Laxmi Bachanalaya
Legally available public-domain books and openly licensed reading materials.
Henry David Thoreau
Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton
Willa Cather
Ruth Brown MacArthur
Edith Wharton
Gene Stratton-Porter
Harry Castlemon
Mark Twain
George Milburn
James Fenimore Cooper
Donald A. Wollheim
Robert W. Chambers
active 16th century Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Knight of Elvas, and active 16th century Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera
James Hugh Richardson
George Ade
Jack London
Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard
Oscar Fay Adams
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Alice B. Emerson
Daniel Jackson and I. Mitchell
Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
Edgar Allan Poe
Samuel Adams Drake
These books are free to read. Each is in the public domain in the United States; check your own country's rules before you copy or share one.