Wanted Ebooks

If you’re interested in producing an ebook for Standard Ebooks, why not work on one of these books?

If something in this list interests you, please contact us at our mailing list for help before you start work.

If you want to suggest a different book to produce, please carefully review the kinds of work we do and don’t accept.

For your first production

If nothing on the list below interests you, you can pitch us something else you’d like to work on.

First productions should be on the shorter side (less than 100,000 words maximum) and without too many complex formatting issues like illustrations, significant endnotes, letters, poems, etc. Most short plain fiction novels fall in this category.

• His Family by Ernest Poole (Pulitzer winner #1)

• The Able McLaughlins by Margaret Wilson (Pulitzer winner #6)

• So Big by Edna Ferber (Pulitzer winner #7) (Transcription is missing italics)

• Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant (this uncredited translation is by “The Pearson Publishing Co.”)

• The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

• Uller Uprising by H. Beam Piper

• Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper

• Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

• Storm Over Warlock by Andre Norton

• The Defiant Angels by Andre Norton

• Key Out of Time by Andre Norton

• Ralestone Luck by Andre Norton

• Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth

• Plague of Pythons by Frederik Pohl

• When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard

• Vathek by William Beckford

• The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse

• A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse

• The White Feather by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Pothunters by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Head of Kay’s by P. G. Wodehouse

• A Prefect’s Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Coming of Bill by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Little Nugget by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Indiscretions of Archie by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Skylark of Space by Edward E. Smith

• Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell

• The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

• Mary, Mary by James Stephens

• The Demi-gods by James Stephens

• A Little Princess by Francis Hodgson Burnett

• Heidi by Johanna Spyri

• Beyond Thirty aka. The Lost Continent (Beyond 1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Oakdale Affair (Mucker 3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Pellucidar (Pellucidar 2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan 2) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan 3) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (Tarzan 5) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan 6) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Tarzan and the Golden Lion (Tarzan 9) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Tarzan and the Ant Men (Tarzan 10) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Three Hostages by John Buchan

• O Pioneers! by Willa Cather

• Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery

• Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery

• The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck by James Branch Cabell

• Domnei by James Branch Cabell

• The Line of Love by James Branch Cabell

• Ticket No. 9672 (The Lottery Ticket) Un Billet de loterie by Jules Verne

• Topsy Turvy (The Purchase of the North Pole) Sans dessus dessous by Jules Verne

• Robur the Conqueror Robur-le-Conquérant by Jules Verne

• Master of the World Maître du monde by Jules Verne

• The Survivors of the Chancellor Le Chancellor by Jules Verne

• Facing the Flag Face au drapeau by Jules Verne

• A Special Correspondent Claudius Bombarnac by Jules Verne

• An Antarctic Mystery Le Sphinx des glaces by Jules Verne

• Five Weeks in a Balloon Cinq Semaines en ballon by Jules Verne

• Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rowson

• Privy Seal by Ford Madox Ford (Book 2 in the Fifth Queen Trilogy)

• The Fifth Queen Crowned by Ford Madox Ford (Book 3 in the Fifth Queen Trilogy)

• Bellarion the Fortunate by Rafael Sabatini

• The Sport of the Gods by Paul Laurence Dunbar

• The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

• Vikram and the Vampire by Sir Richard Francis Burton

• The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt

• Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Theodore Roosevelt

• Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt

• A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt

Moderate-difficulty productions

• The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe (#12 in Greatest Villains)

• Trilby by George du Maurier (#15 in Greatest Villains)

• The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (#28 in Greatest Villains)

• Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (#29 in Greatest Villains)

• The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe (#32 in Greatest Villains)

• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (#38 in Greatest Villains)

• Gentlement Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos, transcript in progress at PGDP. Once the transcript is available, this may be suitable for a beginner. (Part of the Guardian 2015 collection.)

• The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

• Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

• One of Ours by Willa Cather (Pulitzer winner #5) (Transcription is missing scene breaks and italics)

• Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

• Those Barren Leaves by Aldous Huxley

• Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (Part of the Modern Library’s 100 best novels)

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• As You Like It by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• King John by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Richard II by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Richard III by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Coriolanus by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Pericles by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

• Short fiction by H. Beam Piper

• Short fiction by Andre Norton

• Short fiction by Frederik Pohl

• The Ambassadors by Henry James (vol. 2) (Part of the Modern Library’s 100 best novels)

• The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan 4) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Tarzan the Untamed (Tarzan 7) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Tarzan the Terrible (Tarzan 8) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Mucker (Mucker 1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• William Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Page scans)

• Catronia by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson

• Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard

• Cleopatra by H. Rider Haggard

• The Terror by Arthur Machen, to be added to the existing Short Fiction omnibus.

• Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany (Note: The British and American editions each have a story the other excludes; should we include both plus an editor’s note?)

• The House of the Wolflings by William Morris

• My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman (should be combined with My Further Disillusionment in Russia, the 2nd volume to the book)

• Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Part 2), to be compiled into a single “Essays”

• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce

• Germinal by Émile Zola

• Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton

• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jerónimo Lobo

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (part of the Guardian 2015 collection)

• Books by Edward Lear

• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (part of the BBC 2015 collection)

• Short fiction by Vernon Lee (To be compiled in an omnibus “Short Fiction”)

• Poetry of Thomas Gray to be compiled in an omnibus

• Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin

• The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

• Short stories and novellas by Sheridan Le Fanu (To be compiled in an omnibus “Short Fiction”)

• David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott

• Poetry of William McGonagall (To be compiled in an omnibus)

• Marius the Epicurean by Walter Pater (Vol. 2; both as a single production)

• Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

• The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish (need significant work lowercasing gratuitous old-timey capitalization)

• The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

• New Grub Street by George Gissing (part of the Guardian 2015 and BBC 2015 collections)

• The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

• Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence (part of the Modern Library and BBC 2015 collections)

• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens (part of the BBC 2015 collection)

• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (part of the BBC 2015 collection)

• The Indiscreet Toys by Denis Diderot

• Works by John Ruskin

• Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

• Works and poetry by Walter de la Mare

• Poetry by Edward Thomas

• Novels by W. S. Maugham

• The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

• Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

• Mauprat by George Sand

• Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances by James Branch Cabell

• Chivalry by James Branch Cabell (Note: the 1921 version)

• The Cords of Vanity by James Branch Cabell

• Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen Un Capitaine de quinze ans by Jules Verne

• Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon La Jangada by Jules Verne

• Moon-Voyage (Parts 1 and 2) De la Terre à la Lune by Jules Verne

• The Fur Country: Seventy Degrees North Latitude Le Pays des fourrures by Jules Verne

• The Adventures of Captain Hatteras Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras by Jules Verne

• In Search of the Castaways Les Enfants du capitaine Grant by Jules Verne

• Lady Rose’s Daughter by Mary Augusta Ward

• Short fiction and short novels of Saki (H. H. Munro). Some research may be required to determine whether to produce an omnibus Short Fiction or how to divide up his stories.

• The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith

• The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

• Poems by Andrew Marvell to be compiled into an omnibus.

• Noli Me Tángere by José Rizal, translated by Charles Derbyshire

• El filibusterismo by José Rizal, translated by Charles Derbyshire

• Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

• Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt (Transcription is missing italics and accents)

• Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Garnett translated the title as “The Possessed”)

Advanced productions

• The Revenger's Tragedy, by Thomas Middleton. Mistakenly attributed to Cyril Tourneur. (#10 in Greatest Villains)

• The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest, by Tirso de Molina. English translations in PD are difficult to find; scans of a 1923 translation are available. (#24 in Greatest Villains)

• The Federalist Papers

• The Peasants by Władysław Reymont (transcription required; see Winter, Summer, Spring).

• All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (1887 Victoria Edition)

• Short stories by Algernon Blackwood (To be compiled in an omnibus “Short Fiction”)

• An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (Part of the Modern Library’s 100 best novels)

• The Odes of Horace

• Poems by Trumbull Stickney (transcription required).

• Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker. This is a 1923 publication, transcription is required.

• The Life of Johnson by James Boswell. George Birkbeck Hill’s unabridged edition was published in six volumes, all of which are on PG; the link leads to the first volume.

• The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni. There is a 1924 translation that must be considered, and will require transcription.

• Short fiction by Jack London, to be compiled in a “Short Fiction” omnibus. We already have three short story compilations that must be rolled in to this one. See this bibliography spreadsheet.

• Short stories by W. W. Jacobs (We already have Lady of the Barge; do we need an omnibus?)

• Poetry by Mark Akenside (make sure this collection is a complete corpus of his works.)

• The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by Anonymous

• The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W. N. P. Barbellion

• The Nun Ensign by Catalina de Erauso (transcription required)

• The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne

• A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

• Gil Blas by Alain-Rene LeSage

• Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolò Machiavelli

• The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

• Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

• Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

• Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant (To be compiled in an omnibus “Short Fiction”)

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Part of the Modern Library and Guardian 2015 100 best novels collections)

• Aesthetical Essays by Friedrich Schiller

• The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James

• Principia Ethica by George Edward Moore

• Plato’s Dialogues

• The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer (Vol. 2, Vol. 3)

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (Volume 2, together as a single ebook)

• The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton (Note: the Wikisource transcription will be easier to work with than the PG transcription.)

• The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

• How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (part of the BBC 2015 collection)

• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

• Short story collections by P. G. Wodehouse (Note that we already have all Jeeves, School and Ukridge Stories completed. A spreadsheet is available that lists the rest.)

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• The Memoirs of Casanova

• Poetry by St. John of the Cross (Transcription required.)

• Poetry by John Clare (Careful research required to deduplicate this large corpus.)

• Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmoore

• Ulysses by James Joyce (Part of the Modern Library and Guardian 2015 100 best novels collections)

• Hadrian the Seventh by Frederick Rolfe (No PG edition yet but PGDP transcription is in progress. Part of the Guardian 2015 collection.)

• The Winning of the West (Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4) by Theodore Roosevelt

Uncategorized lists

• Public domain entries in the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

• Public domain entries in the Guardian’s top 100 novels of all time list

• Public domain entries in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series (Note that not all of these are in the U.S. public domain)