The Big List of Chinese Audiobooks

Listening to Chinese Audiobooks is a great way to learn Chinese. We’ve discussed this learning strategy earlier: an audiobook together with the corresponding transcript is one of the best ways of improving your proficiency in a foreign language.

This is the list of audiobooks in Chinese that we were able to find so far. Most come together with the transcript.

Fortress Besieged “Fortress besieged” (14+ hours)
Audio (free)
Transcript (gone)
Book

 

Jonathan Swift “Gulliver’s Travels” (approx. 3 hours)
Audio (free)
Book
E-book

Ernest Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea” (4+ hours)
Audio (free)
Book
E-book

George Lucas, Alan Dean Foster “Star Wars” (approx. 8 hours)
Audio (free)
Transcript (simplified)
Transcript (traditional)

Lu Xun and Yang Xianyi “True Story of Ah Q” (approx. 2 hours)
Audio (free)
Transcript (simplified)
Translation
Book (bilingual)

Leo Tolstoy “Anne Karenina” (50+ hours)
Audio (free)
Transcript (not fully matching audio)
Book

Charlotte Bronte “Jane Eyre”
Audio (free)
Transcript (gone)
Book
E-book

Folk Tales “1001 Nights”
Audio (free)
Book

Jules Verne “Around the World in 80 Days”
Audio (free)
Book
E-book

Ba Jin “The Family”
Audio (free)
Transcript
Book

Margaret Mitchell “Gone with the Wind”
Audio (free)
Book

Notes about Chinese Audiobooks:

1. Some people (like me!) prefer to own the real physical book rather than just a website transcript, so the Chinese e-book and physical book versions have been listed for your convenience. However, please note that the text in the book may be different from the audiobook depending on the edition. While the exact transcript is preferable, don’t stress too much if it doesn’t match up. It will still be helpful if you read it!

2. I adapted this list from an old forum post. Some of the dead links have been removed and updated.

3. Many of the audiobooks and e-books that I found were listed on Amazon.com. For copyright reasons, they might not be available on your local Amazon store, so try looking on Amazon.com if in doubt.

4. If you’re looking for more Chinese audio to study from, we think Chinese Class 101 is worth checking out.

Have you found any other high quality Chinese audiobooks available online? Please let us know below in the comments and we will add them to this list! We’d also be grateful for any reports of dead links or incorrect transcripts. Thank you.