Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free


Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

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Audio Book Podcast Sites

  • Librivox iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Librivox should be your first stop when looking for audio books. It’s the biggest and best collection. Then there are the others.
  • Audiobooks with Annie iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Audio Literature Odyssey iTunes Feed Web Site
    • A collection of classics. Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, etc.
  • BMW Audio Books Web Site
    • Here you’ll find four short stories issued by BMW and Random House.
  • Chris Anderson Free: The Future of a Radical Price Zip File
  • Classic Poetry Aloud iTunes Feed Web Site
    • These poetry podcasts provide readings of the great poems of the past.
  • Classic Tales Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The whole point is to make unabridged classics not only available, but approachable.
  • Crimewav.com iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Podcasts that bring quality crime stories to an audience worldwide. Produced by crime writer Seth Harwood.
  • Drake’s Door iTunes Web Site
    • Alan Drake has an extensive collection of audio recordings of classic poetry and literature. To see his full collection, go straight to his web site. It is more complete than what you’ll find on iTunes.
  • Escapepod iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Collections of well-reviewed audio short stories.
  • FreeAudio.org Web Site
    • Audio versions of key texts from American history.
  • Great Books – A Chapter a Day iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Great Speeches in History iTunes Feed Web Site
  • JC Hutchins iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The author of the 7th Son Trilogy has made available more than 200 hours of audio and video stories and interviews, all of which are available for free download.
  • Kara’s Free AudioBooks iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Learn OutLoud.com
  • Haverford College – Classic/Ancient Text Read Aloud iTunes Web Site (see site for feeds)
  • Internet Archive
    • Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings courtesy of the Internet Archive.
  • Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture
  • Lit2Go iTunes Web Site
    • An extensive collection of free audiobooks provided by the University of Southern Florida.
  • Literal Systems
    • Free classic books for your listening pleasure.
  • Miette’s Bedtime Stories iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Litterature Audio
  • Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
    • Hosts audio recordings of the Beats — Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg and more.
  • The Penguin Podcast
    • Excerpts read from books newly published by Penguin UK.
  • Podiobooks
    • Provides podcasts of largely sci-fi books that we’ve never heard of before. But, you never know.
  • Podlit Classic Literature iTunes Web Site
    • A new classic short story each week.
  • Poetry Aloud
    • A Directory of Poetry Readings on the Internet
  • Pseudopod iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The world’s first audio horror magazine
  • Radioboeken iTunes Feed Web Site
    • “Radiobooks” are just like books, but they will never be printed. They are created by important Dutch and Flemish writers, and will be available in French, English and Spanish versions in 2007.
  • Scott Sigler’s Audiobooks iTunes – Feed – Web Site
    • Very well reviewed sci-fi horror works
  • Stories to Go iTunes Feed Web Site
  • Stranger Things iTunes Feed Web Site
    • This high-quality video podcast features stories of ordinary people stumbling into strange worlds (a la The Twilight Zone).
  • The Classic Tales Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
    • The Classic Tales Podcast makes unabridged classics not only available, but approachable. Includes professional performances.
  • The Public Domain Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The Spoken Alexandria Project iTunes Feed Web Site
  • The Time Traveler iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Explores vintage American fiction. Orson Welles, Philip K. Dick, etc.
  • The Twilight Series
  • Utopod iTunes – Feed – Web Site
    • A free French-language podcast, created by Lucas Moreno and and Marc Tiefenauer, that offers readings of fantasy and sci fi stories written by noted authors across the Francophone world.
  • Well Told Tales iTunes Feed Web Site
    • Pulp fiction audio tales….!!!

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