Right now Amazon.com has dozens of G.A. Henty historical novels available FREE for Kindle. Just look for the Kindle books marked for $0.00 and download them to your Kindle! If you don't have a Kindle, you can download a free Kindle reader app for your PC or Mac.
To help you figure out how to integrate these novels into your homeschool curriculum, check out this chronological listing of most of Henty's books as a guide for what period of history each covers. Here's a more comprehensive list that includes the books of other authors as well into a timeline and provides a description of the subject of each book.
Here are the titles I was able to download for free for my daughter's Kindle:
A Chapter of Adventures
A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia
A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes
A March on London
Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril
At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
At Agincourt
Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion
Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden
By England's Aid Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604
By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
By Right of Conquest Or, With Cortez in Mexico
Captain Bayley's Heir:A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia
Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines
For the Temple A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians
Friends, though divided A Tale of the Civil War
In Freedom's Cause : a Story of Wallace and Bruce
In the Heart of the Rockies
In the Irish Brigade A Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
In Times of Peril
Jack Archer
No Surrender! A Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War
One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo
Orange and Green A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick
Out on the Pampas Or, The Young Settlers
Rujub, the Juggler
Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS
St. George for England
Tales of Daring and Danger
The Boy Knight
The Bravest of the Brave – or, with Peterborough in Spain
The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt
The Cornet of Horse A Tale of Marlborough's Wars
The Dash for Khartoum A Tale of Nile Expedition
The Golden Canyon
The Golden Canyon Contents: the Golden Canyon; the Stone Chest
The Queen's Cup
The Treasure of the Incas
The Young Buglers
The Young Carthaginian A Story of The Times of Hannibal
The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots
Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
True to the Old Flag A Tale of the American War of Independence
Under Drake's Flag A Tale of the Spanish Main
Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire
Winning His Spurs A Tale of the Crusades
With Buller in Natal, Or, a Born Leader
With Kitchener in the Soudan A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War
With Moore at Corunna
Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War
Wulf the Saxon A Story of the Norman Conquest
Randa @ Homeschool Roundup says
Totally awesome – thank you for sharing this. I don't have the Kindle app on my iTouch, but I'll definitely be getting it now. I love reading historical novels to my son as part of our schoolwork. Going beyond Story of the World into these kinds of books just makes history come alive.
Deliese says
I just got a Kindle app for my Mac just because of this. What a whole new world of free stuff you've just opened for us! Thanks!
Amber @ClassicHousewife says
Thanks for the heads up!! I grabbed them up, too. =)
Pamela Smiley says
Thank you for sharing this. What a blessing!
Joy says
Thanks I was able to get 118 henty novels for free for my sons! Shared with all my friends on facebook! Now to go find more free books……..
PAul says
Thank you