Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Fairy Wren

By: Ashley Capes

Narrated by: Shane Emmett

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the moment a fairy wren drops his lost wedding ring at his feet, Paul realises there's more magic to the world than he thought...When Paul Fischer receives a strange phone call asking for help, from a woman who might be his estranged wife Rachel, he's drawn into a mysterious search that threatens not only his struggling bookstore, but... Read more

Hilary and David

By: Laura Solomon

Narrated by: Stephanie Frewen, David Allen & Gillian Bickley

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

David, a lonely elderly struggling novelist, contacts Hilary, with whom he has a friend in common, via Facebook, and an unlikely friendship develops via a series of messages. The two begin to share details of their past and current lives. Hilary is a solo mother with two children. One of the children has Down's Syndrome and the other has... Read more

Ах, Вильям!

By: Элизабет Страут

Narrated by: Наталия Казначеева

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Роман «Ах, Вильям!» — финалист Букеровской премии и лучшая книга года по версии The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Time, Vulture, She Reads. Успешная писательница Люси давно в разводе с Вильямом, с которым прожила в браке много лет. Внезапно судьба снова сводит их вместе. Бывший супруг приглашает героиню отправиться с ним в... Read more

Der Horizont der Freiheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Ines Thorn

Narrated by: Julia Kelz

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Frau in den Wirren der Revolution. Frankfurt 1845. Als ihr Mann plötzlich stirbt, steht Wilhelmine Pfaff allein da - und mit einer Menge Schulden. Doch wie soll sie eine Druckerei allein und ohne Geld weiterführen - noch dazu in den harten Zeiten der Zensur? Wilhelmine denkt daran, die Druckerei zu verkaufen, doch dann steht der Verleger... Read more

Manger - Abridged

By: Sylvain Trias, Brillat-savarin, Jean de La Bruy...

Narrated by: Simon Jeannin

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Faut-il manger pour vivre, ou vivre pour manger ? La madeleine de Proust est-elle vraiment celle que l'on croit ? La trompe d'éléphant est-elle comestible ? Vous trouverez réponse à ces épineuses questions, et à bien d'autres, dans notre sélection de 19 textes cultes commentés . Une balade littéraire divertissante et instructive à... Read more

What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

"What Maisie Knew" is a novel written by Henry James, first published in 1897. The story revolves around a young girl named Maisie Farange, whose parents, Beale and Ida Farange, go through a tumultuous divorce. The narrative explores the impact of the divorce on Maisie's life and her relationships with the adults around her. Read more

The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Wings of the Dove" is a novel written by Henry James, first published in 1902. The novel is considered one of James's major works and is known for its intricate exploration of the complexities of human relationships and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters. It follows the story of an impoverished young woman named Milly Theale, who is... Read more

Demasiado corazón

By: Pino Cacucci

Narrated by: Sergio Mejía

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Una absorbente novela negra sobre los entresijos del poder en México El doctor Lázaro Alvarado, quien posee información confidencial contra los intereses de una poderosa empresa farmacéutica, es asesinado. Leandro, un joven y utópico periodista italiano que llegó al norte de México con el deseo de conocer a profundidad la realidad del país, se... Read more

Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Marco Neumann

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Vierundzwanzig Stunden aus dem Leben einer Frau ist eine Novelle von Stefan Zweig aus dem Jahr 1927. Der Erzähler wohnt in einer kleinen Pension an der Riviera in der Nähe von Monte Carlo. Einem Gast, Vater von zwei halbwüchsigen Töchtern, brennt die Frau mit einem jungen Mann durch. Die unerhörte Begebenheit wird unter den Gästen der Pension... Read more

The Other Name

By: Jon Fosse

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who... Read more

An Honorable Exit

By: Éric Vuillard

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French colonialism.



How can a modern army lose to an army of peasants?



Delving into the last gasps of the First Indochina War, which saw the communist Viêt Minh take control of North Vietnam,... Read more

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Ambassadors" is a novel written by Henry James, first published in 1903. The novel is considered one of James's major works and is often cited as a masterpiece of psychological realism. It revolves around the central character, Lambert Strether, an American who is sent to Europe by his wealthy fiancée to retrieve her wayward son, Chad... Read more

Las invitadas

By: Silvina Ocampo

Narrated by: Soledad García de Quirós

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Los cuentos de Las invitadas -elogiados por Ítalo Calvino y Borges- son una ventana abierta a un mundo frágilmente cotidiano y, por eso, tan extraño como perturbador.
Los cuentos de Las invitadas -publicado originariamente en 1961- son una ventana abierta a un mundo familiar y perturbador a la vez, donde la realidad más prosaica se desliza... Read more

Fire in the Canyon

By: Daniel Gumbiner

Narrated by: Kent Klineman

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A new novel from National Book Award nominee Daniel Gumbiner about a California grape-grower, his family, and the climate disaster that upends their quiet lives.



Since his release from prison after serving an eighteen-month sentence for growing cannabis, Ben Hecht's life has settled into a familiar routine. On his farm in the foothills of... Read more

Still True

By: Maggie Ginsberg

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-old son she abandoned as an infant, shows up on her porch. Fiercely independent, Lib has never revealed her son's existence—or her previous marriage—to her husband, Jack. Married nearly three decades but living in separate houses (to the confusion... Read more

Rains, At Times Heavy

By: Debi Goodwin

Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Linden Kemp's grandmother tells her: Old age is a privilege our men never got to know.

Linden's grandfather drowned trying to save others when Hurricane Hazel lashed an unprepared Toronto. The hippie father she never knew died in the monsoons of India. Her husband slipped from life on the black ice of freezing rain. In her work as a... Read more

Gone Tomorrow

By: Gary Indiana

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Footloose and broke, the unnamed narrator of Gone Tomorrow hops on a plane without asking questions when his director friend offers him a role in a film set in Colombia. But from the moment he arrives at the airport in Bogotá, only to witness a policeman beat a beggar half to death, it becomes clear that this will not be the story of gritty... Read more

Айболит для короля

By: Джейд Дэвлин

Narrated by: Маргарита Ефремова

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Айболит спасал мартышку и оказался в Африке. А мне подсунули бронированного кота-ниндзю и похитили из родной клиники в другой мир. Работай, говорят, на благо чужого королевства. Ну, и замуж заодно выходи. За короля! Бонус такой, вместо зарплаты и выходных. Read more

Schachnovelle

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Marco Neumann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Schachnovelle ist eine Novelle von Stefan Zweig, die er zwischen 1938 und 1941 im brasilianischen Exil schrieb. Es ist sein letztes und zugleich bekanntestes Werk. Die Erstausgabe erschien am 7. Dezember 1942 in Buenos Aires in einer limitierten Auflage von 300 Exemplaren. In Europa wurde das Werk im Dezember 1943 im Stockholmer Exilverlag... Read more

Brief einer Unbekannten

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Marco Neumann

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Stefan Zweig: Brief einer Unbekannten (erschienen 1922) Aus dem Urlaub nach Wien zurückgekehrt findet der Schriftsteller R. den Brief einer ihm unbekannten Frau vor, die sich schon früh in ihn verliebt und einst mit ihm drei Liebesnächte verbracht hatte. Dabei ist ein Kind entstanden. R. hat die junge Frau damals rasch für eine andere verlassen,... Read more

The Earthquake Child

By: Elayne Klasson

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Nature Versus Nurture? Adopted soon after birth, Joshua is a beautiful, lovable boy--but as he grows, his high-risk, self-destructive behaviors drive his adoptive mother to despair. Told through the voices of an adoptee, his desperate young birth mother, and his loving but grieving adoptive mother who never gives up hope, this novel will... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Daisy Miller" is a novella written by Henry James, first published in 1878. The story is set in the late 19th century and revolves around the experiences of a young and unconventional American woman named Daisy Miller as she travels in Europe. The novella explores themes of social class, cultural clash, and the consequences of defying societal... Read more

The Box

By: Mandy Suzanne Wong

Narrated by: Michelle H. Lee & Curtis Michael Holland

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dark and crooked lane in an unnamed city where it never ceases to snow, a small white box falls from a coat pocket. It is made of paper strips woven tightly together; there is no apparent way to open it without destroying it. What compels a passing witness, a self-described anthrophobe not inclined to engage with other people, to pick up... Read more

The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Red and the Black" is a psychological novel that follows the story of Julien Sorel, a young and ambitious protagonist from a provincial town in France. Set against the backdrop of the post-Napoleonic era, the novel explores themes of love, social climbing, and the clash between individual aspirations and societal expectations. Julien, a... Read more