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Book List
Genre: Classics
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Adventures of Tom and Huck #2
   by  Mark Twain
So, in two seconds, away we sent, a-sliding down the river, and it did seem so good to be free again and all by ourselves on the big river and nobody to bother us.Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn…
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Allan Quatermain #14
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Once more Quatermain takes the hallucinogenic drug and gets to see a previous incarnation of himself–a life he lived thousands of years ago, when he was Wi, a tribal leader during t
5) Allan Quatermain (1887)
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Allan Quatermain #2
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. In this sequel to King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and his
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Allan Quatermain #4
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:It may be remembered that in the last pages of his diary, written just before his death, Allan Quatermain makes allusion to his long dead wife, stating that he has written of her fu
7) The Ancient Allan (1920)
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Allan Quatermain #10
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com: Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the world he know and entering
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   by  Jules Verne
From epubbooks.com:Verne’s most outrageous “voyage extraordinaire” - a hasty world tour taken up on a gentlemen’s club wager! Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager eve
9) The Art of War (-500)
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   by  Sun Tzu
Frm librivox.org:The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each devo
10) At the Earth's Core (1914)
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Pellucidar #1
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:David Innes is a young man who has just inherited a large mining company. An eccentric inventor, Abner Perry, convinces Innes to underwrite a project to build an ‘iron mole’, claimi
11) Ayesha (1905)
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Ayesha #2
   by  H Rider Haggard
From librivox.org:Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they
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Pellucidar #5
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:Five hundred miles beneath the surface of the Earth lies another world - a world of eternal day and endless horizons, in which dinosaurs still roam and cavemen hunt and terrors forg
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Tarzan #3
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubboks.com:Tarzan finds himself the target of greedy, evil men. Stranded on a desert island, his wife and son kidnapped, Tarzan’s plight seemed helpless. But with the help of Sheeta, the feroci
14) Bleak House (1853)
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   by  Charles Dickens
From librivox.org:Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most co
15) Cannery Row (1945)
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Barsoom #5
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:A freak storm on Mars throws Tara, Princess of Helium and beautiful daughter of John Carter, wildly off course after she embarks on an imprudent flight. Gahan, Jed of Gathol, her ne
18) Child of Storm (1913)
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Allan Quatermain #6
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Allan Quatermain, continues to indulge his penchant for globe-trotting adventure in a tumultuous journey across Africa. Upon his arrival, he discovers that one of his closest friend
19) A Christmas Carol (1843)
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   by  Charles Dickens
From librivox.org:A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideo
20) Dracula (1897)
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   by  John Steinbeck
PENGUIN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CLASSICSJOHN STEINBECKEast of Eden Introduction by David Wyatt The masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years - a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family
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Barsoom #7
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:A flying plane dropped out of the night. It seemed a spectral ship. Silently and quickly it landed behind Sanoma Tora and Sil Vagis. Warriors sprang from its low cabin. Sanoma Tora
23) Finished (1917)
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Allan Quatermain #9
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:This book, although it can be read as a separate story, is the third of the trilogy of which Marie and Child of Storm are the first two parts. It narrates, through the mouth of Alla
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   by  Mary Shelley
Frankensteinby Mary Shelly"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.  I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of
25) The Gods of Mars (1913)
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Barsoom #2
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:At the end of A PRINCESS OF MARS, the first volume in Burroughs’s Mars series, John Carter managed to get the factory that produces oxygen for Barsoom working again – and collapsed.
27) Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812)
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   by  Jacob Grimm;  Wilhelm Grimm
From librivox.org:Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Gri
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Allan Quatermain #12
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Allan Quatermain is confronted with the legend of the Heu-Heu, a monster who eats humans, while sheltering from a thunderstorm in the Drakensberg mountains. The legend appears to be
29) The Holy Flower (1915)
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Allan Quatermain #7
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Allan and the Holy Flower is a 1915 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. It first appeared serialised in The Windsor Magazine. Brother John, who has been wandering
31) The Ivory Child (1916)
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Allan Quatermain #8
   by  H Rider Haggard
From librivox.org:Allan Quatermain's first adventure with Lord Ragnall.
32) John Carter of Mars (1964)
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Barsoom #11
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:Here is the eleventh, and final, book in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ best-selling Martian Series: John Carter is pitted against the infamous Pew Mogel, who has kidnapped his beloved wife,
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   by  Jules Verne
From epubbooks.com:As irascible scholar Professor Lidenbrock pores over a rare Icelandic tome, he discovers a scrap of parchment with cryptic writing tucked away between the ancient pages. And when hi
34) The Jungle Book (1893)
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The Jungle Book #1
   by  Rudyard Kipling
From librivox.org:This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves: his escapades and adventures with his dear friends Bagheera the panther a
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Tarzan #6
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:The sixth book of Tarzan, King of the Jungle. This is actually a collection of several short stories all about the times when Tarzan was a young boy and a teenager being raised by t
36) Kim (1901)
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Allan Quatermain #1
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Following the disappearance of his brother, Sir Henry Curtis tracks down Allan Quartermain, a trader and hunter who knows Africa as well as any white man. Curtis’s brother has taken
38) Land of Terror (1944)
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Pellucidar #6
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:If you have ever wondered what a civilized man of the twentieth century would do if catapulted into an Old Stone Age where huge cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, monstrous carnivoro
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   by  Washington Irving
In the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane arrives to educate the children of the region. This lanky schoolmaster from Connecticut fancies
41) Llana of Gathol (1941)
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Barsoom #10
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:Llano[sic] of Gathol is a collection of four novellas written in the Martian series of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Llano[sic], the daughter of Gahan of Gothol, is the perfect damsel in di
42) Long Odds (1889)
43) Lord Jim (1900)
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   by  Joseph Conrad
From librivox.org:A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young "simple and sensitive character" who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiati
44) Lost World (1912)
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Professor Challenger #1
   by  Arthur Conan Doyle
From epubbooks.com:Long before Michael Crichton’s high-tech dinosaurs roamed the bestseller lists, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle envisioned an isolated land of prehistoric life that exists in the 20th centur
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Allan Quatermain #3
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Allan Quatermain has determined to go farther afield than he had ever traveled before, into the depths of the African jungle – on a march inland to the hills between lands controlle
47) Marie (1912)
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Allan Quatermain #5
   by  H Rider Haggard
From epubbooks.com:Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a cen
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Barsoom #6
   by  Edgar Rice Burroughs
From epubbooks.com:Former Earthman Ulysses Paxton served Barsoom’s greatest scientist, until his master’s ghoulish trade in living bodies drove him to rebellion. Then, to save the body of the woman he
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   by  Charles Robert Maturin
From librivox.org:One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, he wanders around the world in search of so






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