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1 Romeo & Juliet (Arkangel Complete Shakespeare) [UNABRIDGED]
William Shakespeare

Current:
9.6
Because this production of Romeo and Juliet features a full-cast performance, original music, and sound effects, it could accurately be described as an audio play. This tragic tale of the world's most famous star-crossed couple was o ... [more] [Submit]
2 Ernest Hemingway Reads Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Current:
9.5
"A writer must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day," says Ernest Hemingway in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Eternity Hemingway certainly has secured for himself with his internationally renowned body of work. In this collection, ... [more] [Submit]
3 The Lord of the Rings [ABRIDGED]
J. R. R. Tolkien

Current:
9.4
A Christian can be forgiven for not reading the Bible--heck, it's a pretty big book after all. But there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, The Lord of t ... [more] [Submit]
4 The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck, Henry Fonda (Reader)

Current:
9.4
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the ... [more] [Submit]
5 Lolita [UNABRIDGED]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Jeremy Irons (Reader)

Current:
9.4
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita triggers a deep conflict within the American psyche about crossing the line between love and the perverse lust for a child. In the bestselling audiobook, Jeremy Irons delivers a smooth, calculating presentat ... [more] [Submit]
6 The Grapes of Wrath [UNABRIDGED]
John Steinbeck, Dylan Baker (Narrator)

Current:
9.3
When The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the ... [more] [Submit]
7 Crime & Punishment (Classics on Cassette)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Current:
9.1
The talented Alex Jennings creates an atmosphere of gripping psychological tension and brings a variety of characters to life in this new audio edition of a crime classic. When the student Raskolnikov puts his philosophical theory to the ul ... [more] [Submit]
8 Their Eyes Were Watching God [ABRIDGED]
Zora Neale Hurston, Ruby Dee (Reader)

Current:
9.0
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston ... [more] [Submit]
9 To Kill a Mockingbird [UNABRIDGED]
Harper Lee, Roses Prichard (Reader)

Current:
9.0
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.... When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintain that the Ewells ... [more] [Submit]
10 Homer/the Iliad (Classics on Cassette) [ABRIDGED]
Robert Fagles(Translator), Derek George Jacobi (Reader)

Current:
8.9
This groundbreaking English version by Robert Fagles is the most important recent translation of Homer's great epic poem. The verse translation has been hailed by scholars as the new standard, providing an Iliad that delights modern ... [more] [Submit]
11 The Great Gatsby/Cassettes [UNABRIDGED]
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Current:
8.8
In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, si ... [more] [Submit]
12 Lord of the Flies [UNABRIDGED]
William Golding(Reader)

Current:
8.8
William Golding's classic tale about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a deserted island is just as chilling and relevant today as when it was first published in 1954. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting t ... [more] [Submit]
13 Brave New World [UNABRIDGED]
Aldous Huxley, Michael York (Reader)

Current:
8.7
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14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Garrison Keillor(Reader), Mark Twain

Current:
8.7
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15 Mark Twain Tonight
Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain

Current:
8.7
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16 The Fountainhead [ABRIDGED]
Ayn Rand, Edward Herrmann (Reader)

Current:
8.7
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17 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, Dick Hill (Reader)

Current:
8.6
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18 Of Mice and Men [UNABRIDGED]
John Steinbeck, Gary Sinise (Reader)

Current:
8.6
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19 Uncle Tom's Cabin [UNABRIDGED]
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Buck Schirner (Narrator)

Current:
8.6
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20 The Lord of the Rings [UNABRIDGED]
J. R. R. Tolkien

Current:
8.6
A Christian can be forgiven for not reading the Bible--heck, it's a pretty big book after all. But there's no salvation for a fantasy fan who hasn't read the gospel of the genre, J.R.R. Tolkien's definitive three-book epic, The Lord of t ... [more] [Submit]
21 The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway, Charlton Heston (Reader)

Current:
8.6
Here, for a change, is a fish tale that actually does honor to the author. In fact The Old Man and the Sea revived Ernest Hemingway's career, which was foundering under the weight of such postwar stinkers as more] [Submit]
22 All the World's a Stage : An Anthology of Shakespearian Speeches Performed by the World's Leading Actors (Bbc Radio Presents)
William Shakespeare

Current:
8.5
All The World's A StageHis characters are unforgettable -- Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet -- their stories resonating with audiences no less today than when Shakespeare first penned them. Now, in this magnificent collection of the bar ... [more] [Submit]
23 Pride and Prejudice (Classic Collection) [UNABRIDGED]
Jane Austen

Current:
8.5
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24 Atlas Shrugged [ABRIDGED]
Ayn Rand, Edward Herrmann (Reader)

Current:
8.5
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25 Great Expectations [UNABRIDGED]
Charles Dickens, Michael Page (Narrator)

Current:
8.5
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