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This list contains links to directories of books that have their full text available online. Additional online books are listed on some of the subject site lists by specific title.

African American & Latina/o Literature

African American Literature

The Antislavery Literature Project (Arizona State University)
Dedicated to the history of slavery and antislavery movements and the rich literature associated with it: slave narratives, letters, manifestos, poems, fiction, etc. Has some links to information about modern day slavery.

Bartleby.Com: Great Books Online
Full text of many books, including:

bulletBartlett's Familiar Quotations  (1901)
bulletW.E.B. DuBois:  The Souls of Black Folk
bulletInaugural Addresses of the U.S. Presidents
bulletJohn Stuart Mill:  On Liberty
bulletPoetry collections by Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Sarah Orne Jewett, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, and William Butler Yeats
bulletMary Wollstonecraft:  Vindication of the Rights of Women

Commonwealth Fund Publications

The Complete Review

eScholarship (CDL) Public Access Books
Freely available University of California Press online books

E-text Center Collections: Ebooks (University of Virginia)
Many titles can be downloaded for free for use in Microsoft Reader or Palm Reader.

The English Server

General Accountability Office Reports and Testimony

Historical Text Archive

The Knowledge Bank at OSU: Ohio State University Press Publications

The Library of Congress: The Zora Neale Hurston Plays

Literature@Sunsite - Berkeley Digital Library

Making of America: Books
A digital library of over 9,000 primary sources in American social history primarily from the antebellum period through reconstruction.

National Academic Press  -- over 2,500 free online books

National Center for Biotechnology Information Bookshelf
Includes links from abstracts in PubMed

Online Books Page

Project Gutenberg: Free Books

RAND Reports and Documents

West European Literature
 
Wright American Fiction Online (1851-1875)
    

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