Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” So... Read more
A Christmas Carol - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
Length: 1 hour 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is... Read more
View audiobookThe Diagnosis
By: Alan Lightman
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times that the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical... Read more
View audiobookDisobedience - Abridged
By: Jane Hamilton
Narrated by: Robert Sean Leonard
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity.
Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His... Read more
Drowning Ruth
By: Christina Schwarz
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.
Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers... Read more
The Golden Age
By: Gore Vidal
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 17 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline... Read more
View audiobookThe Golden Age - Abridged
By: Gore Vidal
Narrated by: Kathryn Walker
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.
The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal stands as its undisputed American master. In his six... Read more
The Man Who Ate the 747
By: Ben Sherwood
Narrated by: David Schramm
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the story of the greatest love, ever....
J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed... Read more
A Friend of the Earth
By: T.C. Boyle
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tidewater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star's private menagerie. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most of the major mammalian species are extinct. Once Ty was so seriously committed to environmental causes that he... Read more
View audiobookFlashman and the Tiger
By: George MacDonald Fraser
Narrated by: David Case
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
The inimitable and appallingly appealing Flashy is back, in a long-awaited new installment of The Flashman Papers.
When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now,... Read more
Circle of Friends - Abridged
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents... Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins... Read more
View audiobookTara Road
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's... Read more
View audiobookThe All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton
By: Jane Smiley
Narrated by: Anna Fields
Length: 18 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.
Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of... Read more
Ambush at Fort Bragg
By: Tom Wolfe
Narrated by: Edward Norton
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius. Instead, all the accolades go to... Read more
View audiobookThe Return Journey
By: Maeve Binchy
Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.
A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a... Read more
Anil's Ghost
By: Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by: Alan Cumming
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in... Read more
The Loop
By: Nicholas Evans
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of The Horse Whisperer comes the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, an extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's struggle with the wild.
A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Biologist Helen... Read more
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon
In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.
Switters is a contradiction for all... Read more
The Horse Whisperer
By: Nicholas Evans
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to...
The Horse Whisperer
He is the stuff of... Read more
Memoirs of A Geisha
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more
View audiobookThe Running Mate
By: Joe Klein
Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena... Read more
View audiobookEast of the Mountains - Abridged
By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 5 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.
When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit... Read more
The Forest - Abridged
By: Edward Rutherfurd
Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their... Read more
Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged
By: Arthur Golden
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more
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