
500 Free Audiobooks For Teachers & Students
500 Free Audiobooks For Teachers & Students
Are you fond of reading books but just can’t make time to actually sit down and read one because of your hectic schedule? Listening to audiobooks can definitely change your life. Finishing a book is made easier by listening to audiobooks while driving your way to work, cooking, doing other chores, or even before you sleep. You can now enjoy a thrilling narration of these books from one chapter to another, without having to flip a single page.
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We’ve compiled the best fiction and non-fiction audiobooks you can stream or download for free and play on your phone or laptop. From Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, to Leo Tolstoy, Friedrich Nietzsche, and George Orwell – this list is a goldmine of classic books you can use in the classroom and share with your students!
Table of Contents
Fiction & Literature
- Aesop – Aesop’s Fable
- Anderson, Sherwood – Winesburg, Ohio
- Aristophanes – Lysistrata
- Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall”
- Asimov, Isaac – Radio Dramas of The Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Stories
- Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question”
- Asimov, Isaac – “Youth
- Austen, Jane – Emma
- Austen, Jane – Lady Susan
- Austen, Jane – Love and Friendship
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park
- Austen, Jane – Persuasion
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice
- .Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility
- Auster, Paul “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”
- Auster, Paul The Red Notebook (read by the author)
- Babel, Isaac – Free MP3 – “The Story of the Dovecote” (read by Nathan Englander)
- Babel, Isaac – “You Must Know Everything”
- Baldwin, James – “A Letter to My New Nephew” (read by Chris Rock)
- Baldwin, James – The Story of Siegfried – Free iTunes
- Baldwin, James – Fifty Famous Stories Retold
- Ballard, JG – “A Place and A Time to Die” (Dramatized version)
- Ballard, JG – “Track 12” and “Venus Smiles”
- Ballard, JG – Cocaine Nights
- Ballard, JG – “My Dream of Flying to Wake Island” (read by William Boyd)
- Ballard, JG – The Drowned World
- Ballard, JG – “The Stories of JG Ballard” (dramatized for radio)
- Balzac, Honoré de – La Comédie Humaine (French)
- Balzac, Honoré de – Le Père Goriot
- Balzac, Honoré de – The Peasant Story of Napoleon
- Barrie, JM – Peter Pan
- Barrodale, Amie – “William Wei” (read by James Franco)
- Barthelme, Donald – “Chablis” (read by Etgar Keret)
- Barthelme, Donald – “Concerning the Bodyguard” (read by Salman Rushdie)
- Barthelme, Donald – “Game” and “School” (read by T.C. Boyle)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz (Vol 1)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Marvelous Land of Oz (Vol 2)
- Baum, Frank L. – Ozma of Oz (Vol 3)
- Baum, Frank L. – Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (Vol 4)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Road to Oz (Vol 5)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Emerald City of Oz (Vol 6)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Vol 7)
- Baum, Frank L. – Tik Tok of Oz (Vol 8)
- Baum, L. Frank – The Scarecrow of Oz (Vol 9)
- Baum, L. Frank – Rinkitink in Oz (Vol 10)
- Baum, L. Frank – The Lost Princess of Oz (Vol 11)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Tin Woodman of Oz (Vol 12)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Magic of Oz (Vol 13)
- Baum, Frank L. – Glinda of Oz (Vol 14)
- Beckett, Samuel – The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Live Reading)
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr)
- Borges, Jorge Luis – ‘On Exactitude in Science’
- Borges, Jorge Luis – Shakespeare’s Memory
- Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux)
- Bradbury, Ray – Futuria Fantasia
- Bradbury, Ray – All Summer in a Day
- Bradbury, Ray – The Golden Apples of the Sun
- Bradbury, Ray – The Pedestrian
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell)
- Bradbury, Ray – Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories
- Bradbury, Ray – “The Last Night of the World”
- Brodkey, Harold – “Dumbness is Everything” (read by Michael Cunningham)
- Brodkey, Harold – “Spring Fugue” (read by Jeffrey Eugenides)
- Brodkey, Harold – “The State of Grace” (read by Richard Ford )
- Bronte, Anne – Agnes Grey
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre
- Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights
- Brown, Margaret Wise – Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon)
- Burroughs, William S. – Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album)
- Burroughs, William S. – “Ghosts of Chance”
- Burroughs, William S. – Junky
- Burroughs, William S. – Let Me Hang You
- Burroughs, William S. – The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs
- Burroughs, William S. – “Thanksgiving Prayer”
- Burroughs, William S. – The Road to the Western Lands
- Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino)
- Calvino, Italo – “Love Far from Home” (read by Salman Rushdie)
- Calvino, Italo – The Night (read by Jeanette Winterson)
- Calvino, Italo – “The Daughters of the Moon”
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow)
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud)
- Carroll, Lewis – Sylvie and Bruno
- Carroll, Lewis – Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
- Carroll, Lewis – The Game of Logic
- Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass
- Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway)
- Carver, Raymond – “Cathedral” (read by James Naughton)
- Carver, Raymond – “Chef’s House” (read by David Means)
- Carver, Raymond – “Fat” (read by Anne Enright)
- Carver, Raymond – “The Students’ Wife (read by Richard Ford)
- Carver, Raymond – “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (Read by Carver)
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote
- Chabon, Michael – “S. Angel”
- Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales
- Cheever, John – “The Death of Justina” (read by John Cheever)
- Cheever, John ” The Enormous Radio” (read by Nathan Englander)
- Cheever, John – “The Reunion” (read by Richard Ford)
- Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Anne Enright)
- Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Cheever)
- Chekhov, Anton- Collected Stories
- Chekhov, Anton- “The Beauties” (read by Philip Pullman)
- Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday
- Chekhov, Anton- Collected Stories
- Chekhov, Anton- “The First Class Passenger,” “Harmfulness of Tobacco” and “A Transgression” (Read by Michale Redgrave)
- Chabon, Michael- “S Angel” (read by author)
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor’s New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Andersen’s Fairy Tales
- Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “A Walk in the Dark” (A dramatized version of the text)
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Breaking Strain”
- Clarke, Arthur C. – Childhood’s End (Excerpts read by the author)
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Hammer of God”
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Star” (Read by the author)
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – Beyond the City
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings)
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Mystery of Cloomber
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Speckled Band
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness
- Conrad, Joseph- Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse)
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles’ radio drama from 1938)
- Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Agent
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer
- Cooper, James Fenimore – Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef
- Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans
- Crane, Stephen – The Open Boat
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (English)
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (Italian)
- Dante Alighieri – Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian)
- Dante Alighieri – The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi)
- Danticat, Edwidge – Water Child (read by Junot Diaz)
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Seven” (read by Junot Diaz)
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham)
- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee)
- Diaz, Junot – “Alma” (read by Victor Rasuk)
- Diaz, Junot – “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)”
- Diaz, Junot – “The Cheaters Guide to Love”
- Dick, Philip K. – “Beyond Lies the Wub”
- Dick, Philip K. – “Mr. Spaceship”
- Dick, Philip K. – “Second Variety”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Crystal Crypt” & “Beyond the Door”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Defenders”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Eyes Have It”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Gun”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Hanging Stranger”
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Skull”
- 172. Dick, Philip K – “The Variable Man”
- 173. Dick, Philip K – “Tony and the Beetles”
- 174. Dick, Philip K – Radio Plays
- Dickens, Charles – 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman)
- Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities
- Dickens, Charles – Bleak House
- Dickens, Charles – Christmas Stories
- Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
- Dickens, Charles – Hard Times
- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
- Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow)
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Notes from the Underground
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Gambler
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading)
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Possessed
- Doyle, Roddy – “Bullfighting” (Read by Dave Eggers)
- Dr Who Audio Dramas
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie
- Dreiser, Theodore – The Lost Phoebe
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Comte de Monte Cristo
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
- Eliot, George – Silas Marner
- Eliot, George – Middlemarch
- Eliot, T.S. – The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt)
- William – “Shingles for the Lord”
- Faulkner, William – Faulkner Reads Faulkner
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Bernice Bobs Her Hair
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tales of the Jazz Age
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott- The Great Gatsby
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise
- Flaubert, Gustave- Madame Bovary
- Flaubert, Gustave- Three Short Works
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View
- Forster, E. M. – Howards End
- Forster, E.M. – “The Machine Stops”
- Gaiman, Neil – Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends)
- Gaiman, Neil – “A Study in Emerald”
- Gaiman, Neil – “How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties”
- Gaiman, Neil – “Orange” (read live)
- Gaiman, Neil – “Troll Bridge” (read live, starts at 4:00 mark)
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” (read by Neil Gaiman)
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains”
- Gaitskill, Mary – “The Other Place” (read by Jennifer Egan)
- Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business” (read by Jonathan Franzen)
- Gogol, Nikolai – Dead Souls
- Gogol, Nikolai – “The Nose”
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
- Gordimer, Nadine – “A Style of Her Own” and “The Bridegroom” (read by the author, 1961)
- Gordimer, Nadine – “City Lovers”
- Gordimer, Nadine – “Loot” (read by author)
- Grahame, Kenneth- The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- House of the Seven Gables
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- Rappaccini’s Daughter
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The Scarlet Letter
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel- The Scarlet Letter
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – “Wakefield” (Read by Paul Auster)
- Hayden, Julie – “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore)
- Heinlein, Robert – Methuselah’s Children (abridged)
- Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama)
- Hemingway, Ernest – Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway
- Hemingway, Ernest – Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes)
- Hemingway, Ernest- “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway)
- Hemingway, Ernest- “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (read by Charleston Heston) – Part 1– Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha
- Hitchcock, Alfred – Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People
- Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation)
- Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation)
- Hughes, Langston – “Simple on Indian Blood”(read by Ossie Davis)
- Hughes, Langston – “A Toast to Harlem” (read by Ossie Davis)
- Hughes, Langston – “Last Whipping” (read by Ossie Davis)
- Hughes, Langston – “Feet Live Their Own Life” (read by Ossie Davis)
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables – Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee)
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley)
- Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow
- Irving, Washington – Rip Van Winkle
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- James, Henry – Daisy Miller
- James, Henry – “Greville Fane” (read by Cynthia Ozick)
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw
- Johnson, Denis – “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff)
- Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Joyce, James – Chamber Music
- Joyce, James – Dubliners
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” (Read by Bart Wolffe)
- Joyce, James – Ulysses
- July, Miranda – “Ron Spivey” (read by David Sedaris)
- Kafka, Franz – “A Little Fable” (Read by David Foster Wallace)
- Kafka, Franz – “A Hunger Artist” (read by Hanif Kureishi)
- Kafka, Franz – “Before the Law”
- Kafka, Franz – “In the Penal Colony
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis
- Karloff, Boris – Tales of the Frightened
- Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc — 18 Hours of Beat Readings
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Girl” and “Wingless” (read by Edwidge Danticat)
- King, Stephen – “Afterlife”
- Kipling, Rudyard – Kim
- Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children
- Kipling, Rudyard – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
- Kipling, Rudyard – “The Elephant’s Child”
- Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Story
- L’Heureux, John – “Three Short Moments in a Long Life”
- Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers
- Lawrence, D.H. – A Woman and Her Dead Husband
- Le Guin, Ursula – “The End” (Dramatized version)
- Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera (abridged)
- Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia
- Lewis, C.S. – Spirits in Bondage
- Lewis, C.S. – The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese)
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit
- Lewis, Sinclair – It Can’t Happen Here (reading of an adapted play)
- Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street
- London, Jack – Call of the Wild
- London, Jack – The Heathen
- London, Jack -To Build a Fire
- London, Jack – White Fang
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Call of Cthulhu (Read by Garrick Hagan)
- Lovecraft, H.P – The Call of Cthulhu & Other Stories
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft
- Lucretius – On the Nature of Things
- Lu Xun – A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories
- Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice
- McCabe, Eugene – Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín)
- McCann, Colum – “Transatlantic” (read by author)
- McEwan, Ian – “My Purple Scented Novel” (read by the author)
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More)
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick (Abridged version read by Hayward Morse)
- Melville, Herman – Typee
- Miller, Arthur – Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman
- Miller Jr, Walter M. – A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version)
- Miller, William – Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis)
- John – Paradise Lost
- Milton, John – Paradise Regained
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables
- Moore, Lorrie – “Paper Losses” read by Gary Shteyngart
- Munro, Alice – “Axis” – Free MP3
- Murakami, Haruki – “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning”
- Nabokov, Vladimir – My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk)
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems
- Nin, Anais – “Under a Glass Bell” (Read by the author)
- Northup, Solomon – Twelve Years a Slave
- O’Connor, Flannery – “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Read by author in 1959)
- O’Connor, Flannery – “Everything That Rises Must Converge” (Read by Estelle Parsons)
- O’Connor, Flannery – “Revelation” (Read by Studs Terkel)
- O’Connor, Frank – “The Man of the World” (read by Julian Barnes)
- O Henry, The Gift of the Magi
- Oates, Joyce Carol – “Mastiff” (read by Louise Erdrich)
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia – Chapter 1 – Remaining Chapters here
- Oz, Amos – “The King of Norway” (read by Jonathan Safran Foer)
- Ozick, Cynthia – “The Shawl” (read by Joyce Carol Oates)
- Paley, Grace – “Love” (read by George Saunders)
- Plath, Sylvia – Three Women (a radio play)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Essential Edgar Allan Poe
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 1
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 2
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 4
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 5
- Poe, Edgar Allan – “The Masque of the Red Death” and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Cask of Amontillado
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Pit and the Pendulum
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Stan Lee)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Vincent Price)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Walken)
- Alternate version read by actor John de Lancie (video)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop)
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason)
- Porter, Eleanor – Pollyanna
- Price, Vincent – The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price)
- Pritchett, V.S. – The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem)
- Prokofiev, Sergei – Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie)
- Proust, Marcel – À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French)
- Pushkin, Alexander – Eugene Onegin
- Ratcliffe, Stephen – Continuum
- Rand, Ayn – Anthem
- Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front
- Ruskin, John – The Golden River
- Safran Foer, Jonathan – “Love is Blind and Deaf”
- Saramago, José – “The Centaur” (Read by Nadine Gordimer)
- Sedaris, David – “The Mouse and the Snake” from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary
- Sedaris, David – “Six to Eight Black Men” from the album ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’
- Sedaris, David – “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle”from When You Are Engulfed in Flames
- Sendak, Maurice – Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken)
- Seuss, Dr. – Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman)
- Seuss, Dr. – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff)
- Seuss, Dr. – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison)
- Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
- Schwartz, Delmore – “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” (Read by Lou Reed)
- Shakespeare, William – A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare’s Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More
- Shakespeare, William – 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio
- Shakespeare, William – All’s Well Ends Well
- Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Shakespeare, William – Antony and Cleopatra
- Shakespeare, William – As You Like It
- Shakespeare, William – Comedy of Errors
- Shakespeare, William – Coriolanus
- Shakespeare, William – Cymbeline
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet (French translation by Marcel Pagnol)
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud)
- Shakespeare, William – Julius Caesar
- Shakespeare, William – King Lear
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee)
- Shakespeare, William – Macbeth (with Alec Guinness)
- Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare, William – Macbeth (with Alec Guinness)
- Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice
- Shakespeare, William – The Sonnets
- Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth
- Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
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Non-Fiction
- Amis, Martin- “Phantom of the Opera”
- Aristotle- Poetics
- Aristotle- Politics
- Aristotle – Physics
- Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School)
- Augustine, Saint- City of God
- Beard, Charles- History of the United States, Volume 1
- Beard, Charles- History of the United States, Volume 2
- Beard, Charles- History of the United States, Volume 3
- Beard, Charles- History of the United States, Volume 4
- Berger, John- Fellow Prisoners
- Berkeley, George- A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics
- Burke, Edmund- A Philosophical Enquiry
- Burke, Edmund- Reflections on the Revolution in France
- Burroughs, William S.- Breakthrough in Grey Room
- Burroughs, William S.- Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)
- Camus, Albert- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957
- Camus, Albert- The Human Crisis(Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen)
- Campbell, Joseph- 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures
- Carroll, Lewis- Symbolic Logic
- Carroll, Lewis- The Game of Logic
- Channing, Edward- A Short History of the United States
- Chomsky, Noam- 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy
- Confucius- The Sayings of Confucius
- Darwin, Charles- On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
- Descartes, Rene – Discourse on Method
- Descartes, Rene – Meditations on First Philosophy
- Dickens, Charles- A Child’s History of England
- Doctorow, Cory- Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future
- Douglass, Frederick- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Douglass, Frederick- A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery
- Dubois, W.E.B.- The Soul of Black Folks
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo- History
- Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne
- Einstein, Albert- Relativity
- Einstein, Albert- Albert Einstein in His Own Voice
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo- Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Faulkner, William- Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954
- Foster Wallace, David- This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech
- Foster Wallace, David- The View from Mrs Thompson’s
- Freud, Sigmund- Dream Psychology
- Freud, Sigmund- A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
- Freud, Sigmund- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Freud, Sigmund- Psychopathology of Everyday Life
- Freud, Sigmund- Reflections on War and Death
- Freud, Sigmund- Totem and Taboo
- Fuller, Buckminster- Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel- “The Solitude of Latin America”(Nobel Prize Speech)
- Gibbon, Edward- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1.
- Gibbon, Edward- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2.
- Gibbon, Edward– The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3.
- Goethe– Theory of Colors
- Grant, Ulysses S.– The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
- Harding, Samuel – The Story of the Middle Ages
- Henry, Patrick– Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
- Henry, Patrick – Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775
- Hitchcock, Alfred– Alfred Hitchcock Interviews
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell– The Fountain of Youth
- Huxley, Aldous– Speaking Personally
- Huxley, Aldous– The Visionary Experience
- James, William– The Moral Equivalent of War
- Jefferson, Thomas– The Declaration of Independence
- Jobs, Steve– Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005
- Kandinsky, Wassily– Concerning the Spiritual in Art
- Kaufmann, Walter– Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre
- Lessig, Lawrence– Free Culture
- Lincoln, Abraham– Gettysburg Address
- Macauley, Thomas– History of England
- Machiavelli, The Prince
- Marx, Karl– The Communist Manifesto
- McCleod, Ken– Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention
- McLuhan, Marshall– The Medium is The Massage
- Mill, John Stuart– Utilitarianism
- Morrison, Toni– Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993
- Nietzsche, Friedrich– Ecce Homo
- Nietzsche, Friedrich– Beyond Good and Evil
- Nietzsche, Friedrich– Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- Nietzsche, Friedrich– Twilight of the Idols
- Nin, Anais– The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author
- Paine, Thomas– Common Sense
- Plato– The Apology of Socrates
- Plato– The Republic
- Roosevelt, Theodore– Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques– A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind
- Russell, Bertrand– ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein
- Russell, Bertrand– Why I Am Not a Christian
- Sedaris, David– Santaland Diaries
- Smith, Adam– A Wealth of Nations Book 1and Books 2 & 3
- Steinbeck, John– Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962
- Strathern, Paul– Nietzsche in 90 Minutes
- Sun-tzu– The Art of War
- Thoreau, Henry David– Walden
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
- Tocqueville, Alexis de– Democracy in America Part 1and Part 2
- Various– The Federalist Papers Rss Feed
- Various– The US Constitution
- Voltaire– Candide
- Vonnegut, Kurt– Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch
- Wiesel, Elie– Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig– Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Thank you
By Neha sharma (Dec, 2017) |