Free eBooks in ePub format for download.

I am not a very big fan of eBooks but they really do come in handy whenever I have long vacations and have limited baggage space. And so I found this website with a huge and awesome eBook collection. I just thought I needed to share this to everyone. Here are some links for good books:

Adams, Douglas - The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide To Galaxy

Asher, Jay - Thirteen Reasons Why

Asher, Jay - The Future of Us

Blake, Kendare - Anna Dressed in Blood

Blake, Kendare - Girl of Nightmares

Bradbury, Ray - Dandelion Wine

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles

Clare, Cassandra - City of Bones

Clare, Cassandra - City of Ashes

Clare, Cassandra - City of Glass

Clare, Cassandra - City of Fallen Angels

Clare, Cassandra - City of Lost Souls

Clare, Cassandra - Clockwork Angel

Clare, Cassandra - Clockwork Prince

Collins, Suzanne - The Hunger Games

Collins, Suzanne - Catching Fire

Collins, Suzanne - Mockingjay

Condie, Ally - Matched

Condie, Ally - Crossed

Condie, Ally - Reached

Dahl, Roald - Boy

Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

Dahl, Roald - Danny and the Champion of the World

Dahl, Roald - Fantastic Mr. Fox

Dahl, Roald - George’s Marvelous Medicine

Dahl, Roald - James and the Giant Peach

Dahl, Roald - Matilda

Dahl, Roald - Revolting Rhymes

Dahl, Roald - The BFG

Dahl, Roald - The Twits

Dahl, Roald - The Witches

Dashner, James - The Maze Runner

Dashner, James - The Scorch Trials

Dashner, James - The Death Cure

Dessen, Sarah - Along For The Ride

Dessen, Sarah - Dreamland

Dessen, Sarah - Keeping The Moon

Dessen, Sarah - Lock and Key

Dessen, Sarah - Someone Like You

Dessen, Sarah - This Lullaby

Dessen, Sarah - That Summer

Dessen, Sarah - The Truth About Forever

Dessen, Sarah - What Happened To Goodbye

Elkeles, Simone - Perfect Chemistry

Elkeles, Simone - Rules of Attraction

Elkeles, Simone - Chain Reaction

Flynn, Gillian - Dark Places

Flynn, Gillian - Gone Girl

Flynn, Gillian - Sharp Objects

Foer, Jonathan Safran - A Convergence of Birds

Foer, Jonathan Safran - Eating Animals

Foer, Jonathan Safran - Everything Is Illuminated

Foer, Jonathan Safran - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Foreman, Gayle - If I Stay

Foreman, Gayle - Where She Went

Foreman, Gayle - Just One Day

Green, John - Looking For Alaska

Green, John - Paper Towns

Green, John - The Fault in Our Stars

Haddon, Mark - A Spot of Bother

Haddon, Mark - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Haddon, Mark - The Red House

Han, Jenny - The Summer I Turned Pretty

Han, Jenny - It’s Not Summer Without You

Han, Jenny - We’ll Always Have Summer

Handler, Daniel - Adverbs

Handler, Daniel - Why We Broke Up

Ishiguro, Kazuo - A Pale View of Hills

Ishiguro, Kazuo - An Artist of a Floating World

Ishiguro, Kazuo - Never Let Me Go

Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Remains of the Day

Ishiguro, Kazuo - The Unconsoled

Kate, Lauren - Fallen

Kate, Lauren - Torment

Kate, Lauren - Passion

Kate, Lauren - Rapture

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of A Wimpy Kid

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of A Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of A Wimpy Kid The Last Straw

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days

Kinney, Jeff - Diary of A Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl Who Played With Fire

Larsson, Stieg - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest

Levithan, David - Boy Meets Boy

Levithan, David - Every Day

Levithan, David - The Lover’s Dictionary

Mitchell, David - Black Swan Green

Mitchell, David - Cloud Atlas

Mitchell, David - Ghostwritten

Mitchell, David - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

Murakami, Haruki - 1Q84

Murakami, Haruki - A Wild Sheep Chase

Murakami, Haruki - After Dark

Murakami, Haruki - Dance, Dance, Dance

Murakami, Haruki - Kafka on the Shore

Murakami, Haruki - Norwegian Wood

Murakami, Haruki - The Elephant Vanishes

Murakami, Haruki - South of the Border, West of the Sun

Murakami, Haruki - Sputnik Sweetheart

Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita

Nicholls, David - One Day

Orwell, George - Animal Farm

Orwell, George - 1984

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Choke

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Damned

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Diary

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Fight Club

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Haunted

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Invisible Monsters

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Lullaby

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Pygmy

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Rant

Palanhniuk, Chuck - Snuff

Peters, Julie Anne - By The Time You Read This, I’ll Be Dead

Peters, Julie Anne - Rage: A Love Story

Picoult, Jodi - Change of Heart

Picoult, Jodi - Lone Wolf

Picoult, Jodi - Mercy

Picoult, Jodi - My Sister’s Keeper

Picoult, Jodi - Nineteen Minutes

Picoult, Jodi - Perfect Match

Picoult, Jodi - Plain Truth

Picoult, Jodi - Salem Falls

Picoult, Jodi - Second Glance

Picoult, Jodi - Sing You Home

Picoult, Jodi - The Pact

Picoult, Jodi - The Tenth Circle

Picoult, Jodi - Vanishing Acts

Riggs, Ransom - Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Riordan, Rick - The Lightning Thief

Riordan, Rick - The Sea of Monsters

Riordan, Rick - The Titan’s Curse

Riordan, Rick - The Battle of the Labyrinth

Riordan, Rick - The Last Olympian

Riordan, Rick - The Lost Hero

Riordan, Rick - The Son of Neptune

Riordan, Rick - The Mark of Athena

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Rowling, J.K. - The Casual Vacancy

Setterfiel, Diane - The Thirteenth Tale

Sparks, Nicholas - A Bend in the Road

Sparks, Nicholas - A Walk To Remember

Sparks, Nicholas - At First Sight

Sparks, Nicholas - Dear John

Sparks, Nicholas - Message in a Bottle

Sparks, Nicholas - Safe Haven

Sparks, Nicholas - The Guardian

Sparks, Nicholas - The Last Song

Sparks, Nicholas - The Lucky One

Sparks, Nicholas - The Notebook

Sparks, Nicholas - The Rescue

Sparks, Nicholas - The Wedding

Sparks, Nicholas - Three Weeks With My Brother

Sparks, Nicholas - True Believer

Westerfield, Scott - Uglies

Westerfield, Scott - Pretties

Westerfield, Scott - Specials

Westerfield, Scott - Extras

Zusak Markus - I Am The Messenger

Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief

If ever you do not like ePub format, you can still download it and then convert it to PDF file here.

My Book Collection as of the end of 2012.

WARNING: This would be a very long post consisting of pictures of all the books I own and have gathered from way back up to the end of the year.

Since the new bookshelf that my mom bought me arrived today, I just thought that it’s fitting to dust all of my books before I re-stack them. It was a very tedious job and that it took me 4 hours to finish them all. And so to start of the new year, I have all my clean books to show you, guys. (maybe, in the future, I’ll sell them or put ass giveaway. MAYBE.)

• Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling Hardbound + Paperback (the missing ones are out, borrowed by my cousins)

• Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch

• The Mortal Instruments & The Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare (different sizes which mean they’re given as gifts. haha)

• Percy Jackson & The Olympians Series by Rick Riordan

• The Mysterious Benedict Society Series by Trenton Lee Stewart

• A Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin (I have yet to buy the not-movie-tie-in edition of the first book)

• The Hunger Games Series by Suzanne Collins

• John Green books

• David Levithan books and his collab works with Rachel Cohn

My Harry Potter Story.

Why do you still post stuff about Harry Potter?

Just get over your Harry Potter craziness already! It’s been, like, more than a year since the last movie came out!

Don’t you ever get tired of watching or reading Harry Potter over and over again?

You’re 19 years old, why the hell are you still obsessed with a children’s book?

It’s over, move on and find another book to love.

These are just a few of the comments or messages I get on Facebook whenever I post something Potter-related, may it be quotes, photos, vidoes or little facts. To be honest, I don’t feel irritated at all. I am actually surprised by their reactions. I mean, they’ve known all along that I am a die-hard Potterhead, and yet they still force these opinions on me. Like, do they really expect that I’d give up all my affection and love for all things Harry Potter just because they told me so? Haha. I think not.

I know that it’s quite difficult for them to understand, maybe because they haven’t experienced being attached to something for over a period of time, or that they don’t feel this passionate about things, or for other reasons I may never know. But once and for all, here is my explanation:

When you grew up interested and attached to one thing to the point that it became a very important part of your life, you can never just turn away from it no matter how long it has been since it ended. Much like in a relationship, when you’ve invested so much, spent every sweat, tears, and love for someone, letting go will never be easy. At times, it’s unimaginable. That is how the Harry Potter series is for me.

I got the first book as a present from my mom for my 6th birthday. At that time, I didn’t find it interesting since it was the first time I encountered a book with only a few pictures. You see, even when I started reading early, I was used to fairytales and storybooks filled with illustrations of every character and the events of each story. But then, come the year 2000 and I was then 7 years old, my mother brought me to theater for the first time. And together, we watched the first Harry Potter movie ever released. That was also my first time to watch a movie inside a theater. So for the 7-year-old me, it was truly a magical moment.

When we went back home, I frantically searched for my copy of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and asked my mom (actually, pleaded), to assist me in reading the book. It was just my luck that she agreed. So for days, we sat together, reading the book. Whenever I find a word I don’t understand, my mom would always explain it to me the best she could. It became our bonding session. Before we even finished the book, my mom found out that this is just one book of the series. 

She then bought me the next 3 books in the Harry Potter series for my birthday since they were already available that year. From then on, I would wait impatiently for the following year, ready to receive the next book in the series. Through this, Harry Potter became the center of my entire childhood. Aside from growing up following Harry Potter’s adventures, it also became the thing that brought me and my mom closer. 

So yes, the Harry Potter books might all have been published and all the movies may have been released already but that doesn’t matter to me. The power of this magical story still lives within my heart and all the others whose lives were touched by this wizard boy who lived through all the hardship fate has thrown his way. I knocked myself crazy with anticipation for the next book or film, cheered during all the quidditch matches, recited every incantation, laughed with every joke made by the twins, cried over the deaths of my favorite characters, rejoiced at each triumph, even swooned over the cheesy bits. In these books and movies, I have learned so much about life at such a young age. The Harry Potter series aren’t just words printed on paper or frames sewn into films I can easily forget. No. These books and films are priceless treasures I’ll forever cherish. They are precious bits and pieces that helped in molding a part of whoever I am today. 

It really frustrates me when I see Fifty Shades of Grey in like the popular spots in bookstores

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Probably the best use of that gif. 

Since it has been exactly a year since the world premiere of the last Harry Potter movie, I would give two and a half hours of my time to re-watch the first movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, all over again.

“I open at the close.”

Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

Please do forgive the state of this book. I know that the spine is already cracked and the jacket is wrinkled and slightly tattered. But this is due to the fact that I have read this book a lot of times. And yes, it is my all time favorite book.

Of all the books I own and read, the Harry Potter series have been the closest to my heart since I grew up with it. Every year, I would eagerly wait for the release of the next book in the series. And the moment that this final book came out, I was in our school’s library at 6am to claim my reserved copy. The time that the book was handed to me, it felt like I was holding the most precious treasure in the world. I was so excited yet so afraid to finish it that I hesitated in turning the last few pages. I don’t ever want it to end. And like many other, I would give anything just to repeat the whole experience, wipe away all my knowledge of the whole series and reread the books all over again. 

As to why I consider this as my favorite book of all time, I have a few reasons. First is that everything I had ever known from the first 6 books were changed because of the twists in this one. There were so many secrets unveiled and we see how much foreshadowing there was in the past books. It just feels so great to know the whole truth and the revelations about how the events from the very first book were connected to the end. All the mysteries were so systematically written and was very much the reason why I love the book.

Second is that this book is way more different the the former 6 because in here, we finally see our beloved characters are grown and mature people. They are not just kids hungry for magical adventures, but adults ready to give everything, even their lives, in order to save their whole community.

Third is that despite the almost very obvious and predictable fact that Harry must win and survive the battle with the Dark Lord, Rowling isn’t one to give an ordinary victory. The way it ended is not simple and certainly not a cliché or some sort. Harry’s victory is definitely action-packed yet hair-raisingly brilliant.

Fourth is that even when Rowling caught us off guard with all the tragic death of our most beloved characters in the book, she never denied us the happy ending for everyone. We all know that in every war, there would always be victims, innocent or not, and that’s what the author gave us. She didn’t stir away from the truth just to satisfy her readers. She knew that a lot of us would be disappointed but she still did what she imagined how the story would go. I commend her for that. And like I said, she regained our approval by giving the story a very great and blissful ending.

And lastly, I loved this book because of the strongest most powerful message it held out for the readers: love brings out the light even in the darkest of hearts. For those who have read the book, I guess you already know that Severus Snape is the best proof of that in this book. It shows that no matter how evil a person is, love, no matter what form, requited or not, will always flush out the rotting parts of our soul. It would bring out the very best in us.

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And that’s it! I FINALLY FINISHED THE MONTH-LONG BOOK CHALLENGE! Hooray! I feel satisfied with myself. :)

Day 22 – Favorite book you own

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Wow. This is the second time that this book turned up in my book challenge! 

My reason for selecting this as the favorite book I own is simple. It’s because this book is a signed copy. I almost chose the Harry Potter set but then this one won the special place in my shelf because John Green’s hand have swept over a page of it. The day I got this, I immediately opened the page with his signature and as embarrassing as it is, I rubbed my face on the little green-inked signature. I am just that crazy. I mean, hello, only the first 150,000 copies were signed and I was lucky enough to get one. How can this book not be precious? I just hope I can also get my Harry Potter series signed by JK Rowling in person. It would be the best day of my life when that happens, I am sure of it. 

I wouldn’t die unless I have done ALL these things.

So I have this list inside my head of the things I would do before I let myself die. I swear to myself that I would hold on to my last few breaths no matter what, even when I am already an inch away from death, if I still haven’t done all of these things.

So here they are:

• Go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando
• Meet and have all my Potter books signed by JK Rowling
• Shave my head
• Get that two tattoos I really want
• Meet and have a conversation with John Green and Hank Green
• Punch Steven Moffat in the face (although meeting him would be more likely)
• Meet one of the Doctors (Eccleston, Tennant, Smith) and have our picture taken at the TARDIS
• Go to Greece
• Have a baby (yes, not now but in the future)
• Finish all the books in my to-read list

I know that some of these seem a bit too out of my league but whatever. I really want to do all this things and I don’t care how difficult they are to achieve. I swear, I would not die if I haven’t done everything listed in here.

J.K ROWLING’S NEW BOOK COMES OUT 27th OF SEPTEMBER THIS YEAR

LONDON (AP) — Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling says her first book for adults will be called “The Casual Vacancy.”

She says the book will be set in an English town called Pagford that is not as idyllic as it seems on the surface.

The book published by Little, Brown & Co. will represent her first post-Potter offering. She is credited with creating one of the most successful fictional series in history with the saga of the boy wizard.

The publisher said Thursday the new book will be available worldwide on September 27.

It will be sold as an e-book and also as a traditional hardback volume.

The publisher says the book will be “blackly comic.”

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