first publication of the work in book form; the book pages give the exact edition and source used.

Can I read these on a Kindle or Kobo?

Yes: EPUB for most readers, AZW3 for older Kindles and KEPUB for Kobo devices, all direct downloads.

Part of the complete catalogue, with the word count and reading time table and the author index.