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Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall” – Free MP3
Asimov, Isaac – The Foundation Trilogy (dramatized version) – Free Stream
Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question” – YouTube
Asimov, Isaac – “Youth” – 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
Saramago, José – “The Centaur” (Read by Nadine Gordimer) – Free MP3
Sedaris, David – “The Mouse and the Snake” from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary – Free MP3
Sedaris, David – “Six to Eight Black Men” from the album ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’. YouTube Audio
Sedaris, David – “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle”from When You Are Engulfed in Flames – Free MP3
Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Free iTunes –Free MP3 Zip File
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – Julius Caesar – iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – King Lear – Free MP3 Zip File
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet – iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice – iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – The Sonnets – iTunes – Free MP3
Shakespeare, William – The Sonnets (read by Sir John Gielgud) – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth – iTunes
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein – iTunes – Free MP3Also check out the 1938 radio broadcast that is faithful to Mary Shelley’s text. (iTunes)
Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Singer, Isaac Bashevis – Disguised – Free MP3 (read by Nathan Englander)
Stein, Gertrude – If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso – Free MP3
Stein, Gertrude – Matisse – Free MP3
Stein, Gertrude – The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot – Free MP3
Stein, Gertrude – The Making of Americans – Free MP3
Steinbeck, John – “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear” – Free MP3
Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Free MP3
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island – Free MP3
Stoker, Bram – Dracula – Free iTunesSee alternative version here. (full zip file)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Free MP3
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels – Free MP3 Zip File
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence – Casey at the Bat – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina –
Book 1 – Free Zip File
Book 2 – Free Zip File
Book 3 – Free Zip File
Book 4 – Free Zip File
Book 5 – Free Zip File
Book 6 – Free Zip File
Book 7 – Free Zip File
Book 8 – Free Zip File
Tolstoy, Leo – The Imp and the Crust – Free iTunes
Tolstoy, Leo – What Men Live By and Other Tales – Free iTunes
Tolstoy, Leo – War & Peace Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5,Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9 (Zip Files)
Tolstoy, Leo – Selected Short Stories – Free Multiple formats
Trollope, Anthony – Barchester Towers – Free MP3 Zip File
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Free MP3
Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
Unknown – Beowulf – Free iTunes
Unknown – Sir Gawain and the Green Night – Free MP3 Zip File
Updike, John – “Playing with Dynamite” (read by Roger Angell) – Free MP3
Updike, John – “A & P.” (read by Allegra Goodman) – Free MP3
Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Free MP3 Zip File –Free iTunes
Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
Verne, Jules – Mysterious Island – Free iTunes
Verne, Jules – The Master of the World – Free MP3
Voltaire – Candide – Free MP3
Vonnegut, Kurt – 2BR02B – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Vonnegut, Kurt – “Harrison Bergeron” – Free MP3
Vonnegut, Kurt – The Big Trip Up Yonder – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
Wallace, David Foster – “Consider the Lobster” (read by DFW) – Free MP3
Wallace, David Foster – “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s” (read by DFW) – Free MP3
Wells, HG – The Invisible Man- Free iTunes
Wells, HG – Magic Shop – Free iTunes
Wells, HG – Time Machine – Free iTunes
Wells, HG – The Red Room – Free iTunes
Wells, HG – War of the Worlds – Free iTunes
Welty, Eudora – “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (read by Joyce Carol Oates) (MP3)
Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Free iTunes
Wharton, Edith – The Fulness of Life – Free MP3
Wilde, Oscar – The Happy Prince – Free MP3
Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest – Free MP3
Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
Wolff, Tobias – Bullet in the Brain (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)
Woolf, Virginia – A Haunted House – Free MP3
Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson – Free MP3 Zip File
