This is our list of the 71 (Free & Paid) Non-Fiction Books that Everyone Should Read, in no particular order. Free ones are available as a red underlined link, likewise, the paid ones will be just listed as they are. While these aren’t the most original or arcane selections, they’re ones you’ll almost certainly be glad you checked out.
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What to Read – Mental Health in Literary Fiction Classics: A Psychiatry Resident’s Perspective
In no specific order, please find 19 literary fiction classics on mental health from a psychiatry resident’s perspective below. Do take note that this is not our typical “free ebook” compilation post, but more of a “What to Read” kind of post. However, a link will be provided should the book is freely and legally available.
123 Most Popular Free Ebooks from Guternberg
123 Most Popular hand-picked most popular free titles from Project Gutenberg, ranging from classics, fiction, philosophy, poems, politics, economics, history, essays and many more!
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This is a huge compilation of free public domain / classic ebooks, primarily from the leading online library of Gutenberg. Among these thousand of ebooks, we’ve covered 8 popular genres, namely mythology, classics, history, memoirs & autobiographies, science fiction, poetry, young adult and christmas.
Three Men in a Boat
The novel itself is a brisk, light-hearted, and funny account of a two-week boating holiday taken by three friends up the Thames river.
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"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." - Robert Frost You can read online the complete text of books that have won major literary prizes, like the Newbery Award, the Nobel Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize....
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The Pulp Magazines Project
"Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature." - Fran Lebowitz The Pulp Magazines Project is an open-access digital archive dedicated to the study and preservation of one of the twentieth...
23,469 Classics To Go
"All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time." - John Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies"We take 23,469 classic books, package them up, and make them all available to download and read with our fully featured ereader. All with...