Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Stories I Told My Dead Lover

By: Jo Paquette

Narrated by: Jo Paquette, Gabra Zackman, various narrators, ...

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly LinkStories I Told My Dead Lover Eight searing tales of psychological horror that probe the darkest and most deeply buried parts of the human psyche …A child is forced to grow up too soon.A woman trusts her doctor too much.An abandoned woman isn’t as alone as she thinks.An idyllic holiday masks... Read more

Clete

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the latest installment in his famous Detective Dave Robicheaux series, New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings Dave’s partner and friend Clete Purcel to the forefront for the first time as Clete and Dave attempt to stop ruthless smugglers of a dangerous new drug.

Clete Purcel—private investigator, ex-member of the New Orleans... Read more

A Word Is Not a Sparrow

By: various authors, Barry Abrams, Sholem Yankev Ab...

Narrated by: Barry Abrams, Andrea Emmes, Jennifer Jill Araya...

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Artists in Ukraine have lost their livelihoods. The Ukraine Audiobook Relief Project was launched to support artists in Ukraine whose lives are threatened because of war.It is a fundamental aspect of war to suppress story, language, and culture. Moved by this crisis of culture, members of PANA (the Professional Audiobook Narrators Association)... Read more

The Glory Years

By: Mink Elliott

Narrated by: Alex Rivers

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when ´13 Going On 30´ meets ´Back to the Future´? Kate O'Reilly longs for the good old days when music was better, friends were aplenty, and England's football team almost reached the Euro '96 finals. But as a busy mother with a suburban home and a dependable husband, those memories seem like a distant dream. So when a freak... Read more

40 Days in Hicksville

By: Christina Kilbourne

Narrated by: Christopher P. Brown & Tina Wolstencroft

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Every small town has a dark past. Kate is learning that this town's dark past involves her family.



Fifteen-year-old Kate didn't want to be dragged into her mother's past. She had a boyfriend, a life, and a future as an online influencer whose urban exploration videos were growing in popularity.



But here she is, in the place she thinks of as... Read more

Тополев переулок

By: Дина Рубина

Narrated by: Дина Рубина

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Новые истории человеческих судеб от одного из самых популярных современных писателей – Дины Рубиной, рассказанные ей самой. Тополев переулок давно снесен с лица земли… Он протекал в районе Мещанских улиц, — булыжная мостовая, дома не выше двух-трех этажей, палисадники за невысокой деревянной оградкой, а там, среди георгинов, подсолнухов... Read more

The Knockout Artist

By: Harry Crews

Narrated by: Matt Godfrey

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Crews’s novel about a boxer with the gift of knocking himself unconscious, with a new foreword by New York Times-bestselling author S. A. Cosby

A Penguin Classic

A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability,... Read more

Ask Me Again

By: Clare Sestanovich

Narrated by: Julia Knippen

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE SHORTLIST • From the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize finalist, whose short stories received instant acclaim (“Sparingly told, evoked with lacerating intimacy . . . Extraordinary”—Esquire), a debut novel about a young woman’s coming of age, and the singular friendship that challenges her values, her beliefs,... Read more

The Art of Vanishing

By: Lynne Kutsukake

Narrated by: Emily Shelton

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A fascinating glimpse into the intersection of art, class, and the complexity of adult friendship. . . . I couldn’t put this book down.” —Waubgeshig Rice, author of Moon of the Turning Leaves

An intimate, explosive story of creativity and friendship between two young Japanese women in 1970s Tokyo.

Akemi’s desire for independence and aversion to... Read more

Нормальные люди - Abridged

By: Салли Руни

Narrated by: Полина Войченко

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Коннелл Уолдрон и Марианна Шеридан учатся в одной школе и даже в одном классе, но почти не общаются — трудно представить себе двух более разных людей. В школе Коннелл душа любой компании, один из самых популярных парней, звезда футбольной команды, а Марианна — замкнутая одиночка, поддерживающая отношения по большей части с книгами. В реальной... Read more

Café Royal

By: Marco Balzano

Narrated by: Lino Guanciale

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ascolta i personaggi del Café Royal prendere vita attraverso la narrazione fresca ed esperta di Lino Guanciale. Segui le intricate traiettorie dei destini dei clienti di questo vivace bar milanese convergere per un breve momento, per poi proseguire di nuovo nel loro solitario percorso. Il Café Royal diventa così brulicante palcoscenico di un più... Read more

The Iron Heel

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Iron Heel is a science fiction novel novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.  It is considered to be "the earliest of the modern dystopian" fiction, it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. In The Iron Heel, Jack London's socialist views are explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft... Read more

Лавка «Любовные снадобья»

By: Татьяна Ма

Narrated by: Нина Сашина

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Лизу все вокруг знают как девочку-беду, а бабушка вообще называет ее вредительницей, ведь у девушки все горит в руках, иногда в буквальном смысле слова: то молоко прольется, то зеркало разобьется, то машина сломается. Поэтому, когда в Лизу попадает молния, даже она сама не удивляется. Удивительно другое! В себя Лиза приходит в каком-то странном... Read more

Живи и помни

By: Валентин Распутин

Narrated by: Константин Днепровский

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Повесть «Живи и помни» была опубликована в 1974 году и стала одним из наиболее известных произведений Валентина Распутина. В центре повести трагическая судьба женщины из сибирской деревни, муж которой во время Великой Отечественной войны случайно стал дезертиром. Read more

Love of Life

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Joe Phoenix

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack London — a writer whose works are enthusiastically read all over the world. His collection "Love of Life" is one of the brilliant pearls of his Northern stories cycle. Alaska is the place where each person should reveal their own real features. The North makes equal the poor and the rich; the intense cold does not take into account the... Read more

Как Светка в сказку попала 2

By: Ирина Смирнова

Narrated by: Екатерина Тихомирова

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Светка даже не поняла, каким образом оказалась в другом мире, где её встретил вроде бы вполне адекватный парень, пусть и немного эльф. Вот только если твой новый знакомый живет в избушке на курьих ножках, а в питомцах у него кот Баюн, значит мирок-то сказочный! Того гляди, гуси-лебеди появятся... Часть вторая. Read more

سراديب الذهب

By: محمد العون

Narrated by: محمد بسيوني

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"لقد حملت الرواية رؤية نقدية للمجتمع المصري القديم تحاكم وتشجب اهدار الطبقات الحاكمة للطاقات والثروات في اقامة مشاريع وهمية لاتخدم مصلحة الفقراء واضعة خطاطة ثلاثية الابعاد اولها الوعي وغياب الوعي ثم الثانية غياب العدل والمساواة والثالثة السعادة والشقاء ."جريدة الحدث الآن - الناقد/ناصر الحرشينرى‭ ‬أن‭ ‬الكاتب‭ ‬نجح‭ ‬بمهارة‭ ‬في‭ ‬رسم‭ ‬لوحة‭... Read more

The Heathen

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Heathen" is a short story by the American writer Jack London. It was first published in Everybody's Magazine in August 1910. In the story, two people, from different cultural and racial backgrounds, are the only survivors of a ship that encounters a hurricane in the Pacific, and they remain together. The narrator, a pearl buyer named... Read more

An Odyssey of the North

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey of the North  is a  short storiy by Jack London that explore the wild and rugged nature of the northern coast of British Columbia. This storiy is filled with adventure and capture the beauty of nature and the mysteries of the sea.  Naass, a young Aleut man, wins a young woman of the tribe, Unga, only to have her stolen from him on the... Read more

The God of His Fathers

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The God of His Fathers: Tales of The Klondyke, It was written by Jack London in the 1919 year.  As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London's best and most defining work. With remarkable... Read more

To the Man On the Trail

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"To the Man On the Trail " is a classic adventure short story  by the American writer Jack London, was published in 1900. This is f story about a stranger who stops to rest at Malemute Kid's cabin. He tells the other men a little about himself. A little later, the men hear another story about the stranger from the authorities.  Read more

The Son of the Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Short story written by Jack London The Son of the Wolf consists of a single man who is known as Mckenzie or "Scruff". The story tells of the hardships of what single men had to endure on the frontier. Often men would venture on journeys that may consist of months or even years just in order to find the right suitor. Scruff had been the toughest... Read more

The Pearls of Parlay

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pearls of Parlay (1911) Parlay, who has become the ruler of the atoll of Hikihoho after marrying the queen there, summons the leading traders of the South Seas to his atoll for an auction of the whole of his fabulous collection of pearls. But that day is precisely at the peak of the hurricane season and when their ships have gathered in the... Read more

All Gold Canyon

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Set in the beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains, "All Gold Canyon" is at once a depiction of the quotidian realities of a hard-working gold miner's life, a meditation on the fragility of nature in the face of man's ambition, and a thrilling, no-holds-barred tale of Wild West violence.  Read more