Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Warburg in Rome

By: James Carroll

Narrated by: David Doersch

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

David Warburg, newly minted director of the U.S. War Refugee Board, arrives in Rome at war's end, determined to bring aid to the destitute European Jews streaming into the city. Marguerite d'Erasmo, a French-Italian Red Cross worker with a shadowed past, is initially Warburg's guide to a complicated Rome; while a charismatic young American... Read more

The Home Place

By: Carrie La Seur

Narrated by: Andrus Nichols

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Carrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with The Home Place, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of The House Girl and A Land More Kind Than Home, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family’s life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister’s death.The only Terrebonne who... Read more

Charleston

By: Margaret Bradham Thornton

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A gifted writer makes her fiction debut with this lyrical and haunting story of missed chances and enduring love, set against the backdrop of high society Charleston, which probes the eternal question: can we ever truly go home again? When Eliza Poinsett left the elegant world of Charleston for college, she never expected it would take her ten... Read more

This Is the Water

By: Yannick Murphy

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From Yannick Murphy, award-winning author of The Call, comes a fast-paced story of murder, adultery, parenthood, and romance, involving a girls’ swim team, their morally flawed parents, and a killer who swims in their midst.In a quiet New England community members of swim team and their dedicated parents are preparing for a home meet. The most... Read more

American Blonde

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A fearless and spirited pilot conquers Hollywood. Now can she survive movie stardom?In 1945 Velva Jean Hart is a bona fide war heroine. After a newsreel film of her triumphant return to America, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promises to make her a star. They give her a new life story and a brand-new name. As "Kit Rogers," she navigates the movie sets,... Read more

Lucky Us

By: Amy Bloom

Narrated by: Alicyn Packard

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE

“My father’s wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in it for us.”

So begins this remarkable novel by Amy Bloom, whose critically acclaimed Away was called “a literary triumph” (The New... Read more

Bea geht - Abridged

By: Sebastian Willing

Narrated by: Mike Langhans

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Buch beschreibt den Abschied von einem Kind, einem geliebten Menschen, einem Baby. Es begleitet drei Menschen auf einem Weg, dessen Ende bereits bekannt ist, dem Kampf zwischen Herz und Verstand, in dem Wissen, dass keiner von beiden gewinnen kann. Es gibt keinen Gewinner, wenn man sein Kind verabschieden, sich von seinem Baby trennen... Read more

The Actress

By: Amy Sohn

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

All Maddy Freed has ever wanted is to act. When the indie film she made wins her a special acting prize, she's thrilled but doesn't yet understand how much it will change her life. Then she catches the eye of Bridget Ostrow, a legendary talent manager whose biggest client is Hollywood heartthrob Steven Weller. Before Maddy knows it, her career... Read more

You're Not Much Use to Anyone

By: David Shapiro

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White... Read more

Because We Are

By: Ted Oswald

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten-year-old orphan Libète has been hardened by the daily struggle to survive in Cité Soleil, Haiti’s most infamous slum. But when she and her best friend, Jak, discover a young mother and her baby brutally murdered in a nearby marsh, it’s unlike anything she’s encountered before. Though initially shocked, the adults of Cité Soleil move on... Read more

Take Me With You

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde tells the emotional story of an alcoholic reeling from the loss of his son on the journey to finally facing his pain—and forging a path to redemption.August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he’s spent the summer on the road, but... Read more

Cupid's Bedside Book

By: Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens & Jerome K. ...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful collection of classic stories on the theme of love. A must-listen for the incurable romantic.

"The Marquise", by George Sand
"The Girl Who Was Tired of Love", by Leonard Merrick
"The Love of Long Ago", by Guy de Maupassant
"The Box Tunnel", by Charles Reade
"The Judgment of Paris", by Leonard Merrick
"Portrait of a... Read more

The Literary Feline

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce & Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of seven classic short stories in which felines play a central role. Includes: "Tobermory the Cat That Walked by Himself", "The Vampire Cat", "The Young Man Who Stroked Cats", "A Cargo of Cat", "The Black Cat", and "The Paradise of Cats". Read more

Season to Taste

By: Natalie Young

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath.


Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes... Read more

The Spark and the Drive

By: Wayne Harrison

Narrated by: Quincy Dunn-Baker

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

There's nothing I enjoy more than entering a fictional world over which an author demonstrates complete mastery. That's exactly what Wayne Harrison offers his lucky readers in The Spark and the Drive." -- Richard Russo, bestselling author of Empire Falls " Gorgeous and grittily poetic. The Spark and the Drive has all the horsepower and headlong... Read more

Season to Taste

By: Natalie Young

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A startling debut about the extraordinary end of a marriage and its very strange aftermath.

Meet Lizzie Prain. She is an ordinary housewife and lives with her lovely dog and her husband, who is a bit of a difficult fellow, in a quiet cottage in British country side. She's a wonderful cook. She enjoys her garden. And, occasionally, she makes... Read more

Wayfaring Stranger

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.

In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A... Read more

One Mountain Away

By: Emilie Richards

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With nothing but brains, ambition, and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain—but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with... Read more

All I Love and Know

By: Judith Frank

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Told with the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a modern American family on the brink of dissolution, one that explores adoption, gay marriage, and love lost and found.For years, Matthew Greene and Daniel Rosen have enjoyed a quiet domestic life together in Northampton, Massachusetts. Opposites... Read more

Life Drawing

By: Robin Black

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

“Taut, elegant . . . Black is a writer of great wisdom.”—Claire Messud, The Guardian (UK)

Augusta Edelman—Gus to her friends—is a painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices—one of them bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home and its... Read more

Wayfaring Stranger - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.

In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A... Read more

Aetherhertz

By: Anja Bagus

Narrated by: Annette Stall

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit der Jahrhundertwende steigt grüner Nebel über den Flüssen auf. Aether ist für die Industrie ein Segen, für die Menschen ein Fluch. Luftschiffe erobern den Himmel, Monster bevölkern die Auen. Wir schreiben das Jahr 1910: Im mondänen Baden-Baden scheint die Welt noch in Ordnung. Doch während die Kurgäste aus aller Welt durch die Alleen und... Read more

All Sorts and Conditions of Men

By: Walter Besant

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

This book was the inspiration for an enormous achievement. The Peoples Palace for the entertainment and instruction of the working class was opened in the East End in 1887, five years after the book was published. It had changed peoples lives and was an incredible support for those who had previously no art gallery, theatre, library, concert... Read more

Little Cat

By: Tamara Faith Berger

Narrated by: Samuel Flores & Felicity Munroe

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex. Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness. In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted... Read more