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 will and won’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 (around 60–90,000 words maximum) and without complex formatting issues like illustrations, significant endnotes, letters, poems, etc. Most short plain fiction novels fall in this category.

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

• Short fiction and novels by H. Beam Piper

• Short fiction and novels by Fritz Leiber

• Short fiction and novels by Andre Norton

• Short fiction and novels by Frederick Pohl

• The Man in the Brown Suit, by Agatha Christie (Note: we already have cover art selected)

• Against the Grain by J.-K. Huysmans

• When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard

• Gladiator by Philip Wylie

• Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

• Vathek by William Beckford

• Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf

• The Adventures of Sally by P. G. Wodehouse

• Piccadilly Jim by P. G. Wodehouse

• A Damsel in Distress by P. G. Wodehouse

• The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. Wodehouse

• Uneasy Money 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 Skylark of Space by Edward E. Smith

• Bashan and I by Thomas Mann

• Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

• 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

• The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen

• The Three Imposters by Arthur Machen

• Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• The Chessmen of Mars 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

Moderate-difficulty productions

• Some Do Not... by Ford Madox Ford

• 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

• The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

• She by H. Rider Haggard

• 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.

• Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

• 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

• Roughing It by Mark Twain

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

• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

• Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Orczy

• 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

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

• Theodore Savage by Cicely Hamilton

• A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jerónimo Lobo

• Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

• The Iron Heel by Jack London

• Books by Edward Lear

• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

• 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)

• McTeague by Frank Norris

• Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

• Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz

• The Monk: A Romance by M. G. Lewis (Note this appears to be the 2nd edition, we don’t want the 4th edition)

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

• The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

• Ghost Stories by M. R. James; an omnibus of his ghost short fiction including Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, More Ghost Stories, A Thin Ghost and Others, A Thin Ghost and Others, and individual publications

• Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

• New Grub Street by George Gissing

• The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

• Women in Love by DH Lawrence

• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

• Howards End by EM Forster

• 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

Advanced productions

• 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 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

• The Complete Essays of Michel de Montaigne

• The Complete Letters to his Son by Philip Dormer Stanhope

• A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

• Gil Blas by Alain-Rene LeSage

• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

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

• The Life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell (Note: Not the Project Gutenberg edition, which is abridged.)

• 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”)

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

• Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

• Aesthetical Essays by Friedrich Schiller

• The Analects by Confucius

• 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

• Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (partially completed, available for finishing but will take a large amount of time)

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

• The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

• Short stories by P. G. Wodehouse (Note that we already have all Jeeves stories. Careful research is required to compile an omnibus of the rest.)

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

• The Memoirs of Casanova

• Fors Clavigera by John Ruskin (vol. 2, vol. 3; but there are 8 volumes?)

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

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

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)