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Featured Article: The top 100 classics of all time
Before we whipped out our old high school syllabi and dug deep into our libraries to start selecting contenders for this list, we first had to answer the question, "How do we define a classic?" The answer isn’t as straightforward as you might guess, though there’s a lot to be said for the old adage, "You know it when you see it" (or, in this case, hear it). Of course, most critically, each of our picks had to be fabulous in audio. So dust off your aspirational listening list—we have some amazing additions you don’t want to miss.
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,376
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,727
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,721
Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing....
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5 out of 5 stars
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My Favorite Narration and a Wonderful Book
- By Guillermo on 09-17-09
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On the Road
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 10-18-07
- Language: English
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 736
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 631
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 630
The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed it....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Classic Brought to Life
- By Sil A. on 11-25-16
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On the Road: The Original Scroll
- Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 09-08-15
- Language: English
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On the Road
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Matt Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4 out of 5 stars 65
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Audible a great way to “reread” old classics
- By Alan M Grant on 05-12-20
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On the Road
- Narrated by: Matt Dillon
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-16-06
- Language: English
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Graham Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New York life, in a collection of colourful stream-of-consciousness essays....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Annoying
- By A. Yerkes on 07-20-09
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Visions of Cody
- Selections from the Novel
- Narrated by: Graham Parker
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-16-99
- Language: English
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Big Sur
- By: Jack Kerouac, Aram Saroyan - foreword
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 207
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 175
A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Astonishing Ethan Hawke Performance
- By L E Stewart on 11-10-20
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Big Sur
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 10-06-20
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4 out of 5 stars 215
Two friends in 1950s San Francisco Bohemia explore Buddhism Zen - hipster style. On the road to finding...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy abridged versions of novels.
- By Ronald C. Wagner on 12-28-09
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The Dharma Bums
- Narrated by: Allen Ginsberg
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 12-15-99
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 752
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 646
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 641
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans whose quest for Truth leads them on an odyssey....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lyrical Rendition
- By Michael E on 04-28-20
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The Dharma Bums
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, California, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kerouac at his most honest
- By MckyD’z on 12-01-22
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Desolation Peak
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: Christian Rummel
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-08-22
- Language: English
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Wake Up is Kerouac's retelling of the life of Prince Siddartha Gotama, who abandoned his wealthy family and comfortable home for a lifelong search for Enlightenment....
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5 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed Jacks biography of The Buddha
- By Joel on 07-10-23
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Wake Up
- A Life of the Buddha
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 01-07-09
- Language: English
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The Subterraneans
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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From the most famous of the Beat writers and the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums, Kerouac’s intoxicating love story of two young bohemians.
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The Subterraneans
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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The Sea Is My Brother
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 185
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Story4 out of 5 stars 185
Written seven years before The Town and the City officially launched his writing career, this novel marks the pivotal point at which Jack Kerouac began laying the foundations for his pioneering method....
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5 out of 5 stars
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For Kerouac fans
- By Anthony on 02-17-14
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The Sea Is My Brother
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-20-12
- Language: English
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Tristessa
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Kerouac fell under the spell of Esperanza's dark allure and exotic surroundings, and hoped to re-experience the "fellaheen nights" of his joyous adventures with Mexicans in his past....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Gritty
- By William on 06-09-18
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Tristessa
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 01-25-16
- Language: English
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On the Road
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: David Carradine
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 213
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
On the Road is the classic story of Sal Paradise and Dean Moriarty, who set off on an odyssey through mid-century underground America, fueled by jazz, sex, drugs, mystical philosophy....
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1 out of 5 stars
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not the full book
- By Hannah on 12-11-17
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On the Road
- Narrated by: David Carradine
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 12-28-08
- Language: English
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Desolation Angels
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 14 hrs
- Unabridged
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Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac’s life—the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957....
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Desolation Angels
- Length: 14 hrs
- Release date: 11-26-24
- Language: English
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Los Vagabundos del Dharma
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Ignasi Burniol
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Una de las obras capitales de Jack Kerouac, el escritor paradigmático de la Generación Beat. Ambientada en California, expone su descubrimiento del...
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Los Vagabundos del Dharma
- Narrated by: Ignasi Burniol
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 03-27-24
- Language: Spanish
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac, Charles Shuttleworth - editor, Paul Maher - editor
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of previously unpublished writing culled from the Jack Kerouac archive, and as a companion to Paul Maher Jr.'s Becoming Kerouac, spans Jack's adult life, from a journal written at age seventeen to autobiographical reflections a few years before his death....
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Self-Portrait
- Collected Writings
- Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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Lonesome Traveler
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac comes a collection of essays and stories compiled from journal entries he made during his travels....
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Lonesome Traveler
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 01-28-25
- Language: English
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Atop an Underwood
- Early Stories and Other Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write....
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Atop an Underwood
- Early Stories and Other Writings
- Length: 9 hrs
- Release date: 07-02-24
- Language: English
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The Haunted Life
- And Other Writings
- By: Jack Kerouac
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber, Luke Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
Jack Kerouac wrote The Haunted Life in 1944 when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liev Schreiber should read more
- By Asmarranda on 04-21-21
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The Haunted Life
- And Other Writings
- Narrated by: Liev Schreiber, Luke Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 03-11-14
- Language: English
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The Dharma Bums
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Jack Kerouac, Ann Douglas
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas....
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The Dharma Bums
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 05-20-21
- Language: English
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