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Giant List Free Classic Literature Ebooks for Your Homeschool

2/13/2017

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I'll be the first to admit that I prefer a read book in my hands over an eBook. That being said, I also take advantage of the many, many free classic eBooks that are available. I like having a couple of books loaded on my phone and tablet at all times, and here is how I use them:
  • When I get stuck in the car behind a stopped train (a very common incident in my town) and the kids are restless, I can read a tale aloud from one of James Baldwin's 50 Famous Stories Retold and pass it off to my oldest kid to finish reading when the train gets moving.
  • When I wake up at night, I can read a little bit from the novel I'm working on without bothering with a flashlight. In the last few months, I have reread Huckleberry Finn,  Tom Sawyer, Pride and Prejudice, and  Sense and Sensibility this way.
  • When on vacation, having a book on my phone means that I have one less thing to pack. Jane Eyre is a great book to read on a plane.
  • I have Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer loaded on my phone because sometimes I feel like reading a poem.
  • My kids don't have eReaders yet, but when they do, there are plenty of good titles to load on their devices so they always have something to read. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of OZ, The Jungle Book, The Secret Garden, and The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault are a few great titles to start with. As they grow, there are so many other titles that they can read for school or for fun.
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This list of Free classics contains a whole range of titles and genres. While many of the titles are for middle school and up, some are appropriate for young students, too.

Disclaimer: All books were free at the time of publication. Post contains affiliate links.
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Complete Works of Jane Austen
​Aesop's Fables
Of Plymouth Plantation William Bradford
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ L Frank Baum
The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
50 Famous People James Baldwin
Old Greek Stories James Baldwin
50 Famous Stories Retold James Baldwin
Six Centuries of English Poetry Tenneyson to Chaucer James Baldwin
Poems of William Blake
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carrol
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Collection Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexander Dumas
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Poems of Emily Dickinson
Middlemarch George Eliot
Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature Ralph Waldo Emerson
This Side of Paradise F Scott Fitzgerald
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz F Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button F Scott Fitzgerald
​The Beautiful and the Damned ​F Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
Tales of a Traveler Washington Irving
The Federalist Papers Alexander Hamilton
The Odyssey Homer
The Illiad Homer
Ulysses James Joyce
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
The Call of the Wild  Jack London
The Prince Nicolo Machiavelli
Moby Dick Herman Melville
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
​Common Sense Thomas Paine
The Republic Plato
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Includes all 38 plays and and a collection of sonnets)
Walden Henry David Thoreau 
Civil Disobedience Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Pudd'nhead Wilson Mark Twain
The Complete Works of Mark Twain (13 Classic Works)
The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America Vol 1 and Vol 2 Alexis de Tocqueville
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
The United States Constitution
Journey to the Center of the Earth Jules Verne
The War of the Worlds HG Wells
The Sleeper Awakes HG Wells
A Modern Utopia HG Wells
The Time Machine HG Wells
The Picture of Dorain Gray Oscar Wilde
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
​Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
How do you use eBooks in your homeschool? What are some of your favorite free eBooks?
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Linked to: Inspire Me Mondays,  Mommy Monday, Literacy Musings, ​Wise Woman Link-Up, Finishing Strong
6 Comments
A Narrow-Minded Woman link
2/13/2017 08:51:41 am

Love this list! We certainly live in wonderful time. No time before has had such access and inexpensive access to such great material. :D

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Michelle link
2/15/2017 02:40:38 pm

I agree! It feels like I have access to a library at all times!

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Leah Courtney link
2/14/2017 02:22:19 pm

This is an awesome list! I'm pinning it.
I'm stopping by from the Hip Homeschool Hop.

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Michelle link
2/15/2017 02:39:26 pm

Thanks Leah! Thanks for stopping by too!

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Angela Howard link
2/16/2017 12:09:28 pm

A great list - if you are homeschooling or not. Visiting from #LMM today :) Thank you!

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Brandi Raae link
2/16/2017 06:01:54 pm

Thanks so much for sharing this list at Literacy Musing Mondays!

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