Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (being deaf and dumb) by Jewel
Le Pape et l'antisémitisme by Séverine
The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue…
Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett
Trial by water by Sewell Peaslee Wright
No royal road by Florence E. Burch
On the face of the flood by Mary E. Ropes
In Barbary by E. Alexander Powell
Ballads of American bravery by Clinton Scollard
Das Leben der Renée von Catte by Elsa von Bonin
Find Free eBooks
- Frequently Downloaded: Top 100, or ranked by popularity.
- Main Categories. The ones you'd find in any large bookstore.
- Reading Lists. Hand-curated by volunteers.
- Search Options. By author, title, subject, language, type, popularity, and more.
- Visit self.gutenberg.org for free eBooks by contemporary authors.
Project Gutenberg
- ✓ 100% Free - No fees, no registration, completely free
- ✓ No Apps Required - only regular Web browsers or eBook readers needed
- ✓ 50+ Years - Pioneering free eBooks since 1971
- ✓ Volunteer-based - hundreds of volunteers have contributed over the years
- Consider a small donation to help us digitize more books: donate
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Emma by Jane Austen
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift
Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. Smollett
History
Literature
Science & Technology
Social Sciences & Society
Arts & Culture
Religion & Philosophy
Lifestyle & Hobbies
Health & Medicine
Education & Reference
Get Help
- Frequently Asked Questions about Project Gutenberg.
- Help, How-To and FAQs: In depth information about many topics.
- Tablets, phones and eReaders How-To: Using tablets, Kindle, Nook, cell phone, and other mobile devices and readers.
- Distributed Proofreaders welcomes new volunteers. This is the main source of new Project Gutenberg eBooks. Getting started is easy, and just a page a day will help!
- Fix and improve Project Gutenberg by reporting errors, bugs, typos, and suggesting changes.
- Record audiobooks with our friends at LibriVox.
How to Help
Special Areas
- About Project Gutenberg.
- Donating to Project Gutenberg.
- Feeds of new eBooks.
- Linking to Project Gutenberg and roboting or crawling the site.
- Partners and affiliates.
- Permissions, copyright, licensing, and trademark information.
- What does free eBook (No Cost or Freedom?) mean?
Audio Books
Audio books are a great way to enjoy literature. We recommend the following sources. All of them are digitizations of Project Gutenberg texts. They are freely available and in the public domain in the US.
- - Project Gutenberg’s 662 titles read by people
- - Human-read audio books from LibriVox. LibriVox is a volunteer community that produces high-quality performances.
- - The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection. Almost 5,000 computer-generated titles from 2023 via a Project Gutenberg collaboration with Microsoft and MIT.
- - Project Gutenberg’s audio books from 2003. They are computer-generated and listenable but relatively low quality compared to today’s technology.
