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- Brown, Margaret Wise – Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) – YouTube
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- Burroughs, William S. – Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) – Spotify
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- Chopin, Kate – Selected Stories – Multiple Formats
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- Clarke, Arthur C. – “Breaking Strain” – YouTube
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- Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy (English) – Free iTunes – Free MP3
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- 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
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- DeLillo’s, Don – “Baader-Meinhof” (read by Chang-rae Lee) – MP3
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- Diaz, Junot – “Alma” (read by Victor Rasuk) – YouTube
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- 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
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- Dickens, Charles – “The Christmas Tree” (Read by Simon Callow) – Free Stream – Free MP3
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- Ford, Richard – “Displaced” (Read by Richard Ford)
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Hugo, Victor – Les Misérables Vol. 1 – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Hugo, Victor – The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Lawrence, D.H. – Everlasting Flowers – Free MP3 Zip File
- Lawrence, D.H. – A Woman and Her Dead Husband – Free MP3
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- 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
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- Free eBook available here.
- Lewis, Sinclair – It Can’t Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) – YouTube
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- Free eBook available here.
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- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth – Selected Works – Free iTunes – Free MP3
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- 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
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- Melville, Herman – Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities – SoundCloud
- Melville, Herman – Typee – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Miller, Arthur – Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman – Spotify
- Miller Jr, Walter M. – A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) – Free Stream
- Miller, William – Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) – YouTube
- Milne, A.A. – Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) – Free iTunes
- Milton, John – Paradise Lost – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Milton, John – Paradise Regained – Free MP3 Zip File
- Montgomery, Lucy Maud – Anne of Green Gables – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Moore, Lorrie – “Paper Losses” (read by Gary Shteyngart) – Free Stream
- Munro, Alice – “Axis” – Free MP3
- Murakami, Haruki – “Barn Burning” – Free Stream
- Murakami, Haruki – “On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning” – Free Stream
- Murakami, Haruki – “U.F.O. in Kushiro” – Free Stream
- Nabokov, Vladimir – My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) – Free MP3
- Nabokov, Vladimir – “Pnin” – Free Stream
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Signs and Symbols – Free iTunes
- Nabokov, Vladimir – Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems – Spotify
- Nin, Anais – “Under a Glass Bell” (Read by the author) – YouTube
- Northup, Solomon – Twelve Years a Slave – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- NPR – Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama – YouTube
- O’Connor, Flannery – “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” (Read by author in 1959) – Stream/Download
- O’Connor, Flannery – “Everything That Rises Must Converge” (Read by Estelle Parsons) – YouTube
- O’Connor, Flannery – “Revelation” (Read by Studs Terkel) – Stream
- O’Connor, Frank – “The Man of the World” (read by Julian Barnes) MP3
- O Henry, The Gift of the Magi – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Oates, Joyce Carol – “Mastiff” (read by Louise Erdrich) – Free Stream
- Oates, Joyce Carol -“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Orwell, George – 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) – Free Stream
- Orwell, George – 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) – Soundcloud
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm – Spotify version
- Orwell, George – Homage to Catalonia – Chapter 1 here – Remaining Chapters here
- Oz, Amos – “The King of Norway” (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) – Free Stream
- Ozick, Cynthia – “The Shawl” (read by Joyce Carol Oates) – Free Stream
- Paley, Grace – “Love” (read by George Saunders) – Free Stream
- Plath, Sylvia – Three Women (a radio play) – Free Stream
- Poe, Edgar Allan – 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone – Spotify
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Essential Edgar Allan Poe – Spotify
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 1 – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 2 – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 3 – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 4 – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Complete Works Vol. 5 – Free iTunes – Free Stream/Download
- Poe, Edgar Allan – “The Masque of the Red Death” and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) – Free YouTube Audio
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Cask of Amontillado – Free MP3/Stream
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) – Spotify
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Pit and the Pendulum – Free MP3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven – Free MP3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Stan Lee) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by John Astin) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) – SoundCloud
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Vincent Price) – YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) – YouTube
- Alternate version read by actor John de Lancie (video)
- Free eBook available here.
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart – Free MP3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) – Free YouTube Audio
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) – Free YouTube Audio
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) – Free Stream
- Porter, Eleanor – Pollyanna – Free MP3 Zip File
- Price, Vincent – The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) – Free YouTube
- Pritchett, V.S. – The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) – Free Stream
- Prokofiev, Sergei – Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) – Spotify
- Proust, Marcel – À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) – Free Stream
- Pushkin, Alexander – Eugene Onegin – Free MP3 Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Ratcliffe, Stephen – Continuum – Free MP3 Stream
- Rand, Ayn – Anthem – Spotify
- Remarque, Erich Maria – All Quiet on the Western Front – Free Stream
- Rushdie, Salman – “The Little King” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Rushdie, Salman – “The Old Man in the Piazza” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Ruskin, John – The Golden River – Free MP3
- Safran Foer, Jonathan – “Love is Blind and Deaf” – Video Animation
- Saramago, José – “The Centaur” (Read by Nadine Gordimer) – Free MP3
- Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) – Free Stream
- Saunders, George – “Elliott Spencer” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Saunders, George – “Ghoul” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Saunders, George – “Love Letter” (read by the author) – Free Stream
- Sedaris, David – “The Mouse and the Snake” from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary – Free MP3 – Web site
- Sedaris, David – “Six to Eight Black Men” from the album ‘Live at Carnegie Hall’ – YouTube Audio
- Sedaris, David – “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle”from When You Are Engulfed in Flames – Free MP3
- Sendak, Maurice – Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) – YouTube
- Seuss, Dr. – Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) – YouTube
- Seuss, Dr. – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) – Spotify
- Seuss, Dr. – How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) – YouTube
- Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Schwartz, Delmore – “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” (Read by Lou Reed) – Free Stream
- Shakespeare, William – A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare’s Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More – Free on Spotify
- Shakespeare, William – 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio – Free Stream
- Shakespeare, William – All’s Well Ends Well – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Shakespeare, William – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – Antony and Cleopatra – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Shakespeare, William – As You Like It – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free Mp3 Zip File
- Shakespeare, William – Comedy of Errors – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
- Shakespeare, William – Coriolanus – Free iTunes – Free Stream – Free MP3 Zip File
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- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet (French translation by Marcel Pagnol) – Spotify – YouTube
- Shakespeare, William – Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) – Spotify + Archive.org
- Shakespeare, William – Julius Caesar – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – King Lear – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) – Free Spotify
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- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Shakespeare, William – The Sonnets – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Shakespeare, William – The Sonnets (read by Sir John Gielgud) – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- Shakespeare, William – The Tragedy of MacBeth – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Shaw, George Bernard – Pygmalion – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) – Free iTunes
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Also check out the 1930s radio adaptation.
- Free eBook available here.
- Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) – Spotify
- Shepard, Sam – “Indianapolis (Highway 74)” read by Dave Eggers – Free Stream
- Silverstein, Shel – The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) – YouTube
- Silverstein, Shel – The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) – YouTube
- Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis – Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) – Free MP3
- Smith, Zadie – “Escape from New York” (read by Zadie Smith) – Free Audio Stream
- Stein, Gertrude – If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso – Free MP3
- Stein, Gertrude – Matisse – Free MP3
- Stein, Gertrude – The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot – Free MP3
- Stein, Gertrude – The Making of Americans – Free MP3
- Steinbeck, John – “The Snake” and “Johnny Bear” – Free Stream – Spotify
- Sterne, Laurence – The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Free Stream: Vol 1. – Vol 2. – Vol 3. – Vol 4.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) – Spotify
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) – Spotify
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula – Free iTunes
- See alternative version here. (full zip file)
- Stoker, Bram – Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) – Spotify
- Stone, Tanya Lee – The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) – YouTube
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher – Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- Thayer, Ernest Lawrence – Casey at the Bat – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Thomas, Dylan – A Child’s Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) – Youtube
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina – Free Stream
- Tolstoy, Leo – Anna Karenina –
- Book 1 – Free Zip File
- Book 2 – Free Zip File
- Book 3 – Free Zip File
- Book 4 – Free Zip File
- Book 5 – Free Zip File
- Book 6 – Free Zip File
- Book 7 – Free Zip File
- Book 8 – Free Zip File
- Tolstoy, Leo – Five Short Stories – Spotify
- Tolstoy, Leo – Selected Short Stories – Free Stream/MP3
- Tolstoy, Leo – What Men Live By and Other Tales – Free iTunes
- Tolstoy, Leo – War & Peace Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9 (Zip Files)
- Free eBook available here.
- Tolstoy, Leo – Selected Short Stories – Free Multiple formats
- Wells, Tower – “Leopard” (Read by David Sedaris) – Free MP3 Stream
- Trollope, Anthony – Barchester Towers – Free MP3 Zip File
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Multiple versions here
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Spotify version
- Twain, Mark – The Prince and the Pauper – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Unknown – Epic of Gilgamesh – Free iTunes
- Unknown – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – Free MP3 Zip File
- Updike, John – “Playing with Dynamite” (read by Roger Angell) – Free MP3
- Updike, John – “A & P.” (read by Allegra Goodman) – Free MP3
- Updike, John – “The City” (read by John Updike) – Free Stream
- Updike, John – “The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd” – YouTube
- Updike, John – “Twin Beds in Rome” – Free Stream
- Verne, Jules – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Free MP3 Zip File – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Verne, Jules – Around the World in 80 Days – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Verne, Jules – Mysterious Island – Free iTunes
- Verne, Jules – The Master of the World – Free MP3
- Voltaire – Candide – Free MP3
- Vonnegut, Kurt – 2BR02B – Free MP3
- Vonnegut, Kurt – “Harrison Bergeron” – Free MP3
- Vonnegut, Kurt – The Big Trip Up Yonder – Free MP3
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse 5, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) – Spotify
- Vonnegut, Kurt – “The Drone” – Free Stream
- Vonnegut, Kurt – The Soldier’s Story (as a radio opera) – Free Stream
- Wallace, David Foster – “Good People” – Free Stream
- Wallace, David Foster – “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s” (read by DFW) – Free MP3
- Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) – Stream
- Welles, Orson – “The Shadow” radio drama (Performed by Welles) – Free MP3
- Wells, HG – The Invisible Man- Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Free eBook available here.
- Wells, HG – Magic Shop – Free Stream
- Wells, HG – Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) – Free iTunes
- Wells, HG – Time Machine – Free iTunes – Free Stream
- Free eBook available here.
- Wells, HG – Time Machine (dramatized version) – Spotify
- Wells, HG – The War of the Worlds – Free iTunes
- Free eBook available here.
- Wells, HG – The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) – Stream
- Wells, HG – The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) – Spotify
- Welty, Eudora – “The Wide Net” (read by the author) – YouTube – Cornell Web Site
- Welty, Eudora – “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” (read by Joyce Carol Oates) – MP3
- Welty, Eudora – “Why I Live at the P.O.” – YouTube
- Wharton, Edith – The Age of Innocence – Free iTunes
- Wharton, Edith – The Fulness of Life – Free MP3
- Wilde, Oscar – The Happy Prince – Free MP3
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) – Free
- Wilde, Oscar – The Importance of Being Earnest – Free MP3
- Free eBook available here.
- Wilde, Oscar – The Picture of Dorian Gray – Free iTunes – Free MP3s
- Free eBook available here.
- Wolff, Tobias – “Bullet in the Brain” (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)
- Wolff, Tobias – “The Night in Question” (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)
- Woolf, Virginia – “A Haunted House” – Free MP3 – Free iTunes
- Woolf, Virginia, – Jacob’s Room – MP3 Zip File – Free Stream
- Woolf, Virginia – The Voyage Out – Free Stream
- Woolf, Virginia – The Short Stories – Spotify
- Wyss, Johann David – The Swiss Family Robinson – Free MP3 Zip File
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