July 17, 2024

The Best YouTube Channels for Audiobooks

There are thousands of free audiobooks on YouTube! In fact, there are many channels dedicated to just audiobooks. In this blog post, we’re going to be highlighting some of the best YouTube channels for audiobooks.

Many of the audiobooks on YouTube are illegal or questionable related to copyright. For various reasons, we can’t link to those audiobooks. But there are a number of YouTube channels that feature legally free audiobooks that have been professionally recorded. These are the audiobook channels that we’ll feature below. Most of these free audiobooks are in the public domain.

If you’re familiar with audiobooks online, you’ve probably heard of Librivox.org. The website features public-domain audiobooks that are narrated by volunteers, with varying narration quality. Because these audiobooks have an open copyright license, many channels have re-uploaded these audiobooks to YouTube. Because the quality is all over the place, we won’t list all the channels that link to Librivox audiobooks, but we will list a few of the largest channels that do so:

LibriVox Audiobooks – This is the official LibriVox YouTube channel with over 25,000 videos uploaded!

Audio Books – This channel called simply “Audio Books” features over 10,000 of Librivox’s audiobooks to choose from.

Greatest AudioBooks – This channel features about 1,000 of Librivox’s most popular audiobooks. Their channel has almost 1 million subscribers.

But beyond Librivox audiobooks, there are numerous channels that feature professional narrators reading public domain audiobooks and even some more recent audiobooks that have been licensed out to the channel. Here are some of the best channels we’ve found:

1. Master Key Society – For classic self-improvement audiobooks, it doesn’t get much better than Master Key Society. With over 50 free audiobooks and over a million subscribers, this is one of the most popular audiobook YouTube channels. We’ve recently added most of these audiobooks to our own Free Audiobooks Collection and you can browse them here: Master Key Society Free Self-Help Audiobooks on LearnOutLoud.com. You’ll find classic self-help books from Napoleon Hill, Earl Nightingale, Florence Shinn, and many other pioneers in self-help. One cool feature of these videos is that they provide a visual of the text page-by-page from the book so you can read along while you listen.

2. Aneko Press – Christian Audiobooks – If you’re looking for Christian audiobooks, then Aneko Press is probably the best YouTube channel to find some. They have over 100 professionally narrated Christian audiobooks on their channel. You’ll find numerous audiobooks from famous Christian authors like John Bunyan, Andrew Murray, A.W. Tozer, Charles H. Spurgeon, Dwight L. Moody, and many others. We’ve also added many of these audiobooks to our own Free Audiobooks Collection and you can browse them here: Aneko Press Free Christian Audiobooks on LearnOutLoud.com.

3. LearnOutLoud Audiobooks – Not to toot our own horn, but we have uploaded most of our published audiobooks to our YouTube channel. For all of these audiobooks, we hired professional narrators and recorded them in our own studio. We feature 30 audiobooks that you can listen to which you can find on this YouTube playlist: 30 Free Audio Books on Our LearnOutLoud YouTube Channel. These educational titles are all classics in the public domain.

4. Vox Stoica – This narrator Robin Homer has dedicated his YouTube channel to narrating classics in Stoic philosophy. His popular channel features readings from philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus. His narration of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius has over 3 million views!

5. Magpie Audio – Narrator Greg Wagland runs this channel called Magpie Audio, which features mostly Sherlock Holmes stories, along with other classic novels and short stories that he’s read. If you enjoy Sherlock Holmes, then this channel is the place to go! Wagland provides excellent British narration to his audiobooks.

And those are really the best channels for legally free audiobooks we’ve found. If we find more, we’ll add them to this blog post.

One other channel that we wanted to point out is the Google Play Books YouTube channel. This recent channel from Google features over 150,000 audio samples of various audiobooks from all the major publishers. The samples have a range of lengths, but many of them are over an hour long, providing you with a great way to decide on your next audiobook listen. And if you go into their “Playlists” section, they even have some free full public domain audiobooks narrated by artificial intelligence voices to try out.

Over 150,000 Audiobook Samples from Google Play Books on YouTube

If you’re looking for some free audiobooks, there are plenty of audiobooks to listen to on YouTube!