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Beloved Books and Classic Literature

Welcome to the library! Unlike the fairytales section, I'll be posting entire books here. Although like the fairytales and nursery rhymes sections, it will only be of books whose copyright has expired and now reside in the public domain. Books by unknown authors will be credited to the publishers for simplicity's sake. Any fairytales or nursery rhymes will appear in the fairytales and nursery rhymes sections.

Mother Goose & Nursery Rhymes

• A Apple Pie. Kate Greenaway. 1886.
• A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales. Kronheim and Co. George Routledge and Sons. 1870.
• The Absurd ABC. Walter Crane. 1874.
• Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. Helen Beatrix Potter. 1917.
• Aunt Friendly's Nursery Picture Book. Sarah Schoonmaker Baker. Illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim. 1880.
• Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Edited by Walter Jerrold. Illustrated by Charles Robinson. 1920.
• A Book of Nonsense. Edward Lear. 1846.
• The Book of Saints & Friendly Beasts. Abbie Farwell Brown. 1900.
• Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes. Helen Beatrix Potter. 1922.
• Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes. Translated and illustrated by Isaac Taylor Headland of Peking University. 1900.
• Denslow's Mother Goose. W.W. Wallace. Illustrated by William Wallace Denslow. 1901.
• Harry's Ladder to Learning. David Bogue. Illustrated by John Absolon, Edward Wehnert, and Harrison Weir. 1850.
• The Little Mother Goose. Jessie Willcox Smith. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. 1912.
• Mother Goose, the Original Volland Edition. Arranged by Eulalie Osgood Grover. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson. 1915.
• Mother Goose in Prose. Lyman Frank Baum. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. 1901.
• Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 1881.
• Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes. Walter Crane. Illustrated by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., John Tinniel, Harrison Weir, Walter Crane, W. McConnel, J.B. Zwecker, and others. 1877.
• The Nursery Rhymes of England. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. Illustrated by William Bell Scott. 1886.
• Popular Rhymes of Scotland. Robert Chambers. 1870.
• The Real Mother Goose. Illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright. 1916.
• Ring o' Roses, A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book. Illustrated by Leonard Leslie Brooke. 1900.
• The Only True Mother Goose Melodies. Illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim. 1833.

Children's Stories

• A Bit of Sunshine. Dodd, Mead, and Company. 1879.
• The Book of Stories for the Story-Teller. Fanny E. Coe.
• Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. William Roscoe.
• Child's First Picture Book. Charles E. Graham. 1891.
• Daddy's Little Rhyme Book. H. Willebeek le Mair.
• The Entertaining History of Jobson and Nell. Morgan & Yeager. 1825.
• Half-Past Seven Stories. Robert Gordon Anderson. 1922.
• Harry's Ladder to Learning. David Bogue. Illustrated by John Absolon, Edward Wehnert, and Harrison Weir. 1850.
• The Louisa Alcott Reader. Louisa May Alcott. 1908.
• Seven O'Clock Stories. Robert Gordon Anderson. 1920.
• The Wise Mamma Goose. Charlotte B. Herr. Illustrated by Frances Beem. 1913.
• Tame Animals. George Routledge and Sons. 1865.
• Helen Beatrix Potter
  • The Tale of Peter Rabbit. 1902.
  • The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. 1903.
  • The Tailor of Gloucester. 1903.
  • The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. 1904.
  • The Tale of Two Bad Mice. 1904.
  • The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle. 1905.
  • The Pie and the Patty-Pan. 1905.
  • The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher. 1906.
  • The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. 1906.
  • The Story of Miss Moppet. 1906.
  • The Tale of Tom Kitten. 1907.
  • The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck. 1908.
  • The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, or, The Roly-Poly Pudding. 1908.
  • The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies. 1909.
  • Ginger and Pickles. 1909.
  • The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse. 1910.
  • The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. 1911.
  • The Tale of Mr. Tod. 1912.
  • The Tale of Pigling Bland. 1913.
  • The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots. 1914.
  • Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes. 1917.
  • The Tale of Johnny Townmouse. 1918.
  • Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes. 1922.
  • The Tale of Little Pig Robinson. 1930.
• Twilight Animal Series for Boys & Girls, from 4 to 10 years of Age. George Ethelbert Walsh.
  • Bumper the White Rabbit.
  • Bumper the White Rabbit in the Woods.
  • Bumper the White Rabbit and His Foes.
  • Bumper the White Rabbit and His Friends.
  • Bobby Gray Squirrel.
  • Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures.
  • Buster the Big Brown Bear.
  • Buster the Big Brown Bear's Adventures.
  • White Tail the Deer.
  • White Tail the Deer's Adventures.
  • Washer, the Raccoon.
• The Wonders of a Toy Shop. J. Q. Preble. 1850.

Folklore and Fairytales

Africa

• Ancient Egyptian Legends. Margaret Alice Murray. 1920.
• Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa. Elphinstone Dayrell. 1910.
• South-African Folk Tales. James A. Honey.

The Americas

• Indigenous & First Peoples
  • Algic Researches. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
  • Algonquin Indian Tales. Egerton Ryerson Young. 1903.
  • Algonquin Legends of New England. Charles Godfrey Leland.
  • Allegheny Episodes. Henry W. Shoemaker.
  • American Indian Fairy Tales. William Trowbridge Larned. 1921.
  • Animal Stories from Eskimo Land. Daniel S. Neuman. 1923.
  • The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children. Mary Austin.
  • The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends. Cornelius Matthews. Illustrated by John McLenan. 1869.
  • The Myths of the North American Indians. Lewis Spence.
  • Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children. Mabel Powers. Illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim. 1917.
  • Zuñi Folk Tales. Frank Hamilton Cushing. 1901.
• Canada
  • Canadian Fairy Tales. Cyrus MacMillan. Illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster. 1922.
• United States of America
  • American Fairy Tales. Lyman Frank Baum. 1901.
  • Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South. Johnson Cocke. 1912.
  • Negro Folk Rhymes. Thomas Washington Talley. 1922.
  • Uncle Remus
    • Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. Joel Chandler Harris. 1881.
    • Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation. Joel Chandler Harris. 1883.
    • Uncle Remus and His Friends. Joel Chandler Harris. 1892.
    • The Tar Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus. Joel Chandler Harris. 1904.
    • Told by Uncle Remus: New Stories of the Old Plantation. Joel Chandler Harris. 1905.
    • Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. Joel Chandler Harris. 1907.
    • Uncle Remus and the Little Boy. Joel Chandler Harris. 1910.
    • Uncle Remus Returns. Joel Chandler Harris. 1918.
    • Seven Tales of Uncle Remus. Joel Chandler Harris. 1948.
• Middle & Caribbean America
  • Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Stories, Ring Tunes, and Dancing Tunes. Jekyll, Walter.
• South America
  • Fairy Tales from Brazil: How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore. Elsie Spicer Eells. Illustrated by Helen M. Barton. 1917.

Asia

• Western Asia
  • The Adventures of Hatim Taï, A Romance. Translated by Duncan Forbes. 1896.
  • Armenian Legends and Poems. Zabelle C. Boyajian. Viscount Bryce. Aram Raffi. 1916.
  • The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, vol. 1-10, supplemental vol. 1-6. Sir Richard Francis Burton. 1885-1888.
  • The Cat and the Mouse: A Book of Persian Fairy Tales. James and Neill. 1906.
  • The Legends of the Jews. Louis Ginzberg. 1909.
  • An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic. Morris Jastrow Jr. Albert T. Clay. 1920.
  • Sindbad the Sailor, and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights. Edmund Dulac. 1914.
  • Told in the Coffee House: Turkish Tales. Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay. 1898.
• Central Asia
• South Asia
  • Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. Toru Dutt. 1885.
  • The Cat and the Mouse: A Book of Persian Fairy Tales. Hartwell James. Illustrated by John R. Neill. 1906.
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh, A Fragment of the Gilgamesh Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform. Stephen Langdon.
  • Indian Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs. 1912.
  • Indian Myth and Legend. Donald Alexander Mackenzie.
  • The Jatakas, Tales of India. Ellen C. Babbitt.
  • The Magic Bed: A Book of East Indian Fairy-Tales. Hartwell James. 1906.
  • A Prose English Translation of Harivamsha. Manmatha Nath Dutt. 1897.
  • Tales of the Sun, or, Folklore of Southern India. Lucas Cleeve, Pandit Natesa Sastri. 1890.
  • Vikram and Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance. Sir Richard Francis Burton. Isabel Burton. 1870.
• East Asia
  • Ainu Folk Tales. Basil Hall Chamberlain.
  • The Chinese Fairy Book. Richard Wilhelm. 1921.
  • The Kobunsha Japanese Fairy Tale Series. Takejiro Hasegawa. 1885-1903.
  • Japanese Fairy World. William Elliot Griffis. 1887.
  • Korean Fairy Tales. William Elliot Griffis. 1911.
  • Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Songling Pu. Translated by Herbert Allen Giles.
  • Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures. Songling Pu. Translated by Georges Soulié de Morant.
• Southeast Asia

British Isles

• Celtic
  • Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by John D. Batten. 1891.
  • More Celtic Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by John D. Batten. 1895.
  • Celtic Tales, Told to the Children. Louey Chisholm.
  • Myths and Legends of the Celtic Race. T. W. Rolleston.
  • The Poem-Book of the Gael. Eleanor Hull. 1913.
• England
  • Aunt Friendly's Nursery Picture Book. Sarah Schoonmaker Baker. Illustrated by Joseph Martin Kronheim. 1880.
  • Beówulf: An Anglo-Saxon Poem; The Fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment. Robert Sharp.
  • Book of Elves and Fairies. Frances Jenkins Olcott.
  • A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories. 1847.
  • English Fairy Tales. Flora Annie Webster Steel. 1918.
  • English Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs. 1890.
  • More English Fairy Tales. Joseph Jacobs. 1894.
  • Goblin Tales of Lancashire. James Bowker. 1751.
  • The Ingoldsby Legends, or, Mirth and Marvels. Thomas Ingoldsby. 1843.
  • The Little Red Hen. Florence White Williams. 1918.
  • The Three Little Kittens. 1890.
• Ireland
  • Ancient Irish Epic Tale of Táin Bó Cúalnge. Joseph Dunn. 1914.
  • Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions. Lady Wilde. 1919.
  • Irish Fairy Tales. James Stephens. 1910.
• Scotland
  • The Scottish Fairy Book. Elizabeth W. Grierson. 1910.
• Wales
  • British Goblins: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions. Wirt Sikes. 1880.
  • Observations on the Snowdon Mountains. Williams. 1802.
  • Welsh Fairy Tales. William Elliot Griffis.
  • Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories. Peter Henry Emerson. 1894.
  • Welsh Folklore. Elias Owen. 1887.
• Isle (and Calf) of Man
  • Manx Fairy Tales. Sophia Morrison. 1911.
• Guernsey
  • Guernsey Folk Lore. Sir Edward MacCulloch. 1903.
• King Arthur
  • Arthur. Marquis of Bath. 1450.
  • Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut. Wace. 1155.
  • Four Arthurian Romances: Erec et Enide, Cligé, Yvain, and Lancelot. Chrétien de Troyes. 1170.
  • Le Morte D'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory. 1485.
  • King Arthur's Knights. Henry Gilbert. 1911.
  • The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights. James Knowles. 1895.
  • In the Court of King Arthur. Samuel E. Lowe. 1918.
  • Howard Pyle's Story of King Arthur.
    • The Story of King Arthur and His Knights. Howard Pyle. 1903.
    • The Story of the Champions of the Round Table. Howard Pyle. 1905.
    • The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions. Howard Pyle. 1907.
    • The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur. Howard Pyle. 1910.
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Mark Twain. 1889.
  • The Once and Future King
    • The Sword in the Stone. T.H. White. 1938.
    • The Queen of Air and Darkness. T.H. White. 1939.
    • The Ill-Made Knight. T.H. White. 1940.
    • The Candle in the Wind. T.H. White. 1958.
    • The Book of Merlyn. T.H. White. 1977.
  • Robin Hood
    • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Howard Pyle.
    • Robin Hood. Joseph Ritson. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick, Edwin Buckman, and Alfred Holst Tourrier.

Europe

• The Enchanted Castle: A Book of Fairy Tales from Flowerland. Hartwell James. 1906.
• European Folk and Fairy Tales, Europa's Fairy Tale Book. Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by John D. Batten. 1916.
• Southern Europe
  • The Argonautica. Apollonius Rhodius. Translated by Robert Cooper Seaton. 1912.
  • Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediæval Romances and Legends. Eugene Mason.
  • Endymion: A Poetic Romance. John Keats.
  • The Odyssey of Homer. S.H. Butcher. Andrew Lang.
  • The Odysseys of Homer. George Chapman. 1614.
  • Old Greek Stories. James Baldwin.
  • Stories from the Pentamerone. Giambattista Basile.
  • Aesop's Fables
    • Aesop Dress'd, or, A Collection of Fables Writ in Familiar Verse. Bernard Mandeville. 1966.
    • Aesop in Rhyme, or, Old Friends in a New Dress. Marmaduke Park. 1852.
    • Aesop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. Charles Whittingham. 1814.
    • The Aesop for Children. Illustrated by Milo Winter. 1919.
    • The Fables of La Fontaine. Jean de la Fountaine. Translated by Walter Thornbury. 1886.
    • Three Hundred Æsop's Fables. Translated by Rev. George Fyler Townsend. 1860.
• Western Europe
  • Beauty and the Beast. Marie Le Prince de Beaumont. 1740.
  • Belgian Fairy Tales. William Elliot Griffis.
  • Dutch Fairy Tales. William Elliot Griffis.
  • Le Cabinet des Fées. Monsieur Charles Perrault. 1697.
  • Legends of the Middle Ages. Hélène Adeline Guerber.
  • Little Cinderella. 1859.
  • Old French Fairy Tales. Comtesse de Sophie Ségur. 1920.
  • Old French Romances. William Morris. 1896.
  • One Hundred Merrie and Delightsome Stories. Robert Bruce Douglas. Illustrated by Léon Lebèque. 1899.
• Central Europe
  • Arnold of Winkelried, the Heor of Sempach. Gustav Höcker. 1908.
  • Brothers Grimm
    • Grimms' Kinder und Hausmärchen. Brothers Grimm. Translated by Edgar Taylor and Marian Edwardes. 1812.
    • Grimms' Household Tales. By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm. Translated by Margaret Raine Hunt. 1884.
    • Grimms' Household Stories. By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm. Translated by Lucy Crane. Illustrated by Walter Crane. 1886.
    • Snowdrop & Other Tales. By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1909.
    • Grimm's Fairy Stories. By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm. Illustrated by John B. Gruelle and R. Emmett Owen. 1922.
    • Grimm's Fairy Tales. By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm. Edited by Frances Jenkins Olcott. Illustrated by Rie Cramer. 1927.
  • Swiss Fairy Tales. William Elliot Griffis. 1920.
• Eastern Europe
  • Armenian Literature. Robert Amot. Florence Belle Collins. 1904.
  • The Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia. Apraham Garabed Seklemian. 1898.
  • Byliny Book: Hero Tales of Russia. Marion Chilton Harrison. 1915.
  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago. Ivana Brlic-Mazuranic.
  • Czechoslovak Fairy Tales. Parker Fillmore. 1919.
  • Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen. Alexander Chodzko. 1896.
  • Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi. R. Nisbet Bain. 1901.
  • Russian Folk-tales. Aleksandr Nikolaevich Afanas'ev. Leonard Alexander Magnus, LL.B. 1915.
  • Tales from Jókai. R. Nisbet Bain.
• Northern Europe
  • Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology. Mary H. Foster. Mabel H. Cummings. 1901.
  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales. Peter Christian Asbjørnsen.
  • The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic. Henry Adams Bellows.
  • Popular tales from the Norse. Peter Christian Asbjørnsen.
  • Round the Yule-Log, Christmas in Norway. Peter Christian Asbjørnsen. 1895.
  • Stories from Northern Myths. Emilie Kip Baker. 1914.
  • Tales from the Fjeld, A Second Series of Popular Tales. Peter Christian Asbjørnsen. 1874.
  • Viking Tales. Jennie Hall. 1902.
  • Weird Tales from Northern Seas. Jonas Lie. 1893.
  • Hans Christian Andersen
    • Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Vilhelm Pedersen and Lorenze Frølich. 1870.
    • A Christmas Greeting. Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Charles Boner. 1847.
    • The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Fanny Fuller. 1863.
    • Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, 1st Series. Edited by J.H. Stickney. Illustrated by Edna F. Hart. 1886.
    • Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, 2nd Series. Edited by J.H. Stickney. Illustrated by Edna F. Hart. 1915.
    • What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales. Hans Christian Anderson. Illustrated by A.W. Bayes. Translated by H.W. Dulcken, Ph.D. 1870.
    • Wonderful Stories for Children. Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by Mary Howitt. 1889.
• Southeastern Europe

Oceania

• Australian Fairy Tales. Atha Westbury. Illustrated by A.J. Johnson.
• Australian Fairy Tales. James Hume-Cook.
• Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies. Katie Langloh Parker. 1895.
• At the Gateways of the Day. Padraic Colum. 1924.
• Hawaiian Folk Tales: A Collection of Native Legends. Thomas G. Thrum.
• The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folklore of a Strange People. David Kalakaua.

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

• The Blue Fairy Book. 1889.
• The Red Fairy Book. 1890.
• The Green Fairy Book. 1892.
• The Yellow Fairy Book. 1894.
• The Pink Fairy Book. 1897.
• The Grey Fairy Book. 1900.
• The Violet Fairy Book. 1901.
• The Crimson Fairy Book. 1903.
• The Brown Fairy Book. 1904.
• The Orange Fairy Book. 1906.
• The Olive Fairy Book. 1907.
• The Lilac Fairy Book. 1910.

Classic Literature

Poetry

• The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe. 1827-1887.
• The Holy Isle: A Legend of Bardsey Abbey. Father O.S.B. Ignatius. 1870.
• The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
• The Wind Among the Reeds. William Butler Yeats.

Fantasy

• A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens. 1843.
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Jules Verne.
• Alice in Wonderland
  • Alice's Adventures Underground. Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Lewis Carroll. 1865.
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 1865.
  • Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Lewis Carroll. 1871.
  • The Nursery Alice. Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Sir John Tenniel. 1889.
  • Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by Charles Folkard. 1921.
• Around the World in 80 Days. Jules Verne.
• At the Back of the North Wind. Elizabeth Lewis, George MacDonald.
• Bambi: A Life in the Woods. Felix Salten. 1928.
• Black Beauty. Anna Sewell.
• The Book of Wonder. Lord Dunsany.
• Doctor Dolittle
  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle. Hugh Lofting.
  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Hugh Lofting.
  • A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Jules Verne.
  • The Jungle Book
    • The Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling.
    • The Second Jungle Book. Rudyard Kipling.
  • Just So Stories. Rudyard Kipling.
• Peter Pan
  • The Little White Bird. Sir James Matthew Barrie. 1902.
  • Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. Sir James Matthew Barrie. 1906.
  • Peter and Wendy. Sir James Matthew Barrie. 1911.
  • When Wendy Grew Up: An Afterthought. Sir James Matthew Barrie. 1908.
• Pinocchio
  • Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet. Carlo Collodi. 1881.
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio. Carlo Collodi. 1916.
• The Princess and the Goblin. George MacDonald. 1920.
• Rip Van Winkle. Washington Irving.
• The Velveteen Rabbit. Margery Williams. Illustrated by William Nicholson. 1921.
• The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame. 1865.
• The Wind in the Willows. Kenneth Grahame.
• The Wizard of Oz
  1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1900.
  2. The Marvelous Land of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1904.
  3. Ozma of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1907.
  4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1908.
  5. The Road to Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1909.
  6. The Emerald City of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1910.
  7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1913.
  8. Tik-Tok of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1914.
  9. The Scarecrow of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1915.
  10. Rinkitink of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1916.
  11. The Lost Princess of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1917.
  12. The Tin Woodsman of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1918.
  13. The Magic of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1919.
  14. Glinda of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1920.
  15. The Royal Book of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum, Ruth Plumly Thompson. 1921.
  16. Oz Short Stories: Little Wizard Stories of Oz. Lyman Frank Baum. 1907.

Fiction

• Anne of Green Gables
  • Anne of Green Gables (aged 11-16). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1908.
  • Anne of Avonlea (aged 16-18). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1909.
  • Anne of the Island (aged 18-22). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1915.
  • Anne of Windy Poplars (aged 22-25). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1936.
  • Anne's House of Dreams (aged 25-27). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1917.
  • Anne of Ingleside (aged 34-40). Lucy Maud Montgomery. 1939.
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain. 1884
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1887-1927.
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain. 1876.
• The Box-Car Children. Gertrude Chandler Warner.
• The Call of the Wild. Jack London.
• The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexander Dumas. 1844-1846.
• David Copperfield. Charles Dickens. 1850.
• Japanese Literature. Epiphanius Wilson. 1900.
• Great Expectations. Charles Dickens. 1861.
• Jane Eyre. Charlotte Brontë. 1847.
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Victor Hugo.
• Les Miserables. Victor Hugo.
• Little Gipsy Lass: A Story of Moorland and Wild. Gordon Stables. 1907.
• Little Lord Fauntleroy. Frances Hodgson Burnett. 1885-1886.
• Moby Dick. Herman Melville. 1851.
• Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens. 1838.
• The Phantom of the Opera. Gaston Leroux. 1910.
• Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen. 1813.
• The Prince and the Pauper. Mark Twain. 1881.
• The Scarlet Pimpernel
  1. The Laughing Cavalier. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  2. The First Sir Percy: an Adventure of the Laughing Cavalier. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  3. The Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  4. Sir Percy Leads the Band. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  5. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  6. I Will Repay. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  7. The Elusive Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  8. Lord Tony's Wife. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  9. The Way of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  10. El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  11. Mam'zelle Guillotine. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  12. Sir Percy Hits Back. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  13. The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  14. The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  15. A Child of the Revolution. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  16. In the Rue Monge: A Short Story. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  17. Pimpernel and Rosemary. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
  18. The Scarlet Pimpernel Looks at the World. Baronness Emmuska Orczy. 1905.
• Sea Stories. Cyrus Townsend. 1902.
• A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens. 1859.
• The Three Musketeers. Alexander Dumas. 1844.
• Treasure Island. Robert Louis Stevenson. 1883.
• White Fang. Jack London.

George Alfred Henty's Historical Fiction

Ancient History

• 1250 BC: The Cat of Bubastes: A Story of Ancient Egypt
• 220 BC: The Young Carthaginan: A Story of the Times of Hannibal
• AD 61: Beric the Briton: A Story of the Roman Invasion
• AD 70: For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem

The Middle Ages

• AD 870: The Dragon and the Raven, or, The Days of King Alfred
• AD 1066: Wulf the Saxon: A Story of the Norman Conquest
• AD 1190: Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades
• AD 1314: In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce
• AD 1340: St. George for England: A Tale of Cressy and Poiters
• AD 1380: The Lion of St. Mark: A Tale of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
• AD 1381: A March on London: A Story of Wat Tyler's Rising
• AD 1400: Both Sides of the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
• AD 1415: At Agincourt: A Tale of the White Hoods of Paris
• AD 1480: A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes

Reformation and Exploration

• AD 1579: By Pyke and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
• AD 1580: St. Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars
• AD 1580: Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Spanish Main
• AD 1588: By England's Aid, or, The Freeing of the Netherlands
• AD 1595: By Right of Conquest, or, With Cortez in Mexico

Wars of Religion and Succession

• AD 1630: The Lion of the North: A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion
• AD 1640: Won by the Sword: A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
• AD 1650: Friends Though Divided: A Tale of the English Civil War
• AD 1666: When London Burned: A Story of the Plague and the Fire
• AD 1685: John Hawke's Fortune: A Story of Monmouth's Rebellion (does not appear to be in public domain)
• AD 1690: Orange and Green: A Tale of the Boyne and Limeric
• AD 1695: A Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles XII of Sweden
• AD 1703: The Cornet of the Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
• AD 1705: The Bravest of the Brave, or, With Peterborough in Spain
• AD 1710: In the Irish Brigade: A Tale of the War in Flanders and Spain
• AD 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden

Colonial Disruptions and Competition

• AD 1759: With Wolfe in Canada, or, The Winning of a Continent
• AD 1760: With Frederic the Great: A Tale of the Seven Years' War
• AD 1780: True to the Old Flag: A Story of the American War of Independence
• AD 1780: Held Fast for England: A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83)
• AD 1786: With Clive in India, or, The Beginnings of an Empire

The Napoleonic Era

• AD 1793: In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminister Boy in the French Revolution
• AD 1795: No Surrender! A Story of the Revolt in La Vendee
• AD 1795: A Roving Commission, or, Through the Black Insurrection of Hayti
• AD 1795: The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Sahib
• AD 1795: By Conduct and Courage: A story of Nelson's Days
• AD 1798: At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
• AD 1800: At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War
• AD 1808: With Moore at Corunna: A Story of the Penisular War
• AD 1810: The Young Buglers: A Story of the Penisular War
• AD 1810: Under Wellington's Command: A Story of the Penisular War
• AD 1811: Through the Fray: A Story of the Luddite Riots
• AD 1812: Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
• AD 1815: One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo

Indian Troubles and Neighbours' Wars

• AD 1820: With Cochrane the Dauntless: The Exploits of Lord Cochrane in South American Waters
• AD 1824: On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the First Burmese War
• AD 1825: In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence
• AD 1835: With the British Legion: A Story of the Carlist Uprising of 1836
• AD 1840: To Herat and Cabul: A Story of the First Afghan War
• The Plague Ship: A story of a Ship and a Tragedy
• A Final Reckoning: A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
• Colonel Thorndyke's Secret: The Brahmin's Treasure

The Victorian Era: Defending an Empire

• AD 1850: Through the Sikh War: A Tale of the Conquest of the Punjaub
• AD 1850: A Search of a Secret: An Heiress Searches for a Hidden Will
• AD 1854: Jack Archer: A Tale of the Crimean War
• AD 1856: In Times of Peril: A Tale of the Indian Mutiny
• AD 1856: Rujub the Juggler: A Tale of India During the Mutiny
• All But Lost: A Novel of Cambridge and British Life
• Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
• Facing Death: Or, the Hero of the Vaughan Pit, A Tale of the Coal Mines
• Sturdy and Strong: Or, How George Andrews made his Way
• Gabriel Allen M.P. Or, Frank Allen's Search for His Identity
• AD 1860: In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
• AD 1861: With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War
• AD 1865: Out With Garibaldi: A Story of the Liberation of Italy
• AD 1867: The March to Magdala: A Chronicle of the Abyssnian Campaign
• Out on the Pampas: The Young Settlers
• Redskin and Cowboy: A Tale of the Western Plains
• A Hidden Foe: A Romantic Adventure of Inheritance
• Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Great Deception
• The Queen's Cup: A Novel
• The Lost Heir: A Tale of Intrigue in India and England
• The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Mystery in England and a Kaffir War
• In the Hands of the Cave Dwellers: A Tale of the American West
• AD 1870: Maori and Settler: A Story of the New Zealand War
• AD 1870: A Woman of the Commune: The Two Sieges of Paris
• AD 1870: The Young Franc-Tireurs: A Tale of the Franco-Prussian War
• AD 1873: By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
• AD 1873: The March to Coomassie: A Chronicle of the Ashanti Campaign
• AD 1879: For Name and Fame: Or, Through Afghan Passes
• AD 1880: The Young Colonists: A Tale of the Zulu and First Boer Wars
• AD 1882: A Chapter of Adventures: Or, Through the Bombardment of Alexandria
• AD 1885: The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition
• The Treasure of the Incas: A Tale of Adventure in Peru
• Condemned As A Nihilist: A Story of Escape from Siberia
• AD 1887: The Sovereign Reader: Scenes from the Life and Reign of Queen Victoria
• AD 1891: Those Other Animals: A Humorous Tour of the Animal Kingdom
• AD 1896: Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashanti
• AD 1898: With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
• AD 1899: With Buller in Natal: Or, A Born Leader, A Tale of the Second South African War
• AD 1900: With Roberts to Pretoria: A Tale of the Second South African War
• AD 1900: With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations
• AD 1901: Queen Victoria: Scenes from Her Life and Reign

Horror and Science Fiction

• Carmilla. J. Sheridan LeFanu.
• The Castle of Otranto. Horace Walpole.
• Dracula
  • Dracula. Bram Stoker. 1897.
  • Dracula's Guest. Bram Stoker. 1914.
• Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 1818.
• Humourous Ghost Stories. Dorothy Scarborough. 1921.
• Indian Ghost Stories. S. Mukerji.
• The Invisible Man. H.G. Wells. 1897.
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Washington Irving.
• The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft.
• The Picture of Dorian Gray. Oscar Wilde.
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Robert Louis Stevenson. 1886.
• The Werewolf of Paris. Guy Endore.
• The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural. Mary Wilkins.

Future Classic Literature

It is certain I will never live to see some of these in the public domain, but many are well worth reading if you can get a copy of them.

• The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien. 1977. (Available 2072?)
• The Hobbit. J.R.R. Tolkien. 1937. (Available 2032?)
• The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien. 1937-1949. (Available 2032-2044?)
• The Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis. 1950-1956. (Available 2045-2051?)
• Harry Potter. J.K. Rowling. 1997-2007. (Available 2092-2102?)