Classics audiobooks

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most famous alias of all time, The Scarlet Pimpernel hides the identity of a British nobleman who, masked by various disguises, leads a band of young men to undermine the Reign of Terror after the French Revolution.The Scarlet Pimpernel makes daring raid after daring raid into the heart of France to save aristocrats condemned to the... Read more

The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“The danger lay in the heavy fog which blanketed the bay, and of which, as a landsman, I had little apprehension.”This is the first line in this tale of a man uprooted and thrust into the unfamiliar and dangerous world of the sealing sailor. Humphrey Van Weyden, a San Francisco sophisticate and an intellectual, finds himself the captive voyager... Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: John Peakes

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twilight of life, Silas Marner has only his loom and his gold.…Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner hoards a treasure that destroys his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole... Read more

Time Machine

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Stephen Zendt

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Time Traveler thought he could take the lessons of the future home to the past, if only he could get home.…When the Time Traveler boldly stepped out of his machine for the first time, he found himself in the far future, in an almost unrecognizable world. In another, more utopian age, creatures seemed to live together free of strife and... Read more

In the Heat of the Night

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The pioneering novel featuring African American police detective Virgil Tibbs “They call me Mr. Tibbs” was the line immortalized by Sidney Poitier in the 1967 Oscar-winning movie adaptation of In the Heat of the Night, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger Award and was named one of the 100... Read more

The Cool Cottontail

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the second audiobook of the acclaimed Virgil Tibbs mystery series, Tibbs finds himself at a nudist colony in Los Angeles where the victim (who was not one of the guests) is found floating dead in the pool. Set against this unusual backdrop, the guests of the resort prefer guarding their secrets to solving the murder mystery, particularly when... Read more

Johnny Get Your Gun

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The third novel in the acclaimed Virgil Tibbs mystery seriesWhen a nine-year-old boy shoots an older child, a race war is ignited between militant blacks and racist whites of 1960s Pasadena. Follow black homicide detective Virgil Tibbs as he investigates the scene of the conflict involving riots, brutalities, a chase through Disneyland, and a... Read more

Five Pieces of Jade

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Who murdered the importer? Was it Yumeko, the beautiful half-black, half-Japanese girl who lived with him? Johnny Wu, a rich Chinese-American? Another customer? Or a political enemy from overseas?Homicide detective Virgil Tibbs finds himself in the middle of a deadly situation involving hard drugs, Communist Chinese agents, and the exotic... Read more

The Eyes of Buddha

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A partially decomposed body of a young woman is discovered in a park in Pasadena, California. The woman was strangled but not sexually assaulted. The police suspect she might be a missing heiress who disappeared over a year ago, but dental records prove them wrong. But who is she? And is there a link between the heiress and this corpse? The... Read more

Then Came Violence

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Virgil Tibbs, the cool, highly-competent black detective of the Pasadena Police Department, returns one day to his bachelor apartment to find that it has been expertly stripped to the bare walls—not a thing remains to show that he has ever lived there. At headquarters he is given a cryptic note from Police Chief McGowan, sending him to a certain... Read more

Singapore

By: John Ball

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Madame Motamboru, widow of the assassinated President of Bakara, is framed for murder in Singapore, she requests that her old friend Virgil Tibbs take part in the investigation. Because of U.S. interests in the area, Tibbs is cleared for passage.Upon arrival, Tibbs finds that the police there are convinced of Madame Motamboru's guilt. All... Read more

Long Way Gone

By: Charles Martin

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Cooper O'Connor thought he could make it big as a musician, but he promptly lost it all. Can he repair his relationship with the father who never stopped calling him home?At the age of eighteen, musician and songwriter Cooper O’Connor took everything his father held dear and drove 1,200 miles from home to Nashville, his life riding on a... Read more

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Alexander Spencer

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven short stories including The Musgrave Ritual, The Reigate Squires and The Final Problem. Read more

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1861, The Mill on the Floss was a best-seller in its day. This classic novel explores the traditions and moral expectations of an English rural community. Maggie Tulliver is a girl of uncontrollable romantic ideals. But her brother, along with most of society, cannot accept her brashness and vitality. Narrator Jill Tanner... Read more

Moll Flanders

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Defoe's novel is a delightful eighteenth century classic. Called "the truest realism in English literature" and "the tale of a hot, earthy wench," it meets both expectations while also offering a remarkable portrayal of an ingenious mind.

Moll is born in Newgate prison to a petty thief and is soon left at the mercy of whoever will take her... Read more

Monk's Hood

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother Cadfael is confounded when his own potion is used to kill his former love’s new husband

Gervase Bonel is a guest of Shrewsbury Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul when he suddenly takes ill. Luckily, the Abbey boasts the services of the clever and kindly Brother Cadfael, a skilled herbalist. Cadfael hurries to the man's bedside, only to... Read more

The Moon and Sixpence

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Neil Hunt

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

As a fictionalized account of the tumultuous career of Paul Gauguin, W. Somerset Maugham's classic story captured the hearts of a generation. First published in 1919, it provided just the exotic antidote a war-weary world desired. At first, Charles Strickland's life was unremarkable. A stock broker in London, he dwelled quietly with his wife and... Read more

The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: The Moonstone Cast

Length: 20 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Stolen from the forehead of a Hindu idol, the dazzling gem known as "The Moonstone" resurfaces at a birthday party in an English country home - with an enigmatic trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail. Laced with superstitions, suspicion, humor, and romance, this 1868 mystery draws readers into a compelling tale with twists and turns ranging... Read more

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless... Read more

Liza of Lambeth

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinarily popular author during his lifetime, W. Somerset Maugham created a literary legacy that includes such classics as The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor' s Edge. Maugham' s first novel, Liza of Lambeth is the story of 18-year-old Liza Kemp, a London factory worker near the beginning of the 20th century who falls deeply in love... Read more

Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is America ... its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere ..." With the first line of his novel, Sinclair Lewis captures an America on the brink of change. Main Street vividly draws the lines of tension between tradition and progress in ways that make them timeless, yet still new. Carol Milford, educated, sophisticated,... Read more

The Man Who Was Thursday

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing in England at the turn of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton was dubbed the "prince of paradox" for addressing serious questions with his light, whimsical style. In this classic allegory, which has captivated generations since it was first published in 1908, Chesterton tackles such profound concepts as honor, truth, and God with... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Mansfield Park is the chronicle of the trials of Fanny Price. Sweet, innocent, sensitive, and thoroughly proper, Fanny is taken from her family and raised by wealthy, but selfish relatives. All her qualities are tested when she becomes the object of the unwanted attentions of an insincere rake. Read more

An Odyssey

By: Daniel Mendelsohn

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday
A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize

From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's... Read more