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The Grow Your Brain And Get stuff done!
I’m not sure what it is, but when I’m out working in the yard or planting things, my brain get incredibly receptive. I used to play podcasts and music but now I’ve embraced some of the classics.
Below you’ll find over 500 hours of legit free audiobooks.
This is a compilation of free Audiobooks you can listen to on YouTube. They’re all in the public domain and 100% legal. If you want to download them to MP3 format, you can use a free tool like ClipConverter.
Also, I just picked up pair of these TOZO’s and THEY ARE AWESOME! They’re my 1st pair of wireless earbuds and way more comfortable than the corded one. The best parts is, they stay in my ears when I’m shoveling and pickaxing. I just hope they don’t fry my brain lol.
Western Philosophy:
The classics of Western philosophy from ancient Greece, the Middles Ages, the Enlightenment and beyond.
1. The Republic (Plato)
2. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
3. On Liberty (John Stuart Mill)
4. Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
5. The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)
6. Anthem (Ayn Rand)
7. The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
8. The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
9. Beyond Good and Evil (Friedrich Nietzsche)
10. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
11. The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
12. The Wealth of Nations (Adam Smith)
13. The Odyssey (Homer)
14. The Illiad (Homer)
15. The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
16. The Way To Wealth (Benjamin Franklin)
17. Character Building (Booker T. Washington)
18. On the Nature of the Gods (Cicero)
19. Of Peace of Mind (Seneca)
Eastern Philosophy:
A good counterbalance to Western philosophy with a greater focus on the practical knowledge of the mind and self-liberation.
2. Freedom From The Known (Krishnamurti)
3. Sadhana: The Realization of Life (Sadhana)
4. Reincarnation (Swami Abhedananda)
5. The Kama Sutra (Vatsyayana)
6. The Way of the Warrior (Bushido)
7. The Buddic Consciousness (C. W. Leadbeater)
8. The Tibetan Book of the Dead
9. The Mahabharata (Vyasa)
10. The Tao of Pooh
11. The Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu)
12. The Dhammapada (The Buddha)
13. The Art of War (Sun Tze)
15. The Path of Light (Shantideva)
16. The Upanishads
17. The Yoga Sutras (Patanjali)
18. The Analects of Confucius (Confucius)
19. On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are (Alan Watts)
20. Bushido – Way of the Warrior (Inazo Nitobe)
Science:
Develop your understanding of the nature of physics and the Universe.
1. A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
2. The Theory of Relativity (Albert Einstein)
3. The Pioneers of Science (Sir Oliver Lodge)
4. Physics (Aristotle)
5. The Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking)
History:
If you fell asleep in history class. It’s time to play a little catchup.
1. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World In Our Time (Caroll Quigley)
2. History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 1 (Gaston Maspero)
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (John Perkins)
4. The Story of Atlantis and Lemuria (William Scott-Elliot)
5. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
6. A History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russel)
8. A History of the United States (Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard)
9. A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
The Torah, Bible, and Koran:
The books of the three Abrahamic religions and their different flavors of God, morality, and truth. Also, I added a few books that didn’t make it into the canon.
1. Genesis
5. Proverbs
6. Psalms
7. The Bible
8. The Torah
9. The Koran
10. The Book of Enoch (Robert Charles)
12. Apocrypha – Thee Book of Jasher
13. Apocrypha – The Book of Jubilees
American Literature:
The counter-cultural icons and literary greats who defined American ideals of freedom and liberty.
1. On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
2. Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
3. Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
4. Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
5. Civil Disobedience (Henry David Thoreau)
6. The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
7. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
8. The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
9. Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
10. This Side of Paradise (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
11. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
12. Life Without Principle (Henry David Thoreau)
British Literature:
There is a long tradition in British literature toward individualism and challenging authoritarian structures of power at home and abroad.
1. 1984 (George Orwell)
2. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
3. The Time Machine (H. G. Wells)
4. The Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Shakespeare)
6. Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
7. The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling)
8. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
9. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
10. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
11. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
11. The Magi (William Butler Yeats)
12. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
13. The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
14. The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
15. The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
16. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
17. A Princess Of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
European Literature:
These audiobook classics that have defined European cultural ideals and our modern ideas of freedom and democracy.
1. Faust (Goethe)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
3. Aesop’s Fables (Aesop)
4. Notes From The Underground (Feydor Dochevsky)
5. The Soul of Man (Oscar Wilde)
6. What I Believe (Leo Tolstoy)
7. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
8. Candide (Voltaire)
9. Around The World In 80 Days (Jules Verne)
10. Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm)
11. Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
12. In The Days of Giants (Abbie Farwell Brown)
13. Nietzsche and the Nazis (Stephen Hicks)
Classic Biographies:
Get inspired by exploring the lives, routines, and thoughts of influential historical figures.
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
2. The Autobiography of a Yogi (Paramahansa Yogananda)
3. The Story of My Life (Helen Keller)
4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
5. Autobiography of Mark Twain (Mark Twain)
6. Long Walk To Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
7. Henry Ford’s Own Story (Rose Wilder Lane)
8. Geronimo’s Story of His Life
9. My Inventions (Nikola Tesla)
Psychology:
Gain a better understanding your psychology, reasons behind behavior and ultimate human potential.
1. Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud)
2. Psychopathology of Everyday Life (Sigmund Freud)
3. Approaching The Unconscious (Carl Jung)
4. Studies in the Psychology of Sex (Havelock Ellis)
5. Essay on the Creative Imagination (Theodule Ribot)
6. The Creative Mind (Ernest Shurtieff Holmes)
Personal Development:
Famous personal development free audiobooks. Focus on success!
1. Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
2. How To Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
3. The New Psycho-Cybernetics (Maxwell Maltz)
4. As A Man Thinketh (James Allen)
5. The Power of Concentration (Theron Q. Dumont)
6. A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis (Melvin Powers)
7. The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles)
8. How To Analyze People On Sight (Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict)
9. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Joseph Murphy)
10. The Science of Being Great (Wallace D. Wattles)
11. The Automatic Millionaire (David Bach)
12. In Tune With the Infinite (Ralph Waldo Trine)
13. Self Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
14. Nature (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
15. Memory – How to Develop Train and Use It (Walker Atkinson)
Public Domain Audiobook Collection
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