Top 100 Public Domain Texts

I'm a fan of Project Gutenberg, which distributes the efforts of turning works that have entered the public domain into e-books. One of the best features on their site is the Top 100 ebooks, which is a great way to remind yourself of books that are free, easy to get, and worth your time.

The current top 15:

1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1127)


2. Aesop's Fables by Aesop (472)


3. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (367)


4. The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (268)


5. Kamasutra by Vatsyayana (241)


6. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (236)


7. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (225)


8. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (225)


9. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (223)


10. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (194)


11. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (193)


12. The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (150)


13. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (143)



14. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (142)


15. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (141)