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Free Online Libraries and Books
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1.
Classic Bookshelf:
This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte
Bronte.
2.
The Online Books Page:
The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
3.
Project Gutenberg:
This famous site has over 27,000 free books online (in fact, a lot of the
books listed in subsequent sites here can be found at PG – yet we list the
others as users may prefer different site’s interfaces, while the others
below also help tailor searches for specific types of books or plays).
4.
Page
by Page Books:
Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches
from George W. Bush on this site.
5.
Classic Book
Library:
Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery,
romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
6.
Classic
Reader:
Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
7.
Read Print:
From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin,
this online library is stocked with the best classics.
8.
Planet
eBook:
Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H.
Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
9.
The Spectator Project:
Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions ofThe
Spectator and The
Tatler.
10.Bibliomania:
This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference
books.
11.Online
Library of Literature:
Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte
sisters, Mark Twain and more.
12.Bartleby:
Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of
anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
13.us:Fiction.us has
a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather,
Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
14.Free
Classic Literature:
Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other
authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
15.net:
Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare,
Edgar Allan Poe and others.
16.Plays: ReadPygmalion, Uncle Vanya
17.The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and
histories
18.Plays
Online:
This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in
full text versions online for free.”
19.ProPlay:
This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.
20.Public
Bookshelf:
Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
21.The
Internet Book Database of Fiction:
This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and
more.
22.Free
Online Novels:
Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure
books, horror books and more.
23.Foxglove:
This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
24.Baen
Free Library:
Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
25.The
Road to Romance:
This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
26.Get
Free Ebooks:
This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
27.John
T. Cullen:
Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
28.SF
and Fantasy Books Online:
Books here includeArabian
Nights,Aesop’s
Fables and more.
29.Free
Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books:
This list contains mostly fantasy books.
30.The
Literature Network:
This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000
short stories and poems.
31.Poetry:
This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of
Bonnie and Clyde.”
32.Poem
Hunter:
Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
33.Famous
Poetry Online:
Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson,
John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
34.Google
Poetry:
Google Books has a large selection of poetry, from The
Canterbury Talesto Beowulf to
Walt Whitman.
35.com:
Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
36.com:
Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured
here.
37.com:
On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.
38.Banned
Books:
Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
39.World
eBook Library:
This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopaedias, children’s
books and a lot more.
40.DailyLit:
DailyLit has everything fromMoby
Dick to the more recent phenomenon, Skinny
Bitch.
41.A
Celebration of Women Writers:
The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery
winners.
42.Free
Online Novels:
These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to
historical fiction.
43.net:
Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
44.Authorama:
Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books,
novels and more.
45.Prize-winning
books online:
Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel
Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.