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October 23, 2025

25 Best Librivox Audiobooks from the Past Year

In their 20-year history, Librivox.org has now published over 20,000 titles for free on audiobook download! These are volunteer-narrated audiobooks in the public domain that have been generously read and edited for free for your listening enjoyment.

And as the public domain expands every year, so does Librivox’s catalog with great new novels and works of nonfiction added every year. They also put out new narrations of classic works, which we’ve updated in our catalog for many of their titles. We’ve tried to pick out the best Librivox has to offer, and we now feature over 3,500 of their audiobooks on our site:

Browse Over 3,500 Librivox Audiobooks on LearnOutLoud.com

We last updated our Librivox offerings about a year ago, and now we’ve gone through their catalog and added the 25 best Librivox audiobooks from the past year. Here they are in no particular order!

1. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes

2. The Life of Buddha by A. Ferdinand Herold

3. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Calvin Coolidge

4. Cup of Gold by John Steinbeck

5. Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos

6. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

7. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

8. English Prose Style by Herbert Read

9. The World Crisis: Volume 1 by Winston Churchill

10. Sodom and Gomorrah by Marcel Proust

11. Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

12. The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett

13. Studies in the Sermon on the Mount by Oswald Chambers

14. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

15. An Outline of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

16. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

17. Oil! by Upton Sinclair

18. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

19. Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead

20. The Shooting Party by Anton Chekov

21. The Book of Musical Knowledge by Arthur Elson

22. The Basic Bible: Old Testament

23. Is Sex Necessary? by E.B. White & James Thurber

24. The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

25. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence