Classics audiobooks

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: Betty Smith

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit.... 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

The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A realistic and emotional look at a woman who falls into the grips of insanity written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA TodayThe Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant,... Read more

The Last Unicorn

By: Peter S. Beagle

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy & Joshua Kane

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.”

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone...

...so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of... Read more

Shōgun, Part One

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell’s Shōgun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!Shōgun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part One contains... Read more

Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 37 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

For more... Read more

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

By: Jacob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm

Narrated by: James Taylor & Helen Pyle

Length: 28 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm is a collection of the 211 Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published on 20 December 1812. The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl (1786-1859), were German academics,... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Unabridged)

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Nathan Osgood

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sequel to Tom Sawyer, his sidekick Huckleberry Finn takes centre stage. Innocent and well-intentioned, Huck is brought face to face with the reality of slavery in the southern states as he helps his friend Jim escape to freedom. Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Nicola Coughlan, known for her starring roles as Clare Devlin in Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Ros Ballaster.

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Caroline Alexander

Narrated by: Dominic Keating

Length: 19 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan WarComposed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion.... Read more

Heroes

By: Stephen Fry

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.

Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... 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

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

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle & Bert Coules

Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Michael Williams, Brian Blessed...

Length: 48 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Fully-dramatised adaptations of all 60 Sherlock Holmes stories, brought to life with a full cast of actors, sound effects and music

'A remarkable undertaking... applauding them, and particularly Clive Merrison's Holmes, made my hands sore' The Times

Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend Dr... Read more

Kristin Lavransdatter

By: Sigrid Undset

Narrated by: Nina Yndis & Stephen Graybill

Length: 47 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced; indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years."

-- Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs

"As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." -- Montreal Star

"Sigrid... Read more

White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix film!

Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an “airborne toxic event,” a lethal black... Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey

Length: 36 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Rosemary Ashton.

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a... Read more

Our Spoons Came from Woolworths

By: Barbara Comyns

Narrated by: Madeleine Leslay

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Mark Nelson

Length: 60 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

War and Peace is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, the work mixes fictional narrative with chapters discussing history and philosophy. First published serially beginning in 1865, the work was rewritten and published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as Tolstoy's finest literary achievement and... Read more

Cannery Row

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jerry Farden

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of... Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Jonathan Epstein

Length: 25 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Melville’s epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jonathan Epstein.

The mountain whose whale-like shape first gave Melville the idea of writing Moby Dick rests in the Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, a short... Read more

Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 60 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great classics of world literature and the inspiration for the most beloved stage musical of all time, Les MisErables is legendary author Victor Hugo's masterpiece. This extraordinary English version by renowned translator Julie Rose captures all the majesty and brilliance of Hugo's work. Here is the timeless story of the... Read more

The Sun Also Rises

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: William Hurt

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake... Read more

Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 20 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago, and Anna Karenina, which was an Oprah Book Club pick and million-copy bestseller, bring their unmatched talents to The Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov, a collection of thirty of Chekhov’s best tales from the major periods of his creative... Read more