The Telegraph's "110 best books" on PG/DP

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• Available at Project Gutenberg
• Going through Distributed Proofreaders
• Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders
• Not in Project Gutenberg or Distributed Proofreaders, and online scans available
• Unknown status — might be in an existing anthology
• Published in 1923 or later, so probably not eligible

Classics

• The Iliad, Homer PG: 16452 PG: 22382
• The Odyssey, Homer PG 1727 PG 1728 PG 3160 PG 24269
• The Warden, Anthony Trollope PG 619
• Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope PG 2432 PG 3409
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen PG 1342
• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift, PG 829 PG 17157
• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë PG 1260 PG 16235
• War and Peace, Tolstoy PG 2600
• David Copperfield, Charles Dickens PG 766
• Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray PG 599
• Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert 2413
• Middlemarch, George Eliot PG 145

Poetry

• Sonnets, Shakespeare PG 1041
• Divine Comedy, Dante PG 8800
• Canterbury Tales, Chaucer PG 2383 PG 22120
• The Prelude, William Wordsworth PG 12383
• Odes, John Keats PG 23684
• The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot PG 132
• Paradise Lost, John Milton PG 20 PG 26 PG 1745
• Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake PG 1934
• Collected Poems, W. B. Yeats
• Collected Poems, Ted Hughes (first work published 1957)

Literary Fiction

• The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James PG 2833 PG 2834
• A la recherche du temps perdu (first 4 vols on PG, last 3 are post-1923)
• Ulysses, James Joyce PG 4300
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (published 1940)
• Sword of Honour trilogy, Evelyn Waugh (published 1952-1961)
• The Ballad of Peckham Rye, Muriel Spark (published 1960)
• Rabbit series, John Updike (published 1960-2001)
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (published 1967)
• Beloved, Toni Morrison (published 1987)
• The Human Stain, Philip Roth (published 2000)

Romantic Fiction

• Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (published 1938)
• Le Morte D'Arthur, Thomas Malory PG 1251 PG 1252
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos DP DP
• I, Claudius, Robert Graves (published 1934)
• Alexander Trilogy, Mary Renault (published 1969-1981)
• Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian (published 1969)
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (published 1936)
• Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (published 1957)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy PG 110
• The Plantagenet Saga, Jean Plaidy (published 1976-1982)

Children's Books

• Swallows and Amazons, Arthur Ransome (published 1930)
• The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis (published 1950)
• The Lord of the Rings, J.R. R. Tolkien (published 1954)
• His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (published 1995-2000)
• Babar, Jean de Brunhoff (published 1931)
• The Railway Children, E. Nesbit PG 1874
• Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne (published 1926)
• Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling (published 1997-2007)
• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame PG 289
• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson PG 120

Sci-fi

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley PG 84
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne PG 164 PG 2488
• The Time Machine, H.G. Wells PG 35
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (published 1932)
• 1984, George Orwell (published 1949)
• The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham (published 1951)
• Foundation, Isaac Asimov (published 1951)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (published 1968)
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick (published 1968)
• Neuromancer, William Gibson (published 1984)

Crime

• The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith (published 1955)
• The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (published 1930)
• The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (published 1939)
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, John le Carré (published 1974)
• Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (published 1981)
• Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie (published 1934)
• The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe PG 2147
• The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins PG 583
• Killshot, Elmore Leonard (published in 1989)

Books that changed the world

• Das Kapital, Karl Marx DP DP DP
• The Rights of Man, Tom Paine PG 3742
• The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau TIA en TIA fr
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville PG 815 PG 816
• On War, Carl von Clausewitz PG 1946 (vol 1 of 3 only)
• The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli PG 1232
• Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes PG 3207
• On the Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud (German edition) DP
• On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin PG 1228 PG 2009 PG 22764
• L'Encyclopédie, Diderot, et al

Books that changed your world

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig (published 1974)
• Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach (published 1970)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (published 1979)
• The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell (published 2000)
• The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf (published 1991)
• How to Cook, Delia Smith (published 1998)
• A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle (published 1989)
• A Child Called 'It', Dave Pelzer (published 1995)
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss (published 2003)
• Schott's Original Miscellany, Ben Schott (published 2002)

History

• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon PG 731 PG 732 PG 733 PG 734 PG 735 PG 736 PG 890 PG 891 PG 892 PG 893 PG 894 PG 895
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill (published 1956-1958)
• A History of the Crusades, Steven Runciman (published 1951)
• The Histories, Herodotus PG 2707 PG 2456
• The History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides PG 7142
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle PG 657
• A People's Tragedy, Orlando Figes (published 1996)
• Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Simon Schama (published 1989)
• The Origins of the Second World War, A.J.P. Taylor (published 1961)

Lives

• Confessions, St Augustine PG 3296
• Lives of the Caesars, Suetonius PG 6400
• Lives of the Artists, Vasari PG 21212
• If This is a Man, Primo Levi (published 1947)
• Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Siegfried Sassoon (published 1928)
• Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey PG 2447
• A Life of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell PG 1827 PG 1700
• Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves (published 1929)
• The Life of Dr Johnson, Boswell PG 1564 PG 8918 PG 9072 PG 9180 PG 10357 PG 10451 PG 11729
• Diaries, Alan Clark (published 1993-2002)

Readers comments

• Principia - Isaac Newton PG 28233
• The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan (published 1936)
• Arabian Nights PG 128
• Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger (1951)
• Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky PG 600
• Night - Elie Wiesel (published in 1958)
• Anthem - Ayn Rand (published 1938)
• Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald (published 1925)
• Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (published 1949)
• The Dead - James Joyce PG 2814
• Something from Roald Dahl (first book published in 1943)
• The Bible (World Edition, King James, Douay-Rheims editions at PG)
• Plato
• Aristotle
• The Stranger - Albert Camus (published 1942)
• Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (published 1985)
• Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe (published 1958)
• Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin (published 1956)
• Dr. Suess (first book published in 1949)
• Walt Whitman PG 8388 PG 8813 PG 14281
• Robert Frost
  • A Boy's Will PG 3021
  • North of Boston PG 3026
  • Mountain Interval (1916) PG 29345
• Emily Dickinson PG 12242
• Descartes (need to check remaining texts)
  • Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth PG 59
  • Descartes Selections from the Principles of Philosophy PG 4391
• D. H. Lawrence
  • Aaron's Rod PG 4520
  • Amores PG 22531
  • Bay PG 22734
  • The White Peacock TIA TIA TIA
  • The Trespasser PG 9498
  • Sons and Lovers PG 217
  • The Rainbow TIA TIA
  • Women in Love PG 4240
  • The Lost Girl PG 23727
  • Aaron's Rod PG 4520
  • Kangaroo (1923) TIA
  • The Prussian Officer and Other Stories PG 22480
  • England, My England and Other Stories (1922) PG 8914
  • The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird (1923)
  • Love Poems and others TIA
  • Look! We have come through! PG 23394
  • New Poems (1918) PG 22726
  • Tortoises (1921) PG 22475
  • Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) TIA
  • The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd (1914) TIA TIA
  • Touch and Go (1920) PG 4216
  • Study of Thomas Hardy and other essays (1914)
  • Movements in European History (1921)
  • Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious (1921/1922) PG 20654
  • Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916) PG 9497
  • Sea and Sardinia (1921) PG 37206
  • Lev Isaakovich Shestov All Things are Possible (1920) TIA
  • Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin The Gentleman from San Francisco (1922) TIA
• William Faulkner (some works published pre-1923)
  • From the Ball-Room to Hell PG 18759
  • Landing in Luck (1919)
  • Vision in Spring (1921)
  • The Hill (1922)
  • New Orleans (1922?)
• John Steinbeck (first book published in 1929)
• Guy de Maupassant (1850—1893)
  • Une Vie PG 7114 PG 21655
  • Bel-Ami PG 3733
  • Mont-Oriol TIA
  • Pierre et Jean PG 3804 PG 11131
  • Fort comme la mort PG 4777 PG 11450
  • Notre Coeur
  • Les Soirées de Médan PG 3077 PG 3090
  • La Maison Tellier PG 11596
  • Mademoiselle Fifi PG 4788
  • Contes de la bécasse PG 11714
  • Miss Harriet PG 21237
  • Les Soeurs Rondoli PG 3082
  • Clair de lune PG 11199
  • Yvette PG 3664
  • Toine PG 3085
  • Contes du jour et de la nuit PG 14790
  • Monsieur Parent PG 12011
  • La petite Roque PG 18353
  • Le Horla PG 10775
  • Le Rosier de Madame Husson PG 3085
  • La Main gauche PG 11495
  • L'Inutile Beauté PG 11175
  • Au soleil
  • Sur l'eau
  • La Vie errante PG 14793
  • Des Vers
• Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka PG 5200 PG 22367
• Walden - Henry David Thoreau PG 205
• Where The Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls (published 1961)
• Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin (published 1983)
• Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy PG 1399
• Raymond Chandler (first book published in 1939)
• Far from the madding crowd PG 107
• John Dickson Carr (first book published 1930)