DotBooks.

Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.

From $8.00

A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.

From $8.50

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

From $7.00

A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.

From $7.00

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

From $7.50

Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

From $5.00

Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.

From $5.00

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

From $5.00

A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.

From $5.00

Emma Woodhouse, convinced of her matchmaking prowess, navigates the social intricacies of Highbury with wit and charm—until her meddling unravels unexpected consequences.

From $8.00

Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.

From $5.00

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

From $5.00

London’s foggy alleyways conceal crimes only Sherlock Holmes can unravel.

From $5.00

A scientist's reckless ambition births a sentient being—one whose loneliness curdles into rage.

From $5.00

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

From $8.00

Written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott, this ambitious novel abandons detection for the making of a composer, tracing genius, love and sacrifice across a life de

From $9.50

Tommy and Tuppence take over a detective agency and solve cases while gleefully imitating the great fictional sleuths of their day, in Agatha Christie's witty, affectionate collect

From $9.50

When a widely disliked man is shot dead in the vicar's study, the sharp-eyed spinster Miss Marple sifts village gossip for the truth, in the novel that introduced Agatha Christie's

From $9.50

An enigmatic stranger appears at moments of crisis to help a quiet observer see the truth about love and death, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and atmospheric collection of link

From $9.50

Thomas More’s Utopia is a foundational classic of political thought and social imagination, presented in a clean DotBooks edition for modern readers.

From $8.00

Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

From $8.00

Rousseau’s Confessions is a foundational autobiographical classic of self-examination and Enlightenment thought.

From $8.00

Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.

From $8.00

A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.

From $8.00

A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.

From $8.00

John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin offers a concise portrait of a major American statesman and diplomat.

From $8.00

Conan the Cimmerian slips into a ruined temple city in search of legendary gems, only to find rival treasure-hunters, an oracle who is not what she seems, and older terrors waiting

From $8.00

Escoffier's landmark manual codified French cuisine into a working system: mother sauces, brigade order, thousands of recipes.

From $8.00

Hilaire Belloc's wickedly funny verse follows children who lie, slam doors, chew string and generally misbehave, and meet gloriously exaggerated fates.

From $8.00

Anthony Hope turns inheritance, secrecy, and divided loyalties into a swift Edwardian romance of identity, estate politics, and emotional calculation.

From $8.50

A buoyant Oz adventure in which a comic king, a young prince, and Dorothy cross perilous islands on the way to Oz.

From $7.50

Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.

From $7.50

Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.

From $8.00

Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.

From $8.00

Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry settle in Oz as Baum combines domestic warmth, comic fantasy, and an invasion plot.

From $7.50

A novel of intrigue and human passions from F.

From $8.50

Robert E.

From $8.00

Robert E.

From $8.00

William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.

From $8.50

Albert Taylor Bledsoe's searching work of theology and philosophy, which confronts the ancient problem of evil and seeks to defend the justice, goodness and glory of God against it

From $8.00

J.

From $7.50

Frank Everett Stevens's detailed history of the 1832 Black Hawk War, with an account of the Sauk leader Black Hawk's life.

From $8.00

Stanley G.

From $8.00

George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

From $7.50

Plato’s great dialogue on justice, education, power, and the shape of an ideal city remains one of the defining books of political thought.

From $8.00

Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.

From $7.50

Hans Christian Andersen’s tales mingle enchantment, wit, sorrow, and moral sharpness in one of the great story collections for all ages.

From $7.50

Another warm-hearted installment in Margaret Sidney's beloved Five Little Peppers series, following the lively Pepper children as they face the trials, friendships, and lessons of

From $7.50

The final volume of Ford Madox Ford's trilogy on Katharine Howard, following her rise and peril at the treacherous court of Henry VIII.

From $8.50

Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.

From $8.50

A novel of the heart from an earlier era, by Annie Gregg Savigny.

From $8.50

Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

From $8.50

The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.

From $7.50

The gathered notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, a dazzling record of one of history's greatest minds at work.

From $7.00

Lucretius's magnificent philosophical poem, which sets out an atomist vision of a universe made of matter and void, aiming to free the mind from fear of the gods and of death.

From $7.50

Frank R.

From $7.50

Jacques Futrelle's classic detective tale, in which the brilliant Professor Van Dusen, the Thinking Machine, wagers he can escape a locked prison cell using only his intellect.

From $8.50

Booth Tarkington’s comic portrait of Midwestern boyhood follows Penrod Schofield through pranks, friendships, and social embarrassment.

From $7.50

Robert E.

From $8.00

Henri Bergson’s major philosophical work rethinks life, mind, time, and change through a bold critique of mechanism and a dynamic account of evolution.

From $8.00

William James's landmark study of religion as lived personal experience, examining conversion, mysticism, saintliness, and the inner life of faith with the eye of a pioneering psyc

From $8.00

A historical novel of old French Canada, following friendship and loyalty as the fortunes of war divide two young men.

From $8.50

A compact Hercule Poirot mystery from Agatha Christie.

From $8.50

Classic pulp science fiction from John W.

From $8.00

The vivid, troubling first-hand narrative of a nineteenth-century adventurer's years in the Atlantic slave trade.

From $8.00

Thomas Hardy's poignant novel of a love that reaches across barriers of class and age, played out beneath the vast indifference of the stars.

From $8.50

Hudson Stuck's vivid record of winter journeys by dog sled across Alaska, a missionary-explorer's account of the far North, its trails, peoples and unforgiving cold.

From $8.00

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

From $8.00

A young woman is found dead beneath the seat of a railway carriage, her jewels missing, and Hercule Poirot untangles a crime of theft, deception and family secrets in this compact

From $8.50

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

From $8.00

Camille Flammarion's beloved introduction to the night sky, written to make the heavens accessible to anyone willing to look up.

From $8.00

A historically revealing survey of Indian society and religion, best read today with attention to its missionary-colonial perspective.

From $8.00

Agatha Christie's short case sends Hercule Poirot after a dead man's hidden testament, a puzzle set as a deliberate test of wits, solved by the little Belgian's endlessly methodica

From $8.50

The short, incendiary pamphlet by Marx and Engels that reframed history as a struggle between classes.

From $5.00

Ingersoll Lockwood's curious Victorian fantasy.

From $7.50

Twain and Warner’s satirical novel exposes speculation, corruption, boosterism, and political performance in post–Civil War America.

From $8.50

Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

From $8.00

Solomon Northup's searing 1853 memoir: a free Black man from New York, lured south and kidnapped into slavery in Louisiana, endures twelve years in bondage before his desperate str

From $5.00

Bill Nye’s illustrated satirical history turns major episodes of the American past into brisk, deadpan comic sketches.

From $8.00

George Saintsbury's sweeping survey of the golden age of English writing, from its poets and dramatists to its prose.

From $8.00

Catharine Esther Beecher’s influential nineteenth-century manual blends household management, health guidance, moral instruction, and practical advice for domestic life and educati

From $8.00

Louise Imogen Guiney's A Little English Gallery gathers graceful literary portraits of Lady Danvers, Henry Vaughan, George Farquhar, Beauclerk and Langton, and William Hazlitt.

From $8.00

William H.

From $8.00

Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.

From $8.50

Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.

From $5.00

Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

From $8.50

Hamlin Garland's Pulitzer-winning memoir of prairie life, family, and hard-won artistic ambition, a warm, clear-eyed portrait of the American Midwest and the people who shaped it.

From $8.00

Ralph Waldo Emerson's founding essay of American Transcendentalism, arguing that the natural world is the visible face of spirit.

From $7.00

Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

From $8.50

James Fergusson's monumental survey of the architecture of India and the East, tracing temples, monuments, and building traditions across centuries.

From $8.00

L.

From $7.50

Annie Besant's Theosophical reading of Christianity as a repository of hidden, mystical truths, arguing that behind the familiar faith lies an ancient wisdom meant for the spiritua

From $8.00

Booker T.

From $8.00

A fast-paced Nick Carter detective adventure from the great age of the American dime novel, pitting the famous sleuth against a formidable and dangerous woman.

From $8.50

A Victorian teaching text by G.

From $8.00

Dorothy L.

From $8.50

Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

From $7.50

A vivid collection of Russian folk tales full of shape-shifting magic, dangerous bargains, brave children, and the strange logic of the old wonder tale.

From $7.50

A collection of tales gathered from the storytelling traditions of the East, bringing together stories of adventure, wisdom, and wonder.

From $7.50

On War by Carl von Clausewitz is the monumental modern classic on strategy, uncertainty, politics, friction, and the enduring logic of armed conflict.

From $8.00

The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.

From $8.50

Francis Bacon's celebrated Essays paired with his Wisdom of the Ancients, gathering some of the shrewdest prose in English.

From $7.00

Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.

From $5.00

Edward MacDowell's lectures on music, delivered at Columbia University, in which the celebrated American composer reflects on the history and meaning of his art with a practitioner

From $7.00

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

From $8.50

A comprehensive survey of the great writers of ancient Rome, from Plautus and Cicero to Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, tracing the rise and flowering of Latin literature.

From $8.00

A foundational chemistry textbook by William McPherson and William Edwards Henderson, introducing the elements, reactions, and laws of the science to beginning students.

From $8.00

William Stearns Davis's rousing historical novel of ancient Greece, set amid the Persian Wars and the great sea battle of Salamis, where courage and love are tested against the fat

From $8.00

Mark Twain circles the globe on a lecture tour, notebook in hand, turning ocean crossings, colonial outposts and human folly into wry, watchful travel writing edged with anger.

From $8.00

Emile Cammaerts's sweeping history of Belgium, tracing the fortunes of a small but pivotal European land from ancient times to the modern era.

From $8.00

A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

From $8.50

Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

From $8.50

Hercule Poirot faces not a single killer but a global criminal conspiracy of four masterminds bent on world domination, in Agatha Christie's most unusual and action-packed Poirot a

From $9.50

William H.

From $9.00

A wealthy heiress is found murdered aboard the luxury train to the Riviera, her famous rubies gone, and Hercule Poirot, a fellow passenger, takes up a case tangled in money, love a

From $9.50

A gathering of Emerson's essays, the works that carried American Transcendentalism to the world.

From $8.00

Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.

From $8.50

A brisk American novel of enterprise, ambition, and fortune-making in a fast-growing town, told with wit and a keen eye for the schemes of its go-getting characters.

From $9.50

A stirring retelling of the great heroic legends of Britain, from Beowulf to the deeds of Arthur and beyond.

From $8.50

H.

From $9.00

Arthur Train's engaging stories from the world of law, drawing on his own experience as a lawyer.

From $9.50

The final collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories gathers twelve late cases for the world's most famous detective, closing the canon with fresh puzzles and a few

From $5.00

Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.

From $8.50

E.

From $8.50

M.

From $9.50

A young woman witnesses a death in a London Underground station and follows a cryptic clue aboard a liner bound for South Africa, launching one of Agatha Christie's most dashing ea

From $9.50

The complete essays of Montaigne, the writer who invented the form: a lifelong, endlessly curious inquiry into himself and, through himself, into what it means to be human.

From $8.00

George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

From $9.50

Gaston Leroux’s pioneering locked-room mystery follows Joseph Rouletabille into an impossible crime, a country-house labyrinth, and a duel of reason against deception.

From $9.50

Beatrix Potter's perfect little book about a naughty rabbit, a forbidden vegetable garden, and a very close escape.

From $8.50

A wide-ranging comparative study arguing that many biblical stories echo the myths of older and other religions.

From $8.50

E.

From $8.50

Boethius, awaiting execution, is visited by Philosophy herself, who consoles him with timeless reflections on fortune, happiness, and the highest good.

From $5.00

Clara Erskine Clement Waters's accessible survey of the great arts — painting, sculpture and architecture — written to guide beginners through the story of human creativity.

From $9.00

Lucien Biart's account of a boy's natural-history adventures in the wilds of Mexico.

From $8.50

Henry Charles Lea's landmark history of clerical celibacy, tracing the long and contested development of the Church's discipline of the unmarried priesthood.

From $9.00

Summoned to France by a frightened millionaire, Hercule Poirot arrives too late to prevent a murder and finds himself matching wits with a proud French detective, in one of Agatha

From $9.50

A practical joke at a country house ends in death, and the irrepressible Bundle Brimble finds herself chasing a secret society through 1920s England in one of Agatha Christie's bre

From $9.50

Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a

From $9.50

Balzac's epistolary novel following two convent friends into contrasting marriages, one of passion, one of prudence.

From $9.50

Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.

From $9.00

Erskine Childers's pioneering spy novel of two Englishmen who stumble on a secret while yachting the tidal shallows of the North Sea.

From $9.00

Lord Byron's landmark narrative poem follows a brooding, world-weary wanderer across Europe, blending travel, reflection and passionate feeling to create the archetypal Byronic her

From $8.50

Robert W.

From $9.50

Johann David Wyss's beloved tale of a shipwrecked family who build an ingenious new life on a tropical island.

From $9.50

W.

From $9.00

Emma Goldman's bracing collection of essays on anarchism, freedom, and the questions of her age.

From $8.00

H.

From $9.50

A Boer general's firsthand account of the South African War, written by a commander who fought the British in the field and lived to set the campaign down in his own plain, unflinc

From $9.00

George F.

From $9.50

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.

From $8.50

Eleven brisk cases showcase Hercule Poirot's little grey cells at their sharpest, narrated by the loyal Captain Hastings, in Agatha Christie's first and much-loved collection of th

From $9.50

James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.

From $9.50

Dostoevsky's tragic novel of a guileless, Christlike prince set loose in a grasping St Petersburg society, where his innocence dazzles, disturbs and is finally broken.

From $9.50

J.

From $9.00

A vivid collection of true and legendary crimes from European history, retold with a novelist's flair for drama and character.

From $9.00

A comprehensive nineteenth-century reference work on the religion, doctrines, rites, and terminology of Islam, arranged for ready consultation.

From $9.00

Alice Hegan Rice, author of Mrs.

From $9.50

Josephus's monumental history of the Jewish people, from the creation of the world through the biblical narrative to the eve of revolt against Rome.

From $9.00

Randall Garrett’s brisk Cold War science-fiction caper turns paranoia, bureaucracy, and psychic disruption into a fast-moving comic thriller.

From $9.00

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to

From $5.00

Joseph Conrad's dark, ironic novel of anarchists, spies, and a bombing plot in Victorian London.

From $5.00

John Buchan's breakneck thriller of espionage and pursuit.

From $5.00

A novel by Oliver Onions, a writer prized for his craft and his unsettling command of atmosphere.

From $9.50

Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.

From $8.50

Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.

From $9.50

Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

From $9.50

From $9.00

From $9.50

A fast-moving early science-fiction thriller about tyranny, resistance, and perilous escape in Ray Cummings’s imagined future.

From $9.00

Ludwig Wittgenstein's austere masterpiece on language, logic and the limits of what can be said.

From $9.00

Two out-of-work friends advertise themselves as adventurers for hire and stumble into international intrigue, introducing Agatha Christie's beloved sleuthing pair, Tommy and Tuppen

From $9.50

Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where

From $8.50

Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.

From $9.00

A.A.

From $5.00

A nineteenth-century traveller's account of journeys through the North, blending observation, incident, and wry humour.

From $9.00

L.

From $8.50

John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.

From $8.50

H.

From $9.00

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

From $9.00

A biography of Willard Glazier, Civil War cavalryman, prisoner, escapee, author, and explorer.

From $9.00

A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.

From $9.50

Mark Twain's uproarious account of his years in the American West, from stagecoach and silver mine to newspaper desk.

From $9.00

Robert Louis Stevenson continues David Balfour’s adventures through kidnapping, legal peril, divided loyalties, romance, and Jacobite intrigue with wit and momentum.

From $9.00

Robert Louis Stevenson's breathless Scottish adventure, in which a robbed orphan is flung into a Highland flight across moor and mountain after the Jacobite rising, bound to a dang

From $5.00

A comprehensive survey of European political systems by Frederic Austin Ogg, describing the constitutions, institutions and everyday workings of the continent's governments.

From $9.00

A gathering of the essays, poems and lectures of Voltairine de Cleyre, one of American anarchism's most eloquent voices.

From $8.00

Louis Tracy’s alpine romance-thriller of chance encounter, concealed motive, social performance, and danger in the high Engadine.

From $9.00

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's landmark of literary autobiography and criticism, blending the story of his intellectual life with profound reflections on poetry, imagination, and philos

From $8.50

The first collection of G.K.

From $5.00

William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.

From $5.00

R.

From $5.00

Agatha Christie's very first novel, and the debut of Hercule Poirot.

From $9.50

Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece of cold revenge, told by a narrator luring his victim into the catacombs by the promise of a rare wine.

From $9.50

James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.

From $9.50

Dickens's tantalizing final novel, a tale of obsession and disappearance in a cathedral town, left forever unfinished by the author's death mid-story.

From $5.00

Paramahansa Yogananda's celebrated spiritual autobiography, a luminous account of a life devoted to yoga, meditation, and the search for God, and the book that introduced millions

From $9.00

Holman Day's brisk sea-and-shore adventure of a young man making his way in the hard world of shipping and coastal trade, full of salt air, rivalry and grit.

From $9.50

Gaston Leroux's haunting gothic romance of a disfigured musical genius who haunts the Paris Opera and fixes his obsession on a young soprano.

From $9.50

Berta Ruck’s wartime novel blends romance, aviation, danger, and emotional resilience in a story shaped by flight and modern longing.

From $9.50

A nineteenth-century historical romance of pursuit, loyalty, and danger unfolding through woodland England.

From $9.00

Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.

From $9.50

Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

From $8.50

An early Middle English verse retelling of the opening books of the Bible, rendering the great stories of creation, the patriarchs, and the deliverance from Egypt in the poetry of

From $8.50

A retired industrialist is found stabbed in his study, and Hercule Poirot comes out of quiet seclusion to investigate, in the Agatha Christie novel routinely named one of the fines

From $9.50

Oscar Wilde’s long prison letter turns suffering, memory, vanity, love, humiliation, and spiritual reckoning into one of the most searching autobiographical works in English.

From $8.00

Harriet Jacobs's searing first-person account of enslavement, escape, and seven years hidden in a cramped attic.

From $5.00

Timothy Dexter's gloriously eccentric self-published tract, famous for its erratic spelling and absent punctuation, which the author supplied by the page for readers to insert them

From $9.00

The second Sherlock Holmes novel sends the great detective and Dr.

From $9.50

Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.

From $8.50

Charles Dickens's timeless ghost story of a miser, three spirits, and one cold heart thawed in a single night.

From $8.50

Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and

From $9.50

Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.

From $9.50

Jules Verne's thrilling descent into the hollow depths of the planet, where a determined professor and his companions find a lost world beneath our feet.

From $9.00

The once and future king, his fellowship of the Round Table, and the long dream of Camelot, retold with the sweep and sorrow of the old romances.

From $8.50

Ernest Hemingway's stark, tender novel of love and war on the Italian front.

From $9.00

Mark Twain's beloved tale of two identical boys, a Tudor prince and a beggar, who trade places and learn hard truths about power and poverty in old England.

From $8.50

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.

From $9.00

Chrétien de Troyes's foundational tales of Arthur's court — knightly quests, courtly love and moral trial from the poet who shaped the Round Table for all who followed.

From $8.50

John Stuart Mill's landmark defence of individual freedom against the pressure of the state and the crowd.

From $5.00

Charles Dalton's meticulous roster of the British officers present at Waterloo, with biographical notes on their lives and services.

From $9.00

George Griffith sends newlyweds beyond Earth for a fin-de-siècle voyage through the solar system, mixing wonder, satire, and early spacefaring imagination.

From $9.00

John Locke's foundational argument for natural rights, consent and limited government.

From $5.00

G.

From $5.00

A casual errand draws a footloose adventurer into murder, blackmail and international intrigue at a grand English country house, in one of Agatha Christie's most sparkling early th

From $9.50

Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

From $9.50

J.

From $5.00

Ann Radcliffe's landmark Gothic novel, in which a young woman, orphaned and imperilled, is carried to a brooding Italian castle where terror, mystery and the power of the imaginati

From $5.00

Austin Bidwell's own account of the great Bank of England forgery and the fifteen years of imprisonment that followed.

From $9.00

Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.

From $9.00

Frederick Douglass's electrifying account of his life in bondage and his fight to be free.

From $5.00

The foundational essays by Hamilton, Madison and Jay, written to defend the proposed United States Constitution.

From $5.00

Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.

From $9.00

James Joyce's epic of a single ordinary Dublin day, following Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through the city.

From $9.00

Mark Twain's rich memoir of learning the great river as a steamboat pilot, then returning years later to find both the Mississippi and America transformed.

From $9.00

Thomas Hobbes's landmark of political philosophy, arguing that only a strong sovereign can lift humanity out of the violent chaos of the state of nature.

From $5.00

Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.

From $5.00

The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.

From $8.50

Friedrich Nietzsche's visionary philosophical masterwork, in which the prophet Zarathustra descends to teach the overman, eternal recurrence and the transvaluation of values.

From $9.00

Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.

From $8.50

Augustine of Hippo turns his life into a prayer, tracing a restless soul from youthful appetite to faith.

From $5.00

Jonathan Swift's ferocious 1729 satire, straight-faced and monstrous, coolly proposing that the poor of Ireland sell their children as food.

From $8.00

Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

From $9.50

Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.

From $8.50

Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

From $5.00

Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

From $9.00

F.

From $9.50

L.

From $9.00

A Room with a View by E.

From $9.50

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of a respectable doctor and his monstrous alter ego, a taut and unsettling fable of the double life hidden within a single divided soul.

From $9.00

Herman Melville's vast, oceanic masterpiece of obsession and the whale.

From $9.50

Henry James's great late novel of Europe, self-discovery, missed chances, and the cost of a truly examined life.

From $5.00

A spirited young American inherits a fortune and the freedom to choose her own life in Europe, only to find her choices narrowing.

From $5.00

Henry James’s gothic novella traps a young governess, two children, and a country house inside one of literature’s most unnerving studies in ambiguity, repression, and dread.

From $6.50

Herman Melville's tense novella sets an American captain aboard a strange Spanish slave ship where nothing is as it seems, in a masterful, unsettling study of slavery, perception a

From $6.50

Herman Melville's haunting final work.

From $6.50

Herman Melville's rollicking sequel to Typee, following a restless sailor through the islands of the South Pacific.

From $5.00

A sailor jumps ship in the South Pacific and lives among an island people both alluring and unsettling.

From $5.00

The House of the Seven Gables is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.

From $7.50

From $5.00

Edith Wharton's brilliant social novel follows ambition, marriage, money, and status in Gilded Age America and Europe.

From $5.00

A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

From $5.00

Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

From $6.50

Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.

From $8.00

From $8.00

A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

From $8.00

Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.

From $8.00

Stephen Crane's stark, pioneering novella follows a young woman crushed by poverty and hypocrisy in the New York slums, an unflinching landmark of American literary naturalism.

From $6.50

From $7.00

From $8.00

Edgar Rice Burroughs’s high-velocity Barsoom adventure delivers rescue, warfare, romance, and classic planetary pulp.

From $7.50

Orphaned in the African jungle and raised by great apes, a nobleman's son grows into a legend caught between two worlds, in Edgar Rice Burroughs's founding adventure of one of fict

From $5.00

Jack London’s fierce dystopian-political novel confronts oligarchy, repression, class conflict, and revolutionary memory.

From $7.50

Jack London follows a legendary Klondike gold-rush adventurer from the frozen North to the boardrooms of California, in a sweeping novel about fortune, corruption and the search fo

From $7.50

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

From $8.00

Jack London strands a cultivated survivor aboard a sealing schooner ruled by Wolf Larsen, creating a sea novel of violence, philosophy, power, and endurance.

From $8.00

H.

From $7.00

H.

From $7.00

From $7.00

The world's greatest detective is back from the dead and back on the trail.

From $8.00

A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.

From $8.00

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

From $6.50

The novel that lit the fuse.

From $6.50

From $7.50

Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger into the Amazon in a classic adventure filled with dinosaurs, danger, and discovery.

From $7.50

Rudyard Kipling's early stories capture British India in swift, knowing sketches of soldiers, officials and lovers, revealing a young writer's dazzling ear for the ironies of colon

From $7.50

Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.

From $8.50

Rudyard Kipling turns a boy-overboard rescue into a sea-going coming-of-age novel about labor, discipline, pride, and earned self-respect aboard a North Atlantic fishing schooner.

From $7.50

Jules Verne's visionary adventure of the space age before it began.

From $5.00

Five castaways marooned by balloon on an uncharted island rebuild civilisation from nothing, guided by a hidden benefactor.

From $9.00

Jules Verne's founding adventure sends a stubborn professor and his reluctant nephew down a volcano into a hidden underworld of oceans, storms and prehistoric wonders beneath our f

From $8.00

Captured aboard a mysterious submarine, three men voyage through the ocean's depths with the brilliant, embittered Captain Nemo.

From $8.50

Jules Verne's exhilarating race against the clock.

From $7.50

Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.

From $7.50

A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.

From $9.00

Two decades on, the four musketeers reunite amid civil war and shifting loyalties, older and no longer all on the same side.

From $5.00

A young Gascon named d'Artagnan comes to Paris to make his fortune with a sword and falls in with three inseparable comrades.

From $9.00

The ageing musketeers are drawn into a perilous royal secret and a plot that could topple a king.

From $5.00

Wilkie Collins's audacious sensation novel.

From $8.50

Wilkie Collins invented the modern thriller with this tale of a night-time encounter, a stolen inheritance, and two women whose lives are dangerously entangled.

From $8.50

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect.

From $8.50

Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era.

From $10.00

Thomas Hardy's gentlest novel follows a village choir facing extinction and a young schoolmistress courted by three suitors, offering a warm, wry pastoral of a rural England alread

From $7.00

Thomas Hardy’s tragic woodland novel of love, social pressure, class tension, and the slow ruin of human hopes.

From $8.00

Thomas Hardy's bleakest, boldest novel follows a stonemason who longs to be a scholar and loves against the rules, only to be crushed by class, marriage and the indifference of the

From $5.00

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterpiece explores guilt, pride, fate, and ruin in one of the great character studies of Victorian fiction.

From $8.00

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

From $8.50

On a brooding stretch of heathland, ambition, love and misunderstanding pull a handful of lives toward disaster.

From $8.00

George Eliot's bold final novel binds a spoiled society beauty's moral awakening to a young man's discovery of his Jewish heritage, reaching beyond England toward questions of iden

From $5.00

George Eliot’s first novel brings rural labor, moral consequence, and intimate human conflict into a broad, patient work of Victorian realism.

From $8.50

George Eliot's tender fable follows a betrayed, miserly weaver whose hoarded gold is stolen and replaced by an abandoned child, in a moving parable of loss, community and quiet red

From $7.00

George Eliot's vast, humane masterpiece anatomises an English town on the edge of reform, weaving idealists, doctors and disappointed hearts into the fullest portrait of a society

From $11.00

A clever, passionate girl grows up bound to a brother she adores and a provincial world that cannot contain her.

From $9.00

Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.

From $9.00

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel plunges into the hungry streets of industrial Manchester, tracing a working family through strike, love and a murder that binds masters and men in s

From $8.00

A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.

From $8.50

Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of a small English town governed by its genteel spinsters turns everyday visits, small economies and quiet losses into comedy of the trues

From $7.00

Jane Austen's sly early novella, told entirely in letters, follows a beautiful, scheming widow as she manipulates suitors and society, giving Austen her most deliciously wicked her

From $5.50

Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.

From $5.00

A reserved young Englishwoman takes a teaching post in a foreign city and confronts loneliness, longing and a fiercely guarded heart.

From $5.00

Anne Brontë's bold second novel follows a secretive young widow who arrives at a crumbling hall, and the diary that reveals why she fled her marriage.

From $5.00

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed first novel follows a clergyman's daughter into the thankless world of the Victorian governess, where gentility masks cruelty and quiet integrity is its ow

From $7.00

The Pickwick Papers is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.

From $9.50

Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.

From $5.00

Charles Dickens's sweeping historical novel of riot and unrest.

From $9.50

A gentle girl and her failing grandfather flee into the wide world, pursued by a grotesque and gleeful villain.

From $5.00

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.

From $5.00

Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a concentrated industrial novel of education, class, labor, and emotional damage in the fact-driven world of Coketown.

From $7.50

Charles Dickens's sprawling masterpiece revolves around an endless court case that consumes everyone it touches, binding a foggy London of lords, orphans and lawyers in one of fict

From $11.50

Charles Dickens's rousing tale of a young man's fight against cruelty and greed.

From $5.00

Charles Dickens follows an orphaned boy from a cruel childhood to hard-won maturity, in the sweeping, deeply personal novel its author called his favorite child, filled with unforg

From $10.50

Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.

From $8.50

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a timeless Christmas classic about Ebenezer Scrooge, redemption, memory, generosity, and the moral imagination of the holiday season.

From $6.00

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

From $8.00

Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.

From $7.50

A beloved children’s classic of riverbank friendship, comic trouble, and pastoral adventure with Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad.

From $7.50

A fierce companion to The Call of the Wild, tracing a wolf-dog’s path from violence and fear toward trust and domestication.

From $7.00

Jack London’s iconic Yukon adventure follows Buck from domestic comfort into brutal struggle, instinct, and wilderness.

From $6.50

Machiavelli’s concise and unsettling guide to power, statecraft, fear, reputation, and political survival.

From $6.50

Plato’s enduring dialogue on justice, education, political order, and the shape of the good life.

From $9.50

Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.

From $13.50

Alexandre Dumas's grand tale of betrayal, imprisonment, hidden treasure, and meticulous revenge.

From $12.50

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is the classic strategy text on planning, discipline, deception, leadership, and winning through intelligence rather than brute force.

From $6.50

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's chilling short story of a woman confined for her health, whose narrowing world comes to fixate on the pattern of her room's wallpaper.

From $4.50

Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved story of a sour, orphaned girl, a hidden walled garden, and the quiet magic of tending living things.

From $8.00

A wooden puppet’s journey from mischievous marionette to real boy is a darkly enchanting tale of folly, transformation, and the cost of growing up.

From $7.00

A boy raised by wolves learns the laws of the jungle, navigating a world where danger and wonder are inseparable.

From $7.00

A cyclone carries Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, a land of technicolor wonders and peculiar companions.

From $7.00

In 'Civil Disobedience,' Thoreau’s impassioned essay challenges readers to question authority and act on conscience.

From $5.50

W.

From $5.00

Thoreau's 'Walden' is a quiet rebellion against the noise of civilization, a year spent in deliberate solitude by a pond where time bends to the rustle of leaves and the call of lo

From $5.00

Nietzsche’s 'Beyond Good and Evil' is a searing critique of morality, truth, and power that refuses to offer easy answers.

From $5.00

Emerson’s 'Self-Reliance and Other Essays' is a clarion call to trust your instincts and defy conformity.

From $5.00

Dante’s epic pilgrimage through the afterlife remains a staggering work of imagination, where every sin and virtue takes vivid, often terrifying form.

From $13.00

Homer’s epic tale of war, honor, and divine intervention unfolds with breathtaking intensity in Alexander Pope’s translation.

From $5.00

Shakespeare's Sonnets are love letters to the human condition—each verse a razor-sharp meditation on desire, mortality, and the ache of time.

From $5.00

Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven and Other Poems' is a shadowed journey through love, loss, and the macabre.

From $5.00

A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.

From $5.00

Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

From $5.00

A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.

From $7.00

Jane Austen’s final completed novel returns to love after loss, measuring regret, constancy, and second chances with extraordinary emotional poise.

From $8.00

A red-haired orphan’s whimsy turns a staid farmhouse upside down in this tale of mishaps and marvels.

From $5.00

Tom Sawyer’s world is sunlit and sly, where fence-painting becomes a con and treasure hunts turn treacherous.

From $5.00

A respected doctor’s dangerous experiments unleash his hidden self, a creature of pure appetite.

From $5.00

A boy’s adventure becomes a brutal education in deception when a pirate’s map leads to mutiny, buried gold, and the unforgettable Long John Silver.

From $5.00

When Martian tripods stride across Victorian England, humanity’s fragile dominance crumbles.

From $5.00

In H.

From $5.00

A steamboat captain’s journey into the Congo unravels into a haunting meditation on power, savagery, and the fragile veneer of civilization.

From $6.50

A deluded knight and his loyal squire wander the Spanish countryside, mistaking windmills for giants and inns for castles.

From $13.50

A volatile father’s murder ignites a spiritual and moral inferno for his three sons—one a sensualist, one an intellectual, one a mystic—in Dostoyevsky’s searing final novel.

From $5.00

Emma Bovary’s longing for a life of passion and luxury collides with the banality of provincial France in this piercing exploration of desire and disillusionment.

From $5.00

Tolstoy's sweeping saga captures the chaos of war and the quiet dramas of the heart, weaving together the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, and dreamers against the backdrop of Napol

From $5.00

A woman risks everything for passion in a world that demands her obedience.

From $12.50

In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen masterfully contrasts the lives of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters navigating love and loss in a society that prizes propriety above p

From $5.00

In the stark shadows of Puritan New England, Hester Prynne’s scarlet 'A' becomes a symbol of sin and resilience, a haunting meditation on guilt, identity, and the oppressive weight

From $5.00

Huck Finn flees his abusive father and joins Jim, a runaway slave, on a raft down the Mississippi.

From $5.00

A haunting fable of beauty and corruption, where a man’s portrait ages in his stead while his soul darkens behind an ageless face.

From $8.00

Emily Brontë’s 'Wuthering Heights' is a tempest of love and revenge, set against the wild Yorkshire moors.

From $5.00

Against the backdrop of revolution, Dickens weaves a tale of love, sacrifice, and the shadow of the guillotine.

From $5.00

A misty marshland, a mysterious benefactor, and a boy’s dizzying ascent into a world of wealth and illusion.

From $8.00

A creeping dread unfolds through letters and diaries as an ancient evil crosses into Victorian London.

From $8.50