Seeking input on "top 100" collection

Input/feedback would be welcome.  I'm giving a presentation
this week on "why you should have a library in your pocket"
at the Wolfram Data Summit.  I've been working on a special
collection of around 100 items that could be put on a 
CD/DVD, mobile device, etc. (in different formats: HTML, EPUB,
or others).  My goal is to have a test version of this
collection by then.

My listing is below as tab-delimited, and attached as an XLSX.

If you notice any important omissions, please mention them!  
Criteria are:
- interesting and worthwhile
- English only
- coverage of different types of content (i.e., reference, classics,
   non-fiction...)
- only one item per author
- must (probably) be public domain worldwide:
  - published pre-1923
  - author, illustrator, translator death dates pre-1944 (life+70)

This turned out to be harder than I thought, but lots of fun.  I
used our Bookshelves, Top 100, GUTINDEX.ALL, and other sources.
I occasionally left something out that I thought was better forgotten
(such as Taylor's "Scientific Management"), and made one or two 
arbitrary choices (such as Twain's "Connecticut Yankee" instead
of Huck or Tom).
 
The Genre categories are also somewhat arbitrary.  Most of these have
a great bibrec in gutenberg.org, but I just used a generic term like
"fiction" or "history."  Several items could use multiple genres, but
I am just including one (for example, Oscar Wilde is listed as Humor, not
Fiction).

Thanks, and happy reading!
  -- Greg

Project Gutenberg Selections									
The goal of this collection is to identify interesting and important works from the Project Gutenberg collection.									
"Every effort was made to identify items that are most likely in the public domain worldwide, not just in the US."									
									
Genre	eBook #	Title	Author last	Author first etc.	Author death	Translator last	Translator first etc.	Translator death	Notes
Adventure	1257	Dumas	Alexandre	The Three Musketeers	1870				
Adventure	521	Defoe	Daniel	Robinson Crusoe	1731				
Adventure	2701	Melville	Herman	"Moby Dick, or, the Whale"	1891				
Adventure	996	Cervantes	Miguel	Don Quixote	1616				
Business	8581	Barnum	P.T.	The Art of Money Getting	1891				
Children/youth	271	Sewell	Anna	Black Beauty	1878				
Children/youth	14838	Potter	Beatrix	The Tale of Peter Rabbit	1943				
Children/youth	166	Wharton	Edith	Summer	1937				
Children/youth	113	Burnett	Frances Hodges	The Secret Garden	1924				
Children/youth	1597	Andersen	Hans Christian	Andersen's Fairy Tales	1875				
Children/youth	11171	Stowe	Harriet Beecher	"Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition"	1896				
Children/youth	5747	Alger	Horatio	Do and Dare: A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune	1899				
Children/youth	19068	Grimm	Jacob	Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm	1863				
Children/youth	289	Grahame	Kenneth	The Wind in the Willows	1932				
Children/youth	55	Baum	L. Frank	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	1919				
Children/youth	503	The Blue Fairy Book	Lang	Andrew	1912				
Children/youth	17412	Hope	Laura Lee	Bobbsey Twins					Syndicate author
Children/youth	28885	Carroll	Lewis	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	1898				
Children/youth	514	Alcott	Louisa May	Little Women	1988				
Children/youth	120	Stevenson	Robert Louis	Treasure Island	1894				
Children/youth	35997	Kipling	Rudyard	Jungle Book	1936				
Children/youth	3005	Appleton	Victor	Tom Swift and his Airship					Syndicate author
Children/youth	39784			Mother Goose					
Children/youth	18732			Aesop's Fables					
Classics	11000	Clay	Albert Tobias	Gilgamesh	1925				
Classics	7768	Lamb	Charles	The Adventures of Ulysses	1834				
Classics	2383	Chaucer	Geoffrey	Canterbury Tales	1400	Purves	David Liang	1873	
Classics	5668	Scott	Jonathan	The Arabian Nights Entertainments	1829	Burton	Richard	1890	
Classics	1497	Plato		Republic	-347				
Classics	24269	Homer		The Odyssey of Homer	-650	Cowper	William	1800	
Fantasy	829	Swift	Jonathan	Gulliver's Travels	1745				
Fiction	5231	Trollope	Anthony	The Way we Live Now	1882				
Fiction	730	Dickens	Charles	Oliver Twist	1870				
Fiction	1260	Bront‘	Charlotte	Jane Eyre	1855				
Fiction	768	Bront‘	Emily	Wuthering Heights	1848				
Fiction	145	Eliot	George	Middlemarch	1880				
Fiction	14155	Flaubert	Gustave	Madame Bovary	1880				
Fiction	209	James	Henry	The Turn of the Screw	1916				
Fiction	215	London	Jack	Call of the Wild	1916				
Fiction	4300	Joyce	James	Ulysses	1941				
Fiction	42671	Austen	Jane	Pride and Prejudice	1817				
Fiction	14591	von Goethe	Johann Wolfgang	Faust	1832	Taylor	Bayard	1878	
Fiction	39452	Bunyan	John	Pilgrim's Progress	1688				
Fiction	219	Conrad	Joseph	Heart of Darkness	1924				
Fiction	103	Verne	Jules	Around the World in 80 Days	1905				
Fiction	160	Chopin	Kate	Awakening	1904				
Fiction	2600	Tolstoy	Leo	War and Peace	1910	Aylmer	Maude	1939	
Fiction	45	Montgomery	Lucy Maud	Anne of the Green Gables	1942				
Fiction	84	Shelley	Mary	Frankenstein	1851				
Fiction	33	Hawthorne	Nathaniel	The Scarlet Letter	1864				
Fiction	73	Crane	Stephen	The Red Badge of Courage	1900				
Fiction	27	Hardy	Thomas	Far from the Madding Crowd	1928				
Fiction	135	Hugo	Victor	Les MisŽrables	1885				
Fiction	1245	Woolf	Virginia	Night and Day	1941				
Fiction	599	Thackeray	William Makepeace	Vanity Fair	1863				
History	18	Hamilton	Alexander	Federalist Papers	1826				
History	816	de Tocqueville	Alexis	Democracy in America	1859	Reeve	Henry	1895	
History	25717 731 732 733 734 735 736 890 891 892 893 894 895	Gibbon	Edward	The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire	1974				
History	5199	Shackleton	Ernest	South!	1922				
History	23	Douglass	Frederick	The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass	1895				
Horror	345	Stoker	Bram	Dracula	1912				
Horror	41	Irving	Washington	The Legend of Sleepy Hollow	1859				
Humor	972	Bierce	Ambrose	The Devil's Dictionary	1914				
Humor	308	Jerome	Jerome K.	Three Men in a Boat	1927				
Humor	74	Twain	Mark	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	1911				
Humor	86	Twain	Mark	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court	1910				
Humor	844	Wilde	Oscar	The Importance of Being Ernest	1900				
Humor	19942	Voltaire		Candide	1778				
Mathematics	201	Abbott	Edwin	Flatland	1926				
Mystery	1661	Doyle	Arthur Conan	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	1930				
Non-fiction	575	Bacon	Francis	The Essays of Francis Bacon	1626				
Non-fiction	1717	Chesterton	G.K.	What's Wrong with the World	1936				
Non-fiction	205	Thoreau	Henry David	"Walden, and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"	1862				
Non-fiction	769	Okakura	Kakuzo	The Book of Tea	1913				
Non-fiction	61	Marx	Karl	Communist Manifesto	1883				
Non-fiction	16643	Emerson	Ralph Waldo	Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson	1882				
Non-fiction	4200	Pepys	Samuel	The Diary of Samuel Pepys	1703				
Non-fiction	3755	Paine	Thomas	Common Sense	1809				
Poetry	8800	Alighieri	Dante	"The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated"	1321				Note: multi-file HTML
Poetry	19	Longfellow	Henry Wadsworth	Song of Hiawatha	1882				
Poetry	20	Milton	John	Paradise Lost	1674				
Poetry	11101	Coleridge	Samuel Taylor	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	1834				
Poetry	38877	Yeats	W.B.	Poems	1939				
Poetry	1322	Whitman	Walt	Leaves of Grass	1892				
Poetry	16328	Anonymous		Beowulf	1928				
Reference	10681	Roget	Peter Mark	Roget's Thesaurus	1869				
Reference	1			Declaration of Independence					
Reference	2			Bill of Rights					
Reference	4938			U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses					
Religion	17	Smith	Joseph	Book of Mormon	1844				
Religion	274	Luther	Martin	Martin Luther's 95 Theses	1546				
Religion	10	Anonymous		"The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version"					
Religion	7145			Egyptian Book of the Dead		Budge	E. A. Wallis	1934	
Religion	2388			"The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-G”t‰"		Arnold	Edwin	1904	
Science	944	Darwin	Charles	Voyage of the Beagle	1882				
Science	59	Descartes	RenŽ	Discourse on Method	1650				
Theatre	5333	Jonson	Ben	Every Man in his Humor	1637				
Western	1300	Grey	Zane	Riders of the Purple Sage					Syndicate author
									
									
Criteria	Life+70								
	English only								
	One item per author								
	"If the item is part of a set, I included the set (for example, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)"								
	"When there are multiple versions, I usually chose the one with the better HTML and images"								
	Original publication before 1923								
	"Death dates of authors, illustrators & translators: prior to 1944 (life+70)"								
	World copyright guidelines: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd								
									
Some notable exclusions									
	"Sun Tzu, The Art of War"	Translator death date							
	"Marcel Proust, Rememberance of Times Past"	Translator death date							
	HG Wells	Author Death Date							
	Einstein	Author death date							
	Machievelli's The Prince	Translator death date							
	Peter Pan	Copyright exception in the UK

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