Here you can find books you can read for free on your computer, without having to go to a library or bookstore, and without anyone stopping you (unless your computer or network blocks the Internet site). These books are either online with the permission of the copyright holder, or they're in the public domain. Censorship attempts for some of these books were made long ago, but some have been subject to more recent censorship attempts.
| Title | Author | First published | Recent incident |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | 1623 | 1996 |
| Family Limitation | Margaret Sanger | 1914 | 1915 |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | 1476 | 1995 |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1885 | 1998 |
| The Iron Heel | Jack London | 1908 | 1933 |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes | 411 BCE | 1967 |
| Areopagitica | John Milton | 1644 | 1644 |
| Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | 1881 |
| Candide | Voltaire | 1759 | 1944 |
| The 1619 Project | Nikole Hannah-Jones (ed.) | 2019 | 2020 |
| The Qur'an | 7th century CE | 2023 | |
| The Bible | 4th century CE | 2023 | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | 1920 |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1852 | 1857 |
Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu), who is solely responsible for its content.
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