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Explore over a thousand great books by authors from the ancient world through to the twentieth century. From Jane Austen to Herman Melville to Sun Tzu, from the ancient Greeks to American modernists: If a book changed the world, it's here. Share these full-length audiobooks with friends and start an audiobook club! For ad-free listening try our premium subscription You can now filter by genre, by searching our titles by the following keywords: adventure biography business comedy cooking drama family fantasy folklore history horror mystery philosophy poetry religion romance science scifi self help speeches thriller tragedy
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News From Nowhere by William Morris ~ Full Audiobook [scifi]
News From Nowhere by William Morris audiobook. Genre: scifi In News From Nowhere, William Morris blends dream vision, social criticism, and speculative fiction into a vivid journey through a transformed England. After falling asleep following a heated discussion about politics and society…
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The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The Revolutions of Civilization by William Matthew Flinders Petrie audiobook. Genre: history In this compact work of historical interpretation, pioneering archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie sets out to explain why great cultures seem to rise, peak, decline, and return in recurring…
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The Animate and the Inanimate by William James Sidis ~ Full Audiobook [science]
The Animate and the Inanimate by William James Sidis audiobook. Genre: science In The Animate and the Inanimate, William James Sidis offers an ambitious and highly unusual exploration of one of science's oldest questions: what truly separates living things from nonliving matter? Drawing on...
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The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson ~ Full Audiobook [horror]
The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson audiobook. Genre: horror William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland is a haunting early classic of cosmic horror that begins when two travelers discover a strange manuscript in the ruins of a remote house in rural Ireland. The written...
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Dissertation on Oriental Gardening by William Chambers ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening by William Chambers audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1772 and expanded in 1773, William Chambers' Dissertation on Oriental Gardening is a lively 18th-century work of aesthetic argument in which the architect and designer asks what a garden should...
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The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]
The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats audiobook. Genre: folklore In The Celtic Twilight, William Butler Yeats invites listeners into a dreamlike Ireland where folklore, faith, and everyday life are woven tightly together. Blending memoir, literary sketch, and retold legend, Yeats draws on…
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Candide by Voltaire ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Candide by Voltaire audiobook. Genre: philosophy Candide follows a young man raised to believe that he lives in the best of all possible worlds. Taught by his devoted tutor Pangloss to trust in a cheerful philosophy of universal good, Candide begins life innocent, hopeful, and certain that reason...
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The Northward Course of Empire by Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The Northward Course of Empire by Vilhjalmur Stefansson audiobook. Genre: history In The Northward Course of Empire, Arctic explorer and writer Vilhjalmur Stefansson challenges familiar ideas about the far north and argues that northern lands are not barren margins of civilization, but the next...
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In Time Of Emergency - A Citizens Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters by US Office of Civil Defense ~ Full Audiobook [self help]
In Time Of Emergency - A Citizens Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters by US Office of Civil Defense audiobook. Genre: self help First published in 1968 at the height of the Cold War, In Time of Emergency is a practical civil defense handbook created for ordinary Americans facing the...
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The Heidelberg Catechism by Ursinus and Olevianus ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
The Heidelberg Catechism by Ursinus and Olevianus audiobook. Genre: religion First published in 1563, The Heidelberg Catechism is a foundational work of Protestant teaching written to guide ordinary believers through the core doctrines of the Christian faith. Traditionally associated with…
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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince by Ukawsaw Gronniosaw audiobook. Genre: biography A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw tells the extraordinary early life and...
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Mental Fatigue by Tsuru Arai ~ Full Audiobook [science]
Mental Fatigue by Tsuru Arai audiobook. Genre: science In Mental Fatigue, pioneering psychologist Tsuru Arai turns a deceptively simple question into a rigorous investigation: what happens to the mind when it is pushed to keep working long after effort begins to feel heavy? Written at the dawn of...
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Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
Unspoken Sermons by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: religion Unspoken Sermons gathers some of George MacDonald's most enduring spiritual meditations, delivered not as pulpit addresses but as searching essays that invite the listener into a deeper, more honest life with God. Writing with the...
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A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer ~ Full Audiobook [science]
A Text-book of Assaying by Cornelius Beringer audiobook. Genre: science A Text-book of Assaying is a practical guide to one of mining and metallurgy's most exacting arts: determining, by careful experiment, what valuable metals and compounds are truly present in an ore, alloy, or industrial...
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A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
A Love Episode, Book Eight of Rougon-Macquart Cycle by Emile Zola audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the quiet, respectable neighborhoods of Second Empire Paris, A Love Episode follows Helene Grandjean, a young widow determined to build a calm life for herself and her fragile daughter, Jeanne.…
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The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson audiobook. Genre: history Arthur Elson's The Book of Musical Knowledge is a one-volume guided tour for anyone who loves music but wants to understand what they are hearing. Written for music-lovers, students, and teachers, it moves step by step from…
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Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg audiobook. Genre: biography Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years is a sweeping, intimate portrait of Lincoln before the White House, tracing how a shy frontier boy became a self-made lawyer, gifted storyteller, and rising…
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Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas audiobook. Genre: history In turbulent 16th-century France, the royal court of the Valois is a glittering trap: a place where weddings are arranged like treaties, faith is weaponized, and a careless word can cost a life. At the center stands Marguerite de...
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The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
The Life of Christ by Frederic Farrar audiobook. Genre: religion Frederic W. Farrar's The Life of Christ is a sweeping, reverent portrait of Jesus of Nazareth, told with the pace of a vivid narrative and the care of a scholar-pastor. Drawing on the Gospel accounts and the geography, customs, and...
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Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various ~ Full Audiobook [history]
Library of the Worlds Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17 by Various audiobook. Genre: history Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 17 is a gateway volume in the famed 45-volume anthology assembled to bring 'a mass of good reading' into everyday homes....
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The History of Rome, volume 4 by Titus Livius ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The History of Rome, volume 4 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history Often published as Volume IV in modern sets of Livy's monumental History of Rome, this installment gathers Books 8-10 and follows the Republic as it pushes beyond Latium and is tested by wars, rival coalitions, and its own...
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The History of Rome, volume 2 by Titus Livius ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The History of Rome, volume 2 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history In The History of Rome, Volume 2, Titus Livius (Livy) continues his sweeping chronicle of Rome's early Republic, where the city's survival depends as much on civic order as on battlefield courage. As Rome expands its power...
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The History of Rome, volume 1 by Titus Livius ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The History of Rome, volume 1 by Titus Livius audiobook. Genre: history In The History of Rome, volume 1, the Roman historian Titus Livius (Livy) opens an ambitious chronicle of a city that grew from a small settlement on the Tiber into the dominant power of the Mediterranean world. Writing…
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Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: drama In Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis follows the rise of a magnetic, hard-drinking, sharp-tongued young man who discovers he has a talent for persuasion and a hunger for applause. Elmer Gantry is not driven by quiet faith so much as by ambition,...
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The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal audiobook. Genre: drama In early 19th-century Europe, amid shifting borders and fading empires, young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo burns with romantic dreams of glory. Restless under the watchful rule of his family, he impulsively throws himself toward...
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The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries- Volume 1 by Leopold von Ranke ~ Full Audiobook [history]
The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries- Volume 1 by Leopold von Ranke audiobook. Genre: history In The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries - Volume 1, Leopold von Ranke launches a sweeping, source-driven study of the papacy as a political, diplomatic, and…
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White Jacket by Herman Melville ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
White Jacket by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Herman Melville's White-Jacket plunges listeners into the cramped, wind-whipped world of a U.S. Navy frigate at sea, where discipline is as relentless as the ocean. The story follows an intelligent, observant sailor known for the…
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau Volume 1 - 1837 - 1846 by Henry David Thoreau ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
The Journal of Henry David Thoreau Volume 1 - 1837 - 1846 by Henry David Thoreau audiobook. Genre: biography Spanning the formative years from 1837 to 1846, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 1 invites listeners into the private workshop of one of America's most distinctive minds. In…
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The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: philosophy Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams is a landmark work that invites listeners into the hidden logic of the sleeping mind. Blending case studies, personal recollections, and careful argument, Freud proposes that...
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Studies in Word-Association by Carl Gustav Jung ~ Full Audiobook [science]
Studies in Word-Association by Carl Gustav Jung audiobook. Genre: science In Studies in Word-Association, Carl Gustav Jung presents a pioneering exploration of the mind through an unexpectedly simple tool: the way people respond to words. Drawing on experiments developed with colleagues at the...
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Psychological Types - Or, the Psychology of Individuation by Carl Gustav Jung ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Psychological Types - Or, the Psychology of Individuation by Carl Gustav Jung audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Psychological Types - Or, the Psychology of Individuation, Carl Gustav Jung maps the hidden architecture of personality and the inner conflicts that shape a life. Drawing on clinical...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book II continues Cao Xueqin's monumental portrait of the Jia clan at the height of its splendor, even as quiet signs of strain begin to show beneath the lacquered surface. At the center is Jia...
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The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I by Xueqin Cao ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I by Xueqin Cao audiobook. Genre: drama The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I opens the door to the splendid yet fragile world of the Jia clan, an aristocratic family whose mansions overflow with wealth, ceremony, and whispered rivalries. Framed by a mystical...
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Don Quixote Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
Don Quixote Vol. 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. Genre: adventure Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims…
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Don Quixote Vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~ Full Audiobook [adventure]
Don Quixote Vol. 1 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra audiobook. Genre: adventure Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims…
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The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White ~ Full Audiobook [religion]
The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White audiobook. Genre: religion The Desire of Ages is Ellen G. White's sweeping, devotional portrait of the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, told with vivid narrative force and a pastor's concern for the inner life. Moving from the promises and longings that...
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The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge ~ Full Audiobook [family]
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte Mary Yonge audiobook. Genre: family In a bustling mid-Victorian household at Ernescliffe, Dr. May's many children live in a whirl of lessons, quarrels, loyalties, and high-minded schemes - until a sudden family disaster reshapes everything they thought...
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Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ~ Full Audiobook [thriller]
Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: thriller In Victorian England, Sylvia Carew has been raised in modest circumstances by a parish schoolmaster whose carefully guarded history has left her with more questions than security. Clever, beautiful, and fiercely determined to...
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Ardath by Marie Corelli ~ Full Audiobook [fantasy]
Ardath by Marie Corelli audiobook. Genre: fantasy In late-Victorian London, Theos Alwyn is a gifted but struggling young writer who has begun to doubt the value of art, faith, and even his own moral compass. When an enigmatic Eastern mystic offers him a strange, fateful gift, Theos is drawn into…
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Swann's Way by Marcel Proust ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Swann's Way by Marcel Proust audiobook. Genre: drama Swann's Way, the first volume of Marcel Proust's monumental In Search of Lost Time, invites listeners into a richly detailed world where memory, desire, and social performance shape a life as surely as events do. From the quiet rituals of...
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The Mistress of Court Regna by Charles Garvice ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
The Mistress of Court Regna by Charles Garvice audiobook. Genre: romance On the death of Lord Wharton, beautiful young Claire is shocked to find herself the heiress to Court Regna along with the title, the vast fortune and lands that it entails. She meets a poor, handsome architect, and as their...
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Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope ~ Full Audiobook [romance]
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: romance Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of...
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Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis ~ Full Audiobook [drama]
Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis audiobook. Genre: drama Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith follows Martin Arrowsmith, a restless young man from the American Midwest who is determined to become the kind of doctor who serves truth before comfort. From medical school lectures and small town practice to big…
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Dead Men's Shoes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]
Dead Men's Shoes by Mary Elizabeth Braddon audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian England, Sybil Secretan is a gentlewoman with a precarious future: she has breeding and pride, but not the money that protects a woman from hard choices. When she is offered the post of housekeeper to her wealthy,...
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George Muller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
George Muller of Bristol by Arthur T. Pierson audiobook. Genre: biography George Muller was a great hero of faith. His greatest aim was to demonstrate that God answers prayer and can be trusted for every minute detail of life. Spending countless hours asking God to provide his needs, he only…
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Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur Lewis Tubbs ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]
Alias Miss Sherlock by Arthur Lewis Tubbs audiobook. Genre: mystery When Dick Brewster is suddenly implicated in a murder, he vanishes to the one place he believes he can still trust: his aunt's quiet farm. But hiding is only a temporary refuge. As rumors tighten into accusation and the threat of...
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Economics by Aristotle ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
Economics by Aristotle audiobook. Genre: philosophy In Economics, a short but influential treatise traditionally attributed to Aristotle, the listener enters the practical world of oikonomia - the art of running a household and managing property with intelligence, restraint, and purpose. Moving...
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The Clouds by Aristophanes ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]
The Clouds by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In Aristophanes' sharp and playful comedy The Clouds, Athens is buzzing with new ideas, clever talkers, and fashionable philosophies - and one desperate man hopes to use them to save his skin. Strepsiades, a harried farmer buried under debts…
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The Real Mother Goose by Anonymous ~ Full Audiobook [folklore]
The Real Mother Goose by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: folklore The Real Mother Goose is a beloved collection of traditional nursery rhymes and jingles passed down through generations, gathered under the timeless name 'Mother Goose.' Anonymous in authorship but unmistakable in cultural impact, this...
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An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant ~ Full Audiobook [philosophy]
An Introduction to Yoga by Annie Besant audiobook. Genre: philosophy First delivered as four public lectures in Benares in 1907, Annie Besant's An Introduction to Yoga invites the listener into yoga not as a set of gymnastic poses, but as a disciplined science of consciousness. Speaking as a...
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