Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Tower

By: Flora Carr

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom.

"Such a vivid, visceral read, you feel you’re locked in the tower alongside the... Read more

Ellipses

By: Vanessa Lawrence

Narrated by: Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the glossy world of New York City media, this sharp and witty debut novel follows a young woman caught in a toxic mentorship with an older, powerful executive as she grapples with career, belonging, and the complexity of modern relationships in the digital age.

Named a Best Book of 2024 So Far by Vogue, Elle, and Electric Lit
One of... Read more

A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids

By: Linda LeGarde Grover

Narrated by: LaNecia Edmonds

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When a rock is dislodged from its slope by mischievous ancestors, the past rises to meet the present, and Half-Dime Hill gives up a gruesome secret it has kept for half a century. Some people of Mozhay Point have theories about what happened; others know—and the discovery stirs memories long buried, reviving a terrible story yet to be... Read more

My Heavenly Favorite

By: Lucas Rijneveld

Narrated by: Allon Sylvain

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside, where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She... Read more

Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

Narrated by: Krizia Bajos

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Scarface meets Moby Dick in Say Hello to My Little Friend—“a masterclass in pace and precision…brilliant” (Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award Finalist of Chain Gang All Stars) about a young man’s attempt to capitalize on his mother’s murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami’s marvelous and sinister magic.

Failed Pitbull impersonator... Read more

The Inheritance of Loss

By: Kiran Desai

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire... Read more

Pelican Girls

By: Julia Malye

Narrated by: Polly Edsell

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked from a Paris asylum and sent to marry settlers in North America's rough Louisiana Territory.Paris, 1720.... Read more

Maktub

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.From one of the greatest writers of our age comes a collection of stories and parables unlocking the mysteries of the human condition. Gathered from Paulo Coelho’s daily column of the same name, Maktub, meaning “it is... Read more

The Silver Bone

By: Andrey Kurkov

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024""Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events.” –Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency""With its earthy prose and stunning attention to detail, this stands apart.""... Read more

I Married a Communist

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers the astonishing story of the rise and fall of an American man whose life is destroyed in the McCarthy witchhunt of the 1950s.I Married a Communist is the story of Ira Ringold, a big American roughneck who begins life as a teenage ditch-digger in 1930s Newark, becomes a big-time... Read more

The Afterpains

By: Anna Julia Stainsby

Narrated by: Hailey Gillis, Dianne Aguilar, Rebecca Auerbach...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD
“Powerful and unrelenting prose.... I loved this book.” —Reema Patel, author of Such Big Dreams



Gorgeous and compelling, The Afterpains is a heartbreaking portrait of two families trying to cope with grief, isolation, and living far from one's homeland—told in the voices of four distinct narrators.

Nearly... Read more

Threshing of Straw

By: Kim Catron

Narrated by: Erynn Reimer

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE GREAT NOVEL CONTEST. MORE THAN 25,000 COPIES SOLD!A grandmother who only ever wanted to protect her two little girls. A mother who did the unthinkable years before. A father lost in his memories of the Korean War, and a daughter caught in the middle of it all. Georgia. Thanksgiving week. 1962.MACEY MAY JOHNSON knows something isn’t... Read more

Thieves: A Novel

By: Valerie Werder

Narrated by: Valerie Werder

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sly, witty, and utterly compelling, Valerie Werder’s Thieves illuminates how we create and examine our selves in thrall to late capitalism—and how we’re all thieves of one kind or another. This novel gives immense pleasure...”
—CLAIRE MESSUD Valerie Werder’s debut novel, Thieves, is an autofictional account of the strivings and humiliations of a... Read more

Operation Shylock

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral—a fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites AnonymousIn this book (which may or may not be fiction), Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not... Read more

Persuasion - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Catherine Bilson, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott...

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Persuasion was the last novel completed by Jane Austen and was first published posthumously in December, 1817.The story represents an interesting configuration of Austen’s characteristic narrative patterns. The heroine, Anne Eliot, is something of an old maid—she is twenty-seven years old, still single and is considered by family and friends to... Read more

Invisible Scars

By: Peter Sykes

Narrated by: Robert Sebastian Cooper

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Whilst Paul and Kate work alongside each other as doctor and nurse on the surgical ward, strains in their relationship emerge. And when Kate's baby dies and Paul's inexperience costs lives, doubt and despair hang in the air and their marriage appears to be doomed.
However, in a dramatic turn of events, Paul saves the life of a critically ill... Read more

La metamorfosis

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Horacio Lanci

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Quizás lo que más nos conmueve e impresiona en “La metamorfosis” (1915) de Franz Kafka (1883 – 1924) no es tanto la transformación de Gregorio Samsa en un “horrible insecto”, sino la indiferencia con que el hecho es recibido por su familia y las personas cercanas. La dolorosa experiencia del personaje pasa, ante todo, por constatar el egoísmo de... Read more

Wir werden jung sein (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Maxim Leo

Narrated by: Simon Jäger

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Wie werden wir leben, falls die weltweit auf Hochtouren laufende Forschung zur biologischen Verjüngung des Menschen Erfolg hat? SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautor Maxim Leo legt einen raffinierten und hochgradig unterhaltsamen Roman über vier Menschen vor, deren Leben so unmerklich wie unaufhaltsam aus den Fugen gerät. Sie sind Probanden einer... Read more

너의 거짓말과 다정한 사신

By: 아오야 마미

Narrated by: 김유림 & 김인형

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

'오늘을 잘 기억해 몇 년 후의 넌 분명히 변해있을 테니까' 소나기가 지나 무지개가 떠오른 점심시간, 모모세는 같은 학년 미소노 레이와 운명적으로 만난다. 클래스메이트와 왠지 거리를 두고 있는 레이는 이상하게 모모세에게만 마음을 연다. 어릴 적 트라우마로 '싫다'는 말을 하지 못하는 모모세는 이 성격 탓에 레이의 부탁을 거절 못하고, 함께 문화제에서 '어떤 작전'을 실행하기로 한다. 점점 서로에게 다가가는 모모세와 레이. 하지만 절대 피할 수 없는, 가혹한 무언가가 두 사람에게 다가오는데. 주체적인 삶을 갈망하는 소년과 기적을 기다리는 소녀의 청춘 순애 소설. 저자: 아오야 마미 2012년 「꽃의 마녀」로... Read more

அறிஞன்

By: வெள்ளியங்காட்டான்

Narrated by: Ramani

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

வெள்ளியங்காட்டான் (1904 - 1991) என்னும் தமிழ்க் கவிஞரின் இயற்பெயர் என். கே. இராமசாமி. தன்னுடைய வாழ்க்கைப்பாட்டிற்காக விவசாயியாக, தையல்காரராக, ஆசிரியராக, இதழொன்றில் மெய்ப்புப் பார்ப்பவராக (Proof Reader) பணியாற்றியவர். பகுத்தறிவாளராக, ஒடுக்கப்பட்டவர்களின் விடுதலைப் போராளியாக, கவிஞராக இனங்காணப்படுபவர். தன்னுடைய ஊரை அடியாகக்கொண்டு வெள்ளியங்காட்டான்... Read more

Und Großvater atmete mit den Wellen

By: Trude Teige

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Überleben in dunklen Zeiten. Für Zukunft und Liebe. Ihr Großvater Konrad war immer der Fels in der Brandung für die junge Juni. Doch nie hat er von dem Ort gesprochen, der ihn am meisten geprägt hat. Erst jetzt erfährt Juni, wo ihr liebevoller Großvater gelernt hat, mit den Wellen zu atmen. 1943: Das Handelsschiff der Brüder Konrad und Sverre... Read more

Flaschenpost aus der Vergangenheit - Die Sommerschwestern - Roman - Die Sommerschwestern-Romane, Band 3 (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Monika Peetz

Narrated by: Ilka Teichmüller

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Sommerschwestern sind zurück an der holländischen Nordseeküste und dieses Mal geht es um alles. Der dritte und letzte Band der Trilogie um die vier Schwestern lässt keine Wünsche offen und keine Hörerin kalt. Die Zwillinge Amelie und Helen feiern an der holländischen Nordsee in Bergen ihren gemeinsamen Geburtstag, als ein ungebetener Gast... Read more

Issa (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Mirrianne Mahn

Narrated by: Mirrianne Mahn

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Eigentlich will Issa diese Reise gar nicht antreten. Schwanger sitzt sie im Flugzeug nach Douala, angetrieben von ihrer Mutter, die bei der bevorstehenden Geburt um das Leben ihrer Tochter fürchtet. In Kamerun, dem Land ihrer Kindheit, soll sie den heilsamen Weg der Rituale gehen, unter den Adleraugen ihrer Omas. Doch so einfach ist das alles... Read more

Forbidden Lies

By: Ayla Dade

Narrated by: Martha Kindermann & Nicolas Rathod

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Logan ist Manhattans Good-Guy. Jeder will ihn. Doch er will nur Grace. Grace, die ihn seit Kindertagen hasst und nie an sich heranlassen würde. Oder? Ein gefühlvoller Enemies-to-Lovers-Roman für alle Fans der Bestsellerautorin Grace Bishop ist ein Upper-East-Side-Girl und Teil von Manhattans Elite. Mit ihrem Abschluss der New York University... Read more