Public Domain Book Recommendations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JayDee@lemmy.ml to c/books@lemmy.world

21 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I'm currently trying to get better at reading and am doing that by accumulating a library of public domain books, since they're free and easily available.

If you have a specific work you love that was published pre-1928, or is currently not under copyright, feel free to comment it down below.
if you have any authors you think are worth reading, also post them below.

I'm currently reading Jack London's "War of the Classes", and I have "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde downloaded for later.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love Alice in wonderland, and heavily recommend the sequel, through the looking glass, which is also fantastic.

Two of my favorites

The count of Monte Cristo is also absolutely amazing.

Almost every Sherlock Holmes story.

HG Wells has something like 200 stories? They're all great.