AudioBooks

Lit2Go is a collection of stories and poems all strictly in audio format. Like many of the other sites, there are plenty of classics and public domain books, but these are all focused on providing literature for students K-12. Many books can be downloaded as a PDF and used as a read-along, and the books are split up into passages, for easy segmenting of the long-form stories. There are also other supplemental work and studies provided for students to help with their learning, and the books can be searched by reading level which is a big plus for students and parents.

If you’re into classic literature and philosophy, ThoughtAudio is the site for you. It provides a ton of free audiobooks from authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, and Virginia Wolfe. You can even see what’s new on the site by clicking the “new postings” section. Enjoy listening!

Open Culture has done the hard work of finding free audiobooks for you and has compiled a list—or library if you will—of all the free books you can download from other sites. You’ll find links to Audible, iTunes, Free Stream, Spotify, YouTube, and a few other streaming services on the site. The books are organized by author name, and you’ll find a lot of the classics of literature on this list but don’t be surprised to see a few new releases sprinkled in.

Digital Book, formerly Librophile, is like Netflix for books. You can search their database of public domain books from sites all over the Internet and enjoy from their catalog of over 100,000 free audiobooks and ebooks. An added perk, their free membership allows you to build a personal bookshelf to read later so you don’t have to go searching through for books that you’ve considered in the past. You’ll find classics, new releases, and everything in between on Digital Book.

Volunteers from around the world give their time and their voices to record books that are in the public domain for listeners to enjoy on Librivox. You’ll find classics like War and Peace and Anne of Green Gables along with hundreds of books you’ve never heard of but will definitely fall in love with. This site will allow you to download books to your mobile device or computer. There are currently over 10,000 projects recorded on Librivox, and you can be a part of this great cause by donating your voice and read short works, an actor’s part in a play, a chapter of a longer text, or even donate an entire book of audio to the site, which will release the finished project into the public domain as well.

Don’t be scared off by this site’s basic appearance. Project Gutenberg is a no-nonsense site that offers access to public domain classic ebooks and audiobooks, like Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes, and more. Project Gutenberg’s books are mostly narrated by their own volunteers and public domain audiobook contributors, but there are also some computer-narrated books available.

The name says it all—this is a website where you can listen to free classic audiobooks. These free audiobooks include Emma by Jane Austen, Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The website does look basic, but if you’re only on there to find classic audiobooks, then it serves its purpose. Enjoy listening to these timeless pieces!