Free Audio Books Online

Learn Out Loud – One of the best websites online for free digital media, LearnOutLoud.com provides free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and other audio and video resources. Most audio book titles can be downloaded in MP3 format.

Books Should Be Free – This website offers free audio recordings of books in the public domain in Mp3, IPod, and/or ITunes formats. Book categories include general fiction, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, historical books, fairy tales, romance, religion, and humor.

LibriVox – “LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.” Their goal is “to make all public domain books available as free audio books”. LibriVox offers searching of their catalog which includes over 4,000 audio books in several categories and languages.

OpenCulture – OpenCulture.com is a directory of free audio books, courses, textbooks, and language lessons.  The site aggregates content from reputable sources such as Itunes, Project Gutenberg, and Archive.org.  Thousands of fiction, nonfiction and poetry audio book titles are available for download.

Project Gutenberg -  The #1 source for public domain ebooks, Project Gutenberg also offers computer generated and human read audio books. Over 500 popular classics and obscure titles  are available for download and/or listening online.