Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Quiet Dell

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King).

In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money after the sudden death of her husband. She begins to receive... Read more

How To Be a Good Wife

By: Emma Chapman

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Emma Donoghue'sRoom and S.J. Watson' s Before IGo to Sleep,How ToBe a Good Wifeby Emma Chapman is ahaunting literary debut about a woman who begins havingvisions that make her question everything she knows. Read more

Billy Budd

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1797, young Billy Budd is impressed into naval service. It is a perilous time for a British Royal Navy still reeling from mutinies and marauding French ships. When Billy is forcibly transferred to HMS Bellipotent, he evokes the wrath of John Claggart, the ship's Master-at-arms. Claggart falsely accuses Billy of conspiracy to mutiny, a charge... Read more

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Thom Rivera

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit—he has purchased hundreds of women—he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can... Read more

Bartleby, the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Michael Lackey

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In Manhattan, an elderly lawyer's business is growing. Having two scriveners in his employ, the lawyer advertises for a third to meet demand. Enter Bartleby, a glum albeit quality scrivener. However, the lawyer quickly discovers that something is off with his new employee. When asked to perform any duties outside of copywriting, Bartleby... Read more

Actors Anonymous

By: James Franco

Narrated by: James Franco

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The actors in James Franco’s brilliant debut novel include a McDonald’s drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of... Read more

Ausgeliebt

By: Dora Heldt

Narrated by: Dora Heldt

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ich will mich von dir trennen - Wenn der eigene Mann einem diesen Satz nach zehn Jahren Ehe einfach über das Telefon mitteilt, dann ist das erst mal ein großer Schock. So ergeht es auch der viel reisenden Verlagsvertreterin Christine, die prompt in eine Lebenskrise fällt. Ein Glück, dass ihre Schwester und ihre Freundinnen sogleich zur Stelle... Read more

The Circle

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). 

When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime.... Read more

South of the Border, West of the Sun

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Eric Loren

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.

Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up with a secret from which she is unable to escape, the... Read more

Lighthouse Island

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Author of the National Book Award Finalist News of the World Paulette Jiles, the bestselling author of the highly praised novels The Color of Lightning, Stormy Weather, and Enemy Women, pushes into new territory with Lighthouse Island—a captivating and atmospheric story set in the far future—a literary dystopian tale resonant with love... Read more

O My Darling

By: Amity Gaige

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events-some... Read more

The Probable Outcomes

By: John Fischer

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A failed, alcoholic ex-marketing guru is sent to Ohio on a last long-shot assignment, in search of innovative idea that can save an ailing food company. After an accident in a mall parking lot, he’s rescued by a trio of teenagers who reluctantly agree to share an average night in their average lives with him. What follows—bonding, secrets, and... Read more

Longbourn

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Emma Fielding

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

• Pride and Prejudice was only half the story •
 
If Elizabeth Bennet had the washing of her own petticoats, Sarah often thought, she’d most likely be a sight more careful with them.
 
In this irresistibly imagined belowstairs answer to Pride and Prejudice, the servants take center stage. Sarah, the orphaned housemaid, spends her days scrubbing the... Read more

Solo

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Dominic West

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bond. Is. Back.It’s 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond—British special agent 007—is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime.Bond’s... Read more

The Paris Architect

By: Charles Belfoure

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in. Ultimately he can't resist the challenge and... Read more

When I Found You

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen years after discovering an abandoned baby boy in the woods, widower Nathan McCann finds him abandoned once again—this time at his doorstep—in this emotional tale from New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in the woods. To his... Read more

Bertie Plays the Blues

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough of his neurotic hot-housing mother, he puts himself up for adoption on eBay. Will he go to the highest bidder or will he have to take matters into his... Read more

Theodore Savage

By: Cicely Hamilton

Narrated by: Rosie Best

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to survive by his wits in a new Britain...one where science and technology swiftly come to be regarded with... Read more

Drawing Breath

By: Laurie Boris

Narrated by: Randi Larson

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Art teacher Daniel Benedetto has cystic fibrosis. At thirty-four, he's already outlived his doctor's "expiration date," but that doesn't stop him from giving all he can to his students and his work. When he takes on Caitlin, his landlady's daughter, as a private student, the budding teen painter watches in torment as other people, especially... Read more

A Death in Kitchawank, and Other Stories

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

T. C. Boyle is one of the most renowned storytellers of the modern era. This collection of fourteen stories drifts effortlessly between myth and reality, encompassing a panorama of human emotions. In "The Marlbane Manchester Musser Award," Boyle reveals a writer's dismay when a simple trip is turned upside down by a stranger. "Los Gigantes"... Read more

The Signature of All Things

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 21 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.

In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure, and discovery. Spanning much of the... Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Earl Hammond

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection featuring three classic horror stories, read by actor Earl Hammond: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Black Cat". Read more

The Spymistress

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Born to slave-holding aristocracy in Richmond, Virginia, and educated by Northern Quakers, Elizabeth Van Lew was a paradox of her time. When her native state seceded in April 1861, Van Lew' s convictions compelled her to defy the new Confederate regime. Pledging her loyalty to the Lincoln White House, her courage would never waver, even as her... Read more

The Christmas Stories of Charles Dickens

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody knows A Christmas Carol, but the prolific Charles Dickens wrote several other holiday tales. Here, Dreamscape Media has compiled a collection of Dickens' classic Christmas stories. Disc one includes: A Christmas Tree; What Christmas is as We Grow Older. Disc two contains: What Christmas is as We Grow Older (continued); The Poor... Read more