Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Devil You Know

By: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects and A. S. A. Harrison's The Silent Wife, The Devil You Know is a thrilling debut about a rookie reporter whose memories of the murder of her childhood best friend bring danger—and a stalker—right to her doorstep.The year is 1993. Rookie crime-beat reporter Evie Jones is haunted by the unsolved murder... Read more

Amnesia

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Carey has won the Booker prize twice for his ventures into historical fiction, True History of the Kelly Gang and Oscar and Lucinda. Now the acclaimed Australian author is set to address a rather more contemporary situation. Amnesia is a thrilling and witty journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides... Read more

Sweetland

By: Michael Crummey

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic tale of an endangered Newfoundland community and the struggles of one man determined to resist its extinction.



The scarcely populated town on Sweetland rests on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Its slow decline finally reaches a head when the mainland government offers each islander a generous resettlement package—the sole... Read more

Hall of Small Mammals

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller.

The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers,... Read more

Cien años de soledad

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Gustavo Bonfigli

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.”Con estas palabras empieza una novela ya legendaria en los anales de la literatura universal, una de las aventuras literarias más fascinantes del siglo xx. Millones de... Read more

Honeydew

By: Edith Pearlman

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this... Read more

Arrows of Rain

By: Okey Ndibe

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in Heineman's prestigious "African Writers Series," this is Arrows'first publication in the US. Coming only months after the whirlwind of publicity for Foreign Gods, Inc., we expect continued attention for Okey Ndibe as a major new voice in world literature. Set in a fictitious post-colonial African nation, the discovery of... Read more

After the War is Over

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The International bestselling author of Somewhere in France returns with her sweeping second novel—a tale of class, love, and freedom—in which a young woman must find her place in a world forever changed.After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she... Read more

The Revenant

By: Michael Punke

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

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A thrilling tale of betrayal and revenge set against the nineteenth-century American frontier, Michael Punke's The Revenant is the astonishing story of real-life trapper and frontiersman Hugh Glass

The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier... Read more

Wildalone

By: Krassi Zourkova

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this enchanting and darkly imaginative debut novel full of myth, magic, romance, and mystery, a Princeton freshman is drawn into a love triangle with two enigmatic brothers, and discovers terrifying secrets about her family and herself—a bewitching blend of Twilight, The Secret History, Jane Eyre, and A Discovery of Witches.Arriving at... Read more

A Pleasure and a Calling

By: Phil Hogan

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley novels comes a deliciously unsettling, darkly funny novel about a man who quietly spies on the private lives of his neighbors.You won’t remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 19 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity 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... Read more

Vanity Fair: February 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 52 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

Vanessa and Her Sister

By: Priya Parmar

Narrated by: Various, Emilia Fox, Clare Corbett, Julian Rhin...

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Paris Wife and Loving Frank comes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf, and the controversial and popular circle of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group.
 
London, 1905: The city is alight with change, and the Stephen siblings are at the forefront.... Read more

Crouching Tiger, Forbidden Vampire

By: Kerrelyn Sparks

Narrated by: Enrique Morales

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Kerrelyn Sparks delivers the exciting conclusion in the Love at Stake series, where a Marine-turned-vampire finds love with the shifter princess forbidden to him.Russell wakes from a coma to find he's become a vampire. Now he has a thirst for revenge. Determined to hunt down the master vampire who turned him,... Read more

Fifty Gothic Tales

By: E. F. Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & Edith Wh...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 28 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A creepy collection of the very best Gothic tales from the masters of suspense, horror, supernatural and occult fiction.

1. The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson
2. Afterward by Edith Wharton
3. The Green Light by Barry Pain
4. Fingers of a Hand by H. D. Everett
5. The Squaw by Bram Stoker
6. The Dancing Partner by Jerome K.... Read more

Vive la Résidence!

By: Gabriel Vetter

Narrated by: Gabriel Vetter

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ganz nach dem Motto "Jetzt wird wieder in die Hände gespuckt, jetzt werden wieder Lyrik-Bände gedruckt", mischt auch der Grandseigneur des Schweizer Poetry Slams wieder im Literaturzirkus mit. Seine Botschaft: "Vive la Résidence!", bereits sein drittes Soloalbum, live aufgenommen im Parterre Basel. Und damit ist man auch zuhause im Ohrensessel... Read more

Offcomer

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, recent Oxford graduate Claire is a mess. She's trapped in a disastrous relationship with a young academic, working a dead end job, stunned by the emergence of secrets from her mother's past, and seemingly addicted to self-destructive behavior. But like the ceasefire that has brought... Read more

The Towers of Tuscany

By: Carol M. Cram

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sofia is trained in secret as a painter in her father’s workshop during a time when women did not paint openly. She loves her work, but her restless spirit leads her to betray her extraordinary gifts to marry a man who comes to despise her for not producing a son.After Sofia’s father is crushed by his own fresco during an attack motivated by a... Read more

The Maker of Moons

By: Robert W. Chambers

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Released one year after the publication of The King in Yellow—a milestone of supernatural fiction—Robert W. Chambers' title story of this short-story collection is considered one of his finest weird tales. It is followed by a series of romantic art nouveau stories. Chambers' love of natural scenery, symbolic animal figures, and ghostly imagery... Read more

Das Schöne an den Frauen

By: Gisela Steineckert

Narrated by: Gisela Steineckert

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dass sich Frausein nicht über den Mann definiert, nicht über Kinder, nicht über eine noch so interessante Arbeit - man weiß es. Nur: Worüber dann? Braucht es von allem etwas? Und noch viel mehr? Mit psychologischem Gespür geht die Autorin in ihren Geschichten und Porträts dieser Frage nach. Sie gewinnt überraschende Einsichten und hält mit... Read more

Das Schöne an den Männern

By: Gisela Steineckert

Narrated by: Gisela Steineckert

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein kluger Mann nimmt sich gern eine Schöne. Verstand hat er ja selber. Wenn er schön ist, der Mann, dann nimmt er sich gern eine Kluge, die ein ganz kleines bißchen häßlich ist. Er verzichtet nur ungern auf das Geraune: Die? Wie hat die denn das gemacht, die, wie die aussieht, den, wie der aussieht? Das sagen aber nie die anderen Männer, das... Read more

Best Kept Secret

By: Amy Hatvany

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A timely and captivating novel about a mother whose life spirals out of control when she descends into alcoholism, and her battle to get sober and regain custody of her beloved son.

Cadence didn’t sit down one night and decide that downing two bottles of wine was a brilliant idea.

Her drinking snuck up on her—as a way to sleep, to help her relax... Read more

Suspended Sentences

By: Patrick Modiano

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Sean Runnette & Arthur Morey

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume—Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the... Read more