Yet another top 100 list
Readers download almost 4 million books a month from Project Gutenberg. These are yesterday's top 100. Some of these choices have to be driven by college courses. How else to explain almost 200 people with the simultaneous urge to delve into Wittgenstein's Tractatus or the sudden interest in the Uses and Generation of Steam. Are profs making use of Gutenberg? It's an incredible resource; one that must give Google and Amazon heartburn.
The List:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (963)
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (720)
How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict (644)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (481)
Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (456)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (449)
Ulysses by James Joyce (392)
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (344)
Waterfoot (344)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (328)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (322)
The Revelation of Saint John by Saint the Apostle John (317)
English Literature by William J. Long (310)
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (300)
Every Girl's Library, Volume 8 of 10 by Various (299)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (297)
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens (281)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (271)
The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version (262)
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (257)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (248)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (237)
Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville (233)
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (226)
War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy (222)
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (221)
The Art of War by Sunzi (219)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (216)
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (214)
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri (213)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (212)
The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed (212)
The Christian Faith Under Modern Searchlights by William Hallock Johnson (208)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (206)
The Natural History of Cage Birds by J. M. Bechstein (204)
Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (202)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (198)
The Republic by Plato (194)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (191)
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (190)
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 by Various (189)
Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge (187)
Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten (184)
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (184)
Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont (183)
Emma by Jane Austen (182)
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (181)
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (176)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (175)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (173)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (171)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (169)
The Best American Humorous Short Stories (167)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (165)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (165)
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (162)
Beowulf (162)
Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy (161)
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (158)
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (157)
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (156)
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe (152)
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (151)
The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (151)
The Romance of Lust by Anonymous (151)
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (146)
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (146)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (146)
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (143)
Found at Last: the Veritable Garden of Eden by David Van Slyke (143)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (137)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (136)
Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (136)
Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann (136)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (134)
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (131)
The Iliad by Homer (130)
Doctrina Christiana (129)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (129)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (127)
Yule Logs by Various (126)
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (126)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (126)
Dubliners by James Joyce (126)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (124)
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe (121)
Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog by Sofronio G. Calderón (120)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (119)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (116)
Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (115)
Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen (115)
Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company (111)
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (111)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (111)
?ύ??? ??ά????? ?ό??? 2 by Xenophon (107)
My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (105)
The Dispatch Carrier and Memoirs of Andersonville Prison by William N. Tyler (104)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London (103)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (101)
Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (100)
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