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 40–60,000 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

• 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

• Vathek by William Beckford

• Leave it to Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse

• 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

• Invaders from the Infinite by John W. Campbell

• 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

Moderate-difficulty productions

• 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 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

• Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Orczy

• 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

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

• The Indiscreet Toys by Denis Diderot

• The Beetle by Richard Marsh

• Works by John Ruskin

• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Advanced productions

• 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 Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (this will be a complex production, please contact us first for help.)

• 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 Gutenberg edition, which is abridged.)

• The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

• The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

• The Cream of the Jest by James Branch Cabell

• 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

Uncategorized lists

• 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)