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FAMOUS AUTHORS

  • Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
  • The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
  • Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
  • Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
  • Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
  • Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
  • Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
  • Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
  • The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
  • Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
  • Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
  • Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
  • Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
  • Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

TEXTBOOKS

MATH AND SCIENCE

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
  • Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
  • International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
  • Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

PLAYS

  • ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
  • Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
  • Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
  • ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

MODERN FICTION, FANTASY AND ROMANCE

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

HISTORY AND CULTURE

  • LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
  • The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
  • Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
  • Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
  • Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

  • Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

  • Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
  • Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
  • Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
  • 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
  • Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
  • Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
  • Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
  • Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

MYSTERY

  • MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
  • TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
  • Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

POETRY

  • The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
  • Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
  • Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
  • Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
  • Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
  • QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
  • CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
  • PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

  • Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
  • World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
  • DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
  • A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
  • Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
  • ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
  • Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
  • Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

Thank you, angel who made this.

Oh!! Oh!! I wanna book rec!! How about Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda, or a contemporary book with a modern setting that feels kinda like Anne of Green Gables/Little Women? Yknow, something Warm

the-real-xmonster:

Sure! Something similar to Simon, eh… how about Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz? Or any of the YA books by Rainbow Rowell, I’d say Fangirl or Carry On (note: an FAQ regarding these two books is: do I need to read one in order to read the other? The answer to that is no. They can totally be enjoyed as standalone works). I’m sorry if you’ve read all of those books (every YA fan I know seems to have done so); my knowledge of YA fiction is awfully basic – I only ever read whichever title that pops up on a bestseller list.

Something warm? Well great, this is easier, though I have to warn you in advance that “cozy” is not an adjective anyone would associate with me, so my definition of warmth might be a tad off track. Still, I’d recommend Rules of Civility by Amor Towles and Peony by Pearl S. Buck. Both of these novels are set in a historical period, though not that historical (Civility is set in the 1930s and Peony in 19th century China). Both have a flowing, tranquil story line delivered in exceptionally silky smooth prose that’d suck you in and keep you religiously turning the pages. Along the same line, I’d also suggest a lesser known work, The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder). It shares much of the same quality as the two books I just mentioned, except it’s more modern (the setting is in the 1990s), and it’s a lot shorter – just in case you’re looking for a fast read.

Have fun (and warmth) reading!

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unhappy-mordred:

unhappy-mordred:

unhappy-mordred:

unhappy-mordred:

so I had an idea for a regency romance novel that I really want to read but it doesn’t seem to exist so now I guess I have to write it

and after brainstorming with @romancingthebookworm for a bit she suggested that I post about it to try to drum up interest and keep myself accountable while I write it so here goes:

an older duke/earl/whatever it doesn’t matter and his (teenage? 20-something?) son are killed in a freak accident outside of London and their bodies are disfigured beyond recognition. the son’s twin sister, in a desperate attempt to keep her family title out of the hands of a distant relative who for whatever reason is unsuitable, claims that she was the one who was killed, and takes her brother’s place and her father’s title

everything is going swimmingly for a couple of years, although eventually she knows that she’s going to have to find SOME way to continue her family line, until FEELINGS for another young lady threaten to put everything at risk

meanwhile, the girl she’s fallen for has gotten herself “in trouble,” if you know what I mean and is on the verge of scandal, herself

the two eventually each reveal their secrets to each other and strike a bargain, which they initially tell themselves is a marriage of convenience to protect both their names, but of course eventually LESBIANS. or really, LESBIAN/BISEXUAL, which is even more exciting to me.

thoughts?

IT’S SHIPPING NOW

if you are interested in the physical copy, you can get it here

(Kindle edition is still in the works, but coming soon!)

reminder that the Kindle book is out now!

also, if you’ve read the book already and enjoyed it, it would really mean the world to me if you would leave a review!

#just bought it!!#also holy shit this was surprisingly inspiring bc noah fence but i thought it was another novel idea that would stay an idea#but you??? literally held yourself to the task and did it like holy shit

noah fence taken! it was a labor of love, but knowing so many people were into the idea definitely helped keep me going

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jackthebard:

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl.
There are only fake geek boys.
Science fiction was invented by a woman.

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

Isaac Asimov.

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole – oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.

The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

Got that?

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

the first extended prose piece – ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

arachnescurse:

awaywardmind:

new genre concept: soft apocalypse

the world as we know it has ended and mother nature starts taking back what’s hers. there are no zombies or cannibals or murderous bandits. the most valued members of the community are those who know how to garden and farm, sew and weave, treat wounds, work wood or build with bricks, cook from scratch. 

people bond together to begin rebuilding instead of killing each other. everyone teaches each other whatever they do know and works together to figure out the stuff none of them know. books become incredibly valued resources because they’re often the only way to learn critical information. if someone is elderly, disabled, or otherwise unable to work at the same level as most of the community, they’re taken care of by the others, not told any sort of “survival of the fittest” bs.

as the generations ware on, communities begin expanding into small cities. some of the settlements even find ways to repurpose solar or wind power on a small scale and have electricity in some of their buildings. storytellers wander the countryside telling tales of the old world in return for some hot stew or a place to rest for the night, and the mythos of the new world start to incorporate elements of the past. the only thing that remains constant is that humans survive, and they do it by working together.

MAY I INTRODUCE YOU TO
YOKOHAMA KAIDASHI KIKOU

A CHILL AF MANGA ABOUT A ROBOT LADY RUNNING A COFFEE SHOP DURING THE DECLINE OF HUMANITY WHERE EVERYONE IS SUPER NICE AND HAPPY AND IT’S JUST REALLY LOVELY

IT IS LEGIT ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCI-FI WORKS AND A HUGE INSPIRATION FOR MY WRITING

IF YOU LIKE A QUIET END OF THE WORLD PLEASE CHECK IT OUT BLESS

Books with Butch Leads

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blueinthefaceangel:

This list is for thirsty butches and femmes who need to read a good book. You’re Welcome.

  1. All the Pretty Things Rae D Magdon
  2. Departure from Script by Jae
  3.  Second Nature by Jae
  4. Backwards to Oregon by Jae 
  5. The Cain Casey Series by Ali Vali
  6. Homecoming By Nell Stark
  7. The Princess and the Prix by Nell Stark
  8. Micky Knight Series by J.M Redmann
  9.  Emma Victor Book Series by Mary Wings
  10. Winds of Fortune by Radclyffe
  11. The Color of Love by Radclyffe
  12. Above All, Honor by Radclyffe
  13. Blind Eye Mystery series by Diane and Jacob Anderson-Minshall
  14. A Royal Romance by Jenny Frame
  15. Unexpected by Jenny Frame
  16. Royal Rebel by Jenny Frame
  17. Heart of the Pack by Jenny Frame
  18. Courting the Countess by Jenny Frame
  19. Sword of the Guardian by Merry Shannon
  20. Crybaby Butch by Judith Frank
  21.  The Harder She Comes: Butch Femme Erotica by D.L King
  22. Sometimes She Lets Me: Best Butch Femme Erotica by  Tristan Taormino 
  23. Back to Basics: A Butch-femme Anthology by  Therese Szymanski 
  24. A Touch of Temptation by Julie Blair 
  25. Playing Passion’s Game by Lesley Davis 
  26. Built to Last by Aurora Rey 
  27. Butch Girls Can Fix Anything by Paula Offutt 
  28. Goldenseal by Gill McKnight 
  29. Heart of the Game by Rachel Spangler 
  30. Choices Book Series by Skyy

op this is SUCH a lovely collection of fun romances.  i don’t usually comment on reblogs but i hope it’s cool if i expound on a couple that i’ve read just in case someone is looking at this list and isn’t sure where to start. there are just some things that are nice to know going in, that aren’t necessarily found in plot summaries.  

departure from the script by jae –  this is a very very VERY sweet story.  there really honestly isn’t a huge plot.  if you like mundane fanfiction-y type pieces, i would say this would suit you nicely.  it really is just two women meeting and slowly falling in love.  the other two books in the series (damage control and just physical) are a little meatier, though not butch/fem like this one. 

second nature by jae – a fun supernatural read!  and a little different than your usual werewolf/shapeshifter story. (the butch lead shifts into a liger.) fun read, pretty hot,  but it’s by jae so don’t expect a lot of steamy supernatural sex. it’s a little more plot heavy, and her stuff is almost always slow-burn with one concluding love scene

backwards to oregon by jae – honestly you can debate about whether this is about a butch lesbian or a transgender man, despite the author using ‘she’ pronouns in the narration.  it’s hard to assign gender in historical contexts though (this takes place on the oregon trail). the interpretation is ultimately up to you.  it’s a nice story however you read it.  it’s also by jae so it’s a slow burn as well.  also the lead is a former prostitute so warnings for a few attempts of rape/assault, and she spends almost the whole book pregnant which i wish i knew going in because i really hate reading pregnancy stories lmao just not for me. 

the cain casey series by ali vali – i only read the first book and it wasn’t my favourite thing ever, but it is a VERY popular series.  you have to accept that you are reading this for fantasy and escapism and nothing else.  it’s about a crime family and it’s cool i guess but i had a lot of problems with its character framing.  i also don’t like books that start AFTER a break-up, even if it’s about getting together again, because the entire narrative is saturated in angst, so you have to be in the mood for that. 

the princess and the prix by nell stark –  SO MUCH FUN! a princess and a race car driver!  that being said, neither lead is butch.  i imagine the race car driver is the closest character, and she is DEFINITELY a more masculine woman, but butch means something very specific and she isn’t that.  she is mad sexy, though, as is this book.  

coincidentally,  i would say the lead in the first princess book by nell stark, the princess affair, actually IS butch, at least more so than the one in princess and the prix.  she still doesn’t explicitly identify as such, but you can see the difference in their character. 

the color of love by radclyffe –  THE PLOT SUMMARY IS VERY MISLEADING and i’m still bitter about it lmao.  it’s a fun romance but given the summary, i thought it was about a fake marriage where they fall in love, which is always fun, but it’s not at all.  it’s really just two women meeting and falling in love normally.  i recommend it but i was disappointed when the whole reason i bought it (the fake marriage thing) wasn’t mentioned till the 80% mark and not even as an active thing lmao

BOOKS NUMBERED 14-18.  JENNY FRAME BOOKS.  okay, listen, her books, more than any, are the most explicit and outright butch/fem cheap penny paperback romance novels.  they are the cheesiest, fluffiest pieces of fiction you will ever read. they can be read in a single sitting because they’re easy to get through, and don’t require a lot of deep thought. you read them to relax and feel good.  they also always have butches and their fems together The Way We Like To Be, having sex The Way We Do, and engaging in our attraction That Way, and if you know what i mean Then You Know What I Mean and her books are for you.  they are sweet and loaded down with sexiness and cheesy as fuck.  really.  so so so so so cheesy. please don’t expect high lit.  she doesn’t write that and she seems to relish in it and i can damn well respect that. 

every single book of hers  is butch/fem, even those not on this list.  they’re cheap and they’re quick and they’re fun.  perfect rainy day reads, all of them.  (unexpected is also a pregnancy storyline, though, just fyi)

21-23 are anthologies and they are really great ones.  I won’t review every short story but they are perfect for this list because while there are dozens of lesbian erotic anthologies, and a few butch/fem ones, those are good places to start. 

goldenseal by gill mcknight –  ah, the garouls. lesbian werewolves by the truckload.  not necessarily explicitly butch/fem but certainly leads in that direction, what with the sexy broody werewolf lesbos.  there’s a few books in this series and they’re all pretty good.  if you only read one, though, i would personally recommend the second one, ambereye.  (also goldenseal has one kinda funny love scene that, like, is fine for steamy erotic werewolf sex fiction, but if someone pulled that crap with you in bed in real life you’d have to smack them and walk away, regardless of their sex appeal.) 

anyway, i won’t talk about them all.  i have some other fave butch/fem books (or similar to that, and a couple butch/butch as well!) so if someone ploughs through these and is still looking for more,  always feel free to message.

again, thank you, op!  also thank you for all the links!  i’m sure that wasn’t easy work, ha.  ❤ 

hlmoorewrites:

hlmoorewrites:

Doran had a problem, and it wasn’t that he’d been stabbed.

Iole City is in turmoil. Doran Ó Seanáin, leader of the Black Lung Gang, is determined to bring the Archon, Arajon’s tyrannical ruler, down for his brutal treatment of the miners. But Doran has more to deal with than getting stabbed and a city-wide lockdown that’s seeing his gang of ex-miners being slowly starved out of their base. His daughter Grace has turned against him, and the weight of his wife’s death haunts them both.

Things start to look up when he’s inexplicably drawn to Nathaniel Morgenstern, the apotheker with a mysterious past he owes his life to, but Doran is in way over his head. The fate of the mines hangs in the balance; the clock is ticking and the Archon is closing in.

Doran’s plan to break the cycle may very well be his last.

Heart of Dust is the first book in a fantasy m/m romance series, with a diverse cast including female, POC, and LGBT+ representation. H. L. Moore is an Australian Jewish WOC lesbian, who decided to take Jewish representation in fantasy literature into her own hands.

Heart of Dust is now available to purchase for both Kobo and Kindle!

If you don’t own a Kobo or Kindle ereader, that’s all right – you can download the apps for free to both Android and Apple smartphone/tablet devices.

If you are on Goodreads, please consider taking a moment to rate and review Heart of Dust. Thank you to everyone who has purchased the book, I’m so grateful for your support!

Heart of Dust is going on sale! 

The book will be available FREE TO DOWNLOAD from Kobo for one week only, 26th March until 1st April.

You can download it from this link, right here!

The sale will end on 1st April. Don’t miss out! And if you’re not sure, check out some of the reviews:

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gaysaey:

I’m reading this queer anthology and the first story is a fairytale about a queer Latina girl whose anger was so fierce it literally poisoned the rich white men who unfairly captured the transgender soldier she was in love with and my heart is literally bursting I’m going to cry

the second story is about two queer girls who leave their husbands-to-be at the altar and flee together on a boat to become pirates IM FUCKING SCREAMING THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF GAY CONTENT I SIGNED UP FOR

okay this is the anthology and it’s entirely written by queer authors and inspired by the stories of real queer teens in history and it’s the most wholesome and epic thing I’ve read in a long while

Amazing, I must read

*waiting for the yuri on stage fanfictions* 😏😏 (not a request)

victuurificrec:

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I know my requests are closed but I’m dyin over all the drama at the stage event so here are the fics that came out! (I’ll update this as the weekend goes by)

Yuri!!! On Stage Fics (The Chihoko Incident)

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Overcome Chihoko by reginar, renaissance, Teen, 2.7k
Yuuri has the words OVERCOME CHIHOKO written on his back, a pair of underpants on his head, and apparently Viktor’s gone missing.

rooftop by maladroitcore, Teen, 1k
Somehow, Yuuri is naked on the roof of Hasetsu Castle with Victor.

Overcome Chihoko by aliceofdeath (RengeAkai), Teen, 1.3k
Viktor gets drunk. Chihoko is mentioned. Viktor’s dick is out. And his fiancé is naked on top of the ninja castle with him.

WHO IS CHIHOKO? by pensversusswords, Teen, 1.4k (WIP)
Drabbles inspired by the Yuri on Stage event announcement. Viktor and Yuuri are jealous husbands, Seunggil is affectionate when drunk, and Viktor loves Yuuri’s off season tummy. All is good in the world.

affection for an idiot by harlequindreaming (armydoctor), Teen, 2.2k
“Is this better than Chihoko?” he yells down defiantly. Yuuri looks up at this impossibly irrational, petty and ridiculous man, who is apparently so in love with Yuuri that he’s willing to risk life, limb, and dignity to prove himself more worthy of Yuuri’s love. Against his better judgement, Yuuri starts to smile.“Who’s Chihoko?” he yells back. “I could search the whole world, Viktor, nobody is better than you!”

#Chihoko by Nomanono, Sintina, Teen, 3.1k
Jealousy and drunk exhibitionism happens in Hasetsu before the “Victor and Friends” ice exhibition.Victor ends up screaming naked from the top of a castle.