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Here’s my idea for a inexpensive stocking stuffer or Secret Santa gift. Take a bunch of the greatest works of literature that are now in the public domain, load them on a USB thumb drive, and give Civilization On A Stick.
I’ve made it even easier for you; with this Dropbox Folder you can just copy my list of 131 works, from Aeschylus to Austen, straight to your thumb drive. I created this preliminary list from the wonderful Project Gutenberg library of public domain books. I’ve included each book in both .epub (open source) and .mobi (Kindle-friendly) format.
My entire folder of 131 books in two formats is just 230MB, it can easily fit on an inexpensive thumb drive. You can get a ten pack of 2GB drives on Amazon for $26, or $2.60 each. These would fit about 1000 books each. Why stop with my list? Make your own create a library that you can carry on your keychain and would be the envy of anyone born before the first World War.
Here’s my list, alphabetized by author.
| Author |
Title |
| Aeschylus |
Four Plays |
| Aesop |
Fables |
| Alcott |
Little Women |
| Andersen |
Fairy Tales |
| Aristophanes |
Lysistrata |
| Aristotle |
Poetics |
| Augustine |
Confessions |
| Austen |
Persuasion |
| Austen |
Sense and Sensibility |
| Austen |
Emma |
| Austen |
Pride and Prejudice |
| Barrie |
Peter Pan |
| Blake |
Songs of Innocence |
| Bronte |
Wuthering Heights |
| Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
| Buchan |
Thirty-Nine Steps, the |
| Burroughs |
Tarzan of the Apes |
| Burton (translator) |
Thousand and One Nights |
| Carrol |
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland |
| Carroll |
Through the Looking-Glass |
| Cervantes |
Don Quixote |
| Chaucer |
Canterbury Tales |
| Chesterton |
Ball and Cross, the |
| Christie |
Mysterious Affair at Styles |
| Cicero |
Disputations |
| Cleland |
Fanny Hill |
| Collins |
Moonstone, the |
| Conan Doyle |
Hound of the Baskervilles, the |
| Conan Doyle |
Study in Scarlet, the |
| Conan Doyle |
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| Conrad |
Secret Agent, the |
| Conrad |
Heart of Darkness |
| Cooper |
Last of the Mohicans |
| Crane |
Red Badge of Courage, the |
| Dante |
Divine Comedy |
| Darwin |
Voyage of the Beagle, the |
| Darwin |
Origin of Species, on the |
| de Tocqueville |
Democracy in America |
| Defoe |
Robinson Crusoe |
| Dickens |
David Copperfield |
| Dickens |
Oliver Twist |
| Dickens |
Great Expectations |
| Dickens |
Tale of Two Cities, a |
| Dickens |
A Christmas Carol |
| Dostoyevsky |
Brothers Karamazov, the |
| Dostoyevsky |
Crime and Punishment |
| Douglass |
LIfe of Frederick Douglass |
| Dumas |
Count of Monte Cristo |
| Eliot |
Middlemarch |
| Fielding |
Tom Jones |
| Fitzgerald |
This Side of Paradise |
| Franklin |
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
| Gibbon |
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Grahame |
Wind in the Willows, the |
| Grimm |
Fairy Tales |
| Hamilton, Jay, Madison |
Federalist Papers, the |
| Hardy |
Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| Hardy |
Far from the Madding Crowd |
| Hawthorne |
Scarlet Letter, the |
| Heroditus |
History |
| Hesse |
Siddhartha |
| Hobbes |
Leviathan |
| Homer |
Iliad, the |
| Hugo |
Miserables, les |
| Ibsen |
A Doll’s House |
| Irving |
Sleepy Hollow |
| James |
Ambassadors, the |
| James |
Turn of the Screw, the |
| Joyce |
Dubliners |
| Joyce |
Ulysses |
| Kafka |
Metamorphosis |
| Kant |
Critique of Pure Reason |
| Kipling |
Kim |
| Kipling |
Works |
| Kipling |
Jungle Book |
| Lawrence |
Rainbow, the |
| Locke |
Treastise on Government |
| London |
Call of the Wild, the |
| Longfellow |
Song of Hiawatha, the |
| Machiavelli |
The Prince |
| Marcus Aurelius |
Meditations |
| Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| Marx |
Political Economy |
| Maugham |
Of Human Bondage |
| Melville |
Mody Dick |
| Mill |
On Liberty |
| Milton |
Paradise Lost |
| Montgomery |
Anne of Green Gables |
| More |
Utopia |
| Newton |
Principia |
| Nietzsche |
Beyond Good and Evil |
| Plato |
Republic, the |
| Potter |
Treasury of Beatrix Potter |
| Poe |
Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
| Russell |
Problems of Philosophy, the |
| Shakespeare |
Complete Works |
| Shaw |
Pygmalion |
| Shelley |
Frankenstein |
| Smith |
Wealth of Nations, the |
| Sophocles |
Oedipus and other plays |
| Stevenson |
Treasure Island |
| Stevenson |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| Stoker |
Dracula |
| Stowe |
Uncle Tom’s Cabin |
| Swift |
Gulliver’s Travels |
| Swift |
Modest Proposal, a |
| Thackeray |
Vanity Fair |
| Thoreau |
Walden |
| Thucydides |
History of the Peloponnesian War |
| Tolstoy |
Anna Karenina |
| Tolstoy |
War and Peace |
| Trollope |
Way We Live Now, the |
| Twain |
Huckleberry Finn |
| Twain |
Tom Sawyer |
| Verne |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Verne |
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
| Virgil |
Aeneid |
| Voltaire |
Candide |
| Wells |
War of the Worlds, the |
| Wells |
Island of Doctor Moreau, the |
| Wells |
Time Machine |
| Wharton |
Ethan Frome |
| Whitman |
Leaves of Grass |
| Wilde |
Importance of Being Earnest |
| Wilde |
Picture of Dorian Gray, the |
| Wodehouse |
White Feather |
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Constitution, United States |
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LIfe of Olaudah Equiano |
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King James Bible |
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Beowulf |
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Kama Sutra |
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