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Literature & Fiction · 2818
See all 2818 literature & fiction books →Moby Dick — Herman MelvillePride and Prejudice — Jane AustenFrankenstein — Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyCrime and Punishment — Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre DumasMiddlemarch — George EliotThe Blue Castle — L. M. (Lucy Maud) MontgomeryLittle Women — Louisa May AlcottThe Great Gatsby — F. Scott (Francis Scott) FitzgeraldJane Eyre — Charlotte BrontëThe King in Yellow — Robert W. (Robert William) ChambersThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan DoyleDracula — Bram StokerTwenty Years After — Alexandre DumasThe Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Enchanted April — Elizabeth Von ArnimAdventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark TwainThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker — T. (Tobias) SmollettCranford — Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete — T. (Tobias) SmollettWuthering Heights — Emily BrontëHistory of Tom Jones, a Foundling — Henry FieldingThe Adventures of Roderick Random — T. (Tobias) SmollettA Tale of Two Cities — Charles DickensThe Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar WildeThe Two Magics — Henry JamesThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete — Mark TwainThe Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-Iii, Complete — John Forster
Science · 2727
See all 2727 science books →Relativity: The Special and General Theory — Albert EinsteinOn the Origin of Species — Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the Beagle — Charles DarwinThe Descent of Man — Charles DarwinStudies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc. — George Francis AtkinsonManual of Surgery Volume Second — Alexis ThomsonThe Life of Florence Nightingale, Vol. 2 of 2 — Edward Tyas, Sir CookManures and the Principles of Manuring — Charles Morton AikmanThe Elements of Bacteriological Technique — J. W. H. (John William Henry) EyreLife and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 — Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 — Charles DarwinSurgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 — George Henry MakinsSpecial Report on Diseases of the Horse — United States. Bureau of Animal IndustryThe Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn — Henry Phelps JohnstonPreventable Diseases — Woods HutchinsonAn Elementary Study of Chemistry — William McPhersonOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection — Charles DarwinThe Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. — Charles DarwinThe Natural History of Pliny, Volume 3 (of 6) — the Elder PlinyWoman — William J. (William Josephus) RobinsonSteam, Its Generation and Use — Babcock & Wilcox CompanyThe Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete — da Vinci LeonardoCivics and Health — William H. (WIlliam Harvey) AllenVegetable Teratology — Maxwell T. (Maxwell Tylden) MastersA Labrador Doctor — Wilfred Thomason, Sir GrenfellDarwin, and After Darwin, Volumes 1 and 3 — George John RomanesContributions to the Theory of Natural Selection — Alfred Russel WallaceCattle and Their Diseases — Robert Jennings
History · 2489
See all 2489 history books →Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick DouglassUp From Slavery — Booker T. WashingtonTwelve Years a Slave — Solomon NorthupThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin FranklinThe Story of My Life — Helen KellerThe History of Herodotus — HerodotusThe History of the Peloponnesian War — ThucydidesThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars — SuetoniusCharles Bradlaugh — J. M. (John Mackinnon) RobertsonAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin — Benjamin FranklinThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African — Olaudah EquianoEmily Brontë — A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) RobinsonThe Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) — Bernal Díaz del CastilloIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself — Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) JacobsThe Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus — Cornelius TacitusMy Life and Loves, Vol. 1 (of 4) — Frank HarrisShakespeare's Family — C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) StopesPersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete — Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) GrantThe Waterloo Roll Call — Charles DaltonHarriet Martineau — Florence Fenwick MillerEighty Years and More — Elizabeth Cady StantonNarrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson — Mary White RowlandsonMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth — Lucy AikinLondon and the Kingdom - Volume 2 — Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) SharpeManual of Military Training — James A. (James Alfred) MossSusan B. Anthony — Alma LutzLives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 1 — Pierre de Bourdeille BrantômeThe Life of King Edward Vii — J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins
Philosophy · 586
See all 586 philosophy books →Meditations — Marcus AureliusBeyond Good and Evil — Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheUtilitarianism — John Stuart MillThe Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand RussellEssays — Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Nicomachean Ethics — AristotleThe Prophet — Kahlil GibranThe Republic — PlatoThus Spake Zarathustra — Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheAnalects — ConfuciusA Discourse on Method — René DescartesHegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe City of God, Volume I — of Hippo, Saint AugustineWalden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience — Henry David ThoreauPlutarch's Morals — PlutarchThe Crown of Wild Olive — John RuskinSearchlights on Health — B. G. (Benjamin Grant) JefferisSymposium — PlatoPhaedo — PlatoA System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive — John Stuart MillThe Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus — Emperor of Rome Marcus AureliusThe Republic of Plato — PlatoPhaedrus — PlatoBacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients — Francis BaconThe Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy — William JamesThe Consolation of Philosophy — BoethiusThe Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel KantAlcohol — Martha Meir Allen
Religion & Spirituality · 401
See all 401 religion & spirituality books →The Confessions of St. Augustine — of Hippo, Saint AugustineThe Imitation of Christ — à Kempis ThomasThe Varieties of Religious Experience — William JamesThe Dhammapada — BuddhaTao Te Ching — Robert BoyleThe Works of Mr. George Gillespie (vol. 1 of 2) — George GillespieAutobiography of a Yogi — Paramahansa YoganandaSome Jewish Witnesses for Christ — Aaron BernsteinExpositions of Holy Scripture — Alexander MaclarenBradford's History of 'plimoth Plantation' — William BradfordThe Lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the Book of Evil Spirits — UnknownApologia Pro Vita Sua — John Henry NewmanThe Doré Bible Gallery, Complete — UnknownAncient States and Empires — John LordCritical and Historical Essays, Volume Iii (of 3) — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron MacaulayPagan and Christian Rome — Rodolfo Amedeo LancianiJesus the Christ — James E. (James Edward) TalmageFox's Book of Martyrs — John FoxeThe Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy — Robert Elliott FlickingerThe Life of Trust — George MüllerStudies in Literature and History — Alfred C., Sir LyallRoyal Edinburgh — Mrs. (Margaret) OliphantThe Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan — Ellen Gould Harmon WhiteThe Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 26 of 55, 1636 — UnknownThe Parables of Our Lord — William ArnotThe Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 — R. V. (Robert Vane) RussellMy Daily Meditation for the Circling Year — John Henry JowettHistory of the Rise of the Huguenots, Vol. 1 — Henry Martyn Baird
Economics · 342
See all 342 economics books →The Theory of the Leisure Class — Thorstein VeblenAn Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Adam SmithFifty Years in Wall Street — Henry ClewsThe Economic Aspect of Geology — C. K. (Charles Kenneth) LeithPrinciples of Political Economy, Vol. 1 — Wilhelm RoscherA Treatise on Domestic Economy — Catharine Esther BeecherCaptain Canot — Theodore CanotThe Building of a Book — UnknownFrenzied Finance, Vol. 1 — Thomas William LawsonAn Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England — Edward Potts CheyneyWealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania — Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) GilsonMonopolies and the People — Charles Whiting BakerPrice/cost Indexes From 1875 to 1989 — Michael HartWhat Is Property? an Inquiry Into the Principle of Right and of Government — P.-J. ProudhonOn Revenues — 432 BCE-351? BCE XenophonSystem of Economical Contradictions — P.-J. ProudhonThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It — James J. DavisAn Inquiry Into the Nature and Progress of Rent, and the Principles by Which It Is Regulated — T. R. MalthusLombard Street: a Description of the Money Market — Walter BagehotLandholding in England — Joseph FisherEssays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic — William PettyAn Essay on the Principle of Population — T. R. MalthusThe Spirit of 1906 — George W. BrooksGreat Fortunes From Railroads — Gustavus MyersThe British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters — Clara RayleighFiat Money Inflation in France: How It Came, What It Brought, and How It Ended — Andrew Dickson WhiteThe Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore — J. R. HutchinsonBusiness Hints for Men and Women — A. R. Calhoun
Politics · 326
See all 326 politics books →On Liberty — John Stuart MillThe Communist Manifesto — Karl MarxCommon Sense — Thomas PaineThe Rights of Man — Thomas PaineOn the Duty of Civil Disobedience — Henry David ThoreauPolitics — AristotleThe Prince — Niccolò MachiavelliLeviathan — Thomas HobbesDemocracy in America — Alexis de TocquevilleSecond Treatise of Government — John LockeAnarchism and Other Essays — Emma GoldmanThe Governments of Europe — Frederic Austin OggThe Trial of Charles Random De Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Commonly Called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for a Conspiracy — UnknownThe Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol. 2, 1844-1853 — Queen of Great Britain VictoriaThe Writings of Thomas Jefferson — Thomas JeffersonThe Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) — John MorleyMy Own Story — Emmeline PankhurstMemoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (afterwards Duchesse De Talleyrand Et De Sagan), 1836-1840 — Dorothée, duchesse de DinoImpressions of South Africa — James Bryce, Viscount BryceThe Life of John Marshall, Volume 4 — Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) BeveridgeMemoirs to Illustrate the History of My Time, Volume 1 — François GuizotFifteen Chapters of Autobiography — George William Erskine RussellThe Ghost in the White House — Gerald Stanley LeePolitical Women, Vol. 1 — Sutherland, active MenziesAncient Law — Henry Sumner, Sir MaineUnion and Democracy — Allen JohnsonThe Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V — James Russell LowellThe Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political — Franklin K. Lane
Psychology · 321
See all 321 psychology books →The Interpretation of Dreams — Sigmund FreudPsychotherapy — Hugo MünsterbergEssay on the Creative Imagination — Th. (Théodule) RibotThe Psychology of Singing — David C. (David Clark) TaylorThe Dawn of Reason — James, Jr. WeirPrimitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery — Robert Means LawrenceThe Vital Message — Arthur Conan DoyleThe Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation — J. L. KennonPathology of Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: a Study in Forensic Psychology — William HealyThe Power of Concentration — William Walker AtkinsonBygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought — H. Stanley RedgroveThe New Revelation — Arthur Conan DoyleThe Psychology of Revolution — Gustave Le BonThe Foundations of Personality — Abraham MyersonThe Light of Egypt — Thomas H. BurgoyneThe Unknown Guest — Maurice MaeterlinckThe Analysis of Mind — Bertrand RussellMiscellanies Upon Various Subjects — John AubreyMastery of Self for Wealth, Power, Success — Frank C. HaddockThe Majesty of Calmness — William George JordanWhere No Fear Was: a Book About Fear — Arthur Christopher BensonTelling Fortunes by Tea Leaves: How to Read Your Fate in a Teacup — Cicely KentDreams and Dream Stories — Anna Bonus KingsfordWithin You Is the Power — Henry Thomas HamblinLives of the Necromancers — William GodwinThe Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology — Samuel VakninFreedom Talks No. Ii — Julia SetonWhy Worry? — George Lincoln Walton
Travel & Exploration · 54
See all 54 travel & exploration books →Life on the Mississippi — Mark TwainIn the Forbidden Land — Arnold Henry Savage LandorThe Philippine Islands — John, F.R.G.S. ForemanThe Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 — Marco PoloThe Land of Thor — J. Ross (John Ross) BrowneFollowing the Equator — Mark TwainThe Expedition to Borneo of H.m.s. Dido — Henry, Sir KeppelTravels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 — James RichardsonAnabasis — XenophonSouthern Arabia — J. Theodore (James Theodore) BentThrough Finland in Carts — Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-TweedieThe Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 — J. E. (Jan Ernst) HeeresFifty Years in the Northwest — William H. C. (William Henry Carman) FolsomOld Times on the Upper Mississippi — George Byron MerrickThe Prairie Traveler — Randolph B. (Randolph Barnes) MarcyThe Shirley Letters From California Mines in 1851-52 — Dame ShirleyNorthern Travel — Bayard TaylorA Portrait of Old George Town — Grace Dunlop PeterAncient America, in Notes on American Archaeology — John D. (John Denison) BaldwinThe Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 — Meriwether LewisTen Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled — Hudson StuckThe Story of Paris — Thomas OkeyTravels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, Into the Primeval Forests — Johann Jakob von TschudiFrance and England in North America, Part Iii — Francis ParkmanJournal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 — Jasper DanckaertsImpressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) — Tyrone PowerCampaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War — George Alfred TownsendStray Studies From England and Italy — John Richard Greene
Mathematics · 50
See all 50 mathematics books →The Number "e" — UnknownThe Fibonacci Number Series — Michael HustedFlatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions — Edwin Abbott AbbottMiscellaneous Mathematical Constants — Simon PlouffeCatalan's Constant [ramanujan's Formula] — Greg FeeHackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2 — Steven LevyThe Real Cyberpunk Fakebook — St. JudeThe First 1001 Fibonacci Numbers — Simon PlouffeThe Golden Mean — Jerry T. BonnellThe First 1000 Euler Numbers — Simon PlouffeCatalan's Constant to 1,500,000 Places — UnknownThe Value of Zeta(3) to 1,000,000 Places — Simon PlouffeFree As in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software — Sam WilliamsDebian Gnu/linux : Guide to Installation and Usage — John GoerzenAn Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry — Derrick Norman LehmerAmusements in Mathematics — Henry Ernest DudeneyThe Number Concept: Its Origin and Development — Levi L. ConantJerome Cardan: a Biographical Study — W. G. WatersInstruction for Using a Slide Rule — W. StanleyThe Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara — John DeeThe Hindu-Arabic Numerals — David Eugene SmithThe Earliest Arithmetics in English — Robert SteeleA Tangled Tale — Lewis CarrollArchimedes — Thomas Little HeathThe Path-Way to Knowledg, Containing the First Principles of Geometrie — Robert RecordA Review of Algebra — Romeyn Henry RivenburgThe Teaching of Geometry — David Eugene SmithThe Philosophy of Mathematics — Auguste Comte
Writing & Language · 40
See all 40 writing & language books →The Elements of Style — William StrunkThe Poetics of Aristotle — AristotleSouthern Literature From 1579-1895 — Louise ManlyDe Profundis — Oscar WildeChildren's Literature — Charles Madison CurryGerman Composition — Hermann LangeThe Book-Hunter — John Hill BurtonEssays of Michel De Montaigne — Complete — Michel de MontaigneCuriosities of Literature, Vol. 1 — Isaac DisraeliAll in the Day's Work — Ida M. (Ida Minerva) TarbellA Literary History of the English People, From the Origins to the Renaissance — J. J. (Jean Jules) JusserandThe Romance of Biography (vol 1 of 2) — Mrs. (Anna) JamesonIn Praise of Folly — Desiderius ErasmusThe Humbugs of the World — P. T. (Phineas Taylor) BarnumFigures of Several Centuries — Arthur SymonsJewish Literature and Other Essays — Gustav KarpelesA History of Elizabethan Literature — George SaintsburyComplete Prose Works — Walt WhitmanMasterpieces of Negro Eloquence — UnknownDarkwater — W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisThe World I Live in — Helen KellerThe Verbalist — Alfred AyresThe Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 — Marcus Tullius CiceroFrom Chaucer to Tennyson — Henry A. (Henry Augustin) BeersThe Ontario High School Reader — Aletta E. MartyNewspaper Reporting and Correspondence — Grant Milnor HydeCharles Carleton Coffin — William Elliot GriffisHistorical Essays — James Ford Rhodes
Arts · 27
See all 27 arts books →My Life — Volume 1 — Richard WagnerLives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) — Giorgio VasariThe Handbook to English Heraldry — Charles BoutellA History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2) — Georges PerrotRoyal Palaces and Parks of France — M. F. (Milburg Francisco) MansfieldThe Tapestry Book — Helen Churchill CandeeContemporary American Composers — Rupert HughesArt in Needlework — Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) DayLine and Form (1900) — Walter CraneOn the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) — John RuskinThe Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 — Wolfgang Amadeus MozartBookbinding, and the Care of Books — Douglas CockerellThe Art of Stage Dancing — Ned WayburnChats on Household Curios — Fred. W. (Frederick William) BurgessA History of Art for Beginners and Students — Clara Erskine Clement WatersWood-Carving — George JackAnecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (vol. 2 of 3) — Shearjashub SpoonerCritical and Historical Essays — Edward MacDowellGreat Pianists on Piano Playing — James Francis CookeRambles of an Archæologist Among Old Books and in Old Places — F. W. (Frederick William) FairholtA History of Architecture in All Countries, Volumes 1 and 2, 3rd Ed. — James FergussonBrief Lives, Vol. 2 — John AubreyAdventures in the Arts — Marsden HartleyObservations on the Florid Song — Pier Francesco TosiChildren's Books and Their Illustrators — Gleeson WhiteThe Children's Book of Celebrated Pictures — Lorinda Munson BryantThe Care of Books — John Willis Clark
Society & Culture · 25
See all 25 society & culture books →The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du BoisA Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary WollstonecraftConcrete Construction — Halbert Powers GilletteThe Junior Classics, Volume 1 — William Allan NeilsonBoys and Girls Bookshelf — VariousMechanical Drawing Self-Taught — Joshua RoseThe Horsewoman — Alice M. HayesThe Accomplisht Cook — Robert MayAn Anthology of German Literature — Calvin ThomasWoodwork Joints — William FairhamPopular Education — Ira MayhewPractical Mechanics for Boys — James Slough ZerbeLibrary of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 — UnknownHandwork in Wood — William NoyesThe Suffrage Cook Book — UnknownChoice Cookery — Catherine OwenThe Book of Business Etiquette — Nella BraddyHuman Foods and Their Nutritive Value — Harry SnyderSociety — Henry K. (Henry Kalloch) RoweElectricity for Boys — James Slough ZerbeHow Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus — Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. JohnAuction of to-Day — Milton C. (Milton Cooper) WorkSteam Turbines — Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) CollinsThe Teacher — Jacob AbbottLittle Folks' Handy Book — Lina Beard
Self-Development · 8
See all 8 self-development books →As a Man Thinketh — James AllenThe Science of Getting Rich — W. D. (Wallace Delois) WattlesAcres of Diamonds — Russell H. ConwellHow to Live on 24 Hours a Day — Arnold BennettSelf-Help — N. (Nehemiah) HawkinsCharacteristics of Women — Mrs. (Anna) JamesonMicrocosmography — John EarleThe Art of Money Getting — P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Nature · 7
See all 7 nature books →Walden — Henry David ThoreauAmateur Gardencraft — Eben E. (Eben Eugene) RexfordChild and Country — Will Levington ComfortLittle Brothers of the Air — Olive Thorne MillerHome Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit — Albert Burton FarnhamWood Folk At School — William J. (William Joseph) LongConservation Reader — Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks
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