Where music goes, technologically speaking, audio books soon follow. We've had audio books on vinyl LP, on cassette tape, on CD, and on MP3, just like we've had music. Now that so many of us pull up our daily jams on Spotify, it shouldn't come as a surprise that we can do a fair bit of our "reading" there as well. We've found a few lists that gather up the best audio book available on Spotify, including 21 classics and a collection of Shakespeare plays and sonnets at Gnarl'd, ten evergreen literary picks from Lifehacker, and a Spotify forum thread dedicated to subject.

Below, you'll find Spotify links to more than 60 classic works of literature that, even if you struggled on getting them read in your English classes, you can now revisit in a perhaps much more lifestyle-compatible medium. If you find more audio books on Spotify, definitely let us know in the comments section below and we'll add them to our list.

To listen to any of these, you will of course need Spotify's software and account, both easy to come by: you just download and register.

For more great audio, don't forget to visit our collection, 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free. Also remember that you can download a free audiobook (including many contemporary books) from Audible.com's Free Trial program.

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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture as well as the video series The City in Cinema and writes essays on cities, language, Asia, and men’s style. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall or on Facebook.