Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Snowing in Greenwich Village

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Wife-Wooing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Giving Blood

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Twin Beds in Rome

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Marching through Boston

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Flight of the Sparrow

By: Amy Belding Brown

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"She suspects that she has changed too much to ever fit easily into English society again. The wilderness has now become her home. She can interpret the cries of birds. She has seen vistas that have stolen away her breath. She has learned to live in a new, free way."Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by... Read more

The Taste of Metal

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Your Lover Just Called

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Waiting Up

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

By: Mira Jacob

Narrated by: Mira Jacob

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A winning, irreverent debut novel about a family wrestling with its future and its past

“With wit and a rich understanding of human foibles, [Mira] Jacob unspools a story that will touch your heart.”—People

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews

With depth, heart, and agility, debut... Read more

Eros Rampant

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike’s career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story “Snowing in Greenwich Village,” about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Plumbing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Separating

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Gesturing

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Last Night at the Blue Angel

By: Rebecca Rotert

Narrated by: Andrus Nichols & Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, about a talented but troubled singer, her precocious ten-year-old daughter, and their... Read more

Forty Acres

By: Dwayne Alexander Smith

Narrated by: Andre Blake

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thriller in a class by itself—brilliant and scary!” —Terry McMillan

Read the page-turning, provocative thriller that will forever change the way you think about slavery and its legacy in today’s America.

Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most... Read more

Grandparenting

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

The Red-Herring Theory

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Sublimating

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Here Come the Maples

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Divorcing: A Fragment

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maples Stories consists of eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career, forming a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published the story "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of their marriage.... Read more

Yours to Keep or Throw Aside

By: E.D. Martin

Narrated by: Holly Adams

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When their paths cross, Kasey and Andrew embark on a tumultuous journey that demonstrates just what they’re willing to do to save the ones they love.“Redemption. This was the first word that occurred to me with the last sentence of the book. Redemption for what we’ve done; redemption from what we’ve suffered. ...a touching story of two people... Read more

The Appetites of Girls

By: Pamela Moses

Narrated by: Sandy Rustin, Suzy Jackson, Tavia Gilbert & Hea...

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For the audience that made Commencement a New York Times bestseller comes a novel about women making their way in the world. Self-doubting Ruth is coddled by her immigrant mother, who uses food to soothe and control. Defiant Francesca believes her heavy frame shames her Park Avenue society mother and, to provoke her, consumes everything in... Read more

The Best German Short Stories

By: Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A golden collection of gems from classic German literature, ranging from early Sturm und Drang, through Gothic horror, to some of the finest stories from later German Romanticism.

• The Criminal from Lost Honour by Friedrich Schiller
• The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie by Clemens Brentano
• The Mad Veteran of Fort Ratonneau by Ludwig Achim... Read more