Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Tragic Age

By: Stephen Metcalfe

Narrated by: Chris Patton

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tragic Age is a brilliant, debut coming-of-age novel about a misanthropic young man learning to love, trust, and truly be alive in an absurd world.This is the story of Billy Kinsey, heir to a lottery fortune, part genius, part philosopher and social critic, full-time insomniac, and closeted rock drummer. Billy has decided that the best way... Read more

The Reluctant Midwife

By: Patricia Harman

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The USA Today bestselling author of The Midwife of Hope River returns with a heartfelt sequel, a novel teeming with life and full of humor and warmth, one that celebrates the human spirit.The Great Depression has hit West Virginia hard. Men are out of work; women struggle to feed hungry children. Luckily, Nurse Becky Myers has returned to care... Read more

Act of God

By: Jill Ciment

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jill Ciment’s books have been hailed as “stunning,” “powerful,” and “provocative.” Alice Sebold has called her works “beautifully written.” Now the author of Heroic Measures (“Smart and funny and completely surprising . . . I loved every page.” —Ann Patchett; “Brave, generous, nearly perfect.” —Los Angeles Times) has given us a contemporary noir... Read more

The Fifth Gospel

By: Ian Caldwell

Narrated by: Jack Davenport

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller from the author of the international sensation The Rule of Four combines a lost gospel, a contentious relic, and a dying pope’s final wish into a “deliciously labyrinthine” (Providence Journal) intellectual thriller that “kicks off at ninety mph and doesn’t slow down” (Associated Press).

A mysterious exhibit... Read more

Where All Light Tends to Go

By: David Joy

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DEVIL'S PEAK—starring Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn, and Jackie Earle Haley!

In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bone meets Breaking Bad, a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption—a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel.

The area surrounding... Read more

Know Your Beholder

By: Adam Rapp

Narrated by: Adam Rapp

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about a musician climbing back from rock bottom.

As winter deepens in snowbound Pollard, Illinois, thirty-something Francis Falbo is holed up in his attic apartment, recovering from a series of traumas: his mother's death, his beloved wife's desertion, and his... Read more

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Celia Imrie

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comesan exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold’s cross-country journey.

“This lovely book is full of joy. Much more than the story of a woman’s enduring love for an ordinary, flawed man, it’s an ode to messy,... Read more

Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents permitted them to wed, and the groom's abolitionist family refused to attend the ceremony. Since childhood, Julia owned as a slave another Julia, known as Jule. Jule guarded her mistress's closely held twin secrets: She had... Read more

Bonsai (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Alejandro Zambra

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Die blendend schöne Miniatur einer Liebesgeschichte Julio liebt Emilia. Emilia liebt Julio. Beide lieben Proust, beide haben noch keine Seite Proust gelesen. In Santiago de Chile lernen sie sich während des Literaturstudiums kennen. Sie werden ein Paar, still, selbstverständlich, sie gehen auseinander, still, selbstverständlich, und Emilia... Read more

Wreckage

By: Emily Bleeker

Narrated by: Kristin Watson Heintz & Luke Daniels

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she’s been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the... Read more

The Home Front

By: Margaret Vandenburg

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Barrons like to think of themselves as a typical American family. Never mind the fact that Todd drops bombs on Afghan targets one minute and sits down to dinner with his wife and kids the next. A drone pilot stationed in Nevada, he manages to compartmentalize the conflicting demands of combat and family life—until their son, Max, is... Read more

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud neighbor, Lord Warburton. Soon, too, come marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, the son... Read more

Monday's Lie

By: Jamie Mason

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Dee Aldrich rebelled against her off-center upbringing when she married the most conventional man she could imagine: Patrick, her college sweetheart. But now, years later, her marriage is falling apart and she's starting to believe that her husband wants her gone...for good. Haunted by memories of her late mother Annette, a former covert... Read more

Touch

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Touch is an electrifying thriller by the author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K.

He tried to take my life. Instead, I took his.
It was a long time ago. I remember it was dark, and I didn't see my killer until it was too late. As I died, my hand touched his. That's when the first switch took place.
Suddenly, I was looking through... Read more

Find Me

By: Laura van den Berg

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Joy has no one. She spends her days working the graveyard shift at a grocery store outside Boston and nursing an addiction to cough syrup, an attempt to suppress her troubled past. But when a sickness that begins with memory loss and ends with death sweeps the country, Joy, for the first time in her life, seems to have an advantage: she is... Read more

Dorothy Parker Drank Here

By: Ellen Meister

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom.



Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone, anyone, who will keep her company on the side of... Read more

Shame and the Captives

By: Thomas Keneally

Narrated by: Heather Bolton & Paul English

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“If the legendary Schindler’s List was not enough to showcase Thomas Keneally’s literary mastery, then [this novel] surely will” (New York Daily News) as the Booker Prize-winning author reimagines from all sides the drastic true events of the night more than one thousand Japanese POWs staged the largest and bloodiest prison escape of World War... Read more

I Am Radar

By: Reif Larsen

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 25 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this kaleidoscopic novel, a love-struck radio operator discovers a secret society offering mind-bending performance art in war zones around the world. In 1975, a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in... Read more

The Daughter of the Sea and the Sky

By: David Litwack

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A thought-provoking look at the line between faith and fantasy, fanatics and followers, and religion and reason. GOLD MEDAL: Florida Authors and Publishers Association - 2015 - Adult Fiction: General FINALIST: Readers’ Favorite Book Awards - 2014 - Fiction: General WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award - Best Fantasy WINNER: Awesome Indies... Read more

Die Entlarvung des Osterhasen

By: Erich Kästner

Narrated by: Ulrich Gebauer, August Zirner & Peter Kaempfe

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Diese CD versammelt Erich Kästners schönste Geschichten und Gedichte rund um den Frühling und das Osterfest. Darauf sind zu finden: entlarvte Osterhasen, zahlreiche bemalte Eier und ein verlegter Pinsel; Osterhasenschokoladenkästchen, Aprilscherze und natürlich: Maiglöckcheneintopf! Die Entlarvung des Osterhasen, zusammengestellt von der... Read more

Tales of Murder and Mayhem

By: E. F. Benson, O. Henry & W. F. Harvey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
2. "A Madman’s Manuscript" by Charles Dickens
3. "The Hair" by A. J. Alan
4. "My Favourite Murder" by Ambrose Bierce
5. "Cannibalism in the Cars" by Mark Twain
6. "Gabriel-Earnest" by Saki
7. "The Pistol Shot" by Alexander Pushkin
8. "The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
9. "At the Farmhouse" by E. F. Benson
10. "The... Read more

Ten Tales from the Artist's Studio

By: Barry Pain, Guy de Maupassant & Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A colourful palette of short stories featuring artists and their love of paintings.

"Rose Rose" by Barry Pain
"The Cat" by E. F. Benson
"The Model Millionaire" by Oscar Wilde
"A Queer Night in Paris" by Guy de Maupassant
"Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome
"Miss Harriet" by Guy de Maupassant
"The Oval Portrait" by Edgar... Read more

An Absent Mind

By: Eric Rill

Narrated by: Sandra Burr & Mel Foster

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventy-one, and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul struggles to make peace with his disconnected family before Alzheimer’s consumes his sanity.His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare, as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed…caring, yet... Read more

Satin Island

By: Tom McCarthy

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

MEET U. - CORPORATE ANTHROPOLOGIST secreted in the basement of a large consultancy. U. spends his time toiling away at a great, epoch-defining public project which no one, least of all its own creators, understands. Besieged by data, confronted at every turn by the fact of his own redundancy, U. grows obsessed with the images - oil-spills,... Read more