No need to head for the library when the internet brings thousands of amazing books right to you with the click of a mouse. Choose from fiction, nonfiction, reference, poetry, and more!
Free Online Books at the Classic Book Library
Surf on over to ClassicBook.info to find free online books at the Classic Book Library, a free online library of the world's best-loved classic literature sorted by genre. Users can read romance by Jane Austen, children's literature by Beatrix Potter and L Frank Baum, science fiction by Jules Verne, mystery books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and more.
Read Books Online at Bartleby.com
Find classics to read for free online: fiction, non fiction, verse and more Bartleby offers thousands of books to read online for free. Looking for Emily Dickison's poetry for a school assignment? Or maybe T.S Elliot's Wasteland? Robert Frost's poetry anthology? Never fear it's all here.
Customizable Free Online Books at Classic Bookshelf.com
This site has a great feature for people who don't like to read books online. It allows the user to customize the online book's background color, text size, font color, and text spacing so it's easier to read online. Classic Bookshelf will even e-mail readers a virtual bookmark so they can pick up where they left off without scrolling through chapters they've already read.
Free Online Books and More at the Internet Public Library
Like a real library, IPL offers newspapers, magazines, and reference books... but they have so much more. IPL has a cool “teen space” page with homework helps, a graphic novels guide, FAEQ (Frequently Asked Embarrassing Questions), online step by step guide for writing research papers, an online writing class, a poetry wiki where teens can let it all out.
Get Free Online Audio Books at PublicLiterature.org
Public Literature offers both older classic works (like Shakespeare) and modern classics (like Mark Twain), plus religious texts in both print and audio form. Readers can choose to read or listen to thousands of free books online.
Read a Book Online for Free at Read Print.com
There are over 8,000 books at this free online library for students and teachers. The site is well-organized with thousands of books ready to be read online for free including modern classics including books by Agatha Christie and George Orwell. The site features“top books” and “top authors” so readers can see what books other people are reading online. ReadPrint is also on Facebook and Twitter.
Read Author Biographies and More at The Literature Network.com
A unique offering from this site is the author biography feature; a great resource for students who need to include author information in their book reports. The Literature Network has 1,900 books and 3,000 short stories and poems to read online for free. The site also allows users to get their literature questions answered at the literature forum.
Read Nonfiction Books Online at Chest of Books.com
Chest of Books offers mostly non-fiction books for online reading including: art, business, computers, crafts and hobbies, finance, gardening, health, history, home improvement, new age, real estate, religion, science, sports, travel and more.
Read Books Online and More at Bibliomania.com
Bibliomania is a great resource for students with its 2,000 books to read online for free, plus study guides and research books to help with school assignments. Users can also buy books right there on the site.
Read Really Old Books for Free Online at Perseus Digital Library
Read the ancient classics like Virgil's Aeneid, Homer's Odyssey, Plato's Republic and more in either English or Greek. There are Latin texts here to read online; even read The Qur'an in Arabic!
Free Online Books Delivered by Daily Lit.com
As a service to the easily overwhelmed, daily lit lets readers pick the books they want to read and then sends it to the reader in short installments via email or RSS feed.
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Francine Morrissette - Francine Morrissette is a freelance writer from southern Maine who has published articles on a wide range of topics including health, ...
