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