Free and Discounted Literature on Kindle
Literature is often referred to books that are able to stand the test of time through their unique, creative elements and resounding messages. Classic stories by authors like Charles Dickens and Jane Austen make up just a small sampling of the literature available to readers today.
Free: Nothing Significant: Short Stories
Nothing Significant is a tender mosaic of a life lived across continents, careers, and generations. In these adventurous, funny, and deeply human—sometimes soul-wrenching—short stories, a father gathers the moments that shaped him—the storms he weathered at sea, the unexpected turns of fate on land, the quiet joys of family, and the bittersweet memories that linger ... Read more
Natalie: The Truth She Kept Hidden A Story of Secrets, Survival, and Healing
A powerful work of women’s fiction and emotional drama, Natalie: The Truth She Kept Hidden explores trauma, survival, and the long road to healing. She survived the unthinkable. Now she must remember. When memories she spent a lifetime burying begin to rise to the surface, one woman’s journey becomes a powerful exploration of trauma, ... Read more
Free: Dog Park
A troubled teen with an unbearable father and a woman grieving the loss of her son encounter an eclectic cast of characters at a local dog park. With nothing in common but a love of dogs, these strangers become friends and friends become family at Lake Woof, where everyone has a story. Free on Kindle.... Read more
The Road to Hidden Acres
Marcus Adair was a bartender in Cincinnati, Ohio when the devastating Omega virus changed everything. One of the very few people to survive, if only barely, he finds a world changed and wholly unrecognizable. The electric grid is gone. Stores and banks are just a memory. Gas has become a precious and diminishing commodity. With ... Read more
Free: Head Fake
Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024. A tale of high schoolers and their coach creating a basketball team that may save them in ways therapy and medication can’t. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: How Hot It Be in Hell
How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting ... Read more
How Hot It Be in Hell
How Hot It Be In Hell descends into the hidden impulses people try to outrun—jealousy, obsession, violence, desire, and the quiet urges that twist a life off course. Each poem opens a door into a different human fracture: a lover’s fatal rage, a predator’s watchful hunger, a drunk stumbling toward chaos, a homeless man recounting ... Read more
Hannah Bloom: Dream Juggler
Hannah Bloom longs to claim the title “poet.” With her daughters at camp, she expects time to write—until heartbreaking letters arrive, an unexpected pregnancy upends her plans, her mother considers moving back to Europe, and a lawsuit threatens the family business. Now Hannah must hold it all together—and find her voice. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Going to Zossen
NUMBER ONE AMAZON BESTSELLER “Gripping” – Kirkus Reviews Based on true accounts of children’s penal colonies that emerged during the 1990s post-Soviet chaos, Going to Zossen is a raw exploration of the bargains ordinary people make under oppressive systems – necessary reading for fans of Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These and Colson Whitehead’s The ... Read more
And So It Was for Mary
If given a second chance at life, would you love differently? Would you mend broken relationships? Would you follow your dreams? Homeless and estranged from her family, Mary, a guitar savant with big dreams and little hope, is on the verge of letting her life slip away. Just before taking a fatal mix of alcohol ... Read more
Where the Heart Meets the Sea: A Novel
An emotionally rich love story with themes of lost and found family in a stunning Norwegian island setting. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Zenith’s Peak: Journey of a Light Shaman Book 1
This is not a book about trauma. It is a book about what is born through it. Thaddeus Harold Pierson is a disabled, queer orphan raised inside institutions that alternately erase him and weaponize him. His survival requires a splitting of self: the dissociated observer during confinement, the intimate narrator when free. Through shifting narration ... Read more
Free: Decaf: Coffee Break Bundle Amusing Short Reads
Lost your smile? Brighten your day with a bundle of coffee giggles. Funny short reads to make you chuckle during your coffee break – a mischievous blend of absurdity, satire and delightfully unexpected moments in everyday life. Four short stories to put you in the happy zone Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Freshman DAYS
A coming-of-age story about a fourteen-year-old boy and the trials and tribulations he experiences at a private all-boys high school during his freshman year. A diverse combination of family, friends and fellow students guide him through nine months of sports, dances, teenage shenanigans and Latin. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Welcome Darkness
Experience the heartbreak and turmoil of a suppressed population through the eyes of a Black man. Follow this grieving widow as he struggles to find a meaning for life. Witness a tumultuous presidential election; these powerful poems delve into themes of loss, heartbreak, and the struggle for justice. Join our protagonist, a Black writer, as ... Read more
Unconditional: A Story of Fatherhood, Lost Love, and Lifelong Friendship
When Matthew’s brother dies, leaving behind a newborn daughter, one decision changes everything. A lifelong bachelor with no plans for parenthood, Matthew must choose: walk away—or become a father overnight. Unconditional is a powerful story of unexpected fatherhood and chosen family. When he meets baby Allie, Matthew trades carefree days for sleepless nights and responsibilities ... Read more
Free: Blackbird
Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway, let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of ... Read more
Such a Bad Influence: A Novel
In this humorous and heartfelt novel, a blueberry farmer teams up with a teenager in need to start a revenge business. What could possibly go wrong? In rural Ohio, the last connections lonesome Felicity Lavigne has to her late mom are the blueberry farm she inherited and her mom’s old phone number—which Felicity still calls ... Read more
Free: Unscrambled Eggs
Profound and riveting, this is a 60 poem book collection with poetry that enlightens, speaks the way of life and the world. It is a stirring compilation of poems about living your dream and finding purpose. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: BECOMING: The Life & Musings of a Girl Poet
BECOMING is an uplifting poetry collection of inspirational poems and articles about living a life of fulfillment. The author draws upon her own experiences, inspirations, and what she feels most passionate about. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Inside the Circle of the Sun
Join Aubrey E. Drummond through a journey of Love, Life, Song, Grief, Despair and Darkness. See this world through the unique perspective of a black man, who has lived both in sunshine and the pour of rain. His poems are short, simple yet complex. Readers will find his work irresistible, appealing to audiences wide and ... Read more
Free: Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation
Harriet is an intriguing and original ‘take’ on Jane Austen’s immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly’s 2021 BookLife Prize quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh. Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as she can… But how is she to guess that Harriet has a secret?Meanwhile, ... Read more
Tourist
Fresh out of a mental hospital, Jake returns to Lake Placid as the 1980 Winter Olympics ignite the town. Haunted by his friend’s death and the stigma of illness and poverty, he reconnects with former love Laurie. As USA faces USSR on the ice, Jake must choose despair—or peace within. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Nineteen Hundred Days
Twelve-year-old Ben panics when his parents don’t come home from work. Having been raised to believe that the police and CPS are the enemy, he will do anything to avoid foster homes for him and his sister. Unfortunately, their incredible journey to evade the authorities brings them into contact with people who may not have ... Read more
IMAGINING MORE and Other Stories
New Release! A kaleidoscope of flawed, searching characters, among them actors, writers, troubled artists, strive to make sense of themselves, their relationships, and their place in the world. “The sheer narrative daring in the title story… is superb.” San Francisco Book Review “acts of cruelty or betrayal coexist with moments of profound insight or aesthetic ... Read more
Free: Eating ‘Round the Toilet Stool
Immerse yourself in the soul-stirring verses of Aubrey E. Drummond’s second poetry collection, ‘Eating ‘round the Toilet Stool.’ Following the success of ‘Boy, Kant You Read,’ Drummond continues to captivate with his poignant reflections on love, life, grief, and death. Experience the world through the eyes of a black man, as he weaves tales of ... Read more
Death Magnanimous
Charlie Chessman begged them to let him die. The paramedics who pulled him from the flames. The ER doctors who raced to mend his mortal wounds. The surgeons, psychiatrists, nurses, and physical therapists who reconstructed his burned and broken body. Assisted suicide the only way out, an unexpected question emerges: Is the life Charlie can’t ... Read more
Free: How Hot It Be in Hell
How Hot It Be in Hell contains 39 poems written by the 5-star reviewed author Aubrey E. Drummond. The author goes from questioning Life and his work to celebrating life, love, and happiness and finally to confronting Death, Horror, and perhaps the end of us all. Free on Kindle.... Read more
Free: The Final Shelter
Conservation scientist Phoebe Jones receives an enigmatic invitation to a bunker. Skeptical but intrigued, Phoebe begins to investigate. “What do they know… that we don’t?” Her research for answers uncovers prophecies and predictions about the end of days. The award-winning The Final Shelter is a dystopian thriller that culminates in a provocative story with a ... Read more
The Threads of Becoming: A Memoir in Poems
At once triumphant and vulnerable, this memoir in poems describes Tamara’s journey through surviving childhood neglect, becoming a mother, navigating grief, reaching new heights in her career, and ultimately, discovering herself. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
The Marfa Blues – Searching for Treasure
Marfa, Texas, 1968: Vera Desoto’s cafe. You’ll experience buried treasure, giant cloned cows, a psychic raven, and the mysterious Marfa Lights. Egenes gives us a mismatched group of characters that helps explore themes of found family, redemption, and the varying interpretations of “treasure” really is. Offbeat, character-driven fiction. A delightful discovery, and an unexpectedly warm, ... Read more
Whaling Town: Poems
A simultaneously rough and tender exploration of the American experience in observational prose poetry that spans rural and urban existence, infused with the rhythms of the Mississippi Delta blues and perfect for fans of Demon Copperhead and This Tender Land. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
CLOUDED THOUGHTS III: Poetry Thoughts After the Storm
Surviving the Tempest: A Journey from Darkness to Renewal Are you ready to dive into the storm? The third installment of the Clouded Thoughts saga by the most clouded author of this time has done it again. Step into a world where pain meets poetry and survival becomes an art form. This deeply moving collection ... Read more
Free: Blackbird
Would you like to live forever, Discover the sensation of love for the first time, become lost and confused in an ebony cloud, and celebrate love in a sky highway, let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on a journey through the ups and downs of life, the passions of love, the joy and sorrows of ... Read more
Mijo: We Bend, Not Break
Three generations of Mexican men carry unspoken pain across borders and time. Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is a moving story of fathers, sons, and the silence between them—where masculinity, love, and healing collide to show that bending isn’t weakness; it’s how we finally learn to heal. $2.99 on Kindle.... Read more
River Talk
“Yes, the inquisitive hermit out in the delta seems to have unlocked the greatest secret of them all.” All Mankind once shared the same instinctual connections to the planet as all the other species that thrive, here, on earth. Threading ourselves into the wind, the light, the electromagnetic field and the rhythm of the ocean ... Read more
Gajarah: A Novel
A coming-of-age novel of a Pakistani woman who discovers the transformative healing power of storytelling. $0.99 on Kindle.... Read more
Free: Hello Stranger
Let Aubrey E. Drummond take you on an emotional journey—from the pain of losing love to a prayer to love again. Search for a ray of hope in this bitter world. Wish for the gift of flight to free ourselves. Witness the hatred of a bitter old man. Become lost in the voices that creep ... Read more
MIJO: We Bend, Not Break
What if the greatest inheritance a family carries isn’t land or money, but silence? Mijo: We Bend, Not Break is an unforgettable novel about three generations of Mexican American men bound by distance, unspoken love, and the heavy weight of survival. From the cracked soil of Michoacán to the immigrant fields of California, it follows ... Read more
My Life as a Gorilla
When mortal illness threatens Alan Parkman’s life, his only alternative is to undergo experimental head transplantation. However a human body is not immediately available and so he reluctantly agrees to have his head temporarily transplanted onto the body of a gorilla. The transplant proves to be a success but now he must deal with the ... Read more
