The Top 100 Free Classic eBooks

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/chronologicallistofthetop100freeclassic/ …which in turn was inspired by u/Chtorr at: https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/9vy4oa/thetop100freeclassicebooksfromproject/ You can duplicate this list and use it to keep track of the books you read, and share the list with others.

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31st October 2019 in books & literature

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Period
BC - 1100

The Odyssey

The Iliad

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

The Republic

Meditations

The Confessions of St. Augustine

Period
1200 - 1600

An Index of The Divine Comedy by Dante

Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 (of 7) — The Canterbury Tales

Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1

The Prince

Don Quixote

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Leviathan

Don Quixote

Second Treatise of Government

A Modest Proposal

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Period
1700

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Candide

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Common Sense

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Federalist Papers

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself

Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Period
1800 - 1900

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Pride and Prejudice

Emma

Northanger Abbey

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated

The Scarlet Letter

Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories

On Liberty

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2

The Fall of the House of Usher

Uncle Tom's Cabin

A Tale of Two Cities

A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas

Great Expectations

Hard Times