The Project Gutenberg Challenge

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18 participants (25 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Read ten works in the public domain, ideally downloaded to the e-reader/app of your choice for free from the Project Gutenberg website. No more paying for books that you can legally read for free! Tackle those classics you've always wanted to read, or find and reread an old childhood favourite.

Challenge Books

All books added
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula

Bram Stoker

629 pages • first pub 1897 (editions) user-added

fiction classics horror literary dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables #1

L.M. Montgomery

262 pages • first pub 1908 (editions)

fiction classics middle grade funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

272 pages • first pub 1890 (editions)

fiction classics horror lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes #3

Arthur Conan Doyle

441 pages • first pub 1892 (editions)

fiction classics mystery short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
The Casebook of Carnacki: The Ghost Finder by W. H. Hodgson

The Casebook of Carnacki: The Ghost Finder

Carnacki

W. H. Hodgson

191 pages • first pub 1913 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy horror mystery short stories mysterious medium-paced
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall

448 pages • first pub 1928 (editions)

fiction classics lgbtqia+ emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Mathilda by Mary Shelley

Mathilda

Mary Shelley

92 pages • first pub 1959 (editions)

fiction classics short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Anne's House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery

Anne's House of Dreams

Anne of Green Gables #5

L.M. Montgomery

246 pages • first pub 1917 (editions) user-added

fiction classics middle grade emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced
Middlemarch by George Eliot

Middlemarch

George Eliot

904 pages • first pub 1871 (editions)

fiction classics historical literary challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

The Christmas Books #1

Charles Dickens

98 pages • first pub 1843 (editions)

fiction classics fantasy hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced