LibriVox – Free Online Audiobooks

The stated objective of LibriVox is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet.  

Librivox is a non-commercial, non-profit and ad-free project

Librivox donates its recordings to the public domain

Librivox is powered by volunteers

Librivox maintains a loose and open structure

Librivox welcomes all volunteers from across the globe, in all languages

You can even volunteer to read and record audio to help create the content on file.  LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.

Slate’s Audio Book Club

Want to join a book club, but don’t have the time? Or maybe you just enjoy listening to intelligent people discussing a book?  If so,  Slate’s audio book club might be the answer.  Titles include fiction and non-fiction, popular and classics — and reading the book is optional!   Listen on the webpage or download mp3 files to listen on media players.  Archived audio book clubs include the following (Rt Click links below to save mp3):

Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
American Wife, by Curtis Sittenfeld
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton
Independence Day, by Richard Ford
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Everyman, by Philip Roth
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion