Best or highly recommended free Kindle books

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<p>There have been a variety of “best book” threads here, so here’s one more. For those of you who have downloaded free books for your Kindles, which ones did you enjoy most?</p>

<p>I’ve only downloaded a couple, so the first to add to the list is Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.</p>

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<p>Thru Jan 10, Kaplan is offering a variety of their prep books free for Kindle, Sony eReader, Nook and iPad.</p>

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<p>I just downloaded for free Your Accepted by Katie Malachuk. Haven’t read it yet but it looks good. Kindle Nation on facebook lists a the current and new free books. I find that while I download a lot of free books I haven’t got time to read them and typically stick to the ones I have paid for.</p>

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<p>I’m downloaded a LOT of free books. I’m currently reading “Madame Bovary.” I’d never read it. I’m enjoying it. </p>

<p>I also really enjoyed the “Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.” Again, I’d never read it. It’s not as well written as I’d hoped, but I did learn a lot. </p>

<p>LOTS of Elizabeth Von Arnim books are free. I first learned about her from reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (not free). “Enchanted April” is probably her most famous. The one referenced in “Guernsey” is “Elizabeth and Her German Garden.” </p>

<p>I also really enjoyed “My Double Life,” the biography of Sarah Bernhardt;
“The Wisdom of Father Brown,” by GK Chesterton. I’ve also read a fair number of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell’s books. They are sort of the Harlequin Romances of their day, but I enjoyed them, especially “Wives and Daughters.” </p>

<p>I also downloaded all of Jane Austen and tons of Trollope. </p>

<p>That should keep you busy for a while!!!</p>

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<p>jonri if you could pick one Trollope to suggest to a Trollope neophyte, what would it be?</p>

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<p>I bought my mother a Kindle and downloaded the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes stories onto it for her. It’s a lot of good reading and it’s free!</p>

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<p>Not Jonri, but I would start with The Warden and then Barchester Towers.</p>

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<p>Thanks, Wayoutwestmom, for the Kaplan tip. Large number of free resources for both kids, and for myself.</p>

<p>How do you learn about things like the Kaplan promotion?</p>

<p>We’ve only had Kindles since Christmas. I purchased one for each child, but I keep stealing D1s, so I have to get my own. I’m finding it to be a very comfortable way to read material in pdf form for a professional exam I have to take. I am going to have to buy a Kindle for myself.</p>

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<p>Volleyballmom,</p>

<p>I downloaded around 40 free books to my new Kindle. Son enjoyed Alice in Wonderland. I am rereading Uncle Tom’s Cabin and am blown away by it. Blessings upon Harriet Beecher Stowe. I haven’t read yet but did download Sherlock Holmes, The Count of Monte Cristo (great read!), the complete Poe (wow!), some Kipling, a bunch of Jack London, the original Wizard of Oz, and a bunch of interesting stuff like the Sayings of Confucious. Man this is some fun! Good luck and let us know what you download=).</p>

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<p>My heart is warmed by the plethora of 19th century fiction being downloaded. So many wonderful characters and plots…may I recommend Wilkie Collins to anyone who likes Sherlock Holmes? </p>

<p>And if you liked Frankenstein, you might try the original Dracula. Much less philosophy…</p>

<p>Jonri – If you like Gaskell, try Maria Edgeworth…start with ‘Castle Rackrent.’</p>

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<p>pumpkin - I highly recommend Kindle Nation on Facebook. They list all the new free books as they are released on a daily basis. They are actually quite annoying how often they post. Join facebook for that reason alone or read their blog at blogspot it is called Kindle Nation Daily. I also get info on free books from [url=&lt;a href=“http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/08/saturday-morning-round-up-of-offers-for-your-kindle/]Saturday”&gt;http://ireaderreview.com/2011/01/08/saturday-morning-round-up-of-offers-for-your-kindle/]Saturday</a> morning round-up of offers for your Kindle Kindle Review – Kindle 3 Review, Kindle vs Nook<a href=“cc%20may%20delete%20link%20to%20blog”>/url</a>. You can also sort books for the kindle by cost so the free books are listed first.</p>

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<p>Granted my kids say I am computer challenged, but I can’t find the free promotion from Kaplan on their website. </p>

<p>I just finished the first volume of Poe. Enjoyed it very much. Have also downloaded some classics (some read before and some never read)…Uncle Tom’s Cabin, some HG Wells, and some Austen.</p>

<p>Great thread. Have just had Kindle since Christmas and am enjoying it very much. My only two complaints are that the key symbols on keyboard are difficult for me to see and I thought d. and I would be able to share books. But since neither of us wants to share our Amazon account it isn’t happening. Could I set up a different Amazon account just to use for our Kindles? And then reregister devices?</p>

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If you go to Amazon Kindle store, search for Kaplan, then sort by price low to high they will be at the top of your list.</p>

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<p>Yes.</p>

<p>I also downloaded Uncle Tom’s Cabin but haven’t read it yet. I’ve seen so many versions of Dickens’ *A Christmas Carol *but have never read the book, so that’s in a queue in my Kindle.</p>

<p>My favorite free book has been Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all the good suggestions. I’ve just downloaded the 2 Trollope books and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.</p>

<p>I had downloaded Dracula at the same time as Frankenstein, just haven’t read it yet. And in a moment of madness I also downloaded War and Peace. </p>

<p>Now to find the time to read!</p>

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<p>I have been gorging on books since getting my kindle last month. Can’t believe the wealth of books out there. I’ve been reading books by my favorite authors and new ones I wouldn’t have access to otherwise and they are all free. I read a bunch of Horatio Alger, Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser, Tent Life in Siberia by George Keenan-(this is a gem-written in 1865, the author was college age when this was written!), and a bunch of Slave Narratives which were part of the writers’ project from WPA. </p>

<p>I have about 80 books, mostly free and written 100 years or so ago on my kindle waiting to be read. I am just amazed at the possibilities of this little piece of electronics. It’s completely changing how and what I am reading.</p>

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<p>The hardest part! (Especially for me since I received a netflix subscription and an Apple TV for Christmas/birthday…)</p>

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<p>One of my friends went through a long period where she read a book a day.
I can’t even imagine- I didn’t read a whole book for years, because I didn’t have time( and less short term memory)- I read short stories. ( which I still love- a well crafted short story has a bigger impact than a sloppy novel or work of non fiction)</p>

<p>I do have some free books on my kindle app for my ipod ( and some $.99 apps with lots of short stories & or classic novels), but I admit Ihaven’t read many yet-
[Project</a> Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader](<a href=“http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page]Project”>http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page)</p>

<p>many libraries also offer e-books
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/books/15libraries.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/books/15libraries.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for the Dreiser suggestion! I’d been thinking just this fall that I wanted to re-read Sister Carrie, and now I have it for free. Just got it and also The Financier.</p>

<p>I’ve also picked up all the free cookbooks–they’re not much for cooking but kind of fun to look at–San Francisco restaurants in the old days, Belgian refugees in England during WWII.</p>

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<p>Thanks mamom and Nrdsb4!</p>