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• The High School Freshmen: or, Dick and Co.'s First Year Pranks and Sports, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)

• Sports (Los Angeles: Make Now, 2008), by Kenneth Goldsmith (PDF at Buffalo)

• Catcher Craig (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., c1915), by Christy Mathewson, illust. by C. M. Relyea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Grammar School Boys in Summer Athletics: or, Dick and Co. Make Their Fame Secure, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The High School Pitcher: or, Dick and Co. on the Gridley Diamond, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• Our Base Ball Club and How it Won the Championship (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1884), by Noah Brooks, contrib. by A. G. Spalding
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
• The Shortstop, by Zane Grey (PDF at arfalpha.com)
• Won in the Ninth (New York: R. J. Bodmer Co., 1910), by Christy Mathewson, ed. by W. W. Aulick, illust. by Felix Mahony (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Young Pitcher, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• The Rover Boys on a Tour: or, Last Days at Brill College (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1916), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories, by Zane Grey
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Mr. Evans: A Cricketo-Detective Story (London: Macmillan and Co., 1922), by Cyril Alington
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Spell of the White Sturgeon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1953), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
• The High School Boys' Fishing Trip: or, Dick and Co. in the Wilderness, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• Blue Nets and Red Sails (New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1936), by Helen Bradley Preston, illust. by Margaret Temple Braley (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Out With Gun and Camera: or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Young Hunters of the Lake: or, Out With Rod and Gun (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)

• The High School Left End: or, Dick and Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)
• The High School Captain of the Team: or, Dick and Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard, by H. Irving Hancock (Gutenberg text)

• The Girl on the Boat, by P. G. Wodehouse (Gutenberg text)

• Drives and Puts: A Book of Golf Stories (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1899), by Walter Camp and Lilian Brooks (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Four Boy Hunters: or, The Outing of the Gun Club (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Hunters' Feast, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Out With Gun and Camera: or, The Boy Hunters in the Mountains (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• Young Hunters of the Lake: or, Out With Rod and Gun (published under "Ralph Bonehill" pseudonym), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text)
• The Lost Hunters: A Story of Wild Man and Great Beasts (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Rover Boys on a Hunt: or, The Mysterious House in the Woods (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1920), by Edward Stratemeyer (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Tales of Lonely Trails, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)

• Pizza for Everyone (Elgin, IL: Chariot Books, c1988), by Josh McDowell and Dottie McDowell, illust. by Meredith Johnson (PDF at josh.org)
• Bad, Bad Bunny Trouble, by Hans Wilhelm (PDF at childrensbooksforever.com)

• The Croxley Master, and Other Tales of The Ring and Camp (New York: George H. Doran company, ca. 1925), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Lisa Zunshine (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (page images at Google; US access only)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to Write a Novel: A Practical Guide to the Art of Fiction (London: Grant Richards, 1901) (Gutenberg text)
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing (New York: Riverside Literary Bureau, C. T. Dillingham and Co., c1894), by Sherwin Cody
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• How to Write Fiction, Especially the Art of Short Story Writing: A Practical Study of Technique (London: Bellairs and Co., 1895), by Sherwin Cody (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primer of the Novel (New York: Random House, c1950), by Vincent McHugh (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest A. Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Paper Covered Books: A Catalogue (San Francisco: W. E. Price, 1894), by Warren Elbridge Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

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