Giant List Free Classic Literature Ebooks for Your Homeschool

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.

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.

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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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