Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Juliet's Nurse

By: Lois Leveen

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The International Bestseller

“Lois Leveen’s richly detailed, fascinating novel offers a wholly original and intriguing take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays” (New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini).

In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the... Read more

Rooms

By: Lauren Oliver

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy, Barbara Caruso, Elizabeth Evans...

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—a tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which the lives of the living and the dead intersect in... Read more

The Carriage House

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than thirty years, William Adair' s faith in life was based on two indisputable principles: the exceptional good looks and athletic talents of his three daughters and the historical status of his family in their Philadelphia suburb. After suffering a stroke, William wakes up in his hospital bed to realize that his world has collapsed:... Read more

Meine wundervolle Buchhandlung

By: Petra Hartlieb

Narrated by: Irene Kugler

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Petra Hartlieb lebt gemeinsam mit ihrer Familie in und über einer Buchhandlung. Ihrer eigenen. Von einem auf den anderen Tag kündigte sie ihren Job und begann mit ihrer Familie ein neues Leben in Wien. Sie übernimmt eine Buchhandlung, ohne zu wissen, worauf sie sich einlässt. Im Herzen ist Petra Hartlieb noch immer Hippie geblieben, auf dem... Read more

Wind aus West mit starken Böen - Abridged

By: Dora Heldt

Narrated by: Jürgen Uter, Christian Rudolf & Dora Heldt

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ausgerechnet Sylt! So viele Jahre hat Katharina (48) die Insel ihrer Kindheit und Jugend gemieden. Doch jetzt führt der Rechercheauftrag des holländischen Bestsellerautors Bastian de Jong sie in die alte Heimat zurück. Alles ist sofort wieder da: Ihre chaotische Schwester Inken mit ihrer Segelschule, Bilder und Erinnerungen an früher, alte... Read more

Drei Männer im Schnee / Inferno im Hotel - Abridged

By: Erich Kästner

Narrated by: Hans-Jürgen Schatz & Gabriele Blum

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kästners berühmte Komödie Drei Männer im Schnee – und dazu der 'Urtext' Inferno im Hotel, eine Erzählung Kästners, die 1927 in einer Zeitung erschien und ihm später als Vorlage für den Roman diente. Dieser Text war seit über 80 Jahren ergessen. Im Sommer 1927 saß Erich Kästner in einer Zeitungsredaktion und musste Einsendungen zu einem... Read more

The Cazalets

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard, Sarah Daniels & Lin Coghlan

Narrated by: Full Cast & Penelope Wilton

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Penelope Wilton narrates BBC Radio 4’s epic dramatisation of the treasured family saga

Elizabeth Jane Howard’s five book chronicle of the upper-middle class Cazalet family begins in 1938, as siblings Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel join together for another family holiday at Home Place, their house in the Sussex countryside.

During the course of... Read more

Cry Father

By: Benjamin Whitmer

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Cormac McCarthy and Larry Brown comes a haunting story about men, their fathers, their sons, and the legacy of violence. For Patterson Wells, disaster is the norm. Working alongside dangerous, desperate, itinerant men as a tree clearer in disaster zones, he's still dealing with the loss of his young son. Writing letters to... Read more

Love Me Back

By: Merritt Tierce

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From 5 Under 35 honoree and Rona Jaffe Award winner Merritt Tierce, comes a searing portrait of a Dallas waitress that heralds a razor-sharp new literary voice. Merritt Tierce received her MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was named a Meta Rosenberg Fellow. Her first published story, " Suck It" was anthologized in... Read more

Wolf in White Van

By: John Darnielle

Narrated by: John Darnielle

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Long-listed for the 2014 National Book Award in fiction

Winner of the 2015 Alex Award for adult books with special appeal for young adults

Beautifully written and unexpectedly moving, John Darnielle's audacious and gripping debut novel Wolf in White Van is a marvel of storytelling brio and genuine literary delicacy.

Welcome to Trace Italian, a... Read more

Stone Mattress

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Margaret Atwood, Rob Delaney, Mark Bramhall, Lo...

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace.

Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute psychological insight and turbulent relationships... Read more

The Paying Guests

By: Sarah Waters

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 21 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel that has been called “a tour de force” (Wall Street Journal), “unputdownable” (The Washington Post), “a delicious hothouse of a novel” (USA Today), “effortless” (The Economist), “seductive” (Vanity Fair) and “pitch perfect” (Salon)
 
“Superb, bewitching…Forget about Fifty Shades of Grey; this novel is one of... Read more

In the Red

By: Elena Mauli Shapiro

Narrated by: Veronica Den

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad.

When Irina -- Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her-arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man named Andrei.

Andrei awakens a powerful sensuality in Irina. And he has money -... Read more

Mahlzeit! Leben im Büro - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst & Andreas P...

Narrated by: Iris Berben, Christoph Maria Herbst & Andreas P...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Es ist ein merkwürdiger Ort, an dem wir den größten Teil unseres Lebens verbringen, ein Ort mit seltsamen Ritualen und gefährlichen Untiefen. Ein Ort, an dem das Montagmorgengefühl zu Hause und die Zeit boshaft ist: das Büro. Und doch hat dieser denkbar uninspirierte Ort mit seinen staubigen Akten, seinen Zimmerpflanzen und... Read more

In the Light of What We Know

By: Zia Haider Rahman

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 21 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

One September morning in 2008, an investment banker approaching forty, his career in collapse and his marriage unraveling, receives a surprise visitor at his West London townhouse. In the disheveled figure of a South Asian male carrying a backpack the banker recognizes a long-lost friend, a mathematics prodigy who disappeared years earlier under... Read more

Youth

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlowe tells a tale of his youth, before he ventured into the Heart of Darkness. After several false starts, he signs as second officer on a trading ship to Bangkok. Before their final disembarkation, he discovers that all the rats are abandoning ship before they had even left the dockyard. It isn't until Marlowe and his crew is halfway to... Read more

Barracuda

By: Christos Tsiolkas

Narrated by: Grant Cartwright

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Slap (soon to be an NBC miniseries) returns in an “immensely moving” (Sunday Times) story of a young athlete’s coming of age
 
Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special. Despite his upbringing in working-class Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability in the swimming pool has the potential to... Read more

The Children Act

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Lindsay Duncan

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London presiding over cases in family court. She is fiercely intelligent, well respected, and deeply immersed in the nuances of her particular field of law. Often the outcome of a case seems simple from the outside, the... Read more

Rainey Royal

By: Dylan Landis

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Greenwich Village, 1970s. Rainey Royal—fourteen years old, talented, and troubled—lives in a once-elegant, now decaying brownstone with her father, a jazz musician with a cultish personality. Her mother has abandoned the family, and Rainey fends off advances from her father's best friend while trying desperately to nurture her own creative... Read more

The Dog

By: Joseph O'Neill

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK***
***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014***
***PWs Best of the Year 2014***

The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai.
 
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our... Read more

Neverhome

By: Laird Hunt

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a... Read more

Select Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Chris Lutkin

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Stories include: The Raven; Hop-Frog; The Black Cat; The Cask of Amontillado; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Fall of the House of Usher; The Gold-Bug; The Masque of the Red Death; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Purloined Letter; The Pit and the Pendulum; and The Tell-Tale Heart. Read more

Perfidia

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 28 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER     
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.

The... Read more

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The most beloved and oft-adapted work by Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow follows a love triangle in the New York countryside in 1790. Sleepy Hollow, a supposedly haunted glen on the outskirts of Tarry Town, is home to a particularly ghoulish fiend - the Headless Horseman - who is said to be the specter of a fallen soldier. Ichabod... Read more