Japanese Audiobooks with Transcripts
Contents
The list of audiobooks were taken from this thread [1] and only contains audiobooks with a Japanese transcript and an English translation. For translations of works by Japanese authors, they come from an online source or a source for a commercial one.
Short stories
O Henry
- Gift of the Magi (25 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Last Leaf (25 min)Audio Parallel Text
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder (63 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Red Headed League (79 min)Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- The Adventure of the Dancing Men (? min) Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Captain of the Polestar (27 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- The Gloria Scott (79 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Stock Broker's Clerk (67 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- A Scandal in Bohemia (70 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle (? min) (Complete) Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Black Peter (? min) Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- Six Napoleons (? min) Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
Edgar Allan Poe
- The Black Cat (44 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue (100 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
Brothers Grimm
- Hansel and Gretal (28 min)Transcript Audio
- Rapunzel (11 min)Transcript Audio
- Little Red Riding Hood (9 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- The Bremen Town Musicians (14 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats (13 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- The Frog Prince (17 min)Transcript Audio 1 2 3
Hans Christian Andersen
- The Red Shoes (26 min)Transcript Audio
- The Little Nightingale (38 min)Transcript Audio
- The Little Match Girl (9 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Emperor's New Clothes (21 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- The Fir Tree (42 min)Transcript Audio
- The Snow Queen (115 min)Transcript Audio
- Picture Book Without Picture (? min)(Complete) Transcript Audio
- The Little Mermaid (73 min)Transcript Audio Translation
Oscar Wilde
- The Happy Prince (32 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- The Selfish Giant (16 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
Charles Perrault
- Puss in Boots (17 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Blue Beard (17 min)Transcript Audio
- Sleeping Beauty (25 min)Transcript Audio
- Cinderella (27 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
- Spider's Thread (10 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation
- The Truck (17 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation
- Rashomon (18 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation
- The Three Treasures (26 min)Transcript Audio 1 2 3 Translation
- Kappa (120 min)Transcript Audio*
- The Dog, Shiro (28 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation
- In a Grove (30 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- The Christ of Nanking (40 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- Oshino (19 min)Transcript Audio Translation
Kido Okamoto
- The Stone Lantern (65 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Mystery of the Fire Bell (69 min)Transcript Audio#
- Hiroshige and the River Otter (59 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Mansion of Morning Glories (48 min)Transcript Audio#
- Cacophony of Cats (52 min)Transcript Audio#
- Benten's Daughter (65 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Room Over the Bathhouse (49 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Ghost of Ofumi (58 min)Transcript Audio 1 2#
- The Death of Kampei (49 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Dancer's Curse (61 min)Transcript Audio#
- The Haunted Sash Pond (? min) Transcript Audio#
- Snow Melting in Spring (? min) Transcript Audio#
Kenji Miyazawa
- The Restaurant of Many Orders (17 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation@
- The Nighthawk's Star (21 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- The Acorns and the Wildcat (20 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation@
- The Poison Powder Police Chief (12 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation@
- The Dragon and the Poet (12 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- Night on the Milky Way Train (134 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- Gorsch the Cellist (44 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) 1 2@
- The Earthgod and the Fox (41 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)@
- Ozbel and the Elephant (22 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)@
- The First Deer Dance (20 min)Transcript Audio@
- Night of the Festival (17 min)Transcript Audio 1 2 3@
- The Great Bear of the Crows (20 min)Transcript Audio 1 2 3 Translation
Osamu Dazai
- Memories/思い出 (114 min)Transcript Audio$
- Monkey Island (19 min)Transcript Audio$
- Melos, Run (13 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)$
- A Poor Man's Got His Pride/貧の意地 (27 min)Transcript (Scroll past table of contents) Audio (Halfway down the page)$
- The Monkey's Mound/猿塚 (13 min)Transcript (Scroll 1/4 of the way down the page) Audio$
- Crackling Mountain/カチカチ山 (44 min)Transcript (A little past halfway down the page) Audio$
- The Sound of Hammering (47 min)Transcript Audio$
- Undine (27 min)Transcript Audio v1 Audio v2 1 2 3 4$
- Heed My Plea (40 min)Transcript Audio 1 2 3 4$
- Taking the Wen Away/瘤取り (17 min)Transcript (Begins just after intro paragraph) Audio$
- The Fox Boy (31 min)Transcript Audio Translation
Beatrix Potter
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit (? min)Transcript Audio Original Text
- The Tale of Two Bad Mice (? min)Transcript Audio Original Text
Other
- Basho Matsuo Oku No Hosomichi (66 min)Transcript Audio (5 parts) Audio (45 parts) Translation
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Le Petit Prince (165 min)Transcript Audio (HQ) Parallel Text
- Leo Tolstoy Ivan the Fool (95 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Ogai Mori Down the Takase River (36 min)Transcript Audio Translation
- Maurice LeBlanc Edith Au Cou De Cygne (52 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Lyman Frank Baum A Kidnapped Santa Claus (22 min)Transcript Audio
- Madame de Villeneuve Beauty and the Beast (36 min)Transcript Audio (HQ)
- Soseki Natsume Ten Nights of Dreams (? min)Transcript Audio
- Gilbert K Chesterton The Sins of Prince Saradine (62 min)Transcript Audio Parallel Text
- Lewis Caroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (? min) Audio Parallel Text
- Soseki Natsume Inside My Glass Doors (? min) (Complete) Transcript Audio*
Full length novels
Soseki Natsume
- Botchan (366 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio Translation Parallel Text
- Sanshiro (583 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio*
- Three Cornered World (275 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio*
- Kokoro (9 hr)(Complete)Transcript Incomplete Audio (HQ) Audio Translation
- I am a Cat (22 hr)(Complete)Transcript Audio 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11*
- The Gate (? min) (Complete) TranscriptAudio*
- And Then (? min) (Complete) Transcript Audio*
- Grass On the Wayside (? min) (Complete) Transcript Audio*
Osamu Dazai
- The Setting Sun (392 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio*
- No Longer Human (248 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio*
Other
- Murasaki Shikibu Tale of Genji (1594 min)(24 Chapters--one audio link is dead)Transcript Audio Translation
- Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (244 min)(Complete)Transcript Audio (HQ) Translation
- E.C. Tubb The Winds of Gath (5 hr)(Incomplete)Audio
- The New Testament New Interconfessional Translation (? hr)(Complete) Audio
Symbols
* - Couldn't find a translation online, but commercial translations are available.
# - Found in the collection of short stories, The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi : Detective Stories of Old Edo, translated by Ian MacDonald.
HQ - Audio labeled 'HQ' usually have clearer sound, better voice acting, and sound effects.
@ - Found in the bilingual text The Tales of Miyazawa Kenji, translated by John Bester.
$ - Found in Crackling Mountain and Other Short Stories, translated by James O'Brien.