List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject)

The following pages contain lists of faithful Catholic eBooks that may be read online or downloaded, legally and for free, arranged by subject or genre. Please click the links to access each list. You may also visit the alphabetical List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks (which indexes links to for-sale books and ebooks), and the blog page of the Catholic eBooks Project (where links to ebooks and other materials are posted on feasts of the Church or other relevant occasions).

• Anti-Catholicism and Persecution
• Apologetics
• Art and Architecture (Theory, History, Aesthetics and Criticism)
• Bibles and Commentaries (Including Lectionaries and Psalters; Guides and Introductions)
• Catechisms and Explanations of The Faith
• Church and Ecclesiology (Including Mystery and Ecclesiology, Institutions and Structures, History; the Papacy and the Bishops; the priesthood and the laity)
• Converts and Missions (Including Conversion Stories, Psychology of Conversion, and Instructions For Converts; Mission Theology, Evangelization)
• Eastern Catholicism
• Education
• Early Christianity (Includes writings on/by the Fathers of the Church, and on/by other orthodox early Christian authors; Patrology and Patristics)
• Ecclesiastical Documents (Official works/issuances by Popes and the Papal Curia, Ecumenical and Local Councils and Synods, including official Catechisms)
• Ethics and Moral Law (Includes Moral Theology and Philosophical Ethics)
• For Children and Young Readers
• God and Christ
• Grace and Salvation (Soteriology)
• Heresies and Errors
• History and Biography (Including Autobiographies)
• Homilies and Lectures
• Homiletics and Pastoral Theology
• Humanity and Human Life (Philosophical and Theological Anthropology, Bioethics, Life and Dignity Issues)
• Journals and Periodicals
• The Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, Apocalypse)
• Law, Canon and Civil
• Letters (not including Encyclical and Pastoral Letters)
• Literature (Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Literary Essays, Literary History, Literary Criticism)
• Liturgy
• Marriage and the Family
• Music
• Non-Catholic Authors
• Philosophy (All Fields)
• Practices and Customs (Sacramentals, Relics, and Other Catholic Incidentals)
• Prayers and Devotions
• References
• Religious Orders and Religious Life
• Revelation and Faith (comprising metadoctrines on objective revelation–creation, tradition, Scripture, infallibility–and subjective assent; focuses on fundamental theology)
• Sacraments
• Saints, especially Mary (including lives of the Saints; doctrines on the Saints, especially the Blessed Mother)
• Sciences
• Social Teaching
• Spirituality and Mysticism
• Theology (All Fields)

Notes:

1. Many works are listed more than once, since they fall under more than one heading. Please note that the list is a work in progress, and that it will be expanded further with time.
2. Most entries in the list use the following schema: Title, by Author (Print publication and/or copyright information). Other text information, [e.g., if it has an Imprimatur]. Available on Website with link Other electronic text information (Electronic publication information).
3. Note that distributing or reproducing some of these ebooks may be subject to legal or other restrictions, depending on the terms by which they were uploaded. See the original website to make sure.
4. Formerly, these works were all listed by category on this page. However, the burgeoning length of the page required that they be divided. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.

God bless you all!