The shelf
Every book on the shelf.
Independent, modern, hand-curated. Filter by genre or publisher. The shelf rotates every Tuesday.
Giant's Bread
<p class="rte-p" dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A standalone Christie novel of ambition, art, love, and inner conflict, sh
$9.50
Partners in Crime
A sparkling Christie collection featuring Tommy and Tuppence, full of playful cases, quick wit, and interwar charm.
$9.50
The Murder at the Vicarage
The first Miss Marple novel, blending village life, observation, and murder into one of Christie's most enduring classics.
$9.50
The Mysterious Mr Quin
A haunting Christie collection where mystery meets atmosphere, intuition, and the unsettling presence of the enigmatic Mr Quin.
$9.50
Utopia
<p>Thomas More’s Utopia is a foundational classic of political thought and social imagination, presented in a clean DotBooks edition for modern readers.</p>
$8.00
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.
$8.00
The Huguenots in France
<p>Samuel Smiles’s The Huguenots in France explores persecution, exile, and endurance in French Protestant history.</p>
$8.00
The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
Rousseau’s Confessions is a foundational autobiographical classic of self-examination and Enlightenment thought.
$8.00
The Deaf: Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
Harry Best’s The Deaf is a major historical study of deaf education and social position in the United States.
$8.00
Æsthetic as science of expression and general linguistic
Benedetto Croce’s classic on aesthetics, expression, and language is presented in a clean DotBooks edition.
$8.00
Cornish Characters and Strange Events
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Cornish Characters and Strange Events gathers local lives, folklore, and unusual incidents from Cornwall.
$8.00
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
A classic culinary history text associated with Apicius, illuminating Roman food, dining, and elite taste.
$8.00
The Clansman
A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.
$8.00
Albert Gallatin
John Austin Stevens’s Albert Gallatin offers a concise portrait of a major American statesman and diplomat.
$8.00
Cautionary Tales for Children
A premium, reader-friendly public domain edition of Cautionary Tales for Children — beautifully cleaned and formatted for modern reading.
$8.00
Tristram of Blent
Anthony Hope turns inheritance, secrecy, and divided loyalties into a swift Edwardian romance of identity, estate politics, and emotional calculation.
$8.50
Rinkitink in Oz
A buoyant Oz adventure in which a comic king, a young prince, and Dorothy cross perilous islands on the way to Oz.
$7.50
A Princess of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs launches his Barsoom saga with a fast, vivid planetary romance of duels, deserts, war, and improbable love.
$8.00
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass expands his life story into a powerful autobiographical indictment of slavery, tracing violence, resistance, education, escape, and the making of a public voice.
$8.00
The Emerald City of Oz
Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry settle in Oz as Baum combines domestic warmth, comic fantasy, and an invasion plot.
$7.50
The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.’s compact style guide remains a crisp, practical classic on clarity, usage, and revision.
$8.50
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe.
$8.00
