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.

• Novels by P. G. Wodehouse

• Short fiction and novels by H. Beam Piper

• Short fiction and novels by Fritz Leiber

• Short fiction and novels by Andre Norton

• Scarhaven Keep by J. S. Fletcher

• The Conjure Woman by Charles W. Chesnutt

• The Dark Other by Stanley G. Weinbaum

• Short fiction and novels by Frederick Pohl

• Short fiction and novels by Poul Anderson

• Kai Lung’s Golden Hours by Ernest Bramah

• Brood of the Witch Queen by Sax Rohmer

• The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

• Islands of Space by John W. Campbell Jr.

• Against the Grain by J.-K. Huysmans

• When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard

• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington

• Gladiator by Philip Wylie

• Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

• The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

• Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Moderate-difficulty productions

• Scarlet Pimpernel novels by Baroness Orczy

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

• The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

• Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu

• 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

• The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (Note the purposefully uncorrected spelling and grammar are style choices.)

• 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

• Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer

• 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 of an Antiquary by M. R. James

• 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

• Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

• The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

• Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

• Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

• Villette by Charlotte Brontë

• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

• Howards End by EM Forster

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Advanced productions

• 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

• Boswell’s Life of Johnson by James Boswell

• The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson

• Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

• 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

• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

• 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)

• The Lives of the Caesears by Suetonius (Note: the 1913 JC Rolfe translation, not the older translation available at PG!)

• 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

• Middlemarch by George Eliot

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

• The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy

• Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

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)