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Crime Desk · The Reading Room
A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle
The first Sherlock Holmes short story read in full, opening our crime and mystery listening strand.
Presented by BookNest Collective
All Adventure Business Children Classics Crime Desk Drama Gothic Ideas Literary Fiction Short Fiction
Crime Desk · 55 min
A Scandal in Bohemia Arthur Conan Doyle
The first Sherlock Holmes short story read in full, opening our crime and mystery listening strand.
Classics · 18 min
Pride and Prejudice, opening chapters Jane Austen
Where the modern romance novel begins, read aloud for the listening room.
Literary Fiction · 44 min
Heart of Darkness, part one Joseph Conrad
A voyage upriver, and one of the most argued about novellas in English.
Gothic · 33 min
Dracula, chapter one Bram Stoker
Jonathan Harker's journal, and the carriage ride nobody should have taken.
Short Fiction · 14 min
Twelve Creepy Tales, opening story Edgar Allan Poe
Poe at his most economical, for listeners who want a whole story in a single sitting.
Adventure · 24 min
The Call of the Wild, part one Jack London
Buck leaves the sun of Santa Clara for the Klondike, in London's tightest book.
Classics · 22 min
The Count of Monte Cristo, opening Alexandre Dumas
The arrival at Marseilles, and the beginning of literature's finest revenge plot.
Children · 10 min
The Secret Garden, chapter one Frances Hodgson Burnett
A short, gentle listen for younger listeners and the grown ups reading with them.
Adventure · 28 min
King Solomon's Mines, chapter one H. Rider Haggard
The adventure novel that invented most of the ones that followed it.
Drama · 44 min
Romeo and Juliet, act one William Shakespeare
A full cast recording of the first act, performed rather than narrated.
Ideas · 6 min
Beyond Good and Evil, preface Friedrich Nietzsche
A short philosophical listen for the founders strand, six minutes end to end.
Business · 5 min
Your Invisible Power, introduction Genevieve Behrend
An early self direction classic, still quoted by founders a century later.
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