Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Girl Who Came Home

By: Hazel Gaynor

Narrated by: Connor Kelly-Eiding & Alana Kerr

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's impact and its lasting repercussions on survivors and their descendants.Ireland, 1912. Fourteen members of a small village set... Read more

Until the Real Thing Comes Along

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Will she find Mr. Right and start a family? But Patty is in love—with a man who is not only attractive and financially sound, but sensitive and warmhearted. There's just one small problem: he is also gay.Against her... Read more

Sturmkap - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Stefan Kruecken & Hans-Peter Jürgens

Narrated by: Axel Prahl

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vor Kap Hoorn, 1939: Seit Wochen kämpft die Besatzung der Viermastbark Priwall gegen schwere Stürme. Als der Großsegler aus Hamburg in Valparaiso festmacht, beginnt für den fünfzehnjährigen Schiffsjungen Hans Peter Jürgens eine Irrfahrt durch eine Welt im Krieg. Er arbeitet als Straßenbauer in Chile, überlebt ein Lager im afrikanischen Dschungel... Read more

Frog Music

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true unsolved crime, Frog Music is a gripping historical novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room.

San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City.

Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at... Read more

Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Hamlet was written between 1597 and 1600, just after the death of Shakespeare’s only son, Hamlet, one of twins, who died aged 11 in 1596. Despite scholarly argument that this was mere coincidence, it is impossible to believe that a writer as sensitive as Shakespeare would not be questioning the reason for the life and death of his son during... Read more

Bad Teeth

By: Dustin Long

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Four interlocking narratives set in four American cities form a richly comic feast about love, academia, an elusive Tibetan novelist—and SOFA, a protest group so mysterious its very initials are open to interpretation.Bad Teeth follows a cast of young literary men and women, each in a period of formation, in four very American cities—Brooklyn,... Read more

Mind of Winter

By: Laura Kasischke

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part Chris Bohjalian.On a snowy... Read more

The Land of Steady Habits

By: Ted Thompson

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"This assured, compassionate first novel channels the suburban angsty of Updike and Cheever...with pitch-perfect prose and endearingly melancholy characters."--Booklist (Starred Review)


Anders Hill, entering his early sixties and seemingly ensconced in the "land of steady habits"--a nickname for the affluent, morally strict hamlets of Connecticut... Read more

My Wish List

By: Gregoire Delacourt

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling international phenomenon that asks, If you won the lottery, would you trade your life for the life of your dreams?
Jocelyne lives in a small town in France where she runs a fabric shop, has been married to the same man for twenty-one years, and has raised two children. She is beginning to wonder what happened to all those... Read more

Children of the Revolution

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Multiple award-winning, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Peter Robinson returns with Children of the Revolution, a superb tale of mystery and murder that takes acclaimed British Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks back to the early 1970s—a turbulent time of politics, change, and radical student activism.The body of a... Read more

Empress of the Night

By: Eva Stachniak

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of Hilary Mantel, Alison Weir, and Philippa Gregory, Empress of the Night is Eva Stachniak’s engrossing new novel, told in the voice of Catherine the Great as the Romanov monarch reflects on her ascension to the throne, her rule over the world’s greatest power, and the sacrifices that made her the most feared and commanding... Read more

Die Verwandlung

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Franz Kafka: Die Verwandlung Franz Kafka wurde 1883 in Prag geboren. Er starb 1924 in Klosterneuburg, Österreich. Die Erzählung Die Verwandlung (1912) zählt zu den bekanntesten Werken Kafkas und ist ein Meisterstück symbolisch - parabelhafter Erzählkunst. Der Autor vereint meisterhaft anschauliche Sprache mit spannender Handlung und... Read more

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

By: Matt Bell

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newlywed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the... Read more

Hyde

By: Daniel Levine

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An authentic, gothic reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson' s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , told from the villain' s perspective, that takes readers deep into the seedy side of Victorian London and explores the nature of personality and of the subconscious Mr. Hyde is trapped in Dr. Jekyll' s surgical cabinet, counting the days... Read more

The Divorce Papers

By: Susan Rieger

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Arthur Morey, Kathe Mazur, Emil...

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Witty and wonderful, sparkling and sophisticated, this debut romantic comedy brilliantly tells the story of one very messy, very high-profile divorce, and the endearingly cynical young lawyer dragooned into handling it.
 
Twenty-nine-year-old Sophie Diehl is happy toiling away as a criminal law associate at an old line New England firm where she... Read more

You Should Have Known

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing... Read more

You Should Have Known

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "smart and devious" New York Times bestselling thriller, a marriage counselor's relationship begins to unravel when the mother of her son's classmate is murdered (The New York Times). The inspiration for the HBO series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.

Grace Reinhart Sachs is living her best life. Devoted to her... Read more

Roosevelt's Beast

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1914. Brazil's Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle. When Kermit and Teddy are kidnapped by a never-before-seen... Read more

Die Geschwister Brontë - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë & Charlotte Brontë

Narrated by: Nina Kunzendorf, Anja Laïs & Maria Schrader

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Bis heute gehören die Schwestern Charlotte, Emily und Anne Brontë zu den meistgelesenen Schriftstellerinnen des 19. Jh. Schon als Kinder begannen die Töchter eines englischen Pfarrers und verhinderten Autors zu schreiben und erfanden Fantasiewelten. Ihre großen Romane "Jane Eyre", "Sturmhöhe" und "Agnes Grey" waren Skandalerfolge. Sie handeln... Read more

Zechenkinder - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: David Schraven & Uwe Weber

Narrated by: Uwe Fellensiek

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicht mehr lange, dann wird der Bergbau im Ruhrgebiet Geschichte sein. In ZECHENKINDER erzählen 25 Kumpel von der schwarzen Seele des "Potts". Über Kameradschaft, von Maloche unter Tage, über den Willen zu überleben und den Fluch der Staublunge. Über eine Arbeiterwelt, in der das Wort "Arschloch" keine Beleidigung sein muss und ein gemeinsames... Read more

Unverkäuflich! - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Stefan Kruecken

Narrated by: Stephan Benson

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bobby Dekeyser ist fünfzehn, als er im Unterricht aufsteht und beschließt, Fußballprofi zu werden. Vier Jahre später steht er im Tor des FC Bayern München. Nachdem ihn ein Gegenspieler schwer verletzt hat, beginnt ein spektakuläres Abenteuer: Von einem Bauernhof in Niedersachsen aus schafft es Dekeyser, Vater von drei Kindern, ein globales... Read more

Damage Control

By: Amber Dermont

Narrated by: Danielle Ferland, Eliza Foss & David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the bestselling author of The Starboard Sea Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon," a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In " Damage Control," a young man... Read more

A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain

By: Adrianne Harun

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances—until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them.



In this intoxicatingly lush debut... Read more

The Weight of Blood

By: Laura McHugh

Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Shannon McManus & Sofi...

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Gillian Flynn, Scott Smith, and Daniel Woodrell comes a gripping, suspenseful novel about two mysterious disappearances a generation apart.

INTERNATIONAL THRILLER WRITERS AWARD WINNER AND BARRY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKPAGE
 
The town of Henbane sits deep in the Ozark... Read more