Classics audiobooks

Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Nigel Hawthorne, Isl...

Length: 35 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, a single volume that gathers together all of the short stories featuring Agatha Christie's most famous creation, Hercule Poirot. The dapper, mustache-twirling little Belgian with the egg-shaped head and curious mannerisms has solved some of the most puzzling crimes of the century—and, in his own humble opinion, is ""probably the... Read more

Shōgun, Part One

By: James Clavell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

FX/Hulu’s Shōgun won nineteen Emmys, four Golden Globes, and four Critics Choice Awards. The most talked about and awarded series on television. Read the book that started it all!By #1 New York Times bestselling author James Clavell, Shōgun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the... Read more

Stone Blind

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023""Haynes is master of her trade . . . She succeeds in breathing warm life into some of our oldest stories.”—Telegraph (UK)The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered... Read more

War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 59 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolstoy's epic masterpiece intertwines the lives of private and public individuals during the time of the Napoleonic wars and the French invasion of Russia. The fortunes of the Rostovs and the Bolkonskys, of Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, are intimately connected with the national history that is played out in parallel with their lives. Balls and... Read more

Collected Fictions

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: Castulo Guerra

Length: 27 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume

“An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper
 
For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions... Read more

The Bell Jar

By: Sylvia Plath

Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Maggie GyllenhaalOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels“A coming-of-age masterpiece. . . . Sylvia Plath has become one of the influential writers of her time.” —Boston GlobeSylvia Plath’s masterwork—an acclaimed and enduring novel about a young woman falling into the grip of mental illness and societal pressuresEsther Greenwood... Read more

The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
 
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of... Read more

Heroes

By: Stephen Fry

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.

Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read more

The Last Unicorn

By: Peter S. Beagle

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy & Joshua Kane

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INCLUDES A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PATRICK ROTHFUSS

Experience one of the most enduring classics of the twentieth century and the book that The Atlantic has called “one of the best fantasy novels ever.”

The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone...

...so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of... Read more

Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. Read more

The Outsiders

By: S. E. Hinton

Narrated by: Jim Fyfe

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

50 years of an iconic classic! This international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie is a heroic story of friendship and belonging.

No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his... Read more

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 43 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Thompson, best known for his role in the hit Netflix drama Bridgerton. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff.

The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with... Read more

The Iliad

By: Homer & Emily Wilson (Translator)

Narrated by: Nathan Brooks

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Iliad," attributed to Homer, is an epic poem from the 8th century BC that centers on the dramatic events of the Trojan War. The narrative particularly focuses on the wrath of Achilles, a Greek hero, and explores themes of honor, glory, and the relationship between mortals and deities. This work is often regarded as one of the cornerstones... Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Juliet Aubrey

Length: 36 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

This Penguin Classic is performed by Juliet Aubrey, who won the BAFTA for Best Actress for her role as Dorothea in the BBC serial Middlemarch. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Rosemary Ashton.

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a... Read more

I, Robot

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.

“A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian

I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever... Read more

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

By: Stephen Chbosky

Narrated by: Noah Galvin

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume

“Once in a while, a novel comes along that becomes a generational touchstone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of those books.” —R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wonder

This #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Great Divorce

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Timeless Novel About a Bus Ride from Hell to HeavenIn The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is a starting point for an extraordinary meditation... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 46 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a television miniseries directed by Bille August and starring Sam Claflin Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond... Read more

The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Bronson Pinc...

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A new collectible hardcover edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece, with thirteen brand-new illustrationsA classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson... Read more

Brideshead Revisited

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Jeremy Irons

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century and called "Evelyn Waugh's finest achievement" by the New York Times, Brideshead Revisited is a stunning exploration of desire, duty, and memory. Read by Jeremy Irons, star of the acclaimed 1981 television series based on the novel.  The wellsprings of desire and the... Read more

Stoner

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Sean Astin

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman... Read more

The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Richard Pevear

Narrated by: Peter Batchelor

Length: 30 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English. After his great portrayal... Read more

Titus Groan

By: Mervyn Peake

Narrated by: Robert Whitfield

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A doomed lord, an emergent hero, and an array of bizarre creatures haunt the world of the Gormenghast novels which, along with Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, reigns as one of the undisputed fantasy classics of all time. Peake has created a world where all is like a dream—lush, fantastical, vivid, and yet symbolic of a dark struggle.At the center... Read more