Nuggets of the New Thought by William Walker Atkinson audiobook. Genre: self help Nuggets of the New Thought is a compact, practical introduction to the New Thought movement by William Walker Atkinson, a prolific early 20th century writer on mind-power and mental training. In a series of short, focused sections, Atkinson distills what he sees as the core principles behind constructive thinking: the creative role of attention, the habit-forming power of repeated ideas, and the way inner belief sh...
Jul 31, 2022•5 hr 30 min•Ep. 207
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving audiobook. Genre: folklore In a quiet Dutch settlement tucked along the Hudson River, the drowsy valley of Sleepy Hollow seems sealed off from the hurry of the outside world - and steeped in old tales that refuse to die. Into this fog of superstition rides Ichabod Crane, a lanky, bookish schoolmaster with a taste for ghost stories, fine meals, and the hope of improving his fortunes. As Ichabod courts the charming and wealthy Katrina Van Tassel, he...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 206
The Science of Being Well by Wallace D. Wattles audiobook. Genre: self help If you are seeking better health and ways to stay well…This book is for you! Wallace D. Wattles was an American author and a pioneer success new thought movement writer. His most famous work and first book is a book called The Science of Getting Rich in which he explains how to get rich. Additionally, In the Science of Getting Well, Wattles suggests the reader to think and ACT in a Certain Way. As with his first book, Wa...
Jul 31, 2022•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 205
Candide, or The Optimist by Voltaire audiobook. Genre: philosophy Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseudonym: “Monsieur le docteur Ralph”, literally “Mister Doctor Ralph.”Sardonic in outlook, it follows the naïve protagonist Candide from his first exposure to the precept that “all is for the best in this, th...
Jul 31, 2022•4 hr 6 min•Ep. 204
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine audiobook. Genre: philosophy The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, a deistic treatise written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, critiques institutionalized religion and challenges the inerrancy of the Bible. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. British audiences, however, fearing increased pol...
Jul 31, 2022•11 hr 51 min•Ep. 203
The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont audiobook. Genre: self help In The Power of Concentration, Theron Q. Dumont lays out a practical, motivational guide to training the mind to focus on command. Written in an energetic, early self-improvement style, the book argues that concentrated attention is the hidden force behind achievement in business, study, and personal growth. Dumont breaks concentration down into learnable habits: directing thought deliberately, shutting out distractions, ...
Jul 31, 2022•4 hr 20 min•Ep. 202
Typee by Herman Melville audiobook. Genre: adventure Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime. It was not until the end of the 1930's that it was surpassed in popularity by Moby Dick, more than thirty years after his death. The story provoked harsh critici...
Jul 31, 2022•11 hr 57 min•Ep. 201
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse audiobook. Genre: philosophy Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way he faces the entire range of human experience and emotion: he lives with ascetics, meets Gotama the Buddha, learns the art of love from Kamala the courtesan, and is transformed by the simple ph...
Jul 31, 2022•5 hr 16 min•Ep. 718
The Creature from Beyond Infinity by Henry Kuttner audiobook. Genre: scifi A strange plague is moving through the cosmos, draining life from world after world like an invisible predator. Against that vast, cold backdrop, an exile from a dead planet arrives in the Solar System with a desperate mission: find a new home, and find help. From a hidden ship in orbit and through half-forgotten traces of human history, an ancient intelligence sets a risky plan in motion, searching for the rare minds cap...
Jul 31, 2022•5 hr 39 min•Ep. 720
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James audiobook. Genre: horror On a lonely English estate called Bly, a young governess accepts what seems like a straightforward post: care for two charming orphaned children, Miles and Flora, while their handsome, distant uncle insists he never be bothered. Eager to prove herself, she throws her whole heart into the role, determined to be the perfect guardian in a house full of quiet corridors, closed doors, and unspoken rules. But as the days lengthen and the co...
Jul 31, 2022•5 hr 55 min•Ep. 200
The Republic by Plato audiobook. Genre: philosophy Plato's The Republic unfolds as a searching conversation led by Socrates, who is drawn into a spirited debate about what justice really is and whether a just life is happier than an unjust one. As the discussion widens, Socrates and his interlocutors attempt an audacious thought experiment: designing an ideal city from the ground up in order to see justice written large. They argue over education, civic duty, wealth, censorship, and the role of ...
Jul 31, 2022•12 hr 42 min•Ep. 199
The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon audiobook. Genre: history Hendrik van Loon's The Story of Mankind is a brisk, conversational journey through world history, written for curious listeners who want the big picture without getting lost in academic detail. Beginning with humanity's earliest beginnings and moving through the rise of civilizations, empires, and religions, van Loon introduces the key forces that shaped how people lived, fought, traded, believed, and governed. Along the way, the...
Jul 30, 2022•13 hr 36 min•Ep. 198
Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard audiobook. Genre: adventure Retired hunter and trader Allan Quatermain thinks he has finally put Africa's dangers behind him, content to spend his days in quiet England with his son. But when an old friend begs for help, Quatermain is drawn back into the wild interior on a mission that quickly becomes far more personal and perilous than promised. Joined by the formidable warrior Umslopogaas and driven by the courage of Lady Ragnall, the party treks into unmap...
Jul 30, 2022•13 hr 1 min•Ep. 197
The Cosmic Computer by H. Beam Piper audiobook. Genre: scifi On the distant colony world of Poictesme, Conn Maxwell comes home from years away to find a society living off fading prestige and dwindling resources, still clinging to old glories while its young people drift toward despair. Conn refuses to accept the slow decline. He becomes convinced that a legendary piece of lost technology from the first days of interstellar expansion - a super-advanced 'cosmic computer' rumored to answer any que...
Jul 30, 2022•7 hr 39 min•Ep. 196
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery Step into the foggy streets and gaslit rooms of Victorian London with The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, a celebrated collection of cases narrated by Dr. John Watson. In story after story, Watson chronicles the brilliant deductions, eccentric habits, and relentless curiosity of his friend and flatmate, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. From mysterious disappearances and baffling thefts to ominous letters and seem...
Jul 29, 2022•8 hr 47 min•Ep. 195
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In Victorian London, Dr. John Watson returns to the rooms at 221B Baker Street and finds Sherlock Holmes restless between cases, chasing stimulation as fiercely as he chases truth. Their routine is broken when Mary Morstan, a poised young woman with a troubling past, seeks Holmes' help. For years she has received mysterious pearls from an unknown benefactor, and now an anonymous letter summons her to learn the secret behind...
Jul 29, 2022•4 hr 25 min•Ep. 194
His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle audiobook. Genre: mystery In His Last Bow, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gathers a late-career set of Sherlock Holmes adventures that show the great detective at his most seasoned and surprising. Narrated chiefly through the steady voice of Dr. John Watson, these cases move from quiet London rooms to lonely country houses and shadowed European intrigues, where a single odd detail can expose a hidden motive. Holmes confronts baffling disappearances, secret codes, a...
Jul 29, 2022•6 hr 49 min•Ep. 193
Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud audiobook. Genre: science Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he originally offered to the world his interpretation of dreams was as circumstantial as a legal record to be pondered over by scientists at their leisure, not to be assimilated in a few hours by the average alert reader. In those days, Freud could not leave out any detail likely to make his extremely no...
Jul 29, 2022•6 hr 15 min•Ep. 192
Reginald by Saki audiobook. Genre: comedy Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker as well as Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde (who clearly influenced Saki.) His first collection of short stories, Reginald, was published by Methuen Press in 1904 though these st...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 191
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert audiobook. Genre: drama In provincial 19th-century France, Emma Bovary believes life should feel like the romances she devours: sweeping passions, refined luxury, and constant excitement. When she marries Charles Bovary, a well-meaning country doctor devoted to his new wife, Emma expects her dreams to finally begin. Instead she finds herself trapped by routine, small-town gossip, and the slow disappointments of a marriage built on affection rather than ardor. Re...
Jul 29, 2022•13 hr 13 min•Ep. 190
Lilith by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: fantasy George MacDonald's Lilith follows Mr. Vane, a practical, solitary young man who inherits a mysterious house with an equally mysterious library. When a strange mirror-like door opens onto another world, Vane is drawn into a stark, dreamlike realm where night seems permanent and the laws of ordinary life feel suspended. Guided and challenged by an enigmatic figure known as Raven, Vane wanders through haunted landscapes and a silent city filled w...
Jul 29, 2022•10 hr 44 min•Ep. 189
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a lonely mountain kingdom, eight-year-old Princess Irene lives in a sprawling castle with secret stairways, empty corridors, and a sense that something is watching from below. When her father is away and her mother is gone, Irene's world is guarded by servants and rules - but her curiosity keeps pulling her toward forbidden places. Beneath the castle, a race of hostile goblins nurses an old grievance against humankind a...
Jul 29, 2022•5 hr 23 min•Ep. 188
Adam Bede by George Eliot audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the rural English Midlands in 1799, Adam Bede follows a community bound by labor, faith, and reputation. Adam, a skilled young carpenter, prides himself on steadiness and moral clarity as he works alongside his friends and family in the village of Hayslope. His quiet certainties are tested when he becomes entangled in a web of affection, expectation, and social pressure centered on two very different women: Hetty Sorrel, a beautiful and va...
Jul 29, 2022•20 hr 49 min•Ep. 187
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer audiobook. Genre: poetry The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The themes of the tales vary, and include topi...
Jul 29, 2022•19 hr 17 min•Ep. 186
The Secret of the Night by Gaston Leroux audiobook. Genre: mystery Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great detectives who solved their cases by pure deductive reasoning. Much as Sherlock Holmes, who eliminat...
Jul 29, 2022•9 hr 21 min•Ep. 185
The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: mystery Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He is perhaps best remembered for his ‘Father Brown’ stories; two collections of which are available at Librivox.org. ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’ has some similarities to the Father Brown stories: Horne...
Jul 28, 2022•5 hr 58 min•Ep. 184
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: thriller In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist task force at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove th...
Jul 28, 2022•6 hr 6 min•Ep. 183
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass audiobook. Genre: biography In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass recounts his early years in bondage and his emergence as one of the 19th century's most powerful voices against slavery. Born into a system designed to erase identity and deny education, Douglass pieces together the story of his childhood on Maryland plantations, the constant threat of separation from family, and the everyday violence us...
Jul 27, 2022•3 hr 46 min•Ep. 182
The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Edith Nesbit audiobook. Genre: family When the once-comfortable Bastable family falls on hard times, six lively brothers and sisters decide they will not simply wait for grown-ups to fix everything. Led by imaginative Oswald, with practical Dora, stubborn Dicky, sensitive Noel, fearless H.O., and the youngest, clever Alice, the children form the Bastable Society of Treasure Seekers. Their mission is straightforward: find treasure, restore the family fortune, ...
Jul 26, 2022•4 hr 18 min•Ep. 181
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka audiobook. Genre: drama One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes to find his body inexplicably transformed into a giant insect. Trapped in his bedroom and struggling to communicate, Gregor must navigate the immediate terror of his new existence and the practical realities of a life that can no longer conform to work schedules, family expectations, or ordinary human routines. As his worried sister Grete and their beleaguered parents react in fear, shame,...
Jul 26, 2022•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 180
