Project Gutenberg - Real world books for your Sims!

July 26, 2022: v2.0 - now with 400 books!

Hi everyone! If you (and/or your Sims) like books, look no further, this is the mod for you!

What's Project Guteberg?

Project Gutenberg is named after Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced book printing with movable type in Europe. This is an online library of thousands of free eBooks in the public domain. This was one of the first digital libraries available on the Internet.

And now, your Sims can have access to some of the finest books ever written! From Plato to Michael Crichton, from William Shakespeare to Jules Verne. More than 400 books are available for your Sims. Each book comes with a quote. Prices were taken from Amazon (or invented for a few of them).

Please note: This mod is available in English and French.


Requirements

All these books are clones of base game items, meaning that you don't need any expansion or game pack. They've been modded that way, so anyone can enjoy those books in their game.


So what's in it?

The list of books is available below. Careful, this is a long list.



How to get these books in my game?

You can buy all these books from a bookshelf or bookcase. As they are copies of game objects, they will not show up in any bookshelf or library by default. You'll have to purchase them first.

How about book genres?

All the books are split into seven genres in game: Children, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Poetry, Non Fiction. I wish I could add additional genres but I have no idea how to do that. As a result, theatre plays are under poetry and drama novels under Non Fiction. If anyone knows how to add other genres, please let me know! I'd love to be able to do that but my programming skills are very bad.


Will it impact my framerate?

The mod works really well on my (old) PC. However, if there are too many books (or if you don't want several of these books), you are free to remove them from your mod folder.


I want MOAR books!

Slowly working on that. I have a full-day job and only play TS4 once and a while, so updates might not be frequent, but I'll do my best. I will first focus on adding more Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller/Mystery and (gulp) Romance books.

Filename	Type	Size
Project Gutenberg.zip	zip
2001 A Space Odyssey.package	package	35287
A Bridge Too Far.package	package	34562
A Christmas Carol.package	package	35743
A Game of Thrones.package	package	35183
A Hazard of Hearts.package	package	35216
A Passage to India.package	package	34915
A Streetcar Named Desire.package	package	35257
A Study in Scarlet.package	package	35148
A Tale of Two Cities.package	package	33788
A Time to Kill.package	package	35375
A True Story.package	package	35933
Aeneid.package	package	35305
Alices Adventures in Wonderland.package	package	34831
American Gods.package	package	35096
And Then There Were None.package	package	34660
Animal Farm.package	package	34495
Anna Karenina.package	package	33955
Anne of Green Gables.package	package	34944
Around the World in Eighty Days.package	package	33815
Ashes Ashes.package	package	37597
At the Mountains of Madness.package	package	36961
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.package	package	35057
Azul.package	package	35645
Back to the Future.package	package	35010
Bel Ami.package	package	36077
Beyond Good and Evil.package	package	34864
Bibliotheca.package	package	35927
Black Beauty.package	package	35980
Black Hills.package	package	36169
Book of Prophecies.package	package	35879
Brave New World.package	package	39216
Bridge of Spies.package	package	35397
Bridget Jones Diary.package	package	35315
Bring the Jubilee.package	package	35433
Brokeback Mountain.package	package	37051
Candide.package	package	34885
Capital.package	package	35321
Carrie.package	package	35171
Casino Royale.package	package	34571
Catch 22.package	package	34202
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.package	package	35347
Childhoods End.package	package	37388
Christine.package	package	34312
Civil Disobedience.package	package	35182
Common Sense.package	package	35834
Conan the Barbarian.package	package	34947
Confessions.package	package	36591
Contact.package	package	34346
Crime and Punishment.package	package	35511
Cronica.package	package	34071
Cujo.package	package	34091
David Copperfield.package	package	35039
Death of a Salesman.package	package	35421
Death on the Nile.package	package	35518
Digenes Akritas.package	package	34246
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.package	package	34624
Doctor Zhivago.package	package	36376
Dolores Claiborne.package	package	34860
Don Quixote.package	package	34517
Dracula.package	package	34049
Dream of the Red Chamber.package	package	35658
Driving Miss Daisy.package	package	35109
Dune.package	package	35911
Encyclopedia.package	package	36187
Enders Game.package	package	35476
Essays in Idleness.package	package	35589
Evangeline.package	package	35107
Fables Aesop.package	package	33592
Fables of La Fontaine.package	package	34326
Fahrenheit 451.package	package	34920
Fairy Tales.package	package	36374
Far from the Madding Crowd.package	package	35250
Fatherland.package	package	35186
Faust.package	package	35290
Fifty Shades of Grey.package	package	35849
Fight Club.package	package	35228
Five on a Treasure Island.package	package	34978
Forrest Gump.package	package	35602
Foundation.package	package	34251
Frankenstein.package	package	36227
From Here to Eternity.package	package	34736
From Russia With Love.package	package	34779
From the Earth to the Moon.package	package	34610
Gargantua.package	package	34813
Geography.package	package	34659
Germinal.package	package	33538
Girart de Vienne.package	package	35529
Glitterland.package	package	34688
Goldfinger.package	package	33606
Gone Girl.package	package	34045
Gone with the Wind.package	package	35221
Gorky Park.package	package	34968
Great Expectations.package	package	34999
Grimms Fairy Tales.package	package	35315
Gullivers Travels.package	package	35531
Hamlet.package	package	34807
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.package	package	31317
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.package	package	32681
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.package	package	33834
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.package	package	31896
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.package	package	33610
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone.package	package	33192
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.package	package	32224
Heart of Darkness.package	package	34226
Heaven on Earth.package	package	42782
Heidi.package	package	34247
Heimskringla.package	package	36000
Hello Sadness.package	package	37352
Histories of Alexander the Great.package	package	33961
History of My Life.package	package	34728
History of the Kings of Britain.package	package	35466
How to Win Friends and Influence People.package	package	44223
Howls Moving Castle.package	package	36149
I am a Cat.package	package	34667
I Am Legend.package	package	34904
I Ching.package	package	33966
Il Canzoniere.package	package	35527
Iliad.package	package	35082
In Praise of Folly.package	package	35333
In Search of Lost Time.package	package	36828
Interview with a Vampire.package	package	35738
Into the Wild.package	package	35204
It Had to Be You.package	package	34671
It.package	package	34321
Jane Eyre.package	package	35445
Jaws.package	package	34271
John Donnes Poetry.package	package	37256
Journey to the Center of the Earth.package	package	35759
Journey to the West.package	package	35270
Julius Caesar.package	package	34474
Jurassic Park.package	package	34325
King Lear.package	package	34241
King Solomons Mines.package	package	34712
Kokin wakashu.package	package	34821
La Sagouine.package	package	36160
Lady Chatterleys Lover.package	package	34149
Lancelot.package	package	35957
Leaves of Grass.package	package	34312
Legend of the Galactic Heroes.package	package	37309
Les Amours de Cassandre.package	package	35578
Les Miserables.package	package	35521
Letters from a Stoic.package	package	34853
Leviathan.package	package	36198
Little House on the Prairie.package	package	34595
Little Women.package	package	34078
Live and Let Die.package	package	35002
Lord of Scoundrels.package	package	34293
Lord of the Flies.package	package	34407
Lysistrata.package	package	34768
Macbeth.package	package	34652
Madame Bovary.package	package	35168
Mahabharata.package	package	33628
Mans Search for Meaning.package	package	34211
Maria.package	package	36858
Martian Chronicles.package	package	37049
Martin Fierro.package	package	34940
Masnavi.package	package	34989
Meditations.package	package	33978
Message in a Bottle.package	package	35772
Metamorphoses.package	package	35267
Mine Till Midnight.package	package	34595
Misery.package	package	36299
Moby Dick.package	package	35949
Morning Glory.package	package	35738
Mrs Dalloway.package	package	35631
Murder on the Orient Express.package	package	35349
My Friend Flicka.package	package	37456
Never Let Me Go.package	package	35699
Nineteen Eighty-Four.package	package	33678
No Country for Old Men.package	package	36045
Nobodys Boy.package	package	34032
North and South.package	package	34862
Ode to Aphrodite.package	package	35357
Odyssey.package	package	34906
Oedipus Rex.package	package	36830
Oliver Twist.package	package	33524
On Nature.package	package	34366
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.package	package	36716
On the Shortness of Life.package	package	35351
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.package	package	35411
One Hundred Years of Solitude.package	package	34899
One Thousand and One Nights.package	package	34193
Opus Majus.package	package	34734
Outlander.package	package	35058
Pamela or Virtue Rewarded.package	package	35888
Paradise Lost.package	package	34205
Parallel Lives.package	package	35999
Peter Pan.package	package	34340
Planet of the Apes.package	package	35633
Poems of Emily Dickinson.package	package	34926
Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral.package	package	35033
Popol Vuh.package	package	34025
Portrait Of A Killer Jack The Ripper.package	package	34559
Postmortem.package	package	35213
Prey.package	package	34930
Pride and Prejudice.package	package	34946
PS I Love You.package	package	36513
Psycho.package	package	34128
Ramayana.package	package	35987
Ready Player One.package	package	36831
Rebellion.package	package	34272
Records of the Grand Historian.package	package	36050
Redeeming Love.package	package	34739
Replay.package	package	37047
Rhinoceros.package	package	33955
Rich Dad Poor Dad.package	package	44725
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.package	package	37445
Romeo and Juliet.package	package	35156
Rubaiyat.package	package	34625
Saul.package	package	34492
Schindlers Ark.package	package	34130
Second Treatise of Government.package	package	34672
Sense and Sensibility.package	package	34950
Sentimental Education.package	package	34757
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.package	package	44079
Shanna.package	package	34731
Shikasta.package	package	35244
Shutter Island.package	package	34385
Siddhartha.package	package	35672
Sidereal Messenger.package	package	34317
Solaris.package	package	35394
Song of the Nibelungs.package	package	35519
Songs of the South.package	package	35705
Story of a Mission to Constantinople.package	package	35759
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.package	package	35974
Stranger in a Strange Land.package	package	34907
Tales of Moonlight and Rain.package	package	34504
Tales of Mother Goose.package	package	35295
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.package	package	35560
The Adventures of Pinocchio.package	package	34173
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.package	package	35164
The Alchemist.package	package	33778
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl.package	package	34627
The Anabasis of Alexander.package	package	34176
The Andromeda Strain.package	package	35537
The Art of Racing in the Rain.package	package	28508
The Art of War.package	package	34533
The Artists Way.package	package	40002
The Black Cat.package	package	35969
The Black Company.package	package	35622
The Body in the Library.package	package	35620
The Bridge over the River Kwai.package	package	36241
The Call of Cthulhu.package	package	34412
The Canterbury Tales.package	package	35776
The Cat in the Hat.package	package	34207
The Catcher in the Rye.package	package	36350
The Cherry Orchard.package	package	35178
The Client.package	package	37604
The Color Purple.package	package	35659
The Colour from Out of Space.package	package	36257
The Complete Robot.package	package	36278
The Count of Monte Cristo.package	package	36278
The Da Vinci Code.package	package	33161
The Death of Arthur.package	package	35511
The Devil Wears Prada.package	package	36499
The Diary of a Young Girl.package	package	34818
The Divine Comedy.package	package	35158
The Dunwich Horror.package	package	37068
The Exorcist.package	package	34824
The Faerie Queene.package	package	34611
The Fall of the House of Usher.package	package	35745
The Fault In Our Stars.package	package	34681
The Female Flute-Player.package	package	34431
The Flowers of Evil.package	package	33772
The Four Hour Work Week.package	package	43974
The Frenzy of Orlando.package	package	34571
The Gallic Wars.package	package	33693
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.package	package	36733
The Giving Tree.package	package	34413
The Godfather.package	package	34534
The Golden Ass.package	package	36377
The Good Earth.package	package	34775
The Governess Affair.package	package	34652
The Government Inspector.package	package	33803
The Grapes of Wrath.package	package	34500
The Great Gatsby.package	package	36326
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.package	package	35444
The Gunslinger.package	package	33842
The Halloween Tree.package	package	34979
The Handmaids Tale.package	package	34179
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.package	package	37290
The Hobbit.package	package	35082
The Hound of the Baskervilles.package	package	34935
The Human Comedy.package	package	35732
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.package	package	35536
The Hunger Games Catching Fire.package	package	34783
The Hunger Games Mockingjay.package	package	34747
The Hunger Games.package	package	34251
The Hunt for Red October.package	package	35262
The Imaginary Invalid.package	package	34448
The Immortals.package	package	34912
The Invisible Man.package	package	34657
The Jungle Book.package	package	34074
The Langoliers.package	package	34212
The Last of the Mohicans.package	package	36191
The Life of Washington.package	package	34129
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.package	package	36077
The Little Match Girl.package	package	35335
The Little Prince.package	package	34402
The Lord of the Rings.package	package	35466
The Lost World.package	package	35619
The Love Suicides at Amijima.package	package	35332
The Lower Depths.package	package	34845
The Maltese Falcon.package	package	35072
The Man in the High Castle.package	package	35698
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.package	package	30404
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.package	package	34455
The Metamorphosis.package	package	34316
The Mist.package	package	34387
The Montauk Project Experiments in Time.package	package	36489
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.package	package	34526
The Murders in the Rue Morgue.package	package	35771
The Name of the Rose.package	package	34861
The Neverending Story.package	package	37211
The Notebook.package	package	36007
The Old Man and the Sea.package	package	35017
The One Who Conquered Time.package	package	34141
The Origin of Species.package	package	34594
The Phantom of the Opera.package	package	36292
The Picture of Dorian Gray.package	package	34425
The Plum in the Gold Vase.package	package	36155
The Power of Your Mind.package	package	44645
The Prince.package	package	35413
The Princess Bride.package	package	34193
The Prophecies.package	package	35439
The Prophet.package	package	34253
The Raven.package	package	36515
The Recognition of Shakuntala.package	package	35262
The Red and the Black.package	package	35646
The Red Badge of Courage.package	package	35316
The Reign of Greed.package	package	34084
The Remarkable Story of Chicken Little.package	package	34503
The Republic.package	package	34007
The Richest Man in Babylon.package	package	44224
The Robbers.package	package	36675
The Scarlet Letter.package	package	35347
The Secret Garden.package	package	34678
The Secret History of the Mongols.package	package	35326
The Seven Madmen.package	package	35741
The Shining.package	package	34812
The Sign of the Four.package	package	35308
The Silence of the Lambs.package	package	34630
The Silmarillion.package	package	35493
The Sirens of Titan.package	package	34585
The Six Companions of the Croix-Rousse.package	package	36541
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon.package	package	36735
The Social Contract.package	package	36655
The Song of Roland.package	package	35483
The Stand.package	package	35597
The State and Revolution.package	package	38600
The Stranger.package	package	34593
The Swiss Family Robinson.package	package	37532
The Sword of Truth.package	package	35444
The Tale of Genji.package	package	35425
The Tale of Peter Rabbit.package	package	34266
The Talented Mr Ripley.package	package	36754
The Taming of the Shrew.package	package	34473
The Theory of Relativity.package	package	35556
The Thin Red Line.package	package	34519
The Thirty-Nine Steps.package	package	34570
The Three Musketeers.package	package	33827
The Time Machine.package	package	36302
The Time Travelers Wife.package	package	35572
The Ugly Duckling.package	package	35825
The Very Hungry Caterpillar.package	package	34521
The Viscount Who Loved Me.package	package	36111
The War of the Worlds.package	package	35547
The Wealth of Nations.package	package	35194
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.package	package	34725
The Years of Rice and Salt.package	package	34997
The Yellow Wallpaper.package	package	34789
Theresa Raquin.package	package	34198
Things Fall Apart.package	package	36360
Think and Grow Rich.package	package	44470
Thus Spoke Zarathustra.package	package	35588
Tirant lo Blanch.package	package	34801
To Kill a Mockingbird.package	package	34683
Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.package	package	34691
Treasure Island.package	package	34945
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.package	package	35667
Twice Told Tales.package	package	36141
Twilight Breaking Dawn.package	package	34247
Twilight Eclipse.package	package	34848
Twilight New Moon.package	package	36484
Twilight.package	package	36001
Ulysses.package	package	33986
Uncle Remus His Songs and His Sayings.package	package	34321
Uncle Silas.package	package	36039
Uncle Toms Cabin.package	package	34811
Utopia.package	package	35899
Walden.package	package	35643
War and Peace.package	package	34631
Water Margin.package	package	35576
Westworld.package	package	33631
Winnie the Pooh.package	package	34397
Wuthering Heights.package	package	36109
Yesterdays Children.package	package	35392
ReadMe.txt	txt	15299

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