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Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
- Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free mp3 download – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Asimov, Isaac – Nightfall – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Austen, Jane – Emma – Free iTunes – Free mp3 download – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Lady Susan – Free iTunes – Free mp3 download – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Love and Friendship – Free mp3 download – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park – Free iTunes – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Persuasion – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice – Free iTunes – Free mp3 download – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility – Free iTunes – Free mp3 full zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Babel, Isaac – You Must Know Everything – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Baldwin, James – The Story of Siegfried – Free mp3
- Baldwin, Jame – Fifty Famous Stories Retold – Free mp3 zip file
- Balzac, Honore de – The Peasant Story of Napoleon – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Brodkey, Harold – Spring Fugue (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Bronte, Anne – Agnes Grey – Free iTunes
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre – Free iTunes – Free mp3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor – Free iTunes – Free mp3s – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights – Free iTunes - Free mp3 zip file - Get FREE from Audible.com
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice in Wonderland – Free iTunes – Free mp3s – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote – Free mp3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales – Free iTunes – Free mp3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Free Multiple Formats
- Cheever, John – The Reunion (read by Richard Ford) – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Chekhov, Anton – Collection Stories – Free multiple formats – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Multiple Formats
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Free mp3 download
- Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file. – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Speckled Band – Free iTunes
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Files – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer – Free MP3 download
- Conrad, Joseph – The Lagoon – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Cortazar, Julio – The Night Face Up – Free iTunes
- Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Diaz, Junot – How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Dick, Philip K. – Beyond Lies the Wub – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Dick, Philip K. – Second Variety – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dick, Philip K – The Variable Man – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – Bleak House – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – Hard Times – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment – Free iTunes – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Notes from the Underground – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dreiser, Theodore – The Lost Phoebe – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Comte de Monte Cristo – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Eliot, George – Silas Marner – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Eliot, George – Middlemarch – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott -The Great Gatsby – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Forster, E. M. – Howards End – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business (read by Jonathan Franzen) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Gogol, Nikolai – Dead Souls – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Grimm Brothers – Briar Rose – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Grimm Brothers – Clever Gretel – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Grimm Brothers – The Traveling Musicians – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – House of the Seven Gables – Free MP3s
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Rappaccini’s Daughter – Free iTunes
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Hayden, Julie – “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Hemingway, Ernest – “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway: .au format, .gsm format, Real audio
- Homer, The Iliad – Free MP3s
- Homer, The Odyssey – Free MP3s – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1 – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Free MP3s
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version) – MP3s
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- James, Henry – Daisy Miller – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Johnson, Denis - “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3
- Joyce, James – A Painful Case – Free iTunes
- Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Free iTunes – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Joyce, James – Araby – Free MP3
- Joyce, James – Chamber Music – Free MP3
- Joyce, James – The Dead – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Joyce, James – Ulysses – Free MP3 files – Get FREE from Audible.com
- also see other version on iTunes
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Kipling, Rudyard – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Kipling, Rudyard – The Elephant’s Child – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Kincaid, Jamaica - “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Lawrence, DH – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Lawrence, DH – A Woman and Her Dead Husband – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit – Free iTunes
- Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street – Free MP3s
- London, Jack – Call of the Wild – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- London, Jack – The Heathen – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- London, Jack -To Build a Fire – Free MP3
- Lu Xun – A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories – Free MP3 zip file
- Malamud, Bernard – A Summer’s Reading – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Melville, Herman – Moby Dick – Free iTunes version – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Melville, Herman – Typee – RSS Feed
- Miller, Arthur – The Crucible (Dramatized Version) – MP3s
- Milton, John – Paradise Lost – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Milton, John – Paradise Regained – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Nabokov, Vladimir – My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
– iTunes
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Signs and Symbols – Free iTunes version
- O’Connor Frank – “The Man of the World” (read by Julian Barnes) MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- O Henry, The Gift of the Magi – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Orwell, George – 1984 – Free MP3 zip file – Multiple Versions – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Stories – Free iTunes version
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Cask of Amontillado – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Poe, Edgar Allen – The Raven – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Poe, Edgar Allen – The Pit and the Pendulum – Free MP3 download
- Poe, Edgar Allen – The Tell Tale Heart – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Porter, Eleanor – Pollyanna – Free MP3 zip file
- Ruskin, John – The Golden River – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Sedaris, David – “The Mouse and the Snake” from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Sedaris, David – “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle” from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Shakespeare, William – King Lear – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein – RSS Feed – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle – Free Mp3
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis – Disguised MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(read by Nathan Englander)
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula – Free iTunes Version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- See alternative version here. (full zip file)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina – Big zip file of complete book
- Tolstoy, Leo – The Imp and the Crust – Free iTunes version
- Tolstoy, Leo – What Men Live By and Other Tales – Free iTunes version
- Tolstoy, Leo – War & Peace Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9 (Zip Files) – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Tolstoy, Leo – Selected Short Stories – Free Multiple formats
- Trollope, Anthony – Barchester Towers – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Unknown – Beowulf – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Unknown – Sir Gawain and the Green Night – Free MP3 zip file
- Updike, John – “Playing with Dynamite” – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(read by Roger Angell)
- Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days – Free iTunes version – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Verne, Jules – The Master of the World – Free MP3 download
- Voltaire – Candide – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Vonnegut, Kurt – 2BR02B – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Wells, HG – The Invisible Man- Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Wells, HG – Magic Shop – Free iTunes version
- Wells, HG – Time Machine – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Wells, HG – The Red Room – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Wells, HG – War of the Worlds – Free iTunes version – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Welty, Eudora – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(read by Joyce Carol Oates) (mp3)
- Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Free iTunes Version
- Wharton, Edith – The Fulness of Life – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
– Get FREE from Audible.com
- Wilde, Oscar – The Happy Prince – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Wolff, Tobias – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (mp3)
- Woolf, Virginia – A Haunted House – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
- Wollstonecraft, Mary – Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus – Free MP3
- Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson – Free MP3 zip file – Get FREE from Audible.com
- Anderson, Chris – Free: The Future of a Radical Price (full zip file)
- Aristotle – Poetics (mp3 download)
- Aristotle – Politics (mp3 download full zip file)
- Augustine, Saint – City of God (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles – History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles – History of the United States, Volume 2 (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles – History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)
- Beard, Charles – History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)
- Channing, Edward – A Short History of the United States (full zip file)
- Confucius – The Sayings of Confucius (mp3 full zip file download)
- Darwin, Charles – On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (mp3 download full zip file)
- Descartes, Rene – Discourse on Method (mp3 download)
- Descartes, Rene – Meditations on First Philosophy (full zip file)
- Dickens, Charles – A Child’s History of England (full zip file)
- Doctorow, Cory – Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)
- Douglass, Frederick – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)
- Einstein, Albert – Relativity (mp3 download full zip file)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (iTunes)
- Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of mp3′s)
- Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of mp3′s)
- Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of mp3′s)
- Gibbon, Edward – The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Librivox collection of mp3′s)
- Grant, Ulysses S. – The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (iTunes)
- Harding, Samuel – The Story of the Middle Ages (iTunes)
- Henry, Patrick – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Henry, Patrick – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Arnold, Matthew – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Blake, William – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Blake, William – Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg (mp3 download)
- Bronte, Emily – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Bronte, Emily – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Byron – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Byron – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Coleridge, Samuel – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Coleridge, Samuel – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Coleridge, Samuel – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- DeTroyes, Chretien – Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart (Rss feed)
- Dickinson, Emily – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
(mp3 download)
- Dickinson, Emily – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Donne, John – Death (mp3 download)
- Donne, John – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Donne, John – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Eliot, T.S. – MP3 audio(MP3 audio)
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- Eliot, T.S. – The Waste Land (mp3 download)
- Ginsberg, Allen – Reading of “Howl,” “A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley,” and “Supermarket in California”
Audio Book Podcast Sites
- Librivox iTunes Feed Web Site
- Librivox should be your first stop when looking for audio books. It’s the biggest and best collection. Then there are the others.
- Audiobooks with Annie iTunes Feed Web Site
- Audio Literature Odyssey iTunes Feed Web Site
- A collection of classics. Henry James, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, etc.
- BMW Audio Books Web Site
- Here you’ll find four short stories issued by BMW and Random House.
- Chris Anderson Free: The Future of a Radical Price Zip File
- Classic Poetry Aloud iTunes Feed Web Site
- These poetry podcasts provide readings of the great poems of the past.
- Classic Tales Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
- The whole point is to make unabridged classics not only available, but approachable.
- Crimewav.com iTunes Feed Web Site
- Podcasts that bring quality crime stories to an audience worldwide. Produced by crime writer Seth Harwood.
- Drake’s Door iTunes Web Site
- Alan Drake has an extensive collection of audio recordings of classic poetry and literature. To see his full collection, go straight to his web site. It is more complete than what you’ll find on iTunes.
- Escapepod iTunes Feed Web Site
- Collections of well-reviewed audio short stories.
- FreeAudio.org Web Site
- Audio versions of key texts from American history.
- Great Books – A Chapter a Day iTunes Feed Web Site
- Great Speeches in History iTunes Feed Web Site
- JC Hutchins iTunes Feed Web Site
- The author of the 7th Son Trilogy has made available more than 200 hours of audio and video stories and interviews, all of which are available for free download.
- Kara’s Free AudioBooks iTunes Feed Web Site
- Learn OutLoud.com
- Haverford College – Classic/Ancient Text Read Aloud iTunes Web Site (see site for feeds)
- Internet Archive
- Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings courtesy of the Internet Archive.
- Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture
- Lit2Go iTunes Web Site
- An extensive collection of free audiobooks provided by the University of Southern Florida.
- Literal Systems
- Free classic books for your listening pleasure.
- Miette’s Bedtime Stories iTunes Feed Web Site
- Litterature Audio
- Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
- Hosts audio recordings of the Beats — Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg and more.
- The Penguin Podcast
- Excerpts read from books newly published by Penguin UK.
- Podiobooks
- Provides podcasts of largely sci-fi books that we’ve never heard of before. But, you never know.
- Podlit Classic Literature iTunes Web Site
- A new classic short story each week.
- Poetry Aloud
- A Directory of Poetry Readings on the Internet
- Pseudopod iTunes Feed Web Site
- The world’s first audio horror magazine
- Radioboeken iTunes Feed Web Site
- “Radiobooks” are just like books, but they will never be printed. They are created by important Dutch and Flemish writers, and will be available in French, English and Spanish versions in 2007.
- Scott Sigler’s Audiobooks iTunes – Feed – Web Site
- Very well reviewed sci-fi horror works
- Stories to Go iTunes Feed Web Site
- Stranger Things iTunes Feed Web Site
- This high-quality video podcast features stories of ordinary people stumbling into strange worlds (a la The Twilight Zone).
- The Classic Tales Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
- The Classic Tales Podcast makes unabridged classics not only available, but approachable. Includes professional performances.
- The Public Domain Podcast iTunes Feed Web Site
- The Spoken Alexandria Project iTunes Feed Web Site
- The Time Traveler iTunes Feed Web Site
- Explores vintage American fiction. Orson Welles, Philip K. Dick, etc.
- The Twilight Series
- Utopod iTunes – Feed – Web Site
- A free French-language podcast, created by that offers readings of fantasy and sci fi stories written by noted authors across the Francophone world.
- Well Told Tales iTunes Feed Web Site
- Pulp fiction audio tales….!!!