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Christian audiobooks
Unabridged audiobooks of the accounts on this site — men and women writing about the turn their own lives took, read end to end with chapter markers. Each one is a file you download and keep: no subscription, no app, nothing that expires. The narration is synthetic, which we say on every page, and the original text behind each reading is public domain and linked free.
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1930 · Johannes Avetaranian · 9 hours 19 minutes · $10.99
The Story of a Muslim Who Became a Christian
Johannes Avetaranian · 1930
Published as Geschichte eines Mohammedaners, der Christ wurde
The longest reading here, and the only one of a text that has never had a widely available English edition: an Ottoman mullah who claimed descent from Muhammad, telling his own story, finished after his death by the friend who buried him. Our translation is what is being read.
What it cost His post as a village mullah, the woman he was engaged to, and his country. He fled Turkey with the government looking for him, and men on the road planned to kill him. (ch. 7–9)
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1604 · Oruj Beg Bayat (Don Juan of Persia) · 9 hours · $10.99
Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic in Spain
Oruj Beg Bayat (Don Juan of Persia) · 1604
Published as Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic, 1560–1604 (G. Le Strange's title, 1926)
A Persian envoy who crossed Europe and, at journey’s end, crossed to Christ.
What it cost His wife, his son and his country. Going home meant being burned alive, and his own ambassador tried to have him killed. Spain gave him a pension. He never saw his family again. (Book 3, ch. 7–8)
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1704 · Joseph Pitts · 7 hours 46 minutes · $10.99
A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Muslims
Joseph Pitts · 1704
Published as A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans (1704)
Enslaved in Algiers — the first known Englishman at Mecca.
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1876 · Safdar Ali · 7 hours 39 minutes · $9.99
Niyaz Nama: An Open Letter to the People of Islam
Safdar Ali · 1876
A Muslim scholar answers the friends who kept asking why he left Islam.
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1862 · Nehemiah Goreh · 6 hours 51 minutes · $8.99
A Rational Refutation of the Hindu Philosophical Systems
Nehemiah Goreh · 1862
A Benares pandit takes apart the six schools he was raised to defend.
What it cost He wrote this as a Christian, taking apart the schools he had been raised to defend. Getting there cost him his family: they performed the rite that declares a Hindu dead. (Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia)
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1875 · Krishna Mohan Banerjea · 6 hours 12 minutes · $8.99
The Arian Witness
Krishna Mohan Banerjea · 1875
A high-caste Brahmin scholar argued the Vedas themselves bear witness to Christ.
What it cost His home and his job. His family had to put him out or lose their own caste, so he left at midnight with nowhere to go, and his baptism in 1832 cost him his teaching post. (George Smith, Life of Alexander Duff (1879); Banglapedia)
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1888 · Baba Padmanji · 3 hours 34 minutes · $8.99
Baba Padmanji: An Autobiography
Baba Padmanji · 1888
A Marathi writer’s slow road out of caste and into Christ.
What it cost His wife, first of all. Her father carried her off the day she was to join him, and coached her to refuse him in court. His own father had threatened that the whole household would drown themselves if he was baptized. (ch. XIV, XVIII)
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1898 · Henry H. Jessup · 3 hours · $8.99
Kamil Abdul Messiah
Henry H. Jessup · 1898
A young Beirut Muslim found Christ in the Arabic New Testament — and died for it.
What it cost His father called him an infidel, he could never go home to Beirut, and he died far from it in 1892. His friends believed he was poisoned. (his letters of 1890–91; “Kamil’s Death”)
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1868 · Nehemiah Goreh · 2 hours 56 minutes · $8.99
A Letter to the Brahmos from a Converted Brahman of Benares
Nehemiah Goreh · 1868
Benares’s sharpest Hindu apologist turned his learning toward Christ.
What it cost His family performed the rite that declares a Hindu dead, and sent his young wife back to her father. In his own words, he went from a respectable man to “a most vile wretch and a fool” in the eyes of everyone he knew. (Part II; Dictionary of Christian Biography in Asia)
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1922 · Sadhu Sundar Singh · 2 hours 3 minutes · $8.99
At the Master’s Feet
Sadhu Sundar Singh · 1922
A Sikh who burned the Gospel met Christ — and walked India as a sadhu.
What it cost His family and his home. Born a Sikh, he was disowned and driven out as a teenager, and spent his first night as a Christian under a tree. (his own words, in Streeter and Appasamy, The Sadhu (1921))
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1928 · Sultan Muhammad Paul · 60 minutes · $8.99
Why I Became a Christian
Sultan Muhammad Paul · 1928
Published as Warum Maulwi Sultan Mohammed Paul Christ wurde
An Afghan scholar set out to destroy Christianity in debate, and instead found he could not answer it.
What it cost Less than he feared. He expected to lose his home, his inheritance, his family and friends. What came was a church so full of Muslims that his baptism was put off for the danger, and a quick exit from Bombay for his own safety. (Part Two)
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1884 · Imad-ud-din Lahiz · 41 minutes · $8.99
A Muslim Brought to Christ
Imad-ud-din Lahiz · 1884
Published as A Mohammedan Brought to Christ (1884)
Short enough to finish in a sitting, and the single most cited first-person account of a Muslim conversion in 19th-century India — a Sunni scholar who set out to study Christianity in order to refute it.
What it cost Almost everyone he knew. His friends and his own students turned on him, most of his relatives stopped speaking to him, and people said he did it for money. His father kept writing. (The Autobiography, last paragraph)
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203 · Vibia Perpetua · 31 minutes · $8.99
The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Vibia Perpetua · 203
A young mother’s prison diary, written days before the arena.
What it cost Her life, and her son. Her father would not give the baby back after she was condemned, and she died in the arena at Carthage on March 7, 203, after a wild cow failed to kill her and she guided the gladiator’s sword to her own throat. (Sections 6, 20 and 21)
Questions about these audiobooks
- What Christian audiobooks can I listen to here?
- Unabridged narrations of first-person Christian conversion accounts — the same clean editions we typeset and sell as ebooks, read end to end with chapter markers. The catalogue is small and deliberately so: every title is an account someone wrote about their own life, not a biography written about them.
- Are these audiobooks read by a human narrator?
- No. The narration is synthetic — a text-to-speech voice, not a human reading. We say so on every book page, on the buy button and on the receipt, because it is the kind of thing a listener should know before paying rather than after. It is why these cost a few dollars instead of twenty.
- Do I need a subscription or an app?
- Neither. You buy the file and download it — an M4B with chapter markers, which plays in Apple Books, VLC, Bookplayer, Smart AudioBook Player and most podcast apps. There is no account to keep, nothing expires, and nothing is streamed. If you lose the file, the download link on your receipt still works.
- Can I get these Christian audiobooks free?
- Not from us, and we would rather say so plainly. The underlying texts are public domain and we link a free scan of the original on every book page, so you can always read one without paying. The narration is work we paid to produce on top of that, as is the translation behind it in some cases, and that is what the price covers.
- How long are they?
- It varies with the book, and both extremes are represented: some of these accounts are full-length memoirs that run nine hours or more, and others are pamphlets their authors wrote in an afternoon and take well under an hour. The runtime is listed next to every title above, before you buy rather than after.
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T.S. Baker — clean editions of the classics, read end to end, free sources linked.