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! 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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December 10, 2025 • 160 mins
Grim Tales by E. Nesbit audiobook.
Genre: horror
Enter a world where shadows stretch a little too far, where a knock at the door after midnight might be an omen, and where the ordinary suddenly, quietly, goes wrong. In E. Nesbit’s *Grim Tales*, the beloved Edwardian children’s author reveals a darker, more unsettling side of her imagination. These are not the comforting fantasies of talking dragons and magic carpets, but taut, eer...
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December 9, 2025 • 74 mins
Food Values by Dr. Albert Sy audiobook.
Genre: science
Discover how much more satisfying every meal can be when you truly understand what you’re eating. In *Food Values*, Dr. Albert Sy—an insightful early 20th–century nutrition educator—guides listeners through the fundamentals of food, health, and daily diet in clear, practical language. Instead of fads or rigid rules, he offers common‑sense principles: what different foods actua...
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December 8, 2025 • 618 mins
Unicorns by James Huneker audiobook.
Genre: history
Step into the sparkling, bohemian world of early 20th‑century art and ideas with James Huneker’s *Unicorns*, a dazzling collection of essays from one of America’s most brilliant, sharp‑tongued critics. Huneker moves effortlessly from Parisian cafés to New York concert halls, from smoky studios to crowded piano lofts, writing about painters, composers, writers, and performers with...
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December 6, 2025 • 68 mins
Food Preparedness by Dr. Albert Sy audiobook.
Genre: history
First published in the early 20th century, **Food Preparedness** by Dr. Albert Sy is a fascinating window into how people once thought about survival, nutrition, and household resilience in uncertain times. Speaking in a calm, authoritative voice, Dr. Sy explains how to build and maintain a practical food supply, from choosing staple ingredients that keep well, to safe s...
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December 5, 2025 • 353 mins
The Outermost House by Henry Beston audiobook.
Genre: history
On a lonely strip of Cape Cod sand, where the Atlantic hurls its storms against the shore and the seasons turn with quiet grandeur, Henry Beston built a tiny cottage and stayed for a year that changed his life. In *The Outermost House*, he transforms that solitary experience into a luminous meditation on nature, time, and the human spirit. Listening to this audiobook, y...
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December 4, 2025 • 231 mins
Nightmare Tales by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky audiobook.
Genre: horror
Open the door to a world where the familiar turns unsettling and the ordinary becomes charged with occult meaning. In Helena Petrovna Blavatsky’s *Nightmare Tales*, you are led through a series of strange, haunting stories that blur the line between dream and reality, life and death, matter and spirit. Drawing on Eastern mysticism, esoteric lore, and her own rep...
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December 3, 2025 • 469 mins
The Re-creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright audiobook.
Genre: drama
In the stillness of the Ozark hills, a desperate man on the run stumbles into a world he never expected—and a chance at a life he never believed he deserved. Brian Kent has fled his past, a hunted fugitive crushed by guilt and failure, when an isolated homestead and an unexpectedly wise, strong-hearted old woman draw him into their orbit. What begins as a ...
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December 2, 2025 • 96 mins
Biddy and the Silver Man by Harlan Ellison audiobook.
Genre: horror
In “Biddy and the Silver Man,” Harlan Ellison distills terror into something unnervingly intimate and strangely beautiful. In a small, unremarkable place that could be any lonely corner of the world, a vulnerable young woman named Biddy finds herself haunted—not by a lumbering monster or a familiar ghost story, but by a presence that seems to seep in from the edge...
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December 1, 2025 • 639 mins
The Virgin of the Sun by H. Rider Haggard audiobook.
Genre: adventure
Step into a world poised between legend and history, where the last days of the Inca empire burn with color, danger, and forbidden love. In *The Virgin of the Sun*, H. Rider Haggard—master of high adventure—spins a sweeping tale that begins in medieval England and sweeps across the ocean to the golden temples and shadowed forests of ancient Peru. When Hubert of ...
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November 29, 2025 • 529 mins
The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider Haggard audiobook.
Genre: drama
Step into a turbulent England where thrones are uncertain, faith is a weapon, and a young woman’s courage becomes the fulcrum on which destinies turn. In *The Lady of Blossholme*, H. Rider Haggard exchanges lost African kingdoms for the mist-shrouded monasteries and storm-swept manors of Tudor England, weaving a tale rich with intrigue, forbidden love, and spiritua...
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November 28, 2025 • 198 mins
Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft audiobook.
Genre: history
Enter the shadowed corridors of the human imagination with H. P. Lovecraft as your guide in *Supernatural Horror in Literature*, his definitive exploration of the weird, the uncanny, and the terrifying across centuries of storytelling. More than a mere survey, this work is a passionate, meticulously detailed tour through the evolution of horror—from anc...
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November 27, 2025 • 113 mins
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant audiobook.
Genre: horror
A wealthy, cultured man living alone on the banks of the Seine begins to sense… something. At first it is only the vaguest disturbance: a glass of water mysteriously emptied in the night, curtains that seem to move on their own, an oppressive fatigue that no doctor can explain. But as the days pass, his diary fills with mounting terror. An invisible presence shares his home—s...
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November 26, 2025 • 215 mins
The Gargoyle by Greye La Spina audiobook.
Genre: horror
Beneath the quiet surface of a quaint American town, something ancient and malign is waiting to awaken. In Greye La Spina’s eerie classic *The Gargoyle*, a seemingly ordinary household becomes the stage for a growing terror that creeps in at the edges of everyday life. When a strange, grotesque statue is brought into the home—its stone features twisted into a leering, almost ...
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November 25, 2025 • 331 mins
Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.
Genre: romance
On the very morning of her grand society wedding, beautiful heiress Betty Stanhope slips away from a gilded future she never chose. Terrified of the arrogant man waiting for her at the altar—and the loveless life that lies ahead—Betty flees into the city streets with nothing but her courage and the clothes on her back. When a chance encounter leads her to the warm, bust...
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November 24, 2025 • 408 mins
According to the Pattern by Grace Livingston Hill audiobook.
Genre: religion
Step into the quietly dramatic world of Lois Clyde, a young woman determined to live her life “according to the pattern” of God’s Word, even when the cost is heartbreakingly high. Freshly arrived in the city and eager to do right, Lois is drawn into the sophisticated circle of her charming employer and his fashionable wife. There she encounters glittering...
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November 22, 2025 • 555 mins
The Brooklyn Murders by G. D. H. Cole audiobook.
Genre: mystery
Step into the fog-bound streets and dim tenements of early 20th‑century Brooklyn, where a single brutal killing is only the beginning of a far deeper mystery. In *The Brooklyn Murders*, master of detection G. D. H. Cole draws you into a labyrinth of overlapping alibis, hidden motives, and dangerous secrets that cross the Atlantic and entangle the lives of strangers wh...
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November 21, 2025 • 463 mins
Bunce, the Bobby and the Broads by Fritz Zorn audiobook.
Genre: drama
Step into the smoky, neon‑washed streets of 1960s London, where the pubs never sleep, the jukebox never stops, and trouble is always one bad decision away. Bunce is a small‑time chancer with big‑time ambitions, a man who lives on quick scams, easy charm, and the hope that his next scheme will finally change his luck. The “Bobby” is the dogged, world‑weary police...
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November 20, 2025 • 528 mins
The Sea Mystery by Freeman Wills Crofts audiobook.
Genre: mystery
Fog rolls over the Devonshire coast as the tide slowly reveals a chilling discovery: a dismantled packing case containing a man’s body, with every clue deliberately obscured. No name. No obvious motive. No clear trail. From this single grim puzzle, the methodical and quietly relentless Inspector Joseph French of Scotland Yard begins one of his most intricate investi...
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November 19, 2025 • 319 mins
Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden audiobook.
Genre: fantasy
Little Johannes is a luminous, dreamlike voyage into childhood and conscience: Frederik van Eeden’s beloved late‑19th‑century fairy tale follows a sensitive boy as he wakes to the wonders and cruelties of the world, guided by talking creatures, enigmatic teachers and the deep rhythms of nature. Part fable, part philosophical bildungsroman, the story drifts between enc...
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November 18, 2025 • 112 mins
Abraham Lincoln - The Practical Mystic by Francis Grierson audiobook.
Genre: biography
Listen as Francis Grierson peels back the public legend to reveal Abraham Lincoln the man: a contemplative, sometimes melancholy leader whose mind was shaped by moral seriousness, visionary intuition, and a quietly practical spirituality. This evocative portrait traces Lincoln’s solitary habits, dreams, and moments of moral reckoning against the...
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