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University of Virginia Ebook Library: Staff Picks

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African-American
Autobiography
Historical
Holiday
Literary:
American
British
French
Italian
Russian

Native American
Poetry
Religious
Sci Fi/Fantasy
Spooky
Young Readers


African-American
Po' Sandy (1888)
 Charles Waddell Chestnutt
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Souls of Black Folk(1903)
 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Ebook | Palm | web version

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
 Frederick Douglass
Ebook | Palm | web version

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the lowly (1851)
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ebook | Palm [pt. 1] [pt. 2] | web version

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1772)
 Phillis Wheatley
Ebook | Palm | web version


Autobiography
The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane (1896)
 Calamity Jane
Ebook | Palm | web version

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
 Frederick Douglass
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1788)
 Benjamin Franklin
Ebook | Palm | web version


Historical
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 (1692)
  George Lincoln Burr
Ebook | Palm | web version

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)
 Charles Darwin
Ebook | Palm [pt. 1] [pt. 2] | web version

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
 George Mason
Ebook | Palm | web version

Declaration of Independence (1776)
 Thomas Jefferson
Ebook forthcoming | web version


Holiday
The Night Before Christmas (1822)
 Clement Moore
Ebook | Palm | web version

Good Stories for Great Holidays (1914)
 Frances Jenkins Olcott
Ebook | Palm | web version


Literary: American
Little Women (1869)
  Louisa May Alcott
Ebook | Palm [pt. 1] [pt. 2] | web version

Po' Sandy (1888)
 Charles Waddell Chestnutt
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
 James Fenimore Cooper
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
 W. E. Burghardt Du Bois
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Red Badge of Courage (1895)
 Stephen Crane
Ebook | Palm | web version

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
 Frederick Douglass
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771-1788)
 Benjamin Franklin
Ebook | Palm | web version

Young Goodman Brown (1846)
 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1886)
 Washington Irving
Ebook | Palm | web version

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851)
 Herman Melville
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1845)
 Edgar Allan Poe
Ebook | Palm | web version

Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life among the lowly (1851)
 Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ebook | Palm [pt. 1] [pt. 2] | web version

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
 Mark Twain
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Age of Innocence (1920)
 Edith Wharton
Ebook | Palm | web version


Literary: British
Emma (1815)
  Jane Austen
Ebook | Palm | web version

Beowulf (600; 1910)
 Anonymous
Ebook | Palm | web version

Wuthering Heights (1847)
  Emily Bronte
Ebook | Palm | web version

Heart of Darkness (1902)
 Joseph Conrad
Ebook | Palm | web version

Great Expectations (1860-1861)
  Charles Dickens
Ebook | web version

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902)
  Arthur Conan Doyle
Ebook | Palm | web version

Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1871)
George Eliot
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Jungle Book. (1893)
 Rudyard Kipling
Ebook | Palm | web version

Sons and Lovers (1913)
 D. H. Lawrence
Ebook | Palm | web version

Macbeth (1606)
 William Shakespeare
Ebook | Palm | web version

Frankenstein (1818)
 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ebook | Palm | web version

The War of the Worlds (1898)
 H. G. Wells
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
 Oscar Wilde
Ebook | Palm | web version


Literary: Russian
Notes from the Underground (1918)
 Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ebook | Palm | web verson

The Party (1917)
 Anton Chekhov
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories (1890)
 Leo Graf Tolstoy
Ebook | Palm | web version


Literary: French
Les Miserables, Vols. I-V (1862)
 Victor Hugo
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Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
 Jules Verne
Ebook | Palm | web version


Literary: Italian
The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love (1340)
 Giovanni Boccaccio
Ebook | Palm | web version


Native American
Indian Why Stories (1915)
 Frank Linderman
Ebook | Palm | web version

Old Indian Legends (1901)
 Zitkala-Sa
Ebook | Palm | web version


Poetry
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1863)
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ebook | Palm | web version

    A Group of Poems (1921)
 Robert Frost
Ebook | Palm | web version

Paradise Lost (1667)
 John Milton
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Night Before Christmas (1822)
 Clement Moore
Ebook | Palm | web version

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1772)
 Phillis Wheatley
Ebook | Palm | web version


Religious
The Bible: King James and Revised Standard Versions
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The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
 William James
Ebook | Palm | web version


Sci Fi/Fantasy
The Return of Tarzan (1913)
 Edgar Rice Burroughs
Ebook | Palm | web version

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
 Jules Verne
Ebook | Palm | web version

The War of the Worlds (1898)
 H. G. Wells
Ebook | Palm | web version


Spooky
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-1902)
 Arthur Conan Doyle
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1886)
 Washington Irving
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) (1845)
 Edgar Allan Poe
Ebook | Palm | web version

Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood. Vols. 1, 2, 3 (1847)
 Thomas Preskett Prest
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Macbeth (1606)
 William Shakespeare
Ebook | Palm | web version

Frankenstein (1818)
 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
 Oscar Wilde
Ebook | Palm | web version


Young Readers
Fables (1880)
 Aesop
Ebook | Palm | web version

Little Women (1869)
  Louisa May Alcott
Ebook | Palm [pt. 1] [pt. 2] | web version

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1866)
  Lewis Carroll
Ebook | Palm | web version

Red Fairy Book (1890)
 Andrew Lang
Ebook | Palm | web version

Anne of Avonlea (1909)
 L. M. Montgomery
Ebook | Palm | web version

The Night Before Christmas (1822)
 Clement Moore
Ebook | Palm | web version

Good Stories for Great Holidays (1914)
 Frances Jenkins Olcott
Ebook | Palm | web version