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The following are the public-domain members of various lists of important books, along with their current status on Wikisource. If you can add or improve any of these, that would be a big help! If a book is included in one list, it isn't included in subsequent lists.

Modern Library's list of the 100 best non-fiction works of the 20th century

 * From http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnonfiction.html


 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The Elements of Style by Author:William Strunk, Jr.
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Education of Henry Adams by Author:Henry Adams
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Souls of Black Folk by Author:W.E.B. Du Bois
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The American Language by Author:H. L. Mencken
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Varieties of Religious Experience by Author:William James
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Golden Bough by Author:James George Frazer
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Frontier in American History by Author:Frederick Jackson Turner
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Eminent Victorians by Author:Lytton Strachey
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Promise of American Life by Author:Herbert Croly
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Up From Slavery by Author:Booker T. Washington
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Principia Mathematica by Author:Alfred North Whitehead and Author:Bertrand Russell - pagescans at University of Michigan library: Volume I, Volume II, Volume III
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Principia Ethica by Author:G. E. Moore - Questia, fair-use.org
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]On Growth and Form by Author:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860-1948) - no online sources found
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Author:Mark Twain
 * [[Image:Copyright-problem.svg|20px]]Selected Essays, 1917-1932 by Author:T. S. Eliot - The collection is under copyright, but many individual essays are in the public domain in the United States

Modern Library's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century

 * From http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html


 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The Age of Innocence by Author:Edith Wharton
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The Call of the Wild by Author:Jack London
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]Howards End by Author:E.M. Forster
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Author:James Joyce
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]A Room with a View by Author:E.M. Forster
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Golden Bowl by Author:Henry James
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Ambassadors by Author:Henry James
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Nostromo by Author:Joseph Conrad
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Winesburg, Ohio by Author:Sherwood Anderson
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The House of Mirth by Author:Edith Wharton
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Sons and Lovers by Author:D.H. Lawrence
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Good Soldier by Author:Ford Madox Ford
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Kim by Author:Rudyard Kipling
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Of Human Bondage by Author:W. Somerset Maugham
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Magnificent Ambersons by Author:Booth Tarkington
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Old Wives' Tale by Author:Arnold Bennett
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Way of All Flesh by Author:Samuel Butler
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Sister Carrie by Author:Theodore Dreiser
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Wings of the Dove by Author:Henry James
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Rainbow (Lawrence) by Author:D.H. Lawrence
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Heart of Darkness by Author:Joseph Conrad
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Zuleika Dobson by Author:Max Beerbohm
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Women in Love by Author:D.H. Lawrence
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]The Secret Agent by Author:Joseph Conrad
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Lord Jim by Author:Joseph Conrad
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Ulysses by Author:James Joyce - for the difficulties involved, see Talk:Ulysses (Joyce)
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Main Street by Author:Sinclair Lewis

Radcliffe's list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century

 * From http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100rivallist.html


 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The Bostonians by Author:Henry James
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The War of the Worlds by Author:H.G. Wells
 * [[Image:100%.svg]]The Wind in the Willows by Author:Kenneth Grahame
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Portrait of a Lady by Author:Henry James
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Lady Chatterley's Lover by Author:D.H. Lawrence
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Awakening by Author:Kate Chopin
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Ethan Frome by Author:Edith Wharton
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]My Antonia by Author:Willa Cather
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Author:L. Frank Baum
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]The Jungle by Author:Upton Sinclair
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]This Side of Paradise by Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]O Pioneers! by Author:Willa Cather
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Babbitt by Author:Sinclair Lewis
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Where Angels Fear to Tread by Author:E.M. Forster

Literary Review of Canada's list of Canada's Most Important Books

 * From http://lrc.reviewcanada.ca/index.php?page=1---10


 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Wacousta by Author:John Richardson (1796-1852)
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Flint and Feather by Author:E. Pauline Johnson
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Roughing It in the Bush (aka Life in Canada) by Author:Susanna Moodie
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Anne of Green Gables by Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]The Imperialist by Author:Sara Jeanette Duncan
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Author:Stephen Leacock
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Wild Animals I Have Known by Author:Ernest Thompson Seton
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Maria Chapdelaine by Author:Louis Hémon (Author:Louis Hemon)
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Bref récit et succincte narration de la navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI (or Account of the Second Voyage of the Navigation of 1535 and 1536, also missing on the French Wikisource) by Author:Jacques Cartier, mentioned at Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Jacques Cartier
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean by Author:Samuel Hearne
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Report on the Affairs of British North America by Author:Lord Durham (aka Author:John Lambton, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham)
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Geological Survey of Canada: Report of Progress from Its Commencement to 1863 (or Geological Survey of Canada) by the Author:Government of Canada
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Canada and the Canadian Question by Author:Goldwin Smith
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]The Poems of Archibald Lampman by Author:Archibald Lampman
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]Jalna by Author:Mazo de la Roche
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]]The Fur-Trade in Canada by Author:Harold A. Innis (Author:Harold Innis)

The Hundred Most Important Science Books of the Second Millennium

 * From https://www.oocities.org/millscibooks/

The following is the complete list in descending chronological order, with works thought to be still in copyright hidden. A number are originally in Latin, French or German; an English version of the title is given first. The original list incorrectly attributes 'Zoonomia' to Robert Waring Darwin (the father of Charles Darwin), when it is by Erasmus Darwin (the grandfather of Charles Darwin).

20th Century

19th Century 18th Century 17th Century Pre 17th Century
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Principles of the Quantum Theory (Principien der Quantentheorie) by Werner Karl Heisenberg [1928]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics (Abhandlungen zur Wellenmechanik) by Erwin Schrodinger [1927]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Theory of Spectra and Atomic Constitution by Niels Bohr [1922]
 * [[Image:75%.svg]] The Meaning of Relativity by Albert Einstein [1922]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] The Origin of Continents and Oceans (Die Entstehung der Kontinente und Ozeane) by Alfred Wegener [1915]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse) by Sigmund Freud [1910]
 * [[Image:50%.svg]] Radio-activity by Ernest Rutherford [1904]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] The Interpretation of Dreams (Die Traumdeutung) by Sigmund Freud [1900]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Principles of Mechanics by Heinrich Hertz [1899]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Electric Waves by Heinrich Hertz [1893]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] New Methods for Celestial Mechanics (Les méthods nouvelle de la méchanique celeste) by Henri Poincaré [1892-1899]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell [1890]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] The Face of Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde) by Eduard Suess [1885-1909]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule [1884-1887]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Mathematical and Physical Papers by William Thomson, Baron Kelvin [1882-1911]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Lectures on Mathematical Physics (Vorlesungen über mathematische Physik) by Gustav Robert Kirchhoff [1876-1894]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell [1873]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Robert Darwin [1871]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyev [1868-1870]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Textbook of Botany (Lehrbuch der Botanik) by Julius von Sachs [1868]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Handbook of Physiological Optics (Handbuch der physiologischen optik) by Hermann von Helmholtz [1867]
 * [[Image:75%.svg]] Experiments in Plant Hybridization (Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden) by Gregor Johann Mendel [1866]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell [1863]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature by T. H. Huxley [1863]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Robert Darwin [1859]
 * [[Image:50%.svg]] Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics by Michael Faraday [1859]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Cosmos (Kosmos) by Alexander von Humboldt [1845-1862]
 * [[Image:50%.svg]] Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday [1839-1855]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Microscopic Researches into Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Animals and Plants (Mikroskopische untersuchungen über die übereinstimmung in der struktur und dem wachstume der tiere und pflanzen) by Theodor Schwann [1839]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Lectures on Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals by Sir Richard Owen [1833–1846]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Principles of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell [1830–1833]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire (Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu) by Sadi Nicolas Léonard Carnot [1824]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena (Recueil d'observations électro-dynamiques) by André-Marie Ampère [1822]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] The Animal Kingdom, Distributed According to Its Organization (Le Règne animal distribué d'après son organisation) by Georges Cuvier [1817]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Natural History of Invertebrate Animals (Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck [1815–1822]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Treatise on Mechanics (Traité de mécanique) by Siméon Denis Poisson [1811]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen by Robert Brown [1810]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Zoological Philosophy (Philosophie zoologique) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck [1809]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] A New System of Chemical Philosophy by John Dalton [1808-1827]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth by John Playfair [1802]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Lessons on Comparative Anatomy (Leçons d'anatomie comparée) by Georges Cuvier [1801–1805]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] System of Invertebrate Animals, or General Table of Classes (Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou table général des classes) by Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck [1801]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] Mécanique Céleste (Traité de mécanique céleste) by Pierre-Simon Laplace [1799-1825]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Theory of the Earth by James Hutton [1795]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin [1794-1976]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Meteorological Observations and Essays by John Dalton [1793]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Elementary Treatise on Chemistry (Traité élémentaire de chimie) by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier [1789]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Analytical Mechanics (Mecanique analytique) by Joseph Louis Lagrange [1788]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Chemical Observations and Experiments on Air and Fire (Abhandlung von der Luft und dem Feuer) by Carl Wilhelm Scheele [1777]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley [1774-1786]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Species Plantarum by Carolus Linnaeus [1753]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin [1751]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Hydrodynamics (Hydrodynamica) by Daniel Bernoulli[1738]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Mechanics (Mechanica) by Leonhard Euler [1736-1737]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Systema Naturae by Carolus Linnaeus [1735-1758]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] A Synopsis of the Astronomy of Comets by Edmond Halley [1705]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Opticks by Isaac Newton [1704]
 * [[Image:100%.svg]] Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica) by Isaac Newton [1687]
 * [[Image:75%.svg]] On the Movement of the Heart and Blood in Animals (Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus) by William Harvey [1682]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Treatise on Light (Traité de la Lumière) by Christiaan Huygens [1678-1690]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Horologium Oscillatorium by Christiaan Huygens [1673]
 * [[Image:75%.svg]]Micrographia by Robert Hooke [1665]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]The Sceptical Chymist by Author:Robert Boyle [1661]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences by Galileo Galilei [1638]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican (Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano) by Galileo Galilei [1632]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]]Novum Organum (The New Tool) by Francis Bacon [1620]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Concerning the Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler [1619]
 * [[Image:75%.svg]] The Starry Messenger (Sidereus Nuncius) by Galileo Galilei [1610]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler [1609]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Exercises Toward a Restored Astronomy (Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata) by Tycho Brahe [1602]
 * [[Image:25%.svg]] On the Magnet, Magnetic Bodies, and the Great Magnet of the Earth (De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus et de Magno Magnete Tellure) by William Gilbert [1600]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Instruments for the restoration of astronomy (Astronomiae instauratae mechanica) by Tycho Brahe [1598]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Six Books Concerning the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs (De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri vi) by Nicolaus Copernicus [1543]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] On the Structure of the Human Body (De humani corporis fabrica libri septem) by Andreas Vesalius [1543]
 * [[Image:50%.svg]]Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci [1482-1519]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] On light (De luce) by Robert Grosseteste [13th Century]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] Letter on the Magnet of Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt to Sygerus of Foucaucourt, Soldier (Epistola Petri Peregrini de Maricourt ad Sygerum de Foucaucourt, militem, de magnete) by Petrus Peregrinus [1269]
 * [[Image:Nuvola_apps_kedit.png|20px]] General Principles of Natural Philosophy (Communia naturalium) by Roger Bacon [1268(?)]

Other lists

 * http://67.118.51.201/bol/Y2K.cfm
 * http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grtgood.html
 * http://library.christchurch.org.nz/Guides/GoodReads/100alltime.asp
 * http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grthungry.html
 * Requested texts
 * User:Sherurcij/missing
 * Most Influential Books
 * Portal:Influential Books