Classic Audiobook Collection
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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June 3, 2026 • 457 mins
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, William Guest awakens in a future London unlike anything he has known. The city is cleaner, quieter, and shaped by beauty, craft, and cooperati...
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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 waves. Drawing on evidence from ancient Egypt, Minoan Crete, Greece, Rome, and medieval Europe, he compares sculpture, architecture, literatu...
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June 1, 2026 • 223 mins
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 thermodynamics, cosmology, chemistry, and evolutionary thought, Sidis argues that the boundary between life and matter may be far less absolute...
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May 27, 2026 • 351 mins
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 account comes from a solitary old recluse who lives in the decaying house with his loyal dog, Pepper, and whose uneasy existence is shatter...
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May 26, 2026 • 221 mins
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 make people feel. Drawing on European ideas about Chinese and 'oriental' landscapes, Chambers rejects purely orderly or merely informal l...
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May 25, 2026 • 259 mins
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 his travels through the Irish countryside and his encounters with storytellers, peasants, mystics, and local characters who keep the old b...
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May 19, 2026 • 283 mins
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 will explain everything. But after a sudden fall from comfort, he is hurled into a series of violent, bizarre, and often darkly funny ad...
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May 18, 2026 • 441 mins
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 great frontier of human development. Drawing on his own expeditions, historical examples, and wide-ranging observations, Stefansson examin...
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May 4, 2026 • 336 mins
The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers by Victor G. Durham audiobook.
Genre: adventure
In The Submarine Boys and the Smugglers, Victor G. Durham sends his young naval heroes into one of their most dangerous assignments yet. Commander Jack Benson and his loyal companions, Hal Hastings and Eph Somers, are placed aboard a newly commissioned submarine and ordered to investigate a bold smuggling operation along the New Jersey coast, wher...
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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 possibility of nuclear attack and large-scale natural disasters. Rather than telling a story with fictional characters, the book addresses t...
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May 1, 2026 • 124 mins
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 Zacharias Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus, the book is arranged in a clear question-and-answer format that makes complex theology accessible, perso...
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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 audiobook.
Genre: biography
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw tells the extraordinary early life and spiritual journey of Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, who presents himself as an African prince born into privilege before being torn from his homeland...
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April 29, 2026 • 183 mins
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 experimental psychology, the book opens with a historical survey of earlier theories of fatigue and then moves into Arai's own carefully...
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April 24, 2026 • 187 mins
The Book of the Cheese by Thomas Wilson Reid audiobook.
Genre: history
The Book of the Cheese is a lively historical portrait of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, the famous tavern tucked away in Wine Office Court off Fleet Street, London. Compiled by Thomas Wilson Reid, the book treats the inn itself as the central character, tracing its long life through anecdotes, literary memories, menu lore, club traditions, and the atmosphere of its ...
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April 23, 2026 • 367 mins
Upper Canada Sketches by Thomas Conant audiobook.
Genre: history
Upper Canada Sketches is a vivid blend of family chronicle, local history, and frontier memoir in which Thomas Conant looks back on the making of early Ontario, still remembered here by its older name, Upper Canada. Drawing on inherited stories, personal recollections, and regional lore, Conant traces his family's path from older New England roots into the rough clea...
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April 22, 2026 • 518 mins
The Rookeries of London by Thomas Beames audiobook.
Genre: history
In The Rookeries of London, Thomas Beames takes listeners into the most overcrowded and notorious slum districts of Victorian London and asks how a great imperial city could leave so many of its people in misery. Writing as a clergyman and eyewitness observer, Beames moves through places such as St. Giles, Saffron Hill, Jacob's Island, Ratcliffe Highway, Berwick St...
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April 21, 2026 • 505 mins
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict. by Thomas Archer audiobook.
Genre: history
First published in 1865, The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict is a vivid work of Victorian social investigation in which Thomas Archer leads listeners through the streets, lodging houses, workhouses, courts, and prisons that shaped the lives of London's poorest and most desperate people. Rather than following a single fictional hero, the book uses...
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April 20, 2026 • 241 mins
The Wild Irishman by T. W. H. Crosland audiobook.
Genre: history
The Wild Irishman is a brisk, combative work of social commentary in which T. W. H. Crosland sets out to explain Ireland as he saw it in 1905 for British and American readers. Rather than telling a fictional story, the book moves through a series of pointed chapters on poverty, nationalism, religion, drink, superstition, humor, literature, domestic life, emigration, ...
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April 18, 2026 • 235 mins
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Stephen Leacock's Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels is a lively collection of eight comic parodies that gleefully spoofs the melodramatic fiction of its day. The book opens with Winsome Winnie, in which young Winnifred Clair reaches adulthood only to discover that her fortune has disappeared, leaving her alone, penniless, and vulner...
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April 17, 2026 • 215 mins
Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock audiobook.
Genre: comedy
Stephen Leacock's Nonsense Novels is a sparkling collection of comic tales that spoofs the popular fiction of its era with wit, absurdity, and perfect deadpan timing. Rather than following one continuous plot, the book offers a series of short parody stories, each exaggerating the conventions of melodrama, detective fiction, romance, adventure, and sentimental domestic no...
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