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166 audiobooks, about 1005 hours, read in modern English. Dialogues have a voice for each speaker, and each book’s page follows along in the text as you listen.
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Antiquity
- The Epic of GilgameshAnonymous (Sîn-lēqi-unninni)1 hr 55 min · Read by George
- GenesisHebrew Bible3 hr 31 min · Read by George
- PsalmsHebrew Bible4 hr 30 min · Read by George
- JobHebrew Bible1 hr 45 min · A cast of 7
- EcclesiastesHebrew Bible32 min · Read by George
- IliadHomer16 hr 19 min · Read by George
- OdysseyHomer11 hr 48 min · Read by Christopher
- TheogonyHesiod1 hr 4 min · Read by George
- Works and DaysHesiod51 min · Read by George
- The Principal UpanishadsHindu scripture7 hr 57 min · Read by Christopher
- Bhagavad GitaHindu scripture2 hr 0 min · A cast of 5
- Sappho and the Greek Lyric PoetsSappho and others1 hr 7 min · Read by George
- FragmentsThe Presocratics1 hr 59 min · Read by Christopher
- AnalectsConfucius2 hr 17 min · Read by Christopher
- The Art of WarSunzi54 min · Read by George
- AgamemnonAeschylus1 hr 27 min · A cast of 8
- Libation BearersAeschylus56 min · A cast of 9
- EumenidesAeschylus55 min · A cast of 8
- Prometheus BoundAeschylus57 min · A cast of 8
- Oedipus the KingSophocles1 hr 24 min · A cast of 10
- AntigoneSophocles1 hr 10 min · A cast of 11
- ElectraSophocles1 hr 18 min · A cast of 8
- Oedipus at ColonusSophocles1 hr 36 min · A cast of 10
- HistoriesHerodotus23 hr 35 min · Read by George
- MedeaEuripides1 hr 17 min · A cast of 10
- BacchaeEuripides1 hr 13 min · A cast of 10
- HippolytusEuripides1 hr 17 min · A cast of 12
- Trojan WomenEuripides1 hr 10 min · A cast of 11
- MoziMozi5 hr 47 min · Read by George
- The Peloponnesian WarThucydides19 hr 38 min · A cast of 3
- The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the MeanConfucian classics54 min · Read by George
- CloudsAristophanes1 hr 30 min · A cast of 15
- FrogsAristophanes1 hr 28 min · A cast of 14
- LysistrataAristophanes1 hr 14 min · A cast of 23
- BirdsAristophanes1 hr 39 min · A cast of 14
- ApologyPlato1 hr 6 min · A cast of 3
- EuthyphroPlato40 min · A cast of 3
- CritoPlato32 min · A cast of 3
- PhaedoPlato2 hr 43 min · A cast of 3
- MenoPlato1 hr 15 min · A cast of 5
- SymposiumPlato2 hr 12 min · A cast of 3
- GorgiasPlato3 hr 25 min · A cast of 6
- PhaedrusPlato2 hr 14 min · A cast of 3
- TheaetetusPlato3 hr 5 min · A cast of 6
- TimaeusPlato3 hr 14 min · A cast of 5
- RepublicPlato11 hr 20 min · Read by George
- LawsPlato14 hr 0 min · A cast of 4
- ProtagorasPlato2 hr 10 min · A cast of 3
- Dao De JingLaozi48 min · Read by George
- Nicomachean EthicsAristotle8 hr 0 min · Read by George
- PoliticsAristotle8 hr 35 min · Read by George
- MetaphysicsAristotle10 hr 42 min · Read by George
- On the SoulAristotle2 hr 49 min · Read by George
- PoeticsAristotle1 hr 23 min · Read by George
- CategoriesAristotle1 hr 21 min · Read by George
- RhetoricAristotle6 hr 9 min · Read by George
- MenciusMencius4 hr 54 min · Read by George
- ZhuangziZhuangzi8 hr 57 min · Read by George
- Letters and Principal DoctrinesEpicurus1 hr 15 min · Read by Christopher
- XunziXunzi11 hr 0 min · Read by George
- Han FeiziHan Feizi14 hr 48 min · Read by George
- DhammapadaBuddhist scripture1 hr 10 min · Read by Christopher
- Heart SutraBuddhist scripture3 min · Read by Christopher
- The Diamond SutraBuddhist scripture39 min · Read by George
- On DutiesCicero4 hr 50 min · Read by Christopher
- On the Nature of ThingsLucretius7 hr 31 min · Read by George
- AeneidVirgil11 hr 11 min · Read by George
- MetamorphosesOvid13 hr 19 min · Read by George
- On the Shortness of LifeSeneca58 min · Read by Christopher
- Letters to LuciliusSeneca17 hr 49 min · Read by Christopher
- HandbookEpictetus41 min · Read by George
- DiscoursesEpictetus10 hr 19 min · Read by George
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius3 hr 59 min · Read by George
- Fundamental Verses on the Middle WayNāgārjuna1 hr 14 min · Read by George
- Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus6 hr 50 min · Read by George
- Yoga SutrasPatañjali21 min · Read by Christopher
- EnneadsPlotinus28 hr 45 min · Read by George
- ConfessionsAugustine11 hr 19 min · Read by George
- The City of GodAugustine44 hr 0 min · Read by George
Middle Ages
- The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius3 hr 49 min · Read by Christopher
- The Platform Sutra of the Sixth PatriarchHuineng1 hr 43 min · Read by George
- The Virtuous Cityal-Fārābī3 hr 22 min · Read by George
- ProslogionAnselm of Canterbury1 hr 28 min · Read by Christopher
- Deliverance from Erroral-Ghazālī1 hr 52 min · Read by Christopher
- SciviasHildegard of Bingen4 hr 10 min · A cast of 8
- Hayy ibn YaqzanIbn Tufayl3 hr 0 min · Read by Christopher
- The Decisive TreatiseAverroes1 hr 11 min · Read by George
- An Account of My HutKamo no Chōmei34 min · Read by George
- Shōbōgenzō (selections)Dōgen2 hr 2 min · Read by George
- The MasnaviRumi2 hr 21 min · Read by George
- On Being and EssenceThomas Aquinas58 min · Read by Christopher
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri11 hr 13 min · Read by George
- Essays in IdlenessKenkō4 hr 2 min · Read by George
- Revelations of Divine LoveJulian of Norwich5 hr 37 min · Read by Lily
Renaissance
- Oration on the Dignity of ManGiovanni Pico della Mirandola1 hr 8 min · Read by Christopher
- The Praise of FollyDesiderius Erasmus3 hr 43 min · Read by Christopher
- The PrinceNiccolò Machiavelli2 hr 51 min · Read by Christopher
- Instructions for Practical LivingWang Yangming8 hr 30 min · Read by George
- UtopiaThomas More3 hr 54 min · Read by Christopher
- EssaysMichel de Montaigne44 hr 18 min · Read by George
Early modern
- New OrganonFrancis Bacon8 hr 6 min · Read by Christopher
- LeviathanThomas Hobbes20 hr 9 min · Read by Christopher
- Discourse on the MethodRené Descartes2 hr 1 min · Read by George
- Meditations on First PhilosophyRené Descartes2 hr 36 min · Read by George
- MaximsFrançois de La Rochefoucauld1 hr 35 min · Read by George
- Correspondence with DescartesElisabeth of Bohemia4 hr 45 min · A cast of 3
- PenséesBlaise Pascal10 hr 24 min · Read by Christopher
- The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern PhilosophyAnne Conway3 hr 19 min · Read by Alice
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke5 hr 2 min · Read by Christopher
- An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke27 hr 26 min · Read by Christopher
- EthicsBaruch Spinoza9 hr 36 min · Read by Christopher
- MonadologyGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz34 min · Read by Christopher
- Discourse on MetaphysicsGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz1 hr 39 min · Read by Christopher
- Reply to Sor FiloteaSor Juana Inés de la Cruz1 hr 43 min · Read by Lily
- A Serious Proposal to the LadiesMary Astell1 hr 56 min · Read by Lily
- Principles of Human Knowledge and Three DialoguesGeorge Berkeley7 hr 6 min · A cast of 2
- CandideVoltaire3 hr 12 min · Read by Christopher
- A Treatise of Human NatureDavid Hume21 hr 42 min · Read by Christopher
- An Enquiry Concerning Human UnderstandingDavid Hume4 hr 49 min · Read by George
- Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionDavid Hume3 hr 49 min · A cast of 4
- Discourse on InequalityJean-Jacques Rousseau3 hr 7 min · Read by George
- The Social ContractJean-Jacques Rousseau4 hr 12 min · Read by George
- Critique of Pure ReasonImmanuel Kant23 hr 46 min · Read by George
- Prolegomena to Any Future MetaphysicsImmanuel Kant4 hr 48 min · Read by Christopher
- What Is Enlightenment?Immanuel Kant18 min · Read by George
- Groundwork of the Metaphysics of MoralsImmanuel Kant3 hr 4 min · Read by George
- Critique of Practical ReasonImmanuel Kant6 hr 27 min · Read by George
- Toward Perpetual PeaceImmanuel Kant1 hr 34 min · Read by George
- Critique of JudgmentImmanuel Kant12 hr 13 min · Read by Christopher
- A Vindication of the Rights of WomanMary Wollstonecraft9 hr 5 min · Read by Lily
19th century
- Phenomenology of SpiritG. W. F. Hegel21 hr 48 min · Read by George
- Philosophy of RightG. W. F. Hegel9 hr 48 min · Read by Christopher
- The World as Will and RepresentationArthur Schopenhauer25 hr 22 min · Read by Christopher
- Nature and Self-RelianceRalph Waldo Emerson2 hr 45 min · Read by Christopher
- Democracy in AmericaAlexis de Tocqueville28 hr 41 min · Read by George
- On LibertyJohn Stuart Mill4 hr 33 min · Read by Christopher
- UtilitarianismJohn Stuart Mill2 hr 40 min · Read by George
- The Enfranchisement of WomenHarriet Taylor Mill1 hr 7 min · Read by Lily
- Fear and TremblingSøren Kierkegaard4 hr 9 min · Read by Christopher
- The Sickness unto DeathSøren Kierkegaard4 hr 53 min · Read by George
- The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels1 hr 12 min · Read by Christopher
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American SlaveFrederick Douglass3 hr 53 min · Read by Brian
- A ConfessionLeo Tolstoy2 hr 41 min · Read by George
- Illustrations of the Logic of ScienceCharles Sanders Peirce4 hr 16 min · Read by George
- PragmatismWilliam James5 hr 25 min · Read by Christopher
- The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Nietzsche4 hr 55 min · Read by Christopher
- Thus Spoke ZarathustraFriedrich Nietzsche9 hr 46 min · Read by George
- Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Nietzsche6 hr 59 min · Read by George
- On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche5 hr 31 min · Read by Christopher
- Twilight of the IdolsFriedrich Nietzsche3 hr 1 min · Read by Christopher
- The Foundations of ArithmeticGottlob Frege3 hr 55 min · Read by George
- On Sense and ReferenceGottlob Frege56 min · Read by George
- Science and HypothesisHenri Poincaré6 hr 22 min · Read by Christopher
- Civilization and Its DiscontentsSigmund Freud2 hr 54 min · Read by George
- Ideas IEdmund Husserl14 hr 19 min · Read by Christopher
- Creative EvolutionHenri Bergson12 hr 47 min · Read by George
- Democracy and EducationJohn Dewey15 hr 13 min · Read by George
20th century
- Science and the Modern WorldAlfred North Whitehead8 hr 45 min · Read by George
- The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismMax Weber4 hr 41 min · Read by George
- The Tragic Sense of LifeMiguel de Unamuno11 hr 15 min · Read by George
- The Idea of the HolyRudolf Otto6 hr 58 min · Read by Christopher
- Hind SwarajM. K. Gandhi2 hr 33 min · A cast of 2
- An Inquiry into the GoodNishida Kitarō6 hr 16 min · Read by Christopher
- The Human Place in the CosmosMax Scheler2 hr 45 min · Read by Christopher
- Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusLudwig Wittgenstein2 hr 21 min · Read by George
- On the Problem of EmpathyEdith Stein5 hr 5 min · Read by Matilda
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