Classic Audiobook Collection

Billie Bradley and the School Mystery by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery Back at Three Towers Hall on the shores of Lake Molata, outspoken Billie Bradley is ready for a new term with her best friends, Violet and Laura, until a sudden accident changes everything. On a goldenrod-picking hike, Billie slips into a life-threatening predicament and is saved by Edina Tooker, a new student from...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: drama On a bitter Christmas Eve in Victorian London, the hard-fisted moneylender Ebenezer Scrooge insists that warmth and generosity are foolish luxuries. He snaps at his cheerful nephew, refuses charity for the poor, and grudgingly gives his overworked clerk, Bob Cratchit, only the barest holiday allowance. But when night falls, Scrooge's loc...

Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy On a quiet afternoon, young Alice follows an unusually hurried White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and tumbles into Wonderland, a place where logic bends, language plays tricks, and nothing stays the same size for long. As Alice tries to make sense of her strange surroundings, she navigates a cascade of bewildering encounters:...

Billie Bradley and Her Classmates by Janet D. Wheeler audiobook. Genre: mystery At Three Towers Hall, Billie Bradley and her best friends, Violet Farrington and Laura Jordon, expect a winter term filled with skating parties, lessons, and laughter. But when an afternoon on Lake Molata turns into a desperate rescue of three little children who have fallen through thin ice, Billie is drawn into the h...

Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce audiobook. Genre: poetry Pomes Penyeach is James Joyce's compact, meticulously crafted collection of thirteen poems - a small book with an outsized emotional reach. Moving through city streets, coastal landscapes, and intimate rooms, Joyce traces the shifting weather of desire, memory, and loneliness with a lyric voice that is at once musical and sharply observant. Th...

A Token for Children by James Janeway audiobook. Genre: religion First published in the late seventeenth century, James Janeway's A Token for Children is a classic work of Puritan devotion written to speak directly to young listeners and their families. Framed as a series of brief accounts, the book gathers stories of boys and girls whose short lives are marked by earnest faith, searching self-exa...

Captives of the Thieve-Star by James H. Schmitz audiobook. Genre: scifi Newly married and newly rich in trouble, Peer and Channok are small-time space operators with a talent for finding the wrong kind of salvage. A simple plan to spirit away their latest haul turns into a nightmare when they grapple a drifting derelict, the Ra-Twelve, and discover they have latched onto a prize someone else is de...

The Green Girl by Jack Williamson audiobook. Genre: scifi On May 4, 1999, the sun goes dark at noon and Earth begins to slide toward a new Ice Age. In a quiet Florida cottage, young Melvin Dane has only one refuge from the panic spreading across the world: his brilliant foster father, Dr. Samuel Walden, a scientist who has been preparing for an attack no one else believes is possible. Walden has b...

You Cant Win by Jack Black audiobook. Genre: biography First published in 1926, You Cant Win is the hard-edged, darkly funny autobiography of Jack Black, a drifter and career thief who came of age in the American West during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Told in a blunt, conversational voice, Black traces his early fascination with the underworld, the mentors who school him in the craft of steal...

The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresford audiobook. Genre: scifi In a quiet English village in Hampdenshire, the birth of Victor, the son of humble farm laborers, should be an ordinary event. Instead, from his earliest days Victor displays a strange, unsettling difference - a mind that seems to operate on a level no one around him can name, explain, or comfortably accept. As the boy grows, local...

White Jacket by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Herman Melville's White-Jacket plunges listeners into the cramped, wind-whipped world of a U.S. Navy frigate at sea, where discipline is as relentless as the ocean. The story follows an intelligent, observant sailor known for the makeshift white coat he wears, a small act of individuality that quickly becomes a mark of identity in a float...

The Encantadas Or Enchanted Isles by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Herman Melville's The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles is a sequence of vivid, sea-borne sketches that carries listeners to the Galapagos Islands, a place sailors call enchanted not for comfort, but for the way it unsettles the mind. Guided by a narrator who moves between travelogue, legend, and meditation, the book sur...

The Confidence-Man - His Masquerade by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: philosophy On April Fool's Day, a steamboat pushes off from St. Louis and heads down the Mississippi, carrying a cross-section of antebellum America: merchants, widows, gamblers, clerks, reformers, and dreamers, all enclosed together in a floating marketplace of stories and schemes. As the day unfolds, a series of persuasive...

Redburn - His First Voyage by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure In Redburn - His First Voyage, Herman Melville follows Wellingborough Redburn, a sheltered young man from New York who, faced with family hardship and a restless need to prove himself, signs on as a common sailor aboard a merchant ship bound for Liverpool. Armed with little more than a few boyish notions of the sea and an ol...

Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama In Pierre, or The Ambiguities, Herman Melville follows Pierre Glendinning, a young heir raised amid privilege and rigid expectations in rural New York. Poised to inherit status, security, and a conventional future, Pierre's life is unsettled when a mysterious young woman appears with a story that threatens to rewrite everything...

Billy Budd by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: drama On the eve of war with revolutionary France, the British navy is stretched thin, and suspicion of mutiny hangs over every deck. Into this tense world steps Billy Budd, a young sailor pressed into service and assigned to the warship HMS Bellipotent. Handsome, hardworking, and widely liked, Billy seems the very image of innocence - until his pres...

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: mystery Off the coast of Chile in the late 1700s, American sea captain Amasa Delano encounters a battered Spanish merchant ship drifting in uneasy silence. Its commander, Don Benito Cereno, appears sickly, distracted, and strangely dependent on his enslaved attendants, while the vessel itself seems plagued by shortages, confusion, and simmering di...

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: poetry Published in the aftermath of the American Civil War, Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a searching, many-angled meditation on a nation fractured and remade. Through a sequence of poems, Melville moves from the shock of first clashes and public rallies to the long grind of campaigns, prisons, h...

Atomic! by Henry Kuttner audiobook. Genre: scifi Six years after the Three-Hour War turned New York into a radioactive ruin, humanity survives by policing the bomb craters it has learned to fear. Across the world, hundreds of blast zones have become 'Rings' - dead centers surrounded by violent new growth, where mutation accelerates and anything might evolve into mankind's successor. At Biological...

Travels in Brazil, Volume 1 by Henry Koster audiobook. Genre: history In Travels in Brazil, Volume 1, Englishman Henry Koster offers a vivid, observant account of northeastern Brazil in the early nineteenth century, written from the perspective of a long-term resident rather than a passing tourist. Arriving for the sake of his health and drawn into local life, Koster journeys through Pernambuco an...

The Ivory Tower by Henry James audiobook. Genre: drama An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of James' purview, in which a character as unsuspecting as the reader gets embroiled more or less willingly in power shifts over a massive inheritance. The first part of the book is an example of James' late a...

Amelia (Vol 3) by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 3 of Henry Fielding's Amelia, the Booths' hard-won hopes of a quiet domestic life are tested by the London world that never stops prying, judging, and tempting. Amelia Booth remains the steadfast heart of the story, a devoted wife and mother trying to keep her family intact while money troubles, gossip, and predatory 'friends' tigh...

Amelia (Vol 2) by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: drama In Volume 2 of Henry Fielding's Amelia, the young married couple at the story's heart finds their hopes tested by London itself - its crowded streets, ruthless creditors, and glittering rooms where reputation can be bought or broken. Amelia Booth, steadfast and clear-eyed, fights to keep her household together as her husband, Captain William...

Amelia (Vol 1) by Henry Fielding audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the bustling, morally tangled streets of 18th-century London, Amelia follows the fortunes of Captain William Booth and his devoted wife, Amelia, as they fight to keep their marriage and dignity intact amid poverty, temptation, and the constant pressure of society's judgments. Booth, brave and affectionate but dangerously impulsive, is...

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau Volume 1 - 1837 - 1846 by Henry David Thoreau audiobook. Genre: biography Spanning the formative years from 1837 to 1846, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 1 invites listeners into the private workshop of one of America's most distinctive minds. In these early entries, Thoreau records the daily texture of New England life around Concord, Massachusetts -...