Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction and Literature :
Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall” – Free MP3
Asimov, Isaac - The Foundation Trilogy (dramatized version) – Free Stream – Free Zip File
Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question” – YouTube
Asimov, Isaac – “Youth” – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Austen, Jane – Emma – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Austen, Jane – Lady Susan – Free iTunes – Free Zip File
Austen, Jane - Love and Friendship – Free Zip File
Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park – Free iTunes
Austen, Jane - Northanger Abbey – Free iTunes
Austen, Jane - Persuasion – Free iTunes
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Auster, Paul – Free Stream – “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”
Auster, Paul – Free MP3 – The Red Notebook (read by the author)
Babel, Isaac – You Must Know Everything – Free MP3
Baldwin, James – The Story of Siegfried – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Baldwin, James – Fifty Famous Stories Retold – Free MP3 Zip File
Ballard, JG - “My Dream of Flying to Wake Island” (read by William Boyd) – Free MP3
Ballard, JG – The Drowned World – Free Stream
Ballard, JG – “The Stories of JG Ballard” (dramatized for radio) – Free Stream
Balzac, Honore de – The Peasant Story of Napoleon – Free MP3
Barrie, JM – Peter Pan – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Barrodale, Amie - “William Wei” (read by James Franco) – Free MP3
Barthelme, Donald - “Concerning the Bodyguard” (read by Salman Rushdie) – Free MP3
Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz – Free iTunes
Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 – Free Audio Stream
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) – Real Player
Borges, Jorge Luis – Shakespeare’s Memory – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) – Free MP3
Bradbury, Ray – All Summer in a Day – Free Stream/MP3
Brodkey, Harold – Spring Fugue (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) – Free MP3
Brodkey, Harold – The State of Grace (read by Richard Ford ) – Free Stream
Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey – Free iTunes
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Burroughs, William S. – “Ghosts of Chance” – YouTube
Burroughs, William S. - Junky – MP3s
Calvino, Italo – The Night (read by Jeanette Winterson) – Free MP3
Calvino, Italo – “The Daughters of the Moon” – Free Stream
Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
Alternative version read by Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing fame. (multiple formats)
Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic – Free iTunes
Carver, Raymond – “Chef’s House” (read by David Means) – Free MP3
Carver, Raymond - “Fat” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
Carver, Raymond – “The Students’ Wife (read by Richard Ford) – Free MP3
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote – Free MP3 Zip File
Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Cheever, John - “The Reunion” (read by Richard Ford) – Free MP3
Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Cheever) – Free Stream/Download
Chekhov, Anton – “The Beauties” (read by Philip Pullman) – Free MP3
Chesterton, G.K. - The Man Who Was Thursday – Free iTunes
Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free multiple formats
Chabon, Michael – “S Angel” (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes
Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Multiple Formats
Christian Andersen, Hans – Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Free MP3
Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes – iTunes –Free MP3
Clarke, Arthur C. - “A Walk in the Dark” – Free MP3
Clarke, Arthur C. – “Hammer of God” – Free MP3
Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Star” –Free Stream/Download
Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File –
Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes– Free MP3s
Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Speckled Band – Free iTunes
Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Agent – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer – Free MP3
Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans – Free iTunes –Free MP3 Zip File
Cortazar, Julio - The Night Face Up – Free iTunes
Crane, Stephen - The Red Badge of Courage – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Danticat, Edwidge - Water Child (read by Junot Diaz) – Free MP3 –iTunes
Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip file
Diaz, Junot – How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie – Free MP3
Dick, Philip K. – “Beyond Lies the Wub” – Free MP3
Dick, Philip K. – “Beyond the Door” – Free MP3
Dick, Philip K. – “Second Variety” – Free MP3 Zip File
Dick, Philip K – “Tony and the Beetles” – MP3 Part 1 – MP3 Part II
Dick, Philip K. – “The Defenders” – Free MP3
Dick, Philip K. – “The Hanging Stranger” – Free MP3
Dick, Philip K - “The Variable Man” – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles – Bleak House – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles – Hard Times – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow) –Free MP3
Dodge, Mary Mapes - Hans Brinker – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Crime and Punishment – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov – Free iTunes –Free Stream
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Gambler – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Idiot – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground – Free iTunes –Free MP3
Doyle, Roddy – “Bullfighting” (Read by Dave Eggers) – Free MP3
Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie – Free MP3
Dreiser, Theodore – The Lost Phoebe – Free iTunes
Dumas, Alexandre - The Comte de Monte Cristo – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Eliot, George - Silas Marner – Free MP3
Eliot, George – Middlemarch – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File –
Fitzgerald, F. Scott -Tales of the Jazz Age – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - This Side of Paradise – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Forster, E. M. – Howards End – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Forster, E.M. - “The Machine Stops” – Free iTunes
Gaiman, Neil - Coraline – Video
Gaiman, Neil - “A Study in Emerald” – Free iTunes
Gaiman, Neil – “How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties” – Free MP3
Gaiman, Neil - “Orange” (read live) – Free Video
Gaiman, Neil - “Other People” (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Video
Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book – Free Video
Gaiman, Neil - “Troll Bridge” (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) – Free iTunes
Gaiman, Neil – The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains – Free MP3
Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business” (read by Jonathan Franzen) Free MP3
Gogol, Nikolai - Dead Souls – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
Gordimer, Nadine – “City Lovers” – Free MP3
Gordimer, Nadine – “A Style of Her Own” and “The Bridegroom” (read by the author, 1961) – Free Stream/Download
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – House of the Seven Gables – Free MP3s
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Rappaccini’s Daughter – Free iTunes
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Hayden, Julie - “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3
Heinlein, Robert – Methuselah’s Children (abridged) – Free Stream/MP3
Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) – Free MP3
Hemingway, Ernest – “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway: .au format, .gsm format, .ra format)
Hemingway, Ernest – “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (read by Charleston Heston) – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 - Part 4
Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha – Free MP3
Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
Hughes, Langston – “Simple on Indian Blood”(read by Ossie Davis) –Free Stream
Hughes, Langston - ”A Toast to Harlem” (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream
Hughes, Langston – “Last Whipping” (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream
Hughes, Langston - ”Feet Live Their Own Life” (read by Ossie Davis) -Free Stream
Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1 – Free MP3 Zip File
Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables – Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles – Multiple formats
Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Irving, Wasthington – Rip Van Winkle – Free MP3
Irving, Washington - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Free iTunes –Free MP3
James, Henry – Daisy Miller – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
James, Henry – “Greville Fane” (read by Cynthia Ozick) – Free Stream/Download
James, Henry - The Turn of the Screw – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Johnson, Denis – “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3
Joyce, James – A Painful Case – Free iTunes
Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Free iTunes –Free MP3 Zip File
Joyce, James - Araby – Free MP3
Joyce, James – Chamber Music – Free MP3
Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake – Free Stream
Joyce, James – The Dead – Free MP3 Zip File
Joyce, James - Ulysses – Free Stream - Free MP3 Zip File
July, Miranda - “Ron Spivey” (read by David Sedaris) – Free MP3
Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – Kim – Free iTunes
Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children – Free MP3 iTunes
Kipling, Rudyard – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – The Elephant’s Child – Free MP3
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Story – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
Kincaid, Jamaica - “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – MP3
Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 Zip File
Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband – Free MP3
Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia (All 7 Books) – Free MP3s
Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit – Free iTunes – MP3s
Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street – Free MP3s – Free iTunes
London, Jack – Call of the Wild – Free iTunes – Free MP3
London, Jack – The Heathen – Free MP3
London, Jack -To Build a Fire – Free MP3
London, Jack - White Fang – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works – Free iTunes –Free MP3
Lovecraft, H.P. – The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft – Free Mp3 Zip File – Free Stream
Lucretius – On the Nature of Things – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
Lu Xun - A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
Malamud, Bernard – A Summer’s Reading – Free iTunes
McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) – Free MP3
McCann, Colum – “Transatlantic” (read by author) – Free MP3
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick read by Celebrities – iTunes –Soundcloud – Big Read
Melville, Herman – Typee – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Milton, John - Paradise Lost – Free MP3 Zip File
Milton, John – Paradise Regained – Free MP3 Zip File
Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables – Free iTunes
Moore, Lorrie – “Paper Losses” (read by Gary Shteyngart) – Free Stream
Munro, Alice – “Axis” – Free MP3
Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) –Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Nabokov, Vladimir – Signs and Symbols – Free iTunes
O’Connor, Flannery – “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Read by author in 1959) – Stream/Download
O’Connor, Frank – “The Man of the World” (read by Julian Barnes)MP3
O Henry, The Gift of the Magi – iTunes – Free MP3
Orwell, George - 1984 – Free MP3 Zip File – Multiple Versions
Orwell, George – Animal Farm – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
Orwell, George - Homage to Catalonia – Chapter 1 here – Remaining Chapters here
Poe, Edgar Allan - The Complete Stories – Free iTunes
Poe, Edgar Allan – The Cask of Amontillado – Free iTunes
Poe, Edgar Allen – The Raven – Free MP3alternate version read by actor John de Lancie (video)
Poe, Edgar Allen - The Raven (as read by Christopher Walken) – Free YouTube Audio
Poe, Edgar Allen - The Pit and the Pendulum – Free MP3
Poe, Edgar Allen – The Tell Tale Heart – Free MP3
Porter, Eleanor – Pollyanna – Free MP3 Zip File
Ruskin, John - The Golden River – Free MP3
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