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19 Best Places to Download Free Audiobooks
Having a free audiobook in the car for when you run errands, on your phone when you're traveling, or on your computer to enjoy while you work, can keep you sane and add some fun and interest to your day.
These websites offer completely free audiobooks for you to download and listen to whenever you want. You won't find any samples here—at these websites, you'll be able to download complete books.
The downloads below are all legal. They are either public domain or the websites have permission from the author.
Most of the time you'll be downloading these books as MP3 files (or sometimes WMA or AAC files) that can play on your computer, tablet, phone, iPod, or MP3 player. There are free audio converter tools you can use if you need the audiobook to be in a different file format.
LibriVox
You can listen to specific chapters without having to download all of them
Several ways to find a specific audiobook
Lets you recieve new audiobooks by podcast
Available in many languages
Works on mobile devices
Can't sort audiobooks by most popular
LibriVox has a huge selection of free audio books that are recordings of volunteers who have read chapters from books that are in the public domain.
You can find one by searching by title, author, genre/subject, or language. You can also browse all the titles in the catalog, view only the most additions, and subscribe to new releases as podcasts.
Once you reach a book's description page, you can read more about it and even listen to the chapters individually without having to download each of them.
However, if you do want to download the whole audio book, every chapter included, you can do so in a ZIP file, directly from LibriVox. Some are also available through a torrent and M4B file.
LibriVox is also available for iOS here, and Android devices here, so that you can download books to your phone or tablet, or stream them on the go.
Audible
There's a huge selection of audiobooks
Get two audiobooks completely free
The audiobooks are yours to keep forever
Listen to your audiobooks from a mobile device or computer
The trial period is only one month long
Limits you to just two audiobook downloads
Must pay monthly after the trial to keep downloading audiobooks
Audible has a 30-day free trial going which means that you can download any audio book of your choice, plus any two Audible originals, for free during that time.
Audible has a great selection of audio books and you'll be able to find just about any title you're looking for, including best sellers and new releases.
After the 30 day trial, you can get one book each month for $14.95 /month, no matter the price of the book.
Rakuten OverDrive
Lets you borrow audiobooks free from your local library
Works with tens of thousands of libraries
You can listen from a computer or the mobile app
Includes free audiobooks samples
Must have a library card from a supported library
If your local library has a subscription to OverDrive (check here) then this is a great place to find free audio book downloads of recent fiction and non-fiction books, including best-sellers.
You'll check these out just like you would a library book and they'll be returned at the end of the loan period. You can even do it all from Libby, the mobile app for iOS and Android.
Besides free audiobooks, OverDrive also has free eBooks, movies, and music.
Internet Archive
Has thousands of free audiobook downloads
Several sorting options for finding the perfect audiobook
Lets you filter the audiobook downloads by certain criteria
Usually multiple audio format options when downloading
Can be downloaded in bulk or by individual chapter
Many audiobooks are poorly named and hard to recognize at first glance
There aren't many non-English audiobook downloads
The Internet Archive also has a ton of free audio book downloads that you can browse through by subject, keywords, or using the search box. There are over 20,000 results for audio books and poetry on this website.
Our favorite way to find books here is by sorting by view count to find the most popular ones. Some of those include The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, The Swiss Family Robinson, Moby Dick, The Art of War, and Dracula.
Some are available in multiple formats so that you can download the book in the MP3 or OGG format, for example.
Mind Webs is one part of Internet Archive that has several dozen classic sci-fi audio books.
Loyal Books
Multiple language options
Makes finding the top 100 audiobooks easy
Audiobooks are organized in several genres
Thousands of free audiobooks
It's easy to use Loyal Books (previously called Books Should Be Free) to download free audio books. You can view the audio books by the language, the top 100, and by genre like Children, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, and more than a dozen others.
You can listen to these books on the Loyal Books website, download MP3s of the chapters altogether at once in one ZIP file, download the whole audiobook in one M4B file for iPhones and iPods, save specific chapters only, stream from your phone or tablet, and even get the book through an RSS reader.
These are public domain books, so you might not see anything here that differs from the other public domain audio book websites we've already mentioned.
Storynory
Great for kids
Includes text with the audiobook
New audiobooks are released often
Very limited compared to most other audiobook websites
If you are looking for free audio books for kids, then Storynory should be your first stop.
The selection includes original stories, fairy tales, classic stories, educational books, and some small stories for the very little ones.
You can download audio books here, stream them directly from the website, or subscribe through iTunes or another podcasting service. There's also an app for iOS devices, but it's not free.
Open Culture
Hundreds of free audiobooks
Audiobooks are listed in alphabetical order for easy reading
Can't sort or filter the list of audiobooks
No option to search through the list
Open Culture has a thousand fiction, non-fiction, and poetry audiobooks you can download for free. Just scroll down the alphabetized list to browse through everything they have to offer.
These audio book downloads are located on a variety of other websites, too, so some of them may be direct links to the MP3 while others might be streamed from its download page but not available for download.
Besides free audio books, Open Culture also has free movies, online courses, language lessons, and eBooks.
Digitalbook.io
Change the playback rate
Audiobooks can be launched as podcasts in iTunes
Several ways to locate a new free audiobook
Includes lots of well-known titles and lesser-known ones
Several languages and categories to choose from
Has a lot more ebooks than audiobooks
Digitalbook.io (previously known as Librophile) is another free audiobook directory that makes is easy to find public domain audio book downloads.
Browse by trending or top-rated to find one you might like, or look through the list of genres or authors.
You can download the whole audio book or just specific chapters, as well as listen to it in pieces right on the website.
There are over 100,000 items at Digitalbook.io, and while some are audio books, others are regular eBooks.
Light Up Your Brain
Audiobooks are geared toward kids
A text version is available below each audiobook
Most audiobooks are under 10 minutes
Light Up Your Brain has several clearly-read, short, free audio books that are just for kids. Stream them or download the audio books to your computer.
A transcription of the story is provided as well so that beginning readers can read along with the audio.
There are also some free games for kids here that are all made to challenge their mind and keep their brain active.
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