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The best free eBooks include a multitude of classics. These free books are available in the public domain, allowing you to download them, for free, into your eReader. Not surprisingly, most of these eBooks I've listed are totally old school, but if you run across a more modern free eBook (fiction or non), please add it to the list. Bookworms who are eager for more new reading (like me) will thank you!

Just because you have a Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or any other kind of eReader doesn't mean you have to drain your bank account to find great free eBooks. Many of the best books of all-time are simply a click or two away. Books like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' or virtually anything by Jane Austin are yours for the taking at no cost whatsoever. New authors may also list their eBooks for free. You might discover a brand new favorite writer by downloading free eBooks. And if you say you aren't reading enough because it's too expensive, this list proves you have absolutely no excuses!

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Rank     Name Author First Published Genre
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    Jane Austen
    1813-01-28
    Novel, Fiction, Romance novel, Satire
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342
  2. 2
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    1892
    Short story, Detective fiction
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661
  3. 3
    Robert Louis Stevenson, Sharon Holland
    Fiction, Children's literature, Adventure, Speculative fiction, Business, Young adult literature, Adventure novel More
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
  4. 4
    Charlotte Brontë
    1847-10-16
    Novel, Fiction, Romance novel
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260
  5. 5
    Leo Tolstoy
    1877
    Novel
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1399
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Lewis Carroll, William Glennon
    1865
    Fiction
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11
  7. 7
    Mary Shelley
    Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Suspense, Gothic fiction, Epistolary novel More
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/84
  8. 8
    Mark Twain
    1884
    Fiction, Children's literature, Adventure novel, Humour, Satire
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76
  9. 9
    Bram Stoker
    1897
    Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Horror, Speculative fiction, Gothic fiction, Epistolary novel, Invasion literature More
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345
  10. 10
    Joseph Conrad
    Fiction, Roman à clef, Novella
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/526
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    Charles Dickens
    1859
    Novel, Fiction, Historical novel
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/98
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    Alexandre Dumas
    1844
    Fiction, Speculative fiction, Historical novel
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1257
  13. 13
    H. G. Wells
    1898
    Fiction, Children's literature, Science Fiction, Scientific romance
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
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    H. G. Wells
    1895
    Fantasy, Fiction, Children's literature, Science Fiction, Time travel, Speculative fiction, Dystopia, Romance novel, Scientific romance More
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35
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    Leo Tolstoy
    1869
    Historical novel, Romance novel, War novel
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
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    James Joyce
    1922-02-02
    Novel, Fiction
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
  17. 17
    Walt Whitman
    1855-07-04
    Poetry, Fiction, Children's literature
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1322
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    Fairy tales every child should know

    Hamilton Wright Mabie
    http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Every-Should-ebook/dp/B000JMLNHI
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    L. Frank Baum
    1900
    Fantasy, Children's literature, Speculative fiction
    added by: Lons
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55
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    Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    added by: Kel Varnsen
    http://openlibrary.org/works/OL166970W/Zapiski_iz_mertvogo_doma
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    Washington Irving
    1820
    Speculative fiction
    http://www.amazon.com/Legend-Sleepy-Hollow-ebook/dp/B000JQUJHO
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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    1850
    Novel, Fiction, Children's literature, Historical novel, Romance novel, Reference More
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33
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    Hermann Hesse
    1922
    Fiction, Speculative fiction
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500
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    James I of England
    1611
    Non-fiction
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
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    Jonathan Swift
    1726
    Fantasy, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction, Satire
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/829
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    Benjamin Franklin
    1791
    Biography, Autobiography
    http://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Benjamin-Franklin-ebook/dp/B000JMLMXI/
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    Agatha Christie
    Fiction, Children's literature, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense
    http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1155
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    1. LaurieM
      Best Free eBooks at 9/15/2011 2:41 PM
      When I first got my Kindle, I went for the freebies as much as possible and I'm glad I did. My first read was 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes!' It was fun going back to read some of these when it wasn't 'required reading.'

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