You’ll find 800 free and downloadable eBooks through their site, ready to download for iPads, iPhones, Kindles, or to read in your browser directly.

Open Culture connected readers with a curated list of free audiobooks, and they’ve created something similar for free eBooks.

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie.

You’ll find thousands of books, both classic and contemporary here, such as: The majority of their eBooks work for Kindles, Nooks, iPads, and other readers. Just as the name implies, ManyBooks has loads and loads of online books for free. You’ll find versions of the Bible, as well as the Talmud, Vedas, and more. It also promotes religious diversity, tolerance, and scholarship baked into its mission (which is pretty rad of course).

All We Need Are Dragons by Ljubivoje Ršumovićĭedicated to religion, mythology, and folklore, the ISTA online collection provides access to hundreds of sacred texts online.

Legends of the Maori from the National Library of New Zealand.

Yukimado (The Snow Window) by Naoko Awa.And there are books from all over the world (you can even search by countries on the globe). You can read freely and anonymously on their site, or create an account to keep an ongoing bookshelf. If you’re looking for free children’s books online, the ICDL is a nonprofit organization with a mission to: “promote tolerance and a respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children’s literature from around the world.”

While many of the books on the following websites are classic books and out of copyright, you can find more contemporary online books for free at Goodreads’ free eBooks shelves (either full or excerpts) or with the “ free-online” tag.

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