Free Biography, Autobiography and Memoir Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of sites that legally offer free books on Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, for reading and listening (audio).

All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below. 

Also, I would appreciate it if you would post comments about any sites that you like or do not like so that information can be added to the site's listing here.  This would help new users to decide which sites to try.

This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums. 

A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

• 446 Places For Free Books Online
• 91 Places For Free Audio Books Online

There will be other books on Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, at the sites listed there, but they are not categorized at the sites. 

Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

There are 16 other book  pages here at Gizmo's covering other various popular book genres and offering links to free online books listed here:  Book Genre Pages

Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs

2020k (biographies & Memoirs) Large collection of links to books divided into categories and sub-categories

Bibliomania (Biographies) 8 biographies and autobiographies available for online viewing

BooksShouldBeFree is primarily an audio book download location, but it also has links to text versions of the works it has listed.

BookYards (Biography/Memoirs) Over 700 works available for download in pdf.

Classicly has over 300 free ebooks in the autos & bios section.  These are classic works in the public domain.  All are available for free download in PDF and manny are also available in KINDLE.  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

DailyLit  offers 40 free ebooks in its Biography category.  These are delivered in daily installments and some of the books are ongoing as of now.

DigiLibraries has over 200 free ebooks in its autobiography annd biography section.  All are available to read online or download in ePUB and some are also available in PDF.  Thanks to Jonathan Malka for this suggestion.

ePubBooks has 14 free classic novels available in its biography/memoir section.  All are available for download in ePUB.  There are links to other download formats, but some of those are pay sites.

eBookLobby (Biography & Memoirs) 76 books available, some for online viewing some for pdf download

FeedBooks has 25 free books in its PublicDomain(Biography & Autobiography) section and 10 free books in its OriginalWorks(Biography& Autobiography) section available for download in epub.

FreeBook-s  has 20 free ebooks for download in epub, mobi or pdf, in its biography category.

FreeeBooks.net (Biography) 64 books available for download in pdf or mobipocket.  Registration is required.  The free membership allows 5 downloads per month.

FreeBookUK has 3 working links for biographies.  Two are for reading online and one is to Gutenberg with several download options.

FreeOnlineBookstore  has about 60 free works listed.  These are links to offsite, so download/viewing options vary.

Globusz (Biographies) 14 books available for online viewing or download

GoogleBookSearch (Biography) 483 books available for online viewing

Gutenberg (Biographies) Large collection available for download in several formats

LiteratureMaster has 345 works in it biography/memoirs section available for viewing online or download in html, Palm.  Registration required for download.

ManyBooks (Biography) 1920 ebooks available for download in a variety of formats

MemoWare (Biography) 253 works available for download in varying formats

Munsey's (Biography) 740 ebooks available for download in a great variety of formats.

Munsey'sMobile has almost 1000 free classic works in their biography category.  These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePUB.  These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above.

oBooko  has 10 free books in its biography, autobiography & memoirs category available for download after free registration.

ProjectGutenbergAustralia has a very nice listing of autobiographies available for download in a large number of formats.  Many of these link back to Gutenberg (above), but are listed in alphabetical order of the subject of the biography as opposed to the author.  Some of the entries are not available at Gutenberg.

PublicBookShelf (Biography & Memoirs) 7 unusual books available for online reading.

WebBooks has 66 free classic novels available in its biography category.  These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database.  Viewing the downloads requires their Web Viewer (free) which is clean as far as I can tell

Biographies/Autobiographies/Memoirs (audio)

AudioBooks has Walden, Chapters From My Autobiography (Twain) and Childhood (Tolstoy) for download.  You must register (free) to download. 

BooksShouldBeFree  has a large collection of free audio books in its Biography section.  These are supposed to be available in MP3 and iTunes compatible downloads.  However, I had trouble with Firefox and the iTunes download.  Note: The iTunes download is an itpc address (podcast).  Firefox has issues with this, but it can be opened by a right-click>open in new tab and replacing the itpc with http.  However, the downloads were MP3 segments, so just as well to download the MP3 link as it is in one zip file.

FreeAudioBooksUK has a very good size listing of free audio biographies for listening online or download in MP3 (zipped).  One of the better collections.

LearnOutLoud has 219 free audio books of biographies and autobiographies, sub-categorized and available in different ways, including online listening, MP3 or MP4 as many link to other sites.  Also some videos.

LibriVox  has 172 free audio books under the biography category available for download in MP3 (64kb/128kb) or ogg vorbis.  All are human read.

Lit2Go has a few works under Biography search.  All are available for download in very good quality MP3.  They are also available for online reading.  You must enter biography as a keyword search.