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> **Original source:** https://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about/free_books.html?utm_source=openai

Did you know that Google Books has **more than 10 million free books available for users** to read and download? And we're adding more all of the time!

Google's free books are made available to read through careful consideration of and respect for copyright law globally: they are public-domain works, made free on request of the copyright owner, or copyright-free, e.g. US government documents.

## Search the full set of free books here:

Here are some sample queries to get you started:

-   [Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Alfred+Lord+Tennyson)
-   [Beatrix Potter](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Beatrix+Potter)
-   [Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman)
-   [Frederick Douglass](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Frederick+Douglass)
-   [Harriet Beecher Stowe](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Harriet+Beecher+Stowe)
-   [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Mary+Wollstonecraft+Shelley)
-   [Robert Louis Stevenson](https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbs=bkv:r&q=Robert+Louis+Stevenson)

More information on downloading PDFs and EPUBs for the free books you discover can be found in the [Google Books Help Center](https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/43729?hl=en).