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473 authors1,142 audiobookstwenty-five centuries
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Plato21 books
William Shakespeare1564–161617 books
Charles Dickens1812–187016 books
Agatha Christie1890–197614 books
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–193013 books
Edgar Rice Burroughs1875–195013 books
H. G. Wells1866–194613 books
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–190012 books
John Ruskin1819–190012 books
Mark Twain1835–191012 books
Jules Verne1828–190510 books
Algernon Blackwood1869–19519 books
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1700–1800
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The long 19th century
231 authors
1900 on
The 20th century
144 authors
Every author, A–Z
A writer with one book shows it hereA
- Peter AbelardHistoria Calamitatum
- John AbercrombieThe Philosophy of the Moral Feelings
- Lord ActonThe History of Freedom, and Other Essays
- Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams
- Jane AddamsDemocracy and Social Ethics
- Gustave AimardThe Treasure of Pearls
- Louisa May Alcott6 books
- Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy
- Grant AllenLinnet
- Hans Christian AndersenAndersen's Fairy Tales
- Sherwood AndersonWinesburg, Ohio
- ApuleiusThe Golden Ass
- Thomas Aquinas2 books
- Aristotle5 books
- Matthew ArnoldCulture and Anarchy
- ArrianThe Anabasis of Alexander
- Isaac AsimovYouth
- Augustine of Hippo2 books
- Marcus AureliusMeditations
- Jane Austen7 books
B
- Francis Bacon3 books
- Walter BagehotLombard Street
- R. M. BallantyneThe Coral Island
- Honoré de Balzac2 books
- Ann BannonI Am a Woman
- P. T. BarnumThe Art of Money Getting
- J. M. BarriePeter Pan
- Frédéric Bastiat3 books
- L. Frank Baum4 books
- Charles A. BeardAn Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
- Joseph BédierThe Romance of Tristan and Iseult
- Max BeerbohmZuleika Dobson
- Edward BellamyLooking Backward, 2000 to 1887
- Hilaire BellocThe Servile State
- Arnold Bennett3 books
- Jeremy BenthamPanopticon
- E. C. BentleyTrent's Last Case
- Henri Bergson3 books
- George Berkeley3 books
- Ambrose BierceCan Such Things Be?
- R. D. BlackmoreLorna Doone
- Algernon Blackwood9 books
- William BlakeSongs of Innocence and of Experience
- Franz BoasThe Mind of Primitive Man
- Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
- BoethiusThe Consolation of Philosophy
- Bernard Bosanquet2 books
- James BoswellBoswell's Life of Johnson
- Leigh BrackettBlack Amazon of Mars
- Ray Bradbury2 books
- M. E. BraddonLady Audley's Secret
- Anne Brontë2 books
- Charlotte Brontë4 books
- Emily BrontëWuthering Heights
- Rhoda BroughtonDoctor Cupid
- Charles Brockden Brown3 books
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning2 books
- John Buchan3 books
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton2 books
- John Bunyan2 books
- Edmund Burke2 books
- John BurnetEarly Greek Philosophy
- Frances Hodgson Burnett4 books
- Fanny BurneyEvelina
- Edgar Rice Burroughs13 books
- Samuel Butler3 books
- Lord Byron2 books
C
- James Branch CabellJurgen
- Julius CaesarThe Gallic and Civil Wars
- Thomas Carlyle3 books
- Lewis Carroll2 books
- Giacomo CasanovaThe Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798
- Willa Cather5 books
- Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote
- Robert W. Chambers3 books
- Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems
- Anton Chekhov4 books
- Apsley Cherry-GarrardThe Worst Journey in the World
- G. K. Chesterton7 books
- Erskine ChildersThe Riddle of the Sands
- Kate ChopinThe Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
- Agatha Christie14 books
- Cicero5 books
- Carl von ClausewitzOn War
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge2 books
- Wilkie Collins7 books
- Carlo CollodiThe Adventures of Pinocchio
- ConfuciusThe Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
- Joseph Conrad7 books
- Russell H. ConwellAcres of Diamonds
- Edward Tyas CookThe Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 2
- Charles Horton CooleyHuman Nature and the Social Order
- Susan CoolidgeWhat Katy Did
- James Fenimore Cooper4 books
- Stephen Crane3 books
- Benedetto CroceAesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
- Freeman Wills CroftsThe Cask
- Robert CromieThe Crack of Doom
- E. E. CummingsThe Enormous Room
D
- Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the Mast
- Charles Darwin3 books
- Holman Day2 books
- Voltairine De CleyreSelected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre
- Daniel Defoe3 books
- Richard DehanThat Which Hath Wings
- Thomas De QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium-Eater
- René Descartes2 books
- John Dewey8 books
- Baron d'HolbachThe System of Nature, Volume 1
- Philip K. Dick2 books
- Charles Dickens16 books
- Emily DickinsonPoems by Emily Dickinson, Series One
- Benjamin DisraeliHenrietta Temple
- Mary Mapes DodgeHans Brinker
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky8 books
- Frederick Douglass2 books
- Arthur Conan Doyle13 books
- Theodore Dreiser3 books
- W. E. B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folk
- Alexandre Dumas8 books
- Lord Dunsany7 books
- Émile DurkheimThe Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
E
- Ernst EcksteinQuintus Claudius
- E. R. EddisonThe Worm Ouroboros
- George Eliot7 books
- T. S. Eliot2 books
- Ralph Waldo Emerson5 books
- Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
- Epictetus2 books
- Olaudah EquianoThe Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Desiderius ErasmusThe Praise of Folly
- Rudolf EuckenLife's Basis and Life's Ideal
- Euripides2 books
F
- William Faulkner3 books
- Edna Ferber2 books
- Ludwig FeuerbachThe Essence of Christianity
- Henry Fielding2 books
- F. Scott Fitzgerald4 books
- Edmund FlaggMonte-Cristo's Daughter
- Gustave Flaubert2 books
- Ford Madox FordThe Good Soldier
- E. M. Forster4 books
- Anatole FranceThe Red Lily
- Benjamin FranklinAutobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- James George FrazerThe Golden Bough
- Sigmund Freud6 books
- Robert Frost2 books
- Jacques FutrelleThe Problem of Cell 13
G
- Charles GarviceOnly a Girl's Love
- Elizabeth Gaskell5 books
- Philippe-Joseph Aubert de GaspéCameron of Lochiel
- Théophile GautierMademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1
- Giovanni GentileThe Reform of Education
- Henry GeorgeProgress and Poverty
- GerónimoGeronimo’s Story of His Life
- Edward GibbonThe History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1
- Kahlil GibranThe Prophet
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman2 books
- George Gissing2 books
- William Godwin2 books
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe2 books
- Nikolai Gogol2 books
- Emma GoldmanAnarchism and Other Essays
- Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of Wakefield
- Ivan GoncharovOblomov
- Maxim GorkyMother
- Kenneth Grahame3 books
- James GrantOne of the Six Hundred
- Ulysses S. GrantPersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
- Zane Grey2 books
- George Chetwynd GriffithA Honeymoon in Space
- Jacob GrimmGrimms' Fairy Tales
- George GrossmithThe Diary of a Nobody
- Louise Imogen GuineyA Little English Gallery
H
- H. Rider Haggard6 books
- Alexander HamiltonThe Federalist Papers
- Dashiell Hammett3 books
- Basil Edward HammondThe Political Institutions of the Ancient Greeks
- Knut Hamsun2 books
- Thea von HarbouMetropolis
- Thomas Hardy9 books
- Harry Harrison2 books
- Julian HawthorneLibrary of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories
- Nathaniel Hawthorne7 books
- William HazlittLectures on the English Poets
- G. W. F. Hegel8 books
- Ernest Hemingway3 books
- O. Henry2 books
- Henry VIII of EnglandThe Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn
- Herodotus2 books
- Hermann Hesse3 books
- Wilhelmine von HillernOn the Cross
- Thomas HobbesLeviathan
- John Atkinson HobsonThe Evolution of Modern Capitalism
- William Hope Hodgson2 books
- Homer2 books
- Anthony HopeThe Prisoner of Zenda
- E. W. HornungThe Amateur Cracksman
- Robert E. Howard3 books
- William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas Lapham
- W. H. HudsonGreen Mansions
- Langston HughesNot Without Laughter
- Rupert HughesWhat Will People Say? A Novel
- Victor Hugo3 books
- David Hume5 books
- Fergus HumeThe Green Mummy
- James HunekerEgoists
- Aldous Huxley3 books
- J.-K. HuysmansAgainst the Grain
- William De Witt HydePractical Ethics
J
- Harriet A. JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself
- Joseph JacobsIndian Fairy Tales
- G. P. R. JamesForest Days
- Henry James9 books
- M. R. JamesGhost Stories of an Antiquary
- William James8 books
- Jerome K. Jerome2 books
- James Weldon JohnsonThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
- Samuel JohnsonRasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
- James Joyce3 books
- Carl JungPsychology of the Unconscious
K
L
- Pierre Choderlos de Laclos2 books
- Diogenes LaertiusThe Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
- Arnold Henry Savage LandorIn the Forbidden Land
- Andrew Lang4 books
- LaoziThe Tao Teh King
- François de La RochefoucauldReflections
- Nella LarsenQuicksand
- Harold J. Laski2 books
- D. H. Lawrence4 books
- Maurice LeblancThe Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
- Gustave Le BonThe Crowd
- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu4 books
- Edwin LefevreReminiscences of a Stock Operator
- Fritz LeiberThe Big Time
- Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizNew Essays Concerning Human Understanding
- Mikhail LermontovA Hero of Our Time
- Gaston Leroux2 books
- Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon
- M. G. LewisThe Monk
- Sinclair Lewis5 books
- Abraham LincolnSpeeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln
- Paul Myron Anthony LinebargerThe Game of Rat and Dragon
- Walter LippmannPublic Opinion
- John Locke3 books
- Hugh Lofting2 books
- Jack London8 books
- Frank Belknap LongSpace Station 1
- Anita LoosGentlemen Prefer Blondes
- H. P. Lovecraft6 books
- Marie Belloc LowndesThe Lodger
- LucretiusOn the Nature of Things
- Anthony M. LudoviciNietzsche and Art
M
- George MacDonald4 books
- Arthur Machen2 books
- Niccolò Machiavelli2 books
- Charles MackayExtraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
- Compton MacKenzieThe Passionate Elopement
- A. T. MahanThe Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
- Henry Sumner MaineAncient Law
- Lucas MaletThe History of Sir Richard Calmady
- T. R. MalthusAn Essay on the Principle of Population
- Bernard MandevilleThe Fable of the Bees
- Thomas Mann4 books
- Katherine MansfieldThe Garden Party, and Other Stories
- Alessandro ManzoniThe Betrothed
- Christopher MarloweEdward II
- Harriet MartineauHow to Observe Morals and Manners
- Karl Marx2 books
- A. E. W. MasonThe Four Feathers
- Charles Robert Maturin4 books
- W. Somerset Maugham2 books
- Guy de MaupassantBel-Ami
- Johnston McCulleyThe Mark of Zorro
- William McDougallThe Group Mind
- Claude McKayHome to Harlem
- Herman Melville7 books
- George MeredithThe Egoist
- Prosper MériméeCarmen
- Abraham MerrittThe Moon Pool
- John Stuart Mill8 books
- Florence Fenwick MillerHarriet Martineau
- Mrs. Alex. McVeigh MillerDainty's Cruel Rivals
- A. A. Milne4 books
- John Milton2 books
- Hope MirrleesLud-in-the-Mist
- MolièreTartuffe
- Michel de MontaigneThe Essays of Michel de Montaigne
- L. M. Montgomery7 books
- G. E. MoorePrincipia Ethica
- Thomas MoreUtopia
- William Morris3 books
- John MuirMy First Summer in the Sierra
- Talbot MundyKing--of the Khyber Rifles
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O
P
- Thomas Paine7 books
- William PaleyEvidences of Christianity
- Emmeline PankhurstMy Own Story
- Francis ParkmanThe Oregon Trail
- Blaise PascalPascal's Pensées
- John Dos PassosManhattan Transfer
- Walter Pater2 books
- Mary Mills PatrickSextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism
- PausaniasDescription of Greece
- Samuel PepysThe Diary of Samuel Pepys
- Luigi PirandelloSix Characters in Search of an Author
- Plato21 books
- PlutarchPlutarch's Morals
- Edgar Allan Poe3 books
- Frederik PohlThe Tunnel Under the World
- Eleanor H. PorterPollyanna
- Beatrix PotterThe Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Thomas Peckett PrestThe String of Pearls
- Abbé PrévostManon Lescaut
- Pierre-Joseph ProudhonWhat is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government
- Marcel ProustSwann's Way
- Howard Pyle2 books
R
- François RabelaisGargantua and Pantagruel
- Ann Radcliffe3 books
- Hastings RashdallPhilosophy and Religion
- Carveth ReadLogic
- Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front
- George W. M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of London, Volume 4
- David RicardoOn the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- Alice Caldwell Hegan RiceA Romance of Billy-Goat Hill
- Jacob A. RiisHow the Other Half Lives
- Mary Roberts RinehartThe Circular Staircase
- José RizalRizal's Own Story of His Life
- A. Mary F. RobinsonEmily Brontë
- Sax Rohmer3 books
- George John Romanes2 books
- Wilhelm RoscherPrinciples of Political Economy
- Edmond RostandCyrano de Bergerac
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau5 books
- Josiah RoyceThe Sources of Religious Insight
- Berta RuckThe Boy with Wings
- John Ruskin12 books
- Bertrand Russell6 books
- Marah Ellis RyanThat Girl Montana
S
- Auguste SabatierOutlines of a Philosophy of Religion Based on Psychology and History
- Rafael Sabatini3 books
- Felix SaltenBambi
- George Santayana5 books
- Marshall SaundersBeautiful Joe
- Dorothy L. Sayers6 books
- Friedrich SchillerWilhelm Tell
- Arthur Schopenhauer6 books
- Walter Scott7 books
- Seneca3 books
- Garrett Putman ServissEdison's Conquest of Mars
- Anna SewellBlack Beauty
- Ernest ShackletonSouth
- William Shakespeare17 books
- Bernard Shaw4 books
- Robert SheckleyAsk a Foolish Question
- Mary Shelley2 books
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan2 books
- William Tecumseh ShermanMemoirs of General William T. Sherman
- Murasaki ShikibuThe Tale of Genji
- Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Henryk SienkiewiczQuo Vadis
- Upton SinclairThe Jungle
- Samuel SmilesSelf-Help
- Adam Smith2 books
- E. E. Smith2 books
- Tobias Smollett3 books
- SophoclesOedipus King of Thebes
- Harold SpeedThe Practice and Science of Drawing
- Herbert Spencer3 books
- Benedictus de Spinoza5 books
- Johanna SpyriHeidi
- W. T. StaceA Critical History of Greek Philosophy
- H. De Vere StacpooleThe Blue Lagoon
- Olaf StapledonLast and First Men
- StendhalThe Red and the Black
- Leslie Stephen2 books
- Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
- Wallace StevensHarmonium
- Burton Egbert StevensonThe Home Book of Verse, Volume 2
- Robert Louis Stevenson9 books
- Bram Stoker4 books
- C. C. StopesShakespeare's Family
- Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom's Cabin
- Lytton StracheyQueen Victoria
- Edward StratemeyerThe Rover Boys on the Farm
- Arthur StringerThe Prairie Wife
- Snorri SturlusonThe Prose Edda
- James SullyAn Essay on Laughter
- William Graham SumnerWhat Social Classes Owe to Each Other
- Jonathan Swift2 books
- J. M. SyngeThe Playboy of the Western World
T
- Cornelius Tacitus2 books
- Rabindranath TagoreGitanjali
- Booth Tarkington2 books
- R. H. Tawney2 books
- Alfred TennysonIdylls of the King
- William Makepeace ThackerayVanity Fair
- Alexis ThomsonManual of Surgery Volume Second
- Henry David Thoreau2 books
- Guy ThorneThe Air Pirate
- ThucydidesThe History of the Peloponnesian War
- Alexis de TocquevilleDemocracy in America, Volume 1
- Leo Tolstoy7 books
- Jean ToomerCane
- Louis Tracy2 books
- Anthony Trollope6 books
- Chrétien de TroyesFour Arthurian Romances
- Ivan Turgenev7 books
- Mark Twain12 books
- Sun TzuThe Art of War
V
W
- Richard WagnerMy Life, Volume 1
- Edgar WallaceThe Four Just Men
- Lew WallaceBen-Hur
- Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto
- Booker T. WashingtonUp from Slavery
- Evelyn Waugh2 books
- Beatrice WebbThe History of Trade Unionism
- H. G. Wells13 books
- Edith Wharton4 books
- Alfred North Whitehead2 books
- Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass
- Kate Douglas WigginRebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
- Oscar Wilde8 books
- C. N. WilliamsonThe Car of Destiny
- Ludwig WittgensteinTractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- P. G. WodehouseMy Man Jeeves
- Thomas WolfeLook Homeward, Angel
- Mary WollstonecraftA Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Mrs. Henry WoodEast Lynne
- Virginia Woolf5 books
- William WordsworthLyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798)
- Wilhelm WundtElements of Folk Psychology
- Philip WylieGladiator
- Johann David WyssThe Swiss Family Robinson
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