Top 100 Public Domain eBooks of 2020

Most downloaded books in 2020, according to Project Gutenberg. These are the eBooks that are public domain and are free from copyright.
  1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
  2. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
  3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
  4. Ion by Plato.
  5. Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville.
  6. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe.
  7. The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
  8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
  9. Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
  10. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.
  11. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
  12. Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm.
  13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
  14. War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy.
  15. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.
  16. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.
  17. Et dukkehjem. English by Henrik Ibsen.
  18. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  19. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
  20. The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas.
  21. Ulysses by James Joyce.
  22. Dracula by Bram Stoker.
  23. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
  24. The Odyssey by Homer.
  25. The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde.
  26. The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois.
  27. Il Principe. English by Niccolò Machiavelli.
  28. A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens.
  29. Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem.
  30. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
  31. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (9802)
  32. Emma by Jane Austen (9520)
  33. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (9415)
  34. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë (9140)
  35. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (9097)
  36. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (8918)
  37. The Republic by Plato (8823)
  38. The Iliad by Homer (8742)
  39. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (8736)
  40. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (8700)
  41. Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (8220)
  42. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (8112)
  43. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (8080)
  44. Index of Project Gutenberg Works on Black History by Various (8071)
  45. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (7994)
  46. The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten (7969)
  47. A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (7897)
  48. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (7073)
  49. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (7073)
  50. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (7000)
  51. Also sprach Zarathustra. English by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (6962)
  52. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (6720)
  53. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (6717)
  54. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (6653)
  55. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (6612)
  56. Dubliners by James Joyce (6273)
  57. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana (6250)
  58. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (6156)
  59. The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde (6136)
  60. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (5945)
  61. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (5886)
  62. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (5856)
  63. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (5809)
  64. Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson (5783)
  65. The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin (5748)
  66. Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius (5742)
  67. As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (5736)
  68. Anthem by Ayn Rand (5665)
  69. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (5585)
  70. Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne (5556)
  71. Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy (5553)
  72. An Index of The Divine Comedy by Dante by Dante Alighieri (5459)
  73. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (5355)
  74. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (5351)
  75. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (5176)
  76. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (5126)
  77. The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by Jefferson (5100)
  78. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (4938)
  79. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (4757)
  80. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (4751)
  81. The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous (4744)
  82. Common Sense by Thomas Paine (4731)
  83. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio (4670)
  84. Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw (4641)
  85. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (4542)
  86. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine (4504)
  87. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett (4424)
  88. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (4409)
  89. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (4362)
  90. The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (4350)
  91. On the origin of species by Charles Darwin (4319)
  92. A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff (4252)
  93. A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter (4167)
  94. Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog by Sofronio G. Calderón (4137)
  95. Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant (4096)
  96. Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten (4028)
  97. Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift (4001)
  98. Candide by Voltaire (3977)
  99. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (3931)
  100. The Elements of Style by William Strunk
Source: Project Gutenberg

Watch The Crown (2016-present) Free Online 🎥

Length: 47-61m. Genre: History/Historical Drama/Drama. No. of episodes: 30. Starring: Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Vanessa Kirby in the first two seasons. Olivia Colman, Tobias Menzies, Helena Bonham Carter for the third and fourth. Produced by Andrew Eaton. Network: Netflix.

My opinion. Haven't seen it yet, but a word of warning: apparently season 2, episode 7 has mature content (unlike the rest of the show, which is pretty tame apparently), and if you read about it on commonsensemedia, you'll get a sense of what it's like. idk how much plot is in ep 7 but I would probably skip it altogether and just read the summary instead.

Season One

Watch White Collar (2009-2014) Free Online 🎥

Length: 43-50m/episode. Genre: police crime drama/police procedural (subgenre of detective fiction)No. of episodes: 81. Starring: Matt Bomer & Tim DeKay*. Produced by Jeff Eastin. Network: USA Network.

My opinion. Funny, interesting, tense, fun, cute, charming, dynamic, clever, charismatic, educational, realistic, would all be words that described this show accurately - and they'd still all fall short of describing the show. It's similar to Psych - two buddies, who are really close and would do anything for each other even if they make fun of and rib each other every chance they get. Working on cases together, with an on-going storyline underlying each episode. I watched because I wanted some light crime fiction in quarantine, and that's what I got!

(also available on Roku:
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*costarring: Tiffani Thiessen, Willie Garson, Marsha Thomason, Sharif Atkins, Hilarie Burton, Diahann Carroll

Watch Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989-2013) Free Online 🎥

Length: ~50m/episode (seasons 1-5), ~90-100m/episode (seasons 6-13)*. Genre: Crime Fiction/Crime Drama. No. of episodes: 70. Starring: David Suchet. Produced by Brian Eastman. Network: ITV.

My opinion. Haven't seen it yet.

LINK.  (all links open in new tabs)

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*shorter episodes are based on Agatha Christie's short stories written about Poirot.

Murder on the Mews (PDF) 📖

Hope the link works, it looks rlly long and like not trustworthy so hopefully it pulls up the book like it did for me. If it doesn't, just Google "murder on the Mews read free online" bc that's literally what I did 😂 also ik I already posted a link and it's probably the same one, but I do know this worked for me so I'm posting it again also bc I just want to for personal reasons so go away