183 Free Ebooks You Must Read Before You Die
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ? Dorothy Parker
Call this the book nerd’s bucket list, or the ultimate reading achievement – this is perhaps a list of titles that everybody can get their hands on. Why? Simply because reading is good for you and most importantly, they’re totally free! If you’re wondering on how did we come up with this list, it’s filtered from here – 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and here (better layout). Happy reading everybody!
These free ebooks include:-
- At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (Horror) [Download]
- The Trial by Franz Kafka (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf (War) [Download]
- Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (Religion) [Download]
- The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (Women’s Studies) [Download]
- Aaron’s Rod by D.H. Lawrence (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (Satire) [Download]
- Ulysses by James Joyce (Banned Books) [Download]
- Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley (Satire) [Download]
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (Women’s Studies) [Download]
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West (War, Romance) [Download]
- The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad (Nautical) [Download]
- Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Under Fire by Henri Barbusse (War) [Download]
- Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford (War) [Download]
- The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (Satire) [Download]
- The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan (Adventure) [Download]
- Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Adventure) [Download]
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell (Politics) [Download]
- Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (Short Story Collection) [Download]
- Martin Eden by Jack London (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- A Room With a View by E.M. Forster (Romance) [Download]
- The Iron Heel by Jack London (Science Fiction) [Download]
- The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (Horror, Science Fiction) [Download]
- Mother by Maxim Gorky (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (Romance) [Download]
- Professor Unrat by Heinrich Mann (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Nostromo by Joseph Conrad (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Golden Bowl by Henry James (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Ambassadors by Henry James (Humor) [Download]
- The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (Mystery/Detective) [Download]
- The Wings of the Dove by Henry James (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Adventure) [Download]
- Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling (Adventure) [Download]
- Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Gothic) [Download]
- The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (Science Fiction) [Download]
- The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (Science Fiction) [Download]
- What Maisie Knew by Henry James (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Dracula by Bram Stoker (Horror) [Download]
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz (Adventure) [Download]
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (Science Fiction) [Download]
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women’s Studies) [Download]
- Born in Exile by George Gissing (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- News from Nowhere by William Morris (Fantasy) [Download]
- New Grub Street by George Gissing (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (Classic) [Download]
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy (Banned Books) [Download]
- La Bête Humaine by Émile Zola (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Hunger by Knut Hamsun (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Pierre and Jean by Guy de Maupassant (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- She by H. Rider Haggard (Adventure) [Download]
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (Horror) [Download]
- The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (Adventure) [Download]
- King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard (Adventure) [Download]
- Germinal by Émile Zola (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Adventure) [Download]
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (Adventure) [Download]
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- Bouvard and Pécuchet by Gustave Flaubert (Humor) [Download]
- Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (Religion) [Download]
- Nana by Émile Zola (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Red Room by August Strindberg (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy (Humor) [Download]
- Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Erewhon by Samuel Butler (Satire, Science Fiction) [Download]
- Middlemarch by George Eliot (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Mystery/Detective, Romance) [Download]
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne (Science Fiction) [Download]
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (Fantasy) [Download]
- Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Uncle Silas by Sheridan Le Fanu (Gothic, Mystery/Detective) [Download]
- The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley (Young Readers) [Download]
- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Silas Marner by George Eliot (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Classic) [Download]
- Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Mystery/Detective) [Download]
- The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Romance) [Download]
- Max Havelaar by Multatuli (Biography) [Download]
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Adam Bede by George Eliot (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Romance) [Download]
- Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau (Nature) [Download]
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Villette by Charlotte Brontë (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Romance) [Download]
- The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (Gothic) [Download]
- Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas (History, Adventure) [Download]
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Adventure) [Download]
- Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (Horror) [Download]
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (Gothic) [Download]
- Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Gothic) [Download]
- Persuasion by Jane Austen (Romance) [Download]
- Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott (Adventure) [Download]
- Emma by Jane Austen (Romance) [Download]
- Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Romance) [Download]
- Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Camilla by Fanny Burney (Satire) [Download]
- The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe (Gothic, Mystery/Detective) [Download]
- The Interesting Narrative by Olaudah Equiano (Biography) [Download]
- Vathek by William Beckford (Gothic) [Download]
- Cecilia by Fanny Burney (Audiobook) [Download]
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Biography) [Download]
- Evelina by Fanny Burney (Women’s Studies) [Download]
- The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- The Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie (Essays) [Download]
- A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (Humor) [Download]
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Gothic) [Download]
- Rasselas by Samuel Johnson (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Candide by Voltaire (Humor) [Download]
- The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox (Women’s Studies) [Download]
- Amelia by Henry Fielding (Satire) [Download]
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (Harvard Classics) [Download]
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Pamela by Samuel Richardson (Romance) [Download]
- Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (Satire) [Download]
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (Adventure, Fantasy) [Download]
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Fiction and Literature) [Download]
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (Adventure) [Download]
- A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift (Satire, Humor) [Download]
- Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (Romance) [Download]
- The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (Religion) [Download]
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Classic) [Download]
- The Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous (Short Story Collection) [Download]
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (Myth) [Download]