diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d5fcd8f..ae9f357 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 node_modules/
 build/
-tmp/
\ No newline at end of file
+tmp/
+books/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/downloadTop.js b/scripts/downloadTop.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07252d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/downloadTop.js
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+const fs = require('fs')
+const path = require('path')
+const axios = require('axios')
+
+const booksDir = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'books')
+
+function zip(...arrs) {
+  const resultLength = Math.min(...arrs.map(a => a.length))
+  return new Array(resultLength).fill(0).map((_, i) => arrs.map(a => a[i]))
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  const scoresPage = await axios
+    .get('https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top')
+    .then(res => res.data)
+  const top100listItems = scoresPage.match(/<li>.*<\/li>/g).slice(0, 100)
+
+  const ids = []
+  const titles = []
+
+  for (let listItem of top100listItems) {
+    const [, id, title] = listItem.match(/<a href="\/ebooks\/(.*?)">(.*?)<\/a>/)
+    ids.push(id)
+    titles.push(title)
+  }
+
+  for (let id of ids) {
+    fetchBook(id)
+      .then(text => writeBookToFile(id, text))
+      .catch(err => {
+        console.warn(err)
+      })
+  }
+
+  try {
+    fs.mkdirSync(booksDir)
+  } catch {}
+
+  const indexFilePath = path.join(booksDir, 'index.json')
+  const indexObj = Object.fromEntries(zip(ids, titles))
+  fs.writeFileSync(indexFilePath, JSON.stringify(indexObj, undefined, 2))
+}
+
+async function fetchBook(id) {
+  try {
+    return await axios
+      .get(`https://www.gutenberg.org/files/${id}/${id}-0.txt`)
+      .then(res => res.data)
+  } catch {}
+  try {
+    return await axios(`https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/${id}.txt.utf-8`).then(
+      res => res.data
+    )
+  } catch {}
+  throw Error(`Could not fetch book with id ${id}`)
+}
+
+function writeBookToFile(id, text) {
+  try {
+    fs.mkdirSync(booksDir)
+  } catch {}
+  const filepath = path.join(booksDir, `${id}.txt`)
+  fs.writeFileSync(filepath, text)
+}
+
+main()