Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Franz Kafka - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Corinna Harfouch & Robert Gwisdek

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Zu seiner Zeit als Autor verkannt, hielt sich Franz Kafka als Beamter der Prager Arbeiter- und Unfallversicherung über Wasser und avancierte nach seinem Tod zum bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Autor des 20. Jahrhunderts: Corinna Harfouch und Robert Gwisdek zeichnen anhand von privaten, amtlichen und literarischen Texten ein ungewöhnliches Bild... Read more

Krambambuli

By: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein ganz besonderer Jagdhund ist er, der Krambambuli. Einen besseren hat der Revierjäger Hopp nie gehabt. Und das, obwohl er ihn in einem Wirtshaus einem Vagabunden abgekauft hatte! Nichts und niemand scheint Herr und Hund trennen zu können, bis eines Tages der Revierjäger bei der Jagd auf einen Wilderer eine schicksalhafte Begegnung erlebt... Read more

Der seltsame Fall des Benjamin Button

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Button wird als alter Mann geboren und wird zusehends jünger. Fitzgeralds skurrile Geschichte wurde mit Brad Pitt in der Hauptrolle verfilmt. Read more

My Struggle, Book 2

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 21 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence." -James Wood, The New Yorker In the second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's monumental six-volume masterpiece, the character Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to Stockholm, where, having left his... Read more

Kurt Tucholsky: Satirisches, Lustiges, Nachdenkliches

By: Kurt Tucholsky

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Die schönsten Satiren vom Meister der spitzen Feder, Kurt Tucholsky. Inhalt: Kurzer Abriss der Nationalökonomie, Der Mensch, n Augenblick mal!, Taschen-Notizkalender, Die Großen, Frauen sind eitel. Männer? Nie!, Parteiwirtschaft, Was darf Satire?, Der Primus, Gruß nach vorn, Berlin! Berlin!, Man sollte mal, Halt auf dem Felde, Einfahrt, Koffer... Read more

Die Liebe der Erika Ewald

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Erika Ewald hat es aufgegeben, auf die große Liebe zu hoffen. Doch unverhofft, wie so oft, findet sie sie - in Gestalt eines jungen, überaus begabten Musikers. Ihr Glück ist perfekt, bis ihr Geliebter ihr eines Tages mitteilt, dass er zwischen ihr und seiner Kunst wählen muss... Read more

Ein Diamant so groß wie das Ritz

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Was tun, wenn man einen Diamanten hat, der so groß ist wie ein Berg? Am besten niemandem davon erzählen. Doch irgendwann wird auch das bestgehütete Geheimnis gelüftet, und dann geht es drunter und drüber. Wie auch in dieser ironisch-tragisch-skurrilen Kurzgeschichte. Read more

Schwüle Tage

By: Eduard von Keyserling

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Der junge Graf Bill hat einen denkbar unschönen Sommer vor sich: Auf dem Gut seiner Verwandtschaft soll er, beaufsichtigt vom strengen Vater, büffeln, denn er ist durch die Abiturprüfung gefallen. Doch es gibt zahlreiche Ablenkungen, die nicht nur ihn in Bann nehmen... Read more

The Dynamite Room

By: Jason Hewitt

Narrated by: Will Thorp

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Accomplished, resonant and surprising (Guardian) -- a debut for fans of Summer of My German Soldier.

In July 1940, eleven-year-old Lydia escapes life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives home to her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty. Lydia settles in though, determined to... Read more

A Wilder Rose

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Little House books, which chronicled the pioneer adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, are among the most beloved books in the American literary canon. Lesser known is the secret, concealed for decades, of how they came to be. Now, bestselling author Susan Wittig Albert reimagines the fascinating story of Laura’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, an... Read more

Hausfrau

By: Jill Alexander Essbaum

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE HUFFINGTON POST, AND SHELF AWARENESS • “In Hausfrau, Anna Karenina goes Fifty Shades with a side of Madame Bovary.”—Time

“A debut novel about Anna, a bored housewife who, like her Tolstoyan namesake, throws herself into a psychosexual journey of... Read more

The Poser

By: Jacob Rubin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious and dazzling debut novel about a master impressionist at risk of losing his true self

All his life Giovanni Bernini has possessed an unhealthy gift: he can imitate anyone he meets. Honed by his mother at a young age, the talent catapults him from small-town obscurity to stardom.

As Giovanni describes it, "No one's disguise is... Read more

Delicious Foods

By: James Hannaham

Narrated by: James Hannaham

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Held captive by her employers -- and by her own demons -- on a mysterious farm, a widow struggles to reunite with her young son in this uniquely American story of freedom, perseverance, and survival.

Darlene, once an exemplary wife and a loving mother to her young son, Eddie, finds herself devastated by the unforeseen death of her husband.... Read more

The Last Flight of Poxl West

By: Daniel Torday

Narrated by: Aaron Abano

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Poxl West fled the Nazis' onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz's rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber.

Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who... Read more

The White Rose

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion, infidelity, social climbing, and one very special white rose weave a seductive narrative in this intelligent and tender novel.

At forty-eight, Marian Kahn, a professor of history at Columbia, has reached a comfortable perch. Married, wealthy, and the famed discoverer of the eighteenth-century adventuress, Lady Charlotte Wilcox, she... Read more

The Godforsaken Daughter

By: Christina McKenna

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ruby Clare's father was alive, they toiled together happily on their dairy farm in Northern Ireland. Since his death, Ruby—thirty-three, plump but comely—has been forced indoors and made a domestic drudge for Martha, her endlessly critical mother, and her prettier younger sisters, May and June. But everything changes when Ruby finds her... Read more

'Til the Well Runs Dry

By: Lauren Francis-Sharma

Narrated by: Ron Butler & Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Francis-Sharma's 'Til the Well Runs Dry opens in a seaside village in the north of Trinidad where young Marcia Garcia, a gifted and smart-mouthed 16-year-old seamstress, lives alone, raising two small boys and guarding a family secret. When she meets Farouk Karam, an ambitious young policeman, the risks and rewards in Marcia's life... Read more

Will & Tom

By: Matthew Plampin

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Will & Tom is a glimpse into the life of the infamous artist JMW Turner as a young man during a week spent at Harewood House fighting for a commission against his childhood friend and rival Tom Girtin. 1797, West Yorkshire. When rising artist Will Turner arrives at Harewood House in high summer, his intention... Read more

World Gone By

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Dennis Lehane, the New York Times bestselling author of Live by Night—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck—delivers a psychologically, morally complex novel of blood, crime, passion, and vengeance, set in Cuba and Ybor City, Florida, during World War II, in which Joe Coughlin must confront the cost of his criminal past and present.Ten... Read more

The Heroes' Welcome

By: Louisa Young

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived.Only 23, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. But Riley’s injuries from the war have created awkward tensions between the couple, scars that threaten to shatter... Read more

Soil

By: Jamie Kornegay

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic debut novel by an independent bookseller about an idealistic young farmer who moves his family to a Mississippi flood basin, suffers financial ruin-and becomes increasingly paranoid he's being framed for murder. It all began with a simple dream. An ambitious young environmental scientist hoped to establish a sustainable farm on a... Read more

Small Mercies

By: Eddie Joyce

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intimate family portrait.”
—The New York Times
 
“Eddie Joyce’s terrific first novel is so American that the story might as well have taken place at the base of the Statue of Liberty.”
—Richard Russo
 
“An inside look at one Staten Island family’s struggle with grief . . . [A] poignant, deeply affecting tale.” 
—Martha Stewart Living, a Book... Read more

Jazz - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.

“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison... Read more

Vanity Fair: April 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more