Into the twentieth century
Written from 1901 on.
- GraustarkGrenfall Lorry, an American, falls in love with a young woman traveling under the name Miss Guggenslocker after helping her catch a train.
- Up from SlaveryBorn enslaved on a Virginia plantation, Booker T. Washington seeks an education and a way to help other Black Americans achieve lasting independence.
- Brewster's MillionsOn his twenty-fifth birthday, Montgomery “Monty” Brewster inherits a million dollars from his grandfather and leaves his bank job.
- Beverly of GraustarkBeverly Calhoun, an independent young American and friend of Princess Yetive of Graustark, travels to visit her despite threatened war.
- FrecklesFreckles, a lonely young man with one hand and no family history he considers his own, asks McLean for work guarding timber in the Limberlost swamp.
- A Little PrincessSeven-year-old Sara Crewe leaves India with her devoted father, Captain Ralph Crewe, to attend Miss Minchin's school in London.
- I Will RepayDuring the French Terror, Paul Déroulède, a revolutionary trusted by the people, shelters Juliette de Marny from a mob.
- Anne of Green GablesMatthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister living at Green Gables in Avonlea, arrange to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew farm.
- A Room with a ViewLucy Honeychurch travels to Florence with her older cousin Charlotte Bartlett.
- A Girl of the LimberlostElnora Comstock wants an education and a life beyond her impoverished home near the Limberlost swamp.
- Initials OnlyEdith Challoner dies suddenly in a hotel lobby from a wound near her heart.
- Daddy-Long-LegsJerusha Abbott grows up in the John Grier Home, an orphanage, and longs for life beyond it.
- GreenmantleDuring the First World War, Sir Walter Bullivant sends Richard Hannay to investigate a German scheme to stir up a Muslim holy war against Britain and its allies.
- Uneasy MoneyLord Dawlish, known as Bill, wants to marry Claire Fenwick, but she demands that he make money and resents his refusal to profit dishonestly.
- Anne's House of DreamsAnne Shirley marries Gilbert Blythe and leaves Green Gables for a small rented house near Four Winds Harbor, where Gilbert begins practicing medicine.
- A Damsel in DistressMaud Marsh wants to marry Geoffrey Raymond despite the opposition of her aunt, Lady Caroline, and her brother Percy, Lord Belpher.
- Exit BettyBetty Stanhope escapes her wedding after discovering that Herbert Hutton, whom she fears, has replaced his older brother Bessemer as the bridegroom.
- Castles in the AirHector Ratichon recounts his police work and schemes to make money, assisted and frequently outwitted by his clerk Theodore, whom he rescued from poverty.
- Her Father's DaughterLinda Strong, a California schoolgirl devoted to her late father, wants fair control of her inheritance and freedom to develop her talents.
- Captain BloodPeter Blood, a physician who has stayed out of Monmouth’s rebellion, is condemned for treason after treating a wounded rebel.
- Charles RexCharles Saltash, a restless aristocrat with a dubious reputation, shelters Toby, a frightened young servant fleeing mistreatment at Valrosa.
- HuntingtowerDickson McCunn, a newly retired provision merchant, sets out on a Scottish walking holiday, hoping to enjoy his freedom.
- BeauvalletSir Nicholas Beauvallet, an English privateer, captures a Spanish galleon carrying Don Manuel and his daughter, Dominica.
