Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More

Where music goes, technologically speaking, audio books soon follow. We’ve had audio books on vinyl LP, on cassette tape, on CD, and on MP3, just like we’ve had music. Now that so many of us pull up our daily jams on Spotify, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that we can do a fair bit of our “reading” there as well. We’ve found a few lists that gather up the best audio book available on Spotify, including 21 classics and a collection of Shakespeare plays and sonnets at Gnarl’d, ten evergreen literary picks from Lifehacker, and a Spotify forum thread dedicated to subject.

Below, you’ll find Spotify links to more than 60 classic works of literature that, even if you struggled on getting them read in your English classes, you can now revisit in a perhaps much more lifestyle-compatible medium. If you find more audio books on Spotify, definitely let us know in the comments section below and we’ll add them to our list.

To listen to any of these, you will of course need Spotify’s software and account, both easy to come by: you just download and register.

• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
• Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
• Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans
• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
• Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
• Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
• Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
  
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime & Punishment
• George Eliot, Middlemarch
• T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot Reads Poems and Choruses
• William Faulkner, Reads From His Works
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
• Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
• Ernest Hemingway, Reading His Own Work
• James Joyce, The Dead
• Jack London, Call of the Wild
• Herman Melville, Billy Budd
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick
• Harold Pinter: The Caretaker
• William Shakespeare, As You Like It
• William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet
• William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1
• William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2
• William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
• William Shakespeare, King John
• William Shakespeare, Macbeth
• William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
• William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Part 1
• William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing Part 2
• William Shakespeare, Othello
• William Shakespeare, Richard II
• William Shakespeare, Richard III
• William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
• William Shakespeare, Sonnets
• William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew Pt 1
• William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew Pt 2
• William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
• William Shakespeare, The Tempest
• William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
• William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
• Bram Stoker, Dracula
• Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
• Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
• Leo Tolstoy, War & Peace Part 1 – Part 2
• Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
• Mark Twain, A Double Barreled Detective Story
• Mark Twain, Short Stories
• H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man
• H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
• H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
• Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
• Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture as well as the video series The City in Cinema and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.