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The Classics
Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

1. Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
2. The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
3. Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
4. Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
5. Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
6. Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
7. Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
8. Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
9. The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
10. Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
11. Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
12. Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
13. Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
14. Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

Textbooks
If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.

1. Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
2. Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
3. KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
4. Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
5. Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
6. MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
7. Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
8. Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
9. Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
10. eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

Math and Science
Turn to this list to find books about math, science, engineering and technology.

1. FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
2. Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
3. Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks like Elementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
4. Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
5. FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
6. Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

Children’s Books
Even children’s books are now available online. Find illustrated books, chapter books and more.

1. byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
2. Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
3. International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
4. Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

Philosophy and Religion
For books about philosophy and religion, check out these websites.

1. Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
2. Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
3. Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
4. The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
5. Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

Plays
From Shakespeare to George Bernard Shaw to more contemporary playwrights, visit these sites.

1. ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
2. Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
3. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
4. Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
5. ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

Modern Fiction, Fantasy and Romance
These websites boast collections of graphic novels, romance novels, fantasy books and more.

1. Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
2. The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
3. Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
4. Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
5. Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
6. The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
7. Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
8. John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
9. SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights, Aesop’s Fables and more.