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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  by L. Frank Baum

The Wizard of Oz for ESL Students - Audiobooks for ESL

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz : The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is one of the best-known stories in English popular culture and has been widely translated.

Dorothy Gale is an orphaned young girl unhappy with her drab black-and-white existence on her aunt and uncle's dusty Kansas farm. Dorothy yearns to travel "over the rainbow" to a different world, and she gets her wish when a tornado whisks her and her little dog, Toto, to the Land of Oz.

Things in Oz are strange and beautiful, but Dorothy just wants to get back home. She's helped by the Good Witch of the North, but she's also in trouble with the Wicked Witch of the West. On the journey to meet the Wizard of Oz, who everyone says can help her return home, Dorothy meets some memorable friends and frightening foes. She meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the Wizard of Oz will help them.
 

The Great Gatsby
  by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby - Audiobook for ESL - Listen and Read

 The Great Gatsby is arguably Fitzgerald's finest work. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies the American obsessions for money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream. The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby is a mystical, timeless story of integrity and cruelty, vision and despair. The story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written.  
(drawn from Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com reviews)
 

And Then There Were None
  by Agatha Christie     And Then There Were None - Audiobook for ESL - Listen and Read

And Then There Were None is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in 1939. In the novel, ten people, who have previously been complicit in the deaths of others but have escaped notice and/or punishment, are tricked into coming onto an island. After their first dinner, once they're all in the drawing-room, a voice reads out a list of accusations against them - each one of them is accused of murdering at least one person, and they have been brought to the Island to pay for their crimes. No one is sure what to make of the recording, until Marston takes a drink - and dies of Cyanide poisoning. Even though the guests are the only people on the island, they are all mysteriously murdered one by one.

This is Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery and the seventh most popular book of all time.
   
 
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