Drake LRC COVID-19 Distance Learning: Audiobooks

A place to find free public domain audio books and eBooks. You can explore over 100,000 Kindle, ePUB, and audio books using their free bookshelves.

Librivox is a non-profit initiative to record public domain books and release them as free audiobooks.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads.

Mind Webs was a perfectly-executed, haunting old-time radio dramatization of over 150 of the most classic science fiction short stories. You’ll find free science fiction stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, Kurt Vonnegut, and H.G. Wells, among others through the Internet Archive website.

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.

Enjoy ebooks and audiobooks for free through your local public library.

Project Gutenberg is the classic site for free books that are in the public domain. And now, their section on human-read free audiobooks offers an even wider collection of books.

Scribl is a great option for newer releases, with many of the books read by the authors themselves. This website contains free and cheaper audiobooks.

Check out Spotify’s “Audiobooks” playlist for a list of audiobooks that are always being added to by the service. Spotify is free with ads.