This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your iPad/iPhone (purchase), Kindle (purchase), Nook (purchase) or other devices. It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. To learn how to load books to your Kindle using the links below, please watch this video. This other video explains how to upload epub files to a Nook. Calibre (free software) also offers a handy way to load ebooks to e-readers.
- Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound
- Aesop - Aesop’s Fables
- Andersen, Hans Christian - Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Anonymous - Beowulf
- Anonymous - The Arabian Nights
- Aristophanes - The Clouds
- Arnold, Matthew - Culture and Anarchy
- Aristotle - Politics
- Asimov, Isaac - “Youth”
- Aurelius, Marcus - Meditations
- Austen, Jane - Emma
- Austen, Jane – Lady Susan
- Austen, Jane - Love and Friendship
- Austen, Jane - Mansfield Park
- Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey
- Austen, Jane - Persuasion
- Austen, Jane - Pride & Prejudice
- Austen, Jane - Sense & Sensibility
- Balzac, Honoré de - Le Père Goriot
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal (in French)
- Baudelaire, Charles - Les Fleurs du Mal (in English)
- Baudelaire, Charles - The Generous Gambler
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- Barrie, JM- Peter Pan
- Baum, L. Frank - The Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot
- Bergerac, Cyrano de – Voyage to the Moon
- Blake, William - Selected Poems
- Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
- Buchan, John - The Thirty Nine Steps
- Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Burke, Edmund - On the Sublime and Beautiful
- Burckhardt, Jacob- The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
- Burroughs, Edgar Rice - A Princess of Mars
- Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland
- Carver, Raymond - “Cathedral”
- Cervantes - Don Quixote
- iPad/iPhone (Vol 1 – Vol 2) – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online
- Chandler, Raymond - “The Simple Art of Murder”
- Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
- Chekhov, Anton - Plays
- Chekhov, Anton - The Kiss
- Chekhov, Anton - The Lady with the Dog
- Chekhov, Anton - The Chorus Girl and Other Stories (by Constance Garnett)
- Chekhov, Anton - Uncle Vanya
- Chopin, Kate - The Awakening
- Christie, Agatha - The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Christie, Agatha - The Secret Adversary
- Cicero – Orations
- Coelho, Paulo - The Way of the Bow
- Coelho, Paulo - Warrior of the Light
- Coelho, Paulo - Assorted Texts (in different languages)
- Coleridge, Samuel - Ancient Mariner and Select Poems
- Conrad, Joseph - Lord Jim
- Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
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- Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent
- Conrad, Joseph - Victory
- Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante - The Divine Comedy
- Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species
- Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
- Descartes, Rene - Discourse on the Method
- Dewey, John - Democracy & Education
- Dick, Philip K - “Beyond the Door”
- Dick, Philip K -”Beyond Lies the Wub”
- Dick, Philip K - “Mr. Spaceship”
- Dick, Philip K - “Piper in the Woods”
- Dick, Philip K- “Second Variety”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Crystal Crypt”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Defenders”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Eyes Have It”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Gun”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Hanging Stranger”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Skull”
- Dick, Philip K - “The Variable Man”
- Dick, Philip K - ”Tony and the Beetles”
- Dick, Philip K - ”We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”
- Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles - Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles - Hard Times
- Dickens, Charles - Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist
- Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend
- Dickinson, Emily - Poems
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - A Raw Youth (Translated by Constance Garnett)
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot
- Dostoevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed
- Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Doyle, Arthur Conan - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Doyle, Arthur Conan- The Complete Sherlock Holmes
- Dreiser, Theodore - An American Tragedy
- Dreiser, Theodore - Sister Carrie
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Count of Monte Cristo
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Man in the Iron Mask
- Dumas, Alexandre - The Three Musketeers
- Charles, Eliot - The Harvard Classics (51 Volumes)
- Eliot, George - Daniel Deronda
- Eliot, George - Middlemarch
- Eliot, George - Silas Marner
- Eliot, TS - Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry by T. S. Eliot
- Eliot, TS - Poems (Including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)
- Eliot, TS - The Waste Land
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Essays
- Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
- Euripides - Medea
- Faulkner, William - The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Collected Stories
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Flappers and Philosophers
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tales of the Jazz Age
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - Tender is the Night
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott - This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary
- Flaubert, Gustave - Salammbo
- Ford, Madox Ford - The Good Soldier
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View
- Forster, E.M. - Howards End
- Forster, E.M. - The Machine Stops
- Foucault, Michel - Die Ordnung des Diskurses
- Franklin, Benjamin - Autobiography
- Freud, Sigmund - Dream Psychology
- Freud, Sigmund - Leonardo da Vinci
- Freud, Sigmund - Interpretation of Dreams
- Freud, Sigmund - Moses And Monotheism
- Frost, Robert - A Boy’s Life
- Gaiman, Neil – “A Study in Emerald”
- Gaiman, Neil - “Bitter Grounds”
- Gaiman, Neil - “Cinnamon”
- Gaiman, Neil - “I Cthulhu”
- Gaiman, Neil - “The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds”
- Gaiman, Neil - “The Day the Saucers Came”
- Gaiman, Neil – The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains
- Gibbon, Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire
- Goethe – Faust
- Gogol, Nikolai - The Dead Souls
- Gogol, Nikolai - The Nose
- Grimm Brothers - Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- Harbou, Thea von – Metropolis
- Hardy, Thomas - Collected Stories
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The House of the Seven Gables
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
- Hegel, GWF -The Phenomenology of the Spirit
- Hemingway, Ernest - The First Forty Nine Stories
- Hemingway, Ernest - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- Hayek, Friedrich - The Use of Knowledge in Society
- Heidegger, Martin, Being in Time
- Herodotus, The History of Herodotus V. 1 (Macaulay translation)
- Herodotus, The History of Herodotus V. 2 (Macaulay translation)
- Hesse, Hermann - Siddhartha
- Hobbes, Thomas - Leviathan
- Homer - The Iliad
- Homer - The Odyssey
- Hughes, Langston and Hurston, Zora Neale - The Mule Bone
- Hugo, Victor - Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, Victor - Les Miserables
- Hume, David - A Treatise of Human Nature
- Hume, David - Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
- Hume, David - Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Poker
- Hurston, Zora Neale - Three Plays (Lawing and Jawing; Forty Yards; Woofing)
- Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World
- Ibsen, Henrik - A Doll’s House
- Ibsen, Henrik - An Enemy of the People
- Ibsen, Henrik - Hedda Gabler
- Ibsen, Henrik - Peer Gynt
- Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- James, Henry - The Ambassadors
- James, Henry - The Wings of the Dove
- iPad/iPhone Vol 1. and Vol. 2 – Read Online - Kindle + Other Formats
- James, Henry - Turn of the Screw
- James, William - Pragmatism
- James, William - Varieties of Religious Experience
- Joyce, James - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Joyce, James - Chamber Music
- Joyce, James - Dubliners
- Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake
- Joyce, James - Ulysses
- Kafka, Franz - “A Hunger Artist”
- Kafka, Franz - “In the Penal Colony”
- Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis
- Kafka, Franz - The Trial
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Judgement
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Practical Reason
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason
- Kant, Immanuel - Perpetual Peace
- Kant, Immanuel - What is Enlightenment?
- Keynes, John Maynard - Economic Consequences of the Peace
- Keats, John - The Poems of John Keats
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats
- Keynes, John Maynard - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- Kipling, Rudyard - Just So Stories for Little Children
- Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
- Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Book
- Lawrence, D.H - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D.H. – Women in Love
- LeRoux, Gaston – Phantom of the Opera
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude - Tristes tropiques
- Lewis, Sinclair - Babbitt
- Locke, John - Two Treatises of Government
- London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
- London, Jack - White Fang
- Lovecraft, HP - Collected Stories
- Lovecraft, HP – Supernatural Horror in Literature
- Lovecraft, HP – Free Complete, Works of H.P. Lovecraft
- Lucretius - On the Nature of the Things
- Machiavelli, Niccolò - The Prince
- Madison, Hamilton & Jay - The Federalist Papers -
- Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto
- Marx, Karl - The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
- Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the Wind
- Melville, Herman - Billy Budd
- iPad/iPhone - Text – ZIP
- Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
- Mill, John Stuart - On Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart- On Liberty
- Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism
- Milton, John - Paradise Lost
- Milton, John - The Poetical World
- Mitchell, Margaret - Gone With the Wind
- Molière - Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
- Molière - Tartuffe
- Montesquieu - The Persian Letters
- Montesquieu - The Spirit of the Laws
- More, Thomas - Utopia
- Nabokov, Vladimir - “Cloud, Castle, Lake”
- Nabokov, Vladimir - “The Aurelian”
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich- Ecce Homo
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Homer and Classical Philology
- Nietzsche, Freidrich - Human, All Too Human
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Anti Christ
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Case Against Wagner
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - The Gay Science
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spake Zarathustra
- O’Neill, Eugene - Anna Christie
- O’Neill, Eugene - Beyond the Horizon
- O’Neill, Eugene - The Hairy Ape
- O’Neill, Eugene - The Iceman Cometh
- Orwell, George - 1984
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm
- Orwell, George - Collected Essays
- Orwell, George - Down and Out in Paris and London
- Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia
- Orwell, George - Politics and the English Language
- Orwell, George - Looking Back on the Spanish war
- Orwell, George – Rudyard Kipling
- Paine, Thomas - Common Sense
- Paine, Thomas - Rights of Man
- Plato -Symposium
- Plato - The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato
- Plato - The Republic
- Plutarch - Lives
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Complete Poetical Works
- Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven
- Potter, Beatrix – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online
- Pound, Ezra - Cathay
- Pound, Ezra - Pavannes and Divisions
- Proust, Marcel - Swann’s Way
- Proust, Marcel - Within a Budding Grove
- Proust, Marcel - The Guermantes Way
- Proust, Marcel - Cities on the Plain
- Proust, Marcel - The Captive
- Proust, Marcel - The Sweet Cheat Gone
- Proust, Marcel - Time Regained
- Rand, Ayn - Anthem
- Reed, John
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Confessions
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - The Social Contract & Discourses
- Russell, Bertrand - Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand - Political Ideals
- Russell, Bertrand - The Problems of Philosophy
- Russell, Bertrand - Western Philosophy
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - Existentialism Is a Humanism
- Scott, Sir Walter - Ivanhoe
- Seneca- On Benefits
- Shackleton, Ernest - South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition
- Shakespeare, William - The Complete Works
- Shakespeare, William - A Midsummer’s Night Dream
- Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William - Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare, William - Macbeth
- Shakespeare, William - Othello
- Shakespeare, William - Romeo & Juliet
- Shakespeare, William - The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare, William - The Taming of the Shrew
- Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
- Sinclair, Upton - The Jungle
- Smith, Adam - The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- Smith, Adam - The Wealth of Nations
- Sophocles - Antigone
- Sophocles - Oedipus the King
- Sophocles - Oedipus Rex
- Sophocles - Oedipus Trilogy -
- Spenser, Edmund - The Faerie Queene
- Stein, Gertrude - Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
- Stein, Gertrude - Tender Buttons
- Stein, Gertrude - Three Lives : stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena
- Stein, Gertrude - The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
- Stendhal - The Red and the Black
- French: Kindle + Other Formats
- English: Read Online
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Olalla
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
- Stoker, Bram - Dracula
- Stoker, Bram – The Mystery of the Sea
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher - Uncle Tom’s Cabin
- Suetonius - The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- Sun Tzu - The Art of War
- Swift, Jonathan - A Tale of the Tub
- Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver’s Travels
- Thoreau, Henry David - Walden
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America Vol 1.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de - Democracy in America Vol 2.
- Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
- Tolstoy, Leo - The Pathways of Life (aka Wise Thoughts for Every Day)
- Tolstoy, Leo - War and Peace
- Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live by and Other Tales
- Trollope, Anthony - The Life of Cicero
- Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich - Fathers and Children
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Twain, Mark - The $30,000 Bequest
- Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper
- Vatsyayana - The Kama Sutra
- Veblen, Thorstein - The Theory of the Leisure Class
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats - Read Online
- Verne, Jules - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Verne, Jules - Around the World in 80 Days -
- Verne, Jules - A Journey into the Center of the Earth
- Voltaire - Candide
- Virgil - The Aeneid
- Vonnegut, Kurt - 2 B R O 2 B
- Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder
- Wallace, David Foster - “9/11: The View From the Midwest”
- Wallace, David Foster - “All That”
- Wallace, David Foster - “An Interval”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Asset”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Backbone”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Consider the Lobster”
- Wallace, David Foster - “David Lynch Keeps His Head”
- Wallace, David Foster - “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Everything is Green”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Federer as Religious Experience”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Good People”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Host”
- Wallace, David Foster- “Incarnations of Burned Children”
- Wallace, David Foster - Little Expressionless Animals
- Wallace, David Foster - “Several Birds”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of aluxury cruise”
- Wallace, David Foster - “The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub”
- Wallace, David Foster - “The String Theory”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Ticket to the Fair”
- Wallace, David Foster - “Wiggle Room”
- Weber, Max- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- Wells, H.G. - The Invisible Man
- Wells, H.G.- The Island of Dr. Moreau
- Wells, H.G. - The Time Machine
- Wells, H.G. - The War of the Worlds
- Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence
- Whitman, Walt - Leaves of Grass
- Wilde, Oscar - Picture of Dorian Gray
- Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- Woolf, Virgina - A Room of One’s Own
- Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway
- Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse
- Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out
- Wordsworth, William - Lyrical Ballads, with other poems
- Yeats, William Butler - Collected Poems
- Zola, Émile - Germinal
- Zola, Émile - Therese Raquin
Assorted Texts
- Assortment of Classic Books for Kids – Read Online
- 65 Modern Art Books by the Guggenheim - Read Online
- Baldwin, Frederick - Dear Monsieur Picasso – PDF
- Boon, Marcus - In Praise of Copying – PDF
- Chomsky, Noam and Edward Herman – Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam - Deterring Democracy – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture, Boston: South End Press, 1993. – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam – Year 501: The Conquest Continues – Read Online
- Chomsky, Noam - Secrets, Lies and Democracy – Read Online
- Brand, Stewart – The Whole Earth Catalog – Read Online
- Doctorow, Cory - I, Robot – Kindle + Other Formats
- Doctorow, Cory – With a Little Help – Kindle + Other Formats
- Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Read Online
- Kamenetz, Anya – The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential – Kindle + Other Formats
- Lessig, Lawrence - The Future of Ideas – PDF
- Lethem, Jonathan – The Empty Room – Read Online
- Rucker, Rudy – The Ware Tetralogy – D0wnload
- Scroggy, David – The Blade Runner Sketchbook: The Art of Syd Mead and Ridley Scott – Read Online
- Wright, Erik Olin – Selected Writings – Read Online
- The Beatles – Yellow Submarine – iPad
This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily Beast, Computer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker
