250+ Places for Free Books Online

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Introduction
This is a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free
books (eBooks) for download or for online
viewing.
Some time ago I went looking for some free
eBooks and was surprised to find that there are
many resources for this. I decided to put
together this list of sites that offer free eBooks as
a reference. Since there are so many, I was not
able to check each one out thoroughly. So
comments from you on any of these sites would
be appreciated and added to the comments in
the article.
I have tried to make certain that all of the eBooks
at these sites are legally available for
viewing/downloading. However, it is possible that
I have made a mistake. If you suspect any of
these sites of illegally offering copyrighted
materials, then please let me know.
Putting this together was exhausting, but the list
is not exhaustive, so I encourage you to post any
sites that you know of that are not listed here.
The listing here is in alphabetical order. Given
the size of this list now, it may be easier to search
by genre. I have set up 14 pages here of
different genres. If you do not see one that
covers your interests, let me know and I may be
able to put one together.
I have also put together a listing of sites that offer
free and legal audio books at
Free Audio Books Online
These listings may be search in the following
methods:
Alphabetical Listing
- A listing of the
site names in alphabetical order
Listing by Genre
- Links to pages
here for different book genres (14)
Online Local Libraries -These sites have
links to local libraries which have much
content for members
Alphabetical Listing
1RomanceEBooks offers 27 free books from
their romance collection for download in a variety
of formats. These are not public domain
offerings, but some of their usual offerings made
available for free.
2020k Large collection, divided into categories
and sub-categories for download in a variety of
formats. Note: Many of the links to the Internet
Archive from this site are not working.

About Charles Dickens

This site is All
About Charles Dickens. Suggested by Sea Mac.
AdaIC.org has several free books on Ada as well
as textbooks and tutorials on Ada.
Alive and Free - Links to free ebooks of living
authors
AllBooksFree A small, but unique, listing of free
fiction ebooks, available for download, mostly in
pdf.
AllPDFBooks has a good sized collection of
books available in biology, chemistry, physics,
computer, magic and hindi kahaniyan, for
download in pdf. Suggested by an anonymous
user.
AllRomanceBooks lists 169 free romance
ebooks for download. Registration is required. I
noticed that there appeared to be the
1RomanceEBooks and eHarlequin listings shown
there, as well as quite a few others. Again, these
are not public domain, but the free offerings of
current publishers.
American Mathematical Society has a pretty
complete listing of books involving mathematics.
Arthur's Classic Novels - Over 4000 novels
covering a great variety of topics, nicely
separated into categories and "best" lists. Some
very interesting entries here. Available for online
viewing.
Ask Sam - A small collection of classics,
including Shakespeare, and legal, resource and
government texts.
AssociatedContent
has several cookbooks
available for download in pdf. Most are short and
specific (muffin recipes etc.), but the Chocolate
recipe book is over 600 pages and the Blue
Ribbon recipes are over 400 pages.
AstrologyWeekly 10 books for online reading
and about 30 for download. All on astrology.
Authorama offers a few hundred books,
searchable by author, for online viewing.
BABBooks is a children's site that has 25 free
illustrated books available for online reading or
listening.
Baen Free Library - A small library of
downloadable science fiction novels in a variety
of formats.
BaenCD - A small collection of science fiction
books from Baen's promotional CDs. They are
downloadable in a variety of formats as well as
viewable online.

Baldwin Online Children's Projects 520

classic children's books in a variety of genres for
online viewing.
BannerBooks offers 5 unique books for reading
online.
Bartelby - Harvard classics and encyclopedias.
HTML only.
BBC (Dr. Who) for those who like Dr. Who, this
is a collection of 8 books for online reading or
download in a choice of 3 formats
Beenleigh State School
of Queensland,
Australia has a large collection of children stories
to read online with audio built in.
Berkely SunSite Classics - A small collection of
classics. HTML only.
Bibliomania - Over 2,000 classic novels, study
guides, biographies and more. HTML only.
BlackMaskFiction offers 20 or so free detective
stories that were originally published in
magazines during 1925 to 1939 for download in
pdf.
BookBoon offers a number of free textbooks on
computer programing and other subjects for
download in pdf. These are legal textbooks
written for BookBoon which contain some ads
within the books.
Book-bot 14,571 books available for online
viewing in their easy to view reader. Very nice
find by fellow editor Rhiannon.
BookBox is a children's site that has about 20
free books available for download in pdf (as a
single page) and MP3. Also free games and
coloring books.
BookGlutton is a collection of 1200+ books for
online reading with the added feature of groups
available for discussion of the readings. Nice
combination
of
reading
and
socializing.
Suggested by an anonymous poster.
BookPop is another children's site that has a
number of illustrated books free for online
reading. There are also some coloring pages for
download. There are supposed to be music and
story downloads, but I kept getting an error when
trying to reach those.
BookRags - Small collection of free with many
paid. Hard to find the free ones. Available in
Word or PDF.
BooksShouldBeFree While primarily a good
sized collection of audio books, each of the books
is available for online reading or for download in
text.
Bookstacks is a small collection (100+) of
classic works available for online viewing, with
many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft
Reader versions. Nicely set up.
BookYards - 16,000+ books, videos, educational
material.
Bored.com has over 15,000 books available for
online viewing. Nicely divided into a good variety
of categories.

BritishLibrary has a virtual books section with a

small, but interesting, collection for online
viewing.
BrowzerBooks has an interesting collection of
novels in a wide variety of genres (check bottom
of page for links to genres) either available for
online reading or download in pdf.
BucaroTecHelp has an interesting collection of
free business books available for download in
pdf. These deal with internet business for the
most part. You do have to view their news feed
to be able to download, but registration is not
necessary.
ByGosh offers a small collection of very nicely
illustrated classics for younger children and older
children. Also some short stories. Suggested by
Cathy of PuzzlEd.
CandlelightStories has a good number of
stories from the Arabian nights collection as well
as other story books available for online reading.
CBeebies is a BBC site that offers a good
number of free stories, in flash, for online reading
and listening. Also, has games, music and
coloring books.
Chessville 40+ ebooks on Chess available for
download (mostly in PDF)
ChestofBooks Large collection, divided into
categories, for online viewing. Nice collection.
ChildrensBooksForever has a nice collection of
illustrated books available in pdf.
Children's Books Online is an excellent
collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's
books for viewing online. They are also available
for download at a fee. This little gem was
suggested by an anonymous poster.
ChildrenStory a children site that offers a nice
collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well
as Bible stories and coloring books.
Classic Authors.net contains the works of over
a hundred authors (and short biography for
each), with a varying number of works per
author. Online viewing only.
Classic Book Library is a small collection
(100+) of classic works arranged by genre.
Online viewing only.
Classic Book Shelf Electronic Library offers
the works of 50+ authors in varying amounts.
Online viewing only.
Classic
Literature
Library
Decent
size
collection that has complete works of a small
variety of authors and works of others and a nice
children's section available for online viewing.
Classic Reader offers thousands of free classic
books for online viewing.
Classical
Authors
Index
Portraits,
biographies and pictures of 460 classic authors.
1258 online books of classical literature
extensively enhanced with 2,510,227 annotations
from the Encyclopedia of the Self. Suggested by
Sea Mac.

ComputerBooks.us
larger
collection,
sub
categorized and available for download in pdf
CougarWebWorks has several of the works of
Nowick Gray available for free download in pdf.
CrankyLibrarian 3011 books by 752 authors
available for online viewing. Complete works of
several authors and some interesting categories.
CrapHound has a few works of Cory Doctrow
available for free download.
CreativeHomemaking has a number of free
cookbooks available for download in pdf. Some
interesting entries here, including "How to Make a
Gingerbread House".
DailyLit - Read books online by daily email or
RSS feed. Over 700 titles.
Developnew a good collection of free computer
software books available for reading online.
Diesel eBooks - Offers 750+ ebooks formatted
for Microsoft Reader and MobiPocket.
DigitalLibraryofIndia has a large collection of
works available in several formats for online
viewing or download. Sorted by title.
DivineLifeSociety over 200 books on Yoga,
religion and philosophy available in pdf or HTML
DLTK-Teach
offers free printable children's
books. Most are geared towards pre-schoolers,
including a set on the alphabet, but there are
some stories for older children also.
Suggested
by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
DominicGreen offers 4 of his science fiction
novels for free reading online.
DoverCentreBooks has a very large collection
of links to free online cookbooks, horror stories,
meditation, spiritualism and fables.. They are
sorted alphabetically and since they are to a
variety of download sites, the availability of
online viewing and download formats vary.
DragonBytes Nice collection of horror novels
available for online viewing. Separate section for
Vampire novels.
DuncanLongPublications offers several works
for free online viewing.
Generally, a pdf
download costs money, but some are ad
supported and are free.
Earthbound
The 5 book science fiction series of Earthbound
available for download in lit .pdb .pdf .txt .rtf.
EasyMediaBroadcast
offers a nice size
collection of mostly classical works for download
in TK3. You must use the TK3 reader, available
for free at the site, for these books. Books are
sorted by author and title.
eBookLobby - Small, but interesting and unique,
collection divided into 13 categories
E-Books Directory 944 books in 344 categories
available for download in varying formats.
eBooksforYoungReaders
offers
a
large
collection of free books for download nicely
categorized into reading levels.

eBooksJustPublished Interesting collection of

DRM free eBooks listed daily. Most are free.
eBookNook A good number of stories, mostly
romance, but some children and vampire stories
available for online reading.
eBookPlanet has an interesting and unique
collection of works in 12 categories available for
download in pdf. Suggested by an anonymous
user.
eBooksRead Over 41,000 books available for
download in pdf or text. Search by author or title
e-cookbooks.net has 14 smaller cookbooks
available for free download in pdf.
eduplace offers 14 "leveled" books for children
for online reading or printing.
eHarlequin offers 17 free romance novels for
download in several different format options.
These are not public domain novels, but some of
Harlequin's usual offerings.
EldritchPress has a good sized collection of
public domain works with some unique
categorization.
eReader.com has a small collection of free
ebooks for download, but a couple interesting
entries. Registration required.
eServer - Over 30,000 works covering a variety
of interests
eServer Technical Communications has 875
works in its software section and 161 in its web
design section (although a number were no
longer available) as well as some articles in its
other sections.
eText.lib The University of Virginia online library
has a large collection of works available for online
viewing (some are available in Microsoft Reader).
Even though a good number are limited to UVA
students and staff, there is still a good amount of
interesting material available to the general
public. Suggested by poster mike dutch.
EveryonesReading is offering 10 free romance
novels for download in several formats. These
are one book from each of their series and are
being offered to celebrate their first anniversary
(so they may not be there long).
FableLibrary has an interesting and unique
collection of childrens works. Most are available
for viewing online, including some flash versions.
But a few are available for download. Suggested
by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
Federal Citizen Information Center offers
informational booklets on a great variety of
subjects. Many are free and most of the paid
ones are available for a free download.
Suggested by an anonymous poster
FeedBooks - Thousand of eBooks downloadable
in a variety of formats
Fiction eBooks is a interesting small collection
of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter
illustrated childrens books) as well as some books

for writers and works philosophy and sociology.

Online viewing only.
FictionPress is a growing network over 1 million
writers/readers, and home to over 1,200,000
original works by unsigned authors.
FictionWise has 35 books available for free
download in a great variety of formats. Most are
the usual classics available elsewhere, but there
are a couple of unusual ones and a few reference
books that might be interesting. Registration is
required.
FindingFreeeBooks has links to free book
offerings posted. Also worth checking out the
limited time offers section. This is a nice spot
to check as there are unique entries here.
FloridaDisaster.org offers three books on
hazardous weather for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade
readers in download in pdf.
Franklin - Thousands of free titles available in
text and HTML format
FreeBookCentre links to thousands of computer
ebooks divided into many sub-categories
FreeBookSpot
5,000
free
eBooks
downloadable in 96 categories available for
download in a number of different formats.
Suggested by devinathann.
FreeBooks4Doctors Over 650 works (in varying
languages) dealing with medical matters.
Available in pdf download.
FreeeBooksCanada has a large listing of free
books available for download in pdf. Very
interesting collection worth checking out.
FreeBooksforAll A fairly large collection of nonfiction books available for download (mostly in
pdf)
FreeComputer Books - Free computer, math,
technical books and lecture notes
FreeeBookDownloadLinks has a very nice size
collection of links to free computer science books
online. Download options vary as these are links
to other sites.
Free eBooks Net - Free books and resources for
authors. Also magazines
FreeOnlineBooks offers over 5,000 free books,
mostly classics, for online viewing. Works may be
searched by author, title, keyword, reading level
and 15 genres. You can adjust the page width
and font size and style. Registration is not
necessary, but free registration allows some extra
features.
FreeOn-LineBooks Interesting collection on
individualist
feminism
and
libertarianism
available for online viewing.
FreeOnlineBookstore has a good number of
links to free books in a wide variety of
categories. The most engineering and electrical
engineering books I have seen listed at a site.
But they also have works in about 15 other
categories. Since most link off site, the options
for downloading/viewing vary.

Free Online Novels Interesting collection for

online
viewing.
Several
hundred
novels
separated into categories.
FreeQuickRecipes 3 cookbooks available for
download in pdf and a large amount of recipes for
online viewing as well as other information on
kitchen and diet
FreeRead a bibliography of Australian writers
who died before 1955, with links to a good
number of them for download or viewing.
FreeRomanceFiction offers 5 free works
available for download in pdf. These are in their
Holiday, Paranormal, Erotic and historical
subsections. There may be works added in the
future.
Free SF Online over 2,000 links to science
fiction books for reading online
FreeSFReader Collection of links for mostly
science fiction, fantasy and horror novels and
short stories, but also some other genres
FreeTechBooks - Computer science and
programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.
FullBooks - Thousand of free full text books.
GenieBooks offers 15 books for younger
readers for download in PowerPoint. Has not
been updated in a while, but links still work.
Sponsored by University of Auburn. PowerPoint
can be read with the free Open Office.
George Bernard Shaw books
We hope
you enjoy reading these George Bernard Shaw
books on Read Print. Suggested by Sea Mac.
GetFreeEbooks - Smaller collection of all free
ebooks.
Giraffian offers a nice collection of books for preschoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors
and other topics. Suggested by Cathy of
PuzzlEd.
Globusz - A place for new authors to post their
work and for readers to check them out for free.
GoldenGems a collection of little golden books
and other illustrated books for children for online
viewing and saving as jpg.
Google Book Search - Good selection of free
ebooks available in a variety of categories.
GrtBooks - A large collection of great books and
classics.
Gutenberg - Over 25,000 books for download
there and over 100,000 available through their
affiliates.
HANDebooks has 15 public domain classics
available for download in Plucker or eReader.
HawkStories.com
Free Downloads of
Stories, Classic Novels, and Fairy Tales. Suggested
by TJ Hawk.
HealthRecipes
8 cookbooks available for
download in pdf
HeritageAuctionGalleries offers two works of
James L. Halperin, The First Immortal and The
Truth Machine, for free download in MS Word.

Heygidday Thousands of works in a great variety

of categories available for download in pdf
(zipped).
HolyBooks.com
Download holy books,
sacred and spiritual texts in full length for free.
Suggested by an anonymous poster.
HorrorMasters 2100 classic horror novels
available for download in pdf, plus links to horror
novels at other sites.
HowTo offers around 150 free "how to" ebooks
on a wide variety of topics. Suggested by an
anonymous poster.
Infomotions - 14,000 listings from full classic
novels to Western philosophy. HTML only.
Ink.Imagedjinn has a nice collection of short
fairy tales, a couple of myth stories and the book
Pinocchio available for online viewing. A site for
children.
InklessTales offers 15 children stories for online
viewing as well as games, poems and activities.
In-Tech offers 80 full length books for free
download in pdf (zipped). Large selection on the
topic of robotics. There are also about 2000
journal articles available here for free.
InternationalChildrensDigitalLibrary
nice
collection of children's books from around the
world in a variety of languages and nicely
categorized, available for online viewing
InternetArchive - Over 500,000 texts available
for download
Internet Sacred Text Archive very interesting
and large collection of books on religion,
mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for
online viewing.
Into Windows
Into Windows has about a
dozen downloadable PDF 'Tips and Tricks' Guides
to Windows 7. Suggested by Sea Mac
Islaam Pure & Clear around 50 Islamic books
for reading or download
JamesDunavant offers his book, The Keepers of
Forever, for download in HTML. or online viewing.
A download compatible with Palm Pilot is also
available.
JeffInlo offers his book, Alien Cradle, for
download in a large variety of formats and for
online reading.
JimDeFilippi offers 8 of his crime novels for free
download in pdf.
Jody Kihara has made two of her books for
children available for free download in PDF and
apparently more freebies are forthcoming.
JuliaCarda offers her novel, Portal to Peace, for
free download in pdf at her website.
Kellscraft Studio Around 250 books available
for online viewing. Kellscraft lists out of print,
public domain novels, most published prior to
1923. Searchable by title, author and topic.

KiddoTime is a site for those learning to read. It

has phonics, word, music and puzzle games.
Suggested by Sefi.
KidsAudioBooks has 12 classic books for
children for download in pdf. Most are available
elsewhere, but there is one unique entry. Also a
good collection of audio books and some coloring
books. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
KidsKnowIt is not a book site, but it does have
a lot of reading for children, along with
educational puzzles and games.
KidsNurseryRhymes a British site featuring
over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing.
Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi
player-available there) and some nursery rhyme
disco recordings available for download in MP3.
Knowledgerush has a good sized collection
separated into about 30 categories. Nice children
and Mystery sections, among others.
LearningIsland Nice collection of children books
available for online viewing.
LearningPage has a series (38) of printable
"Tommy" story books suitable for about 8-10year-olds, plus some other printable books, for
free. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
Leo Tolstoy's Books, Biography, Quotes
Read Leo Tolstoy's Books, Biography, and
Quotes over at read print. Suggested by Sea
Mac.
Librivox Although mostly know for its excellent
collection of audio books. A poster named Les
has pointed out that they also have links to online
viewing sites for all of its large collection of audio
books and also download links.
LilFingers Storybooks Small collection of books
for very young children for reading and being
read to.
Linux Online Around 25 Linux, open source and
programing, books for download or reading
Listverse has a interesting top ten list (though
there are 11 entries) of free sci fi books on the
web.
Literarium has a small collection of classic works
available for online viewing. A nice collection of
Sherlock Holmes, some interesting historical
documents and a few unique classic works.
Literature.org has a collection of classics,
arranged by author, for online viewing.
LiteratureMaster has thousands of ebooks in a
wide variety of categories available for online
viewing.
LiteratureNetwork has over 1900 full books
and over 3000 short stories and poems by over
250 authors available for online reading.
Searchable by author and they have a few
unusual ones.
LiteraturePost 825 works from 71 authors
available for online viewing.
Luisa Green offers 3 of her romance ebooks for
free download in pdf.

Magickeys small, but interesting, and unusual,

collection of childrens books for online viewing.
MagickSpells is a collection of books on
astrology, magic and mythology for free viewing
online.
Mark Twain Books
The Classic Literature
Library presents The Complete Literary Works of
Mark Twain. Suggested by Sea Mac.
ManyBooks - 22,000 books available for
download in a variety of formats.
Maria'sCouzina has 3 free cookbooks available
for download in pdf. Two of the books are Greek
recipes an the other is world cuisine. These
appear to be shortened versions of the full
cookbook, but still have some interesting entries
and information.
Master Texts is a collection of 30+ authors for
online viewing.
MeatBook has an online cookbook image of the
Ground Meat Cookbook available for online
viewing.
MedLine Plus is a great, trustworthy site for
general health information, including tutorials,
clinical trial updates and the latest news in
medicine. You can also find plenty of books,
including some intended for children.
MemoWare - Free books for PDA.
MicrosoftReader has links to free works at the
University of Virginia and the University of
Oregon. Between those two sites, there is a
large number of works available for download.
Microsoft Windows 7 Tips Guide
Windows 7 Tips & Tricks covers many
interesting Windows 7 tips that improve your
productivity by familiarizing yourself with some of
the enhancements that are new in Windows 7.
Suggested by Sea Mac.
Mises Institute Several hundred books, mostly
on economics (and from a libertarian point of
view) available for download as pdf. Some
unique entries here. Suggested by poster, Bill
Starr.
MIT Internet Classics Archive - Over 400
works of classical literature available for
download.
MIT OpenCourseWare offers a large selection
of business courses in its Sloan School of
Management section.
MobileRead - Forum listing thousands of free
ebooks.
MobiPocket over 10,000 works, in a variety of
categories, available for download in MOBI.
Molwick Small collection of scientific and
educational books available for download in pdf
Munsey's - Over 18,000 ebooks available in a
variety of formats
MusicalTales offers "Helena and the Orchestra
of the World of Mist" as a download in text, video,
soundtrack or audiobook.

MyRomanceStory
offers 2 free romance
novellas daily. Registration is required.
Nancy'sKitchen has a nice size collection of
small cookbooks available for free download in
pdf.
NetLibrary - Small selection of free. But annual
membership is only $8.95 for over 500,000
works.
NewFreeBooks has links to free ebooks covered
by copyright, but still available legally (most
times direct from the author's site. Excellent
source for newer works.
NightOwlRomance has 6 interesting romance
novels available for download in pdf.
OnlineBooks4free large collection of links to
other sites for online viewing or download. Nicely
categorized.
Online Books Page from the University of
Pennsylvania is a listing of over 30,000 free
books on the web. Mostly this references to
other sites, but they do have the Gutenberg
listings available for download as well as some
interesting special exhibits.
OnlineComputerBooks - Good selection of free
computer books.
OnlineFreeeBooks - links to various ebooks
(mostly pdf) in 9 categories
Online Library of Liberty hosts over an
interesting collection of over 1,100 books
available for online viewing and also for
download.
OnlineSapiens has a small collection for online
viewing, but a few unique entries worth a look.
OxfordTextArchive - Over 2,000 classical texts
downloadable as ASCII or DOC
PagebyPage a few hundred works available for
online viewing.
PalaceofAmino has the 9 book "Bounty Hunter"
series available for free download in pdf.
Payton Lee offers 17 of her romance works and
several short stories for download in pdf. The
downloads are at LuLu, which supposedly
requires registration to download, but I was able
to download and did not have to register.
PDFBooks - 4,700 pdf ebooks
PDFFreeBooks Small collection of children's
books and two rare books on Syriac grammar and
Arabic-English lexicon. Available for download in
PDF or DJVU.
PennLibraries has several special collections for
online viewing, including a Celebration of
Women
Writers
and
the
verity.library.upenn.edu/search97cgi/s97_cg
i
PerseusDigitalLibrary - A large collection of
classical texts broken down to time period
written.
PlaneteBook - Free classical literature
PlanetPDFeBooks - Small collection of classical
works.

ProgrammingeBooks has a very nice collection

of downloads and links for a wide variety of
programming languages.
Project Gutenberg Australia over 1600 novels
and an assortment of other works available in
varying ways, including test, pdf and online
viewing
PsychClassics has 25 books on site for reading,
links to 200 other books and about 200 articles all
classic works in the field of Psychology.
PublicBookShelf around 150 books in varying
categories for online viewing.
PublicLiterature Has some unique public
domain novels among its classic collection of
around 100 books. Also has a large selection of
writings submitted by authors which are free and
legal to download, but not to distribute. All are
available for online viewing and download in
several formats.
PubMed Bookshelf is an engine which lets you
search for books containing keywords of your
choice and then browse them.
PubMed Central This search engine covers all
the open-access articles [rather than books]
available on PubMed, the National Library of
Medicine's main scientific portal (where you can
also find abstracts from many restricted-access
articles).
PuzzlEd is not a book site, but has links to sites
offering free books (which will be incorporated
here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw
and other puzzles and other activities for
children.
Questia Online Library offers over 5,000 classic
and rare works for free online viewing
QuickFound has links to many and varied free
online cookbooks for viewing and for download in
pdf. Definitely worth checking out.
Qvadis hosts over 6,000 free titles available in
Palm Database (.pdb) format.
RalphRobertMoore offers his work, Father
Figure, for free download in pdf.
RandomStatic offers Newton's Sleep, a novel
published in 2008, for free download in pdf or
html.
ReadBookOnline has a nice collection of
classics available for online viewing.
ReadEasily - Small collection of works that has
option for larger print. HTML only.
ReadPrint - Thousands of books, poems and
short stories.
ReadTheseLips short fiction, poetry and other
writings especially for and about lesbians.
RealTime - Free media for IT professionals
RIF Reading Planet
has an interesting
collection of books for online viewing that
changes monthly. Also has activities and games
as well as Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, Hispanic and
native American sections with books and
activities.

RJRummel offers his six book "Never Again"

series for free download in pdf.
RobertBurtonRobinson offers a number of free
books and short stories for free online viewing
and for free download in pdf.
RobertSchifreen has made his new book "The
Web Book", which covers everything involved in
setting up a website available exclusively to
visitors here at Gizmo's.
RodCockle offers a nice collection of illustrated
books for online viewing, as well as games and
puzzles for 4-8 year olds. Suggested by Cathy of
PuzzlEd.
Rolf A.F. Witzsche offers 14 of his novels for
online viewing, download in pdf or as audio books
in MP3/M4B. 12 of the novels are part of his "The
Lodging of the Rose" series.
RomanceCorner offers quite a few short works
for online reading. They look to be adult oriented
works.
RomanceNovelTV lists 7 romance novels
available for free Kindle download at Amazon.
Romantic4Ever offers 2 free ebooks by author,
Joan Reeves, as well as some short story romance
fiction for reading online.
RomanticMarriageStories features romance
works about married life. These short stories
present a high view of marriage and portray the
fun a romantic couple can have in a happy and
sexy marriage.
RoundTopRegister has the romantic novel,
Children of the Sunrise, available for online
reading.
SamizdatPress has a small collection of science
and math works and links to other works. Their
focus is on "material of a pedagogical nature".
Sarah Reinke has made several of her romance
novels, and some non-romance novels, available
for download in pdf. These are for mature
audiences and you must be over 18 years of age
to download.
Scholastic Small collection of children's books
available for online viewing (or read to you).
Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.
Scholastic Mini-books has a good selection of
stories available to read or print, many of which
are free. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
ScienceBooksOnline has a large listing of links
to computer science books available for download
in its computer science category. Since these
links are off site, download options vary, but most
seemed to be in pdf.
ScienceFictionandFantasy has a small listing
of public domain works available for download in
text or html. Most can be found elsewhere, but
there are a few unique entries.
Scifimatter has a nice listing of free sci fi books
available on the internet. Some are already listed
here, but there are quite a few unique entries.

SebastianSwan a collection of Sebastian Swan

stories for online viewing.
SejarahMelayuLibrary is perhaps the largest
public on-line collection of books and other
documents on the history of the Malay
archipelago and its surrounding region. It consists
of over 700 books and academic papers in
electronic PDF format.
Shakespeare's Plays
The complete texts
of Shakespeare plays with explanatory notes,
from
your
trusted
Shakespeare
source.
Suggested by Sea Mac.
SillyBooks has a number of free books available
for online reading. There are also puzzles, games
and contests.
Sloan St.James has made 4 of her romance
novels, including THE DARK PLAIN, an RWA award
winning novel, available for download in pdf.
SnipFiles - Small collection of free ebooks and
software.
SparkNotes:
Has today's Most Popular
Study Guides for High School and Jr High
students. Suggested by an anonymous poster.
specficworld has a small collection of free sci fi
books available for download in pdf. Mostly short
story collections.
Starfall nice little collection of works to help
children learn to read
Starry FreeOnlineNovels small collection, but
some interesting entries, available for online
viewing.
Stiljack offers a free complete crime novel of
Martin Cooper along with 5 short stories and also
has a few other authors short stories. Aspiring
writers are encouraged to have their books
posted there.
StoriesRUs has the romantic novel "Romantic
Venture" available for online reading.
StoryPlace Elementary has six stories and
related activities for online viewing geared for
elementary school age children.
StoryPlace PreSchool has a nice collection of
books and activities designed for pre-schoolers
available for online viewing.
Suvudu offers the first book in some of their
acclaimed sci fi series for free download.
Interesting entries.
TampaReads offers 3 first grade books for
online reading.
TechBooksforFree offers a wide range of free
programming and computer books divided into
nine main categories.
TechToolBlog Links to 345 online programing
books
The Biography and Works of George
Bernard Shaw
Online Literature dot com
has The Biography and Works of George Bernard
Shaw. Suggested by Sea Mac.

The Biography and Works of Leo Tolstoy

Online Literature dot com has The
Biography and Works of Leo Tolstoy. Suggested
by Sea Mac.
The Complete works of Mark Twain
The Complete works of Mark Twain, Biography,
Quotes over at mtwain.com. This site contains
*almost all* of Mark Twain's works. Suggested by
Sea Mac.
The
Complete
Works
of
William
Shakespeare
is the Web's first edition of
the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This
site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry
to the Internet community since 1993. Suggested
by Sea Mac.
TheFreeLibrary has a large collection of free
classic books sorted by author and searchable by
author, title or keyword. There is also a small
biography of every author along with the listing of
that author's works on the site. The site claims to
have over 5 million works. Online viewing only.
The Works and Life of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens online, a website dedicated to
one of the most prolific and esteemed English
writers, generally considered the greatest
novelist of the Victorian era. Suggested by Sea
Mac.
Tikiri has a nice collection of Sri Lankan stories
available in English and Sinhalese available as
pdf.
ToddlerSchool
has a small collection of
illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also
has educational games for younger children.
Suggested by Sefi.
TopMystery A good amount of each of the few
mystery authors listed are available for online
viewing or download
Tor.com has a good number of Science Fiction &
Fantasy stories available for download in pdf,
mobi pocket, html or ePub. Also available for
listening or download as MP3.
TrinityMoon a small collection of novels and
short stories for online reading.
Vitalita The Vitalita Culinary Group is offering
two free vegan cookbooks for download in text. A
Taste of Vitality and Desserts of Vitality include
pictures of the finished dishes.
Web Literature has 6500+ works of over 350
authors available for online viewing. A nice
feature is that they try to display the full works of
the listed authors
WitGuides - Small collection of free ebooks in a
variety of categories.
WordIQ Nice collection of over 10,000 books
available for online viewing.
There are some
unusual entries here, but hard to find unless
looking for specific title or author.

WorldofTales a collection of folktales, fairy tales

and fables from around the world available for
online viewing.
WorldWideSchool has a fairly large collection
of free books spread across 12 categories, with
numerous sub-categories. Search by author
name and title also available. Available for online
viewing.
Wowio - Good size collection of novels and also
comic books.
Zbooc has a large collection of books, tutorials
and how to guides for download in pdf. A free
site, but registration is required. Suggested by
Glenn.
Libraries
On the advice of anonymous poster that most
public library systems offer free ebooks,
audiobooks, and music downloads to their
customers for free, I did some checking and
found that there are a large amount of offerings
available through online libraries. It appears
most, if not all, require a local library card. These
are sites that have links to local library sites.
LibWeb is a good search source for local libraries
online. A good selection of US and worldwide
locations.
Public Libraries very good for US, looked not as
thorough as LibWeb on worldwide.
Internet Public Library also has some links, but
I found the above two to be superior set ups.
Genre Pages
Because this page is becoming extremely long I
have switched the genre sections to their own
pages. Please check these separate pages out if
you are interested in a particular genre as they
have some links that have not been added to this
main list as of yet and they also have links to
audio books.
Free Children's Books Online
Free Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Online
Free Horror, Ghost & Gothic Books
Online
Free Romance Books Online
Free Computer & Internet Books
Online
Free Mystery, Detective, Thriller &
Crime (Fiction) Books Online
Free "Westerns" Books Online
Free Cooking, Food & Wine Books
Online
Free Religion & Spirituality Books
Online
Free Health, Fitness & Medicine
Books Online
Free Biography, Autobiography &
Memoir Books Online

Free Travel Books Online

Free History Books Online
Free Business Books Online