The Archive
Reading lists
Curated shelves with an editorial introduction — a way in for readers who know what they like and want the archive to do the rest.
Adventure classics
Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travels, Moby Dick, The Call of the Wild — complete adventure classics, free to read online.
213 books
Children’s classics, for any age
Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, A Christmas Carol, The Call of the Wild and other classics first loved by young readers — complete texts, free online.
14 books
China's strange-tales tradition, in the original Chinese
Four zhiguai classics — Gan Bao, Pu Songling, Ji Yun, Yuan Mei — the original Chinese texts, complete and free to read online.
4 books
Classics under 200 pages
Short classics you can finish in a sitting or a weekend — Jekyll and Hyde, The Time Machine, Heart of Darkness, Meditations, The Great Gatsby — free to read online.
782 books
Classic nonfiction
Meditations, The Prince, Walden and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative — foundational nonfiction in complete editions typeset by Bibliomancer, free to read online.
308 books
Early science fiction
Where science fiction began: Frankenstein, Verne, Erewhon, Looking Backward, Herland — complete texts, free to read online in the Bibliomancer Reader.
10 books
Gothic novels, read free online
The essential Gothic novels — Frankenstein, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray and more — complete, in a new Bibliomancer setting, free to read online.
7 books
Jane Austen, complete
All six of Jane Austen’s novels — Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion — complete texts, free to read online.
6 books
Philosophy, the essential books
Meditations, The Republic, The Prince, Leviathan, Hume, Mill, Descartes — the essential works of philosophy, complete and free to read online.
85 books
Sherlock Holmes, in order
All the Sherlock Holmes books out of copyright — A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, the Adventures, the Return, The Hound of the Baskervilles — complete, free to read online.
9 books
The Victorian novel
Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and Hardy — Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Great Expectations, Tess — complete Victorian novels, free to read online.
83 books