Classics to Come Back To!

As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner
Narrated by: Marc Cashman, Robertson Dean, Lina Patel, Lorna Raver & Jesmyn Ward
Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

“I will try to express just how much I love this book. Growing up in Missouri, with relatives from the Midwest/South, I can say that without a doubt my elders spoke similarly to the characters in this book. Faulkner does such a great job of overlapping time between different character viewpoints in this book. The moment I started reading it I... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Soon to be an animated film adaptation produced and directed by Andy Serkis George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and... Read more

Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

By: Carl Sagan
Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ann Druyan
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of... Read more

The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Known as one of the greatest comedies written in English, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest attacks Victorian manners and morals in what can only be described as the most maliciously delicious way. A witty satire of Victorian social hypocrisy, Wilde pulls the strings on his cast of late-Victorian characters making them appear, first... Read more

Perfume

The Story of a Murderer

By: Patrick Süskind
Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
Length: 9 hours

In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is... Read more

Little Women

The Little Women Series: Book #1

By: Louisa May Alcott
Narrated by: C. M. Hébert
Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

This favorite book for children, based on the author’s own youthful experiences, describes the life of the March family in a small New England community in the 1800s.Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are raised in genteel poverty by their loving mother while their father serves as chaplain during the American Civil War. Jo at fifteen is ungainly,... Read more

Hatchet

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

13-year-old Brian Robeson learns to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with his hatchet and resourcefulness. Read more

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry
Narrated by: Ron Rifkin
Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is the quintessential dystopian novel, followed by its remarkable companions, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns 12 he is singled out to receive... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

“No matter how many times I return to this book, something new always stands out: a delightful quip or a reference I didn’t catch before. This is the ultimate comfort read and it never fails to cheer me up. Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.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... Read more

Anne of Green Gables [Anne of Green Gables series #1]

By: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Narrated by: Rachel Ellen
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Eleven-year-old orphan Anne Shirley has just arrived at Green Gables, and already her guardians want to send her back. First, she’s not the boy the Cuthberts expected. Second, she talks too much. And even with her generous spirit, the redhead’s a trouble magnet. She gets the neighbor drunk and nearly poisons the pastor! Still, despite a rocky... Read more

Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding
Narrated by: William Golding
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle... Read more

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings: Book #0

By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Rob Inglis
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Like every other hobbit, Bilbo Baggins likes nothing better than a quiet evening in his snug hole in the ground, dining on a sumptuous dinner in front of a fire. But when a wandering wizard captivates him with tales of the unknown, Bilbo becomes restless. Soon he joins the wizard's band of homeless dwarves in search of giant spiders, savage... Read more

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

A Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisation

BBC Radio’s The Lord of the Rings: Book #1

By: Richard O'Callaghan
Narrated by: Peter Woodthorpe, Ian Holm, Robert Stephens, Michael Hordern, Bill Nighy, John McAndrew, David Collings, Douglas Livingstone & Full Cast
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

With its first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on March 8, 1981, this dramatised tale of Middle Earth became an instant global classic. It boasts a truly outstanding cast including Ian Holm (as Frodo), Michael Hordern (as Gandalf), Robert Stephens (as Aragorn), Bill Nighy (as Sam Gamgee) and John Le Mesurier (as Bilbo).

Brian Sibley's famous adaptation... Read more

The Street

By: Ann Petry
Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence,... Read more