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- Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Anderson, Sherwood – Winesburg, Ohio – Free iTunes – Free MP3
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- Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question” (readings by Leonard Nimoy) – Free YouTube Audio
- Asimov, Isaac – Short Story Collection – Free Download (Zip File) – Free Stream
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- Free eBook available here.
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- Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) – Free Stream
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- Bradbury, Ray – The Pedestrian – YouTube
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy – YouTube
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) – Spotify
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- Bradbury, Ray – “The Last Night of the World” – Soundcloud
- Brodkey, Harold – “Dumbness is Everything” (read by Michael Cunningham) – Free Stream
- Brodkey, Harold – “Spring Fugue” (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) – Free MP3
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- Brown, Margaret Wise – Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) – YouTube
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) – Free iTunes
- Burroughs, William S. – Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) – Spotify
- Burroughs, William S. – “Ghosts of Chance” – YouTube
- Burroughs, William S. – Junky – MP3s
- Burroughs, William S. – Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) – Spotify
- 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 – Spotify
- Burroughs, William S. – “Thanksgiving Prayer” – YouTube
- Burroughs, William S. – The Road to the Western Lands – Spotify
- Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – “Love Far from Home” (read by Salman Rushdie) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – “The Daughters of the Moon” (read by Robert Coover) – Free Stream
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- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) – Multiple formats
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) – Stream/Spotify
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- Carver, Raymond – “Cathedral” (read by James Naughton) – YouTube
- Carver, Raymond – “Chef’s House” (read by David Means) – Free MP3
- Carver, Raymond – “Fat” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
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- Free eBook available here
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales – Free iTunes – Free MP3
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- Cheever, John – “The Death of Justina” (read by John Cheever) – Free Stream/Download
- Cheever, John ” The Enormous Radio” (read by Nathan Englander) – Free Stream
- Cheever, John – “The Reunion” (read by Richard Ford) – Free MP3
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- Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free MP3 Stream/Download
- Chekhov, Anton – “The Beauties” (read by Philip Pullman) – Free MP3
- Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free multiple formats
- Chekhov, Anton – “The First Class Passenger,” “Harmfulness of Tobacco” and “A Transgression” (Read by Michale Redgrave) – Spotify
- Chabon, Michael – “S Angel” (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Multiple Formats
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor’s New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave – Free Spotify
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Free MP3
- Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “A Walk in the Dark” (A dramatized version of the text) – Free MP3 Stream
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Breaking Strain” – YouTube
- Clarke, Arthur C. – Childhood’s End (Excerpts read by the author) – YouTube
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Hammer of God” – Free MP3
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Star” – Free Stream/Download
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Star” (Radio Drama) – Free Stream
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – Beyond the City – Free MP3
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- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) – Spotify
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- Free eBook available here.
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Mystery of Cloomber – Free MP3
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- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Speckled Band – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse) – Spotify
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles’ radio drama from 1938) – YouTube
- Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Agent – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer – Free MP3
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- Cooper, James Fenimore – Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef – Free MP3
- Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans – Free iTunes – Free MP3- Free MP3 Zip File
- Crane, Stephen – The Open Boat – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Alternate MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (English) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (Italian) – Free Stream from Princeton University
- Dante Alighieri – Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) – Free Stream/MP3
- Dante Alighieri – The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) – Spotify
- Danticat, Edwidge – Water Child (read by Junot Diaz) – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Seven” (read by Junot Diaz) – Free Stream
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip file
- Free eBook available here.
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) – Spotify
- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee) – MP3
- DeLillo, Don – “The Itch” – Free Stream
- Diaz, Junot – “Alma” (read by Victor Rasuk) – YouTube
- Diaz, Junot – “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” – Free MP3
- Diaz, Junot – “The Cheaters Guide to Love” – YouTube
- Dick, Philip K. – “Beyond Lies the Wub” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “Mr. Spaceship” – Free iTunes – Free Stream & Download
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- Dick, Philip K. – “The Crystal Crypt” & “Beyond the Door” – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Defenders” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Eyes Have It” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Gun” – YouTube
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Hanging Stranger” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Skull” – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K – “The Variable Man” – Free Stream – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dick, Philip K – “Tony and the Beetles” – MP3 Part 1 – MP3 Part II
- Dick, Philip K – Radio Plays – Stream
- Dickens, Charles – 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More – Free YouTube
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Stream
- Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Bleak House – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Dickens, Charles – Christmas Stories – Free MP3s
- Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3s
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- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow) – Free Stream – Free MP3
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Notes from the Underground – Free MP3
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- Free eBook available here.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man – Free Stream/Download
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Gambler – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Possessed – Free MP3
- Doyle, Roddy – “Bullfighting” (Read by Dave Eggers) – Free MP3
- Dr Who Audio Dramas – Spotify
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Comte de Monte Cristo – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Eliot, George – Silas Marner – Free MP3
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- Eliot, George – Middlemarch – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Eliot, T.S. – The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) – Free Spotify
- Erdich, Louise – “The Stone” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Faulkner, William – “Shingles for the Lord” – Free Stream
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- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Bernice Bobs Her Hair – Free iTunes – Free MP3s/Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tales of the Jazz Age – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned – Free iTunes – Free MP3s/Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby – Free Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Flaubert, Gustave – Three Short Works
- Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Ford, Richard – “Displaced” (Read by Richard Ford)
- Free Stream
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Forster, E. M. – Howards End – Free iTunes – Free MP3
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- Forster, E.M. – “The Machine Stops” – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) – Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “A Study in Emerald” – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – “How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties” – Free MP3
- Gaiman, Neil – “Orange” (read live) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “Other People” (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “Troll Bridge” (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Stream
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” – Free MP3
- Gaitskill, Mary – “The Other Place” (read by Jennifer Egan) – Free MP3
- Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business” (read by Jonathan Franzen) – Free MP3
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- Free eBook available here.
- Gogol, Nikolai – “The Nose” – Free MP3
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
- Gordimer, Nadine – “A Style of Her Own” and “The Bridegroom” (read by the author, 1961) – Free Stream/Download
- Gordimer, Nadine – “City Lovers” (read by Tessa Hadley) – Free MP3
- Gordimer, Nadine – “Loot” (read by author) – YouTube
- Gordimer, Nadine – “The Pet” (read by Joseph O’Neill) – Free Stream
- Grahame, Kenneth – The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) – YouTube
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – House of the Seven Gables – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Rappaccini’s Daughter – Free Stream
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Spotify
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – “Wakefield” (Read by Paul Auster) – YouTube
- Hayden, Julie – “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3
- Heinlein, Robert – Methuselah’s Children (abridged) – Free Stream/MP3
- Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) – YouTube
- Hemingway, Ernest – Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway – Free Stream
- Hemingway, Ernest – Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) – Free MP3
- Hemingway, Ernest – “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway: .au format, .gsm format, .ra format)
- Hemingway, Ernest – “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (read by Charleston Heston) – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha – Free MP3 – Spotify
- Hitchcock, Alfred – Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People – Spotify
- Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hughes, Langston – “Simple on Indian Blood”(read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “A Toast to Harlem” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “Last Whipping” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “Feet Live Their Own Life” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables – Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles – Multiple formats
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) – Spotify
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) – Free Stream
- Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Irving, Washington – Rip Van Winkle – Free MP3
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- James, Henry – Daisy Miller – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- James, Henry – “Greville Fane” (read by Cynthia Ozick) – Free Stream/Download
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Johnson, Denis – “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3
- Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Free eBook available here.
- Joyce, James – Chamber Music – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – Dubliners – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream – Free on Spotify
- Joyce, James – “Eveline” (read by Sebastian Barry) – Free MP3
- Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” – Free MP3 Zip File
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” (Read by Bart Wolffe) – Spotify
- Joyce, James – Ulysses – Free Stream Various Formats
- Free eBook available here.
- July, Miranda – “Ron Spivey” (read by David Sedaris) – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “A Little Fable” (Read by David Foster Wallace) – Free Stream
- Kafka, Franz – “A Hunger Artist” (read by Hanif Kureishi) – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “Before the Law” – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “In the Penal Colony – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free Stream – Spotify
- Free eBook available here.
- Karloff, Boris – Tales of the Frightened – YouTube
- Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc — 18 Hours of Beat Readings – Spotify
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – Free MP3
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Girl” and “Wingless” (read by Edwidge Danticat) – Free Stream
- King, Stephen – “Afterlife” – YouTube
- Kipling, Rudyard – Kim – Free iTunes
- Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children – Free iTunes – Free MP3/Stream
- Kipling, Rudyard – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – Free MP3
- Kipling, Rudyard – “The Elephant’s Child” – Free MP3
- Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Story – Free MP3 Zip File
- L’Heureux, John – “Three Short Moments in a Long Life” – Free MP3 Stream
- Lahiri, Jhumpa – “Casting Shadows” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 Zip File
- Lawrence, D.H. – A Woman and Her Dead Husband – Free MP3
- Le Guin, Ursula – “The End” (Dramatized version) – Free MP3 Stream
- Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) – Spotify
- Lethem, Jonathan – “The Afterlife” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia – Free MP3s
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician’s Nephew
- The Last Battle
- Lewis, C.S. – Spirits in Bondage – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Lewis, C.S. – The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) – YouTube
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Lewis, Sinclair – It Can’t Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) – YouTube
- Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street – Free MP3s – Free iTunes
- London, Jack – Call of the Wild – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- London, Jack – The Heathen – Free MP3
- London, Jack -To Build a Fire – Free MP3
- London, Jack – White Fang – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Call of of Cthulhu (Read by Garrick Hagan) – Free YouTube – Free Stream Part 1 – Free Stream Part 2
- Lovecraft, H.P – The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories – Spotify
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) – Free
- 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
- Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice – Free MP3s/Download
- McCabe, Eugene – Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) – Free MP3
- McCann, Colum – “Transatlantic” (read by author) – Free MP3
- McEwan, Ian – “My Purple Scented Novel” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
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