Reading list · 12 titles
Start Here: 12 Classics Everyone Should Read
The most-loved novels in the library, all free.
If you only read a dozen classics, make it these. They are the books that keep being borrowed, quoted and adapted two centuries on: Austen's sharpest comedy of manners, Shelley's creature, Brontë's governess, Dickens at his most tender, Melville's whale. Every one is a complete, unabridged public-domain edition you can read in the browser or download as an EPUB.
Public DomainFeaturedEbookPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Public DomainFeaturedEbookFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
Public DomainFeaturedEbookJane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Public DomainFeaturedEbookGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens
Public DomainFeaturedEbookMoby-Dick
Herman Melville
Public DomainFeaturedEbookA Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
Public DomainFeaturedEbookAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Public DomainFeaturedEbookThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Public DomainFeaturedEbookAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Public DomainFeaturedEbookCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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