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Rank Author Title Downloads
1 Aesop Fables 9098
2 Wells War of the Worlds 6771
3 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [without illustrations] 6086
4 Darwin Origin of Species 5525
5 Shakespeare Macbeth 5224
6 Anonymous Beowulf 5159
7 Verne Around the World in Eighty Days 5102
8 Franklin Autobiography 5068
9 Frost Group of Four Poems 4163
10Shelley Frankenstein 4133
11 Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 3965
12 Dickens Christmas Carol 4294
13 Boccaccio The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love 3941
14 Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet 3865
15 Carroll Alice in Wonderland [with illustrations] 4220
16 Dickens Tale of Two Cities 3754
17 Abbott David Crockett: His Life and Adventures 3678
18 Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream 3602
19 Wells The Time Machine 3474
20 Shakespeare Hamlet 3678
21 Bible (KJV) Genesis 3414
22 Twain Tom Sawyer 3302
23 Wells The Invisible Man 3039
24 Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 5850
25 Dickens David Copperfield 3316
26 Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles 3400
27 Stoker Dracula 3012
28 Melville Moby Dick 3244
29 Twain Huckleberry Finn 3111
30 Milton Paradise Lost 2778
31 Kipling The Jungle Book 2785
32 Baum Marvelous Land of Oz [with illustrations] 2604
33 Jefferson et al. The Declaration of Independence 2543
34 Carroll Through the Looking Glass [without illustrations] 2527
35 Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray 2471
36 Poe Murders in the Rue Morgue 2454
37 Burr Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 2352
38 Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner 2319
39 Alcott Little Women 2432
40 Caesar Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars 2329