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The Art of War Sun Tzu	Our Island Story Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall	The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon	History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards Charles Austin Beard

Walden Henry David Thoreau	Alexander the Great Jacob Abbott	The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton	The 9/11 Commission Report The 9/11 Commission
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases Grenville Kleiser	The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Charles Darwin	Politics Aristotle
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche	The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin	The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli	The Bible, King James Version (KJV)
Relativity: The Special and General Theory Albert Einstein	The Story of the Middle Ages Samuel B. Harding	The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx	The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version (DV) Douay-Rheims
The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second Thomas Babington Macaulay	The Bible, American Standard Version (ASV)	Chronicles of Canada -- Dawn of Canadian History: Aboriginal Canada Stephen Leacock	The Sayings of Confucius Confucius
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois	Dream Psychology Sigmund Freud	The Story of Mankind Hendrik van Loon	Principles of Economics Alfred Marshall
Anatomy of the Human Body Henry Gray	The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant	Meditations on First Philosophy René Descartes	The Antichrist Friedrich Nietzsche
World English Bible (WEB)	The Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophise with the Hammer Friedrich Nietzsche	How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day Arnold Bennett	Chapters from my Autobiography Mark Twain
Life in the Clearings Susanna Moodie	The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides	From October to Brest-Litovsk Leon Trotsky	Above Life’s Turmoil James Allen
American History Stories Mara L. Pratt	Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum	The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain	The Imitation of Christ Thomas a Kempis
Meditations Marcus Aurelius	Poetics Aristotle	Roughing It Mark Twain	A Thousand Miles up the Nile Amelia B. Edwards
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind Jean-Jacques Rousseau	The City of God Saint Augustine of Hippo	The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln	Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville
Bhagavad Gita	The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell	On Loving God Bernard of Clairvaux	The Burgess Animal Book for Children Thornton W. Burgess
South! The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition 1914-1917 Ernest Shackleton	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	The Practice of the Presence of God Brother Lawrence	1912: Short Works Collection
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences René Descartes	History of Holland George Edmundson	The Anti-Federalist Papers Patrick Henry	Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home Emily Post
Plato’s Republic Plato	The Heavenly Life James Allen	Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None Friedrich Nietzsche	The Essays of Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
The Mountains of California John Muir	The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics Laozi	Studies in Pessimism Arthur Schopenhauer	The Yosemite John Muir
The Bible, Young's Literal Translation (YLT) Robert Young	God’s Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi	Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses Andrew Murray	The Spell of Egypt Robert Smythe Hichens
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft	The Devil’s Dictionary Ambrose Bierce	The Book of Art for Young People Agnes Ethel Conway	The Apology of Socrates Plato
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Nellie Bly	Buddhism and Buddhists in China Lewis Hodus	Ten Days in a Madhouse Nellie Bly	Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil Thomas Hobbes
Peter the Great Jacob Abbott	Summa Theologica, Pars Prima Saint Thomas Aquinas	Comic History of the United States Bill Nye	The Burgess Bird Book for Children Thornton W. Burgess
Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac L. A. Abbott	On Liberty John Stuart Mill	An Englishwoman’s Love-Letters Anonymous	The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America Founding Fathers of the United States
The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 Founding Fathers of the United States	Herodotus’ Histories Herodotus of Halicarnassus	The Sadhana: Realisation of Life Rabindranath Tagore	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself Harriet Jacobs
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau	Europe Revised Irwin S. Cobb	The Mastery of Destiny James Allen	Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
The Truth About Jesus. Is He a Myth? M. M. Mangasarian	Famous Men of the Middle Ages John H. Haaren	Letters from Egypt Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon	The Dhammapada Unknown
God and the State Mikhail Bakunin	The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters Logan Marshall	China and the Chinese Herbert Allen Giles	The Book of Tea Okakura Kakuzo
The Majesty of Calmness William George Jordan	Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Patrick Henry	Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy John Stuart Mill	Famous Men of Modern Times John H. Haaren and A.B. Poland
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion David Hume	Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin	The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin	Euthyphro Plato
Famous Men of Greece John H. Haaren	The Backwoods of Canada Catharine Parr Traill	Selected Letters of Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Olaudah Equiano
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy George Santayana	Ion Plato	The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnegie	Canyons of the Colorado, or The exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons John Wesley Powell
Confessions Saint Augustine of Hippo	Is Mars Habitable? Alfred Russel Wallace	The Meaning of the Glorious Koran	A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Ida Laura Pfeiffer
The Book of Lieh-Tzü Lieh-Tzu	Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santa Claus Francis Pharcellus Church	Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll Robert Green Ingersoll	The Spinster Book Myrtle Reed
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki US Army Corps of Engineers, Manhattan District	When Mother Lets Us Cook Constance Johnson	Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists Varous	Famous Men of Rome John H. Haaren
Little Wars (A Game for Boys) H. G. Wells	Letters from England, 1846-1849 Elizabeth Davis Bancroft	The Book of the Damned Charles Hoy Fort	In Defense of Women H. L. Mencken
The Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus	Two Years in the Forbidden City Princess Der Ling	Eusebius’ History of the Christian Church Eusebius of Caesarea	Utilitarianism John Stuart Mill
The Symposium Plato	Lectures on Landscape John Ruskin	A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery Anonymous	Arabic Primer Sir Arthur Cotton
The Bible, Weymouth New Testament (WNT) Weymouth	The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova	Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys Amelia B. Edwards	Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch General Sir John Miller Adye
Collected Works of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick	The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Leander Stillwell	The Enchiridion Epictetus	Army Life in a Black Regiment Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Memoir of Jane Austen James Edward Austen-Leigh	The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus	Has a Frog a Soul? Thomas H. Huxley	Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt R. Talbot Kelly
Up From Slavery Booker T. Washington	The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1910-12 Roald Amundsen	The Wars of the Jews Josephus	Magna Carta Unknown
The Madman And The Pirate Robert Michael Ballantyne	Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Allan Fea	Language Learning Collection Various	The Story of Mary MacLane Mary MacLane
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophic Essay Immanuel Kant	Hannibal Jacob Abbott	The Ideal Bartender	Buddhist Writings
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson	Queen Victoria Lytton Strachey	The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Lawrence Beesley	A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke
Popular History of France from the Earliest Times Francois Guizot	Hints for Lovers Theodore Arnold Haultain	Mary Queen of Scots Jacob Abbott	Young Americans Abroad – Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland J. O. Choules
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection	The History of London Walter Besant	Life in Mexico Frances Calderón de la Barca	Famous Sea Fights John R. Hale
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln John George Nicolay	Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers John Burroughs	Bushido: The Soul of Japan Inazo Nitobe	The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle
How I Found Livingstone Sir Henry Morton Stanley	The Pirates of Panama Alexandre Exquemelin	Over the Top Arthur Empey	Yang Chu’s Garden of Pleasure Lieh Tzu
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions Frank Harris	Discoverers and Explorers Edward R. Shaw	Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark William R. Lighton	The Death of Lord Nelson William Beatty, M.D.
The Mortification of Sin in Believers John Owen	The Unreality of Time John McTaggart	Science and Hypothesis Henri Poincaré	Pensées Blaise Pascal
Richard I Jacob Abbott	Hospital Sketches Louisa May Alcott	The Esperanto Teacher Helen Fryer	Offences Against One’s Self: Paederasty Jeremy Bentham
The Pirates Own Book Charles Ellms	The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today Evelyn Underhill	Four Weeks in the Trenches Fritz Kreisler	The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby John S. Mosby
Rhetoric Aristotle	Greek and Roman Ghost Stories Lacy Collison-Morley	My First Summer in the Sierra John Muir	Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 Carlton McCarthy
New Discoveries at Jamestown John L. Cotter	The Praise of Folly Desiderius Erasmus	Dog-Watches at Sea Stanton H. King	Insomnia Collection
The Riot Act British Parliament	Xenophon’s Anabasis Xenophon	The Humbugs of the World P. T. Barnum	Mozart, The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words Friedrich Kerst
Celebrated Crimes Alexandre Dumas	Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century Edwin Benson	The Life of Honorable William F. Cody William F. Cody	The Insurrection in Dublin James Stephens
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas de Quincey	Timaeus Plato	Exercises in Knitting Cornelia Mee	Tremendous Trifles G. K. Chesterton
Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation Shaykh Hasan	The People of the Abyss Jack London	Floor Games H. G. Wells	Totem and Taboo Sigmund Freud
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period Paul Lacroix	What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley	Phaedrus Plato	The Life of St. Teresa Santa Teresa de Jesus
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan Winston Churchill	Fishing with a Worm Bliss Perry	Soren Kierkegaard, Various Readings Various	Charles I Jacob Abbott
Great Englishwomen M. B. Synge	A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Mary Rowlandson	Literary Taste: How to Form It Arnold Bennett	Concerning Cats Helen M. Winslow
Beasts, Men and Gods Ferdinand Ossendowski	Daniel Boone John S. C. Abbott	The Greek View of Life Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson	Categories Aristotle
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 Frances M. A. Roe	The Romance of Rubber United States Rubber Company	The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Charles Darwin	United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection
The Bahai Revelation Thornton Chase	The Story of My Boyhood and Youth John Muir	Our Vanishing Wild Life William T. Hornaday	The Art of Controversy (or The Art of Being Right) Arthur Schopenhauer
Living on Half a Dime a Day Sarah Elizabeth Harper Monmouth	Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley	Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Captain Rees Howell Gronow	Strange Pages from Family Papers T. F. Thiselton Dyer
Third Class in Indian Railways Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe	Wild Life on the Rockies Enos A. Mills	Voyage Round the World in His Majesty’s Frigate Pandora George Hamilton
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 Abner Doubleday	Sketches Of The Fair Sex Anonymous	From Plotzk to Boston Mary Antin	Life of the Spider J. Henri Fabre
Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology W.G. Aitchison Robertson	The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham	About Orchids, a Chat Frederick Boyle	Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement William Bradford
The Elements of Style William Strunk Jr.	The Story of Electricity John Munro	The Ethics Benedict de Spinoza	The Promised Land Mary Antin
History of the Inquisition of Spain Henry Charles Lea	Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology William Healy, Mary Healy	My First Book Various	The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects Edward J. Ruppelt
On Interpretation Aristotle	The Arabic Hidden Words Bahá'u'lláh	Plunkitt of Tammany Hall George Washington Plunkitt	Jailed for Freedom Doris Stevens
The Story of My Childhood Clara Barton	On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery Joseph Lister	The Complete Book of Cheese Bob Brown	Birds in the Calendar Frederick G. Aflalo
Geronimo’s Story of His Life Geronimo	Confessions of Two Brothers John Cowper Powys and Llewelyn Powys	The Book of Snobs William Makepeace Thackeray	The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures John Henry Patterson
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Ezra Meeker	Five Months at Anzac Joseph Lievesley Beeston	Stories of Inventors Russel Doubleday	A Diary from Dixie Mary Chesnut
Woman as Decoration Emily Burbank	Fathers of Biology Charles McRae	The Quest of the Historical Jesus Albert Schweitzer	The Early History of the Airplane Wright, Orville and Wilbur
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) Meriwether Lewis	Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People Charles Dickens	The Romance of Missionary Heroism	My Father As I Recall Him Mamie Dickens
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation Jeremy Bentham	Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians Martin Luther	Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes Walter Wood	A Voyage to the South Sea William Bligh
Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart	English as She is Wrote Anonymous	What I Believe Leo Tolstoy	Steep Trails John Muir
The Tree-Dwellers Katharine Elizabeth Dopp	Farthest North Fridtjof Nansen	The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Robert Falcon Scott	Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge
The Lives of the Queens of England Anges Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland	The Diary of a Dead Officer Arthur Graeme West	By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 Lavinia Honeyman Porter	Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison James E. Seaver	The Book of Werewolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition Sabine Baring-Gould	My Very First Little German Book Anonymous	The Heroines of History John S. Jenkins
British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905	History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) Nennius	Travels in Alaska John Muir	Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton
Prior Analytics Aristotle	Richard III Jacob Abbott	Good Sense Baron Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach	Easy Lessons in Einstein Edwin E. Slosson
The Story of the Pony Express Glenn D. Bradley	Der Wahrheitpfad (Dhammapadam) Gautama Buddha	Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Father and His Youngest Sister Ulysses S. Grant	Fighting the Flying Circus Eddie Rickenbacker
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay Watkin Tench	The Persian Hidden Words Bahá’u'lláh	California Henry Vizetelly	The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner George-Günther Freiherr von Forstner	A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought Edward Granville Browne	Posterior Analytics Aristotle	Unidentified Flying Objects United States Federal Bureau of Investigation
A Woman Who Went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan	The Slavery of Our Times Leo Tolstoy	Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman	The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire Charles Morris
Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball William Hanford Edwards	How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York Jacob A. Riis	Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne Dorothy Osborne	A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson
Radioactive Substances Marie Curie	Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 Alfred Dreyfus	Arizona Sketches Joseph Munk	Soul Food George Douglas Watson
Histology of the Blood Paul Ehrlich	Topics Aristotle	British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Thomas Dowler Murphy	The Treasury of David Charles H. Spurgeon
Of Peace of Mind Lucius Annaeus Seneca	The Man Who Fought the Devil Eva K. Betz	The Outspan: Tales of South Africa Percy Fitzpatrick	American Psychology 1900-1922 Various
The Petticoat Commando Johanna Brandt	In Galilee Thornton Chase	The Chemical History of a Candle Michael Faraday	Careers of Danger and Daring Cleveland Moffett
The Gamekeeper at Home Richard Jefferies	Morning and Evening: Daily Readings Charles Spurgeon	Sophistical Elenchi Aristotle	Priest on Horseback - Father Farmer: 1720 - 1786 Eva K. Betz
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles Francis Key Howard	Knight of Molokai Eva K. Betz	English Costume Dion Clayton Calthrop	Our Cats and All About Them Harrison Weir
The Two Paths John Ruskin	A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw Ukawsaw Gronniosaw	The Life of Richard Nash, Esq., Late Master of the Ceremonies at Bath Oliver Goldsmith	The Story of Peterloo Francis Archibald Bruton
Wherein? G. Campbell Morgan	Epitome of the Formula of Concord Jakob Andreae	Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal Austin Craig	On the Trail Adelia Belle Beard and Lina Beard
The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler	The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci	Unknown Mexico Carl Lumholtz	Encyclopaedia Britannica Various
Full Revelations of a Professional Rat-catcher Ike Matthews	Vocational Guidance for Girls Marguerite Stockman Dickson	Prince Henry the Navigator Beazley	Outdoor Sports and Games Claude H. Miller