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The "Audible lending library" is open to all. No paid membership required.

Most of these titles are classical literature. Many are less than $1 to buy on Kindle. Any eBooks that are currently free have a * next to the title.

What Maisie Knew *
Henry James
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004I1W..._lig_dp_it

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (Kindle $0.19)
https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karen...op?ie=UTF8

Jude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy (Kindle $0.49)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TLR..._lig_dp_it

Lady Audley's Secret *
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P1DQ..._lig_dp_it

Orlando
Clare Higgins
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007OB..._lig_dp_it

Wives and Daughters *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IU3..._lig_dp_it

Cranford
Prunella Scales
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ZM8..._lig_dp_it

Barchester Towers *
Anthony Trollope
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001I0Y..._lig_dp_it

The Professor *
James Wilby
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ION..._lig_dp_it

Impact Winter
By: Travis Beacham
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Im...227&sr=1-2

Within a Budding Grove (Kindle $0.99)
Marcel Proust
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GDE..._lig_dp_it

Vanity Fair (Kindle $0.49)
William Makepeace Thackeray
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001SB9..._lig_dp_it

Little Dorrit: The Audible Dickens Collection *
Charles Dickens
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SB1R..._lig_dp_it

Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001T45..._lig_dp_it

Dr Wortle's School
Anthony Trollope
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002A2B..._lig_dp_it

Women Talking
Brittany K. Allen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSLY3..._lig_dp_it

The Land of Mist (Kindle $0.99)
Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMD5..._lig_dp_it

Little Women: An Audible Original Drama
Louisa May Alcott
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081B7Y..._lig_dp_it

Far from the Madding Crowd (Kindle $0.99)
Thomas Hardy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TLR..._lig_dp_it

Middlemarch
George Eliot
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030HF..._lig_dp_it

Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason: An Audible Original Drama
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084BT2..._lig_dp_it

The Prophet (Kindle $0.99)
Kahlil Gibran
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DLHB..._lig_dp_it

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Kindle $0.82)
Oscar Wilde
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VCT..._lig_dp_it

The Tales of Max Carrados *
Ernest Bramah
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ATTR..._lig_dp_it

New Atlantis (Kindle $0.99)
Francis Bacon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CB17..._lig_dp_it

Black Beauty: An Audible Original Drama
Anna Sewell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XS34..._lig_dp_it

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Kindle $0.99)
John Buchan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VXB..._lig_dp_it

Ruth *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013E4..._lig_dp_it

The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories
Anton Chekhov
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088RKF..._lig_dp_it

Fathers and Sons *
Ivan Turgenev
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002R85..._lig_dp_it

Typhoon (Kindle $0.99)
Joseph Conrad
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003O53..._lig_dp_it

A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men and A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMAU..._lig_dp_it

The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BEE..._lig_dp_it

The Grasmere Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KAE..._lig_dp_it

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y51..._lig_dp_it

North and South *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PNH..._lig_dp_it

The Three Musketeers: An Audible Original Drama
Alexandre Dumas
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XPDF..._lig_dp_it

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Kindle $0.99)
Daniel Defoe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QIB..._lig_dp_it

The Darkwater Bride: An Audible Original Drama
Marty Ross
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J1L1..._lig_dp_it

The Ash Tree
M. R. James
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HAJF..._lig_dp_it

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories ( Kindle $0.99)
Oscar Wilde
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JT6..._lig_dp_it

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KJM..._lig_dp_it

Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004646..._lig_dp_it
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The "Audible lending library" is open to all. No paid membership required.

Most of these titles are classical literature. Many are less than $1 to buy on Kindle. Any eBooks that are currently free have a * next to the title.

What Maisie Knew *
Henry James
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004I1W..._lig_dp_it

Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy (Kindle $0.19)
https://www.amazon.com/Anna-Karen...op?ie=UTF8

Jude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy (Kindle $0.49)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TLR..._lig_dp_it

Lady Audley's Secret *
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P1DQ..._lig_dp_it

Orlando
Clare Higgins
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007OB..._lig_dp_it

Wives and Daughters *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000IU3..._lig_dp_it

Cranford
Prunella Scales
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ZM8..._lig_dp_it

Barchester Towers *
Anthony Trollope
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001I0Y..._lig_dp_it

The Professor *
James Wilby
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ION..._lig_dp_it

Impact Winter
By: Travis Beacham
https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Im...227&sr=1-2

Within a Budding Grove (Kindle $0.99)
Marcel Proust
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002GDE..._lig_dp_it

Vanity Fair (Kindle $0.49)
William Makepeace Thackeray
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001SB9..._lig_dp_it

Little Dorrit: The Audible Dickens Collection *
Charles Dickens
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SB1R..._lig_dp_it

Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001T45..._lig_dp_it

Dr Wortle's School
Anthony Trollope
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002A2B..._lig_dp_it

Women Talking
Brittany K. Allen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BSLY3..._lig_dp_it

The Land of Mist (Kindle $0.99)
Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMD5..._lig_dp_it

Little Women: An Audible Original Drama
Louisa May Alcott
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B081B7Y..._lig_dp_it

Far from the Madding Crowd (Kindle $0.99)
Thomas Hardy
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001TLR..._lig_dp_it

Middlemarch
George Eliot
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0030HF..._lig_dp_it

Sherlock Holmes: The Voice of Treason: An Audible Original Drama
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084BT2..._lig_dp_it

The Prophet (Kindle $0.99)
Kahlil Gibran
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DLHB..._lig_dp_it

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Kindle $0.82)
Oscar Wilde
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075VCT..._lig_dp_it

The Tales of Max Carrados *
Ernest Bramah
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ATTR..._lig_dp_it

New Atlantis (Kindle $0.99)
Francis Bacon
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CB17..._lig_dp_it

Black Beauty: An Audible Original Drama
Anna Sewell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XS34..._lig_dp_it

The Thirty-Nine Steps (Kindle $0.99)
John Buchan
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000VXB..._lig_dp_it

Ruth *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0013E4..._lig_dp_it

The Chekhov Collection of Short Stories
Anton Chekhov
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088RKF..._lig_dp_it

Fathers and Sons *
Ivan Turgenev
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002R85..._lig_dp_it

Typhoon (Kindle $0.99)
Joseph Conrad
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003O53..._lig_dp_it

A Vindication Of The Rights Of Men and A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CMAU..._lig_dp_it

The Compleat Angler
Izaak Walton
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BEE..._lig_dp_it

The Grasmere Journals
Dorothy Wordsworth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002KAE..._lig_dp_it

Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Y51..._lig_dp_it

North and South *
Elizabeth Gaskell
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PNH..._lig_dp_it

The Three Musketeers: An Audible Original Drama
Alexandre Dumas
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XPDF..._lig_dp_it

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (Kindle $0.99)
Daniel Defoe
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QIB..._lig_dp_it

The Darkwater Bride: An Audible Original Drama
Marty Ross
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07J1L1..._lig_dp_it

The Ash Tree
M. R. James
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HAJF..._lig_dp_it

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories ( Kindle $0.99)
Oscar Wilde
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001JT6..._lig_dp_it

Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003KJM..._lig_dp_it

Sherlock Holmes: His Last Bow
Arthur Conan Doyle
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004646..._lig_dp_it

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Great list, thanks!
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Ty for the list.

If you also have Amazon Prime, here's a link to the AmazonClassics books that are free to listen. It's kind of like a library. You can "check out" 10 books at once. Then, you have to 'return' an audio book to get another.

Amazon Link [amazon.com]
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Here's a link I found to a page on Audible called Free Listens. It includes additional titles from the main posting including a few Audible Originals and podcasts.

https://www.audible.com/ep/FreeLi...Answer_0_1
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Quote from Optm :
Here's a link I found to a page on Audible called Free Listens. It includes additional titles from the main posting including a few Audible Originals and podcasts.

https://www.audible.com/ep/FreeLi...Answer_0_1
I tracked that silly list down one at a time. I had no idea there was an easy way to find these. Thank you.

I happened to see Impact Winter scroll by & added it to my OP. I'd recommend it for a little light "reading".
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The Compleat Angler
Richard Johnson
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BEE..._lig_dp_it [amazon.com]
I just wanted to mention that the Compleat Angler was written by Izaak Walton (Johnson's the narrator). Legendary book.
Helpful list, thank you! I've been working through these during my 3 day migraines; very soothing. I just finished the Barsetshire Chronicles and they're great--light and very funny and the narrator is wonderful.
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I want to add that with overdrive one can download , remove.wax , return and keep them forever straight from your public library.
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Which of these books are actually worth listening too?

I'm overwhelmed with content, so I tend to stick to the most well known popular works (for now). Any suggestions?
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Thank you, KayO - I loaded up! :-)
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Quote from tomcat008 :
I want to add that with overdrive one can download , remove.wax , return and keep them forever straight from your public library.
Overdrive has been phasing out for several years. It officially handed the reins over to Libby in May.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28...y-instead/

I think the only available library apps now are Libby, hoopla & Kanopy. Your library card determines which you can have access to. I thought all lend their titles for a limited time, just like the main libraries? I've always just returned everything. The only similar program I know that allows people to keep their downloads is Freegal.

Quote from gamingdroid :
Which of these books are actually worth listening too?

I'm overwhelmed with content, so I tend to stick to the most well known popular works (for now). Any suggestions?
That takes some of the fun out of it. My favorite thing to do when I was a kid was wander the library & pick out books mostly because I liked the cover or the title. I'd read the jacket & spend 3 minutes flipping through the pages. Found some good stuff that way.

But, if you must...

You might give us something to go on. What's your favorites? Books? Genres? Listening time?
Last edited by KayOttik August 3, 2023 at 05:09 PM.
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Quote from KayOttik :
Overdrive has been phasing out for several years. It officially handed the reins over to Libby in May.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28...y-instead/ [techcrunch.com]

I think the only available library apps now are Libby, hoopla & Kanopy. Your library card determines which you can have access to. As far as I know, all lend their catalogs for a limited time, just like the main libraries. The only similar program I know that allows people to keep their downloads is Freegal.



That takes some of the fun out of it. My favorite thing to do when I was a kid was wander the library & pick out books mostly because I liked the cover or the title. I'd read the jacket & spend 3 minutes flipping through the pages. Found some good stuff that way.

But, if you must...

You might give us something to go on. What's your favorites? Books? Genres? Listening time?
Of that list, I see Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock and Three Musketeers. I typically like history (typically of leaders like Genghis Khan, Marcus Aurelius, etc), science fiction, philosophical and embarrassingly video game fiction. Love stuff from Isaac Asimov for instance.

I also enjoy topics of economics, personal finance, investments and business/entrepreneurship.
Last edited by gamingdroid August 3, 2023 at 05:16 PM.
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Quote from gamingdroid :
Of that list, I see Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock and Three Musketeers. I typically like history (typically of leaders like Genghis Khan, Marcus Aurelius, etc), science fiction, philosophical and embarrassingly video game fiction. Love stuff from Isaac Asimov for instance.

I also enjoy topics of economics, personal finance, investments and business/entrepreneurship.
Then you might also like

Impact Winter
By: Travis Beacham
https://www.audible.com/pd/Impact...b2ae994c03

Light fair. I enjoyed the story & I enjoyed the production.

The one thing I really dislike about audiobooks is how bad narration can wreck a good story. Unfortunately, I haven't listened to any of the rest, yet. I was looking for some new books which was how we got here.
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Quote from Optm :
Here's a link I found to a page on Audible called Free Listens. It includes additional titles from the main posting including a few Audible Originals and podcasts.

https://www.audible.com/ep/FreeLi...Answer_0_1 [audible.com]
When I signed it acted like I had to sign up for a free 30 trial and wanted me to leave my credit card number on file for after the 30 days.

Premium Plus membership $14.95
$0.00 ($14.95/mo after 30 days)
Prime member promo offer: Applied
Order total: $0.00
What do I get?
Free trial for 30 days plus 2 credits to start, good for any titles in our entire premium selection, yours to keep forever.
After trial, 1 credit a month good for any title in our entire premium selection, yours to keep.
Listen to thousands of included audiobooks, podcasts, Audible Originals, and more.
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
No commitments. Cancel anytime.

***I backed out of the above screen and looks like I can use it without doing that.
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Quote from Traida2 :
Ty for the list.

If you also have Amazon Prime, here's a link to the AmazonClassics books that are free to listen. It's kind of like a library. You can "check out" 10 books at once. Then, you have to 'return' an audio book to get another.

Amazon Link [amazon.com]
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Quote from Traida2 :
Ty for the list.

If you also have Amazon Prime, here's a link to the AmazonClassics books that are free to listen. It's kind of like a library. You can "check out" 10 books at once. Then, you have to 'return' an audio book to get another.

Amazon Link [amazon.com]
This was the best thing I've seen in a long time!!! Can't wait to use it, didn't know it existed!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

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