The 50 Best Literary Books of 2024

Top 50 Free Literary Books - April 2024

The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe & David Ramsay, Jr. (2013)

This edition of Poe's classic short story features a striking cover and beautiful typography throughout. Includes a brief aut...

Dom Casmurro Machado de Assis (2012)

Uma das maiores obras da literatura brasileira e mundial. Dom Casmurro é considerado por muitos a obra prima de Machado de Assis e...

A Lone Tree Falls Michael Graeme (2022)

Former intelligence analyst, George Swift, is on the trail of the secret beyond all secrets. Retired from the service, he returns ...

A Daughter of the Land Gene Stratton-Porter (1924)

Katherine Bates, household slave, though daughter of a land king, sets out against odds to win what she wishes from life: home, ch...

Collected Short Stories volume I Barry Rachin (2016)

 Pearl Singleton, a forest ranger at the Pemberton Wildlife Preserve, is going to show eighteen year old Shawn Mariano her Osborn...

On the Decay of the Art of Lying Mark Twain (1910)

In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend&#...

Poisoned Parrots Felix Lane (2021)

'The nature of  The Poisoned Parrot  can grind you down, and it is very hard not...

Other World Garden Urthark (2011)

Set mainly in and around Washington, DC, at the end of the second and beginning of the third millennium and on an unknown planet i...

Thoughts Left Unsaid Alex Exley (2011)

“Thoughts Left Unsaid” is a mainstream story about two middle-aged men, David and Phil, friends since college, who have recently h...

Digital Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde (2016)

Digital Dorian Gray is meant to introduce readers to a new experience of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel. If you have never r...

The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald (1940)

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s second novel, published in 1922, examines how decadence and nostalgia affect the marriage between Anthony an...

The Narcissist David Antonelli (2010)

Jean is a young aspiring “American in Paris” whose entire existence is turned on its head when he returns from Algeria to be with ...

The Story Girl L.M. Montgomery (1910)

It narrates the adventures of a group of young cousins and their friends who live in a rural community on Prince Edward Island, Ca...

Christmas for the Byrds Ember-Raine Winters (2017)

Kate I had a great life. A great job, and the best friends a girl could ask for. The only thing missing? Adam. That all changed in...

The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu (2023)

The Tale of Genji is a classic work of Japanese literature written in the early 11th century by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting...

Aliens William McFee (1901)

The story of two Carville brothers, one of them a sea-faring man whose Italian wife and two little boys live next door to the arti...

El Periquillo Sarniento El Pensador Mexicano (2016)

Considerada su obra cumbre, en el prólogo de este primer tomo, el autor nos invita a leer su obra con estas palabras: "Esta o...

Hard Times Charles Dickens (1853)

A bitter and scathing satire on the belief in "Facts, nothing but Facts" in education, the results developed in a tale o...

The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1883)

The novel modelled by author's hands, the Russian novel, became the great modern instrument for showing the very age and body...

The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka (2023)

Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His astonishment with this discovery wanes, howeve...

El Maestro del Amor Don Nieve (2020)

(Historia de Autoayuda, Autoestima, y Humor) Un joven se ve abocado a una terrible depresión, con motivo de su reciente separación...

Three Soldiers John dos Passos (1920)

This is a grimly realistic depiction of army life, the story follows a trio of idealistic young men as they contend with the regim...

Coin coin le vilain petit canard Christophe Siébert, Nicolas Le Golvan, Olivier Bkz, Clélie Vian, Xavier Bonnin, Laurent Voh An, Celine Mayeur, Joëlle Pétillot, Cyril Namiech & Antonella Fiori (2014)

"Ce sont les trucs qui ne ressemblent à rien de ce qu’on voit, les choses sur lesquelles on détourne le regard, qu’on s’absti...

An Excerpt from The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman (2014)

"A novel about the truths—some wonderful, some terrible—that children know and adults do not.” —Time Magazine “They say you c...

The Global View W.L. Liberman (2022)

Young Ephraim Goldman is the author of a perennial bestseller. A celebrated academic lion, he hobnobs with the movers and shakers ...

The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe & David Ramsay, Jr. (2013)

This edition of Poe's classic short story features a striking cover and beautiful typography throughout. Includes a brief aut...

The Song of the Cardinal Gene Stratton-Porter (1924)

A love ideal of the Cardinal bird and his mate, told with delicacy and humor.

Existential Terror and Breakfast M.P. Fitzgerald (2018)

Malcolm Steadman will dial the suicide hotline in 90 days. Also pancakes. Malcolm Steadman is a completely average everyman whose ...

The Trembling of a Leaf William Somerset Maugham (1921)

It is a collection of short stories set in the South Pacific. All deal with similar themes: the relationship between the islands’ ...

Take Us to a Better Place Madeline Ashby, Hannah Lillith Assadi, Calvin Baker, Frank Bill, Yoon Ha Lee, Karen Lord, Mike McClelland, Achy Obejas, David A. Robertson & Martha Wells (2020)

A profound and unforgettable original story collection about well-being and the future of health and the planet. With a foreword b...

Cannery Row John Steinbeck (2023)

"Cannery Row" is a novel by John Steinbeck that takes place during the Great Depression in Monterey, California. Publish...

The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Cornelius Tacitus (2005)

"The Agricola" is both a portrait of Julius Agricola - the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-...

Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë (1847)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Charlotte Brontë’s classic is like three novels in one. Above all, it’s a haunting Gothic tale set...

Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs (1913)

As THE BEASTS OF TARZAN begins, Tarzan—as Lord Greystoke—is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff an...

Demos George Gissing (1902)

It tells the story of a young, lower-class, Radical working-man, Richard Mutimer, who unexpectedly inherits a la...

New Chronicles of Rebecca Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1923)

Additional episodes in the girlhood of the delightful little heroine at Riverboro which were not included in the story of "Re...

La Metamorfosis Franz Kafka (2016)

El mismo Franza Kafka (1883-1924) declaró que toda su obra procede de los conflictos con su padre y de sus tenaces meditaciones so...

Mansfield Park Jane Austen (2021)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s novels are known for providing a witty and satirical glimpse into the interior lives...

The Wishing Tree Kay Bratt, Amanda Prowse, Tammy L. Grace, Barbara Hinske, Camille Di Maio & Ashley Farley (2022)

Wishes in branches tied with string. Someone's hopes. Another's dreams.   Welcome to Linden Falls, Vermont, the...

The Things We Leave Behind Tanya Anne Crosby (2020)

Zoe Rutherford has come to the end of her rope. Her relationship with Chris has reached the breaking point and it is time to leave...

A volta ao mundo em 80 dias Jules Verne (2017)

A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Dias, de Júlio Verne (Jules Verne), é uma aventura que roda o mundo, ou parte dele, e, na companhia de Phil...

The Moon is Down John Steinbeck (2023)

"The Moon is Down" is a novella written by John Steinbeck and was published in 1942 during the height of World War II. S...

Adjective Narcissism J.W. Carey (2014)

Within Adjective Narcissism, Carey pushes the boundaries of typically held beliefs, abusing the nature of his broken protagonist t...

Germinal Émile Zola (1912)

Germinal est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1885. Il s'agit du treizième roman de la série des Rougon-Macquart. Étienne...

Metamorphosis Franz Kafka (2015)

This edition of The Metamorphosis has been lovingly reproduced to take advantage of iPad technology. It’s layout is clean and cont...

Ethan Frome Edith Wharton (1937)

Ethan Frome is set in a fictional New England town named Starkfield, where an unnamed narrator tells the story of his encounter wi...

Dream Interpretation Leah Jane Esau (2014)

Short fiction nominated for the 2014 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Jury Citation: "Compressed and expansive ...

The Portrait of a Lady Henry James (1879)

When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as a place of b...

Death in Venice Thomas Mann (2021)

A famous author in his early fifties travels to Venice alone and succumbs to a deep obsession with an exquisitely beautiful adoles...

The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe (2015)

"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Satur...

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