Books First Published in 1890s: Free EPUB Editions

This shelf

Books in the decade
19
Total words
1,165,309
Reading time
64.7 h
Quickest read
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

The 1890s produced gothic horror, decadent comedy and the most famous detective in English fiction all in the same ten years.

The shelf below is ordered by publication year, with word counts and reading times, so a decade that looks thin at a glance turns out to be one of the densest on the site.

Books first published in the 1890s

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

19free editions1,165,309words on site~64.7 hreading time1890–1899years covered
YearTitleWordsReading time
1890An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge — Ambrose Bierce3,765~1 h
1890The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde78,000~5 h
1890The Sign of the Four — Arthur Conan Doyle44,000~3 h
1891Tess of the d’Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy148,850~10 h
1892The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle105,000~7 h
1892The Yellow Wallpaper — Charlotte Perkins Gilman6,052~1 h
1894The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling52,000~3 h
1894The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle94,259~6 h
1895The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde21,349~1 h
1895The King in Yellow — Robert W. Chambers70,485~5 h
1895The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane48,000~3 h
1895The Time Machine — H. G. Wells32,000~2 h
1896The Island of Doctor Moreau — H. G. Wells46,593~3 h
1897Dracula — Bram Stoker160,000~11 h
1897The Invisible Man — H. G. Wells48,000~3 h
1898The Turn of the Screw — Henry James41,876~3 h
1898The War of the Worlds — H. G. Wells60,000~4 h
1899Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad38,000~3 h
1899The Awakening — Kate Chopin67,080~4 h

Questions readers ask

How many books on editions.ink are from the 1890s?

19 titles, about 1,165,309 words, roughly 78 hours of reading.

What should I read first from this decade?

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is the shortest, at about 0.3 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.