Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Haunted Life

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Liev Schreiber

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Kerouac wrote The Haunted Life in 1944 when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University. Originally intended as a three-part novel, only this first 20,000-word section was ever finished. Upon its completion, Kerouac promptly lost his only hand-written final draft in a New York taxi cab, remaining unknown to the public until its... Read more

Shotgun Lovesongs

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Scott Shepherd, Ari Fliakos, Maggie Hoffman, Sc...

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Little Wing.

It's a place like hundreds of others, nothing special, really. But for four friends—all born and raised in this small Wisconsin town—it is home. And now they are men, coming into their own, or struggling to do so.

One of them never left, still working the family farm that has been tilled for generations. But others felt the... Read more

The Anatomy Lesson

By: Nina Siegal

Narrated by: Nina Siegal, Bruce Mann, Emma Jayne Appleyard, ...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to philosopher Rene Descartes, the novel opens on the morning of... Read more

The Blazing World

By: Siri Hustvedt

Narrated by: Patricia Rodriguez & Eric Meyers

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the New York Times Book Review’s 100 Notable Books of the Year ** Publishers Weekly’s Best Fiction Books of 2014 ** NPR Best Books of 2014 ** Kirkus Reviews Best Literary Fiction Books of 2014 ** Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Books of 2014 ** Boston Globe’s Best Fiction of 2014 ** The Telegraph’s Best Fiction to Read 2014 ** St.... Read more

Peter Schlemihl

By: Adelbert von Chamisso

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Adelbert von Chamisso: Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso wurde 1781 in Châlons-en-Champagne geboren. Er starb 1838 in Berlin. Die Novelle Peter Schlemihl (1814) ist die Ich-Erzählung eines Mannes, der gegen unermesslichen Reichtum seinen Schatten an den Teufel verkauft. Die leichtfüßige Mischung aus Märchen und Bildungsgeschichte macht... Read more

Schachnovelle

By: Stefan Zweig

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Stefan Zweig: Schachnovelle Stefan Zweig wurde 1881 in Wien geboren. Er starb 1942 in Petrópolis, Brasilien. Schachnovelle (1941) ist Zweigs letztes und bekanntestes Werk und erzählt von den Überlebensstrategien eines Häftlings der Gestapo im 2. Weltkrieg. Das Schachspiel dient dem Autor als Metapher des Lebens. Ein Höhepunkt novellistischer... Read more

Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre

By: Friedrich Schiller

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Friedrich Schiller: Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre Friedrich Schiller wurde 1759 in Marbach geboren. Er starb 1805 in Weimar. Die Novelle Der Verbrecher aus verlorener Ehre (1786) ist ein auf Tatsachen beruhender Kriminalbericht und zugleich eine der ersten Kriminalgeschichten in der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Der kühle, fast... Read more

Die Judenbuche

By: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Annette von Droste-Hülshoff: Die Judenbuche Annette von Droste-Hülshoff wurde 1797 bei Münster geboren. Sie starb 1848 in Meersburg. Ihre Novelle Die Judenbuche (1842) ist die Geschichte eines Verbrechens in einem westfälischen Dorf im 18. Jahrhundert. Halb Kriminalerzählung, halb Sozialdrama zählt das spannende, atmosphärisch dichte Werk zu... Read more

Novelle

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Novelle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wurde 1749 in Frankfurt a. M. geboren. Er starb 1832 in Weimar. Novelle (1828) zählt zu Goethes großen Alterswerken. Er selbst sagte: "Zu zeigen, wie das Unbändige, Unüberwindliche oft besser durch Liebe und Frömmigkeit als durch Gewalt bezwungen werde, war die Aufgabe dieser... Read more

Boy, Snow, Bird

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Susan Bennett & Carra Patterson

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox , the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-- the opposite of the life she' s left behind in New York. She marries a local... Read more

All Our Names

By: Dinaw Mengestu

Narrated by: Korey Jackson & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dinaw Mengestu, a recipient of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 Award, the New Yorker's 20 under 40 Award, and a 2012 MacArthur Foundation genius grant, comes a novel about exile, about the loneliness and fragmentation of lives that straddle countries and histories. All Our Names is the story of a young man who comes of age during... Read more

True to Form

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Katie Nash—the beloved heroine of Elizabeth Berg's previous novels Durable Goods and Joy School—is thirteen years old in 1961, and she's facing a summer full of conflict. Her father has enlisted her in two care-taking jobs—baby-sitting for the rambunctious Wexler boys and, equally challenging, looking after Mrs. Randolph, her elderly, bedridden... Read more

Vanity Fair: April 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 37 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

Black Horizon

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Black Horizon, a riveting and timely thriller drawn from tomorrow's headlines, New York Times bestselling author James Grippando brings back popular Miami criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck in an international case involving a devastating oil spill that pits him against his most villainous adversaries yet.Three summers after the Deepwater... Read more

Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, John Cullum, Boyd Gaines, Pet...

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the... Read more

World's Fair

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"Something close to magic." The Los Angeles Times

The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great... Read more

Billy Bathgate

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

To listen to this audiobook is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering... Read more

Redeployment

By: Phil Klay

Narrated by: Craig Klein

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review

Selected as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post Book... Read more

Beauty

By: Frederick G. Dillen

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This "absorbing and memorable novel" (Tom Perrotta) set in the world of corporate intrigue is about a woman who must choose between her dream job and everything else—her savings, her reputation, and an unexpected chance at love.As a corporate "undertaker" for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to... Read more

The Enchanted

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King."This is an enchanted place. Others don’t see it, but I do." The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death... Read more

City of God

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this stylistically daring tour de force is a detective story about a cross that vanishes from a rundown... Read more

Above

By: Isla Morley

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Reeled out with the chilling calmness of a Hitchcock film, Above haunts as it illuminates. Deftly told, this tale of human resilience in the face of madness is a horror classic for our times” (Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe).

Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile... Read more

Weihnachtskatz und Mausespeck

By: Andrea Schacht

Narrated by: Stephan Schad

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Kris ist 33 Jahre alt, Besitzer eines Fitness-Studios und hat eine recht bewegte Vergangenheit. Raufer ist vier Jahre alt, ein Straßenkater, mit einer ebenfalls bewegten Vergangenheit. Als Kris den verletzten Kater auf dem Hof findet, bemüht er sich nach Kräften, den kleinen Raufer auf die Beine zu bringen. Was vielleicht auch mit Anja, der... Read more

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mind of the storyteller who has captured the imagination of readers from around the world and across generations comes this classic work of science fiction.First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school... Read more