Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Ruby

By: Cynthia Bond

Narrated by: Cynthia Bond

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller and Oprah Book Club 2.0 selection, the epic, unforgettable story of a man determined to protect the woman he loves from the town desperate to destroy her. This beautiful and devastating debut heralds the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
 
Ephram Jennings has never forgotten the beautiful girl with the long... Read more

BUtterfield 8

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Gretchen Mol

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation

A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from... Read more

All the Rage

By: A. L. Kennedy

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

All the Rage was named to the shortlist of Best Short Story Collection by The Frank O’Connor PrizeA.L. Kennedy, the author of The Blue Book and Day, writes like a force of nature. Claire Messud says she’s “one of Britain’s most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents.” Richard Ford calls her “a profound writer,” and Ali Smith dubbed her... Read more

All That Is Solid Melts into Air

By: Darragh McKeon

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliantly imagined in its harrowing account of the Chernobyl disaster and exhilarating in its sweep, All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a debut to rattle all the windows and open up the ventricles of the heart. . . . The book is daring, exhilarating, generous and beautifully written.” — Colum McCannA brilliant and gripping novel set against... Read more

Vacant Possession

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Sandra Duncan

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free, she sets into motion an intricate plan to exact revenge on those who had her put away. Her former social worker, Isabel, and her old neighbors have moved on, but Muriel, with her... Read more

Jetzt mal unter uns... - Abridged

By: Dora Heldt

Narrated by: Dora Heldt

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Warum wirft man dauernd die falschen Sachen weg? Wie fühlen Frauen sich im Baumarkt? War früher wirklich alles besser? Es gibt vieles, was Frauen Tag für Tag beschäftigt, wundert, ärgert oder auch schmunzeln lässt. Ein Glück, dass Dora Heldt das herrlich selbstironisch, lebensnah und voller Leichtigkeit in Worte fassen kann. Ob es um den... Read more

Thunderstruck

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Erin Yuen

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House comes a beautiful new story collection. In 'Property,' a young scholar, grieving the sudden death of his wife, decides to refurbish a rental house by removing his landlord's possessions. In 'Peter Elroy: A Documentary by Ian Casey,' the household of a successful filmmaker is visited years... Read more

The End of the Point

By: Elizabeth Graver

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A place out of time, Ashaunt Point—a tiny finger of land jutting into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts—has provided sanctuary and anchored life for generations of the Porter family, who summer along its remote, rocky shore. But in 1942, the U.S. Army arrives on the Point, bringing havoc and change. That summer, the two older Porter girls—teenagers... Read more

Plum & Jaggers

By: Susan Richards Shreve

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who—only seven at the time—is haunted by every detail.After he and his siblings are taken in... Read more

Chestnut Street

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Sile Bermingham

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Maeve Binchy imagined a street in Dublin with many characters coming and going, and every once in a while she would write about one of these people. She would then put it in a drawer; “for the future,” she would say. The future is now.

Across town from St. Jarlath’s Crescent, featured in Minding Frankie, is Chestnut Street, where neighbors come... Read more

Place of the Heart

By: Steinunn Sigurdardottir

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Icelandic Literature PrizeSingle mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical appearance is unique among Icelanders: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her father, so strange she nearly believed the children who mistook her for a mythical creature of... Read more

Everything to Lose

By: Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A determined mother becomes entangled in a murderous conspiracy to keep a twenty-year-old secret buried in this blistering thriller, set during the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, from Andrew Gross, the New York Times bestselling author of 15 Seconds and No Way BackWhile driving along a suburban back road, Hilary Cantor, who's just lost her... Read more

Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Rosalind Ashford, Geoffrey C...

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself.Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of intoxicating ambition, passion, art, and... Read more

On the Rocks

By: Erin Duffy

Narrated by: Cyndi Shope

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny, bittersweet, yet heartwarming novel about friendship, family, and finding love in the Facebook age—not to mention the perils, pitfalls, and dubious pleasures of life as a modern young single woman—from Erin Duffy, the author of the acclaimed Bond GirlEver since she was a little girl, Abby Wilkes dreamed of her wedding, the day when... Read more

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

By: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso & Richard Ferrone

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of... Read more

The Giant, O'Brien

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Patrick Moy

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths, fairies, miracles, and little people. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. O'Brien's opposite is a man of science, the... Read more

Casebook

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed and award-winning author of Anywhere But Here and My Hollywood, a powerful new novel about a young boy’s quest to uncover the mysteries of his unraveling family. What he discovers turns out to be what he least wants to know: the inner workings of his parents’ lives. And even then he can’t stop searching.Miles Adler-Hart starts... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid 1800s, Pyncheon is still a revered namesake in Salem, with the gloomy Pyncheon mansion serving as a stark reminder of the family's upper class history. However, the house - unique for its seven gables - has a dark and deadly past. Its current occupant, the older and unmarried Hepzibah Pyncheon, is all but destitute and unwilling to... Read more

Up the Down Staircase

By: Bel Kaufman

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bel Kaufman's Up the Down Staircase is one of the best-loved novels of our time. It has been translated into sixteen languages, made into a prizewinning motion picture, and staged as a play at high schools all over the United States; its very title has become part of the American idiom.Never before has a novel so compellingly laid bare the inner... Read more

The Other Story

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Vacationing at a luxurious Tuscan island resort, Nicolas Duhamel is hopeful that the ghosts of his past have finally been put to rest… Now a bestselling author, when he was twenty-four years old, he stumbled upon a troubling secret about his family – a secret that was carefully concealed. In shock, Nicholas embarked on a journey to uncover the... Read more

The Steady Running of the Hour

By: Justin Go

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An impossible quest. An epic love story. A mesmerizing debut.

In 1924, the English mountaineer Ashley Walsingham dies attempting to summit Mount Everest, leaving his fortune to his long-lost lover, Imogen Soames-Andersson—whom he has not seen in seven years. Ashley’s attorneys search in vain for Imogen, but the estate remains unclaimed.

Nearly... Read more

Labor Day

By: Eleanor Henderson & Anna Solomon

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart & Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge—the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of labor and delivery—the stories that new mothers need most.


Here is a book that transcends the limits... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband - long thought to be lost at sea - has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is... Read more

Unter Freunden - Erzählungen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Amos Oz

Narrated by: Christian Brückner

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Diese Geschichten erzählen von den elementaren Kräften menschlicher Existenz. Von Einsamkeit. Von Liebe. Von Verlust. Von Tod. Von Sehnsucht. Von Verzicht und Verlangen." Amos Oz In seinem neuen Buch kehrt Amos Oz zu der Zeit zurück, die ihn am meisten inspiriert hat: seine Kibbuz-Jahre. Im fiktiven Kibbuz Ikhat zeichnen die Erzählungen... Read more