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Free audiobook collections
Hand-picked public-domain recordings, grouped so you can find something to listen to without searching. Every audiobook plays free in MyVoxBox or on LibriVox.
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Most downloaded of all time
The highest-ranked individual recordings of twenty distinct works, by lifetime downloads in the Archive.org observation of 2026-10-06.
20 audiobooks, about 250 hours
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Popular this month
The highest-ranked individual recordings of twenty distinct works by Archive.org’s month counter observed on 2026-10-06.
20 audiobooks, about 112 hours
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Detective fiction
From Holmes to women investigators, French police work and American hard-boiled cases: varied ways to follow a clue.
20 audiobooks, about 150 hours
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The complete Sherlock Holmes
All nine books of the Holmes canon, four novels and five story collections, in the order they were published.
9 audiobooks, about 68 hours
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Children’s Stories
Fairy tales, animal stories, fantasy and adventures from classic children’s literature.
20 audiobooks, about 103 hours
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Science Fiction
Time travel, alien worlds, scientific experiments and imagined societies: familiar starting points alongside less familiar speculative journeys.
20 audiobooks, about 104 hours
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Humour & Satire
Comic mishaps, absurd adventures and sharp social satire.
20 audiobooks, about 124 hours
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Biographies and memoirs
Lives in science, art, work, travel and public affairs, told through personal recollection and biography.
20 audiobooks, about 125 hours
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True crime
Historical cases, investigations, trials and first-person accounts.
20 audiobooks, about 176 hours
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Dramatic readings
Plays and stories with readers assigned to characters and narrators, from short comedy to substantial novels.
20 audiobooks, about 87 hours
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Short listens
Complete recordings of an hour or less: stories, poetry, essays, humour and memoir, with many ways to try something different.
20 audiobooks, about 13 hours
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Winter ghost stories
Ghosts, haunted places and supernatural uncertainty for dark evenings, from December to mid January.
20 audiobooks, about 71 hours
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20 Random Discoveries
Twenty recordings drawn at random from the published catalog, across all its languages.
20 audiobooks, about 115 hours
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From Clotel to Passing: Black American Writing, 1853-1929
From 1853 to 1929, Black American novelists, poets and essayists wrote through slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Harlem Renaissance.
20 audiobooks, about 114 hours
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Spy Fever: Invasion Scares and the First Secret Agents, 1821-1928
Before James Bond there was Richard Hannay, before Hannay there was the Riddle of the Sands, and before any of them a whole Edwardian panic about German spies and a Channel invasion.
16 audiobooks, about 144 hours
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Nowhere, Mapped: Utopias and the Nightmares That Answered Them
Every age draws a map of the perfect society, and someone always draws the horror next door.
18 audiobooks, about 105 hours
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Ice: Polar Expeditions and Adventures
Firsthand polar expedition accounts alongside historical retellings and fictional adventures inspired by the ice.
14 audiobooks, about 144 hours
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Humbug: Hoaxes, Impostors and the Art of the Swindle
P. T. Barnum wrote a whole book exposing other people's humbugs.
13 audiobooks, about 102 hours
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One Town, Many Stories
Some places reveal themselves through gossip, chance meetings, shared histories and lives that intersect.
13 audiobooks, about 77 hours
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Dutch Listening: Classics and Discoveries
Explore novels, poetry and historical nonfiction spoken in Dutch.
21 audiobooks, about 159 hours
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French listening: classics and discoveries
Follow a quick-witted thief, enter a royal court, travel with a wager to win, or pause for a poem.
24 audiobooks, about 155 hours
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German: Stories, Poems and Ideas
German-language listening can move from a runaway nose to a North Sea dyke, from a royal comedy to a private letter.
25 audiobooks, about 151 hours
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Greek Voices: Stories, Poetry and Ideas
Stories of the sea, village life and imagined kingdoms sit beside satire, verse fables and poetry.
15 audiobooks, about 44 hours
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In Italian: Stories, Poetry and Ideas
Italian voices across novels, stories, theatre, poetry and argument: familiar names sit beside shorter discoveries and an older translation of Alice.
22 audiobooks, about 121 hours
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Japanese voices: poems, journeys and stories
Japanese recordings spanning the poetry of the Hyakunin Isshu, Bashō’s travels, modern poems, short tales, essays and novels.
20 audiobooks, about 42 hours
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Latin: Poetry, Prose and Reflection
Latin heard across poetry, narrative, philosophy and religious prose.
11 audiobooks, about 80 hours
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Polish audiobooks: classics and discoveries
Polish-language stories, drama, verse and essays, from Schulz’s imagined town and Mickiewicz’s ballads to lunar voyages and lives shaped by emigration.
18 audiobooks, about 93 hours
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Portuguese: Classics and Discoveries
Explore Portuguese-language novels, stories, poetry and drama, with journeys through Brazil and Portugal and room for political argument, city chronicles and cordel.
24 audiobooks, about 147 hours
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Russian: Stories, Poetry and Ideas
Twenty-two Russian-language recordings, from novels and a one-act comedy to fairy tales, poetry and literary criticism.
22 audiobooks, about 111 hours
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Listen in Spanish: classics and discoveries
Novels, stories, poetry, theatre and memoir, recorded in Spanish.
20 audiobooks, about 121 hours
