Little Women by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become a writer and wishes she were born a boy. Shy and quiet, home-loving Beth, who loves to play the piano and play with her kitties. Finally, the youngest, artistic Amy, who longs for an aristocr...
Aug 18, 2022•17 hr 41 min•Ep. 268
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott audiobook. Genre: family Little Men (published 1871) is considered the second book of the Little Women trilogy written by Louisa May Alcott. (The book Good Wives (1869) was originally the sequel to the novel Little Women (1868), however those two novels are now usually published as a single volume.) The final book of the trilogy is Jo's Boys (1886). Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she ...
Aug 18, 2022•9 hr 59 min•Ep. 267
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Logan Marshall audiobook. Genre: history Logan Marshall's Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters plunges listeners into the shock and spectacle of the early twentieth century's most infamous maritime tragedy, then widens its lens to a panorama of other calamities at sea. Beginning with the Titanic's grand departure and the confidence surrounding the 'unsinkable' liner, the narrative follows the ship's collision with ice and the frantic, e...
Aug 18, 2022•8 hr 4 min•Ep. 266
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Abridged) by Lewis Carroll audiobook. Genre: fantasy When curious young Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole, she tumbles into Wonderland, a topsy-turvy realm where logic bends, language plays tricks, and nothing stays the size it should. As Alice tries to make sense of this peculiar place - and of herself - she encounters an unforgettable parade of oddities: a grinning Cheshire Cat who speaks in riddles, a Mad Hatter presiding over an endless...
Aug 18, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 265
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy audiobook. Genre: drama Set against the glittering salons and sprawling estates of Imperial Russia, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina follows two intertwined stories of love, duty, and the cost of desire. Anna, a luminous and intelligent woman trapped in a respectable marriage to the principled statesman Alexei Karenin, arrives in Moscow to soothe a family scandal and instead finds her own life upended when she meets the charismatic Count Alexei Vronsky. As their connectio...
Aug 18, 2022•37 hr 8 min•Ep. 264
Rainbow Valley by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: family Set in the warm, wind-swept countryside of Prince Edward Island, Rainbow Valley follows a summertime of mischief, friendship, and growing up in the shadow of a small village's expectations. Anne Shirley Blythe, now settled with her doctor husband and their lively children, watches a new set of young spirits burst into her world: the Meredith kids, whose absentminded minister father loves them dearly but struggles to manage a household. ...
Aug 17, 2022•9 hr 5 min•Ep. 263
The Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the coastal village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, The Chronicles of Avonlea gathers a sparkling collection of interconnected short stories that expand the beloved world of Anne of Green Gables. Though Anne Shirley appears only at the edges, her presence lingers in the community she has helped brighten - and the spotlight shifts to neighbors, schoolchildren, sweethearts, and solitary souls whose everyday lives hide...
Aug 17, 2022•6 hr 29 min•Ep. 262
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Fresh from earning her teaching certificate, spirited Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island to begin a new chapter in the quiet village of Avonlea. Now a young woman, Anne takes charge of a small country schoolhouse and quickly discovers that guiding a roomful of lively students is as challenging as it is rewarding. At the same time, she and her friends and neighbors are drawn into a whirlwind of community life: picnics, concerts...
Aug 16, 2022•9 hr 2 min•Ep. 261
Anne of the Island by L. M. Montgomery audiobook. Genre: drama Anne Shirley is growing up, and the red-haired dreamer of Green Gables is ready to trade Prince Edward Island's familiar lanes for the wider world of college. Leaving behind the comforts of Avonlea, Anne begins her studies at Redmond College, where new friends, new freedoms, and new expectations challenge her to define who she is beyond childhood. Rooming with a lively circle of young women, Anne balances lectures and late-night deba...
Aug 16, 2022•8 hr 5 min•Ep. 260
Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: fantasy The Road to Oz takes Dorothy and her friends on an adventure in Oz to a grand party in honor of Ozma's birthday. It all starts near her home on Uncle Henry's farm in Kansas when she tries to help a shaggy stranger find the road he is seeking. On the way they find a young boy, Button-Bright, and together they get lost, only to find themselves in the fairylands of Oz. Once again in the Land of Oz, Dorothy and her friends encounter a number of n...
Aug 16, 2022•4 hr 56 min•Ep. 259
Aunt Jane’s Nieces by L. Frank Baum audiobook. Genre: family When wealthy, plainspoken Aunt Jane Merrick falls ill, the future of her comfortable household suddenly hinges on three unexpected visitors: her nieces. Sent for in haste, the young women could not be more different. Louise is polished and calculating, certain that money is the measure of security. Patsy is warmhearted and impulsive, quick to laugh and quicker to defend anyone being treated unfairly. Beth, the youngest, is quietly obse...
Aug 16, 2022•5 hr 31 min•Ep. 258
The Awakening by Kate Chopin audiobook. Genre: drama The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons, who writes: “The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine’s desire for an affair with the son of a Louisiana resort owner, whom she meets on vacation. The power of sensuality, the delusion of ecstatic love, and the solitude that accom...
Aug 16, 2022•4 hr 47 min•Ep. 257
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy First published in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' concise and provocative call to understand modern society through the struggle between social classes. Written in the voice of a political pamphlet but grounded in historical analysis, it traces how the rise of the bourgeoisie transformed economies, politics, and everyday life, while also creating a new class, the proletariat, whose labor powers th...
Aug 16, 2022•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 256
The Story of the Three Little Pigs by L. Leslie Brooke audiobook. Genre: folklore In L. Leslie Brooke's classic retelling, three pig siblings set out to make homes of their own and prove they can thrive without anyone else's help. Each chooses a different path: one favors speed and ease, another aims for comfort with a little more care, and the third commits to patient, sturdy work. But when a hungry, clever wolf appears on the road, those choices stop being simple and become a test of judgment,...
Aug 16, 2022•11 min•Ep. 255
The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: adventure A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they have a hidden benefactor: Captain Nemo, of 20,000 Leagues...
Aug 15, 2022•22 hr 4 min•Ep. 254
Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi In 1863 Hamburg, absent-minded mineralogist Professor Otto Lidenbrock makes a startling discovery: an encrypted note tucked inside an ancient book, hinting at a passage to the Earth's deepest regions. With his steady, skeptical nephew Axel reluctantly in tow, and guided by the calm, resourceful Icelandic hunter Hans, the professor races to Iceland to test a theory that most scientists dismiss as fantasy. Their route desc...
Aug 15, 2022•8 hr 24 min•Ep. 253
From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: science In 1860s America, the Civil War has ended and the Baltimore Gun Club is bored - until its brilliant, larger-than-life president Impey Barbicane proposes an outrageous new project: instead of building weapons, why not build a cannon big enough to send a projectile to the Moon? The idea electrifies the public, attracts funding from around the world, and ignites a race to solve problems no one has faced before: impossible measureme...
Aug 15, 2022•4 hr 50 min•Ep. 252
Typhoon by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: adventure Joseph Conrad's Typhoon is a taut sea tale set aboard the steamship Nan-Shan as it carries a cargo of rice and a deck packed with hundreds of Chinese laborers across the waters of Southeast Asia. Its master, Captain MacWhirr, is a practical, literal-minded man who values routine and clear rules over imagination or flair. With him is Jukes, an ambitious young officer still learning what command truly costs. When ominous weather gathers into a f...
Aug 14, 2022•3 hr 10 min•Ep. 251
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad audiobook. Genre: adventure A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young 'simple and sensitive character' who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea -- and of his expiation of that sin against his own 'shadowy ideal of conduct' on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, 'the rare distinctio...
Aug 14, 2022•14 hr 33 min•Ep. 250
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre audiobook. Genre: mystery Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his chosen field. He smiles when men call him a detective. 'No; only an investigator,' he says. He has never courted notoriety; indeed, his life has been more or less secluded. However, let a man do remarkable ...
Aug 14, 2022•8 hr 21 min•Ep. 249
The Yosemite by John Muir audiobook. Genre: history In The Yosemite, naturalist and advocate John Muir invites listeners into the granite cathedral of Californias Sierra Nevada, blending firsthand observation with a poets reverence for wild places. Moving from the famous Yosemite Valley to its surrounding high country, Muir traces how ice, water, and time shaped sheer cliffs, domes, waterfalls, and meadows, while also introducing the living community that thrives there - towering sequoias, resil...
Aug 13, 2022•7 hr 10 min•Ep. 248
Paradise Lost by John Milton audiobook. Genre: poetry John Milton's Paradise Lost is a monumental epic poem that retells the story of humanity's first disobedience and the sweeping spiritual war that surrounds it. The poem opens in the aftermath of a cataclysmic defeat, where Satan and his fallen host rally in a bleak new realm and plot a way to strike back at Heaven. Their target is not a fortress but a fragile, radiant world newly made, where Adam and Eve live in innocence within Eden. As cele...
Aug 13, 2022•9 hr 18 min•Ep. 247
20000 Leagues Under the Seas by Jules Verne audiobook. Genre: scifi When reports of a terrifying 'sea monster' disrupt shipping lanes around the globe, the United States joins an international hunt to track it down. French marine biologist Professor Pierre Aronnax boards the warship Abraham Lincoln with his unflappable servant Conseil and the hard-bitten Canadian harpooner Ned Land, expecting a scientific triumph and a swift end to the mystery. Instead, a violent encounter casts them into the oc...
Aug 12, 2022•16 hr 44 min•Ep. 246
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum audiobook. Genre: adventure Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world alone in a small boat. He personally rebuilt an 11.2 metre sloop-rigged fishing boat that he named the Spray. On April 24, 1895, he set sail from Boston, Massachusetts. More than three years later, he returned to Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898 having circumnavigated the world, a distance of 46,000 miles (74,000 km). In 1899 he described the voyage in Saili...
Aug 12, 2022•8 hr 6 min•Ep. 245
Heidi by Johanna Spyri audiobook. Genre: family Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at your heels and sky utterly surrounding you. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage ove...
Aug 12, 2022•9 hr 58 min•Ep. 244
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss audiobook. Genre: adventure The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays “the right stuff” and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and companionship of other humans, they use a familiarity with natural history and biology to find the resources and build the tools to construct a canoe, weave cloth, irrigate a ...
Aug 12, 2022•13 hr 2 min•Ep. 243
Emma by Jane Austen audiobook. Genre: romance In the comfortable village of Highbury, Emma Woodhouse is clever, wealthy, and certain she understands the hidden currents of other people's hearts. With her father devoted and her social position secure, Emma decides to amuse herself by arranging romances, starting with her new friend Harriet Smith, a sweet, impressionable young woman eager to rise in the world. But as Emma nudges Harriet toward what she believes is a better match, she misreads moti...
Aug 11, 2022•15 hr 3 min•Ep. 242
Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K Jerome audiobook. Genre: comedy In Idle Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow, Jerome K. Jerome invites you into the mind of a charmingly unhurried narrator who has time to notice everything - and to question why so much of it is taken so seriously. Presented as a series of witty, conversational essays, the book roams from the small irritations and pleasures of everyday life to the larger mysteries of human nature. Jerome muses on being idle (and the exhausting e...
Aug 11, 2022•5 hr 7 min•Ep. 241
Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris audiobook. Genre: folklore That the little boy loved Uncle Remus and his stories was so obvious that the tale-spinning sessions began drawing additional listeners. Daddy Jack, an old 'Africa man' visiting from down-state; Sis Tempy, the strong chief of the mansion's servants; and Tildy, a young and pretty servant-girl - all found their way to Uncle Remus' rude cabin when their duties or interests permitted, to sit around the hearth and hear the wonderful tales...
Aug 11, 2022•6 hr 26 min•Ep. 240
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In the glittering summer of 1922, Nick Carraway arrives on Long Island hoping for a fresh start and finds himself drawn into the dazzling, uneasy world of the newly rich. Renting a modest house in West Egg, Nick becomes neighbor to the mysterious Jay Gatsby, a man whose lavish weekend parties spill over with champagne, jazz, and rumors. As Nick is pulled into Gatsby's orbit, he also reconnects with his cousin Daisy Buchanan and her ...
Aug 10, 2022•5 hr 48 min•Ep. 239
