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This is a list of books available under a Creative Commons license.

By "book" we generally mean works over 35,000 words that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN. We've expanded the definition in two added sections below, however, to include the most popular books published through do-it-yourself press Lulu, and "books" published on websites of established organizations or notable blogs.

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Nonfiction

Title Author
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google Philipp Lenssen
A Book of Five Strings Patrick Costello
A Briefer History of Time Eric Schulman
A Field Guide to Genetic Programming Riccardo Poli, Bill Langdon, Nic McPhee
Abracadabra Raymond Newman
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Mike Chambers, Daniel Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Dragos Georgita
Asterisk: The Future of Telephony Jim Van Meggelen, Jared Smith, Leif Madsen
Bound By Law? Keith Aoki - James Boyle - Jennifer Jenkins
Cause commune : l'information entre bien commun et propriété Philippe Aigrain
Code Version 2 0 Lawrence Lessig
Cooking Com Bigode Ankur Shah
Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology J.M. Balkin
Democratizing Innovation Eric von Hippel
Extreme Democracy Jon Lebkowsky, Mitch Ratcliffe
Free Culture Lawrence Lessig
Free For All Peter Wayner
Freedom of Expression Kembrew McLeod
Freie Netze Freies Wissen Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Forsterleitner (Eds.)
Gamer Theory McKenzie Wark
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm
How Open is the Future? Economic, Social Marleen Wynants & Jan Cornelis
In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law Michael Geist
Introduction to Economic Analysis Preston McAfee
Looking for a Fight: Is There a Republican War on Science? John Holbo
Mystic Microsoft: A Journey of Transformation in the Halls of High Technology Kraig Brockschmidt
Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
PaGaian Cosmology: Re-inventing Earth-based Goddess Religion Glenys Livingstone Ph.D.
Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates John Logie
Producing Open Source Software Karl Fogel
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
The Complete FreeBSD, 4th edition Greg Lehey
The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin Dr. Peter Salus
The How and the Tao of Folk Guitar Patrick Costello
The How and the Tao of Old Time Banjo Patrick Costello
The Media in the Network Society Gustavo Cardoso
The Wealth of Networks Yochai Benkler
Unbounded Freedom: a guide to Creative Commons thinking for cultural organisations Rosemary Bechler
Utkozben Ferenc Gyurcsany
Wall Street Doug Henwood
We the Media Dan Gillmor
Weapons of Mass Delusion: America’s Real National Emergency Richard Forno
Wireless Networking in the Developing World Corinna Aichele, Rob Flickenger, Carlo Fonda, Jim Forster, Ian Howard, Tomas Kraq, Marco Zennaro


Fiction

Title Author
Accelerando Charles Stross
Stranger Things Happen Kelly Link
Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
The Escapist James Morris
Eastern Standard Tribe Cory Doctorow
Holy Tango of Literature Francis Heaney
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow
Star Dragon Mike Brotherton
Maelstrom Peter Watts
Starfish Peter Watts
Acts of the Apostles John F.X. Sundman
Dr Lewis B Turndevelt's Big Book of Forewords David R. Perry
Move Under Ground Nick Mamatas
Elemen Kekosongan Nein Arimasen
Very Short Stories Josh Webb
The Banjo Players Must Die Josef Assad
The2080s Jeff Hannan
Everyone in Silico Jim Munroe
Thicker Than Blood M.A.Newhall
Secondary Sound Justin sirois
Apotheosis - La chiave dei desideri Massimo Civita
Ill at Ease Trymore MacVivo
It Came From Airport Security C. Glen Williams (ed.)
99 Erotic Notions: Erudite Erotic Story Collection Hapax Legomenon


Lulu Highlights

Lulu offers a publishing service for “digital do-it-yourselfers” to publish all manner of media, including books. Lulu lets creators set the license terms, including Creative Commons licenses, for their works as part of the publishing process. We've chosen to list some popular CC-licensed works that have been published through Lulu, below.

You can also search for more CC-licensed books at Lulu.com.


"Books" online

These are "books" (i.e. works of 35,000 words or more) made available through established organizations and sites. These are not to include vanity projects by your favorite uncle.


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