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Public Domain Book Recommendations (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/books
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I'm currently trying to get better at reading and am doing that by accumulating a library of public domain books, since they're free and easily available.

  • If you have a specific work you love that was published pre-1928, or is currently not under copyright, feel free to comment it down below.

  • if you have any authors you think are worth reading, also post them below.

I'm currently reading Jack London's "War of the Classes", and I have "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde downloaded for later.

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[–] Tolstoshev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This one is under a Creative Commons non commercial license and available for free. Plus it’s one of my top 10 books of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_and_Out_in_the_Magic_Kingdom

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I remember reading "Little Brother" In high school. It's very cool of Cory Doctorow to let people read his work for free on his website.

Thank you for recommending this. I'll have to check it out.