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The Top 100 Free Classic eBooks
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The Top 100 Free Classic eBooks

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This is the 100 most popular downloads on gutenberg.org.

I was inspired by the Reddit post by u/hackeryarn at: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/doodup/chronological_list_of_the_top_100_free_classic/

...which in turn was inspired by u/Chtorr at: https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/9vy4oa/the_top_100_free_classic_ebooks_from_project/

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Marc Harrison
31st October 2019 in books & literature
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  • BC - 1100

  • 1
    The Odyssey
  • 2
    The Iliad
  • 3
    Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
  • 4
    The Republic
  • 5
    Meditations
  • 6
    The Confessions of St. Augustine

  • 1200 - 1600

  • 7
    An Index of The Divine Comedy by Dante
  • 8
    Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 (of 7) — The Canterbury Tales
  • 9
    Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1
  • 10
    The Prince
  • 11
    Don Quixote
  • 12
    The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
  • 13
    The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
  • 14
    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
  • 15
    Leviathan
  • 16
    Don Quixote
  • 17
    Second Treatise of Government
  • 18
    A Modest Proposal
  • 19
    Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

  • 1700

  • 20
    Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
  • 21
    Candide
  • 22
    Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  • 23
    The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
  • 24
    Common Sense
  • 25
    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
  • 26
    The Federalist Papers
  • 27
    The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself
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Marc Harrison
31st October 2019 in books & literature
63
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