Merry Christmas from the Steemit Book Project & 35 Free Books

in books •  7 years ago  (edited)


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Merry Christmas from the Steemit Book Project! 🎄
Hopefully you've received some books as presents and you're stocked up for the cold winter days ahead. There's nothing like reading under a blanket!

But whether you were given books or not, I do know that sometimes money can be tight and you can't afford to buy books. So here is my present to you: a list of 35 books that I've enjoyed and are free to download (legally 😉). I hope you able to try at least one book in this list. If you don't know where to start, you can't go wrong with Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog). Here's the full list:

Nonfiction

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places by Allan Fea
The Scientific American Boy by A. Russell Bond
What to do and How to do it by Daniel Beard

Mystery

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux

Historical Fiction

In Freedom's Cause by G. A. Henty
At Agincourt
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Fiction

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The People of the Mist by Henry Rider Haggard
The Queen's Cup by G. A. Henty
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
No Name by Wilkie Collins

Humour

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Sci-fi

From Earth to Moon & Round the Moon by Jules Verne
Off on a Comet by Jules Verne
Rip Foster rides the Grey Planet by Harold Goodwin
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man
With the Night Mail by Rudyard Kipling (short story)

Fantasy

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Beyond the Summerland by L. B. Graham (first book in a series)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame


The Steemit Book Project was started by @carn and its goal is to make books more available to everyone. All the profits of this and any other post by @steemitbooks will be used to buy books to donate to Open Library. For more info about the project and ways you can help read the project's introduction post.

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Really a great example of inspiring other to do good jobs.You are great because after making a list you offered some good books for downloading .Steemit needs activist like you.I appreciate you. Today I will buy a headlight for reading book under blanket

Sounds like a great service you are offering, @steemitbooks!

I've upvoted and resteemed this article for you, and am following you now, too.
Cheers!
@mitneb

Thank you! Amazing list
I recommend Jane Eyre ♥️