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• Peyton Place (author died in 1964; c1956), by Grace Metalious (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Ulysses, by James Joyce (multiple editions)
• The Adventures of Harry Franco: A Tale of the Great Panic (New York: F. Saunders, 1839), by Charles F. Briggs
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: HTML at Northwestern
  • Volume II: HTML at Northwestern
• Anna of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg tex)
• Antic Hay (London: Chatto and Windus, c1923), by Aldous Huxley (Gutenberg text)
• The Booming of Acre Hill, and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life, by John Kendrick Bangs, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: L. C. Page & Company, 1912), by L. M. Montgomery (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Conquest of Canaan, by Booth Tarkington
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Further Chronicles of Avonlea (Boston: The Page Company, 1920), by L. M. Montgomery
  • illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Heart's Desire: The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1908), by Emerson Hough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• The Regent: A Five Towns Story of Adventure in London, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1915), by Sinclair Lewis, illust. by Norman Rockwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• With the Procession, by Henry Blake Fuller (Gutenberg text)
• Not Without Laughter (London and New York: A. A. Knopf, 1930), by Langston Hughes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 253 (electronic edition), by Geoff Ryman (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Bedlam's Edge (included on a Baen CD image), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• The Calling of Dan Matthews, by Harold Bell Wright (Gutenberg text)
• The Card: A Story of Adventure in the Five Towns (London: Methuen and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Cock and Anchor (London: Downey and Co., ca.1895), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Denry the Audacious (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1911), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
• Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, contrib. by Irving Howe (Gutenberg text)
• Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), by Sherwood Anderson (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories, by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (Gutenberg text)
• Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Tales of the Five Towns, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• 1632, by Eric Flint (multiple formats at freedoors.org)
• Marching Men, by Sherwood Anderson (Gutenberg text)
• J. Hardin & son : a novel (D. Appleton and Co., 1923), by Brand Whitlock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The goodness of St. Rocque, and other stories. (McGrath Pub. Co., 1969), by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A peep at "number five:" or, A chapter in the life of a city pastor. (Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1852), by H. Trusta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Michael O'Halloran (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915), by Gene Stratton-Porter, Frances Rogers, Country Life Press, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• With the procession, a novel (Harper & Brothers, 1895), by Henry Blake Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (William Blackwood and Sons, 1871), by George Eliot and William Blackwood and Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (Harper and Brothers, 1873), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Canaan (A. L. Burt, 1905), by Booth Tarkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salthaven (C. Scribner's sons, 1909), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poppea of the post office. (The Macmillan Company, 1909), by Mabel Osgood Wright, Margaret West Kinney, Troy Kinney, Norwood Press, and Macmillan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunshine sketches of a little town (John Lane company ;, 1912), by Stephen Leacock and Cyrus Cuneo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clarence : or, A tale of our own times (G.P. Putnam; [etc., etc.], 1849), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winesburg, Ohio : a group of tales of Ohio small town life (B.W. Huebsch, 1919), by Sherwood Anderson and B.W. Huebsch Inc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cock and Anchor : being a chronicle of old Dublin City. 1 (W. Curry, 1845), by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Arabian nights (C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Robert Louis Stevenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middlemarch : a study of provincial life (T. Nelson, 1906), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Snarleyyow. (George Routledge and sons, 1873), by Frederick Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentleman from Indiana (Grosset and Dunlap, 1902), by Booth Tarkington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gilded age : a tale of to-day (American Pub. Co., 1876), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winesburg, Ohio : intimate histories of every-day people (J. Cape, 1922), by Sherwood Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Winesburg, Ohio : a group of tales of Ohio small town life (B.W. Huebsch, 1919), by Sherwood Anderson and B.W. Huebsch Inc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Earl's promise : $b A novel. Vol. 3 (of 3), by J. H. Riddell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Earl's promise : $b A novel. Vol. 2 (of 3), by J. H. Riddell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Earl's promise : $b A novel. Vol. 1 (of 3), by J. H. Riddell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Men of Marlowe's, by Henry Dudeney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rabok (in Hungarian), by Ferenc Molnár (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stonepastures, by Eleanor Stuart (Gutenberg ebook)
• The hope of happiness, by Meredith Nicholson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Three Loving Ladies, by Mrs. Dowdall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Anthony John, by Jerome K. Jerome (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zelda Dameron, by Meredith Nicholson, illust. by John Cecil Clay (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Accident, by Ben Ames Williams (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dragon in Shallow Waters, by V. Sackville-West (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Gray Angels, by Nalbro Bartley (Gutenberg ebook)
• Velikulta: Seikkailutarina kaupunkiviisikosta (in Finnish), by Arnold Bennett, trans. by Toivo Wallenius (Gutenberg ebook)
• Friendship Village Love Stories, by Zona Gale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mothers to Men, by Zona Gale (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Woman's War: A Novel, by Warwick Deeping (Gutenberg ebook)
• Country Luck, by John Habberton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tytöistä parhain (in Finnish), by Louisa May Alcott, trans. by Lyyli Reijonen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Peace in Friendship Village, by Zona Gale (Gutenberg ebook)
• Port Argent: A Novel, by Arthur Colton, illust. by Eliot Keen (Gutenberg ebook)
• All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story, by Walter Besant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Barrier: A Novel, by Allen French (Gutenberg ebook)
• Poppea of the Post-Office, by Mabel Osgood Wright, illust. by Margaret West Kinney and Troy Kinney (Gutenberg ebook)
• At the Age of Eve, by Kate Trimble Sharber, illust. by Paul Julian Meylan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Annals of Ann, by Kate Trimble Sharber, illust. by Paul Julian Meylan (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cock and Anchor, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, illust. by Brinsley Le Fanu (Gutenberg ebook)
• Petersburg (in German), by Andrey Bely, trans. by Nadja Strasser (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quodlibet: containing some annals thereof ..., by John Pendleton Kennedy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Roland Graeme: Knight. A Novel of Our Time, by Agnes Maule Machar (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mystery of the Locks, by E. W. Howe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dry fish and wet : $b Tales from a Norwegian seaport, by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Little World, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hempfield: A Novel, by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New Mistress: A Tale, by George Manville Fenn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wishing Moon, by Louise Elizabeth Dutton, illust. by Everett Shinn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Co-Citizens, by Corra Harris, illust. by Hanson Booth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Third Degree: A Narrative of Metropolitan Life, by Arthur Hornblow and Charles Klein (Gutenberg ebook)
• Venus in Boston: A Romance of City Life, by George Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Village of Vagabonds, by F. Berkeley Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, by Sinclair Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Our Town, by William Allen White, illust. by William J. Glackens and Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (Gutenberg ebook)
• Flip's "Islands of Providence", by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by Elizabeth Fearne Bonsall (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miss Philly Firkin, The China-Woman, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mr. Joseph Hanson, The Haberdasher, by Mary Russell Mitford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mary Rose of Mifflin, by Frances R. Sterrett, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (Gutenberg ebook)
• Homeburg Memories, by George Fitch (Gutenberg ebook)
• Round the Block: An American Novel, by John Bell Bouton (Gutenberg ebook)
• John Hatherton (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1865), by Augusta Noel, W. H McFarlane, James Nisbet & Co, and Roberts Ballantyne (page images at Florida)
• A peep at "number five", or, A chapter in the life of a city pastor (Boston: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, 1852), by H. Trusta, illust. by Baker & Smith (page images at Florida)

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