| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 1623 | 18,086 |
| The Sorrows of Young Werther | J. W. von Goethe | 1774 | 42,353 |
| An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | David Hume | 1748 | 47,942 |
| Democracy and Education | John Dewey | 1916 | 135,195 |
| Aesop’s Fables | Aesop | 1912 | 39,579 |
| Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 1925 | 64,032 |
| Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome | 1889 | 67,210 |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | 180,457 |
| Le Morte d’Arthur | Thomas Malory | 1485 | 349,853 |
| The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Edward Gibbon | 1776 | 1,603,055 |
| The Garden Party and Other Stories | Katherine Mansfield | 1922 | 57,226 |
| The Song Celestial | Edwin Arnold | 1885 | 20,296 |
| The Reign of Greed | José Rizal | 1891 | 114,304 |
| The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | Tobias Smollett | 1753 | 157,261 |
| The Expedition of Humphry Clinker | Tobias Smollett | 1771 | 145,000 |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | James Joyce | 1916 | 86,140 |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | 1604 | 6,377 |
| The History of the Peloponnesian War | Thucydides | 1874 | 249,855 |
| Essays: First and Second Series | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1841 | 133,189 |
| The Genealogy of Morals | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1887 | 51,700 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | 122,070 |
| Paradise Lost | John Milton | 1667 | 82,070 |
| Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | 1912 | 12,114 |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens | 1854 | 102,992 |
| The White Company | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1891 | 151,182 |
| The Master of Ballantrae | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1889 | 85,364 |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | 1722 | 136,206 |
| Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 1874 | 136,402 |
| The Food of the Gods | H. G. Wells | 1904 | 74,392 |
| Typee | Herman Melville | 1846 | 101,001 |
| The Black Arrow | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1888 | 74,081 |
| The Prince and the Pauper | Mark Twain | 1881 | 65,577 |
| The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | 1878 | 142,501 |
| The Last Man | Mary Shelley | 1826 | 173,842 |
| The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1912 | 79,590 |
| North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1855 | 182,087 |
| Our Mutual Friend | Charles Dickens | 1865 | 323,812 |
| Mansfield Park | Jane Austen | 1814 | 162,788 |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 1853 | 351,226 |
| The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | 226,061 |
| The House of the Seven Gables | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1851 | 104,846 |
| A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 1912 | 67,255 |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine | 1776 | 22,127 |
| The Nicomachean Ethics | Aristotle | -340 | 116,452 |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | 1877 | 63,007 |
| The Trial | Franz Kafka | 1925 | 86,874 |
| The Thirty-Nine Steps | John Buchan | 1915 | 44,023 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | 38,738 |
| A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court | Mark Twain | 1889 | 121,033 |
| The Idiot | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1869 | 244,604 |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 1600 | 35,005 |
| The Problems of Philosophy | Bertrand Russell | 1912 | 45,900 |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 1838 | 161,010 |
| Myths and Legends of China | E. T. C. Werner | 1922 | 135,969 |
| The Secret Adversary | Agatha Christie | 1922 | 78,347 |
| The Castle of Otranto | Horace Walpole | 1764 | 39,627 |
| A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | 1864 | 88,854 |
| The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 1908 | 61,472 |
| Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome | E. M. Berens | 1880 | 109,063 |
| The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie | 1920 | 59,580 |
| Northanger Abbey | Jane Austen | 1817 | 80,264 |
| Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | 104,016 |
| Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne | 1926 | 21,382 |
| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Olaudah Equiano | 1789 | 85,638 |
| Through the Looking-Glass | Lewis Carroll | 1871 | 29,797 |
| The Divine Comedy | Dante Alighieri | 1320 | 111,673 |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | 1914 | 70,592 |
| The Adventures of Roderick Random | Tobias Smollett | 1748 | 193,646 |
| The Enchiridion | Epictetus | 125 | 14,119 |
| The Confessions of St. Augustine | Augustine of Hippo | 1909 | 111,892 |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | 261,433 |
| White Nights | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1848 | 118,526 |
| Kidnapped | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 | 85,398 |
| Carmilla | Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu | 1872 | 28,083 |
| The Art of War | Sun Tzu | -500 | 54,841 |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | 1916 | 36,598 |
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes | 1651 | 201,968 |
| The Voyage of the Beagle | Charles Darwin | 1839 | 185,000 |
| The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Henry Fielding | 1749 | 338,946 |
| Grimms’ Fairy Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | 1812 | 100,000 |
| Beowulf | Anonymous | 1000 | 24,921 |
| The Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith | 1776 | 378,427 |
| The Republic | Plato | -375 | 212,446 |
| The King in Yellow | Robert W. Chambers | 1895 | 70,485 |
| Cranford | Elizabeth Gaskell | 1853 | 70,574 |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | 106,298 |
| Notes from the Underground | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1864 | 44,161 |
| The Island of Doctor Moreau | H. G. Wells | 1896 | 46,593 |
| The Prophet | Kahlil Gibran | 1923 | 12,447 |
| Siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | 1922 | 42,192 |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | 1900 | 156,358 |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | 1906 | 149,277 |
| The House of Mirth | Edith Wharton | 1905 | 129,036 |
| White Fang | Jack London | 1906 | 75,212 |
| Ethan Frome | Edith Wharton | 1911 | 34,619 |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | 1899 | 67,080 |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Oscar Wilde | 1888 | 16,085 |
| Bartleby, the Scrivener | Herman Melville | 1853 | 14,522 |
| The Gift of the Magi | O. Henry | 1905 | 2,130 |
| The Monkey’s Paw | W. W. Jacobs | 1902 | 4,033 |
| An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Ambrose Bierce | 1890 | 3,765 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe | 1839 | 6,909 |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 1820 | 12,267 |
| A Modest Proposal | Jonathan Swift | 1729 | 3,467 |
| The Yellow Wallpaper | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | 1892 | 6,052 |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | 1900 | 39,409 |
| Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | 1915 | 21,982 |
| The Innocence of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | 1911 | 78,220 |
| The Valley of Fear | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1915 | 57,665 |
| The Wisdom of Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | 1914 | 71,782 |
| The Mystery of the Yellow Room | Gaston Leroux | 1907 | 73,826 |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Gaston Leroux | 1910 | 84,181 |
| The Mystery of the Blue Train | Agatha Christie | 1928 | 70,132 |
| The Seven Dials Mystery | Agatha Christie | 1929 | 65,307 |
| The Big Four | Agatha Christie | 1927 | 55,601 |
| The Man in the Brown Suit | Agatha Christie | 1924 | 75,020 |
| The Murder on the Links | Agatha Christie | 1923 | 64,793 |
| The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie | 1926 | 70,248 |
| The Iliad | Homer | -750 | 155,801 |
| Don Quixote | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1605 | 423,624 |
| The Enchanted April | Elizabeth von Arnim | 1922 | 78,345 |
| The House of the Arrow | A. E. W. Mason | 1924 | 95,071 |
| The Turn of the Screw | Henry James | 1898 | 41,876 |
| The Monk | M. G. Lewis | 1796 | 136,866 |
| The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1894 | 94,259 |
| The Return of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1905 | 112,155 |
| Twenty Years After | Alexandre Dumas | 1845 | 242,155 |
| Spoon River Anthology | Edgar Lee Masters | 1916 | 39,000 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | 1895 | 21,349 |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | 1845 | 41,029 |
| Two Treatises of Government | John Locke | 1689 | 104,000 |
| The Souls of Black Folk | W. E. B. Du Bois | 1903 | 68,747 |
| On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin | 1859 | 199,893 |
| On Liberty | John Stuart Mill | 1859 | 52,099 |
| Thus Spake Zarathustra | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1883 | 89,892 |
| Beyond Good and Evil | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1886 | 62,067 |
| The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1880 | 348,612 |
| The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. | Washington Irving | 1819 | 122,086 |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 1791 | 64,699 |
| Household Tales | Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm | 1812 | 283,190 |
| Peter and Wendy | J. M. Barrie | 1911 | 47,081 |
| A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen | 1879 | 25,857 |
| Anne of Green Gables | L. M. Montgomery | 1908 | 102,267 |
| War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy | 1869 | 561,860 |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 180 | 75,000 |
| The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar | Maurice Leblanc | 1907 | 53,974 |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | G. K. Chesterton | 1908 | 57,901 |
| The Blue Castle | L. M. Montgomery | 1926 | 68,744 |
| The Mysteries of Udolpho | Ann Radcliffe | 1794 | 290,136 |
| The Secret of Chimneys | Agatha Christie | 1925 | 72,945 |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | 1597 | 25,000 |
| A Room with a View | E. M. Forster | 1908 | 65,493 |
| Les Misérables | Victor Hugo | 1862 | 550,797 |
| The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Victor Hugo | 1831 | 183,523 |
| Tess of the d’Urbervilles | Thomas Hardy | 1891 | 148,850 |
| Germinal | Émile Zola | 1885 | 177,416 |
| Bel-Ami | Guy de Maupassant | 1885 | 107,605 |
| Father Goriot | Honoré de Balzac | 1835 | 104,710 |
| Fathers and Children | Ivan Turgenev | 1862 | 70,888 |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1878 | 349,406 |
| Crime and Punishment | Fyodor Dostoevsky | 1866 | 204,176 |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 1871 | 118,536 |
| The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1532 | 30,953 |
| The Invisible Man | H. G. Wells | 1897 | 49,153 |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 1898 | 60,907 |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 1815 | 161,294 |
| David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | 1850 | 357,252 |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1892 | 105,730 |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | 116,156 |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne | 1873 | 63,040 |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 1905 | 85,837 |
| The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 1886 | 119,238 |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1894 | 53,546 |
| The Sign of the Four | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1890 | 43,028 |
| The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 1911 | 80,663 |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 1817 | 84,289 |
| The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | 1895 | 45,975 |
| Silas Marner | George Eliot | 1861 | 69,922 |
| The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1920 | 101,386 |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | 1857 | 115,528 |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 1843 | 28,529 |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 1811 | 118,819 |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Alexandre Dumas | 1844 | 465,553 |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 1868 | 200,702 |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | 103,730 |
| Heart of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | 1899 | 37,986 |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 1876 | 70,394 |
| The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 1895 | 32,223 |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1850 | 83,110 |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | 1903 | 31,811 |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1883 | 68,392 |
| Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 1719 | 121,172 |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1902 | 59,353 |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1859 | 135,783 |
| Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | 316,280 |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 1861 | 184,412 |
| The Moonstone | Wilkie Collins | 1868 | 196,539 |
| The Woman in White | Wilkie Collins | 1860 | 247,144 |
| Moby-Dick; or, The Whale | Herman Melville | 1851 | 210,892 |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 1865 | 26,609 |
| A Study in Scarlet | Arthur Conan Doyle | 1887 | 43,497 |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 1847 | 184,718 |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 1890 | 78,638 |
| Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 1847 | 116,115 |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 1897 | 160,749 |
| Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 1886 | 25,708 |
| Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 1818 | 75,052 |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1925 | 48,257 |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 1813 | 121,909 |