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| Title | Author | Date Created | Status | Selected | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edit | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 8/7/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 3/6/2015 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Brontë | 3/6/2015 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | A Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Jules Verne | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Little Women | Louisa May Alcott | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | The Love Letters of Mr. H. & Miss R. | James Hackman | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Poetical Works of Lord Byron | Lord Byron | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | Henry Fielding | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Secret Garden | Frances Hodgson Burnett | 6/30/2014 | Published | No |
| Edit | Lamia | John Keats | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Sonnets of Shakespeare | William Shakespeare | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Wizard of Oz | L Frank Baum | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. | Thomas Gray | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 2/3/2011 | Published | No |
| Edit | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Emma | Jane Austen | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Quiver of Love | Boyd Montgomerie Ranking and Thomas K. Tully | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Bleak House | Charles Dickens | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Lorna Doone: a Romance of Exmoor | R. D. Blackmore | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | A Conan Doyle | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Love-Knots and Bridal-Bands: Poems and Rhymes of Wooing and Wedding | Frederick Langbridge | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The British Girl’s Annual | Vaizey, Mrs. George de Horne, et al. Compiled by the editor of "Little Folks" | 5/2/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Flower Wedding | Walter Crane | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | 1/31/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Modern Boy's Annual | - | 5/14/2014 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Moby Dick | Herman Melville | 6/11/2013 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Just So Stories | Rudyard Kipling | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 1/30/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | A Tale of Two Cities | Charles Dickens | 1/28/2015 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Daniel Defoe | 2/1/2011 | Published | No |
| Edit | Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne | 12/10/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Railway Children | E Nesbit | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 11/4/2013 | Published | No |
| Edit | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 10/7/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm | 10/7/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 11/4/2013 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Tailor of Gloucester | Beatrix Potter | 10/29/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Night before Christmas | Clement Clarke Moore | 10/29/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | A Child's Christmas in Wales | Dylan Thomas | 12/15/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Hound of the Baskervilles | Arthur Conan Doyle | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | 10/7/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 11/4/2013 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Vampyre | John William Polidori | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Peter and Wendy | J M Barrie | 10/29/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 11/4/2013 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg | 9/27/2011 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Gift of the Magi | O Henry | 10/29/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary | M. R. James | 10/13/2011 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Wonders of Africa | David Livingstone | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Heidi | Johanna Spyri | 10/29/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | Edgar Allan Poe | 9/19/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Modern Bicycle | Charles Spencer | 12/6/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Wee Folks' Alphabet | Bessie Hitch | 12/11/2014 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Christmas Stories | Charles Dickens | 10/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Three Musketeers | Alexandre Dumas, Translated by W Robson | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm | Stella Gibbons | 11/3/2011 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 5/28/2012 | Hidden | Yes |
| Edit | The Children's Christmas Treasury of Things New and Old | Edward Hutton | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Wives and Daughters | Elizabeth Gaskell | 12/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Victorian Christmas Book | Antony and Peter Miall | 10/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Old Curiosity Shop | Charles Dickens | 12/7/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Mrs. Dalloway | Virginia Woolf | 12/5/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Howard's End | E. M. Forster | 12/5/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda | 12/5/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Ballet Shoes | Noel Streatfeild | 12/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Le Petit Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Age of Reason | Jean-Paul Sartre | 12/5/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich Maria Remarque | 12/5/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Christmas Carol Cookbook | Sarah Key | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The British Cookery Book | J. H. Walsh (Editor) | 10/11/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Adam Bede | George Eliot | 10/29/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 10/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 10/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | 2/1/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Oscar Wilde Illustrated by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Kings and Queens | Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon, Illustrated by Rosalind Thornycroft | 11/2/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden | William Shakespeare, Illustrated by Walter Crane | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Peter Pan & Wendy | J. M. Barrie | 9/27/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Pierce Egan’s Anecdotes of the turf, the chase, the ring and the stage | Pierce Egan | 7/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Odes of Pindar | Edward Burnaby Greene & Gilbert West, translators | 7/24/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Felix on the Bat: being a scientific enquiry into the use of the cricket bat | Nicholas Wanostrocht | 7/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Pedestrianism | Walter Thom | 7/30/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Rowing and sailing | J. G. Wood | 7/26/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The sportsman's dictionary: or, the country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations | "Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors" | 7/18/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | 10/11/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | North and South | Elizabeth Gaskell | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sybil | Benjamin Disraeli | 5/9/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Four Hedges. A Gardener's Chronicle | Clare Leighton | 5/10/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Embroidery: or, the Craft of the Needle | W. G. P. Townsend, Illustrations by Walter Crane | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Designs on the Dances of Vaslav Nijinsky | George Barbier, Illustrator, Foreword by Francis de Miomandre, translated from the French by C W Beaumont | 3/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Hortus Europae Americanus | Mark Catesby | 3/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | An encyclopaedia of plants | J C Loudon, Editor | 3/14/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Beauties of the Opera and Ballet | Charles Heath, Engraver | 3/14/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Coloured plates extracted from "Les Modes Parisiennes" | François Claudius Compte-Calix, Illustrator | 3/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Flower Arrangement | Josiah Conder | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | English Housewifery | Elizabeth Moxon | 9/26/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | xx | xx | 2/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Paris Sketch Book | William Makepeace Thackeray | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy | 10/10/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The History of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England | Antoine François Prévost D’exiles | 9/26/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | La Cucina Futurista | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti | 9/28/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Moosewood Cookbook | Mollie Katzen | 10/13/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sun, Moon and Stars: Astronomy for Beginners | Agnes Giberne | 9/26/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Le Monde d'Herge | Benoît Peeters | 10/13/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys | Nathaniel Hawthorne | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Magic Made Easy | David Devant | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Bohemia in London | Arthur Ransome | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Adventures of Joseph Andrews | Henry Fielding Illustrations by George Cruikshank | 12/5/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Magical Rope Ties and Escapes | Harry Houdini | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Christmas Child | Mrs Molesworth Illustrated by Walter Crane | 11/25/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | After London | Richard Jefferies | 9/26/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Alexandre Dumas’ Dictionary of Cuisine | Louis Colman | 9/27/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Pretty Book of Pictures for little masters and misses, or, Tommy Trip’s History of Beasts and Birds. | Tommy Trip | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Far from the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Topography and Natural History of Hampstead | John James Park | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Lonesome Traveler | Jack Kerouac | 11/14/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems | John Keats | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Six Sonatas for two German Flutes or Violons with a Thorough Bass for the Harpsicord or Violoncello | Johann Joachim | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Tragical History of Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Convergence of the Twain | Thomas Hardy | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Illustrations to the Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Washington Irving | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Black Beauty: his grooms and companions. The autobiography of a horse. | Anna Sewell | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales | Arthur Phillip | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | German Popular Stories(First Translation) | [J. & W.] Grimm | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Doré Gallery | Edmund Ollier | 2/1/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The History of Appian of Alexandria | Appianus of Alexandria | 2/3/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Le Monde d'Herge | Benoît Peeters | 9/27/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Le Monde d'Herge | Benoît Peeters | 10/10/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Abelard to Heloise | James Cawthorn | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Mashen'ka (Mary) | Vladimir Nabokov | 2/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Carvalho's Town and Country Valentine Writer, or Lover's Repository | S. Carvalho | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | 8/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | My Friend Mr. Leakey | J. B. S. Haldane | 11/14/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Sir Isaac Newton | 11/14/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | A Tree Grows In Brooklyn | Betty Smith | 12/3/2012 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | The Music of the Epithalamium; consisting of Songs, Choruses, and a dead March, in Zobeide, a Tragedy | John Abraham Fisher | 9/26/2011 | Hidden | No |
| Edit | Selection from Madam Butterfly for pianoforte... Arranged by Charles Godfrey | Giacomo Puccini | 2/1/2012 | Hidden | No |