Romance
Persuasion
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jane Austen
Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is gr…
The Breaking Point
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…
Sense and Sensibility
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jane Austen
The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older …
Sense and Sensibility
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…
Fanny Hill
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Cleland
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cle…
Les Misérables
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Victor Hugo
This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…
Wives and Daughters
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …
The Mystery of Mary
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Grace Livingston Hill
Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young wom…
Anna Karenina
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Leo Tolstoy
In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to …
Mansfield Park
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her …
Jane Eyre
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charlotte Brontë
Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and he…
The Taming of the Shrew
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies, and was inspired by classical Roman comedy and the Italian commedia dell'…
Northanger Abbey
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…
Les Misérables
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Victor Hugo
This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…
Anne's House of Dreams
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams is book five in the series, and chronicles Anne's early married life, as she and her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Bly…
Ivanhoe
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sir Walter Scott
Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…
Madame Bovary
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Gustave Flaubert
Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her mea…
A Room with a View
Read by Elizabeth Klett
E. M. Forster
The 1908 novel A Room With a View is the story of Lucy Honeychurch, a young English girl traveling to Italy for the first time. While stayi…
The Awakening
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Kate Chopin
Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern L…
Anne of the Island
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Lucy Maud Montgomery
This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where…