Free books, no account, no paywall
Find a book and start reading in one step.
Search Project Gutenberg by title, author or subject, browse the matches as a card library, and open any book straight into a clean, full-width reading view.
Search the library
Library & reading view
Text size and reading mode change this session's display only — nothing is stored or carried to your next visit.
Results appear here: one card per book with its title, author(s), language and download count. Each card's action opens the book's HTML edition in the reading view — falling back to the plain-text edition, then to its Project Gutenberg page.
Coverage and next page are printed with the results exactly as the source reported them: coverage is the total number of Project Gutenberg matches, and next page tells you whether more exist. When next page is empty, this page is every match; when it is set, further pages remain at the source.
How this works & what the numbers mean
- Search runs against the Project Gutenberg catalogue; results are books already in the public domain.
- Download count is the source's own popularity figure for that title, not a rating.
- Language filtering uses the two-letter code you enter — a book only appears if the catalogue lists that language.
- Source status and source are reported with every run so you can see where the data came from.