We’ve been subscribers to Audible for over 15 years and have never known them to give free audiobooks away to non-members. But in the past year, they have done just that, now offering over 200 of their professionally narrated...
We’ve been subscribers to Audible for over 15 years and have never known them to give free audiobooks away to non-members. But in the past year, they have done just that, now offering over 200 of their professionally narrated audiobooks absolutely free! All that is needed is an Amazon.com account and you can start listening for free on Amazon.com, Audible.com, or on the Audible app. Below, we’ll list all 200 of their free audiobooks we now feature in our Free Audiobooks Section (which now has over 4,000 free audiobooks). We’ll link to Amazon.com, where you can listen to them for free. If you use Audible.com, you can browse most of these free audiobooks at this link:
This page doesn’t have all of their free audiobooks though. We had to dig a little deeper to find even more free audiobooks in their catalog for you. Along with many unabridged classic literature audiobooks, their free offerings include some contemporary Audible Original audiobooks. These contemporary audiobooks include their excellent Words and Music series featuring top musicians talking about their careers and playing music. Below, we’ll list the contemporary audiobooks first, followed by over 150 free classic audiobooks of some of the greatest literature of all time.
Another thing we wanted to mention is that these free audiobooks allow you to listen immediately through their web players on Audible.com or Amazon.com. But you can also add these audiobooks to your Amazon/Audible library and listen to them on the Audible mobile app. That is probably the best option for listening as the app will automatically bookmark where you left off on the audiobook and will also allow you to utilize all the navigation options from Audible’s user-friendly mobile app. In the Audible app you’ll also be able to download the audiobook to your mobile phone for offline listening.
One last thing we wanted to emphasize is that if you see an audiobook here you like, then listen to it as soon as possible. In all of our years running LearnOutLoud.com, we’ve seen thousands of free audiobooks come and go, and there’s no telling if Audible will keep these generous offerings free forever. Seize the day and listen away!
We’ll start with this list of about 20 contemporary audiobooks that Audible offers for free:
Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay T. Dolmage
The Big Store: Inside the Crisis and Revolution at Sears by Donald Katz
The Book of Baraka by Ras Baraka
Cesar Millan’s Guide to Audiobooks for Dogs by Cesar Millan
Cesar Millan’s Guide to Bringing Home a Shelter Dog by Cesar Millan
Dream With Your Eyes Open: An Entrepreneurial Journey by Ronnie Screwvala
Heads Will Roll by Kate McKinnon & Emily Lynne
I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education by Caroline Pratt
The Impeachment Inquiry Report
Just Do It: The Nike Spirit in the Corporate World by Donald Katz
The King of the Ferret Leggers and Other True Stories by Donald Katz
Louis Vuitton: The Audacity by Caroline Bongrand
Monumental: Harriet Tubman and Newark’s Liberation Movement by Pia Wilson
The Most Wonderful Tales of the Year by Audible Narrators
The Motherlode: 100 Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope
The Mueller Report
On Care for Our Common Home by Pope Francis
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Torture
Women Talking by Brittany K. Allen
Next, we’ll highlight 25 of their free audiobooks from their superb Words and Music series. These Audible Original titles feature top musicians telling stories and performing their music in audiobooks that run about 90 minutes to 2 hours long. We’ve listened to a few, and they’re very entertaining:
Aimee Mann: Straw into Gold
Alanis Morissette: Words and Music
Beck: Dear Life
Billie Joe Armstrong: Welcome to My Panic
Bluebird Memories: A Journey Through Lyrics & Life
Brandy Norwood: A New Moon
Break Shot: My First 21 Years by James Taylor
Carlos Santana: Light, Spirit, and Soul
Chuck D: Songs That Shook the Planet
Eddie Vedder: I Am Mine
Elvis Costello: How to Play the Guitar and Y
Jeff Tweedy: Please Tell My Brothers
John Legend: Living Legend
Liz Phair: Never Said Nothing
Pete Townshend: Somebody Saved Me
Road Trip Elegies: Montreal to New York by Rufus Wainwright
Sheryl Crow: Words and Music
Smokey Robinson: Grateful and Blessed
Snoop Dogg: From the Streets to the Suites
St. Vincent: Words and Music
Steve Earle: The Moment in 1965 When Rock and Roll Becomes Art
Sting: Upon Reflection
Tenacious D: The Road to Redunktion
Tom Morello: Speaking Truth to Power Through Stories and Song
Unquiet: My Life with Beethoven by Jonathan Biss
Who I Really Am: Diary of a Vampire by Alice Cooper
Yo-Yo Ma: Beginner’s Mind
And lastly, in this blog post, we’ll feature over 150 free works of classic literature that Audible offers. Many of these free audiobooks were by the publisher AudioGO (formerly BBC Audiobooks) that Audible must’ve acquired the rights to distribute. They are outstanding professional narrations, which are almost all unabridged recordings. Add them all to your library, and you’ll have a very nice collection of audiobook classics! There’s a lot of Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, and much more. We’ll list them all below in alphabetical order:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Abridged) by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
An Old Man’s Love by Anthony Trollope
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens
The Beatrix Potter Collection by Beatrix Potter
Beowulf
Black Beauty: An Audible Original Drama by Anna Sewell
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Bliss and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Christmas Hirelings by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
Dr. Wortle’s School by Anthony Trollope
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope
The Ebb-Tide by Robert Louis Stevenson
Emma by Jane Austen
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
The Europeans by Henry James
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
False Dawn by Edith Wharton
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield
Ghostly Tales
Ghostly Terror!
The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott
The Grasmere Journals by Dorothy Wordsworth
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Great Love Poems
Great Nature Poems
Great Poems
H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection by H.G. Wells
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped (Abridged) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
King Solomon’s Mines by Henry Rider Haggard
Lady Audley’s Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Land of Mist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Little Women: An Audible Original Drama by Louisa May Alcott
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Love by Elizabeth von Arnim
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Old Maid by Edith Wharton
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope
The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
Remember, Remember by Winifred Holtby
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
She and Allan by Henry Rider Haggard
Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope
South Riding by Winifred Holtby
The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Three Musketeers: An Audible Original Drama by Alexandre Dumas
Treasure Island: An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins
Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad
Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy
The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men and A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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