You’ll definitely want to bookmark this list of 900 free audio books available for download and helpfully compiled by the folks at Open Culture. Lovers of classic literature are in luck as Great Books – which are licensed under “public domain” — dominate the list.
We can’t vouch for every reader, but the narrator of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park was excellent and this recording came in very handy on a particularly monotonous section of Interstate 95.
Check out the entire list for your next trip. Here are the titles we plan on testing out:
Austen, Jane – Persuasion – Free iTunes – Free MP3
Balzac, Honoré de– Le Père Goriot – Free Stream/Download
Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Another Free MP3
Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free MP3 Stream/Download
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
Eliot, George – Middlemarch – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible.com
Hawthorne, Nathaniel – House of the Seven Gables – Free MP3s
Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible.com
James, Henry – Daisy Miller – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible.com
Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia – Free MP3s
O’Connor, Flannery– “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Read by author in 1959) – Stream/Download
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible.com
Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Free iTunes
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