LibriVox Audio Books

Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy

Read by Blane Aden McKoy


Isaac Asimov



This is a short booklet on science fact commissioned by the U. S. Energy Research and Development Administration (Office of Public Affairs).…

Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch

Read by Abigail Rasmussen


H. Rider Haggard



This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of th…

The Patience Of Maigret


Georges Simenon



The Patience of Maigret is a captivating radio adaptation of Georges Simenon's work, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 FM on August 21, 1977. A…

One of the 28th

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty



A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

The Marrow of Tradition

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt



In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the ra…

Kabumpo in Oz

Read by Phil Chenevert


Ruth Plumly Thompson



An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name i…

The Return of Clubfoot

Read by Mark Nelson


Valentine Williams



Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a…

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

Read by Crawford Logan


Fergus Hume



Fergus Hume's The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a gripping murder mystery set in 1886 Melbourne. The story begins when the body of a man is dis…

The Children's Shakespeare

Read by LibriVox Volunteers


E. Nesbit



This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short st…

History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria

Read by Sibella Denton


Gaston Maspero



History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in t…

The Torrents of Spring

Read by tovarisch


Ivan Turgenev



The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when …

Twelve Years a Slave

Read by Rob Marland


Solomon Northup



Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…

Union and Communion

Read by David Barnes


J. Hudson Taylor



This little book, whose design is to lead the devout Bible student into the Green Pastures of the Good Shepherd, thence to the Banqueting Ho…

Lost Illusions

Read by Bruce Pirie


Honoré de Balzac



A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Un grand homme de province à Paris, 1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy,…

Campaigning With Grant

Read by David Wales


Horace Porter



In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…

United States Constitution

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


United States Government and Unit



The Constitution is the charter of government and the supreme law of the United States of America. It was signed by delegates to the Constit…

Ozma of Oz

Read by Judy Bieber


L. Frank Baum



Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy cou…

Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán

Read by Sue Anderson


John Lloyd Stephens



The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)


U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers



This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…

Bethink Yourselves!

Read by David Barnes


Leo Tolstoy



As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider the…

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