While you’ll still find many of the same classics offered elsewhere, like Frank L. Open Culture has combed through the same audiobooks offered other places online, and compiled them into one list to browse. You’ll find free science fiction stories from Ursula K. Mind WebsĪs I wrote about previously, Mind Webs was a perfectly-executed, haunting old-time radio dramatization of over 150 of the most classic science fiction short stories. You can also submit reviews and read what others have had to say about each of the titles. You’ll find options like John Milton’s Paradise Lostand Sir Author Conan Doyle’s The Return of Sherlock Holmes, among others. Loyal Books shares free audiobooks from titles in the public domain. Along with each free audiobook, you’ll get citation information, play time, and word count. Some, like Shakespeare’s Hamlet, have an accompanying PDF that can be used to read-along with the text. Lit2Go offers audiobooks, plays, short stories, and poems that have been tailored for use in classrooms.

You can even volunteer to read sections for books-in-progress! 2. The site boasts over 10,000 projects, with a diverse set of titles ranging from War and Peace to Leaves of Grassto The Dream of the Red Chamberto Anne of Green Gables. Librivox is a non-profit initiative to record public domain books and release them as free audiobooks.

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