500 Free Audio Books

As i pointed out in my 500 Free Movies Online-post, the Open Culture site have also listed over 500 free audio books (mostly classics), you can download to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

I’ve listed some of my favorites below, but you can find the complete list, over on the Open Culture site.

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Fiction & Literature

Aesop – Aesop’s Fables – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
Asimov, Isaac – “Nightfall” – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible.com
Asimov, Isaac – The Foundation Trilogy (dramatized version) – Free Stream – Free Zip File
Asimov, Isaac – “The Last Question” – YouTube
Austen, Jane – Pride and Prejudice – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – Get FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
Beckett, Samuel – The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 – Free Audio Stream
Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) – Real Player
Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy – Free iTunes – Free MP3 –FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
Hesse, Hermann – Siddhartha – Free MP3
Homer, The Odyssey (Based on Samuel Butler Translation) – Free MP3 Zip File – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World (Dramatized version) – Free MP3s
Kafka, Franz – The Metamorphosis – Free iTunes – Free MP3 – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.
Lu Xun – A Madman’s Diary and Other Stories – Free MP3 Zip File
Orwell, George – 1984 – Free MP3 Zip File – Multiple Versions – FREE from Audible
- Free eBook available here.

NonFiction

Aristotle – Politics (MP3 download full zip file)
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.
Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)
Marx, Karl – The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)
Plato – The Republic (iTunes)
Sun-tzu – The Art of War (mp3 download)