101 free audio fiction books to savour
by Anorak | 29th, September 2013
STUCK for a good book? Bored of what’s on the radio? Why not download a great books for free?
- Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall” – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Auster, Paul – Free MP3 – The Red Notebook (read by the author)
- Babel, Isaac – You Must Know Everything – Free MP3
- Baldwin, James – The Story of Siegfried – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Ballard, JG – “My Dream of Flying to Wake Island” (read by William Boyd) – Free MP3
- Balzac, Honore de – The Peasant Story of Napoleon – Free MP3
- Barrie, JM – Peter Pan – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Barrodale, Amie – “William Wei” (read by James Franco) – Free MP3
- Barthelme, Donald – “Concerning the Bodyguard” (read by Salman Rushdie) – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Beckett, Samuel – The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 – Free Audio Stream
- Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) – Free MP3
- Bradbury, Ray – All Summer in a Day – Free Stream/MP3
- Brodkey, Harold – Spring Fugue (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) Free MP3
- Bronte, Anne – Agnes Grey – Free iTunes
- Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Burroughs, William S. – Junky – MP3s
- Carver, Raymond – “Fat” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here
- Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Cheever, John – The Swimmer (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
- Chekhov, Anton – “The Beauties” (read by Philip Pullman) – Free MP3
- Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free multiple formats – FREE from Audible
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes – iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here. (My all-time favourite book)
- Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Cortazar, Julio – The Night Face Up – Free iTunes
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Danticat, Edwidge – Water Child (read by Junot Diaz) – Free MP3 – iTunes
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip file – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee) MP3
- Diaz, Junot – How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K – ”Tony and the Beetles” – MP3 Part 1 – MP3 Part II
- Dickens, Charles – Hard Times – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow) – Free MP3
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Dreiser, Theodore – The Lost Phoebe – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Comte de Monte Cristo – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Eliot, George – Silas Marner – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Gaiman, Neil – “How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties” – Free MP3
- Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business” (read by Jonathan Franzen) Free MP3
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Gordimer, Nadine – “City Lovers” – Free MP3
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Hayden, Julie – “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3
- Heinlein, Robert – Methuselah’s Children (abridged) – Free Stream/MP3
- Hemingway, Ernest – “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway: .au format, .gsm format, .ra format)
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha – Free MP3
- Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables – Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles – Multiple formats
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version) – Free MP3s
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Johnson, Denis – “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3
- Joyce, James – Ulysses – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- July, Miranda – “Ron Spivey” (read by David Sedaris) – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – Free MP3
- Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children – Free MP3 iTunes
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – MP3
- Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia (All 7 Books) – Free MP3s
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit – Free iTunes – MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- London, Jack – White Fang – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft – Free Mp3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Lucretius – On the Nature of Things – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
- Lu Xun – A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
- Malamud, Bernard – A Summer’s Reading – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- McCabe, Eugene – Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) – Free MP3
- McCann, Colum – “Transatlantic” (read by author) – Free MP3
- Melville, Herman – Moby Dick – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Miller, Arthur – The Crucible (Dramatized Version) – MP3s
- Milton, John – Paradise Lost – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Munro, Alice – “Axis” – Free MP3
- Nabokov, Vladimir – My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- O’Connor, Flannery – “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Read by author in 1959) – Stream/Download
- O Henry, The Gift of the Magi – iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Orwell, George – 1984 – Free MP3 Zip File – Multiple Versions – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Poe, Edgar Allen – The Raven (as read by Christopher Walken) – Free YouTube Audio
- Porter, Eleanor – Pollyanna – Free MP3 Zip File
- Ruskin, John – The Golden River – Free MP3
- Saramago, José – “The Centaur” (Read by Nadine Gordimer) – Free MP3
- Sedaris, David – ”Six to Eight Black Men” from the album ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’. YouTube Audio
- Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth – iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein – iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Also check out the 1938 radio broadcast that is faithful to Mary Shelley’s text. (iTunes)
- Free eBook available here.
- Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis – Disguised – Free MP3 (read by Nathan Englander)
- Stein, Gertrude – The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot – Free MP3
- Steinbeck, John – “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear” – Free MP3
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- See alternative version here. (full zip file)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Thayer, Ernest Lawrence – Casey at the Bat – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina –
- Book 1 – Free Zip File
- Book 2 – Free Zip File
- Book 3 – Free Zip File
- Book 4 – Free Zip File
- Book 5 – Free Zip File
- Book 6 – Free Zip File
- Book 7 – Free Zip File
- Book 8 – Free Zip File
- Tolstoy, Leo – War & Peace Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9 (Zip Files) – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Trollope, Anthony – Barchester Towers – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Free MP3 – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Unknown – Beowulf – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Unknown – Sir Gawain and the Green Night – Free MP3 Zip File
- Updike, John – “Playing with Dynamite” (read by Roger Angell) – Free MP3
- Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Voltaire – Candide – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Vonnegut, Kurt – 2BR02B – Free MP3 – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Wallace, David Foster – “Consider the Lobster” (read by DFW) – Free MP3
- Wells, HG – War of the Worlds – Free iTunes – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Welty, Eudora – “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (read by Joyce Carol Oates) (MP3)
- Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Free iTunes
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
- Wolff, Tobias – Bullet in the Brain (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)
- Woolf, Virginia – A Haunted House – Free MP3
- Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
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