Classics audiobooks

Circe

By: Madeline Miller

Narrated by: Perdita Weeks

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not... Read more

The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, L...

Length: 33 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For over sixty years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia.
This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia—The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

By: L.M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Sandra Churchill

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A favorite and a classic for all ages, Anne of Green Gables, has warmed hearts and brought joy to generations of readers. This nostalgic coming of age story tells the timeless tale of a spunky, lovable, adventurous young girl who desires greatly to find a place she can call home. Sent away from her family and unwanted by the relatives who... Read more

Stone Blind

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023""Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK)The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered... Read more

The Silmarillion

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Andy Serkis

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an... Read more

A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year“Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.”—Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many... Read more

Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. 

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and... Read more

Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Karen Savage & Elizabeth Klett

Length: 69 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at... Read more

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming soon to Netflix as a highly anticipated series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco GonzálezOne of the twentieth century’s enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career.The novel tells... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jason Isaacs

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The greatest Christmas story ever written is brought to life by the inimitable Jason Isaacs.
''If I had my way, every idiot who goes around with Merry Christmas on his lips, would be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. Merry Christmas? Bah humbug!'
To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Marley was dead, to begin with...' And yet, he manages to visit his old partner, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge, and send him on a transformative journey, led by three ghosts. First to his own past, where he sees again the love he spurned, then to the present, where he sees those around him going about their holiday preparations, and then into his... Read more

Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel.  The wellsprings of desire and the... Read more

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Theo Ogundipe

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

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After reading Christmas Carol, the notoriously reculsive Thomas Carlyle was "seized with a perfect convulsion of hospitality" and threw not one but two Christmas dinner parties. The impact of the story may not always have been so dramatic but, along with Dickens other Christmas writings, it has had a lasting and... Read more

East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee

Narrated by: Sissy Spacek

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatredOne of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: Frances Hodgson Burnett

Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Told in the beautiful and charming words of Frances Hodgson Burnett, this classic children’s tale of redemption and transformation is full of so many priceless lessons.  After losing both of her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from the lively and bustling world of India to the cold and secretive manor of an aloof relative in England.  On her... Read more

Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history. Read more

Go Set a Watchman

By: Harper Lee

Narrated by: Reese Witherspoon

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Reese Witherspoon#1 New York Times Bestseller“Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades.""  — New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a... Read more

The Odyssey

By: Homer

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more

The Sherlock Holmes Complete Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 61 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook includes the complete collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels and stories, all read by the award-winning Jonathan Keeble.
The novels and stories included here, with relevant tracklistings, are:
A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Little Women, originally written as two volumes, was a great commercial... Read more

1984

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Theo Solomon

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get... Read more

The Anne of Green Gables Collection

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis, Tara Ward, Barbara Barnes & Kate...

Length: 73 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley rejoice! Collected here are all eight of the original Anne Shirley books in the order they were published. This collection includes Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Chronicles of Avonlea, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea.... Read more

Don Quixote

By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 39 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Don Quixote is the classic story. Called the first modern novel, this marvelous book has stood the test of time to become irrevocably intertwined with the fabric of society. Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more... Read more