Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Wedding Favor

By: Cara Connelly

Narrated by: Mona Brewster

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In her deliciously sexy debut, Cara Connelly gives a whole new meaning to crashing a wedding.Before the weddingTyrell Brown wanted to get the hell out of Houston and back to his ranch. Instead, he’s stuck on a flight to France for his best friend’s wedding. To top it off, he discovers he’s sharing a seat with Victoria Westin, the blue-eyed,... Read more

The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles

By: Katherine Pancol

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Le Divorce meets The Elegance of the Hedgehog in this hilariously entertaining mega-bestseller from France

When her chronically unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two—confident, beautiful teenage Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé—is... Read more

Die Flucht nach Ägypten - Abridged

By: Otfried Preußler

Narrated by: Bernhard Setzwein

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Die kleine Hexe", der "Räuber Hotzenplotz" und "Krabat" ‒ die Bücher von Otfried Preußler sind in den Kinderzimmern auf der ganzen Welt zu Hause. Otfried Preußler hat aber auch an seine großen Leser gedacht. "Die Flucht nach Ägypten" aus dem Jahre 1978 ist eines seiner wenigen Werke für Erwachsene, die wunderbarste Weihnachtsgeschichte seit... Read more

You Only Get Letters From Jail

By: Jodi Angel

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & T. Ryder Smith

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Angel' s second story collection, You Only Get Letters from Jail, chronicles the lives of young men trapped in the liminal space between adolescence and adulthood. From picking up women at a bar hours after mom' s overdose to coveting a drowned girl to catching rattlesnakes with gasoline, Angel's characters are motivated by muscle cars,... Read more

Der Garten des Bösen - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Garten des Bösen: Kurzgeschichten von Nathaniel Hawthorne. Wenn es einen Schriftsteller herauszuheben gilt, der für die Entstehung der nationalen amerikanischen Literatur von größter Bedeutung war, dann muss der Name Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864) fallen. Weltberühmt sein "Scharlachroter Buchstabe", aber auch seine Kurzgeschichten, die... Read more

Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten - Von Nathaniel bis Edgar Allan Poe: Die Kurzgeschichte verlangt äußerste Disziplin vom Autor. Kurz und knapp muss er erzählen, wofür er sonst einen Roman lang Zeit hätte. Amerikanische Schriftsteller haben sich dieses Genres besonders gerne angenommen. In dieser Sammlung finden sich 23 Stories in der Reihenfolge... Read more

The Book of Daniel

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia.

His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted.

Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has... Read more

Dead Pig Collector

By: Warren Ellis

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the wicked imagination of award-winning writer Warren Ellis comes DEAD PIG COLLECTOR, a love story with a classic Ellis twist. So while it might be a love story, it's also about killing people and disposing of their bodies in the most efficient manner possible.

DEAD PIG COLLECTOR introduces readers to Mister Sun, a very proficient... Read more

Red Sky in Morning

By: Paul Lynch

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from "a writer to watch out for" (Colum McCann).

It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the... Read more

Red Sky in Morning

By: Paul Lynch

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A tense, thrilling debut novel that spans two continents, from "a writer to watch out for" (Colum McCann).

It's 1832 and Coll Coyle has killed the wrong man. The dead man's father is an expert tracker and ruthless killer with a single-minded focus on vengeance. The hunt leads from the windswept bogs of County Donegal, across the Atlantic to the... Read more

Soldier’s Joy

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful tale of life after war by short-story master Tobias WolffHooper, a Vietnam veteran, finds himself at an army base in Washington State. His days are uneventful, filled with mundane duties, empty conversations, and the occasional jaunt with a married woman.A phone call in the middle of the night breaks Hooper's predictable routine. One... Read more

The Rich Brother

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias WolffPete has always been successful. Happily married with two daughters, he lives a comfortable life in Santa Cruz. Pete is a practical, hardworking man and he enjoys life's monetary pleasures. His younger brother, Donald, is a gaunt, troubled man. Unmarried and without... Read more

Nowhere Man

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Question of Bruno, one of the most celebrated debuts in recent American fiction, returns with the mind- and language-bending adventures of his endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek.A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia's answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United... Read more

Leviathan

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Two drugged-out couples contemplate life and morality in "Leviathan," a classic short story by the masterful Tobias Wolff.For Helen's thirtieth birthday party, her husband decides to throw her a small party. Armed with booze and three grams of cocaine, the four partyers—Helen, her husband, and another couple—spend the night and the next morning... Read more

Desert Breakdown, 1968

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark's parents have never done a thing for him. When he got out of the army and married Krystal, they were against it, just as they are against his moving to Los Angeles. But Mark has a dream, a dream of being an entertainer, of having a show in Las Vegas. So he packs Krystal and their son, Hans, into their car and starts driving from Arizona to... Read more

Say Yes

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann's friends envy her. None of their husbands even lift a finger to help with the household chores. Ann's husband is different, though. Then a simple hypothetical conversation while they wash and dry the dishes causes Ann to see her husband in a different light—and causes him to rethink the way two people can know one another. Read more

Mortals

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Givens' obituary is nothing remarkable, hardly something to remember at all. He led a quiet life, served in the Army, was married to the same woman for forty-two years, and worked at the same job practically his whole life. He wasn't a baseball player or a movie star, he was the furthest thing from a celebrity. In fact, the only thing... Read more

Flyboys

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this short story from Our Story Begins, three friends confront their relationships to one another as they work on plans to build their very own airplane.Clark's parents are rich, supplying the boys with all they need to follow their pursuits, making films and building catapults. Meanwhile, Freddy's family is dealing with the loss of his older... Read more

Sanity

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

April's father, a psychology professor, has had a breakdown and has landed in the Alta Vista State Hospital. Her stepmother, Claire, is just waiting for him to get out so she can leave on a trip to Italy—a trip April is worried Claire won't come back from. She needs Claire, at least until she finishes high school. She needs her not just as a... Read more

The Other Miller

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Miller is unlucky. That's why he's in a foxhole with the rest of Bravo Company. That's why his dad is gone and his mother remarried. That's why his teeth are falling out. Then, when the first sergeant tells Miller his mother has passed away, Miller thinks he's finally gotten lucky. Surely it's another Miller's mother, and now he can get away... Read more

Two Boys and a Girl

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Gilbert saw Mary Ann first, but the second time he sees her she is dancing with his best friend, Rafe. The three of them begin hanging out all the time, driving around in the car Rafe got as a present for getting into Yale. But when Rafe goes out of town, Gilbert and Mary Ann keep the tradition going, seeing movies and going on drives … in... Read more

The Chain

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Gold's daughter is viciously attacked by a neighbor's dog and barely escapes with her life, Gold's world is torn open. Haunted by the incident and unable to convince local authorities to take action, he agrees to a friend's offer of retaliation. When he feels compelled to return the favor, one bad turn leads to another—and this time, Gold... Read more

Smorgasbord

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

García, the wealthy, swaggering son of a foreign dictator, invites two lower-class boys from his boarding school to have dinner in New York along with his Spanish-speaking stepmother, Linda. When the group decides to go to a kitschy, unpretentious Swedish smorgasbord rather than a fine restaurant, García refuses to leave the limousine, still... Read more

Lady’s Dream

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady, suffocating in the car on a hot summer's day, slips into a feverish dream. Robert, her husband, watches her slip into unconsciousness as he drives. He's a soldier, a man of principle, well-educated and well-adjusted. But Robert is also a man with an agenda; he has married this young, wild lower-class girl to spite his father, and now he... Read more