LibriVox audio books
LibriVox provides absolutely free audio books as simple mp3 files folks can listen to online, or download to their device without any king of signing up. You’ll find a new LibriVox story every few days on my Twitter feed. Just visit & listen.
– The Innocence of Father Brown (1910), by G. K. Chesterton
– The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922), by G. K. Chesterton
– The Paradise Mystery (1920), by J. S. Fletcher
– The Old Man in the Corner (1908), by Baroness Emma Orczy
– The Big Bow Mystery (1892), by Israel Zangwill
– The Leavenworth Case (1878), by Anna Katharine Green
– The Return of Clubfoot (1922) by Valentine Williams
– The King in Yellow (part 2) (1895) by Robert W. Chambers
– The King in Yellow (part 1) (1895) by Robert W. Chambers
– The Lady in Blue (1905) by Auguste Groner
– The Red House Mystery (1922) by A. A. Milne
– Short Story Collection Vol. 099. Includes; Ernest Hemingway, O. Henry, Sewell Ford, Stephen Leacock, and others to bring you tales of mystery, poignant romance, the quirky and the amusing.
– Waverley, Volume 2 (1814) Sir Walter Scott
– Waverley, Volume 1 (1814) Sir Walter Scott
– The Painted Veil (1925) W. Somerset Maugham
– The House Opposite (1903) Elizabeth Kent. Read by Sharon Kilmer
– The Old Church Clock (1843) Richard Parkinson
– The House with the Green Shutters (1901) George Douglas Brown
– The Age of Innocence (1920) by Edith Wharton. Read by Brenda Dayne
– Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
– After Dark (1856) Wilkie Collins
– The Way of All Flesh (1903) by Samuel Butler. Read by Rhonda Federman
– The Crimson Cryptogram (1900) by Fergus Hume
– The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James, read by Elizabeth Klett
– Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Gold Bag (1911) by Carolyn Wells
– The Clue (1909) by Carolyn Wells
– Malcolm (1875) by George MacDonald
– The Silver Bullet (1903) by Fergus Hume
– The Damnation of Theron Ware (1896) by Harold Frederic
– Anna Karenina (1873 - 1877) by Leo Tolstoy
– The Brothers Karamazov (1879 - 1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Pages and pages of pointless, depressing nonsense. It’s like this dude is a frustrated priest, and wants to blog on speculative philosophical ideas like free will, gods, hell, etc… and built a novel around the idea of combining a collection of pointless speculative philosophical rants into a book. I’m only up to file 41 of 96 and I’ve been sick of this book for probably the last 10-15 files. This guy, really drives home Stephen Hawking’s point that “philosophy is dead”. Just as I started this book I was talking to someone that was taking a course on Tolstoy, so I downloaded Anna Karenina (I had read this before years ago) and was going to re-read it right after “The Brothers”. But… Tolstoy ain’t no bundle of laughs either, so I think I’m going to bypass Tolstoy and move on in the queue. Also, the person that was taking the Tolstoy course with online has sort of disappeared, so it’s not like there’s a benefit of reading the same book as someone you’re currently talk with.
– Doors of the Night (1922) by Frank L. Packard - Comically bad. As the story progresses and the reader say over and over gain “Billy Kane” I can’t help but hear “Bob Dole”. I couldn’t finish this. Just plain horrible.
– The Mill Mystery (1886) by Anna Katharine Green - shitty writing
– In the Mayor’s Parlour (1922) by J. S. Fletcher
– My Man Jeeves (1919), by P. G. Wodehouse
– The Nebuly Coat (1903) by John Meade Falkner
– The Czar’s Spy (1905), by William Le Queux
– Psmith in the City (1910), by P. G. Wodehouse
– Men Like Gods (1923) by H. G. Wells
– The Haunted Bookshop (1919), by Christopher Morley
– Mercenary (1962), by Dallas McCord Reynolds
– Silas Marner (1861) by George Eliot. Read by Tadhg
– Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor (1869) by Richard Doddridge Blackmore. Read by various
– The Pink Shop (1911) by Fergus Hume. Read by Nathalie J.
– 813 (1910), by Maurice LeBlanc. Read by Cate Barratt
– 32 Caliber (1920) by Donald McGibeny. Read by Dawn Larsen
– The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice (1878), by Wilkie Collins. Read by Nathalie J.
– Falkner (1837) by Mary Shelley. Read by various. This is NOT my kind of writing. Shelley does not move the plot along. She spends words and words and more words explaining some feeling, in ridiculous dramatic fashion. Once I found myself zoning out only to come back and realize she’s still droning on about the same irrelevant thing.
– The Man of Property (1906), By John Galsworthy. Read by various
– Clayhanger (1910) by Arnold Bennett. Read by Simon Evers
– Doctor Thorne (1858) by Anthony Trollope. Read by Nick Whitley
– Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope. Read by Various
– The Warden (1855) by Anthony Trollope. Read by Jessica Louise
– On the Iron at Big Cloud (1911), by Frank L. Packard. Read by Delmar H Dolbier - put aside at the 6th story
– The Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen. Read by Ethan Rampton
– The Cathedral (1922) by Hugh Walpole. Read by David Wales
– The Thirteen Travelers (1920) by Hugh Walpole. Read by David Wales
– The Lost Parchment by (1914) by Fergus Hume. Read by Sharon Kilmer
– Planet of the Damned (1962) by Harry Harrison, read by Phil Chenevert
– Scarhaven Keep (1920) by J. S. Fletcher, read by Cate Barratt
– The Chestermarke Instinct (1918) by J. S. Fletcher, read by MaryAnn Spiegel
– Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1875) read by Mark Smith
– Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, read by Peter Yearsley
– Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1
– Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4, read by various
– The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (1917), by A. E. W. Mason, read by David Wales
– Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker, read by Kara Shallenberg
– The Red Planet (1917), by William John Locke, read by various
– Around The Campfire, by Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, read by David Wales
– The Corner House (1906), by Fred M. White, read by Jacquerie
– The Bronze Hand (1897), by Anna Katharine Green
– The Clock Struck One (1898), by Fergus Hume, read by Celine Major
– A Chain of Evidence (1923), by Carolyn Wells, read by Richard Kilmer
– The Borough Treasurer (1919), by J. S. Fletcher, read by Maryann
– The House on the Borderland (1877), by William Hope Hodgson, read by Alan Winterrowd
– The Black Box (1915), by E. Phillips Oppenheim, read by Richard Kilmer - One of the most bizarre things I have ever read. Don’t bother.
– Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life (1888), by H. Rider Haggard, read by Esther
– The Breaking Point (1922), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, read by Nicholas Clifford
– The Bishop’s Secret (1899), by Fergus Hume, read by David Wales
– Emma (1815) Jane Austen, read by Elizabeth Klett
– Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England, by The Venerable Bede (673 - 735)
– The Albert Gate Mystery (1904), by Louis Tracy, read by Crln Yldz Ksr
– Treasure Island (1881), by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Adrian Praetzellis
– The Prophet (1923), by Kahlil Gibran, read by Mark F. Smith
– Underground Man (1896) - Gabriel Tarde
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
– The Magic City - E. NESBIT, Read by Ruth Golding
– In Kent with Charles Dickens (1880), by Thomas Frost, read by Ruth Golding
– New Arabian Nights - Robert Louis Stevenson
– The Man in the Iron Mask, By Alexandre Dumas, Read by Mark F. Smith
– Eighty Days Around the World, by Jules Verne (read by Mark F. Smith)
– Wuthering Heights (1847), by Emily Bronte
– Richard Jefferies - After London, or Wild England
– Richard Middleton - Day Before Yesterday
– Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) Mary Wollstonecraft SHELLEY (1797 - 1851) - LibriVox
– The Valley of Fear, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– His Last Bow (short stories 1908–1913, 1917), by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Normans in European History, by Charles Homer HASKINS
– Cardinal Wolsey by Mandell Creighton
– A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 1, by François Pierre Guillaume GUIZOT
– The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE, read by Mark F. Smith
– The Evil Genius, by Wilkie COLLINS, read by Jacquerie
– The Death of the Lion, by Henry James, read by Jacquerie
– The Circular Study - Anna Katharine GREEN, read by Jacquerie
– Far from the Madding Crowd, b Thomas HARDY (1840 - 1928)
– Sir Nigel, by Sir Arthur Conan DOYLE (1859 - 1930)
– The Eye of Osiris, R. Austin FREEMAN (1862 - 1943)
– Elusive Isabel, Jacques FUTRELLE (1875 - 1912)
– The Drums of Jeopardy (1920), Harold MACGRATH (1871 - 1932)
– J. S. FLETCHER (1863 - 1935) - Dead Men’s Money
– Augusta Huiell SEAMAN (1879 - 1950) - The Dragon’s Secret
– The Dead Letter (1866), by Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR (1831 - 1885)
– The Daffodil Mystery, by Edgar WALLACE (1875 - 1932)
– The Crevice (1915) by William Burns & Isabel Ostrander
– Wallace, Edgar (1875 - 1932) - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)
– Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1866 - 1946) The Cinema Murder
– Rinehart, Mary Roberts (1876 - 1958) The Circular Staircase
– The Port of Missing Men (1907), by Meredith Nicholson
– The House of a Thousand Candles (1906), by Meredith Nicholson
– Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (1883-1885)
– Madame Bovary (1856), by Gustave Flaubert
– The Communist Manifesto (1874), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
– Ivanhoe
– The Last Man by Mary Shelley, published 1826. Shit… had to stop listening about 1/2 way through. She is way to long winded. Some times you’ll be listening to the story, and forget what she’s even talking about. Total crap.
– Pillars of Society (1877) by Henrik Ibsen
– A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, as read by Kara Shallenberg
– A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, read by Mark Nelson. First serialized in the pulp magazine All-Story Magazine from February–July, 1912
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The New Paris read by Crln Yldz Ksr
– The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson BURNETT, read by Kara Shallenberg
– The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (published in The Strand magazine July 1891 to December 1892)
– The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (published in The Strand December 1892 to November 1893)
– The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901-2 serial)
– The Return of Sherlock Holmes (published in The StrandOctober 1903 to January 1905)
– His Last Bow (short stories 1908–1913, 1917)
– The Valley of Fear (1914-15)
– The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (published 1921–1927) Not yet in the public domain, and the only Sherlock Holmes stories not available on Librivox - hits public Domain Jan 1, 2020
– Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse
– The Quest of the Historical Jesus, by Albert Schweitzer
– Moby Dick, or the Whale (1851) by Herman Melville
– The Count of Monte Cristo (1844) by Alexandre Dumas Read by David Clarke
– Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo
– A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens