GlobalReads
Read the world.
Independent books with the whole first chapter free — now in your language. Read it, and if it hooks you, the rest is one tap away. Authors keep the lion's share, and every reader stays theirs.
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Pick any book, then choose your language on its page to read the opening chapter free.
The Wind in the Willows
30% free
Pride and Prejudice
30% free
The King in Yellow
30% free
The Secret Garden
30% free
Jane Eyre
30% free
Dracula
30% free
Meditations
30% free
The Phantom of the Opera
30% free
Wuthering Heights
30% free
Anne of Green Gables
30% free
The Art of War
30% free
The Enchiridion and Other Short Works
30% free
The Mystery at Lilac Inn
30% free
Not Without Laughter
30% free
Cimarron
30% free
The Murder at the Vicarage
30% free
Giant's Bread
30% free
Strong Poison
30% free
The Maltese Falcon
30% free
As I Lay Dying
30% free
The Secret of the Old Clock
30% free
The Hidden Staircase
30% free
The Bungalow Mystery
30% free
Vile Bodies
30% free
Swallows and Amazons
30% free
State Your Emergency
10% free
Reverse Engineered
10% free
The Opera House Affair
10% free
Same team, different doors
GlobalReads is where the world reads.
Book Factory Café is where books are made.
Here, you discover and read — the first chapter of any book, free, in your language. At our sister site, Book Factory Café, authors turn a manuscript into an ebook and a full AI-narrated audiobook, sell it direct, and keep 80%. Two sites, one owner, built to send readers and writers to each other.
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