this is in PDF format - will not be downloaded onto your computer, opens into a new tab on your browser.
LINK. https://griersmusings.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/theperfectstorm-sebastianjunger.pdf
Ultimate Ultimate List of Free Book Websites
see all lists on this blog by clicking here.
I wanted to consolidate all the websites I've linked to in the past, so I scrolled through and found them all and will be listing every single one on this page! Will come back and edit when I come across new ones that I haven't listed before, instead of making an entire post for one site.
List is alphabetized, with a link to my blog post next to it, in case you want to know more about the website itself before downloading anything. Each website listed is free of charge, though some may require an account. All links open in a new tab.
>> Remember to buy the books you enjoyed and appreciated so that we can keep supporting authors! <<
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2novels (blog post) < has since been taken down
6booksy (blog post) < can't find anymore, probably taken down
7novels < renamed novels80, was then taken down
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allreadingworld (blog post) < has since been taken down
B
bestlib4u (blog post) < has since been taken down
bluenovels (blog post) < has since been taken down
BookFi (blog post) < has since been taken down
C
classicreader (blog post) < has since been taken down
E
e-bestbooks (blog post) < has since been taken down
EPDF (blog post) < need an account first, but is above-board and takes down books at the author's request
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freebest-books (blog post) < has since been taken down
freebooks.com (blog post) < says "coming soon"
free-ebook-online (blog post) < has since been taken down
free-online-novels (blog post) < has since been taken down
fullnovels (blog post) < has since been taken down
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khnovel (blog post) < has since been taken down
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M
N
Novel12 (blog post) - one of my favorites, because getting around the site is intuitive and easy. You have to google it with the title of the book, you can't search on the site. Even though there's a search bar, it doesn't actually do anything
novelcool (blog post) < has since been taken down
Novel Free Read Online (blog post) - same format as Novel12
novellatime (blog post) < has since been taken down
novels80 < previously 7novels, has since been taken down
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Publicbookshelf (blog post) < has since been taken down
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Webfictionguide (blog post) < has since been taken down
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Specific links that only supply one book or series:
Jazz by Toni Morrison on CliffNotes
Read book online (only offers Agatha Christies and Sherlock Holmes)
Lists:
How To articles:
OceanofPDF: back in business!
I was combing through my old posts and landed on the one I made when I first found the site. Clicked on the link just bc I was curious, and it took me to the website! Looks different, so I wasn't sure if it was legit or not, but then I went ahead and downloaded a book (The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner bc ofc I did) and turns out it's up and running, works perfectly well!
Reading the Reddit thread r/piracy on the topic, it sounds like they have some of the latest releases as well, so go check em out.
LINK. https://oceanofpdf.com/
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
"Gaiman" is pronounced "gay-min" btw. Confused me for the longest time bc I wasn't sure if it was that, or if it was "guy-min", but I watched an interview where they asked him the question so now I know and am passing it onto you so that you don't make any mistakes when you talk about your favorite book (which is probably Coraline bc it's such a fun creepy book). Because your favorite is Coraline, here's a pdf:
LINK. http://mrdavieswebsite.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/5/6/24564916/coraline.pdf
Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
Also available on Libby, if you have a library (and library card).
LINK. https://www.bookfreevampire.com/Fantasy/The-Queen-of-the-Tearling-by-Erika-Johansen/1.html
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
LINK. https://joycej.kenstonlocal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/109/2015/01/Death-of-a-Salesman.pdf
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
I just finished Hamnet by the same author and loved it, so I have to give this one a try too. I'm in the mood lol (also the following links open up in a new tab)
LINKS https://www.epub.pub/book/the-marriage-portrait-by-maggie-o-farrell (don't click on download, doesn't do anything. The continuous option just opens a crapload of ads, so read in the flip through style. Will try to get it up here asap though)
direct link to flip through, if you want to jump right into reading:
https://spread.epub.pub/epub/631be5537f49cb7e603ae977
Alternatives to Z-Library (EXTENDED LIST)
Each website listed is free of charge, though some may require an account. Don't forget to save your TBR list on a legal site, or a physical paper, so you don't run the risk of losing any of them. If you can't find a book on a legal site, try a pirating site, but always remember to buy the physical (or kindle) copies of the books you enjoyed and appreciated so that we can keep supporting authors!
The Struggle To Unearth the World's First Author
Decades ago, archeologists discovered the work of Enheduanna, an ancient priestess who seemed to alter the story of literature. Why hasn’t her claim been affirmed?
Around forty-three hundred years ago, in a region that we now call Iraq, a sculptor chiselled into a white limestone disk the image of a woman presiding over a temple ritual. She wears a long ceremonial robe and a headdress. There are two male attendants behind her, and one in front, pouring a libation on an altar. On the back of the disk, an inscription identifies her as Enheduanna, a high priestess and the daughter of King Sargon.
Some scholars believe that the priestess was also the world’s first recorded author. A clay tablet preserves the words of a long narrative poem: “I took up my place in the sanctuary dwelling, / I was high priestess, I, Enheduanna.” In Sumer, the ancient civilization of southern Mesopotamia where writing originated, texts were anonymous. If Enheduanna wrote those words, then she marks the beginning of authorship, the beginning of rhetoric, even the beginning of autobiography. To put her precedence in perspective, she lived fifteen hundred years before Homer, seventeen hundred years before Sappho, and two thousand years before Aristotle, who is traditionally credited as the father of the rhetorical tradition.
The poem, written in the wedge-shaped impressions of cuneiform, describes a period of crisis in the priestess’s life. Enheduanna’s father, Sargon, united Mesopotamia’s city-states to create what is sometimes called history’s first empire. His domain stretched from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea, encompassing modern-day Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria, including more than sixty-five cities, each with its own religious traditions, administrative system, and local identity. Although Sargon ruled from Akkad, in the north, he appointed his daughter high priestess at the temple of the moon god in the southern city of Ur. The position, though outwardly religious, was in practice political, helping to unify disparate parts of the empire. After Sargon’s death, the kingdom was torn by rebellion; the throne went briefly to Enheduanna’s brothers, and then to her nephew. In the poem, a usurper named Lugalanne—a military general who possibly led an uprising in Ur—drives Enheduanna from her place at the temple.
Goals For This Blog 2023
Things I hope to have posted by the end of next year! I know it's a lofty goal to have every single author on this blog, but I don't expect it to happen, I just would like to see it get started next year. I'll finish it someday.
POEMS (possibly have a new section for poems, like I introduced a new section for plays at the end of 2022)
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Louis Stevenson
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Alfred Lord Tennyson
PLAYS
Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare
Agatha Christie
Oresteia, The
- Agamemnon
- Women at the Graveside
- Orestes in Athens
SHORT STORIES
Edgar Allen Poe
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie
ESSAYS
Virginia Woolf
Last Days of Socrates, The
- Defense of Socrates, The
- Euthyphro
- Crito
101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Gorgias
BOOKS
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie
H.G. Wells
and I'd like to get most of these books posted as well; not all of them, though, because some (like The Hobbit) are too long, while others (like The Old Man and the Sea) are too boring.
23 Books to Read When You're Stressed
Inspired by The Honest Avocado's list of "Five Books to Read When You're Stressed", I decided to make a (much longer) list of my own. The links embedded in the title of each book will take you to Goodreads, for those of you who want to add any to your TBR list, and the second link that I give at the end will take you to a website where you can read it online for free.
Will be adding to this list as I come across more books! Will also flesh out the list so that there's more variety, and will probably add a reason for each book, so that you can read about each one, similar to the way Honest Avocado does their list.
1. The Milly-Molly-Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley (z-lib.org) (OverDrive)
2. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (PDF)
3. A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck (PDF) (OverDrive)
4. A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck (the "sequel" to A Long Way From Chicago, and just as good, and relaxing) (OverDrive) (Archive.org)
5. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell (PDF)
6. Little Pear by Eleanor Frances Lattimore (Archive.org)
7. I, Juan de Pareja by Elizabeth Borton de TreviƱo (I read this whenever I'm feeling sick, fsr it's such a calming book. Similar lull to The King's Fifth by Scott O'Dell, but with less unhappiness) (World Documents)
8. Black Horses for the King by Anne McCarthy (Archive.org) (silo.pub)
9. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (PDF) (Yumpu) (All Free Novel) (PubHTML5) (onlinereadfreebooks)
10. Miss Buncle's Book by D.E. Stevenson (and every single book of that series, it's so relaxing and calming because it's set in such a sleepy town where nothing goes on) (Archive.org)
11. The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (first three are really good at destressing) (OverDrive - there are a billion and one ways to read each of the books in the series online, so I'll leave that up to you. If you search each FULL title and then stick "read free online" to the end of each search, it comes up with the most options)
12. The Melendy Quartet by Elizabeth Enright (same thing here as with the Penderwicks series - take the full title of each book and add "read free online" to the end of it and then hit search and it should pull up a bunch of options)
13. Kirie, Pirie, and Kalikoolin's Pipe by Edward Maze (no online version available)
14. Fair Weather by Richard Peck (Archive.org)
15. The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo (PDF)
16. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo (PDF) (Yumpu)
17. Meet Me In St. Louis by Sally Benson (no online version available)
18. Hokey Pokey by Jerry Spinelli (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks)
19. Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier (onlinereadfreenovel)
20. The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance by Russell Roberts (z-lib.org)
21. Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks) (OverDrive) (LearningAlly - only if you have an account)
22. Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff (z-lib.org) (onlinereadfreebooks)
23. The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr, Freymann-Weyr (z-lib.org) (if you make an account with Epic, where you can only read one book for free per day, but it's available there if you want to read it)
Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith š
LINK. http://lgnavigators.weebly.com/uploads/5/8/5/2/58521739/crown_duel.pdf
Mulan: Before The Sword by Grace Lin š
LINK. https://www.go2reads.com/mulan-sword-grace-lin
(will be on here soon)
Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein š
LINKS. https://emilkirkegaard.dk//en/wp-content/uploads/Robert-A.-Heinlein-Time-enough-for-love_-the-lives-of-Lazarus-Long.pdf (PDF file)
https://archive.org/stream/RobertA.HeinleinTimeEnoughForLoveTheLivesOfLazarusLong/Robert-A.-Heinlein-Time-enough-for-love_-the-lives-of-Lazarus-Long_djvu.txt (Internet Archive, not a great format)
another list of more free websites š
https://alternativeto.net/software/z-lib/ (article listing alts for z-library, though z-lib is a great website and you don't need alts unless you've already maxed out of your 10 free books that day haha)
https://www.tckpublishing.com/websites-download-free-ebooks/ (another article list of 29 best websites)
and just as a Christmas bonus, I'm throwing in an article about how to keep your ebooks longer than you checked them out for: https://bookriot.com/how-to-keep-library-ebooks-longer/ as well as an article about how to best use libby, the free library app: https://timeinthemarket.com/libby-the-best-way-to-access-free-audio-books-and-ebooks/
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