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Famous Men of the Middle Ages — John Henry Haaren
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Famous Men of the Middle Ages: a gateway audiobook to medieval lives

Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Henry Haaren turns 34 short biographies into an inviting audiobook primer on medieval history. Hear the “mountain peaks” of the past.

August 9, 20267 min
Life of Charlemagne
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Life of Charlemagne: listening to Notker the Stammerer’s unruly emperor

Life of Charlemagne by Notker the Stammerer is a 9‑chapter medieval biography full of vivid anecdotes. Hear Charlemagne as legend, gossip and memory.

August 8, 20266 min
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
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Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Isabella Bird’s raw road into 1878 Japan

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan follows Isabella L. Bird’s 1878 journey through rural Japan in 58 letter-chapters, a non-fiction audiobook that feels startlingly present.

August 5, 20267 min
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Why 'Heart of Darkness' Still Haunts Us On Audio

'Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad turns a Congo river voyage into a study of power and morality. Discover why this 1902 classic still cuts deep on audio.

August 4, 20268 min
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: why this classic still cuts deep aloud

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a 43‑chapter American classic about Huck and Jim on the Mississippi. Hear the dialect and tension come alive.

August 2, 20267 min
Twenty Years After
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Twenty Years After: Alexandre Dumas’s darker, longer game

Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas picks up The Three Musketeers twenty years later in 90 action-packed chapters. Hear the musketeers grow older and sharper.

August 1, 20266 min
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Why Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis Still Cuts So Deep

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde is a short autobiographical prison letter, now an intimate audiobook experience that reframes his life, love and ruin. Listen to feel its full force.

August 1, 20266 min
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“Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man” as an audiobook

Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man is an 1859 autobiography written to free his last two enslaved children. Hear why it still cuts deep today.

July 30, 20268 min
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Odyssey by Homer: why this ancient epic still grips on audio

Odyssey by Homer is a 24-chapter action & adventure epic that still feels urgent on audio, from shipwrecks to suitors. Hear why it works so well aloud.

July 29, 20267 min
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This Side of Paradise as audiobook: youth, ruin and wit

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows Amory Blaine’s romances and disillusionment after World War I, and in audio it feels startlingly modern.

July 16, 20267 min
Penguin Island — Anatole France
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Penguin Island: Anatole France’s cold-eyed, hilarious epic

Penguin Island by Anatole France is a 1908 satire where baptized penguins become human and build a ridiculous civilization. Hear it for its wit and bite.

July 15, 20267 min
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Bleak House on audio: Dickens’s labyrinth for your ears

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a vast Victorian legal drama and character study. Learn the premise, themes, and why it works so well as an audiobook.

July 13, 20267 min
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“Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897” and the voice that built a movement

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton is a candid 1898 memoir in audiobook form, tracing the fight for women’s rights and a 50, year friendship.

July 10, 20267 min
War of the Worlds (version 2) — H. G. Wells
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War of the Worlds (version 2): hearing Wells’ invasion anew

War of the Worlds (version 2) by H. G. Wells turns the 1898 alien invasion classic into a tense, first‑person listening experience across 27 chapters. Hear why it still hits.

July 10, 20267 min
Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata) 19: Psalmi XXII — Spinn Radio
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Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata) 19: Psalmi XXII as a Latin listening ritual

Bible (Biblia Sacra Vulgata) 19: Psalmi XXII is a single Latin psalm from the 382 Vulgate. Hear how this brief Bibles classic becomes a meditative listen.

July 8, 20267 min
Three Musketeers
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Three Musketeers: why Dumas’ classic still crackles aloud

Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas is action & adventure fiction that mixes duels, court intrigue and friendship. Hear why it still grips as an audiobook.

July 5, 20267 min
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Why the 9/11 Commission Report still demands to be heard

9/11 Commission Report is the official 2004 account of the September 11 attacks. Hear the non-fiction landmark as a stark, absorbing audiobook you cannot ignore.

July 5, 20266 min
Sonnet 073 — Spinn Radio
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Sonnet 73: Hearing Shakespeare’s autumnal love poem anew

Sonnet 073 by William Shakespeare gets ten different audio readings in this LibriVox collection, a compact way to hear how one poem can sound completely new.

July 3, 20266 min
O Canada!
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“O Canada!” by Robert Stanley Weir: an anthem you can hear ten ways

O Canada! by Robert Stanley Weir becomes a rich listening experience in LibriVox’s 10-version collection. Explore its roots, themes, and why it still resonates.

July 2, 20267 min
Northanger Abbey
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Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen’s Gothic Spoof With Bite

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen sends a gothic-obsessed teen into the social minefield of Bath. Hear why this sharp, funny classic is perfect on audio now.

July 1, 20266 min
North of Boston — Robert Frost
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North of Boston: hearing Robert Frost’s quiet dramas

North of Boston by Robert Frost turns 1914 New England poems into intimate one-act plays in audio. Hear “Mending Wall” and “Home Burial” as living voices.

June 30, 20268 min
Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225) — Spinn Radio
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Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225): tiny stories, big truths

Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225) gathers 25 short children’s tales from a 1912 English edition, offering quick-hit moral drama in audiobook form.

June 26, 20266 min
小倉百人一首 (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) — Spinn Radio
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小倉百人一首 (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu): a century of voices in one audiobook

小倉百人一首 (Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) gathers one hundred waka into a single poetry classic. Hear why this 1909 Japanese collection still feels so alive in audio.

June 25, 20267 min
Fables de La Fontaine, livre 02 — Jean de La Fontaine
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Fables de La Fontaine, livre 02: 20 sharp little mirrors of society

Fables de La Fontaine, livre 02 brings 20 classic French fables to life in audio, revealing sharp insights into human behaviour and society. Hear why they endure.

June 23, 20266 min
Danse Russe — William Carlos Williams House
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Danse Russe: hearing William Carlos Williams at full tilt

Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams is a 1917 poem in English, read 16 different ways in this poetry audiobook, each capturing its spontaneous, offbeat mood.

June 22, 20267 min
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) — Aesop's Fables
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Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125): A sharp little audiobook of timeless morals

Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) turns 25 quick children’s tales into a tight audiobook session, packing 6th century BC wisdom into a 1912 English edition.

June 22, 20266 min
Short Science Fiction Collection 002 — Spinn Radio
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Short Science Fiction Collection 002: Nine Trips Through Mid‑Century Futures

Short Science Fiction Collection 002 gathers nine English‑language sci‑fi stories from 1941-1963 into one audiobook, perfect for sampling the genre’s classic era.

June 18, 20267 min
Princess of Mars — Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Why “Princess of Mars” still hits like pulp lightning

Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a 1912 action & adventure romp on Mars that mixes pulp clichés with wild imagination. Hear why it still captivates.

June 18, 20267 min
The Shadow Channel by DL Mabey
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Why The Shadow Channel by DL Mabey feels like tomorrow’s headlines

The Shadow Channel by DL Mabey is a thriller audiobook about a CIA officer chasing a covert network that launders truth through fiction. Hear how it weaponises facts.

June 18, 20268 min
Personal Anthology of Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
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Personal Anthology of Shakespeare: a listening room for the Bard’s best speeches

Personal Anthology of Shakespeare collects favourite speeches in English across 20 chapters, spotlighting Shakespeare’s language in an easy, intimate audiobook.

June 15, 20266 min
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) — Spinn Radio
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Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2): listening to the law that shaped a nation

Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) preserves all 27 amendments in a compact LibriVox audiobook. Hear the Bill of Rights and beyond in one sitting.

June 13, 20267 min
An open Bible, representing Spinn Radio's Christianity audiobook collection
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The Christianity Collection on Spinn Radio: Bible, Book of Mormon & the Christian Classics

A guided tour of Spinn Radio's Christianity collection: the complete KJV Bible, the Book of Mormon and LDS library, and the Christian classics, apologetics, devotionals, sermons and hymns. Here's what's inside and where to start.

June 12, 20263 min
Cover of Beyond Decapitation: Dismantling the IRGC Shadow State and Rebuilding Iran by D.L. Mabey
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Beyond Decapitation: How DL Mabey Maps the IRGC's Shadow State, and a Blueprint to Rebuild Iran

Beyond Decapitation traces the IRGC's rhizomatic economic empire and lays out a people-first plan for a transparent, job-creating Renewal State. Here's what the book argues, why it lands now, and how to listen free on Spinn Radio.

June 3, 20264 min
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Inside DLM Originals: The Audiobooks Made in House

DL Mabey’s DLM Originals bring 13 free in-house audiobooks to Spinn Radio, spanning AI handbooks, political exposés, and high-stakes thrillers.

June 2, 20265 min
Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200) — Aesop
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Why “Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)” Still Hits Home

“Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)” turns 6th‑century BC wisdom into a crisp 1912 English collection of 25 short, sharp moral tales to savour aloud.

May 31, 20265 min
Vagabond Song — Bliss Carman
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Why “Vagabond Song” Still Sings: Bliss Carman on Audio

Bliss Carman’s 1901 poem “Vagabond Song” comes alive in LibriVox’s multi-version recording, with 15 readers giving the same autumn lyric their own musical spin.

May 30, 20266 min