C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
The Reader’s Digest of Books
Kane to Marlitt
| Elisha Kent Kane. 1820–1857. | Arctic Explorations, the Second Grinnell Expedition |
| Immanuel Kant. 1724–1804. | The Critique of Pure Reason |
| Julia Kavanagh. 1824–1877. | Nathalie |
| Augustus Henry Keane. 1833–1912. | Africa |
| Asia | |
| Annie Keary. 1825–1879. | Castle Daly |
| A Doubting Heart | |
| Frances Anne (Fanny) Kemble. 1809–1893. | Records of a Girlhood |
| Records of Later Life | |
| George Kennan. 1845–1924. | Tent Life in Siberia |
| Charles Rann Kennedy. 1871–1950. | The Servant in the House |
| John Pendleton Kennedy. 1795–1870. | Horseshoe Robinson |
| James Kent. 1763–1847. | Commentaries on American Law |
| Frederic George Kenyon. 1863–1952. | The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| Ellen Key. 1849–1926. | The Woman Movement |
| Omar Khayyám. 1048–1131. | Rubáiyát |
| Basil King. 1859–1928. | The Inner Shrine |
| Bolton King. 1860–1937. Thomas Okey. 1852–1935. | Italy of To-day |
| Charles King. 1844–1933. | The Colonel’s Daughter |
| Clarence King. 1842–1901. | Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada |
| Alexander William Kinglake. 1809–1891. | Eōthen |
| Charles Kingsley. 1819–1875. | Alton Locke |
| Hereward the Wake | |
| Hypatia | |
| Henry Kingsley. 1830–1876. | Leighton Court |
| Ravenshoe | |
| Rudyard Kipling. 1865–1936. | Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads |
| Captains Courageous | |
| A Diversity of Creatures | |
| The Jungle Books | |
| Kim | |
| The Light that Failed | |
| Puck of Pook’s Hill | |
| William Kirby. 1817–1906. | The Golden Dog |
| Ellen Warner Olney Kirk. 1842–1928. | The Story of Margaret Kent |
| John Foster Kirk. 1824–1904. | History of Charles the Bold |
| Joseph Kirkland. 1830–1894. | Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County |
| Nathan Chapman Kouns. 1833–1890. | Arius the Libyan |
| Sonya Kovalevsky. 1850–1891. | Vera Vorontsoff |
| Józef Ignacy Kraszewski. 1812–1887. | The Jew |
| Aleksandr Kuprin. 1870–1938. | The Duel |
| Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye. 1811–1883. | Abdallah; or, The Four-leaved Shamrock |
| Paris in America | |
| Jean de La Bruyère. 1645–1696. | Caractères ou Mœurs de ce Siècle |
| John LaFarge. 1835–1910. | An Artist’s Letters from Japan |
| Selma Lagerlöf. 1858–1940. | Jerusalem |
| The Story of Gösta Berling | |
| The Wonderful Adventures of Nils | |
| Alphonse de Lamartine. 1790–1869. | Jocelyn |
| Charles Lamb. 1775–1834. | The Essays of Elia |
| Charles and Mary Lamb. | Tales from Shakespeare |
| Félicité Robert de Lamennais. 1782–1854. | Roman Affairs |
| Friedrich, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué. 1777–1843. | Aslauga’s Knight |
| Undine | |
| Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani. 1847–1929. | Ancient Rome in the Light of Recent Discoveries |
| Pagan and Christian Rome | |
| Walter Savage Landor. 1775–1864. | Imaginary Conversations |
| Pierre Lanfrey. 1828–1877. | The History of Napoleon the First |
| Andrew Lang. 1844–1912. | Ballades and Verses Vain |
| Books and Bookmen | |
| Custom and Myth | |
| Letters to Dead Authors | |
| William Langland. 1332?–1400? | The Vision of Piers Plowman |
| Sidney Lanier. 1842–1881. | The English Novel: A Study in the Development of Personality |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace. 1749–1827. | The Mechanism of the Heavens |
| François, duc de La Rochefoucauld. 1613–1680. | Maxims |
| George Parsons Lathrop. 1851–1898. | An Echo of Passion |
| Newport | |
| Spanish Vistas | |
| Johann Caspar Lavater. 1741–1801. | Physiognomy |
| Emily Lawless. 1845–1913. | Grania: The Story of an Island |
| Hurrish | |
| George Alfred Lawrence. 1827–1876. | Guy Livingstone |
| John Lawrence Hammond. 1872–1949. Barbara Hammond. 1873–1961. | The Village Labourer |
| William Cranston Lawton. 1853–1941. | Art and Humanity in Homer |
| Layamon. Twelfth/Thirteenth Century. | The Brut |
| Austen Henry Layard. 1817–1894. | Nineveh and Its Remains and Monuments of Nineveh |
| Henry Charles Lea. 1825–1909. | A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages |
| Superstition and Force | |
| Stephen Leacock. 1869–1944. | Literary Lapses |
| Edward Lear. 1812–1888. | Book of Nonsense |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky. 1838–1903. | Democracy and Liberty |
| History of England in the Eighteenth Century | |
| History of European Morals | |
| Robert Edward Lee. 1843–1914. | Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee |
| Sir Sidney Lee. 1859–1926. | A Life of William Shakespeare |
| Vernon Lee (Violet Paget). 1856–1935. | Miss Brown |
| Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. 1814–1873. | The Tenants of Malory |
| Mikhail Lermontov. 1814–1841. | A Hero of Our Times |
| Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu. 1842–1912. | Israel among the Nations |
| Alain René Lesage. 1688–1747. | Asmodeus, The Lame Devil |
| The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane | |
| Charles Robert Leslie. 1794–1859. | The Memoir of John Constable |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. 1729–1781. | Laokoon |
| Nathan the Wise | |
| Charles Lever. 1806–1872. | The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer |
| Tom Burke of “Ours” | |
| Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats. c. 1858–1916. | The Chevalier d’Auriac |
| George Henry Lewes. 1817–1878. | The Life of Goethe |
| Matthew Gregory Lewis (“Monk Lewis”). 1775–1818. | The Monk |
| Tayler Lewis. 1802–1877. | Six Days of Creation |
| Jonas Lie. 1833–1908. | The Commodore’s Daughters |
| The Pilot and His Wife | |
| Joseph Barber Lightfoot. 1828–1889. | The Apostolic Fathers |
| Joseph Crosby Lincoln. 1870–1944. | The Rise of Roscoe Paine |
| Elizabeth Lynn Linton. 1822–1898. | The True History of Joshua Davidson, Christian and Communist |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd. 1847–1903. | Wealth Against Commonwealth |
| John Uri Lloyd. 1849–1936. | Stringtown on the Pike |
| John Locke. 1632–1704. | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding |
| Some Thoughts Concerning Education | |
| Richard Adams Locke. 1800–1871. | The Moon Hoax |
| William John Locke. 1863–1930. | The Belovèd Vagabond |
| The Wonderful Year | |
| John Gibson Lockhart. 1794–1854. | Adam Blair |
| Life of Robert Burns | |
| Life of Sir Walter Scott | |
| Norman Lockyer. 1836–1920. | The Dawn of Astronomy |
| Henry Cabot Lodge. 1850–1924. | Daniel Webster |
| Jack London. 1876–1916. | Call of the Wild |
| The Sea Wolf | |
| Smoke Bellew | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807–1882. | Evangeline |
| Hiawatha | |
| Hyperion | |
| Longus. Second Century? | Daphnis and Chloe |
| Pierre Loti. 1850–1923. | An Iceland Fisherman |
| Madame Chrysanthème | |
| The Marriage of Loti | |
| Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury. 1838–1915. | Studies in Chaucer: His Life and Writings |
| James Fenimore Cooper | |
| History of the English Language | |
| Samuel Lover. 1797–1868. | Handy Andy |
| Rory O’More | |
| Abbott Lawrence Lowell. 1856–1943. | Governments and Parties in Continental Europe |
| James Russell Lowell. 1819–1891. | The Biglow Papers |
| My Study Windows | |
| Percival Lowell. 1855–1916. | The Soul of the Far East |
| Robert Traill Spence Lowell. 1816–1891. | The New Priest of Conception Bay |
| Sir John Lubbock. 1834–1913. | Ants, Bees, and Wasps |
| The Origin of Civilisation and Primitive Condition of Man | |
| Lucian. c. 125–after 180. | Dialogues of the Dead |
| Sir Henry William Lucy. 1845–1924. | Diary of Two Parliaments |
| James Meeker Ludlow. 1841–1932. | The Captain of the Janizaries |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis. 1859–1928. | The Land of Poco Tiempo |
| Lycophron of Chalcis. fl. Third Century B.C. | Alexandra |
| John Lyly. 1555?–1606. | Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit, and Euphues and His England |
| George, Lord Lyttelton. 1709–1773. | Dialogues of the Dead |
| Maarten Maartens (J. M. W. van der Poorten Schwartz). 1858–1915. | God’s Fool |
| The Sin of Joost Avelingh | |
| Hamilton Wright Mabie. 1846–1916. | Essays |
| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. 1800–1859. | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays |
| Sidney McCall. | Truth Dexter |
| Justin McCarthy. 1830–1912. | The Dictator |
| A History of the Four Georges | |
| George Barr McCutcheon. 1866–1928. | Beverly of Graustark |
| Graustark | |
| Jane Cable | |
| George MacDonald. 1824–1905. | Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood |
| Donal Grant | |
| Robert Falconer | |
| Harold MacGrath. 1871–1932. | The Man on the Box |
| Niccolò Machiavelli. 1469–1527. | The History of Florence |
| The Prince | |
| Percy MacKaye. 1875–1956. | The Canterbury Pilgrims |
| Henry Mackenzie. 1745–1831. | A Man of Feeling |
| M. Compton Mackenzie. 1883–1972. | Plasher’s Mead |
| Sinister Street | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin. 1860–1893. | Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature |
| John Bach McMaster. 1852–1932. | A History of the People of the United States |
| James Macpherson. 1736–1796. | Fingal |
| Katharine Sarah Macquoid. 1824–1917. | At the Red Glove |
| Patty | |
| Maurice Maeterlinck. 1862–1949. | The Blind |
| The Blue Bird | |
| The Intruder | |
| The Life of the Bee | |
| Monna Vanna | |
| The Treasure of the Humble | |
| John Pentland Mahaffy. 1839–1919. | Old Greek Education |
| Rambles and Studies in Greece | |
| Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander | |
| John Pentland Mahaffy. John Henry Bernard. 1860–1927. | Immanuel Kant: Critical Philosophy for English Readers |
| Alfred Thayer Mahan. 1840–1914. | The Influence of Sea-Power upon History, 1660–1783 |
| The Life of Nelson | |
| The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future | |
| Sir Henry Sumner Maine. 1822–1888. | Ancient Law |
| Early Law and Custom | |
| Lectures on the Early History of Institutions | |
| Xavier de Maistre. 1763–1852. | Voyage Around My Chamber |
| Charles Major (Edwin Caskoden). 1856–1913. | When Knighthood Was in Flower |
| Richard Henry Major. 1818–1891. | The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, Surnamed The Navigator, and Its Results |
| Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley). 1852–1931. | The Carissima |
| Colonel Enderby’s Wife | |
| The Far Horizon | |
| The History of Sir Richard Calmady | |
| The Wages of Sin | |
| William Hurrell Mallock. 1849–1923. | The New Republic |
| Social Equality | |
| Sir Thomas Malory. d. c. 1470. | Morte D’Arthur |
| Anne Manning. 1807–1879. | The Household of Sir Thomas More |
| Alessandro Manzoni. 1785–1873. | The Betrothed |
| Giovanni Paolo Marana. 1642–1693. | The Turkish Spy |
| E. Marlitt (Eugenie John). 1825–1887. | Gold Elsie |
| The Old Mam’selle’s Secret | |