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Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,023,059 ratings — published 1818
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,560,464 ratings — published 1897
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,022,626 ratings — published 1890
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.30 — 5,036,694 ratings — published 1813
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,427,401 ratings — published 1847
Treasure Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.85 — 557,543 ratings — published 1882
The Time Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.89 — 583,369 ratings — published 1895
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 70 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,356,666 ratings — published 1885
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.00 — 527,127 ratings — published 1900
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.09 — 966,530 ratings — published 1843
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,092,362 ratings — published 1846
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.83 — 705,241 ratings — published 1886
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,553,641 ratings — published 1868
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,309,316 ratings — published 1847
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,049,208 ratings — published 1876
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,162,175 ratings — published 1908
The Three Musketeers (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.10 — 356,936 ratings — published 1844
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.58 — 638,048 ratings — published 1851
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,037,515 ratings — published 1859
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,344,213 ratings — published 1911
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.80 — 898,337 ratings — published 1861
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.92 — 316,517 ratings — published 1605
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,169,677 ratings — published 1866
Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.03 — 380,157 ratings — published 1911
Oliver Twist (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.88 — 439,402 ratings — published 1838
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,351,659 ratings — published 1811
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,578,031 ratings — published 1915
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.59 — 306,091 ratings — published 1726
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,028,342 ratings — published 1815
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.22 — 868,422 ratings — published 1862
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.83 — 363,723 ratings — published 1898
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.23 — 224,030 ratings — published 1812
The Invisible Man (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.63 — 226,220 ratings — published 1897
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,296,909 ratings — published -800
Robinson Crusoe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.68 — 340,320 ratings — published 1719
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.44 — 945,048 ratings — published 1850
David Copperfield (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.05 — 267,456 ratings — published 1850
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.17 — 379,905 ratings — published 1868
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.88 — 285,910 ratings — published 1869
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,170,548 ratings — published 1925
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,095,581 ratings — published 1601
The Island of Dr. Moreau (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 40 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.73 — 140,924 ratings — published 1896
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.43 — 578,120 ratings — published 1899
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.15 — 814,523 ratings — published 1817
The Wind in the Willows (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.03 — 249,808 ratings — published 1908
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.13 — 513,781 ratings — published 1887
Northanger Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.85 — 474,491 ratings — published 1817
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.17 — 417,316 ratings — published 1895
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as public-domain)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,196 ratings — published 1864
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as public-domain)
avg rating 4.11 — 973,343 ratings — published 1878
“The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs – the word is not too extreme – to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us.”
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“The public domain is not some gummy residue left behind when all the good stuff has been covered by property law. The public domain is the place we quarry the building blocks of our culture. It is, in fact, the majority of our culture.”
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind : Annotated Edition
