OK, here you have it. The books have been listed by title, and I've broken that down into four pages.

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By Title, A-F

By Title, G-M

By Title, N-R

By Title, S-Z

Or browse by category:

Action_Adventure (262)
Books to set the blood boiling, the heart racing.

Australia
My first category.

Biography
List of biographical and autobiographical works.

Canada
Works by authors from the world's second-largest country in terms of area (that's what the border crossing guy called it in the process of telling me I couldn't hitchhike from Tok Junction to Skagway via Whitehorse).

Classics
Works from the Ancient World.

Critics
Well, hey, I first started this site recalling rather well where Dante put the commentators. But then again, there's some value to the group.

Drama
The play's the thing.

Elizabethans
Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser.

Enlightenment Thinkers
Kant, Hume, Descartes--OK, I should probably use something to break down the timeline further.

Esoteric
UFOs, aliens, Atlantis, Satanism, and, hopefully, texts I can point to references of in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (Not as easy as Name of the Rose, but I'll try).

Europa
Des Livres en Francais, Bücher auf Deutsch, Libros en espaņol, etc.

Fiction
The sort of books that aren't true, in the strictest sense, but can hit higher realities on occasion.

Folklore
Classics of a more humble origin; teaching tales passed down; the people's histories; and analysis of same.

For Girls and Boys
Fiction, history and other works for younger readers.

Gothic Tales
Stories of the strange, the terrible, the macabre.

History
History works abound.

Modern Thinkers
Philosophy and social science from the last 150 years or so.

Mystery
Whodunnit? Where? When? Why?

Non Fiction
Hey, these types of books are the biggest sellers nowadays, and given my high-margin profit model that's already being reviewed in the major business schools, I figured I ought to join in the fray.

Orient Express
Works composed in or related to the Middle East, Near East and Central Asia (as the region is variously called).

Poetry
Poems everyone. Me lads and lassies reckon themselves poets.

Political Science
Things you have to read if, every night, you try to take over the world.

Pulp Fiction
In keeping with guidance I've received on copyright issues, be aware web-viewing public that there is no particular reason why a site like blackmask might have this category. There's also no reason why I might be bummed that the most nebulous Dashiell Hammett copyrights seem to be in the hands of Human Rights Watch. No reason whatsoever. I mean it.

Religion
Including the big books of western and eastern faith, as well as texts relating to them.

Satire
It is unwise to tangle with a satirist. (Credit Matt Groening).

Science
Texts relating the natural world, laws governing same, and discoveries removing aforesaid laws for their prior solidity.

Science Fiction
One of the most popular genres--ebooks and otherwise.

Tops
What everybody wants.

Western
Novels and stories from that other big pulp fad.

Disclaimer

Due to restrictions, a few texts on Blackmask, while freely available for download, may not be resold due to copyright restrictions. Additionally, while every effort is made to insure the accuracy of texts, the accuracy of transcription and/or scanning does not yet equal the accuracy of commercially available texts, though as a group the ebook community is getting better. Also, the MLA or other academic bodies have no standards for accepting citations of online texts in scholarly papers. Therefore, the texts contained herein are for entertainment purposes only. However, before you get too smug about old media, come over to my house and I'll show you my $30 copy of Nietzche that's missing big chunks of book three of Thus Spake Zarathustra, because book two got printed twice.