Free books in Google Books
Did you know that Google Books has more than 10 million free books available for users to read and download? And we're adding more all of the time!
Google's free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally: they are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free, e.g. US government documents.
Search the full set of free books here:
Here are some sample queries to get you started:
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Beatrix Potter
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
More information on downloading PDFs and EPUBs for the free books you discover can be found in the Google Books Help Center.