Using a cutoff date of pre-twentieth century:

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
• Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• Edgar Allan Poe's short stories
• A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
• The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• the Sherlock Holmes stories and novels