A list of books we like that you can read for free. Most of these books don’t have their own posts on this site. All can be read online for free. Some can be freely downloaded. Others can be borrowed (usually via archive.org) to read online.
The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America and to Their Uses and Cultivation, by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
Inventors at Work, Interviews with 16 Notable American Inventors, by Kenneth A. Brown (1988)
The Story of the Universe, Told by Great Scientists and Popular Authors, Volume III, The Earth’s Garment: Flora, collected and edited by Esther Singleton (1905)
The Universal One, by Walter Russell (1926)
Essential Survival Skills (2011)
Flirtation, seduction, betrayal : interviews with heroes and villains, by Nigel Farndale (2002)
Slapdash Sewing, by Carol Barkin and Elizabeth James (1975)
The 100 most influential people who never lived, by Kelly Knauer (2013)
The cornbread gospels, by Crescent Dragonwagon (2007)
Know Your Enemy and Improvise Your Own Defence, Also First Aid and Handy Hints for Home Repairs, by State Government of South Australia (1942)
The Boy Mechanic, Vol. I, 700 Things for Boys to Do and 800 Illustrations Showing How, by Popular Mechanics (1913)
Heroes of Peace, by Archer Wallace (1929)
The natural history of the farm, A guide to the practical study of the sources of our living in wild nature, by James G. Needham (1916)
The Pyschotronic Encyclopedia of Film (1983)
A Dictionary of Thoughts, by Tryon Edwards (1907)
Forty Thousand Quotations, by Charles Noel Douglas (1917)
Six Centuries of Work and Wages, The History of English Labour, by James E. Thorold Rogers (1884)
Flowers of the Field, by Johns and Boulger (1910)
The Romance of Words, by Ernest Weekley (1912)
Emotion as the Basis of Civilization, by J.H. Denison (1928) — “This book seeks to discover the methods that have been used in the past to cultivate the emotions that are of value in social construction, and to stimulate the reader to consider what emotions are essential to the success of our modern democracies.”
Passive solar retrofit, how to add natural heating and cooling to your home, by Darryl J. Strickler (1982)
The Magic Image, The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day, by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland (1975)
In Defense of Women, by H.L. Mencken (1922)
Various Books on Wilderness Survival
The Children’s Library of Work and Play, Outdoor Work, by Mary Rogers Miller (1911), TOC: 
Make it yourself, 900 things to make and Do, 823 Illustrations (1927). “Easily understood directions for building attractive ship models, toys that move, novel amusement devices for outdoors and indoors, furniture for children, useful articles for the home and hundreds of other things that will delight those who are mechanically inclined”
Great Fortunes and how they were made, or the Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men, by James D. McCabe, Jr (1872)
Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (1907)
The World Unbalanced, by Gustave LeBon (1924)
Sixty Years of an Agitator’s Life, by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
Castles, With 105 Illustrations, 67 Drawings 5 Plans, 2 Coloured Plates, and 2 Maps, by Charles Oman (1926)
The Community: An Introduction To The Study Of Community Leadership And Organization, by Eduard C. Lindeman (1921)
Living Thoughts of Leading Thinkers, by S. Pollock Linn (1880)
Outlines of Lessons in Botany, by Jane H. Newell (1893)
The History of Co-operation, by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
The Hobo: the sociology of a homeless man, by Nels Anderson (1923)
A Book of Escapes and Hurried Journeys, by John Buchan (1922)
Famous Actors & Actresses And Their Homes, by Gustav Kobbe (1903)
Your Pay Envelope, by John R. Meader (1914)
Terry’s Shortcut to Spanish, by T. Philip Terry (1920)
Wood and Forest, by William Noyes (1928) — “An attempt to collect and arrange in available form useful information, now widely scattered, about our common woods, their sources, growth, properties, and uses.”
Sound and Its Relation to Music, by Clarence G. Hamilton (1912)
The Ku Klux Klan, by John Mofatt Mecklin (1924)
Money the Acid Test, by David McConaughy (1919) — “All life is a stewardship. Vital energy in whatever form—whether physical or. mental, moral or spiritual—is a trust from God.”
Sun Lore of All Ages, by William Tyler Olcott
Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees, by George Massee (1915)
Man and His Superstitions, by Carveth Read (1925)
Forest Physiography, Physiography of the United States and Principles of Soils in Relation to Forestry, by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
What Women Want, an Interpretation of the Feminist Movement, by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1914)
Clouds, A Descriptive Illustrated Guide-Book to the Observation and Classification of Clouds, by George Aubourne Clarke (1920)
The Book of Snobs, by William Makepeace Thackeray (1887)
Public School Arithmetic, by Baker and Bourne (1910)
The Scottish Minstrel, a Selection from the Vocal Melodies of Scotland, Vols. III and IV, by R.A. Smith (1831)
Cugle’s Practical Navigation, by Charles H. Cugle (1924) — “The purpose of this book is to lay before the student all the rules and problems in navigation used in everyday work at sea, with short definitions of the theory of navigation and other useful information that the young officer should know.”
The Book of Birds, Birds of Town and Country, The Warblers, and American Game Birds, with 331 Color Portraits of North American Birds and 129 Illustrations in Black and White, from National Geographic (1927)
The Family Handyman Complete Do It Yourself Manual
Helping Nature Heal, An Introduction to Environmental Restoration, A Whole Earth Catalog (1991)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Letters to her sister, 1846-1859 (1929)
Love, A Scientific and Living Philosophy of Love and Sex, by Lao Russell (1966) — From a Christian perspective
An index of possibilities: energy and power, by Catalogue (Organization) (1975)
