Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Loon Lake

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it changes his destiny, leading him from the side of a railroad track to a magical place called... Read more

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver Sun

From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.
 
Tooly Zylberberg, the... Read more

The Best Russian Short Stories

By: Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant collection of short stories by some of Russia's best writers.
1. Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
2. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
3. The Honest Thief by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4. The Long Exile by Count Leo Tolstoy
5. The Self-Sacrificing Rabbit by Nicolai Schedrin
6. Comrades by Maxim Gorky
7. A Candle by Count Leo... Read more

Vom Ding her

By: Matthias Egersdörfer

Narrated by: Matthias Egersdörfer

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Neulich hörte Egersdörfer jemanden sagen: "Das ist ja unmöglich vom ganzen Ding her." Egersdörfer war fasziniert von dieser Aussage. Er lief schnell nach Hause und sagte zu seiner Frau: "Ich liebe dich vom ganzen Ding her." Die Frau runzelte die Stirn, und kurz darauf lächelte sie. Dann klingelte das Telefon. Egersdörfer hob den Hörer ab. Jemand... Read more

The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 81

By: J.B. Morrison

Narrated by: Julian Glover

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Frank is eighty-one. He lives on his own, his daughter and her young family are living in America. He watches DVDs, keeps an eye on the neighbours, eats tinned spaghetti, and has a cat called Bill (which made more sense before Ben died). It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he was active. But Frank has just been run over by a... Read more

Vanity Fair: July 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 3 hours 17 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

Goethe: Faust. Der Tragödie Erster Teil - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Narrated by: Jürgen Goslar

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Goethe: Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil. Gesprochen von Jürgen Goslar. Der Faust - sicherlich Goethes berühmtestes Werk. Es ist die Geschichte eines Gelehrten, der sich dem Teufel verschreibt, damit dieser ihn aus seiner tiefen Verzweiflung befreien möge. Mephisto macht sich ans Werk, Faust trifft das Mädchen Margarethe - und die Tragödie... Read more

The Book of Unknown Americans

By: Cristina Henríquez

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“A triumph of storytelling. Henríquez pulls us into the lives of her characters with such mastery that we hang on to them just as fiercely as they hang on to one another and their dreams. This passionate, powerful novel will stay with you long after you’ve turned the final page.” —Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
 
A boy and... Read more

The Lemon Grove

By: Helen Walsh

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly charged, sultry, beautifully written and compulsive one-sit read, The Lemon Grove is an intense novel about obsession and sex—the perfect summer book.Jenn and Greg have been married for fourteen years, and, as the book opens, they are enjoying the last week of their annual summer holiday in Dei├á, a village in Majorca off the coast of... Read more

Euphoria

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Xe Sands

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes a breathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the 1930s caught in a passionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in... Read more

We Are Called to Rise

By: Laura McBride

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Kirby Heyborne, Madeleine M...

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Your heart will break…then soar” (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, three lives collide in a split-second mistake and a child’s fate hangs in the balance.

Avis thought her marriage had hit a temporary rut. But with a single confession in the middle of the night, her carefully constructed life comes undone. After... Read more

Summer House with Swimming Pool

By: Herman Koch

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The blistering, compulsively readable new novel from Herman Koch, author of the instant New York Times bestseller The DinnerWhen a medical procedure goes horribly wrong and famous actor Ralph Meier winds up dead, Dr. Marc Schlosser needs to come up with some answers. After all, reputation is everything in this business. Personally, he’s not... Read more

China Dolls

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year) 
 
San Francisco, 1938: A world’s fair is... Read more

Welcome to Hard Times

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life that sets the stage for his subsequent classics.

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and... Read more

Home Leave

By: Brittani Sonnenberg

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Brittani Sonnenberg's "emotionally charged" (Real Simple) debut novel following a family's search for home abroad is now in paperback.

Chris Kriegstein is a man on the move, with a career that catapults his family across the globe. For his wife, Elise, the hardship of chronic relocation is soothed by the allure of reinvention. But it's the... Read more

The Dog Year

By: Ann Garvin

Narrated by: Susan Boyce

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Lucy Peterman was not built for a messy life. A well-respected surgeon whose patients rely on her warmth, compassion, and fierce support, Lucy has always worked hard and trusted in the system. She's not the sort of person who ends up in a twelve-step program after being caught stealing supplies from her hospital.But that was Lucy before the... Read more

Die beiden Freundinnen und ihr Giftmord (Ungekürzt)

By: Alfred Döblin

Narrated by: Dieter Mann

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Döblins legendäre Giftmordgeschichte Die lebenslustige Elli heiratet den ernsten Link. Die beiden werden nicht glücklich, sie erträgt seine Berührungen nicht, er will sie unterkriegen, sie körperlich verschlingen, schlägt sie. Elli lernt Margerete kennen. Die beiden Frauen fühlen sich leidenschaftlich zueinander hingezogen. Ellis Haß auf ihren... Read more

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Sandra Duncan

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When Frances Shore joins her engineer husband in Jeddah she is warned not to ask questions. But bored, she begins to speculate about her neighbours and the empty flat above her. At first she believes the flat is being used as a lover's tryst - then she suspects something more sinister. Read more

The Untold

By: Courtney Collins

Narrated by: Courtney Collins

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

With shades of Water for Elephants and True Grit, a stunning debut novel set in the Australian outback about a female horse thief, her bid for freedom, and the two men trying to capture her.


It is 1921. In a mountain-locked valley, Jessie is on the run.
 Born wild and brave, by twenty-six she has already lived life as a circus rider, horse and... Read more

Invisible Ellen

By: Shari Shattuck

Narrated by: Shari Shattuck

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Invisible Ellen is a heartfelt and moving portrait of life on the sidelines.  It is a book for anyone who has ever felt they didn't count.  And who hasn't felt that way at least once?  A lovely, compelling novel about a woman you won't soon forget."
—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Fly Away

In the bestselling tradition of... Read more

The Vacationers

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible, deftly observed novel about the secrets, joys, and jealousies that rise to the surface over the course of an American family’s two-week stay in Mallorca.

For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth... Read more

The Secret Life of Violet Grant

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the contents draw her back into her family's past, and the... Read more

Mrs. Hemingway

By: Naomi Wood

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story…Summer, 1926. Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley take refuge from the blazing heat of Paris in a villa in the south of France. They swim and play bridge, and drink gin with abandon. But wherever they go they are accompanied by the glamorous and irrepressible Fife. Fife is Hadley's best friend.... Read more

Fourth of July Creek

By: Smith Henderson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews & Jenna Lamia

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this shattering and iconic American novel, PEN prize-winning writer, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions. After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the... Read more