Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Walking On Glass

By: Iain Banks

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life.'

Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him,... Read more

William Shakespeare: 15 Dramen und Komödien - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hören Sie die fünfzehn berühmtesten Stücke Shakespeares: Die Dramen: Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo und Julia, König Lear / Die Komödien: Viel Lärm um nichts, Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung, Der Sturm, Was Ihr wollt, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Der Kaufmann von Venedig, Das Wintermärchen, Maß für Maß, Die Komödie der Irrungen, Ende gut, alles gut. Die... Read more

Beyond the Book -- The Free

By: Willy Vlautin

Narrated by: Willy Vlautin

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

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A Well-Tempered Heart

By: Jan-Philipp Sendker

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to the international bestselling novel The Art of Hearing HeartbeatsAlmost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father's native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, her private life is at a crossroads; her boyfriend recently left her, she has suffered a miscarriage, and she is, despite her... Read more

The Days of Anna Madrigal

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Kate Mulgrew

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Kate MulgrewNew York Times Bestseller“Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been.” — Booklist (starred review)Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth installment in Armistead Maupin's bestselling ""Tales of the City"" series, follows one of... Read more

Under the Wide and Starry Sky

By: Nancy Horan

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

From Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank, comes her much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his... Read more

Motherless Brooklyn

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Geoffrey Cantor

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROS. STARRING BRUCE WILLIS, EDWARD NORTON, AND WILLEM DAFOEFrom America's most inventive novelist, Jonathan Lethem, comes this compelling and compulsive riff on the classic detective novel.Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and... Read more

The Sky Manifest

By: Brian Panhuyzen

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

After suffering an unbearable loss, a man takes a road trip in an attempt to find solace and encounters beauty, brutality, and beguiling characters along the way in this darkly thrilling novel. Grieving the deaths of his wife and infant daughter, Nathan Soderquist decides to journey westward across the continent, documenting the ever-changing... Read more

Maidenhead

By: Tamara Faith Berger

Narrated by: Felicity Munroe

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the The Believer Book Award (2012) Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013) 'Maidenhead is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, Girls Gone Wild, and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' -- Sheila Heti, Globe and Mail On a mangy beach in Key West,... Read more

The Moon Field

By: Judith Allnatt

Narrated by: Geraldine Sharrock

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts. No man’s land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered and empty as the moon… Hidden in a soldier’s tin box are a painting, a pocket watch, and a dance... Read more

The River Journey

By: Robert Nathan

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Minerva Parkinson has just received distressing news: she's dying. Though she and her husband Henry have been married for many years, their marriage has grown listless, and she therefore chooses to keep her dire prognosis to herself.With the hopes of leaving Henry with fond memories of her, she buys a houseboat to fulfill his dream of a... Read more

Eldritch Tales

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: various narrators, Tom Weiner, Simon Vance, Sim...

Length: 20 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The only audio edition of Eldritch Tales authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft's remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay "Supernatural Horror... Read more

C. S. Lewis

By: C. S. Lewis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 38 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time. As well as his many books, letters, and poems, Lewis also wrote a great number of essays and shorter pieces on various subjects. He wrote extensively on Christian theology and the defense of faith but... Read more

Perfect

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Paul Rhys

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes “a poignant, searing tale” (O: The Oprah Magazine) about a young boy who is thrown into the murky, difficult realities of the adult world.
 
“A powerful book, rich with empathy and charged with beautiful, atmospheric writing.”—Tana French

A nice house in a... Read more

Forgiving the Angel

By: Jay Cantor

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In four stories that are a deft amalgam of fact and fiction, Jay Cantor captures the reverberations of Kafka's influences on the lives of some of the friends and lovers who survived him. Here is Kafka's last lover, Dora Diamant: their love opening out with both passion and pathos as he succumbs to tuberculosis...Max Brod, his friend and literary... Read more

House of Bathory

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

In the early 1600s, Elizabeth Báthory, the infamous Blood Countess, ruled Čachtice Castle in the hinterlands of Slovakia. During bizarre nightly rites, she tortured and killed the young women she had taken on as servants. A devil, a demon, the terror of Royal Hungary—she bathed in their blood to preserve her own youth.400 years later, echoes of... Read more

Mercy Snow

By: Tiffany Baker

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake.

June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow... Read more

The Visionist

By: Rachel Urquhart

Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Ellen Archer & Ali Ahn

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling first novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge -- but perhaps not -- in an 1840s Shaker community.

After 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when... Read more

Foreign Gods, Inc.

By: Okey Ndibe

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Foreign Gods, Inc. tells the story of Ike, a New York–based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery.Ike's plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American college, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate... Read more

Mrs. Lincoln's Rival

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Chase Sprague was born in 1840 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second daughter to the second wife of a devout but ambitious lawyer. Her father, Salmon P. Chase, rose to prominence in the antebellum years and was appointed secretary of the treasury in Abraham Lincoln' s cabinet, while aspiring to even greater heights. Beautiful, intelligent, regal,... Read more

Sweet Land Stories

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Joshua Swanson & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s premier writers, the bestselling author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The Book of Daniel, and World’s Fair turns his astonishing narrative powers to the short story in five dazzling explorations of who we are as a people and how we live.

Ranging over the American continent from Alaska to Washington, D.C., these superb short works... Read more

Andrew's Brain

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: E.L. Doctorow

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This brilliant novel by an American master, the author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, Billy Bathgate, and The March, takes us on a radical trip into the mind of a man who, more than once in his life, has been the inadvertent agent of disaster.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, SLATE, AND THE TELEGRAPH

Speaking... Read more

Major Namby

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and humorous short story by Wilkie Collins, in which an elderly lady, whose Victorian sensibilities on morals and propriety are finely honed, finds herself living next door to Major Namby, the ultimate neighbour from hell. Read more

A Falling Out

By: Kenneth Grahame

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenneth Grahame's wonderful and heart-warming story of a squabble between a brother and sister, and the extraordinary (if sometimes misguided) lengths the boy goes to, so that he can finally make peace with his wronged sibling. Read more