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I'm a pretty big Jane Austen fan, and of course her stuff is pretty freely had.
Count of Monte Cristo was pretty good...
Paradise Lost
I liked the Pickwick Papers by Dickens
PG Wodehouse does some pleasant stories, even if I don't find them extremely funny.
Mark Twain's got some good stuff too.
But those are all classics that everyone's read pretty much...I don't know much about current indie authors, and while I do hope to find a few hidden gems among today's freebies...I just don't feel like investing the time in trial and error to find something good. Most of the recommendations people on the internet give me have a decidedly sci-fi tilt that I generally avoid, and most of the recommendations former colleagues and classmates give me are decidedly bleak or pessimistic, and I'm not particularly fond of that kind of writing mode (which sadly is dominant in the 20th century).
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