Listen to 60+ Free, High-Quality AudioBooks of Classic Literature on Spotify: Austen, Dickens, Tolstoy & More

Where music goes, tech­no­log­i­cal­ly speak­ing, audio books soon fol­low. We’ve had audio books on vinyl LP, on cas­sette tape, on CD, and on MP3, just like we’ve had music. Now that so many of us pull up our dai­ly jams on Spo­ti­fy, it should­n’t come as a sur­prise that we can do a fair bit of our “read­ing” there as well. We’ve found a few lists that gath­er up the best audio book avail­able on Spo­ti­fy, includ­ing 21 clas­sics and a col­lec­tion of Shake­speare plays and son­nets at Gnarl’d, ten ever­green lit­er­ary picks from Life­hack­er, and a Spo­ti­fy forum thread ded­i­cat­ed to sub­ject.

Below, you’ll find Spo­ti­fy links to more than 60 clas­sic works of lit­er­a­ture that, even if you strug­gled on get­ting them read in your Eng­lish class­es, you can now revis­it in a per­haps much more lifestyle-com­pat­i­ble medi­um. If you find more audio books on Spo­ti­fy, def­i­nite­ly let us know in the com­ments sec­tion below and we’ll add them to our list.

To lis­ten to any of these, you will of course need Spo­ti­fy’s soft­ware and account, both easy to come by: you just down­load and reg­is­ter.

• Jane Austen, Pride and Prej­u­dice
• Char­lotte Bron­të, Jane Eyre
• Emi­ly Bron­të, Wuther­ing Heights
• Lewis Car­roll, Alice’s Adven­tures in Won­der­land
• James Fen­i­more Coop­er, Last of the Mohi­cans
• Daniel Defoe, Robin­son Cru­soe
• Charles Dick­ens, A Christ­mas Car­ol
• Charles Dick­ens, David Cop­per­field
• Charles Dick­ens, Great Expec­ta­tions
• Charles Dick­ens, Oliv­er Twist
• Charles Dick­ens, A Tale of Two Cities
  
• Fyo­dor Dos­toyevsky, Crime & Pun­ish­ment
• George Eliot, Mid­dle­march
• T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot Reads Poems and Cho­rus­es
• William Faulkn­er, Reads From His Works
• F. Scott Fitzger­ald, The Curi­ous Case of Ben­jamin But­ton
• F. Scott Fitzger­ald, The Great Gats­by
• Gus­tave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
• Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
• Ernest Hem­ing­way, Read­ing His Own Work
• James Joyce, The Dead
• Jack Lon­don, Call of the Wild
• Her­man Melville, Bil­ly Budd
• Her­man Melville, Moby Dick
• Harold Pin­ter: The Care­tak­er
• William Shake­speare, As You Like It
• William Shake­speare, Cori­olanus
• William Shake­speare, Ham­let
• William Shake­speare, Hen­ry IV Part 1
• William Shake­speare, Hen­ry IV Part 2
• William Shake­speare, Julius Cae­sar
• William Shake­speare, King John
• William Shake­speare, Mac­beth
• William Shake­speare, Mea­sure for Mea­sure
• William Shake­speare, Much Ado About Noth­ing Part 1
• William Shake­speare, Much Ado About Noth­ing Part 2
• William Shake­speare, Oth­el­lo
• William Shake­speare, Richard II
• William Shake­speare, Richard III
• William Shake­speare, Romeo & Juli­et
• William Shake­speare, Son­nets
• William Shake­speare, The Tam­ing of the Shrew Pt 1
• William Shake­speare, The Tam­ing of the Shrew Pt 2
• William Shake­speare, The Mer­chant of Venice
• William Shake­speare, The Tem­pest
• William Shake­speare, The Two Gen­tle­men of Verona
• William Shake­speare, Troilus and Cres­si­da
• William Shake­speare, Twelfth Night
• Bram Stok­er, Drac­u­la
• Robert Louis Steven­son, Dr. Jeck­yll and Mr Hyde
• Jonathan Swift, Gul­liv­er’s Trav­els
• Leo Tol­stoy, Anna Karen­i­na
• Leo Tol­stoy, War & Peace Part 1 — Part 2
• Mark Twain, A Con­necti­cut Yan­kee in King Arthur’s Court
• Mark Twain, A Dou­ble Bar­reled Detec­tive Sto­ry
• Mark Twain, Short Sto­ries
• H.G. Wells, The Invis­i­ble Man
• H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
• H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
• Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
• Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days
• Oscar Wilde: The Impor­tance of Being Earnest

For more great audio, don’t for­get to vis­it our col­lec­tion, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free. Also remem­ber that you can down­load a free audio­book (includ­ing many con­tem­po­rary books) from Audible.com’s Free Tri­al pro­gram.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

630 Free Audio Books: Down­load Great Books for Free

Down­load 55 Free Online Lit­er­a­ture Cours­es: From Dante and Mil­ton to Ker­ouac and Tolkien

Col­in Mar­shall hosts and pro­duces Note­book on Cities and Cul­ture as well as the video series The City in Cin­e­ma and writes essays on cities, lan­guage, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Ange­les, A Los Ange­les Primer. Fol­low him on Twit­ter at @colinmarshall or on Face­book.