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Hyperion

Hyperion is a 1989 science fiction novel by American author Dan Simmons. It follows a similar structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Average reading time8h 6m

I Shall Wear Midnight

I Shall Wear Midnight is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld. It is the fourth novel within the Discworld series to be based on the character of Tiffany Aching.

Average reading time41 min

Ideal Bartender

Ideal Bartender is a book by Tom Bullock. Its subjects include Liquors.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 13487

Average reading time2h 35m

Ideal Husband

Ideal Husband is a book by Oscar Wilde. Its subjects include Comedy plays; London (England).

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 885

Average reading time5h 13m

Imitation of Christ

The Imitation of Christ is a Christian devotional book by Thomas à Kempis, composed in Medieval Latin as De Imitatione Christi c. 1418–1427.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1653

Average reading time1h 44m

Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde, the last of his four drawing-room plays, following Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893) and An Ideal Husband (1895). First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy depicting the tangled affairs of two young men about town who lead double lives to evade unwanted social obligations, both assuming the name Ernest while wooing the two young women of their affections.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 844

Average reading time9h 28m

In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2)

In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) is a book by John Galsworthy. Its subjects include England, Social life and customs, 19th century; Domestic fiction; Women, England.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 2594

Average reading time3h 11m

In God's Garden

In God's Garden is a book by Amy Steedman. Its subjects include Christian saints, Juvenile literature.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 36674

Average reading time4h 34m

In the Field (1914-1915)

In the Field (1914-1915) is a book by Marcel Dupont. Its subjects include World War, 1914-1918, Personal narratives, French; D501.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 18177

Average reading time6h 57m

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself is an autobiography by Harriet Jacobs, a mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 11030

Average reading time1h 8m

Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch

Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch is a book by General Sir John Miller Adye. Its subjects include Eastern question (Central Asia); Afghan Wars.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 7021

Average reading time56 min

Indiscreet Letter

Indiscreet Letter is a book by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott. Its subjects include Letter writing; Railroad travel.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 15728

Average reading time16h 18m

Innocents Abroad

The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 3176

Average reading time1h 49m

Insurrection in Dublin

Insurrection in Dublin is a book by James Stephens. Its subjects include Ireland, History, Easter Rising, 1916.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 12871

Average reading time7h 36m

Interesting Times

Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. It is the seventeenth book in the Discworld series and is set in the Aurient (a fictional analogue of the Orient). The title refers to the English expression, "may you live in interesting times", which is typically presented as a translation from a purported Chinese curse.

Average reading time2h 16m

International Episode

International Episode is a book by Henry James. Its subjects include Americans, England; Manners and customs; British, United States.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 210

Average reading time33 min

Ion

Ion is a book by Plato (Πλάτων). Its subjects include Classical literature; Homer. Iliad; Poetics, History, To 1500.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1635

Average reading time2h 7m

Is Mars Habitable?

Is Mars Habitable? follows a similar theme, but is more of a reply and refutation of the book Mars and Its Canals (1906) by astronomer Percival Lowell.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 10855

Average reading time16h 9m

Ivanhoe: A Romance

Ivanhoe: A Romance ( EYE-vən-hoh) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. Whereas earlier numbers in the Waverley series take place in the 16th and 17th centuries, Ivanhoe is set in the high-medieval past during the 1190s.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 82

Average reading time7h 46m

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill is a children’s novel by Louisa May Alcott about two neighbouring friends whose sledding accident turns a year of recovery into lessons in friendship, responsibility, and growing up. Their families and village friends help them through illness, mistakes, celebrations, and the changes that come with leaving childhood behind.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 2786

Average reading time15h 37m

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre ( AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1260

Average reading time2h 8m

Jew of Malta

The Jew of Malta (full title: The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Jew of Malta) is a play by Christopher Marlowe, written in 1589 or 1590. The plot primarily revolves around a Maltese Jewish merchant named Barabas.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 901

Average reading time8h 49m

Jingo

Jingo is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, the 21st book in his Discworld series. It was published in 1997. The title refers to the concept of jingoism.

Average reading time8h 24m

Jo's Boys

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 3499

Average reading time6h 11m

Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Journey to the Centre of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles A Journey to the Center of the Earth and A Journey into the Interior of the Earth, is a classic science fiction novel written by French novelist Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 3748

Average reading time12h 10m

Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in November 1895 (though the title page says 1896). The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man; he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 153

Average reading time1h 46m

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar is a book by William Shakespeare. Its subjects include Tragedies (Drama); Conspiracies; Brutus, Marcus Junius, 85 B.C.?-42 B.C..

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1120

Average reading time5h 1m

Just David

Just David is a 1916 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter. Originally published by Houghton Mifflin, it tells the story of a young boy, David, who must learn to adapt to living with others after the death of his reclusive father; along the way, the villagers and his adoptive parents adapt as much or more to him.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 440

Average reading time4h 49m

Key Out of Time

Key Out of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, set on the world, Hawaika, that appears to be a tropical paradise. It is the fourth in Norton's series starts in The Time Traders, part of her Forerunner universe, and continues the series’ premise: A hostile encounter between Western heroes, and the Russian Communists, and the Baldies – a mysterious alien race that used time travel to alter Earth.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 19651

Average reading time3h 23m

Kilmeny of the Orchard

Kilmeny of the Orchard is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, noted for her Anne of Green Gables series.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 5341

Average reading time8h 50m

Kim

Kim is a picaresque novel by English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 2226

Average reading time3h 36m

King Arthur and His Knights

King Arthur and His Knights is a book by Maude L. Radford Warren. Its subjects include Arthur, King, Juvenile literature.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 21865

Average reading time2h 19m

King Lear

The Tragedy of King Lear, often shortened to King Lear, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in late 1605 or early 1606. Set in pre-Roman Britain, the play depicts the consequences of King Lear's love-test, in which he divides his power and land according to the praise of his daughters.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1532

Average reading time6h 53m

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. It is one of the first English adventure novels set in Africa and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 2166

Average reading time26h 16m

Knife of Dreams

Knife of Dreams is a fantasy novel by American author Robert Jordan, the eleventh book in his series The Wheel of Time. It was the last book which Jordan wrote completely before his death in 2007, with Brandon Sanderson finishing the series afterwards based on Jordan's notes.

Average reading time3h 7m

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan; also archaic romanized Kwaidan), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Koizumi Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn) that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1210

Average reading time12h 29m

Lady Audley's Secret

Lady Audley's Secret is a sensation novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon published on 1 October 1862. It was Braddon's most successful and well-known novel.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 8954

Average reading time1h 56m

Lady Susan (version 2)

Lady Susan is an epistolary novella by Jane Austen, written circa 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the title character.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 946

Average reading time1h 41m

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed on Saturday, 20 February 1892, at the St James's Theatre in London. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne lets herself be discovered in a compromising position at Lord Darlington's so Lady Windermere has the opportunity to leave without being noticed by Lord Windermere.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 790

Average reading time2h 48m

Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba

Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba is a book by Mary Georgiana Caroline Hall. Its subjects include Manitoba, Description and travel; Frontier and pioneer life, Manitoba; F1001.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 6732

Average reading time4h 39m

Lair of the White Worm

The Lair of the White Worm is a Gothic horror novel and dark fantasy novel by the Irish writer Bram Stoker. The novel is set in Derbyshire in 1860.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1188

Average reading time14h 39m

Last Man

The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 18247

Average reading time9h 17m

Leavenworth Case

The Leavenworth Case (1878), subtitled A Lawyer's Story, is an American detective novel and the first novel by Anna Katharine Green. Set in New York City, it concerns the murder of a retired merchant, Horatio Leavenworth, in his New York mansion. The popular novel introduced the detective Ebenezer Gryce, and was influential in the development of the detective novel. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie cited it as an influence on her own fiction.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 4047

Average reading time1h 27m

Lectures on Landscape

Lectures on Landscape is a book by John Ruskin. Its subjects include Landscape painting.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 20019

Average reading time1h 2m

Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is an 1820 short story by American author Washington Irving contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Irving wrote the story while living in Birmingham, England.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 41

Average reading time47h 20m

Les Misérables

Les Misérables (, French: [le mizeʁabl] ) is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published on 31 March 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience of redemption.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 135

Average reading time7h 6m

Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides is a book by Honoré de Balzac. Its subjects include Married women; Epistolary fiction; Man-woman relationships.

Text edition: Project Gutenberg ebook 1941

Average reading time13h 49m

Leviathan Wakes

Leviathan Wakes is a science fiction novel by James S. A. Corey, the pen name of American writers Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. It is the first book in the Expanse series, followed by Caliban's War (2012), Abaddon's Gate (2013) and six other novels.