I often find it nice to have books on hand to read but I don’t want to have a ton of books in my house.  After all I already have 2 tall and 3 short bookshelves filled.  My house can’t take anymore and it is not always convenient to run to the library.  So I have located some of the classics online for free.  Here’s my list I have so far.

White Fang

A Little Princess

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Animal Farm

Anne of Green Gables

At the Back of the North Wind

 The Pilgrim’s Progress

English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

 The Swiss Family Robinson

Five Children and It

 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

Understood Betsy

 Through the Looking Glass

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

 The War of the Worlds

Heidi (This was a favorite of mine as a child)

 The Wind in the Willows

The Hound of Baskervilles

Little Men

 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

The Princess and the Goblin

 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

 The Bobbsey Twins at School by Laura Lee Hope

The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

 Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain

 A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The Odyssey by Samuel Butler

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden

 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 The Real Mother Goose

Grimm’s Fairy Tales

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Jane Eyre

 Sense and Sensibility

Anderson’s Fairy Tales

 Or you could pick an audio version of Anderson’s Fairy Tales

Aesop’s Fables (text or audio)

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Reading Literature – The Primer includes these stories The Little Red Hen, The Gingerbread Boy, the Old Woman and The Pig, The Boy and the Goat, The Pancake, Chicken Little, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Little Tuppens, Little Spider’s First Web

 Reading Literature – First Reader includes these stories The Three Little Pigs, The Town Mouse and The Country Mouse, The Cat and The Mouse, and many more

Everyday Classics Primer includes these stories The Three Bears, Jack and Jill, The Tar Baby, The Night before Christmas, and more.

Four Great Americans by James Baldwin

Little Women

 Men of Iron by Howard Pyle

 Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren

 Famous Men of Rome by John Haaren

 The Story of Rome by Mary Macgregor