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Free Books Online

This massive list is compiled by an amazing Redditor, Chtorrr who runs the free ebooks subreddit. His goal is to help inspire you to find gems amongst the massive Project Gutenberg collection.

Each of these links is to a page filled with the links to those books. If you have any cool additions or find any mistakes, please email me laura@phillymakerfaire.com and I’ll update this list and reach out to the original creator.

50 free books on etiquette

115 free fairy tale books

100 free mythology books

250 free kids and YA books

200 free sci-fi books

100 free classics

100 free Christmas ebooks

100 free poetry ebooks

100 free history ebooks

100 free memoirs and autobiographies

50 free mysteries

100 free books about pirates

70 books about space and astronomy

200 books about cooking and housekeeping

50 historical books about childbirth and sexual health

175 medical books

50 free craft books

100 free gardening books

Free assigned summer reading books

60 free ebooks about adventure and exploration in the Arctic and at the South Pole

100 free books of ghost stories

100 more free mythology ebooks

50 free horror books

30 free Arthurian legends

180 free Christmas ebooks

100 free books of essays

50 free ebooks about inventions and inventors

Free audiobook collections from Librivox:

50 free classic audiobooks

50 more free classic audiobooks

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