https://bingereaders.com/blog/ Reading guides, book lists and new arrivals from BingeReaders — free classics to read online, and how to build a reading habit that sticks. en-us Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/sthetic-as-science-of-expression-and-general-linguistic/ https://bingereaders.com/books/sthetic-as-science-of-expression-and-general-linguistic/ A public domain work by Benedetto Croce, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/zoonomia-or-the-laws-of-organic-life-vol-ii/ https://bingereaders.com/books/zoonomia-or-the-laws-of-organic-life-vol-ii/ A public domain work by Erasmus Darwin, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/youth-a-narrative/ https://bingereaders.com/books/youth-a-narrative/ A public domain work by Joseph Conrad, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/your-mind-and-how-to-use-it-a-manual-of-practical-psychology/ https://bingereaders.com/books/your-mind-and-how-to-use-it-a-manual-of-practical-psychology/ A public domain work by William Walker Atkinson, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/writings-in-connection-with-the-donatist-controversy/ https://bingereaders.com/books/writings-in-connection-with-the-donatist-controversy/ A public domain work by of Hippo, Saint Augustine, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/work-a-story-of-experience/ https://bingereaders.com/books/work-a-story-of-experience/ A public domain work by Louisa May Alcott, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/work-wait-win/ https://bingereaders.com/books/work-wait-win/ A public domain work by Ruth Lamb, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/woodwork-joints-b-how-they-are-set-out-how-made-and-where/ https://bingereaders.com/books/woodwork-joints-b-how-they-are-set-out-how-made-and-where/ A public domain work by William Fairham, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/woodcraft-and-camping/ https://bingereaders.com/books/woodcraft-and-camping/ A public domain work by George Washington Sears, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/wood-carving-design-and-workmanship/ https://bingereaders.com/books/wood-carving-design-and-workmanship/ A public domain work by George Jack, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/women-in-love/ https://bingereaders.com/books/women-in-love/ A public domain work by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-her-sex-and-love-life/ https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-her-sex-and-love-life/ A public domain work by William J. (William Josephus) Robinson, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-church-state-the-original-expos-of-male-collaboration/ https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-church-state-the-original-expos-of-male-collaboration/ A public domain work by Matilda Joslyn Gage, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-under-monasticism-chapters-on-saint-lore-and-convent/ https://bingereaders.com/books/woman-under-monasticism-chapters-on-saint-lore-and-convent/ A public domain work by Lina Eckenstein, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/wives-and-daughters/ https://bingereaders.com/books/wives-and-daughters/ A public domain work by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/with-cochrane-the-dauntless/ https://bingereaders.com/books/with-cochrane-the-dauntless/ A public domain work by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/witch-doctors/ https://bingereaders.com/books/witch-doctors/ A public domain work by Charles Beadle, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/wit-and-wisdom-of-don-quixote/ https://bingereaders.com/books/wit-and-wisdom-of-don-quixote/ A public domain work by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/winesburg-ohio-a-group-of-tales-of-ohio-small-town-life/ https://bingereaders.com/books/winesburg-ohio-a-group-of-tales-of-ohio-small-town-life/ A public domain work by Sherwood Anderson, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/books/wilsons-tales-of-the-borders-and-of-scotland-volume-24/ https://bingereaders.com/books/wilsons-tales-of-the-borders-and-of-scotland-volume-24/ A public domain work by Unknown, from Project Gutenberg. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/andrew-lang-fairy-books-in-order/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/andrew-lang-fairy-books-in-order/ The Blue, Yellow, Pink, Violet, Crimson, Brown, Orange and Lilac Fairy Books — the order Lang published them, what is in each, and the four colours the library does not have yet. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/heidi-and-johanna-spyri-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/heidi-and-johanna-spyri-books-free-online/ Heidi plus Moni the Goat-Boy, Cornelli, Rico and Wiseli, Gritli's Children and five others — every Spyri book in the free library, and which ones are worth it after Heidi. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/lewis-carroll-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/lewis-carroll-books-free-online/ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, The Hunting of the Snark, the songs and the original handwritten Alice — all five free to read, and which is which. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/robert-louis-stevenson-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/robert-louis-stevenson-books-free-online/ Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Black Arrow, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses and Fables — every Stevenson in the free library, with what each one is actually like. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/rudyard-kipling-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/rudyard-kipling-books-free-online/ The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies — the Kipling in the free library, by age and by what each one is. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/anne-of-green-gables-books-in-order/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/anne-of-green-gables-books-in-order/ The Anne series in reading order — Green Gables through Rilla of Ingleside — plus the Avonlea story collections and Montgomery's other novels, all free to read online. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/books-like-treasure-island-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/books-like-treasure-island-free-online/ Read Treasure Island free online, then what to read next — Ballantyne's coral islands, Stevenson's own Kidnapped, real pirate history, and the shipwreck novels the whole genre grew out of. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/charles-dickens-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/charles-dickens-books-free-online/ Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol — the Dickens in the free library, ordered by how hard each one is to begin. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/classic-detective-stories-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/classic-detective-stories-free-online/ Both Sherlock Holmes novels free to read online, plus the girl-detective and boy-detective mysteries of the 1910s and 20s that nobody reprints — and one that is not a mystery at all. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/classic-orphan-stories-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/classic-orphan-stories-free-online/ Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, A Little Princess, Oliver Twist and the Horatio Alger machine — free online orphan classics, and why the nineteenth century told this story more than any other. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/e-nesbit-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/e-nesbit-books-free-online/ Five Children and It, The Railway Children, the Psammead cycle and the Bastable trilogy — every E. Nesbit book in the free library, with what each one is and where to start. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/fairy-tales-around-the-world-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/fairy-tales-around-the-world-free-online/ Beyond Grimm and Andersen — Japanese, Croatian, Welsh, Norwegian, Canadian and Scottish fairy tale collections, all free to read online, and what makes each tradition sound different. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/greek-myths-for-children-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/greek-myths-for-children-free-online/ Hawthorne, Kingsley, Jean Lang, and Homer and Ovid themselves — free online Greek and Norse myth collections, ordered by how much a child can take. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/nature-study-books-for-children-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/nature-study-books-for-children-free-online/ Burgess, Seton, Patch and the Victorian nature-study writers — free online books that teach a child real natural history through story rather than through facts on a page. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/nursery-rhyme-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/nursery-rhyme-books-free-online/ Caldecott, Walter Crane and Beatrix Potter nursery rhyme books free to read online, plus the odd scholarly corner that explains why the rhymes are so much stranger than they look. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/r-m-ballantyne-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/r-m-ballantyne-books-free-online/ The Coral Island, The Young Fur Traders, The World of Ice and nineteen more — every Ballantyne novel in the free library, sorted by where he had actually been. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/read-aloud-chapter-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/read-aloud-chapter-books-free-online/ Not every good children's book is a good read-aloud. These 18 free classics have short chapters, sentences that survive being spoken, and stopping points you can actually stop at. Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/aesops-fables-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/aesops-fables-free-online/ Aesop's Fables and La Fontaine's are public domain and free to read online in full. Here is which translation to pick, and how the two great fable traditions differ. Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/boarding-school-story-books-free-online/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/boarding-school-story-books-free-online/ Angela Brazil, L. T. Meade, Just Patty and The Varmint — the school story was one of the biggest genres in children's publishing for fifty years, and nearly all of it is public domain and free to read here. Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://bingereaders.com/blog/books-like-anne-of-green-gables/ https://bingereaders.com/blog/books-like-anne-of-green-gables/ Finished Anne of Green Gables and want more? The whole Anne series plus Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, What Katy Did, Pollyanna and Little Women are public domain — free to read online, no download needed. Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000