Data from the popular free ebook web site Manybooks was used to compile this list of classic books that are still popular among readers in India. All titles have links to free versions (usually several books). Users will need to set up free accounts at Internet Archive to borrow any books not in the public domain.
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by Patañjali
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Real Ghost Stories by William Thomas Stead
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
As a Man Thinketh by James Allen
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The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
The Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang
Telepathy by W. W. Baggally
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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Frederick Engels
A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
The Hundred Best English Poems by Adam L. Gowans
Palmistry for All by Cheiro
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Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Poetics by Aristotle
The Ramayana by Valmiki
The Book-Hunter by John Hill Burton
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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The Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson
The Abandoned Room by Charles Wadsworth Camp
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn