Where to Listen to Audiobooks Practically For Free—Including Dramatized Versions of ACOTAR & Fourth Wing

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Nothing beats a good old-fashioned book, but if you’re on the go or just don’t have time to read a physical novel, audiobooks are a great option to multitask while still consuming your favorite stories. Audiobooks can also be cheaper, as seen by Audible’s free trial and current deal, which allows book lovers to read as many audiobooks as they’d like a month for less than the price of a coffee.

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Where to listen to free audiobooks

The best place to listen to free audiobooks is with Audible, Amazon’s streaming service which offers a 30-day free trial for both its Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus plans. After the free period ends, book lovers can subscribe to Audible Plus for $7.95 per month or Audible Premium Plus for $14.95 per month.

Audible also has a current deal from now until December 31, 2024, where eligible Amazon users in the United States can sign up for Audible Premium Plus for 99 cents per month for their first three months. Audible also has another deal from November 20 to December 2, 2024, where eligible Amazon users who subscribe to Audible Premium Plus will receive a $20 Audible credit that can be used on Audible.com.

How to subscribe to Audible

1. Visit Audible’s Amazon page
2. Click “Continue”
3. Create or log into your Amazon account
4. Start listening with Audible!

How does Audible work?

Auible offers two plans: Audible Plus and Audible Premium Plus. Both plans come with unlimited access to Audible’s library of thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, originals, sleep tracks, and meditation programs, as well as allow users to save titles to their library to download and listen offline.

Th difference is that Audible Premium Plus also comes with one credit per month to redeem on any audiobook in Audible’s selection of new releases and bestsellers for that user to keep. Audible Premium Plus subscribers can also keep all their monthly credits for up to one year if there isn’t an audiobook that interests them for a certain month.

What free audiobooks are on Audible?

With Audible’s 30-day free trial, users have access to thousands of free audiobooks on Audible during that period. See a list of Audible’s most popular books of 2024 so far below.

• The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
• Bemon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden
• F*Cking History by The Captain
• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
• Atomach Habits by James Clear
• When the Moon Hatched by Sarah A. Parker
• Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
• Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
• The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
• Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
• The Keeper of Happy Endings by Barbara Davis
• Mean Streak by Sandra Brown
• The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auchwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku
• This Is Why We Lied by Karin Slaughter
• The Summer House by James Patterson
• When We Had Wings by Ariel Lawhon
• The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
• The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
• The Five Year Lie: A Domestic Thriller by Sarina Bowen
• Worthy: How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life by Jamie Kern Lima
• The Return by Nicholas Sparks
• The Love of My Life by Rosie Walsh
• Get Out of Your Head by Jennie Allen
• Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
• Dreamland by Nicholas Sparks
• If You Tell by Gregg Olsen
• Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell
• Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

Along with its list of bestsellers, Audible also offers dozens of dramatized adaptations — essentially audiobooks voiced with a cast of voice actors — of BookTok-favorite books including Sarah J. Maas’ A Court of Thorns and Roses series and Rebecca Yarros’ The Empyrean series. See a list of the most popular dramatized adaptations below.

• The Blood and Ash series by Jennifer L. Armentrout
• The Empyrean series by Rebecca Yarros
• The Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas
• The Zodiac Academy series by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti
• The Harbinger series by Jennifer Armentrout
• The Never After series by Emily McIntire
• The A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas
• Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
• The Demon Days, Vampire Nights series by K.F. Breene
• The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Red Rising series by Pierce Brown and Rik Hoskin

Subscribe to Audible here.