Book Explorer – Free Books to Read Online

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Pick fiction or non-fiction, then a genre, then a topic inside it. A book can sit in more than one genre.

The full library classification — every book has exactly one, more granular than Genre. Different counts for a same-named bucket here vs. Genre reflect two different systems, not an error.

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Stand on Zanzibar

John Brunner

1968 ★ 3.6

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

1993 ★ 4.7

Owl Moon

Jane Yolen

1987 ★ 4.2

Sons

Pearl S. Buck, Leslie H Woodson, Richard Hoffmann

1932

Song of the swallows

Leo Politi

1949 ★ 3.3

Ox-cart man

Barbara Conney, Donald Hall

1983 ★ 4.3

Hominids

Robert J. Sawyer

2002 ★ 3.3

Blue Mars

Kim Stanley Robinson

1996 ★ 3.2

Peony

Pearl S. Buck

1948

Get a life

Nadine Gordimer

2005

Smoky, the cow horse

Will James

1981

Le procès-verbal

J. M. G. Le Clézio

2009

The Shipping News

Annie Proulx

1993 ★ 4.0

Mei Li

Thomas Handforth

1938

The Summer of the Swans

Betsy Cromer Byars

1970 ★ 4.0

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Connie Willis

1997 ★ 3.7

Adam of the road

Elizabeth janet Gray

1942 ★ 3.8

Lon Po Po

Ed Young

1989 ★ 4.4

Neuromancer

William Gibson

1984 ★ 4.1

L'Homme révolté

Albert Camus

1954 ★ 4.4

The Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo

2003 ★ 4.1

Queen of the Conquered

Kacen Callender

2019

Atonement

Ian McEwan

2002 ★ 3.7

Rabbit hill

Robert Lawson

1944 ★ 4.5

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013 ★ 3.8

The Obelisk Gate

N. K. Jemisin

2016 ★ 4.4

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

1958 ★ 4.8

Jazz

Toni Morrison

1992 ★ 3.4

Hey, Al

Arthur Yorinks, Richard Egielski

1986 ★ 3.7

Abraham Lincoln

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire

1939 ★ 3.3

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Book Explorer lets readers browse the free, readable part of the Open Library catalogue by familiar genres, or by the exact subject tags Open Library assigns each book. Every book has its own page with a reader where one is available, plus links to Open Library, your library, Libby and Amazon.