Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind.
Fiction & Literature
- Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Anderson, Sherwood – Winesburg, Ohio – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Aristophanes – Lysistrata – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Aristophanes – Lysistrata (performed by Lucy Lawless) – Free Stream
- Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall” – Free Stream
- Asimov, Isaac – Radio Dramas of The Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Stories – Free Stream
- Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question” (readings by Leonard Nimoy) – Free YouTube Audio
- Asimov, Isaac – Short Story Collection – Free Download (Zip File) – Free Stream
- Atwood, Margaret – “Stone Mattress” – Free Stream
- Austen, Jane – Emma – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Austen, Jane – Lady Susan – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free Zip File
- Austen, Jane – Love and Friendship – Free Zip File – Free MP3 Stream
- Austen, Jane – Mansfield Park – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Stream
- Free eBook available here.
- Austen, Jane – Northanger Abbey – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Austen, Jane – Persuasion – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice (read by Kate Beckinsale) – Free iTunes
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice (alternative version) – Spotify
- Austen, Jane – Sense and Sensibility – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Auster, Paul – Free Stream – “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story”
- Auster, Paul – Free MP3 – The Red Notebook (read by the author)\
- Babel, Isaac – Free MP3 – “The Story of the Dovecote” (read by Nathan Englander) – Free MP3
- Babel, Isaac – “You Must Know Everything” – Free MP3
- Baldwin, James – “A Letter to My New Nephew” (read by Chris Rock) – YouTube
- Baldwin, James – The Story of Siegfried – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baldwin, James – Fifty Famous Stories Retold – Free MP3 Stream/Download
- Ballard, JG – “A Place and A Time to Die” (Dramatized version) – Free MP3 Stream
- Ballard, JG – “Track 12” and “Venus Smiles” – Free Stream
- Ballard, JG – Cocaine Nights – Free Stream
- Ballard, JG – “My Dream of Flying to Wake Island” (read by William Boyd) – Free MP3
- Ballard, JG – The Drowned World – Free Stream
- Ballard, JG – “The Stories of JG Ballard” (dramatized for radio) – Free Stream
- Balzac, Honoré de – La Comédie Humaine (French) – Free Downloads
- Balzac, Honoré de – Le Père Goriot – Free Stream/Download
- Balzac, Honoré de – The Peasant Story of Napoleon – Free MP3
- Barrie, JM – Peter Pan – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Barrodale, Amie – “William Wei” (read by James Franco) – Free MP3
- Barthelme, Donald – “Chablis” (read by Etgar Keret) – Free Stream
- Barthelme, Donald – “Concerning the Bodyguard” (read by Salman Rushdie) – Free MP3
- Barthelme, Donald – “Game” and “School” (read by T.C. Boyle) – Free MP3
- Barthelme, Donald – “I Bought a Little City” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Barthelme, Donald – “The Royal Treatment” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz (read by Tituss Burgess) – Free iTunes
- Baum, Frank L. – The Wizard of Oz (Vol 1) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – The Marvelous Land of Oz (Vol 2) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – Ozma of Oz (Vol 3) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (Vol 4) – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Baum, Frank L. – The Road to Oz (Vol 5) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – The Emerald City of Oz (Vol 6) – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Baum, Frank L. – The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Vol 7) – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Baum, Frank L. – Tik Tok of Oz (Vol 8) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, L. Frank – The Scarecrow of Oz (Vol 9) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, L. Frank – Rinkitink in Oz (Vol 10) – Free MP3
- Baum, L. Frank – The Lost Princess of Oz (Vol 11) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – The Tin Woodman of Oz (Vol 12) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – The Magic of Oz (Vol 13) – Free MP3
- Baum, Frank L. – Glinda of Oz (Vol 14) – Free MP3
- Beckett, Samuel – The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 – Free Audio Stream
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) – Real Player
- Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr) – Spotify
- Borges, Jorge Luis – ‘On Exactitude in Science’ – Free MP3/Stream
- Borges, Jorge Luis – Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (Read by Orhan Pamuk) – Free Stream
- Borges, Jorge Luis – Shakespeare’s Memory – Free Stream
- Borges, Jorge Luis – “The Book of Sand” – Free Stream
- Borges, Jorge Luis – The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) – Free Stream
- Boyle, T. Coraghessan – “The Shape of a Teardrop” (read by Boyle) – Free Stream
- Bradbury, Ray – Futuria Fantasia (a sci fi short story collected edited by Ray Bradbury) – Free Stream
- Bradbury, Ray – All Summer in a Day – Free Stream/MP3
- Bradbury, Ray – The Golden Apples of the Sun – Free Stream/MP3
- Bradbury, Ray – The Pedestrian – YouTube
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy – YouTube
- Bradbury, Ray – The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) – Spotify
- Bradbury, Ray – Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories – Free Stream
- Bradbury, Ray – “The Last Night of the World” – Soundcloud
- Brodkey, Harold – “Dumbness is Everything” (read by Michael Cunningham) – Free Stream
- Brodkey, Harold – “Spring Fugue” (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) – Free MP3
- Brodkey, Harold – “The State of Grace” (read by Richard Ford ) – Free Stream
- Bronte, Anne – Agnes Grey – Free iTunes
- Bronte, Charlotte – Jane Eyre – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Another Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Bronte, Charlotte – The Professor – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Bronte, Emily – Wuthering Heights – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Brown, Margaret Wise – Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) – YouTube
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson – The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) – Free iTunes
- Burroughs, William S. – Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) – Spotify
- Burroughs, William S. – “Ghosts of Chance” – YouTube
- Burroughs, William S. – Junky – MP3s
- Burroughs, William S. – Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) – Spotify
- Burroughs, William S. – The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs – Spotify
- Burroughs, William S. – “Thanksgiving Prayer” – YouTube
- Burroughs, William S. – The Road to the Western Lands – Spotify
- Calvino, Italo – Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – “Love Far from Home” (read by Salman Rushdie) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) – Free Stream
- Calvino, Italo – “The Daughters of the Moon” (read by Robert Coover) – Free Stream
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) – Multiple formats
- Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) – Stream/Spotify
- Carroll, Lewis – Sylvie and Bruno – Free MP3 – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Carroll, Lewis – Sylvie and Bruno Concluded – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Carroll, Lewis – The Game of Logic – Free iTunes
- Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Carroll, Lewis – Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway) – Spotify
- Carver, Raymond – “Cathedral” (read by James Naughton) – YouTube
- Carver, Raymond – “Chef’s House” (read by David Means) – Free MP3
- Carver, Raymond – “Fat” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
- Carver, Raymond – “The Students’ Wife (read by Richard Ford) – Free MP3
- Carver, Raymond – “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” (Read by Carver) – Free MP3
- Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de – Don Quixote – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here
- Chabon, Michael – “S. Angel” – Free Stream
- Chaucer, Geoffrey – Canterbury Tales – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Cheever, John – “The Death of Justina” (read by John Cheever) – Free Stream/Download
- Cheever, John ” The Enormous Radio” (read by Nathan Englander) – Free Stream
- Cheever, John – “The Reunion” (read by Richard Ford) – Free MP3
- Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Anne Enright) – Free MP3
- Cheever, John – “The Swimmer” (read by Cheever himself) – Free Stream
- Cheever, John – “The Five-Forty-Eight” (read by Mary Gaitskill) – Free Stream
- Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free MP3 Stream/Download
- Chekhov, Anton – “The Beauties” (read by Philip Pullman) – Free MP3
- Chesterton, G.K. – The Man Who Was Thursday – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Chekhov, Anton – Collected Stories – Free multiple formats
- Chekhov, Anton – “The First Class Passenger,” “Harmfulness of Tobacco” and “A Transgression” (Read by Michale Redgrave) – Spotify
- Chabon, Michael – “S Angel” (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Multiple Formats
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor’s New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave – Free Spotify
- Christian Andersen, Hans – Andersen’s Fairy Tales – Free MP3
- Christian Andersen, Hans – The Emperor’s New Clothes – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “A Walk in the Dark” (A dramatized version of the text) – Free MP3 Stream
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Breaking Strain” – YouTube
- Clarke, Arthur C. – Childhood’s End (Excerpts read by the author) – YouTube
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Hammer of God” – Free MP3
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Nine Billion Names of God” and “The Star” – Free Stream/Download
- Clarke, Arthur C. – “The Star” (Radio Drama) – Free Stream
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – Beyond the City – Free MP3
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson – Free Stream
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) – Spotify
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Mystery of Cloomber – Free MP3
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Return of Sherlock Holmes – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Conan Doyle, Arthur – The Speckled Band – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse) – Spotify
- Conrad, Joseph – Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles’ radio drama from 1938) – YouTube
- Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Agent – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer – Free MP3
- Conrad, Joseph – The Secret Sharer – YouTube
- Cooper, James Fenimore – Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef – Free MP3
- Cooper, James Fenimore – The Last of the Mohicans – Free iTunes – Free MP3– Free MP3 Zip File
- Crane, Stephen – The Open Boat – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Crane, Stephen – The Red Badge of Courage – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Alternate MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (English) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (Italian) – Free Stream from Princeton University
- Dante Alighieri – Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) – Free Stream/MP3
- Dante Alighieri – The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) – Spotify
- Danticat, Edwidge – Water Child (read by Junot Diaz) – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Danticat, Edwidge – “Seven” (read by Junot Diaz) – Free Stream
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free MP3 Zip file
- Free eBook available here.
- Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) – Spotify
- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee) – MP3
- DeLillo, Don – “The Itch” – Free Stream
- Diaz, Junot – “Alma” (read by Victor Rasuk) – YouTube
- Diaz, Junot – “How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)” – Free MP3
- Diaz, Junot – “The Cheaters Guide to Love” – YouTube
- Dick, Philip K. – “Beyond Lies the Wub” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “Mr. Spaceship” – Free iTunes – Free Stream & Download
- Dick, Philip K. – “Second Variety” – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Crystal Crypt” & “Beyond the Door” – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Defenders” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Eyes Have It” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Gun” – YouTube
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Hanging Stranger” – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K. – “The Skull” – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Dick, Philip K – “The Variable Man” – Free Stream – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dick, Philip K – “Tony and the Beetles” – MP3 Part 1 – MP3 Part II
- Dick, Philip K – Radio Plays – Stream
- Dickens, Charles – 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More – Free YouTube
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dickens, Charles – A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Stream
- Dickens, Charles – A Tale of Two Cities – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Bleak House – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Christmas Stories – Free MP3s
- Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Hard Times – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow) – Free Stream – Free MP3
- Dodge, Mary Mapes – Hans Brinker – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Crime and Punishment – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – Notes from the Underground – Free MP3
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Brothers Karamazov – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man – Free Stream/Download
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Gambler – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Idiot – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor – The Possessed – Free MP3
- Doyle, Roddy – “Bullfighting” (Read by Dave Eggers) – Free MP3
- Dr Who Audio Dramas – Spotify
- Dreiser, Theodore – Sister Carrie – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Comte de Monte Cristo – Free iTunes – Free MP3s – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Eliot, George – Silas Marner – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Eliot, George – Middlemarch – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Eliot, T.S. – The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) – Free Spotify
- Erdich, Louise – “The Stone” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Faulkner, William – “Shingles for the Lord” – Free Stream
- Faulkner, William – Faulkner Reads Faulkner – Free Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Bernice Bobs Her Hair – Free iTunes – Free MP3s/Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Flappers and Philosophers – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – Tales of the Jazz Age – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Beautiful and Damned – Free iTunes – Free MP3s/Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby – Free Stream
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – This Side of Paradise – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Flaubert, Gustave – Madame Bovary – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Flaubert, Gustave – Three Short Works
- Ford, Richard – “Displaced” (Read by Richard Ford)
- Forster, E.M. – A Room with a View – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Forster, E. M. – Howards End – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Forster, E.M. – “The Machine Stops” – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) – Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “A Study in Emerald” – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – “How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties” – Free MP3
- Gaiman, Neil – “Orange” (read live) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “Other People” (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Video
- Gaiman, Neil – “Troll Bridge” (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) – Free iTunes
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury” (read by Neil Gaiman) – Free Stream
- Gaiman, Neil – “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains” – Free MP3
- Gaitskill, Mary – “The Other Place” (read by Jennifer Egan) – Free MP3
- Geng, Veronica – “Love Trouble Is My Business” (read by Jonathan Franzen) – Free MP3
- Gogol, Nikolai – Dead Souls – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Gogol, Nikolai – “The Nose” – Free MP3
- Gogol, Nikolai – The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
- Gordimer, Nadine – “A Style of Her Own” and “The Bridegroom” (read by the author, 1961) – Free Stream/Download
- Gordimer, Nadine – “City Lovers” (read by Tessa Hadley) – Free MP3
- Gordimer, Nadine – “Loot” (read by author) – YouTube
- Gordimer, Nadine – “The Pet” (read by Joseph O’Neill) – Free Stream
- Grahame, Kenneth – The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) – YouTube
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – House of the Seven Gables – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – Rappaccini’s Daughter – Free Stream
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The Scarlet Letter – Spotify
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel – “Wakefield” (Read by Paul Auster) – YouTube
- Hayden, Julie – “Day-Old Baby Rats” (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3
- Heinlein, Robert – Methuselah’s Children (abridged) – Free Stream/MP3
- Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) – YouTube
- Hemingway, Ernest – Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway – Free Stream
- Hemingway, Ernest – Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) – Free MP3
- Hemingway, Ernest – “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” (a short story read by Hemingway: .au format, .gsm format, .ra format)
- Hemingway, Ernest – “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (read by Charleston Heston) – Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4
- Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha – Free MP3 – Spotify
- Hitchcock, Alfred – Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People – Spotify
- Homer, The Iliad (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hughes, Langston – “Simple on Indian Blood”(read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “A Toast to Harlem” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “Last Whipping” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hughes, Langston – “Feet Live Their Own Life” (read by Ossie Davis) – Free Stream
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1 – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables – Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles – Multiple formats
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) – Spotify
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) – Free Stream
- Huxley, Aldous – Crome Yellow – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Irving, Washington – Rip Van Winkle – Free MP3
- Irving, Washington – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- James, Henry – Daisy Miller – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- James, Henry – “Greville Fane” (read by Cynthia Ozick) – Free Stream/Download
- James, Henry – The Turn of the Screw – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Johnson, Denis – “Emergency” (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3
- Joyce, James – A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Free eBook available here.
- Joyce, James – Chamber Music – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – Dubliners – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream – Free on Spotify
- Joyce, James – “Eveline” (read by Sebastian Barry) – Free MP3
- Joyce, James – Finnegans Wake – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” – Free MP3 Zip File
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) – Free Stream
- Joyce, James – “The Dead” (Read by Bart Wolffe) – Spotify
- Joyce, James – Ulysses – Free Stream Various Formats
- Free eBook available here.
- July, Miranda – “Ron Spivey” (read by David Sedaris) – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “A Little Fable” (Read by David Foster Wallace) – Free Stream
- Kafka, Franz – “A Hunger Artist” (read by Hanif Kureishi) – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “Before the Law” – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – “In the Penal Colony – Free MP3
- Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Free Stream – Spotify
- Free eBook available here.
- Karloff, Boris – Tales of the Frightened – YouTube
- Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc — 18 Hours of Beat Readings – Spotify
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Figures in the Distance” (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) – Free MP3
- Kincaid, Jamaica – “Girl” and “Wingless” (read by Edwidge Danticat) – Free Stream
- King, Stephen – “Afterlife” – YouTube
- Kipling, Rudyard – Kim – Free iTunes
- Kipling, Rudyard – Just So Stories for Little Children – Free iTunes – Free MP3/Stream
- Kipling, Rudyard – Rikki-Tikki-Tavi – Free MP3
- Kipling, Rudyard – “The Elephant’s Child” – Free MP3
- Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Story – Free MP3 Zip File
- L’Heureux, John – “Three Short Moments in a Long Life” – Free MP3 Stream
- Lahiri, Jhumpa – “Casting Shadows” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 Zip File
- Lawrence, D.H. – A Woman and Her Dead Husband – Free MP3
- Le Guin, Ursula – “The End” (Dramatized version) – Free MP3 Stream
- Leroux, Gaston – The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) – Spotify
- Lethem, Jonathan – “The Afterlife” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Lewis, C.S. – The Chronicles of Narnia – Free MP3s
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- The Silver Chair
- The Horse and His Boy
- The Magician’s Nephew
- The Last Battle
- Lewis, C.S. – Spirits in Bondage – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Lewis, C.S. – The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) – YouTube
- Lewis, Sinclair – Babbit – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Lewis, Sinclair – It Can’t Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) – YouTube
- Lewis, Sinclair – Main Street – Free MP3s – Free iTunes
- London, Jack – Call of the Wild – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- London, Jack – The Heathen – Free MP3
- London, Jack -To Build a Fire – Free MP3
- London, Jack – White Fang – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Call of of Cthulhu (Read by Garrick Hagan) – Free YouTube – Free Stream Part 1 – Free Stream Part 2
- Lovecraft, H.P – The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories – Spotify
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) – Free
- Lovecraft, H.P. – The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft – Free Mp3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Lucretius – On the Nature of Things – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
- Lu Xun – A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
- Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice – Free MP3s/Download
- McCabe, Eugene – Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) – Free MP3
- McCann, Colum – “Transatlantic” (read by author) – Free MP3
- McEwan, Ian – “My Purple Scented Novel” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) – Free Stream/Download
- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities – SoundCloud
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- Milton, John – On His Blindness – Free MP3
- Multiple Authors – 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin – Spotify
- Multiple Authors – 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin – Spotify
- Multiple Authors – French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin – Spotify
- Nabokov, Vladimir – The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) – Free Stream
- Nash, Ogden – Christmas with Ogden Nash – Spotify
- Nash, Ogden – Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash – Spotify
- Neruda, Pablo – First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) – Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo – First Poetry Reading in English (1971) – Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo – Birth (Read by Neruda) – Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo – Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) – Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo – Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda – Spotify
- O’Hara, Frank – Animals (read by Zadie Smith) – Free Stream
- Oliver, Mary – “The Summer Day,” “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night,” “Many Miles” and “Night and the River” (read by the author) – YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia – Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) – YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia – Ariel (read by author) – YouTube Stream
- Plath, Sylvia – A Birthday Present (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
- Plath, Sylvia – Daddy (read by author) – YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia – Fever 103 (read by the author) – YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia – Lady Lazarus (read by author) – YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia – Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) – SoundCould
- Plath, Sylvia – Spinster – Soundcloud
- Plath, Sylvia – The Applicant (read by the author) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – Annabel Lee – Free MP3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven – Free MP3
- Pope, Alexander – Nature and Art – Free Stream
- Pope, Alexander – The Quiet Life – Free Stream
- Pound, Ezra – Cantico del sole – Free MP3 [text]
- Pound, Ezra – Canto XVII (“So that the vine burst from my fingers’) – Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra – Canto XXX – Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra – Canto XLV – Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra – Canto LVI – Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra – Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) – Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra – Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) – YouTube
- Pound, Ezra – The Seafarer (read by author) – Free MP3
- Rexroth, Kenneth – “One Hundred Poems from the Chinese” and “In Defense of the Earth” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Rich, Adrienne – Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
- Rich, Adrienne – “Planetarium” (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) – Soundcloud
- Rich, Adrienne – “Power” (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) – Soundcloud
- Rich, Adrienne – What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) – Soundcloud
- Rimbaud, Arthur – Illuminations – Free MP3 Zip File
- Rumi – Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks – YouTube/Soundcloud
- Sandburg, Carl – A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg – Spotify
- Sandburg, Carl – Chicago – Free Stream
- Sandburg, Carl – The People Yes – Spotify
- Sassoon, Siegfried – Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) – YouTube
- Sexton, Anne – Waiting to Die (read by author) – YouTube
- Sexton, Anne – “Her Kind,” “The Ambition Bird,” “Ringing the Bells,” “Music Swims Back to Me,” and “The Truth the Dead Know” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne – “With Mercy for the Greedy,” “The Starry Night,” “Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound,” and “Self in 1958,” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne – Divorce, Thy Name is Woman,” “Gods Making a Living,” “Jesus Cooks,” “Jesus Walking,” and “The Fury of Overshoes” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne – “Rowing,” “Riding the Elevator Into the Sky,” “The Play,” “The Rowing Endeth,” “Us,” and “The Touch” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne – What’s That – Spotify
- Schiller, Friedrich – Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski – Spotify
- Shakespeare, William – Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Free MP3s
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Adonais – Free MP3
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Ozymandias of Egypt – Free MP3
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Ozymandias (read by Bryan Cranston) – Free YouTube
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) – Free Spotify
- Smith, Patti – Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) – YouTube
- Smith, Patti – Reading of 12 Poems From “Seventh Heaven” (1972) – YouTube
- Stein, Gertrude – A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) – Free MP3
- Stevens, Wallace – “Credences of Summer” and “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” (read by the author) – Free Stream/Download
- Stevens, Wallace – “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain,” and “Vacancy in the Park” (read by the author) – .au format – .gsm format –.ra format
- Stevens, Wallace – To an Old Philosopher in Rome (read by the author) – Free MP3
- Szymborska, Wisława — Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) – Soundcloud
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – Break, Break, Break – Free MP3
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Charge of the Light Brigade – Free MP3/Stream – Quicktime – RealPlayer
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Lotos-Eaters – Free MP3
- Thomas, Dylan – Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry – Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan – Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden – Free
- Thomas, Dylan – An Evening with Dylan Thomas – Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan – Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas – Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan – Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait’ and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) – YouTube
- Thomas, Dylan – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
- Thomas, Dylan – Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the Sir Anthony Hopkins) – Free YouTube
- Thomas, Dylan – The Wild West (read by the author) – Free MP3/Stream
- Thomas, Dylan – Under Milk Wood (read by the author) – Part 1 – Part 2
- Updike, John – Rainbow (read by author) – Free Stream
- Valéry, Paul – “Fragment Du Narcisse” (read by author) – Free Stream
- Virgil – Aeneid – Free MP3 Zip Download
- Whitman, Walt – O Captain! My Captain! – Free MP3
- Whitman, Walt – Leaves of Grass – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself and Other Poems – Free Stream/MP3
- Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) – Free Stream/Download
- Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) – Free Stream
- Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) – Free Stream
- Whitman, Walt – Song of Myself (read by Eric Forsythe/U. of Iowa) – Free Stream
- Wilbur, Richard – A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) – Free Stream/Download
- Wilde, Oscar – The Ballad of Reading Gaol – Free MP3/Stream
- Williams, Tennessee – Selected Poems – Free Stream/Download
- Williams, Willam Carlos – Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) – Free MP3
- Williams, William Carlos – 39 Poems Read for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945 – Free MP3
- Williams, William Carlos – The Red Wheelbarrow, Tract, The Defective Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coronal, To Elsie, The Wind Increases, Classic Scene (read by poet 1954) – Free
- Wordsworth, William – Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) – YouTube
- Wordsworth, William – The Last of the Flock – Free MP3
- Wordsworth, William – Solitary Reaper – Free MP3
- Wordsworth, William – Tintern Abbey – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – William Butler Reads His Own Work – Spotify
- Yeats, William Butler – The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) – YouTube
- Yeats, William Butler – Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – Byzantium – Real Media
- Yeats, William Butler – Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by the author) – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by Anthony Hopkins) – YouTube
- Yeats, William Butler – Sailing to Byzantium – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – The Cold Heaven – Free Stream/MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – The Fiddler of Dooney (read by the author) – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – The Song of the Old Mother (read by the author) – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) – YouTube
- Yeats, William Butler – When You Are Old – Free MP3
- Yeats, William Butler – When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) – YouTube
Non-Fiction
- Amis, Martin – “Phantom of the Opera“
- Aristotle – Poetics (MP3 download)
- Aristotle – Politics (MP3 download full zip file)
- Aristotle – Physics
- Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) – Spotify
- 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)
- Berger, John – Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)
- Berkeley, George – A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)
- Burke, Edmund – A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)
- Burke, Edmund – Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)
- Burroughs, William S. – Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)
- Burroughs, William S. – Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)
- Camus, Albert – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)
- Camus, Albert – The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) – YouTube
- Camus, Albert – Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) – YouTube
- Campbell, Joseph – 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures – Spotify
- Carroll, Lewis – Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)
- Carroll, Lewis – The Game of Logic (Free MP3)
- Channing, Edward – A Short History of the United States (full zip file)
- Chomsky, Noam – 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)
- 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)
- Free eBook available here.
- 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 – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)
- Douglass, Frederick – A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)
- Douglass, Frederick – The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) – YouTube
- Dubois, W.E.B. – The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)
- Duchamp, Marcel – The Creative Act (YouTube)
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo – History (MP3 download)
- Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)
- Einstein, Albert – Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)
- Einstein, Albert – Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)
- Faulkner, William – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)
- Foster Wallace, David – “Consider the Lobster” (Stream)
- Foster Wallace, David – This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)
- Foster Wallace, David – The View from Mrs Thompson’s (read by the author)
- Freud, Sigmund – Dream Psychology – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Freud, Sigmund – A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Freud, Sigmund – The Interpretation of Dreams – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Freud, Sigmund – Psychopathology of Everyday Life – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Freud, Sigmund – Reflections on War and Death – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Freud, Sigmund – Totem and Taboo – MP3 Zip File Download – Free Stream
- Fuller, Buckminster – Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind – Spotify
- Fuller, Buckminster – Everything I Know (Lecture Series) – Free Stream
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel – “The Solitude of Latin America” (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)
- 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)
- Goethe – Theory of Colors (MP3s)
- Grant, Ulysses S. – The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)
- Harding, Samuel – The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)
- Henry, Patrick – Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)
- Henry, Patrick – Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)
- Hitchcock, Alfred – Alfred Hitchcock Interviews – Spotify
- Hogben, Julie Margaret – “When the Doorman is Your Main Man” (Read by Cecily Strong) – Stream Online
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell – The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)
- Huxley, Aldous – Speaking Personally – (Spotify)
- Huxley, Aldous – The Visionary Experience – (MP3 stream)
- James, William – The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)
- Jefferson, Thomas – The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)
- Jobs, Steve – Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)
- Kandinsky, Wassily – Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)
- Kaufmann, Walter – Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)
- Lessig, Lawrence – Free Culture
- Lincoln, Abraham – Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
- Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)
- Macauley, Thomas – History of England (Librivox)
- Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)
- Marx, Karl – The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)
- McCleod, Ken – Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)
- McLuhan, Marshall – The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)
- Mill, John Stuart – Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)
- Morrison, Toni – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Ecce Homo (full zip file)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich – Twilight of the Idols (full zip)
- Nin, Anais – The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)
- Paine, Thomas – Common Sense (mp3 download)
- Plato – The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)
- Plato – The Republic (iTunes) + Free Stream/MP3
- Roosevelt, Theodore – Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques – A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)
- Russell, Bertrand – ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)
- Russell, Bertrand – Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)
- Sedaris, David – Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)
- The Senate Intelligence Committee – The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)
- Smith, Adam – A Wealth of Nations Book 1 and Books 2 & 3 (full zip download)
- Steinbeck, John – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)
- Strathern, Paul – Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)
- Sun-tzu – The Art of War (mp3 download)
- Thoreau, Henry David – Walden (mp3 download)
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)
- Tocqueville, Alexis de – Democracy in America Part 1 and Part 2 (full zip download)
- Various – The Federalist Papers Rss Feed
- Various – The US Constitution Stream
- Voltaire – Candide (mp3 download)
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)
- Wiesel, Elie – Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)
- Wilde, Oscar – De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig – Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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