Come Out of the Kitchen! by Alice Duer Miller audiobook. Genre: romance In a small Southern town, successful young Northerner Burton Crane arrives looking for a grand country house to rent for the hunting season - and finds the perfect (if slightly ramshackle) prize in the venerable Revelly place. The only problem is staffing it. Crane is picky about comforts, and his formidable friend Mrs. Falkener insists on inspecting the prospective servants herself. What steps into Randolph Reed's real-esta...
Sep 06, 2025•4 hr 51 min
Three More John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood audiobook. Genre: horror In Three More John Silence Stories, Algernon Blackwood returns to the uncanny casework of Dr. John Silence, a famed psychic physician whose practice takes him far beyond ordinary medicine. Called in when reason fails and fear takes root, Silence approaches each mystery with calm compassion, rigorous observation, and a rare sensitivity to forces most people refuse to name. Across three haunting investigations, he is dr...
Sep 05, 2025•3 hr 11 min
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant by Alexander Dunlop Lindsay audiobook. Genre: philosophy Alexander Dunlop Lindsay's The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant is a brisk, clarifying guide to the thinker who redrew the map of modern philosophy. Writing for readers who have heard of Kant but find the Critique of Pure Reason intimidating, Lindsay introduces Kant in his historical moment: an outwardly quiet life set against an age of revolution in politics, science, and ideas. From there, the book follows Kant...
Sep 04, 2025•2 hr 58 min
The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert Mackey audiobook. Genre: philosophy Albert G. Mackey's The Symbolism of Freemasonry is a classic guide to the ideas, images, and ceremonial language that shape the Masonic tradition. Written for both curious outsiders and committed members of the Craft, the book sets out to explain how Freemasonry uses architecture, tools, numbers, light and darkness, and the layout of the lodge as a teaching system. Mackey argues that Masonic ritual is not mere pageantry, ...
Sep 03, 2025•7 hr 59 min
When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: poetry When We Were Very Young is A. A. Milne's beloved collection of poems that captures childhood with warmth, whimsy, and a gently mischievous sense of wonder. Framed by the everyday world of a small child, the book moves through imaginative games, nursery-room logic, and moments that feel both ordinary and magical - from marching like a brave explorer to negotiating bedtime, from observing animals and weather to inventing entire advent...
Sep 02, 2025•1 hr 9 min
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne audiobook. Genre: family In the Hundred Acre Wood, a small community of friends drifts through the gentle adventures of everyday life, where the smallest problem can feel enormous and the simplest kindness can change the day. Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear of very little brain but a very big heart, ambles from one curious situation to the next with his thoughtful companion Piglet, the cheerfully gloomy Eeyore, the bustling Rabbit, and the proud, anxious Owl. New ...
Sep 01, 2025•3 hr 10 min
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy Written in 1845, Karl Marx's Eleven Theses on Feuerbach is a compact, incendiary set of notes that helped pivot modern thought from interpreting the world to transforming it. Framed as a critique of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, Marx challenges the limits of earlier materialism and exposes what he sees as its central weakness: treating human beings as passive observers rather than active makers of history. Across ele...
Aug 30, 2025•9 min
Gunsight Pass - How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine audiobook. Genre: adventure When young Arizona cowboy Dave Sanders steps in to help a stranger being robbed, one split-second act of courage twists into a nightmare: Dave is blamed for a killing he did not commit and learns how quickly frontier justice can turn rough and careless. By the time he rides back to cattle country, the range he knew is changing fast. An oil boom has rolled in behind the d...
Aug 29, 2025•8 hr 37 min
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins audiobook. Genre: history In Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot, Wilkie Collins steps away from the drawing rooms and detective plots he would later make famous and invites listeners onto the open road. Writing as a curious, sharp-eyed traveler, Collins chronicles a walking tour through Cornwall in the mid-19th century, moving from coastal towns to mining districts, lonely moorland paths, and o...
Aug 28, 2025•7 hr 18 min
A Year with the Birds by W. Warde Fowler audiobook. Genre: science In A Year with the Birds, Oxford scholar and naturalist W. Warde Fowler invites listeners into a patient, season-by-season apprenticeship in seeing. Beginning with brisk morning walks through Oxford's parks, riversides, and college gardens, Fowler trades the angler's rod for field-glass and discovers a different kind of sport: learning the habits, voices, and sudden appearances of everyday birds. As the months turn, he follows mi...
Aug 27, 2025•4 hr 41 min
Musings of a Chinese Mystic - Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu by Lionel Giles audiobook. Genre: philosophy Musings of a Chinese Mystic presents a clear, inviting gateway into the thought of Chuang Tzu (Zhuangzi), one of the great voices of Taoist philosophy. In these carefully chosen passages, editor and translator Lionel Giles gathers the work's most memorable parables, dialogues, and whimsical anecdotes, revealing a mind that argues by laughter as much as by logic. Across stories ...
Aug 26, 2025•2 hr 36 min
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: philosophy In A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx lays out a concentrated, foundational statement of the method and problems that will define his later economic writings. Written in the wake of revolutionary upheavals and amid rapid industrial change, the book argues that to understand politics, law, and culture you must begin with the material organization of society: how people produce...
Aug 25, 2025•9 hr 23 min
Some Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: family Some Short Christmas Stories gathers six of Charles Dickens' most intimate seasonal pieces into one fireside-ready volume, each turning the sparkle of Christmas into a lens for memory, mercy, and the people society overlooks. In 'A Christmas Tree,' a narrator stands before a glittering tree and finds its candles lighting up the past, summoning childhood pleasures alongside the first shadows of growing up. 'What Christmas is...
Aug 23, 2025•2 hr 44 min
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter audiobook. Genre: comedy First published in the early 1800s by self-made Newburyport merchant Timothy Dexter, A Pickle For the Knowing Ones is part memoir, part provocation, and part prank on the polite reading public. Dexter, an untrained writer with boundless confidence, sets out to prove his brilliance to the neighbors, businessmen, and gentlemen who mocked him, while also offering sharp, scattershot opinions on politics, religion, trade, and ev...
Aug 22, 2025•1 hr 29 min
Last Poems by Laurence Hope audiobook. Genre: poetry Last Poems gathers the final verse of Laurence Hope, the pen name of Adela Florence Nicolson, whose writing became known for its lyrical intensity and its imagined, sensual landscapes of British India. In this collection, the speaking voice moves through moonlit gardens, temple courts, and quiet interior rooms where memory and desire feel equally vivid. Across interconnected lyrics, Hope returns to recurring figures - the lover who waits, the ...
Aug 21, 2025•2 hr 22 min
The Automobile Girls at Newport by Laura Crane audiobook. Genre: adventure Published in 1910, The Automobile Girls at Newport follows spirited sisters Barbara (Bab) and Mollie Thurston, whose hard-working family suddenly gets a rare chance to taste a different world. When their wealthy friend Ruth Stuart invites them to Newport, Rhode Island, the girls join Ruth, capable at the wheel of her motor car, along with lively Grace Carter and a sensible chaperone, Aunt Sallie, for a summer journey that...
Aug 20, 2025•4 hr 58 min
The Black Flemings by Kathleen Norris audiobook. Genre: horror On a bleak New England shoreline, Wastewater Hall stands like a brooding memory - a brick mansion battered by salt wind, shuttered rooms, and decades of Fleming pride. When young David Fleming returns to the estate after years away, he finds the household unchanged on the surface and quietly poisoned underneath: his formidable Aunt Flora still rules with watchful eyes, old grievances still echo through the corridors, and the family n...
Aug 19, 2025•10 hr 48 min
William Blake by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography In this brisk, argumentative portrait, G. K. Chesterton introduces William Blake not as a tame museum poet but as a working London engraver whose art and visions refused every comfortable category. Moving between biography and literary criticism, Chesterton follows Blake from his early apprenticeship and stubborn independence through the difficult years of making prints, writing lyric masterpieces like Songs of Innocence and of Experi...
Aug 18, 2025•3 hr 42 min
Robert Browning by G. K. Chesterton audiobook. Genre: biography In Robert Browning, G. K. Chesterton offers a brisk, opinionated portrait of the great Victorian poet and the strange, exhilarating world inside his verse. Part biography, part literary detective work, the book follows Browning from his early formation and ambitions through the creation of the dramatic monologues that made his name, showing how he turned poetry into a stage where criminals, saints, skeptics, and lovers argue their c...
Aug 16, 2025•7 hr 16 min
Revolution and Counter Revolution, or Germany in 1848 by Karl Marx audiobook. Genre: history Written in the heat and aftermath of the 1848 upheavals, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or Germany in 1848 is Karl Marx's fast-moving account of how a continent-wide surge for constitutional government and national unity collided with entrenched monarchies, cautious liberals, and the realities of class power. Framed as a political narrative rather than a detached chronicle, the book follows the drama...
Aug 15, 2025•4 hr 58 min
Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill audiobook. Genre: religion Practical Mysticism is Evelyn Underhill's inviting guide to the mystical life as a real, disciplined way of seeing and living, not an escape into vagueness or rare experiences. Writing with clarity and quiet intensity, Underhill argues that mysticism is rooted in attention, love, and inner transformation, and that it can be pursued amid ordinary duties rather than only in monasteries or secluded retreats. She introduces the reade...
Aug 14, 2025•4 hr 18 min
XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings audiobook. Genre: poetry XLI Poems by E. E. Cummings is a bracing, playful, and often tender collection that showcases a poet determined to make language feel newly alive. Across forty-one pieces, Cummings tests what a poem can do on the page and in the ear: lines fracture, punctuation becomes part of the music, and familiar words are rearranged until they surprise. The voices in these poems move between intimacy and satire, praising love with startling directness whi...
Aug 13, 2025•53 min
Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years by Carl Sandburg audiobook. Genre: biography Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln - The Prairie Years is a sweeping, intimate portrait of Lincoln before the White House, tracing how a shy frontier boy became a self-made lawyer, gifted storyteller, and rising political figure. Moving from the hard edges of Kentucky and Indiana to the broader horizons of Illinois, Sandburg follows Lincoln through manual labor, restless reading, early failures and reinventions, and th...
Aug 12, 2025•18 hr 54 min
The Astral Plane - Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena by C. W. Leadbeater audiobook. Genre: religion In The Astral Plane: Its Inhabitants, Scenery, and Phenomena, C. W. Leadbeater offers a brisk, systematic tour of an unseen world described in the Theosophical tradition. Writing as a careful observer rather than a storyteller, Leadbeater lays out what the astral plane is said to be, how it relates to physical life, and why reports of hauntings, apparitions, dreams, and clairvoyant visions o...
Aug 11, 2025•4 hr 4 min
The Man of Genius by Cesare Lombroso audiobook. Genre: science In The Man of Genius, pioneering Italian psychiatrist and criminologist Cesare Lombroso sets out to answer a provocative question: what separates extraordinary creative power from illness, obsession, and instability? Drawing on 19th-century medicine, anthropology, and early psychology, Lombroso assembles a wide-ranging inquiry into the lives and works of celebrated poets, painters, composers, philosophers, and inventors. He traces re...
Aug 09, 2025•12 hr 32 min
Dymer by C. S. Lewis audiobook. Genre: poetry Dymer is C. S. Lewis's early narrative poem, written in rich, mythic language and shaped like a modern fable. It follows Dymer, a restless young man raised in a gray, rule-bound city where imagination and desire are treated as threats. When he breaks away from the safety of conformity, Dymer sets out into a strange landscape of shifting kingdoms, seductive promises, and uncanny rites, driven by a hunger for freedom and a longing he cannot fully name....
Aug 08, 2025•2 hr 9 min
Clematis by Bertha B. Cobb audiobook. Genre: family On a warm spring day in a crowded New York street, a quiet little girl in shabby clothes sits alone with a kitten hidden inside her coat. She can only give one name - Clematis - and she insists the kitten, Deborah, is her own. Kind policeman Jim Cunneen cannot leave her there, and soon Clematis is carried from the hard edge of the sidewalk into the strict routines of a Children's Home, where beds are lined in rows, meals come by rule, and every...
Aug 07, 2025•2 hr 23 min
A Brief History of Forestry by Bernhard Eduard Fernow audiobook. Genre: history Originally developed from a series of lectures delivered to students at the Yale Forest School, Bernhard E. Fernow's A Brief History of Forestry offers a brisk, wide-ranging survey of how societies learned, often the hard way, to manage forests as more than an endless frontier. Writing as a leading early forester and educator, Fernow begins with the forest world of the ancients and then traces the slow emergence of l...
Aug 06, 2025•15 hr 43 min
The Silent Bullet by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery When a baffling killing strikes New York society, the evidence points everywhere and nowhere at once: a victim collapses with scarcely a sound, the scene offers no clear weapon, and the witnesses can only agree on one thing - something unseen delivered death with chilling precision. Into the confusion steps Professor Craig Kennedy, a brilliant criminologist whose laboratory methods make him as much scientist as sleuth. Alongside his ...
Aug 05, 2025•9 hr 7 min
The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War by Archibald Clavering Gunter audiobook. Genre: adventure In the uneasy years just before the Mexican War flares into open conflict, a young woman who has been polished by New York society learns that her roots lie far from ballrooms and parlors. Raised to be a debutante, she is jolted by loss and driven by a single, urgent question: who is the father she has never met, and what kind of life waits for her on his vast Texas ranch? Her journey west becom...
Aug 04, 2025•10 hr 54 min
