Authors
The 160 best-known authors in the library, by surname.
A
- Jacob Abbott 57 books
- Aeschylus 16 books
- Aesop 12 books
- Gustave Aimard 54 books
- Louisa May Alcott 58 books
- Horatio Alger 111 books
- Dante Alighieri 62 books
- H. C. Andersen 35 books
- Petronius Arbiter 8 books
- Aristophanes 21 books
- Jane Austen 22 books
B
- R. M. Ballantyne 98 books
- Honoré de Balzac 158 books
- Ralph Henry Barbour 78 books
- S. Baring-Gould 66 books
- L. Frank Baum 84 books
- Hilaire Belloc 60 books
- Arnold Bennett 57 books
- E. F. Benson 53 books
- George Borrow 73 books
- M. E. Braddon 68 books
- Camilo Castelo Branco 52 books
- John Bunyan 19 books
- Frances Hodgson Burnett 54 books
- Edgar Rice Burroughs 74 books
- Richard Francis Burton 62 books
- George Gordon Byron 30 books
C
- Lewis Carroll 31 books
- Nicholas Carter 59 books
- Geoffrey Chaucer 13 books
- G. K. Chesterton 66 books
- Winston Churchill 76 books
- Marcus Tullius Cicero 22 books
- Joseph Conrad 49 books
- James Fenimore Cooper 54 books
- F. Marion Crawford 53 books
D
- Charles Darwin 45 books
- Richard Harding Davis 53 books
- Daniel Defoe 62 books
- Charles Dickens 160 books
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky 54 books
- Arthur Conan Doyle 119 books
- John Dryden 23 books
- Alexandre Dumas 174 books
E
- Georg Ebers 177 books
- Edward Sylvester Ellis 78 books
- Desiderius Erasmus 17 books
- Euripides 25 books
F
- George Manville Fenn 128 books
- Henry Fielding 18 books
- Gustave Flaubert 39 books
- Jean de La Fontaine 35 books
- Anatole France 69 books
G
- Benito Pérez Galdós 73 books
- John Galsworthy 66 books
- Howard Roger Garis 68 books
- Randall Garrett 78 books
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 88 books
- Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol 24 books
- James Grant 71 books
- Jacob Grimm 17 books
H
- H. Rider Haggard 77 books
- Knut Hamsun 34 books
- Bret Harte 64 books
- Nathaniel Hawthorne 100 books
- G. A. Henty 111 books
- Homer 29 books
- Laura Lee Hope 75 books
- William Dean Howells 115 books
- Victor Hugo 74 books
- Fergus Hume 67 books
- Thomas Henry Huxley 54 books
I
- Henrik Ibsen 74 books
- Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 60 books
- Washington Irving 41 books
J
- W. W. Jacobs 114 books
- Henry James 95 books
- Jerome K. Jerome 43 books
- Mór Jókai 148 books
K
- William Henry Giles Kingston 134 books
- Rudyard Kipling 94 books
L
- Selma Lagerlöf 52 books
- Andrew Lang 99 books
- Murray Leinster 77 books
- Charles Lever 55 books
- Henry Cabot Lodge 15 books
- Jack London 107 books
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 21 books
- Edward Bulwer Lytton 223 books
M
- George MacDonald 67 books
- Christopher Marlowe 12 books
- Stephen Marlowe 53 books
- Kurt Matull 85 books
- Guy de Maupassant 89 books
- L. T. Meade 64 books
- Arthur Mee 19 books
- Herman Melville 21 books
- George Meredith 112 books
- John Milton 14 books
- Mrs. Molesworth 59 books
- Molière 43 books
- Michel de Montaigne 32 books
- John Lothrop Motley 103 books
O
- Library of Congress. Copyright Office 84 books
- Mrs. Oliphant 142 books
- E. Phillips Oppenheim 62 books
- Oliver Optic 84 books
- James Otis 56 books
- Ovid 14 books
P
- Gilbert Parker 134 books
- Samuel Pepys 87 books
- Plato 76 books
- Plutarch 20 books
- Edgar Allan Poe 40 books
Q
- William Le Queux 97 books
- Arthur Quiller-Couch 46 books
R
- François Rabelais 8 books
- Mayne Reid 67 books
- John Ruskin 61 books
S
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 70 books
- Rafael Sabatini 31 books
- Alain René Le Sage 13 books
- Lucian of Samosata 13 books
- George Sand 98 books
- Friedrich Schiller 62 books
- Walter Scott 102 books
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca 10 books
- William Shakespeare 328 books
- Bernard Shaw 57 books
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 25 books
- Upton Sinclair 54 books
- George O. Smith 58 books
- T. Smollett 11 books
- Sophocles 17 books
- Burt L. Standish 59 books
- Laurence Sterne 12 books
- Robert Louis Stevenson 110 books
- Harriet Beecher Stowe 49 books
- Edward Stratemeyer 106 books
- August Strindberg 61 books
- Eugène Sue 69 books
- Jonathan Swift 31 books
T
- William Makepeace Thackeray 47 books
- Leo Tolstoy 97 books
- Anthony Trollope 86 books
- W. C. Tuttle 148 books
- Mark Twain 197 books
V
- Jules Verne 159 books
- Virgil 20 books
- Voltaire 49 books
W
- Charles Dudley Warner 63 books
- H. G. Wells 103 books
- Carolyn Wells 71 books
- Edith Wharton 56 books
- Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 48 books
- Oscar Wilde 61 books
- P. G. Wodehouse 53 books
X
- Xenophon 22 books
Y
- Charlotte M. Yonge 68 books
Z
- Émile Zola 103 books