Over the years, I’ve made much of my work available through Kindle Unlimited. Very simply, this is how it works: Members who subscribe to Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited program have genuinely unlimited access to a vast body of material; while as a member you can only have ten KU titles at a time downloaded to your device, a click is all it takes to return one title and select another—and you can do this as frequently as you wish.

If you’re not already a Kindle Unlimited member, just click here to check it out…

In order for me to make a particular work available on Kindle Unlimited, I have to forego publishing an electronic version on any platform other than Amazon’s Kindle. In return for this exclusivity, the title is included in KU. (While the reader pays nothing to read it, the author does get compensated, earning a fraction of a cent for every page read. That doesn’t sound like much—and, frankly, it’s not. But it’s enough so that readers with a conscience need not feel they are exploiting the authors whose books they read for free.)

Here are the various titles of mine you can read for free via Kindle Unlimited. (I’ll update the list as I add additional titles, so you might want to bookmark this page for future reference.) I’ll also note how and where you can obtain these titles if you’re not a KU subscriber.

KELLER STORIES in chronological order:

Answers to Soldier

Keller on Horseback

Keller’s Therapy

Dogs Walked, Plants Watered

Keller’s Karma

Keller in Shining Armor

Keller’s Choice

Keller on the Spot

Keller’s Last Refuge

Keller in Retirement

Keller’s Horoscope

Keller’s Designated Hitter

Keller’s Adjustment

Keller the Dogkiller

Quotidian Keller

Keller in Des Moines

Keller in Dallas

Keller’s Homecoming

Keller’s Fedora (a novella)

Please note: All of the listed Keller stories have appeared as portions of episodic Keller novels; if you have the books (Hit Man, Hit List, Hit Parade, Hit and Run, and Hit Me) you already have the stories. The novella, Keller’s Fedora, is electronically exclusive to Kindle, but is widely available as a hardcover or paperback book.

KIT TOLLIVER STORIES in chronological order:

If You Can’t Stand the Heat

Rude Awakening

You Can Call Me Lucky

Clean Slate

Waitress Wanted

Jilling

Conjugal Rites

One Kind Favor I Ask of You

Don’t Get in the Car

Fun With Brady and Angelica

Zeroing In

Unfinished Business

Please note: Kit Tolliver is the homicidal heroine of Getting Off, and if you’re a KU subscriber you can read her complete adventures for free; if you’re not, you could buy the individual stories for $2.99 apiece—but you’d be much better off buying the Hard Case Crime volume, as either a printed book or an ebook.

MATTHEW SCUDDER SHORT STORIES in chronological order:

A Candle for the Bag Lady

The Merciful Angel of Death

Looking for David

A Moment of Wrong Thinking

One Last Night at Grogan’s

Please note: There have been eleven Matthew Scudder short stories, but only these five are accessible through Kindle Unlimited. As an alternative, they’re all collected and widely available in The Night and the Music, along with an appreciation by Brian Koppelman.

MIDCENTURY EROTIC NOVELS in alphabetical order:

College for Sinners

Flesh Parade

Girls on the Prowl

Lust Weekend

Passion Nightmare

Tramp

Please note: These titles were all originally published in the early 1960s by Nightstand Books, under the pen name “Andrew Shaw.” That whole chapter in my career gets a lot of attention in my memoir, A Writer Prepares. I’ve reissued quite a few others, but only these six are Kindle Unlimited titles at present. To see the others, just search for Lawrence Block Collection of Classic Erotica.

EHRENGRAF STORIES in chronological order:

The Ehrengraf Defense

The Ehrengraf Presumption

The Ehrengraf Experience

The Ehrengraf Appointment

The Ehrengraf Riposte

The Ehrengraf Obligation

The Ehrengraf Alternative

The Ehrengraf Nostrum

The Ehrengraf Affirmation

The Ehrengraf Reverse

The Ehrengraf Fandango

Please note: These are eleven of the twelve stories which comprise Defender of the Innocent: The Casebook of Martin Ehrengraf. (#11, “The Ehrengraf Settlement,” is unaccountably missing, an oversight I’ll correct when time permits.) Again, these stories are free for the reading with Kindle Unlimited; for nonsubscribers, you’re much better off buying the complete ebook or printed book.

BOOKS BY JOHN WARREN WELLS in no particular order:

Tricks of the Trade

The Mrs. Robinson Syndrome

Love at a Tender Age

Sex Without Strings

Eros and Capricorn

The Taboo Breakers

The Sex Therapists

The Male Hustler

Doing It!

Please note: I used the pen name “John Warren Wells” for an extended series of nonfiction works dealing with sexual behavior, much of it presented in the form of case histories and interviews. Several JWW titles are not available via Kindle Unlimited; a search for “Lawrence Block John Warren Wells” should turn them up.

VARIOUS SHORT STORIES in alphabetical order:

A Bad Night for Burglars

A Chance to Get Even

As Dark as Christmas Gets (Chip Harrison)

Cleveland in My Dreams

Death of the Mallory Queen (Chip Harrison)

Dolly’s Trash and Treasures

Funny You Should Ask

Gym Rat

Headaches and Bad Dreams

How Far (a one-act play)

I Know How to Pick ‘Em

Like a Bone in the Throat

Like a Thief in the Night (Bernie Rhodenbarr)

Nothing Short of Highway Robbery

Resume Speed (a novella)

Scenarios

Sweet Little Hands

Welcome to the Real World

You Don’t Even Feel It

Please Note: These stories, and many more as well, can be found in the several collections of my short fiction: Enough Rope, Catch and Release, One Night Stands and Lost Weekends, and Resume Speed and Other Stories. I may make additional stories KU-available; if and when I do, I’ll add them to this list.

SUMMING UP: If you’re already a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, you know how it works—and now you know what titles of mine are available to you under that program. Have at it, and I hope you find something you can read with pleasure.

If you have a Kindle but haven’t taken advantage of Kindle Unlimited, you might want to check it out. There’s a huge library of free reading out there for you, and if reading’s a substantial part of your life, you come out way ahead.

If you don’t have a Kindle, and really don’t want to buy one, you can still join Kindle Unlimited and enjoy all its benefits. Just download a free Kindle app and you can read any Kindle ebooks on just about any device—your phone, your pad, your computer, your pop-up toaster, your microwave oven…

Well, maybe not the toaster or the microwave. Not yet, but who’s to say what the future holds?