I can’t think of the last time I read an entire book that wasn’t directly related to something for work or some technology book so I could learn how to do something new. I’m talking about reading for the pure enjoyment of reading a story.
My favorite author is Michael Crichton, which leads me to think the last book I read was one of his and it was probably in college.
Simply Audiobooks offers a number of free, public works books that you can download for free and put on your favorite MP3 player or computer. Of course, with the right software you could also put them on CD and listen to them on your car stereo on that next road trip.
Here are the titles currently available on their page they have listed.
- The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain
- Quotations of Mahatma Gandhi
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Madonna of the Future by Henry James
- The Life of P.T.Barnum by Joel Benton
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- The Came’s Back by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Greek Myths by James Baldwin
- Missions of California by William H. Hudson
- The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Go expand your literary horizons without turning a page. It just feels like there’s something wrong with that. Librarians everywhere are cringing behind their Dewey Decimal systems.
Oh, did I forget to mention they’re free?