Gloucester City Library

Free Audiobooks Online

Get information on Overdrive downloadable audiobooks here.

You may also be interested in our main Books and Reading page, plus our pages on Children's Literature and Ebooks

• Ancient Faith Radio - contains a complete audio version of the Chronicles of Narnia series

• AudioBooksForFree  - recorded by professional actors and narrators

• Audio Literature Odyssey - stories and books narrated by a professional voice-actor

• Booksfree - their selection of free, downloadable audiobooks

• Books Should Be Free

• Candlelight Stories - audiobooks for adults and children, presented in podcast form

• Clarkesworld - science fiction in audio

• Cthulhu - podcast featuring readings of H. P. Lovecraft, plus horror and ghost stories by other authors

• Ejunto - historical and philosophical audiobooks

• Escape Pod - podcast featuring short science fiction stories by current authors

• Free Audio Books

• GRE Audiobooks - this literature podcast contains audio books of everything you’ll need to read for the GRE subject test, plus podcasts to help you study GRE vocabulary

• Internet Archive - audiobook and poetry section

• Internet Reading Cooperative - many selections less than an hour long, including articles and essays from publications such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and New York Times

• Kids Audio Books - many of these are from records made in the 1940's and 50's, narrated by stars of the day (for example, Dumbo narrated by Shirley Temple and Bugs Bunny stories narrated by Mel Blanc)

• L.A. Theatre Works Radio Theatre - full cast recordings in podcast form

• LearnOutLoud.com - free non-fiction and self-help audiobooks

  • Kids LearnOutLoud

• Librophile

• Librivox.org - free online audiobooks, read by volunteers

• Lit2Go - from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse; download MP3s or use iTunes

• Literal Systems - a Santa Fe, New Mexico group that creates original audiobook recordings

• Mark Maxon's Travel Writing 

• Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast - the world's greatest short stories, the known treasures and the once-forgotten (not for children)

• OpenCulture.com - gathers links to free audiobooks and literary podcasts from around the web, in Audible, MP3 and iTunes format

• PeopleTalk - audio books, stories and documentaries from a group of British actors, writers, and entertainers

• Podcastle - the fantasy fiction podcast

• Podiobooks - serialized audiobooks, delivered on your schedule

• Project Gutenberg - select Audio Book in the "category" drop-down box on this Advanced Search page

• Pulp Daily - action and adventure stories from classic pulp era magazines

• Sci Fi Serial - a daily narrated short story or book chapter

• Stories Now - Sherlock Holmes, fairy tales, science fiction, classic radio drama, and works suitable for children

• The Story Home - original and classic children's stories in podcast form; also available through an iphone app

• The Story Spieler - literature chosen and narrated by a retired tv and radio broadcaster

• Storynory - free audio stories for kids

• Talking Book Store - their selection of free, downloadable audiobooks

• Telltale Weekly

• Thought Audio

• Voices in the Dark

Links checked 2/15/12

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