Books of the 1910s: Free EPUB Editions

The 1910s is the decade when popular genres separated into the shapes they still have: the detective story, the scientific romance, the children’s fantasy and the spy thriller. Chesterton’s Father Brown, Burroughs’s Mars, Doyle’s Lost World and Buchan’s Thirty-Nine Steps all date from these years.

Literary fiction was changing just as sharply. Joyce’s Dubliners, Kafka’s Metamorphosis and Wharton’s Ethan Frome are all short books from this decade, and all of them are experiments in point of view. Everything below was first published between 1910 and 1919 and is available on editions.ink in EPUB, AZW3 and KEPUB.

Books first published in the 1910s

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
1910	How We Think — John Dewey	62,563	~3 h
1910	The Phantom of the Opera — Gaston Leroux	84,181	~5 h
1911	Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton	34,619	~2 h
1911	Peter and Wendy — J. M. Barrie	47,000	~3 h
1911	The Innocence of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton	78,220	~4 h
1911	The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett	81,000	~5 h
1912	A Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs	67,255	~4 h
1912	Aesop’s Fables — Aesop	40,000	~2 h
1912	Oedipus Rex — Sophocles	12,000	~1 h
1912	The Lost World — Arthur Conan Doyle	80,000	~4 h
1912	The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell	45,900	~3 h
1913	De Profundis — Oscar Wilde	17,754	~1 h
1914	Dubliners — James Joyce	70,592	~4 h
1914	The Wisdom of Father Brown — G. K. Chesterton	71,782	~4 h
1915	Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka	21,982	~1 h
1915	The Thirty-Nine Steps — John Buchan	44,023	~2 h
1915	The Valley of Fear — Arthur Conan Doyle	57,665	~3 h
1916	A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man — James Joyce	86,000	~5 h
1916	Democracy and Education — John Dewey	135,000	~8 h
1916	Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw	36,598	~2 h
1916	Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters	39,000	~2 h

Questions readers ask

How many books on editions.ink are from the 1910s?

20 titles, about 1,201,134 words, roughly 67 hours of reading.

What should I read first from this decade?

Metamorphosis (1915) is the shortest at about 1.2 hours; The Phantom of the Opera (1910) is the longest at roughly 4.7 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.

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Part of the complete list of books by decade, with the word count and reading time table and the author index.