Laxmi Bachanalaya
Legally available public-domain books and openly licensed reading materials.
Jacques Cartier
Arthur B. Reeve
Samuel Adams
Gene Stratton-Porter
James Whitcomb Riley
Gideon Wurdz
Paul Leicester Ford
Prinz von Maximilian Wied
Ward Moore
N. D'Anvers
Archer Butler Hulbert
Josh Billings
William Wells Brown
Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Simon Newcomb
Albert Payson Terhune
Various
Edward Eggleston
Brigham Young
Helen Nicolay
Marion Harland
J. Parish Stelle and Wm. B. Harrison
Asa Gray
Gelett Burgess
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.