Free Romance Books Online

Introduction

This is a listing of 85 sites that legally offer free romance books, for reading and listening (audio).

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

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
• 90 Places For Free Audio Books Online

There will be other romance novels at 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

Romance Novels (Reading)

2020k has a good size collection of links divided into sub-categories such as historical, fantasy/ghost etc.  This site has a habit of throwing some unrelated works into the subcategories, but most of these appear OK.

AllRomanceBooks  offers 278 free romance ebooks.  Registration is required.

Amazon  has 50 free romance novels for download in kindle format.

Barnes&Noble has 205 free romance novels available for download.  Requires free registration and also requires credit card information.  Tried downloads through their PC software and could not connect online.  The books I checked on all were available eslewhere and better to get from those sources.

BesteBooksWorld has about 60 novels in its romance category and sub-categories for adult and young adult.  Since they link to other sites, the download and viewing options vary.

Bibliotastic has 23 free original romance novels available for free reading online if not registered there.  All books there are free and so is registration.  Registration will open options to download in PDF, EPUB and PRC (Kindle).

BookYards (Romance) 162 novels available for download in pdf

BooksForABuck  offers the romance novel "Private Lies" for free download in a variety of formats.

BooksShouldBeFree has a large collection of classic romance audio books for download in MP3 (zipped) and also has links to text versions of the books.

BrowzerBooks now hosted on Talewins, offers some classic works for reading online or download in pdf  or in exe format (simulates book pages turning).  They also offer some unique works that they have commissioned to be updated.  Free registration is not required, but will notify you of their latest listings and allow you to forward the books on to others (with a "from me" page added). 

Buzzle is a site for unpublished authors and has a large selection of unique works.  This is a mix of short stories and novels.  Unfortunately the novels are released a chapter at a time and the system is not set up well as to viewing all available chapters.  These are all available for free reading online.

Chris Lusser  offers three of her romance novels for free download in several formats.

ClassicLiteratureLibrary  offers the public domain works of Jane Austen and the Memoirs of Jacques Casanova for online viewing.

Classicly has a nice collection of free classic romance novels available for download in PDF or for Kindle as well as online reading.  Links to many of the books are in the introduction paragraphs at the top of the page.  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

DailyLit has 14 classic romance novels available in installments that are mailed to your email or by RSS feed.

eBookNook (Romance) Around a hundred love stories available for reading online

eBooksJustPublished Interesting collection of DRM free eBooks listed daily.  These listings link out to other sites and therefore the download options vary.  Generally these are new books by relatively unknown authors.

eBookTakeaway has 62 free novels in its Romantic genre and 6 free novels in its Romantic Comedy genre.  All are available for download in pdf, HTML or ebook text.

ElegantSolutions offers over 50 free romance novels for download in LIT (Microsoft Reader).  Most are classic works, but there are a few modern works mixed in.

Ellora's Cave offers 80  free reads for download.  Free registration is required.

FeedBooks  offers 179 classic romance works in its public domain section.  Its original works section has 89 works.  Available for download in several formats.

Felicity Heaton .offers her paranormal vampire romance novel, Reunion, for free download in PDF.  Aslo link to other download formats.

FictionPress  is a growing network over 1 million writers/readers, and home to over 1,200,000 original works by unsigned authors.  The romance section has almost 80,000 entries of short stories and full length novels.  Available for free online viewing.

FionaRobyn offers her full length romance novel, Thaw, for free reading online.

FreeBook-S has over 200 free romance novels for download in varying formats as they link off site.

FreeEbooksBlog  has 30 free romance novels listed.  These are links off site so download and viewing options vary.

FreeEbooks.net has 118 romance novels available forfree  online viewing or download in pdf or text.  Registration is required, but I received no spam from them.  There will be a nag screen to upgrade when you sign in.

FreeOnlineBookstore has links to 225 romance, christian romance and dating novels.  Since this links are off site, the download and viewing options vary.

FreeOnlineNovels has around a hundred romance novels  linked to for reading online and/or download.

GetFreeEBooks is a blog like posting of free novel offerings.  They have a good size collection of articles containing links to free novels in their Romance Category.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.   Lots of original works here.

GetFreePdf 13 unique and original romance novels available for download in pdf.

Globusz  has 5 classic romance novels for free download in exe or free viewing online.

GoodCleanNovels offers 3 free original romance novels by Ken & Carol Morgan for free download in PDF.  These novels "contain no sex and no foul language. Yet they are engaging and entertaining.". 

Gutenberg(Mobile) has a large collection of free classic romance novels available for free download in several formats including PDF. EPUB and KINDLE.

Harlequin offers 16 full length romance novels for free download in pdf.  These are entries from their collection.

Hopcott offers a few novels and several short romance stories for free reading online.

Jackee'sCorner  has romance novels of Jackee Connor for available for download in pdf, html and lit.  There are 4 completed novels, 4 works in progress and 5 short stories.

JennaBlack  offers her work "Embraced in Darkness" for free download in pdf.

Journeyof theHeart  offers the works of Judith Bronte for free.  These romance novels are available for download in pdf or reading online.  There are 7 completed works and a couple in progress.

Jude's Forum  offers the novel, "Formerly Brandewyne" for free download without registration.  It looks like registration will allow other free works for download.

JuliaCarda  offers her novel, Portal to Peace, for free download in pdf at her website.

Kallysten  has a good number of works available for free download in pdf.

KimberlyComeaux offers 2 of her full length novels and 2 short stories for free reading online.

KnowledgeRush has a small listing of classic romance works available for download in text or HTML, with some Microsoft ebook downloads.

LettersToMyMother has the romance novel "Letters to my Mother" by Rebecca Heath available for online reading or download in PDF.

Librivox has over 200 classic novels available for free.  Although mostly know for its excellent collection of audio books.  A poster named Les has pointed out that they also have links to online viewing sites for all of its large collection of audio books and also download links.

Luisa Green  offers 3 of her romance ebooks for free download in pdf.

ManyBooks (Romance) 1118 novels available for download in a large variety of formats.

MartaAcosta offers the draft manuscript of two novels for free reading.

Maryse.net lists a good number of paranormal romance novels available for free download as Kinkdle at Amazon (registration necessary-maybe for USA only).  Also some good links to romance author sites offering free reads.

MemoWare (Romance) 153 books available for download in varying formats

Mills&Boon offer online reads of romance novels from best selling authors.  These are released in serials, with a new chapter every 2-4 days, but older releases are available making this a nice collection.

Montware offers the full length Irish romance novel, Caroline, by Una (Lavery) Montgomery for free reading online.

Namiko offers her romance novel, "A Japanese Dream in 79 Letters" for reading, and download, in  pdf.  A German romance novel, "Sebastien und Send Engel" is also available at the site.

oBooko has 150 free romance novels available for free download.  the ones I looked at were PDF in zipped files.  Free registration is required, but no spam at all received by me.

OmniLit has 125 free romance novels available for download after free registration.  Registration does require giving an address and phone number (I used fake).  Download formats vary.  These appear to be entries unique to this site.  Scroll down past the ones listed at the top as those are not free.

OnlineNovels has a very large collection of links to original and unique romance novels.  These link off site so download and viewing options vary.  Link here is to Romance A to E, but scroll down left side for 5 other sections, including Harlequin works.

OpenLibrary lists over 9,000 free classic romance novels.  There are links for various releases and to just about every read format, inluding online.

Payton Lee offers 17 of her romance works and several short stories for download in pdf.  The downloads are at LuLu, which supposedly requires registration to download, but I was able to download and did not have to register.

PublicBookShelf (Romance) "We now have over 550 romance novels to read online for free - contemporary, historical, vampire/fantasy, romantic suspense, as well as all the well-known classic romances. No registration is required."

Racy Li  offers the racy (18+) novel, "Demon Rescuer" for download in pdf.

ReadaRomance offers a good size collection of romantic short stories for online viewing.

RegencyRomanceNovels offers one complete romance novel for free reading online.  The other listings are for the first few chapters of come of their offerings.

RKPHunt offers 5 full length novels for online reading.  One of the novels may be read without registering (free).  The other require registration.  There are also some other works available for reading after registration.

RoadtoRomance  has a listing of links to free romance novels for download in pdf or reading online.  Some are duplicates of this listing, but others are links to author sites. 

RomanceatHeart the online romance magazine has links to free online romance novels and short stories.  There are some unique entries here.  The links vary as to reading online or download in different formats.

RomanceCorner offers quite a few short works for online reading.  They look to be adult oriented works.

RomanceNovelTV lists 7 romance novels available for free Kindle download at Amazon.

Romantic4Ever offers 2 free ebooks by author, Joan Reeves, as well as some short story romance fiction for reading online.

RomanticMarriageStories  features romance works about married life.  These short stories present a high view of marriage and portray the fun a romantic couple can have in a happy and sexy marriage.

Rosie'RomanticWritings offers the romantic novel, Forever More, for free reading online.

Sarah Reinke  has made several of her romance novels, and some non-romance novels, available for download in pdf.  These are for mature audiences and you must be over 18 years of age to download.

SiyongLin offers 2 free novels from her Rosedawn series for free reading online.

Smashwords has a large listing of free romance novels available for online reading or download in just about every reading format.  These are original and unpublished works.

SonyReaderStore has 813 free romance novels available for free download through their free Reader software.  I did not look through all the listings, but all of the novels appear to be from Smashwords (above).  You also do have to register, which is free and no billing information (credit card etc) is necessary.  I installed the software and registered and have received no spam.

StoriesRUs  has the romantic novel "Romantic Venture" available for online reading.

TheLiteraturePage has 23 classic romance novels, plays and poems available for online viewing.

TrinityMoon a small collection of novels and short stories for online reading.

WattPad has over 500,000 free romance works available for free online reading.  These are original and unpublished works.  There mostly are short stories, but a good number of novels and novellas.  Nicely divided into sub-categories.

Web-Books has 135 romance novels for free reading online or free download in WEBZ (reader information here).  these are classic works, but there are some unique entries here.

WildRosePress offers 73 short stories download in pdf or lit or reading online.

WorldWideSchoolLibrary has a nice collection of classic romance works available for free online reading.

Romance Books (Audio)

AudioLiteratureOdyssey has Persuasion and Lancelot: Knight of the Cart available for download in very good quality MP3.  Also, some poems and sonnets and short stories.

BooksShouldBeFree has a large collection of classic romance audio books for download in MP3 (zipped).

FreeAudioBooks.co.uk  has 24 classic romance novels for free listening online.

LibriVox has a large number of Romance audio books for free download in excellent MP3 quality.  there is also a large number of works in progress, so this site's listings is always growing.

Lit2Go has several books available for download in very good quality MP3.  The downloads are separated into chapters.  You need to enter "romance" as keyword at search.

PodioBooks has three unique Romance novels available for download in very good quality MP3.  These were originally released as podcasts (and still are) but most are completed.  This collection will not be found elsewhere.