Audrey: Guided audiobooks

Listen with Audrey

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About this app

Listen to classic audiobooks with notes from an expert guide and beautiful hand-made illustrations 🎨

Our growing library features a hand-picked selection of the classic novels, novellas, short stories, plays and poems that you've always wanted to read (or re-read!), from Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice to Moby Dick and Great Expectations.

Each audiobook is highly produced and read by world-class actors like Juliet Stevenson and Anton Lesser, and our Audrey Guides are thoughtful and friendly scholars, academics and authors who know these books and authors inside-out.

Every book on Audrey comes with chapter recaps, character descriptions, hand-made illustrations and notes from the guide. Here are some of the many delights you can expect to find in the notes from an Audrey guide:

- Insights into the book's cultural, historical and social context
- Voice notes from the guide and guest contributors
- Thought-provoking questions and personal reflections
- Photos of the author
- In-depth information about the author and their process
- Light-touch literary analysis and links to further reading
- Photos of the book's real-life settings
- Illustrations from the early editions of the book
- A book-inspired playlist
- Recipes from the book
- A curated selection of reviews
- Recommendations for further reading, watching and listening

EVENTS
Join a community of book lovers in our free regular listen-alongs. Sign up to the app to be the first to hear about them.

FEATURES
Hands-free mode for when you're driving.
Buy one audiobook at a time, no subscriptions or commitments.
Recaps for every chapter of every book so you don't get lost.
Character descriptions and connections that update in real-time.
Contribute your own voice notes and listen to the thoughts of other listeners.
Links to The StoryGraph to rate, review and log your listening.
A Spotify playlist curated for every book.
Buy prints of the illustrations.

A SELECTION OF TITLES FROM THE AUDREY LIBRARY

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Rolf Fjelde
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dubliners by James Joyce
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, translated by Richard Stokes
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Selected poetry by John Keats
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, translated by Olesch, Dreher, Coulter, Langer and Chaichenets
The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy, translated by Aylmer and Louise Maude
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Villette by Charlotte Brontë


The Audrey app currently only works on mobile devices.

Ratings and reviews

Audrey is a great audio book experience. The narrators are excellent and the additional notes, recaps and character notes enhance the listening experience so much. It's a great way to engage more deeply with the texts and there are often readalongs to join to really feel part of a community. A great app!

I absolutely loved everything about this app! Not only do you get the audio book but also selected notes, character descriptions as we meet each new character and also recaps of each chapter. With music, sound effects and multiple readers, it feels just like an audio theatre. I love the variety of additional material too from maps, drawings, voice and video clips. A whole new reading experience and one that I hope will continue to expand - absolutely brilliant idea and a joy to use!

The artwork is great, the narration is good. I enjoyed the extra info, such as pictures for places in the book I was listening to. However buying the audiobook is very expensive and it was not very clear of there is a home button, it took me about a minute to figure out that the book icon in the right corner didn't mean add more books to the playlist.

What's new

In this update, we have significantly restructured our download functionality due to reaching the storage limits of the android device database. To ensure the best experience with these changes, we recommend the following steps:

1. Completely delete the app from your device.
2. Restart your phone.
3. Re-download and install the app.

Additionally, we've made substantial improvements to enhance app stability by updating dependencies and implementing various fixes.