GutenbergKG — Corpus Wishlist¶

Checklist of high-priority additions. Work in cross-genre batches — downloads are fast, ingest takes ~15 min on a fast Mac.

Format: - [ ] Title — Author (Gutenberg ID #NNNNN | IA) — check the box when downloaded + ingested.

Reconciled against the corpus 2026-09-02. Every checkbox here was compared to the Project Gutenberg ID recorded in each book's reference.md, which is the authoritative per-book record -- neither the catalog files nor the titles are reliable for this (books exist on disk that no catalog lists, and several IDs here were simply wrong, including #5765 given for three different books). 34 boxes were checked, 5 unchecked, 13 IDs corrected. gutenkg audit reports the corpus itself clean at 241 books; the drift was in this file alone.

Internet Archive: The entire IA corpus is not yet represented here. The gutenkg ia command handles IA downloads separately from Gutenberg. IA is the right source for: technical manuals (Audel, trade catalogues), out-of-print scientific monographs, periodicals, and government documents not on Gutenberg. An IA-focused wishlist section should be built out as a separate planning effort — see gutenkg ia survey for discovery.

Sacred Texts (verse-type — drives doc_kg verse heading work)¶

[x] The Bible — King James Version (#10)
[x] Quran — Rodwell translation (#2800) (wishlist said Yusuf Ali; the corpus holds Rodwell)
[x] The Dhammapada — Max Müller translation (in corpus; was never listed here)
[ ] The Torah / Tanakh — JPS 1917 translation (#1097) (not in corpus -- never downloaded)
[x] Bhagavad Gita — Edwin Arnold verse translation (#2388)
[x] Tao Te Ching — James Legge translation (#216)
[x] The Upanishads — Max Müller translation (#3283)
[x] The Analects of Confucius — James Legge translation (#4094)

Philosophy¶

[x] Nicomachean Ethics — Aristotle (#8438)
[x] Politics — Aristotle (#6762)
[x] Poetics — Aristotle (#1974)
[x] The Symposium — Plato (#1600)
[x] Apology — Plato (#1656)
[x] Phaedo — Plato (#1658)
[x] Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant (#4280)
[x] Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals — Kant (#5682)
[x] Meditations on First Philosophy — Descartes (#59) (download failed — retry)
[x] Discourse on Method — Descartes (downloaded as alternate Descartes)
[x] On Liberty — John Stuart Mill (#34901)
[x] Utilitarianism — John Stuart Mill (#11224)
[x] The Social Contract — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (#46333)
[x] The Art of War — Sun Tzu (#132)
[x] Essays (First & Second Series) — Ralph Waldo Emerson (#2944)
[x] The Problems of Philosophy — Bertrand Russell (#5827)
[x] On the Duty of Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau (#71)
[x] A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft (#3420)

Ancient & Classical¶

[x] Histories — Herodotus (#2707)
[x] History of the Peloponnesian War — Thucydides (#7142)
[x] Parallel Lives — Plutarch (#674)
[x] Metamorphoses — Ovid (#21765)
[x] The Clouds — Aristophanes (#2562)
[x] The Birds — Aristophanes (#3013)
[x] Oresteia — Aeschylus (#8714) (in corpus as The House of Atreus)
[x] Medea — Euripides (#35)
[ ] On Duties (De Officiis) — Cicero (#47001) (not in corpus -- never downloaded)
[x] On the Nature of Things — Lucretius (#785)
[x] The Consolation of Philosophy — Boethius (#14328)

American Literature¶

[x] Tales of Mystery and Imagination — Edgar Allan Poe (#2147)
[x] The Raven and Other Poems — Edgar Allan Poe (#17192)
[x] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass — Frederick Douglass (#23)
[x] The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B. Du Bois (#408)
[x] Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington (#2376)
[x] White Fang — Jack London (#910)
[x] The Sea-Wolf — Jack London (#1074)
[x] The Awakening — Kate Chopin (#160)
[x] The House of Mirth — Edith Wharton (#284)
[x] The Age of Innocence — Edith Wharton (#541)
[x] The Legend of Sleepy Hollow — Washington Irving (#41)
[x] The Jungle — Upton Sinclair (#140)
[x] My Ántonia — Willa Cather (#242)
[x] O Pioneers! — Willa Cather (#24)

English Literature¶

[x] Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Thomas Hardy (#110)
[x] Far from the Madding Crowd — Thomas Hardy (#107)
[x] Kim — Rudyard Kipling (#2226)
[x] The Jungle Book — Rudyard Kipling (#236)
[x] A Room with a View — E.M. Forster (#2641)
[x] Howards End — E.M. Forster (#2891)
[x] The Turn of the Screw — Henry James (#209)
[x] The Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (#432) (in corpus as Volumes 1 and 2, under their own IDs)
[x] The Man Who Was Thursday — G.K. Chesterton (#1695)
[x] Cranford — Elizabeth Gaskell (#394)
[x] North and South — Elizabeth Gaskell (#4276)
[x] The Mayor of Casterbridge — Thomas Hardy (#143)
[x] Vanity Fair — William Makepeace Thackeray (#599)
[x] David Copperfield — Charles Dickens (#766)
[x] Bleak House — Charles Dickens (#1023)

German Literature¶

[x] Faust (Part I) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (#2229)
[x] Faust (Part II) — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (#3233) (in corpus as Faust: Der Tragodie zweiter Teil -- German text)
[x] The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka (#5200)
[x] The Trial — Franz Kafka (#7849)
[x] Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse (#2500)

French Literature¶

[x] Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (#3748)
[x] Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne (#103)
[x] From the Earth to the Moon — Jules Verne (#83)
[x] The Hunchback of Notre-Dame — Victor Hugo (#2610)
[x] Germinal — Émile Zola (#56528)
[x] Nana — Émile Zola (#5250)

Russian & Eastern European Literature¶

[x] Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev (#30723)
[x] On the Eve — Ivan Turgenev (#6902)
[ ] The Overcoat — Nikolai Gogol (#1022) (not in corpus -- never downloaded)
[x] Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov (#54700)
[x] The Possessed (Demons) — Fyodor Dostoevsky (#8117)
[x] Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky (#600)
[x] Childhood, Boyhood, Youth — Leo Tolstoy (#2450)

World Literature¶

[x] One Thousand and One Nights — Lane translation (#128)
[x] Don Quixote Vol. II — Cervantes (#996) (Vol. I already in spanish genre)
[ ] The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio — Dante (#8799) (not in corpus; only Paradiso #8800 was ingested, as The Divine Comedy (Cary))
[x] The Divine Comedy: Paradiso — Dante (#8800)
[x] Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore (#7164)

Science Fiction (additions)¶

[ ] The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Poe (#2148) (Tales of Mystery already in american-literature)
[x] The Food of the Gods — H.G. Wells (#11696)
[ ] When the World Screamed — Arthur Conan Doyle (#2038) (not in corpus -- never downloaded)
[x] A Journey to Other Worlds — John Jacob Astor (#3935) (in corpus as A Journey in Other Worlds)
[x] Pellucidar — Edgar Rice Burroughs (#605)
[x] The Warlord of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs (#68)

Technical / Reference (Internet Archive — needs curation)¶

[ ] Audels Practical Electricity — Richey (IA: audels_practical_electricity)
[ ] Audels Electric Motors Guide (IA: audelsmotors)
[ ] Audels Radiomans Guide (IA: audelsradio)
[ ] Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide (IA: multiple volumes)

Audels Electric Library — 8 of 10 held (2026-09-02)¶

Consolidated here from ../ia_kg, which held 8 volumes to this repo's 2 and was the better copy. Re-downloaded rather than file-copied: the two repos share the same OCR/markdown code (clean_ocr, _is_heading, text_to_markdown and the rest are byte-identical between ia_kg/download_ia.py and gutenberg_kg/ia.py, verified by diffing both parses of Vol 1 -- 20,315 lines identical, only the title line differed), so the bytes match either way, but re-downloading routes through this repo's idempotence, catalog write-back and reference.md writer and does not depend on the two staying in sync.

All held volumes are the 1929 edition, public domain.

[x] Vols 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 (IA: audels-electric-library-vol-<n>)
[ ] Vol 5 — not in ia_kg either; needs an IA search
[ ] Vol 6 — not in ia_kg either; needs an IA search
[ ] ~~Audels New Electric Library Vol VIII (IA: audelsnewelectri008004mbp)~~ REMOVED 2026-09-02 — rights. A 1962 edition, not the 1929 set: no licence field, bulk universallibrary upload, so not safely public domain the way the 1929 volumes are. It was also the inferior copy of the same volume (25,241 lines against the 1929 scan's 36,611) and its IA title became a 100-character directory name. Replaced by audels-electric-library-vol-8.

Curation note: IA plain-text dumps have OCR garbage before the first real chapter heading and scattered artifact lines throughout. Strategy: strip everything before the first CHAPTER / PART match, then run a noise-filter pass on short garbled lines. Candidate for a dedicated --source ia --curate preprocessing flag in the download pipeline.

Fun & Curiosities (Internet Archive — new genre, e.g. `curiosities`)¶

Surfaced by an gutenkg ia search survey (2026-09-01). Genuine period pieces, not modern reprints, unless flagged. Not yet downloaded — parking here for later triage.

Rights checked against https://archive.org/metadata/<identifier> on 2026-09-02. Struck-through entries failed that check and must not be downloaded. An IA search hit's year is the edition scanned, not evidence the text is free — both rejections below looked like period pieces in search results.

[ ] ~~Xiccarph — Clark Ashton Smith, Ballantine Adult Fantasy ed. (IA: XiccarphClarkAshtonSmithLennySAMouse)~~ REJECTED — in copyright. A scan of the 1972 Ballantine paperback (cover art by Gervasio Gallardo), uploaded by a personal account to pulp_misc_sf. No licence or rights field. Smith died 1961, so life+70 runs to 2031 regardless of the edition. Use the Gutenberg substitutes below.
[ ] ~~Hollow Earth Tales (IA: hollow-earth-tales-free-e-book)~~ REJECTED — CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. A 2020 compilation by "Nighttime Editions" advertising their own six-volume paperback set. The ND (NoDerivatives) term is the blocker: chunking, embedding and serving excerpts is exactly the derivative use it forbids. NC conflicts with a public corpus too. Use the Gutenberg substitutes below.
[x] Miracle Mongers and Their Methods — Harry Houdini, 1920 (IA: MiracleMongersAndTheirMethodsByHarryHoudini) (rights OK — published 1920, US public domain; folkscanomy scan, full _djvu.txt present)
[ ] The Secrets of Stage Conjuring — Robert-Houdin, tr. Hoffmann, 1881 (IA: TheSecretsOfStageConjuring)
[ ] Struggles and Triumphs — P.T. Barnum, 1883 ed. (IA: strugglesandtri04barngoog)
[ ] A General History of the Pyrates — Capt. Charles Johnson, 1725 ed. (IA: bim_eighteenth-century_a-general-history-of-the_johnson-charles_1725)
[ ] A General History of the Pyrates — Capt. Charles Johnson, 1734 ed. (IA: bim_eighteenth-century_a-general-history-of-the_johnson-charles_1734)
[ ] The Chronicles of Crime, or the New Newgate Calendar, 1841 ed. (IA: chroniclescrime00pelhgoog)
[ ] The Chronicles of Crime, or the New Newgate Calendar, 1887 ed., vols. 1-2 (IA: chroniclesofcri01pelh, chroniclesofcri02pelh)
[ ] Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police, 1847 ed. (IA: memoirsofvidocqp02vidouoft)
[ ] The Book of Were-Wolves — Sabine Baring-Gould, 1865 (IA: bookofwerewolves0000sabi_u7b2)
[ ] Chambers' Book of Days — a day-by-day miscellany of antiquities & oddities, 1863-64 (IA: bookdaysamiscel00chamgoog) (verify a scan of the original text, not a padded reprint)
[ ] Spiritism and Common Sense, 1922 (IA: SpiritismAndCommonSense)
[ ] Nick Carter Strikes Oil — dime-novel detective pulp, 1912 (IA: nick-carter-strikes-oil-gunston-classics)
[ ] Nick Carter the Girl Kidnapper — dime-novel detective pulp, 1915 (IA: nick-carter-the-girl-kidnapper-by-nicholas-carter-gunston-classics)

Gutenberg substitutes for the two rejects¶

Both rejected IA items have clean public-domain equivalents on Gutenberg. The hollow-earth set is arguably the better holding anyway: the primary novels rather than one modern anthology of them.

Clark Ashton Smith — his pre-1931 verse is the only Smith that is actually free. IA carries no clean Smith at all (a search returns modern reference guides and an RPG module). Filed under american-literature: these are poetry collections, not horror fiction, so shelving them with Lovecraft would have mis-stated what they are. (Ingested to horror first, then moved 2026-09-02 via kgrag unregister -> mv -> gutenkg re-register.)

[x] Ebony and Crystal: Poems in Verse and Prose — Clark Ashton Smith, 1922 (#53333)
[x] The Star-Treader, and Other Poems — Clark Ashton Smith, 1912 (#38410)

Hollow earth — proposed genre science-fiction, where the corpus already holds Pellucidar; Journey to the Center of the Earth sits in french-literature.

[x] Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery — Captain Adam Seaborn, 1820 (#54485) (the founding hollow-earth novel)
[x] Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth — John Uri Lloyd, 1895 (#37775)
[x] The Coming Race — Bulwer-Lytton, 1871 (#1951) (subterranean race; coined "vril")

Letters & Correspondence (new genre — `gutenkg genres add letters`)¶

Epistolary works as a distinct genre from diaries; letter collections reveal personality and social context in ways essays cannot. Wide date range: Pliny (1st c. AD) → Keats (1820).

[x] Letters on England — Voltaire (#2445)
[x] Letters to His Son — Lord Chesterfield (#3352)
[x] Letters — Pliny the Younger (#2811)
[x] Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends (#35698)
[ ] Turkish Embassy Letters — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (#16287)
[ ] Letters of Charles Lamb (#1633)
[ ] Letters and Journals of Lord Byron (#19190)

Biography & Autobiography (new genre — `gutenkg genres add biography`)¶

First-person life narratives and major literary biographies; overlaps with diaries but distinct in retrospective authorial voice.

[x] Autobiography — Benjamin Franklin (#148)
[ ] Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (#7223)
[x] Autobiography — Benvenuto Cellini (#4028)
[x] Life of Samuel Johnson — James Boswell (#1564)
[x] Personal Memoirs — Ulysses S. Grant (#4367)
[x] The Education of Henry Adams (#2044)
[x] Confessions — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (#3913)
[x] Confessions — Saint Augustine (#3296) (also fits Sacred Texts)
[x] Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (#23) (also in american-literature)
[x] Up From Slavery — Booker T. Washington (#2376) (also in american-literature)
[x] Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl — Harriet Jacobs (#11030)

Natural History & Science (new genre — `gutenkg genres add natural-history`)¶

Pre-modern science writing; Darwin's prose is literary, Faraday's lectures are canonical, Wallace rivals Darwin. All pre-1928 on Gutenberg.

[x] On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin (#1228)
[x] The Descent of Man — Charles Darwin (#2300)
[x] The Voyage of the Beagle — Charles Darwin (#944)
[x] Autobiography — Charles Darwin (#2010)
[x] The Malay Archipelago — Alfred Russel Wallace (#2530)
[x] Man's Place in Nature — Thomas H. Huxley (#2931)
[x] The Chemical History of a Candle — Michael Faraday (#14474)
[ ] Principles of Geology (abridged) — Charles Lyell — verify ID
[ ] Kosmos Vol. I — Alexander von Humboldt — verify ID / IA

Travel Writing (new genre — `gutenkg genres add travel`)¶

Narrative journeys that shaped how the world was understood; blends with Natural History (Darwin, Wallace) but includes purely geographic/cultural works.

[x] The Travels of Marco Polo (#12410)
[x] A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains — Isabella Bird (#755)
[ ] Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa — Mungo Park (#4191)
[x] Two Years Before the Mast — Richard Henry Dana Jr. (#2055)
[x] The Innocents Abroad — Mark Twain (#3176)
[x] Typee — Herman Melville (#1900)
[ ] Voyages of Discovery — Captain James Cook — verify best Gutenberg edition

Drama (non-Shakespeare; new genre — `gutenkg genres add drama`)¶

Shakespeare has its own genre; this covers the rest of the Western dramatic canon: Greek tragedy (many already in Ancient & Classical), Jacobean, and modern European.

Already in Ancient & Classical (no re-ingest needed):¶

[x] Medea — Euripides (#35)
[x] Oresteia — Aeschylus (#8714) (in corpus as The House of Atreus)
[x] The Clouds / The Birds — Aristophanes

To add under `drama`:¶

[x] Doctor Faustus — Christopher Marlowe (#779)
[x] Tamburlaine the Great — Christopher Marlowe (#1094)
[x] The Duchess of Malfi — John Webster (#2232)
[x] A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen (#2542)
[x] Hedda Gabler — Henrik Ibsen (#4093)
[x] Pygmalion — George Bernard Shaw (#3825)
[x] Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw (#3790)
[ ] The Cherry Orchard — Anton Chekhov (#7984)
[x] The Seagull — Anton Chekhov (#1754)
[x] The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (#844)
[ ] The Playboy of the Western World — J.M. Synge (#5765) (verify ID)

Remaining Items¶

[x] Meditations on First Philosophy — Descartes (#59) — retry download
[x] Don Quixote Vol. II — Cervantes (#996)
[ ] Audel volumes (IA — needs curation tooling first)