Courtesy of our friends at Open Culture, who scour the Internet for what’s new, revealing and extremely affordable, comes this list of free e-books for Kindles, iPads, mobile devices and reading online.
From Aeschylus to Zola, with Gaiman, Kafka and Proust in between, there are so many hours of reading pleasure and deep thinking that it makes our heads spin.
Which is what the electrons do, when they zap from various servers onto your device, so you can turn virtual pages. Enjoy!
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.
- 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 – 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
Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video
- Baum, L. Frank – The Wizard of Oz
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot
- 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
- 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 – Uncle Vanya
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
- Christie, Agatha – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- Christie, Agatha – The Secret Adversary
- 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
Learn how to load ebook epub files to your Nook with this video:
- 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 Skull”
- Dick, Philip K – “The Variable Man”
- 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 – The Idiot
- Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Doyle, Arthur Conan – The Adventures of 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 – 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats
- Lawrence, D.H. – Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D.H. – Women in Love
- 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 – 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
- Paine, Thomas – Common Sense
- Paine, Thomas – Rights of Man
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 – “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood”
- 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 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
- 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
- The Beatles – Yellow Submarine – iPad
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