50 Free Books To Be Thankful For

By Jason Boog 

What book are you thankful for this year? We’ve created a giant flowchart to help you browse the top 50 free eBooks at Project Gutenberg. Don’t forget to share your Thanksgiving book at the #ReaderThanks hashtag

Click the image above to see a larger version of our book map. Your choices range from Charles Dickens to Jane Austen, from Sherlock Holmes to needlework. Below, we’ve linked to all 50 free eBooks so you can start downloading right now. The books are available in all major eBook formats.

Follow this link to see an online version of the flowchart, complete with links to the the individual books.

Follow these links to explore more free eBooks at Project Gutenberg: our Free Books for Halloween collection, our Free Herman Melville books list, our Free Edgar Allan Poe books collection, our Downton Abbey poetry reading list, our Free Bram Stoker collection and our Free Books That Inspired David Foster Wallace list and Free Books Neil deGrasse Tyson Thinks Everybody Should Read.

Top 50 Books on Project Gutenberg

  1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  2. How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
  3. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana
  4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
  6. The Red Lottery Ticket by Fortune Du Boisgobey
  7. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  8. Ulysses by James Joyce
  9. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  10. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  12. Beowulf
  13. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  14. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  15. The Revelation of Saint John by the Apostle John
  16. Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville
  17. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
  18. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  19. A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  20. Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens
  21. Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by Elsie Finnimore Buckley
  22. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  23. Happy-go-lucky
  24. The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version
  25. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  26. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  27. The Story of an Ancient Parish by H. R. Coulthard
  28. The Quest of the Four
  29. The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri
  30. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  31. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  32. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  33. Josefine Mutzenbacher by Felix Salten
  34. In the Foreign Legion by Erwin Rosen
  35. With Fire and Sword by Samuel H. M. Byers
  36. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  37. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company
  38. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  39. Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
  40. Black Star’s Campaign by Johnston McCulley
  41. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
  42. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  43. Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D’Ooge
  44. The White Canoe by Alan Sullivan
  45. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  46. English Literature by William J. Long
  47. Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese de Dillmont
  48. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  49. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  50. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie