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Free Audiobooks

Free audiobooks

These sites have audiobooks you can listen to or download for free.


 

Sound too good to be true? Most audiobooks that are available for free legally are either in the public domain or have a Creative Commons license. If you like classics, or if a book you are reading in English class is available, this is good news for you!

Other options, like ListenUp Vermont and Sync, have newer titles; details on how to use these services are below.

Green Green Mountain Library Consortium

The Brown Public Library, as a member of the Green Mountain Library Consortium, provides a downloadable e-book and audio book service for library patrons. You'll need your Brown Public Library card number to download. You will also need the (free) OverDrive app to download and listen to the books.

https://gmlc.overdrive.com/

 The 6 Best Audio Books You Can Listen to For Free on YouTube* 

The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells. 1984 by George Orwell. (4 hours)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury (read by the hilarious Stephen Colbert)
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (Read full & unabridged by the wonderful Stephen Frye)
The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (11 hours)

find more on:
The Daring Librarian's Curated YouTube Playlist of 30+ FULL Audiobooks

 *according to The Daring Librarian

 

Sync

SYNC is a free summer audiobook program for teens 13+ (or anyone who enjoys YA books). The 2020 season lasts 13 weeks and runs from April 30 - July 29, 2020. SYNC 2020 will give away 26 titles - two paired audiobook downloads a week! You have to download them during the week they are made available, but then they are yours to keep and listen to anytime. You will need the (free) app to download and listen to the books.

More YouTube audiobook channels: 

  • Greatest AudioBooks : classics of all kinds, from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Grimm's Fairy Tales to The Art of War
  • Bookworm Worlds : from A Brief History of Time By Stephen Hawking to Diary of a Wimpy Kid books by Jeff Kinney

 

 

 

Lit2Go


Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format.

FreeClassicAudioBooks.com

FreeClassicAudioBooks downloads are available in mp3 and (most) in m4b audio book format.

 

librivox-logoLibrivox free public domain audiobooks

"LibriVox audiobooks are free for anyone to listen to, on their computers, iPods or other mobile device, or to burn onto a CD." 

 

OpenCulture

700 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free

20 places

Links to 20 Places to Find Free Books Online. These sites provide free audiobooks and/or ebooks that can be enjoyed online, downloaded to your computer, or transferred to an e-reader or MP3 player. 

 

Soundcloud

 

At first glance, Soundcloud looks like a site strictly for music, but there are audiobooks available, too.