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WHAT IS #NZreadaloud? #NZreadaloud is a 'connected literacy' initiative that began in 2015. The goal was simple ... One Book to Connect Kiwi Kids across Aotearoa. The focus is on New Zealand authors writing stories in New Zealand settings. WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? In 2016 #NZreadaloud has expanded to include Year 1 through to...

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Storytime: RNZ's collection of free children's audio books. All written and produced in New Zealand for little kids, kids and young adults.

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Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more. Also please see our related collection: The 150 Best Podcasts to Enrich Your Mind.

Aristophanes - Lysistrata (performed by Lucy Lawless) - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "Nightfall" - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - Radio Dramas of The Foundation Trilogy & 7 Classic Stories - Free Stream

Asimov, Isaac - "The Last Question" (readings by Leonard Nimoy) - Free YouTube Audio

Atwood, Margaret - "Stone Mattress" - Free Stream

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (read by Kate Beckinsale) - Free iTunes

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (alternative version) - Spotify

Auster, Paul - Free Stream - "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story"

Auster, Paul - Free MP3 - The Red Notebook (read by the author)

Babel, Isaac - Free MP3 - "The Story of the Dovecote" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Babel, Isaac - "You Must Know Everything" - Free MP3

Baldwin, James - "A Letter to My New Nephew" (read by Chris Rock) - YouTube

Baldwin, James - Fifty Famous Stories Retold - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Ballard, JG - "A Place and A Time to Die" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Ballard, JG - "Track 12" and "Venus Smiles" - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - Cocaine Nights - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "My Dream of Flying to Wake Island" (read by William Boyd) - Free MP3

Ballard, JG - The Drowned World - Free Stream

Ballard, JG - "The Stories of JG Ballard" (dramatized for radio) - Free Stream

Balzac, Honoré de - La Comédie Humaine (French) - Free Downloads

Balzac, Honoré de - Le Père Goriot - Free Stream/Download

Balzac, Honoré de - The Peasant Story of Napoleon - Free MP3

Barrodale, Amie - "William Wei" (read by James Franco) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Chablis" (read by Etgar Keret) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "Concerning the Bodyguard" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "Game" and "School" (read by T.C. Boyle) - Free MP3

Barthelme, Donald - "I Bought a Little City" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Barthelme, Donald - "The Royal Treatment" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Baum, Frank L. - The Wizard of Oz (read by Tituss Burgess) - Free iTunes

Baum, L. Frank - Rinkitink in Oz (Vol 10) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - The Magic of Oz (Vol 13) - Free MP3

Baum, Frank L. - Glinda of Oz (Vol 14) - Free MP3

Beckett, Samuel - The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989 - Free Audio Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Live Reading) - Real Player

Beckett, Samuel - Waiting for Godot (Theatrical performance with Bert Lahr) - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - 'On Exactitude in Science' - Free MP3/Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Ibn Hakkan Al-Bokhari, Dead in his Labyrinth (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - Shakespeare's Memory - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - "The Book of Sand" - Free Stream

Borges, Jorge Luis - The Gospel According to Mark (read by Paul Theroux) - Free Stream

Boyle, T. Coraghessan - "The Shape of a Teardrop‪"‬ (read by Boyle) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - Futuria Fantasia (a sci fi short story collected edited by Ray Bradbury) - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - All Summer in a Day - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Golden Apples of the Sun - Free Stream/MP3

Bradbury, Ray - The Pedestrian - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles & The Illustrated Man Read by Leonard Nimoy - YouTube

Bradbury, Ray - The Martian Chronicles (Radio drama with Derek Jacobi & Hayley Atwell) - Spotify

Bradbury, Ray - Radio Dramas of Bradbury Stories - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - "The Last Night of the World" - Soundcloud

Brodkey, Harold - "Dumbness is Everything" (read by Michael Cunningham) - Free Stream

Brodkey, Harold - "Spring Fugue" (read by Jeffrey Eugenides) - Free MP3

Brodkey, Harold - "The State of Grace" (read by Richard Ford ) - Free Stream

Bronte, Anne - Agnes Grey - Free iTunes

Brown, Margaret Wise - Good Night Moon (Read by Susan Sarandon) - YouTube

Burnett, Frances Hodgson - The Secret Garden (Read by Karen Gillan) - Free iTunes

Burroughs, William S. - Call Me Burroughs (his first spoken word album) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Ghosts of Chance" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - Junky - MP3s

Burroughs, William S. - Let Me Hang You (posthumous album featuring readings of Naked Lunch to music) - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - The Best of William Burroughs, Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, Dead City Radio, Break Through in Grey Room, and Call Me Burroughs - Spotify

Burroughs, William S. - "Thanksgiving Prayer" - YouTube

Burroughs, William S. - The Road to the Western Lands - Spotify

Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities (excerpts read by Calvino) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "Love Far from Home" (read by Salman Rushdie) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - The Night Driver (read by Jeanette Winterson) - Free Stream

Calvino, Italo - "The Daughters of the Moon" (read by Robert Coover) - Free Stream

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Cory Doctorow) - Multiple formats

Carroll, Lewis - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream/Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic - Free iTunes

Carroll, Lewis - Through the Looking Glass (Read by Joan Greenwood, Stanley Holloway) - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - "Cathedral" (read by James Naughton) - YouTube

Carver, Raymond - "Chef's House" (read by David Means) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "Fat" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "The Students' Wife (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Carver, Raymond - "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" (Read by Carver) - Free MP3

Chabon, Michael - "S. Angel" - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Death of Justina" (read by John Cheever) - Free Stream/Download

Cheever, John " The Enormous Radio" (read by Nathan Englander) - Free Stream

Cheever, John - "The Reunion" (read by Richard Ford) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Anne Enright) - Free MP3

Cheever, John - "The Swimmer" (read by Cheever himself) - Free Stream

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free MP3 Stream/Download

Chekhov, Anton - "The Beauties" (read by Philip Pullman) - Free MP3

Chekhov, Anton - Collected Stories - Free multiple formats

Chekhov, Anton - "The First Class Passenger," "Harmfulness of Tobacco" and "A Transgression" (Read by Michale Redgrave) - Spotify

Chabon, Michael - "S Angel" (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Chopin, Kate - Selected Stories - Multiple Formats

Christian Andersen, Hans - Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, including The Emperor's New Clothes, read by Sir Michael Redgrave - Free Spotify

Christian Andersen, Hans - Andersen's Fairy Tales - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "A Walk in the Dark" (A dramatized version of the text) - Free MP3 Stream

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Breaking Strain" - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - Childhood's End (Excerpts read by the author) - YouTube

Clarke, Arthur C. - "Hammer of God" - Free MP3

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Nine Billion Names of God" and "The Star" - Free Stream/Download

Clarke, Arthur C. - "The Star" (Radio Drama) - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - Beyond the City - Free MP3

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Radio Drama, Starring John Gielgud, Orson Welles & Ralph Richardson - Free Stream

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (64 Hours of Readings) - Spotify

Conan Doyle, Arthur - The Mystery of Cloomber - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Narrated by Hayward Morse) - Spotify

Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness (Orson Welles' radio drama from 1938) - YouTube

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - Free MP3

Conrad, Joseph - The Secret Sharer - YouTube

Cooper, James Fenimore - Jack Tier, or the Florida Reef - Free MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy (Italian) - Free Stream from Princeton University

Dante Alighieri - Divina Commedia (Full reading in Italian) - Free Stream/MP3

Dante Alighieri - The Inferno, Cantos I-VIII (Read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

Danticat, Edwidge - "Seven" (read by Junot Diaz) - Free Stream

Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe (alternate version read by Nigel Graham) - Spotify

DeLillo's, Don - "Baader-Meinhof" (read by Chang-rae Lee) - MP3

DeLillo, Don - "The Itch" - Free Stream

Diaz, Junot - "Alma" (read by Victor Rasuk) - YouTube

Diaz, Junot - "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" - Free MP3

Diaz, Junot - "The Cheaters Guide to Love" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "Beyond Lies the Wub" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Defenders" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Eyes Have It" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K. - "The Gun" - YouTube

Dick, Philip K. - "The Hanging Stranger" - Free MP3

Dick, Philip K - Radio Plays - Stream

Dickens, Charles - 24 Hours of Dickens Stories Featuring Classic Recordings by Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles & More - Free YouTube

Dickens, Charles - A Christmas Carol (Read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Dickens, Charles - Christmas Stories - Free MP3s

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - Notes from the Underground - Free MP3

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Free Stream/Download

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Gambler - Free MP3 Zip File - Free Stream

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Free Stream - Free MP3 Zip

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor - The Possessed - Free MP3

Doyle, Roddy - "Bullfighting" (Read by Dave Eggers) - Free MP3

Dr Who Audio Dramas - Spotify

Eliot, T.S. - The Cocktail Party (Performed by Alec Guinness & Cathleen Nesbitt) - Free Spotify

Erdich, Louise - "The Stone" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - "Shingles for the Lord" - Free Stream

Faulkner, William - Faulkner Reads Faulkner - Free Stream

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby - Free Stream

Flaubert, Gustave - Three Short Works

Ford, Richard - "Displaced" (Read by Richard Ford)

Forster, E.M. - "The Machine Stops" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - Coraline (Read in its entirety by Neil Gaiman and friends) - Video

Gaiman, Neil - "A Study in Emerald" - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "How to Talk to Other Girls at Parties" - Free MP3

Gaiman, Neil - "Orange" (read live) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Other People" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Video

Gaiman, Neil - "Troll Bridge" (read live, starts at 4:00 mark) - Free iTunes

Gaiman, Neil - "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury" (read by Neil Gaiman) - Free Stream

Gaiman, Neil - "The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains" - Free MP3

Gaitskill, Mary - "The Other Place" (read by Jennifer Egan) - Free MP3

Geng, Veronica - "Love Trouble Is My Business" (read by Jonathan Franzen) - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - "The Nose" - Free MP3

Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Gordimer, Nadine - "A Style of Her Own" and "The Bridegroom" (read by the author, 1961) - Free Stream/Download

Gordimer, Nadine - "City Lovers" (read by Tessa Hadley) - Free MP3

Gordimer, Nadine - "Loot" (read by author) - YouTube

Gordimer, Nadine - "The Pet" (read by Joseph O'Neill) - Free Stream

Grahame, Kenneth - The Reluctant Dragon (read by Boris Karloff) - YouTube

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Rappaccini's Daughter - Free Stream

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter - Spotify

Hawthorne, Nathaniel - "Wakefield" (Read by Paul Auster) - YouTube

Hayden, Julie - "Day-Old Baby Rats" (read by Lorrie Moore) Free MP3

Heinlein, Robert - Methuselah's Children (abridged) - Free Stream/MP3

Hemingway, Ernest - A Farewell to Arms (1948 radio drama) - YouTube

Hemingway, Ernest - Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway - Free Stream

Hemingway, Ernest - Homage to Switzerland (read by Julian Barnes) - Free MP3

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - "Simple on Indian Blood"(read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "A Toast to Harlem" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Last Whipping" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - "Feet Live Their Own Life" (read by Ossie Davis) - Free Stream

Hugo, Victor - Les Misérables - Radio drama narrated by Orson Welles - Multiple formats

Hugo, Victor - The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Abridged version read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (Dramatized version read by Huxley) - Free Stream

Irving, Washington - Rip Van Winkle - Free MP3

James, Henry - "Greville Fane" (read by Cynthia Ozick) - Free Stream/Download

Johnson, Denis - "Emergency" (read by Tobias Wolff) MP3

Joyce, James - "Eveline" (read by Sebastian Barry) - Free MP3

Joyce, James - Finnegans Wake - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" - Free MP3 Zip File

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Cynthia Nixon & Colum McCann) - Free Stream

Joyce, James - "The Dead" (Read by Bart Wolffe) - Spotify

July, Miranda - "Ron Spivey" (read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "A Little Fable" (Read by David Foster Wallace) - Free Stream

Kafka, Franz - "A Hunger Artist" (read by Hanif Kureishi) - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "Before the Law" - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - "In the Penal Colony - Free MP3

Kafka, Franz - The Metamorphosis - Free iTunes - Free MP3 - Free Stream - Spotify

Karloff, Boris - Tales of the Frightened - YouTube

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, etc - 18 Hours of Beat Readings - Spotify

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Figures in the Distance" (read by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie) - Free MP3

Kincaid, Jamaica - "Girl" and "Wingless" (read by Edwidge Danticat) - Free Stream

King, Stephen - "Afterlife" - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - Kim - Free iTunes

Kipling, Rudyard - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - "The Elephant's Child" - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Jungle Story - Free MP3 Zip File

L'Heureux, John - "Three Short Moments in a Long Life" - Free MP3 Stream

Lahiri, Jhumpa - "Casting Shadows‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lawrence, D.H. - Everlasting Flowers - Free MP3 Zip File

Lawrence, D.H. - A Woman and Her Dead Husband - Free MP3

Le Guin, Ursula - "The End" (Dramatized version) - Free MP3 Stream

Leroux, Gaston - The Phantom of the Opera (abridged) - Spotify

Lethem, Jonathan - "The Afterlife‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Lewis, C.S. - The Chronicles of Narnia - Free MP3s

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The Silver Chair

The Horse and His Boy

The Magician's Nephew

The Last Battle

Lewis, C.S. - The Screwtape Letters (narrated by John Cleese) - YouTube

Lewis, Sinclair - It Can't Happen Here (reading of an adapted play) - YouTube

London, Jack - The Heathen - Free MP3

London, Jack -To Build a Fire - Free MP3

Lovecraft, H.P - The Call of of Cthulhu & Other Stories - Spotify

Lovecraft, H.P. - The Outsider and The Hound (read by Roddy McDowall) - Free

Lu Xun - A Madman's Diary and Other Stories - Free MP3 Zip File

Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice - Free MP3s/Download

McCabe, Eugene - Annahullian (read by Colm Tóibín) - Free MP3

McCann, Colum - "Transatlantic" (read by author) - Free MP3

McEwan, Ian - "My Purple Scented Novel" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Celebrities (Benedict Cumberbatch, John Waters, Stephen Fry, Tilda Swinton & More) - Free Stream/Download

Melville, Herman - Moby-Dick read by Other Celebrities - SoundCloud

Miller, Arthur - Readings from The Crucible and Death of a Salesman - Spotify

Miller Jr, Walter M. - A Canticle for Leibowitz (Dramatized Version) - Free Stream

Miller, William - Rent Party Jazz (read by Viola Davis) - YouTube

Milne, A.A. - Winnie the Pooh (read Disney Book Group) - Free iTunes

Milton, John - Paradise Regained - Free MP3 Zip File

Moore, Lorrie - "Paper Losses" (read by Gary Shteyngart) - Free Stream

Munro, Alice - "Axis" - Free MP3

Murakami, Haruki - "Barn Burning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" - Free Stream

Murakami, Haruki - "U.F.O. in Kushiro" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - My Russian Education (Read by Orhan Pamuk) - Free MP3

Nabokov, Vladimir - "Pnin" - Free Stream

Nabokov, Vladimir - Signs and Symbols - Free iTunes

Nabokov, Vladimir - Vladimir Nabokov Reads from Lolita & Selected Poems - Spotify

Nin, Anais - "Under a Glass Bell" (Read by the author) - YouTube

NPR - Star Wars Trilogy Radio Drama - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "A Good Man is Hard to Find." (Read by author in 1959) - Stream/Download

O'Connor, Flannery - "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (Read by Estelle Parsons) - YouTube

O'Connor, Flannery - "Revelation" (Read by Studs Terkel) - Stream

O'Connor, Frank - "The Man of the World" (read by Julian Barnes) MP3

Oates, Joyce Carol - "Mastiff" (read by Louise Erdrich) - Free Stream

Oates, Joyce Carol -"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Radio Drama from 1949 starting David Niven) - Free Stream

Orwell, George - 1984 (Complete reading by Pacifica Radio) - Soundcloud

Orwell, George - Animal Farm - Spotify version

Oz, Amos - "The King of Norway" (read by Jonathan Safran Foer) - Free Stream

Ozick, Cynthia - "The Shawl" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - Free Stream

Paley, Grace - "Love" (read by George Saunders) - Free Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Three Women (a radio play) - Free Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - 5 Hours of Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Vincent Price & Basil Rathbone - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Essential Edgar Allan Poe - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - "The Masque of the Red Death" and Annabel Lee (read by William S. Burroughs) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Cask of Amontillado - Free MP3/Stream

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Mask of the Red Death (read by William S. Burroughs) - Spotify

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Pit and the Pendulum - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Stan Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by John Astin) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (as read by Anne Waldman) - SoundCloud

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Vincent Price) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Christopher Lee) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart (read by Iggy Pop) - Free YouTube Audio

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Tell Tale Heart, Silence, Annabel Lee (read by James Mason) - Free Stream

Porter, Eleanor - Pollyanna - Free MP3 Zip File

Price, Vincent - The Price of Fear (Classic radio show featuring Vincent Price) - Free YouTube

Pritchett, V.S. - The Rescue (Read by Jonathan Lethem) - Free Stream

Prokofiev, Sergei - Peter and the Wolf (Narrated by David Bowie) - Spotify

Proust, Marcel - À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (Œuvre Intégrale) (in French) - Free Stream

Ratcliffe, Stephen - Continuum - Free MP3 Stream

Rand, Ayn - Anthem - Spotify

Remarque, Erich Maria - All Quiet on the Western Front - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Little King‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rushdie, Salman - "The Old Man in the Piazza‪"‬ (read by the author) - Free Stream

Ruskin, John - The Golden River - Free MP3

Safran Foer, Jonathan - "Love is Blind and Deaf" - Video Animation

Saramago, José - "The Centaur" (Read by Nadine Gordimer) - Free MP3

Sartre, Jean-Paul (Performed by Lucy Lawless and Jaime Murray) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Elliott Spencer" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Ghoul" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Saunders, George - "Love Letter" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sedaris, David - "The Mouse and the Snake" from Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary - Free MP3 - Web site

Sedaris, David - "Six to Eight Black Men" from the album 'Live at Carnegie Hall' - YouTube Audio

Sedaris, David - "Solution to Saturday's Puzzle"from When You Are Engulfed in Flames - Free MP3

Sendak, Maurice - Where the Wild Things Are (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - Green Eggs and Ham (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Boris Karloff) - Spotify

Seuss, Dr. - How The Grinch Stole Christmas (read by Keith Morrison) - YouTube

Schwartz, Delmore - "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (Read by Lou Reed) - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - A 68 Hour Playlist of Shakespeare's Plays Being Performed by Great Actors: Gielgud, McKellen & More - Free on Spotify

Shakespeare, William - 10 Plays Performed by Orson Welles on the Radio - Free Stream

Shakespeare, William - Hamlet (Starring John Gielgud) - Spotify + Archive.org

Shakespeare, William - Macbeth (with Alec Guinness) - Free Spotify

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (narrated by Aaron Mahnke of the Lore podcast) - Free iTunes

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein - Free iTunes - Free MP3

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Abridged version read by Christophe Lee) - Spotify

Shepard, Sam - "Indianapolis (Highway 74)" read by Dave Eggers - Free Stream

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Animated film narrated by the author) - YouTube

Silverstein, Shel - The Giving Tree (Read by Arianna Huffington) - YouTube

Singer, Isaac Bashevis - Disguised (read by Nathan Englander) - Free MP3

Smith, Zadie - "Escape from New York" (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Audio Stream

Stein, Gertrude - If I Told Him: a Completed Portrait of Picasso - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - Matisse - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Fifteenth Of November . . . T. S. Eliot - Free MP3

Stein, Gertrude - The Making of Americans - Free MP3

Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Read by Christopher Lee) - Spotify

Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island (Read by Hans Conried) - Spotify

Stoker, Bram - Dracula (Read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube

Stone, Tanya Lee - The House That Jane Built: A Story About Jane Addams (Read by Kiernan Shipka) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - A Child's Christmas in Wales (read by Thomas) - Youtube

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina - Free Stream

Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina -

Tolstoy, Leo - Five Short Stories - Spotify

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Stream/MP3

Tolstoy, Leo - What Men Live By and Other Tales - Free iTunes

Tolstoy, Leo - Selected Short Stories - Free Multiple formats

Wells, Tower - "Leopard" (Read by David Sedaris) - Free MP3 Stream

Trollope, Anthony - Barchester Towers - Free MP3 Zip File

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Multiple versions here

Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Spotify version

Unknown - Epic of Gilgamesh - Free iTunes

Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Free MP3 Zip File

Updike, John - "Playing with Dynamite" (read by Roger Angell) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "A & P." (read by Allegra Goodman) - Free MP3

Updike, John - "The City" (read by John Updike) - Free Stream

Updike, John - "The Lovely Troubled Daughters of Our Old Crowd" - YouTube

Updike, John - "Twin Beds in Rome" - Free Stream

Verne, Jules - Mysterious Island - Free iTunes

Verne, Jules - The Master of the World - Free MP3

Voltaire - Candide - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - 2BR02B - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - "Harrison Bergeron" - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Big Trip Up Yonder - Free MP3

Vonnegut, Kurt - Slaughterhouse 5, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Welcome to the Monkey House (Abridged readings by Vonnegut) - Spotify

Vonnegut, Kurt - "The Drone" - Free Stream

Vonnegut, Kurt - The Soldier's Story (as a radio opera) - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "Good People" - Free Stream

Wallace, David Foster - "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" (read by DFW) - Free MP3

Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisit, Abridged (read by Sir John Gielgud) - Stream

Welles, Orson - "The Shadow" radio drama (Performed by Welles) - Free MP3

Wells, HG - Magic Shop - Free Stream

Wells, HG - Time Machine (narrated by Kelsey Grammer) - Free iTunes

Wells, HG - Time Machine (dramatized version) - Spotify

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Famous 1938 radio adaptation by Orson Welles) - Stream

Wells, HG - The War of the Worlds (Read by Maxwell Caulfield) - Spotify

Welty, Eudora - "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" (read by Joyce Carol Oates) - MP3

Welty, Eudora - "Why I Live at the P.O." - YouTube

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence - Free iTunes

Wharton, Edith - The Fulness of Life - Free MP3

Wilde, Oscar - The Happy Prince - Free MP3

Version read by Stephen Fry - YouTube

Version read by Orson Welles and Bing Crosby - YouTube

Wilde, Oscar - The Importance of Being Earnest (Performed by John Gielgud) - Free

Wolff, Tobias - "Bullet in the Brain" (read by T. Coraghessan Boyle) (MP3)

Wolff, Tobias - "The Night in Question" (read by Akhil Sharma) (MP3)

Woolf, Virginia - The Voyage Out - Free Stream

Woolf, Virginia - The Short Stories - Spotify

Wyss, Johann David - The Swiss Family Robinson - Free MP3 Zip File

Poetry

Angelou, Maya - On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Phenomenal Woman - YouTube

Angelou, Maya - Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) - YouTube

Anonymous - Beowulf - Free iTunes - Free MP3s - Reading by Seamus Heaney

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Marie (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Apollinaire, Guillaume - Le Voyageur (Read by author in 1913) - Free MP3

Aragon, Louis - Elsa (read by author) - Free Stream

Arnold, Matthew - The Poetry of Matthew Arnold - Free Stream on Spotify

Arnold, Matthew - Dover Beach - Free Stream/Download

Ashbery, John - Everyman - Free MP3

Ashbery, John - "Meditations of a Parrot," "The Painter" and "The Picture of Little J.A. in a Prospect of Flowers" (read by the author)- Free Stream/MP3

Ashbery, John - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; "Song of the Master and Boatswain," (read by Dylan Thomas) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - 1st September, 1939 - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song - Free MP3

Auden, W.H. - Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W. H. - In Memory of WB Yeats - YouTube

Auden, W.H. - Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden - Free Stream/Download

Auden, W.H. - The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Baudelaire, Charles - Les fleurs du mal (in French) - Free Stream

Beckett, Samuel - Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) - YouTube

Beefheart, Captain - Fallin Ditch, Skeleton Makes Good & More (read by the author) - YouTube

Blake, William - A Little Boy Lost - Free MP3

Blake, William - Jerusalem - Free MP3 Zip File

Blake, William - Laughing Song - Free MP3

Blake, William - London - Free MP3

Blake, William - Preface to Milton - Free MP3

Blake, William - Piping Down Valleys Wild - Free MP3

Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg - Free Stream/MP3

Blake, William - The Chimney Sweeper - Free MP3

Blake, William - The School Boy - Free MP3

Blake, William - Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic - Free MP3

Borges, Jorge Luis - Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish - Spotify

Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness - Free Stream

Bradbury, Ray - If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) - YouTube

Bronte, Emily - Anticipation - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Encouragement - Free MP3

Bronte, Emily - Poems - Free MP3

Bukowski, Charles - 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - At Terror Street and Agony Way - Free Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Beer - Animated Video

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Girl on the Escalator - Vimeo

Bukowski, Charles - Hostage - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Master Collection - Spotify

Bukowski, Charles - Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) - YouTube Audio

Bukowski, Charles - Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) - YouTube Video

Burton, Tim - The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) - YouTube Video

Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III - Free MP3

Byron - Darkness - Free MP3

Byron - Newton - Free MP3

Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Free MP3

Cage, John - Overpopulation and Art - Free Stream

Carroll, Jim - Praying Mantis - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) - YouTube

Carroll, Lewis - Youtube Animated Video

Carroll, Lewis - The Poetry of Lewis Carroll - Spotify

Carver, Raymond - Late Fragment - Free Stream

Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) - YouTube

Ciardi, John - As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) - Spotify

Cocteau, Jean - Requiem (read by the author) - Free Stream

Cohen, Leonard - "For E.J.P" and "You Have the Lovers" (read by Cohen) - Free Stream/Download

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Coleridge, Samuel - Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - The Dungeon - Free MP3

Coleridge, Samuel - Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) - Free Spotify

Collins, Billy - Soap - Spotify

Crane, Hart - "The Broken Tower" and "The Hurricane" (read by Tennessee Williams) - Vimeo

Crowley, Aleister - Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) - Spotify

Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled - (read by author) - YouTube

Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town - (read by author) - YouTube

Dante - Inferno (read by John Ciardi) - Spotify

De Troyes, Chretien - Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart- Stream

Dickinson, Emily - An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Poems & Letters - Spotify

Dickinson, Emily - Because I Could Not Stop for Death - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - Hope Is the Thing With Feathers - Free MP3

Dickinson, Emily - 'I Started Early-Took My Dog' - YouTube

Dickinson, Emily - There's a certain Slant of light" (read by Susan Howe) - YouTube

Donne, John - Death, Be Not Proud - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Good-morrow - Free Stream/MP3

Donne, John - The Sunne Rising - Free MP3

Ehrmann, Max - Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) - YouTube

Eliot, T.S. - Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) - Spotify playlist

Eliot, T.S. - The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Eliot, T.S. - The Waste Land - Free MP3

Listen to reading by TS Eliot - YouTube

Hear reading by Jeremy Irons and Eileen Atkins - Stream

Eliot, T.S. - T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind - Spotify

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Baseball Canto - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Evil - Free MP3/Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - 'The First and the Last of Everything' (read by author) - Free Stream

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - "Underwear" (read by author) - YouTube

Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - Wilfred Funk (read by author) - Free MP3/Stream

Frost, Robert - A Line Storm Song - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - My Butterfly - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - October - Free MP3

Frost, Robert - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - The Gift Outright (read by author) - YouTube

Frost, Robert - "The Road Not Taken," "The Pasture," "Mowing," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Tuft of Flowers" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Frost, Robert - Robert Frost Reads His Poetry - Free Spotify

Gaiman, Neil - The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Ginsberg, Allen - A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - America (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - First Blues: Rags, Ballads and Harmonium Songs - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl, A Strange New Cottage in Berkeley, and Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3/Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (first recorded reading of Howl by Ginsberg, 1956) - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Howl (read by James Franco) - YouTube

Ginsberg, Allen - Jahweh and Allah Battle - Free Stream

Ginsberg, Allen - Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream

Ginsberg , Allen - Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Sunflower Sutra (read by Ginsberg) - Free MP3

Ginsberg, Allen - The Last Word on First Blues - Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - The Lion for Real (read by Ginsberg) - Free on Spotify

Ginsberg, Allen - "The Shrouded Stranger Of The Night," "Sweet Levinsky," and "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City." - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - "What would you do if you lost it?" (read by Ginsberg) - Free Stream/Download

Ginsberg, Allen - Witchita Vortex Sutra - Spotify

Giorno, John - The Death of William Burroughs - Free Stream

Hardy, Thomas - Poems (read by Richard Burton) - Spotify

Hemingway, Ernest - Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) - Free YouTube

Henley, Ernest - Invictus - Free YouTube

Hitchcock, Robyn - "If Death is Not the End" (Read by Alan Rickman) - Free Stream

Hughes, Langston - Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) - Spotify

Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History - Spotify

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) - YouTube

Hughes, Langston - The Voice of Langston Hughes - Spotify

Hughes, Ted - Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry - Spotify

Keats, John - To Autumn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode on a Grecian Urn - Free MP3

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) - YouTube

Keats, John - Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Keats, John - On First Looking into Chapman's Homer - Free MP3

Keats, John - When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be - Free MP3

Kerouac, Jack - 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse - Spotify

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Dennis Hopper) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - If (read by Michael Caine) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) - YouTube

Kipling, Rudyard - The Gods of the Copybook Headings - Free MP3

Kipling, Rudyard - The Way Through the Woods - Free MP3

Levertov, Denise - City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) - SoundCloud

Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) - YouTube

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth - Selected Works - Free MP3

McCrae, John - "In Flanders Fields" (read by Leonard Cohen) - YouTube

Melville, Herman - Ball's Bluff - Free Stream

Merwin, W.S. - After a Storm (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Merwin, W.S. - Berryman (read by Janna Levin - Free Stream

Milton, John - On His Blindness - Free MP3

Multiple Authors - 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Multiple Authors - French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin - Spotify

Nabokov, Vladimir - The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) - Free Stream

Nash, Ogden - Christmas with Ogden Nash - Spotify

Nash, Ogden - Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash - Spotify

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - First Poetry Reading in English (1971) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Birth (Read by Neruda) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) - Free Stream

Neruda, Pablo - Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda - Spotify

O'Hara, Frank - Animals (read by Zadie Smith) - Free Stream

Oliver, Mary - "The Summer Day," "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night," "Many Miles" and "Night and the River" (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Ariel (read by author) - YouTube Stream

Plath, Sylvia - A Birthday Present (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Plath, Sylvia - Daddy (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Fever 103 (read by the author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Lady Lazarus (read by author) - YouTube

Plath, Sylvia - Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) - SoundCould

Plath, Sylvia - Spinster - Soundcloud

Plath, Sylvia - The Applicant (read by the author) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - Annabel Lee - Free MP3

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) - YouTube

Poe, Edgar Allan - The Raven - Free MP3

Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art - Free Stream

Pope, Alexander - The Quiet Life - Free Stream

Pound, Ezra - Canto XVII ("So that the vine burst from my fingers') - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XXX - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto XLV - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Canto LVI - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) - Free MP3

Pound, Ezra - Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) - YouTube

Pound, Ezra - The Seafarer (read by author) - Free MP3

Rexroth, Kenneth - "One Hundred Poems from the Chinese" and "In Defense of the Earth" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Rich, Adrienne - Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Rich, Adrienne - "Planetarium" (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - "Power" (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) - Soundcloud

Rich, Adrienne - What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) - Soundcloud

Rimbaud, Arthur - Illuminations - Free MP3 Zip File

Rumi - Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks - YouTube/Soundcloud

Sandburg, Carl - A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg - Spotify

Sandburg, Carl - Chicago - Free Stream

Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes - Spotify

Sassoon, Siegfried - Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - Waiting to Die (read by author) - YouTube

Sexton, Anne - "Her Kind," "The Ambition Bird," "Ringing the Bells," "Music Swims Back to Me," and "The Truth the Dead Know" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "With Mercy for the Greedy," "The Starry Night," "Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound," and "Self in 1958," (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - Divorce, Thy Name is Woman," "Gods Making a Living," "Jesus Cooks," "Jesus Walking," and "The Fury of Overshoes" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - "Rowing," "Riding the Elevator Into the Sky," "The Play," "The Rowing Endeth," "Us," and "The Touch" (read by the author) - Free Stream

Sexton, Anne - What's That - Spotify

Schiller, Friedrich - Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski - Spotify

Shakespeare, William - Shakespeare's Sonnets - Free MP3s

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias of Egypt - Free MP3

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Ozymandias (read by Bryan Cranston) - Free YouTube

Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) - Free Spotify

Smith, Patti - Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) - YouTube

Smith, Patti - Reading of 12 Poems From "Seventh Heaven" (1972) - YouTube

Stein, Gertrude - A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) - Free MP3

Stevens, Wallace - "Credences of Summer" and "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" (read by the author) - Free Stream/Download

Stevens, Wallace - "The Idea of Order at Key West," "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain," and "Vacancy in the Park" (read by the author) - .au format - .gsm format -.ra format

Stevens, Wallace - To an Old Philosopher in Rome (read by the author) - Free MP3

Szymborska, Wisława - Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) - Soundcloud

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - Break, Break, Break - Free MP3

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Charge of the Light Brigade - Free MP3/Stream - Quicktime - RealPlayer

Tennyson, Alfred Lord - The Lotos-Eaters - Free MP3

Thomas, Dylan - Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden - Free

Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas - Spotify

Thomas, Dylan - Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait' and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) - YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Thomas, Dylan - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (read by the Sir Anthony Hopkins) - Free YouTube

Thomas, Dylan - The Wild West (read by the author) - Free MP3/Stream

Updike, John - Rainbow (read by author) - Free Stream

Valéry, Paul - "Fragment Du Narcisse" (read by author) - Free Stream

Virgil - Aeneid - Free MP3 Zip Download

Whitman, Walt - O Captain! My Captain! - Free MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself and Other Poems - Free Stream/MP3

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream/Download

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) - Free Stream

Whitman, Walt - Song of Myself (read by Eric Forsythe/U. of Iowa) - Free Stream

Wilbur, Richard - A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) - Free Stream/Download

Wilde, Oscar - The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Free MP3/Stream

Williams, Tennessee - Selected Poems - Free Stream/Download

Williams, Willam Carlos - Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - 39 Poems Read for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945 - Free MP3

Williams, William Carlos - The Red Wheelbarrow, Tract, The Defective Record, To a Poor Old Woman, A Coronal, To Elsie, The Wind Increases, Classic Scene (read by poet 1954) - Free

Wordsworth, William - Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) - YouTube

Wordsworth, William - The Last of the Flock - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Solitary Reaper - Free MP3

Wordsworth, William - Tintern Abbey - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - William Butler Reads His Own Work - Spotify

Yeats, William Butler - The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Byzantium - Real Media

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - Lake Isle of Innesfree (read by Anthony Hopkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - Sailing to Byzantium - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Cold Heaven - Free Stream/MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Fiddler of Dooney (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - The Song of the Old Mother (read by the author) - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear (read by Richard Dawkins) - YouTube

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old - Free MP3

Yeats, William Butler - When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) - YouTube

Non-Fiction

Amis, Martin - "Phantom of the Opera"

Aristotle - Poetics (MP3 download)

Aristotle - Politics (MP3 download full zip file)

Bauhaus Reviewed: 1919 to 1933 (Oral History of the Bauhaus School) - Spotify

Augustine, Saint - City of God (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 1 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 2(full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 3 (full zip file)

Beard, Charles - History of the United States, Volume 4 (full zip file)

Berger, John - Fellow Prisoners (read by Berger)

Berkeley, George - A Defence of Free-Thinking in Mathematics (Free MP3)

Burke, Edmund - A Philosophical Enquiry (Full zip file)

Burke, Edmund - Reflections on the Revolution in France (Full zip file)

Burroughs, William S. - Breakthrough in Grey Room (Spotify)

Burroughs, William S. - Burroughs at 100 (A radio documentary narrated by Iggy Pop)

Camus, Albert - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1957 (YouTube)

Camus, Albert - The Human Crisis (Read by Actor Viggo Mortensen) - YouTube

Camus, Albert - Letter to His Elementary School Teacher (Read by Actor Benedict Cumberbatch) - YouTube

Campbell, Joseph - 48 Hours of Joseph Campbell Lectures - Spotify

Carroll, Lewis - Symbolic Logic (Free MP3)

Carroll, Lewis - The Game of Logic (Free MP3)

Channing, Edward - A Short History of the United States (full zip file)

Chomsky, Noam - 24 Hours of Lectures and Talks on Democracy (Spotify)

Confucius - The Sayings of Confucius (MP3 full zip file download)

Darwin, Charles - On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (MP3 download full zip file)

Descartes, Rene - Discourse on Method (MP3 download).

Descartes, Rene - Meditations on First Philosophy (full zip file)

Dickens, Charles - A Child's History of England (full zip file)

Doctorow, Cory - Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future (Streamed)

Douglass, Frederick - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - A Speech to the People of Rochester, New York on the Hypocrisy of Slavery (MP3 download)

Douglass, Frederick - The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro (read by James Earl Jones) - YouTube

Dubois, W.E.B. - The Soul of Black Folks (iTunes)

Duchamp, Marcel - The Creative Act (YouTube)

Emerson, Ralph Waldo - History (MP3 download)

Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Relativity (MP3 download full zip file)

Einstein, Albert - Albert Einstein in His Own Voice (Spotify)

Faulkner, William - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1954 (Soundcloud)

Foster Wallace, David - "Consider the Lobster" (Stream)

Foster Wallace, David - This is Water, 2005 Kenyon Commencement Speech (YouTube)

Foster Wallace, David - The View from Mrs Thompson's (read by the author)

Fuller, Buckminster - Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind - Spotify

Fuller, Buckminster - Everything I Know (Lecture Series) - Free Stream

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel - "The Solitude of Latin America" (Nobel Prize Speech) (YouTube/Web Site)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 1. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 2. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 3. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Gibbon, Edward - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 4. (Librivox collection of MP3's)

Goethe - Theory of Colors (MP3s)

Grant, Ulysses S. - The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant (Various formats)

Harding, Samuel - The Story of the Middle Ages (Free Stream)

Henry, Patrick - Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (MP3 download)

Henry, Patrick - Speech Addressing the Virginia House of Burgesses; Richmond, Virginia; March 23, 1775 (MP3 download)

Hitchcock, Alfred - Alfred Hitchcock Interviews - Spotify

Hogben, Julie Margaret - "When the Doorman is Your Main Man" (Read by Cecily Strong) - Stream Online

Holmes, Oliver Wendell - The Fountain of Youth (mp3 download)

Huxley, Aldous - Speaking Personally - (Spotify)

Huxley, Aldous - The Visionary Experience - (MP3 stream)

James, William - The Moral Equivalent of War (mp3 download)

Jefferson, Thomas - The Declaration of Independence (mp3 download)

Jobs, Steve - Stanford Graduations Speech, 2005 (YouTube)

Kandinsky, Wassily - Concerning the Spiritual in Art (mp3 download)

Kaufmann, Walter - Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)

Lessig, Lawrence - Free Culture

Lincoln, Abraham - Gettysburg Address (mp3 download)
Also see version read by Johnny Cash (YouTube)

Macauley, Thomas - History of England (Librivox)

Machiavelli, The Prince (mp3 download)

Marx, Karl - The Communist Manifesto (full zip download)

McCleod, Ken - Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention (Spotify)

McLuhan, Marshall - The Medium is The Massage (Spotify)

Mill, John Stuart - Utilitarianism (mp3 download full zip file)

Morrison, Toni - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (YouTube)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Ecce Homo (full zip file)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil (mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (full mp3 download)

Nietzsche, Friedrich - Twilight of the Idols (full zip)

Nin, Anais - The Diary of Anais Nin, Vol 1: A 60 minute reading by the author (YouTube)

Paine, Thomas - Common Sense (mp3 download)

Plato - The Apology of Socrates (stream/download)

Roosevelt, Theodore - Spanish-American War: The Rough Riders in Tampa (mp3 download)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques - A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (full zip file)

Russell, Bertrand - ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein (read by Derek Jacobi)

Russell, Bertrand - Why I Am Not a Christian (read by Terrence Hardiman)

Sedaris, David - Santaland Diaries (read by David Sedaris)

The Senate Intelligence Committee - The Senate Intelligence Committee Summary Report on Torture (Read by Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Matthew Rhys and Maura Tierney)

Steinbeck, John - Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1962 (YouTube)

Strathern, Paul - Nietzsche in 90 Minutes (YouTube Stream)

Sun-tzu - The Art of War (mp3 download)

Thoreau, Henry David - Walden (mp3 download)

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (mp3 download)

Various - The Federalist Papers Rss Feed

Various - The US Constitution Stream

Voltaire - Candide (mp3 download)

Vonnegut, Kurt - Anti-Censorship Letter Sent to School, read by Benedict Cumberbatch (YouTube)

Wiesel, Elie - Night (a marathon community reading with Dr. Ruth, Itzhak Perlman & more)

Wilde, Oscar - De Profundis (read by Patti Smith)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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How to survive an eruption, survive Everest, survive a Great White encounter and more.

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Issue #219 Survival Issue April is always our survival issue - seems fitting this year. How to survive an eruption, survive Everest, survive a Great White encounter and more.

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Storynory has over 1,000 free audio stories for children, including classic fairy tales, myths, world stories, poems, and brand new originals read by professional actors.

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Welcome to the exciting world of short stories:

A bound man with a rope around his neck is on a bridge with guards all around and rushing water below. Find out if there's any escape in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." (12% into Amazon preview)

A mysterious package is followed by a visitor with a shocking offer. Find out if they accept it in "Button, Button". (30% into preview)

When hostilities break out between the Muslims and Hindus in India, a friendship is tested with unforgettable results in "A Grain of Mustard Seed". (27% in)

A young hitchhiker has an unsettling admiration for a serial killer in "#8". (65% in)

A robbery goes wrong and a kidnapping goes worse in "The Weekender". (52% in)

Short Story Guide is designed to help middle school/high school teachers, students, and reading lovers find the right story and allow them to easily read online short stories free, where possible. Short stories are categorized by subject, theme, place, author and type.

I try not to reveal too much about the stories, but simply categorizing them can sometimes be a bit of a spoiler.

I hope this list of short stories will be a useful teacher's resource, however, they haven't been specially selected for students and not all are appropriate for all ages.

A big anthology full of interesting stories with literary merit is Fiction 100. (Links are to Amazon) The newest edition is expensive, but an earlier one, like in the link, is affordable. It has many of the commonly anthologized stories. If you only want one short story anthology, this would be a good choice.

A good anthology for middle school is Little Worlds. This book has 31 short stories for students, divided by the usual story elements. Another good one full of stories 1,000 words or less with a coming-of-age slant is Sudden Flash Youth: 65 Short-Short Stories.

As for single-author collections, the two that I've enjoyed the most are The Complete Flannery O'Connor and The Complete Roald Dahl (two volumes). If you read one Flannery O'Connor story and like it, you'll probably like them all. If you like unusual, darkly humorous stories where anything can happen, you'll probably like Dahl. I also have to mention Alice Munro. She doesn't have a complete collection yet, but there are many others to choose from. I find her stories very hard to classify because they're just about life-they're so complex (not complicated) that it feels like I'm being insulting when I put one on a category page.

I know what's inside a book is the main thing, but I also like seeing really nice looking books on my shelf. If you do too, check out 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories. I love the look of this one. I also like the look of Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales. It's a very simple design, but I think it's perfect. These books are full of great stories, so it's really just a bonus that they look so nice.

If you'd like to scroll through some free, well-known stories with a quick description, start here.

"A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is."-Flannery O'Connor

"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing -not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."-Alice Munro

"Unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential."-Jorge Luis Borges

(of the short story) "...it achieves closure-meaning that, when it ends, the attentive reader understands why."-Joyce Carol Oates

"Short stories are the deep, encoded crystallizations of all human knowledge. They are rarefied, dense meaning machines, shedding light on the most pressing of life's dilemmas."-George Saunders

(on what a short story is) "A shaft driven straight into the heart of human experience."-Edith Wharton

"Conciseness is the sister of talent."-Anton Chekhov

"It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things-a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring-with immense, even startling power."-Raymond Carver

"A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood. And you can try more ephemeral, more fleeting things in a story-you can work more by suggestion-than in a novel. Less is resolved, more is suggested, perhaps."-Eudora Welty

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick-a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."-Neil Gaiman

"'Who reads short stories?', one is asked, and I like to think that they are read by men and women in the dentist's office, waiting to be called to the chair; they are read on transcontinental plane trips instead of watching banal and vulgar films spin out the time between our coasts; they are read by discerning and well-informed men and women who seem to feel that narrative fiction can contribute to our understanding of one another and the sometimes bewildering world around us."-John Cheever

". . . each short story has one chief purpose, and every sentence, phrase, and word is crafted to achieve that end. The ideal short story is like a knife-strongly made, well balanced, and with an absolute minimum of moving parts."-Michael Swanwick

"I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish."-Alice Munro

"Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression."-Isobelle Carmody

"Short fiction seems more targeted-hand grenades of ideas, if you will. When they work, they hit, they explode, and you never forget them."-Paolo Bacigalupi

". . . there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel-an intense awareness of human loneliness."-Frank O'Connor

"A short story is a different thing all together-a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger."-Stephen King

"I just want to tell a story, and if people listen, and if it stays with you, it's a story."-Sandra Cisneros

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Daily readalouds and how to draw cartoons

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Looking for ways to keep your comics-loving kids and teens occupied? These free webcomics promise to eat up hours of time.

Middle Grade

Audrey's Magic Nine
Written by Michelle Wright and illustrated by Courtney Huddleston, Francesco Gerbino, and Tracy Bailey, this webcomic, now a series of graphic novels published by Farthing Press, centers on a black orphan adopted by a well-meaning but clueless suburban white couple.

Breaking Cat News
House cats Elvis, Puck, and Lupin report on such breaking news stories as "The people are missing!" and "There's a box with a towel inside it on the kitchen table." Georgia Dunn's hilarious webcomic, with its feline's-eye view of the world, is also being published by Andrews McMeel as a series of graphic novels.

Cucumber Quest
In GiGi D.G.'s video game-esque tale, adorable Cucumber the bunny and his sister Almond go up against a series of baddies. A vibrant palette, nonstop action, and a bizarre cast of friends and foes make for immersive reading. Also available as a series of graphic novels published by First Second.

Homestuck
Andrew Hussie's wildly popular webcomic follows John Egbert, who on his 13th birthday plays a video game that unleashes the apocalypse. Available in print from Viz Media.

Ozy and Millie
Two anthropomorphic foxes navigate the world in this sweetly snarky webcomic, now a graphic novel published by Andrews McMeel, by Dana Simpson, creator of the best-selling "Phoebe and Her Unicorn" series. Enjoy the archive, or check out reruns on GoComics!

Scared by the Bell
Though being the new kid is never easy, it's especially hard for Peter, an average kid whose classmates include a mummy, a pumpkinhead, and a skeleton. Creator Dylan Campbell updates this hilariously creepy webcomic every week.

Wormworld Saga
Still reeling from the loss of his mother, Jonas escapes into his vivid daydreams. After making his way through a portal in his grandmother's strange painting, he finds himself lost in a fantasy world, unable to return. Daniel Lieske's arresting comic series has also been published in print format by Lion Forge.

YA

As Per Usual
Dami Lee's self-deprecating webcomic details her quest "to be a real lady person," from dating woes to FOMO in the age of social distancing. The graphic novelBe Everything at Once, available from Chronicle, collects many of the entries in her webcomic.

As the Crow Flies
Two outsiders endure microaggressions on a Christian backpacking trip and find solace in each other. Melanie Gillman's contemplative, poignant webcomic was published as a graphic novel by Iron Circus Comics and won a Stonewall Honor in 2018.

Bird and Moon-Science and Nature Comics
Whether naturalist and science writer Rosemary Mosco is describing how to distinguish a dolphin from a porpoise, offering improvements on bird species (like hummingbirds that are 10,000% bigger), or urging readers to join the fight against climate change, her abiding passion for the natural world comes through loud and clear in this delightfully quirky webcomic. Available from Andrew McMeels asBirding Is My Favorite Video Game: Cartoons About the Natural World from Bird and Moon.

Check, Please!
When a happy-go-lucky former figure skater joins his college hockey team, hilarity ensues, but so do lasting friendships and even a burgeoning romance between protagonist Bitty and team captain Jack. Ngozi Ukazu's webcomic has garnered a loyal fan base, and the graphic novels, published by First Second, are just as popular.

Cheshire Crossing
What became of Alice, Wendy Darling, and Dorothy Gale after they returned from Wonderland, Neverland, and Oz? Though few believed their stories, the three girls meet and find kinship in one another. Andy Weir and Sarah Andersen's enchanting webcomic-turned-graphic novel (published by Ten Speed) will inspire readers to write their own fan fiction.

DeadEndia
Hamish Steele's webcomic, now a print series published by Nobrow, centers on an amusement haunted house with a mysterious portal that entices demons, ghosts, and angels.

Deep Dark Fears
Fran Krause creates mordantly funny yet tender comics based on emails submitted by readers detailing the absurd but deeply resonant fears that plague them (What if, while walking over me in bed, my cat steps on both my eyes? What if, when I take off my goggles, the suction yanks out my eyes?). Two graphic novels, Deep Dark Fears and , based on the webcomic have been published by Ten Speed.

(H)afrocentric
Now a graphic novel series published by PM Press, this raw, deeply funny, provocative webcomic from Juliana "Jewels" Smith, Ronald Nelson, and Mike Hampton follows a black revolutionary college freshman and her friends dealing with racism, gentrification, and privilege at Ronald Reagan University.

Heartstopper
Since 2016, Alice Oseman has been chronicling the burgeoning romance between Nick and Charlie, two secondary characters from her prose novel Solitaire. Her sweet, manga-flavored tale will be published in graphic novel format by Scholastic next month.

On a Sunbeam
Tillie Walden's mesmerizing, strikingly original space epic seamlessly blends romance and sci-fi. In graphic novel format, published by First Second, On a Sunbeam has racked up accolades, making its way onto numerous best books lists and being named a YALSA Top Ten Great Graphic Novel.

Space Boy
To make the long trip back home to Earth from a mining colony deep in outer space, Amy and her family must be cryogenically frozen, and when Amy returns, her friends are far older, and she's not sure where she fits in. With fluid linework and a pitch-perfect palette, this tender webcomic from Stephen McCranie, now published by Dark Horse as a graphic novel series, is ideal for sci-fi readers and newcomers to the genre alike.

Ariel Slamer Ries's webcomic, now published in graphic novel format by Lion Forge, takes place in the magical world of Hyalin, where witches' magic depends on the length of their hair. But revealing one's power can be perilous.

Mahnaz Dar

Mahnaz Dar (mdar@mediasourceinc.com) is Reference and Professional Reading Editor for Library Journal and School Library Journal and can be found on Twitter @DibblyFresh.

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Looking for ways to keep your comics-loving kids and teens occupied? These free webcomics promise to eat up hours of time. Middle Grade Audrey's Magic Nine Written by Michelle Wright and illustrated by Courtney Huddleston, Francesco Gerbino, and Tracy Bailey, this webcomic, now a series of graphic novels published by Farthing Press, centers on a black orphan adopted by a well-meaning but clueless suburban white couple.

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Listen to some classics! (Great books published a long time ago).

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Free audio books in genre Kids that you can download in mp3, iPod and iTunes format for your portable audio player. Audio previews, convenient categories and excellent search functionality make LoyalBooks.com your best source for free audio books. Download a free audio book for yourself today!

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Author Kate Messner provides links to over 20 author read alouds.

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Also check out Read, Wonder, & Learn - a growing collection of online videos & resources for all grade levels! Kahn Academy has free online classes for all main subjects grades K-12, with video lessons and practice problems. The website is now also sharing recommended schedules for students working at home. The Authors Everywhere Youtube Channel has a great collection of read-alouds, writing workshops, and art demonstrations. Crash Course has hundreds of short online lessons in a large variety of subjects ranging from computer science to film history to biology.
On the Kids Ask Authors podcast, you can hear author/illustrator Grace Lin and a guest author answer a kid question! Kids can submit their own book reviews, poems or jokes! https://www.kidsaskauthors.com Subscribe to the podcast here: http://ow.ly/8OPg30qr7WD

The folks at Middle Grade at Heart share a list of MG novels with discussions questions & related activities here.

Read-Alouds
Leah Henderson reads the first chapter of her novel THE MAGIC IN CHANGING YOUR STARS. Jason Reynolds reads an excerpt from his novel GHOST. Kate Messner shares a read-aloud excerpt from TRACKING PYTHONS: THE QUEST TO CATCH AN INVASIVE PREDATOR AND SAVE AN ECOSYSTEM. Jo Knowles reads from her novel WHERE THE HEART IS and shares a writing exercise. Chris Tebbetts reads from STRANDED. Ann Braden reads an excerpt from THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN OCTOPUS. Debbi Michiko Florence reads from KEEP IT TOGETHER KEIKO CARTER and shares a writing prompt. KA Holt reads an excerpt from her forthcoming middle grade novel-in-verse, BEN BEE AND THE TEACHER GRIEFER. Mae Respicio reads from ANY DAY WITH YOU and shares a writing prompt. Lisa Yee reads from MILLICENT MIN, GIRL GENIUS. Kate Messner shares an excerpt from CHIRP. Lisa Schroeder reads an excerpt from her novel MY SECRET GUIDE TO PARIS. Janet Fox reads the first chapter of her novel THE ARTIFACT HUNTERS. Chris Tebbetts reads the first chapters of MIDDLE SCHOOL, THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE. Poet Charles Waters shares poetry from DICTIONARY FOR A BETTER WORLD. Abby Cooper reads the first chapter of FRIEND OR FICTION. Author KA Holt reads an excerpt from her novel-in-verse, HOUSE ARREST. Author Jennifer Roy shares a video read-aloud from her historical novel YELLOW STAR. Author Chelsea Clinton shares an excerpt from her book START NOW: YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Author Sayantani DasGupta shares a read-aloud of the first chapter of THE SERPENT'S SECRET.
Drawing/Art Lessons
Illustrator Jarrett Lerner shares drawing tips and techniques. Illustrator Kelley McMorris shares a video about how she illustrates a book cover. Author-illustrator Lita Judge shares a video about how a sketching trip inspired one of her picture books. Author-illustrator James Burks shares a video lesson on how to draw Squirrel from his graphic novel series, Bird and Squirrel!.
Writing Lessons
Diary writing prompt with Veera Hiranandani Author Erin Entrada Kelly shares the contents of her notebooks Paula Chase offers a mini-writing exercise to help students build stories around their unique traits. Christina Soontornvat shares how she came up with the idea for her new middle grade fantasy novel, A WISH IN THE DARK. Author Elly Swartz shares tips on how to use emotion in your life to create authentic characters. Chris Tebbetts shares a lesson on how to create a good beginning for a story. Chris Tebbets gives a writing workshop called Four Elements of Character. Author Liz Garton Scanlon shares a video lesson on writing an ETHEREE - a ten line poem in which each line is one syllable longer than the last. Joyce Sidman shares an amazing collection of poem starters for beginning poets. Here's a poetry lesson from Kathryn Apel - writing a didactic cinquain! If you're stuck at home, it's a great time to start a writer's notebook! Author & Poet Amy Ludwig VanDerwater has a whole collection of posts from different writers, called "Sharing Our Notebooks." Author Madelyn Rosenberg shares a collection of writing prompts. Author and poet Laura Shovan shares a collection of poetry mini-lessons on her website!
Tracey Baptiste shares a lesson on comparative mythology.
Sarah Darer Littman offers short readings and writing prompts on her website.
STEAM Resources
Bill Nye's website shares full episodes of his show "Bill Nye the Science Guy," discussing life science, physical science, and planetary science. A collection of science experiments to perform at home from Prepscholar The New England Aquarium shares videos of animal feedings and other aquarium work along with at-home science projects and activities. NASA has an amazing collection of stories, games, videos, and at-home activities for kids of all ages. Sarah Albee shares a STEM mystery, "Did the Doctor Do It?"

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Learning at Home Resources for Middle School Grades (6-8)

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The International Children's Digital Library.

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ICDL - International Children’s Digital Library

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Audio books plus the text so you can read along. The titles in this collection were published long enough ago that copyright no longer applies.

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Welcome

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

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Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified.