Free ebooks to read online
Learning to read in English is one of the most important components when learning to speak English. Reading as you know is the most important and effective way to learn vocabulary. Below is a list of free ebooks in English to read. Please feel free to read and improve your English. The books contain many new words and vocabulary. Here is a translaor link to help you read the books and understand any new vocabulary you may find. TRANSLATOR
Also, please take a look at my monthly blog post readings. There are a variety of subjects and exercises to help you improve your English. BLOG
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BOOK ONE : Animal Farm by George Orwell
Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
BOOK TWO: 1984 by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale written by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell’s ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.
BOOK THREE: Around the world in eighty days by Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg, an adventurer, hopes to travel the entirety of the world and return to the starting point within a time period of merely 80 days.
BOOK FOUR: Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula
BOOK FIVE: On the black hill by Bruce Chatwin
It is the life story of Lewis and Benjamin Jones, twins who are born, live and die on their farm, ‘The Vision’, on the borderlands of Wales and England. In the book Chatwin cuts deep into a notion of Welshness, of rural isolated living, of an almost Druidic connection to the breathing earth
BOOK SIX: Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones’s Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the form of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman living in London. She writes about her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships.
BOOK SEVEN: Robinson Cruso by Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. This is the book that the movie “Castaway” was based on staring Tom Hanks.
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BOOK EIGHT: Gulliver’s Travels by Johnathan Swift
Written in the Year 1727.
I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your
great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect
account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university
to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in
his book called “A Voyage round the world.”
BOOK NINE: Three Men in a Boat By Jerome K. Jerome.
Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim to one hundred and seven fatal
maladies.—Useful prescriptions.—Cure for liver complaint in children.—We agree that we
are overworked, and need rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the
River.—Montmorency lodges an objection.—Original motion carried by majority of three to
one.
There were four of us—George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and
Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about
how bad we were—bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.