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Is Project Gutenberg the digital equivalent the Muncie Public Library, circa What Middletown Read? If we wanted to read what Middletown read, could we?

We went through a list of the top 300 titles checked out of the Muncie Public Library in the 1890's. We found 132 of them on Project Gutenberg.

Alcott, Louisa May Eight Cousins
Alcott, Louisa May An Old fashioned Girl
Alcott, Louisa May Jack and Jill
Alcott, Louisa May Jos Boys
Alcott, Louisa May Little Men
Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
Alcott, Louisa May Rose in Bloom
Alcott, Louisa May Under the Lilacs
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey The Story of a Bad Boy
Alexander, Mrs. A Crooked Path
Alger, Horatio Ben the Luggage Boy
Alger, Horatio Bound to Rise
Alger, Horatio Helping Himself
Alger, Horatio Herbert Carters Legacy
Alger, Horatio Ragged Dick
Alger, Horatio Sams Chance
Alger, Horatio Slow and Sure
Alger, Horatio The Young Adventurer
Alger, Horatio The Young Explorer
Alger, Horatio The Young Outlaw
Alger, Horatio Try and Trust
Alger, Horatio Wait and Hope
Alger, Horatio Fame and Fortune
Alger, Horatio Jacks Ward
Alger, Horatio Paul the Peddler
Alger, Horatio Phil the Fiddler
Alger, Horatio The Telegraph Boy
Alger, Horatio The Young Miner
Alger, Horatio Bens Nugget
Ballantyne, R. M. The Gorilla Hunters
Barrie, J.M. The Little Minister
Braeme, Charlotte M. Dora Thorne
Buerstenbinder, Elisabeth (E. Werner) The Alpine Fay
Burnett, Frances Hodgson Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances Hodgson Louisiana
Burnett, Frances Hodgson A Fair Barbarian
Caine, Hall The Christian
Carey, Rosa Nouchette Not Like Other Girls
Carey, Rosa Nouchette Doctor Luttrells First Patient
Carey, Rosa Nouchette Uncle Max
Castlemon, Harry Frank on the Lower Mississippi
Castlemon, Harry Frank on a Gun Boat
Castlemon, Harry George at the Fort
Castlemon, Harry Marcy The Blockade Runner
Castlemon, Harry Marcy The Refugee
Castlemon, Harry Rodney The Partisan
Castlemon, Harry The Boy Trapper
Castlemon, Harry True To His Colors
Churchill, Winston Richard Carvel Complete
Clemens, Samuel (Mark Twain) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Complete
Coffin, Charles Carleton Winning His Way
Coolidge, Susan A Little Country Girl
Coolidge, Susan Eyebright
Coolidge, Susan What Katy Did
Corelli, Marie Thelma
Crawford, F. Marion Casa Braccio Volumes 1 and 2 of 2
Crawford, F. Marion Marion Darche
Crawford, F. Marion Taquisara
Crawford, F. Marion Via Crucis
Crockett, S. R. The Lilac Sunbonnet
Davis, Richard Harding Soldiers of Fortune
Davis, Richard Harding The Princess Aline
Dodge, Mary Mapes Donald and Dorothy
Ellis, Edward Sylvester Camp fire and Wigwam
Finley, Martha Christmas with Grandma Elsie
Finley, Martha Elsie at Nantucket
Finley, Martha Elsie at Viamede
Finley, Martha Elsie Dinsmore
Finley, Martha Elsies children
Finley, Martha Elsies Girlhood
Finley, Martha Elsies Kith and Kin
Finley, Martha Elsies Motherhood
Finley, Martha Elsies New Relations
Finley, Martha Elsies Vacation and After Events
Finley, Martha Elsies Widowhood
Finley, Martha Elsies Womanhood
Finley, Martha Grandmother Elsie
Finley, Martha Holidays at Roselands
Finley, Martha The Two Elsies
Ford, Paul Leicester Janice Meredith
Ford, Paul Leicester The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
Ford, Paul Leicester The Story of an Untold Love
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Jerome A Poor Man
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Pembroke
Holmes, Mary Jane Lena Rivers
Holmes, Mary Jane Tempest and Sunshine
Holmes, Mary Jane Ethelyns Mistake
Hope, Anthony Rupert of Hentzau
Hope, Anthony The Prisoner of Zenda
Jackson, Helen Hunt Ramona
Johnston, Mary To Have and To Hold
King, Charles A War Time Wooing
Major, Charles When Knighthood Was in Flower
Meade, L. T. A World of Girls
Meade, L. T. Polly
Meade, L. T. A Sweet Girl Graduate
Meade, L. T. The Palace Beautiful
Mitchell, S. Weir Hugh Wynne Free Quaker
Munroe, Kirk Raftmates
Reade, Charles Hard Cash
Roe, E.P. A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century
Roe, E.P. An Original Belle
Roe, E.P. Barriers Burned Away
Roe, E.P. Driven Back to Eden
Roe, E.P. From Jest to Earnest
Roe, E.P. His Sombre Rivals
Roe, E.P. Natures Serial Story
Roe, E.P. The Earth Trembled
Roe, E.P. He Fell in Love with His Wife
Roe, E.P. Opening a Chestnut Burr
Schubin, Ossip Erlach Court
Schubin, Ossip O Thou My Austria!
Sidney, Margaret Five Little Peppers And How They Grew
Sidney, Margaret Five Little Peppers Grown Up
Sidney, Margaret Five Little Peppers Midway
Stockton, Frank R. The Casting Away of Mrs Lecks and Mrs Aleshine
Streckfuss, Adolph Castle Hohenwald
Tarkington, Booth The Gentleman From Indiana
Trowbridge, J. T. The Young Surveyor
von Hillern, Wilhelmine Only a Girl
Voynich, E. L. The Gadfly
Wallace, Lew The Prince of India Volume 1
Wallace, Lew The Prince of India Volume 2
Ward, Mrs. Humphry Marcella
Warner, Susan The Wide Wide World
Westcott, Edward Noyes David Harum
Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans At the Mercy of Tiberius
Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans St Elmo
Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans Infelice
Wilson, Augusta Jane Evans The Project Gutenberg eBook of Macaria
Wood, Mrs. Henry Verners Pride
Yonge, Charlotte M. The Heir of Redclyffe