Here is a list of 5 websites to listen to free audiobooks. All these websites include free audiobooks spread across different genres. You can easily search for audiobooks matching your interest, download them, and listen to them whenever you want.
All these websites let you search for audiobooks by author name, book name, genre, etc.. Some of the website also have special categories like Top 100, Trending, Popular etc.. to help you search better. A few of them also includes paid audiobooks, along with a free sample preview for buying audiobooks from famous authors.
Let’s get started with these websites:
1. LearnOutLoud:
The first website to listen to free audiobooks is LearnOutLoud. The website boasts of having a collection of 30000+ audiobooks across different genres. It has dedicated sections for browsing free and paid audiobooks. You can browse free ones across genres like Art & Entertainment, Biography, Business, Literature, History, Philosophy, Technology, Travel, etc. Besides this, you can sort them as Most Popular, Recently Added, Random Sort, Bestsellers, etc.
You can also filter audiobooks as per their format like Audio Download, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, MP3 CD, Online Audio, Podcast, etc. It also offers 1 paid audiobook for free to download as part of its Free Audiobook for the Month section.
2. Loyal Books:
The second website to listen to free audiobooks is Loyal Books. The website has two main categories: Popular Genres and More Genres. The first one includes popular genres while the latter one includes all of them. You can also browse audiobooks on the basis of languages like Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, etc..
For any audiobook, you can read its completed synopsis and get links to Wikipedia pages of author, book, and any other important thing related to the book. You can also go through the listener’s comments.
It lets you choose whether you want to stream the audiobook, download individual chapters, and complete audiobook. The complete audiobook can be downloaded as MP3 Download, iTunes Podcast, iPhone/iPod M4b Audiobook, and RSS Feed.
3. ThoughtAudio:
The next website for free audiobooks is ThoughtAudio. The website doesn’t have any specific categories or filters for searching audiobooks but it does has a good collection of free audiobooks. For each book, you can check the author name, narrator name, read a brief summary, a link to Wikipedia page of the book, and the author info.
You can download any audiobook in segments along with the option of downloading the transcript in PDF format.
4. Podiobooks:
Podiobooks is the second last website to listen to free audiobooks. The homepage of the website lets you browse audiobooks as Featured Titles, Top Rated Titles, and Latest Releases. You can choose the categories as Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Humor, Non-fiction, Thriller, etc..
You can also browse titles by Author/Contributor, Recently Released, Category/Genre, Series, Awards/Nominations, and All Titles/Alphabetically. For each book, you can check the name, author name, synopsis, reader’s rating. The website also lets you donate any amount to the author if you want to.
5. New Fiction:
The New Fiction is a pretty simple and easy to use website with no categories, filters, sort by, or tags. You have to go through the list manually to find best audiobooks for you. For each book, it shows a couple of lines about the book and an option to listen to the audiobook.
Here, I will wrap up my list of 5 free websites to listen to free audiobooks. All these websites are easy to use and absolutely free. However, some of these do include paid audiobooks as well, but you can stick to the free ones only. So check them out to find your favorite audiobooks or even discover new ones.
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