Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Rapunzel

By: Brüder Grimm

Narrated by: Charly Wagner

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Rapunzel mit dem langen, goldenen Haar wird von einer bösen Zauberin in einem hohen Turm gefangen gehalten. Eines Tages möchte ein Königssohn das schöne Mädchen befreien, doch wie soll er zu ihr auf den Turm gelangen? Das berühmte Märchen der Brüder Grimm zum Lauschen und Träumen. Ein Hörbuch für Kinder ab 5 Jahren, gesprochen von Charly Wagner. Read more

The Pilot's Wife

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Melanie Griffith

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Anita Shreve's hauntingly beautiful #1 bestseller and Oprah's Book Club selection about tragedy, grief, betrayal, and the 'impossibility of knowing another person.'
As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to expect both intense exhilaration and long periods alone, but nothing has prepared her for a late-night knock that lets her know her husband... Read more

Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems

By: Emily Dickinson

Narrated by: Marian Seldes

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

101 poems by one of America's greatest poets, sensitively read by actress Marian Seldes. 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 Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Disc one includes: Gwen's Adventure in the Snow; Rosa's Tale; What Polly Found in Her Stocking; A Hospital Christmas. Disc two includes: A Hospital Christmas (continued); A Country Christmas. Disc three includes: A Country Christmas (continued); Mrs. Podgers' Teapot; Peace from Heaven; The Quiet Little Women. Disc four includes: The Quiet Little... 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

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 Night Guest

By: Fiona McFarlane

Narrated by: Lisbeth Kennelly

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.Now that Frida is in the house, is Ruth right to... Read more

Die alte Erde - Abridged

By: Mahmud Doulatabadi

Narrated by: Maximilian Hilbrand

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: Yes

Gholam, der Mann mit dem Motorrad und dem feuerroten Kampfhahn, ist kein Bauer wie all die anderen Männer in diesem Dorf am Rande der Salzwüste. Er wohnt in der Karawanserei und hat ein Auge auf den Acker der schönen Witwe Adeleh geworfen. Aber diesen Boden bearbeitet seit alten Zeiten Baba Sobhan, der zähe, gütige Alte mit seinen beiden Söhnen.... Read more

Aladdin and Other Arabian Nights Tales - Abridged

By: Philip Smith

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captivating tales of devious magicians, monstrous giants, determined suitors, and a host of other unforgettable characters—now in audiobook format read by award-winning actress Suzanne Toren. Contains "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Abou Hassan." Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 13 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

Five Star Billionaire

By: Tash Aw

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a... Read more

Beneath a Marble Sky

By: John Shors

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. The story surrounding the construction of the Taj Mahal occurs, however, against a scrim of fratricidal war, murderous rebellion,... Read more

Mama's Child

By: Joan Steinau Lester

Narrated by: Rachel Leslie & Eliza Foss

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama' s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced... Read more

Cartwheel

By: Jennifer duBois

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPage

Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold... Read more

Friends of Whitmore

By: Michael Famighetti

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex works in a gallery in the small Connecticut town where he moved after inheriting his parents’ house. One day, at a local CPR class, he meets Tea, a young woman and aspiring artist who invents a mutual acquaintance named Whitmore as a means of breaking the ice and introducing herself. As their relationship deepens, Alex becomes preoccupied... Read more

The Lowland

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award Finalist
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman... Read more

Ajax Penumbra 1969

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco—and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise…


It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of... Read more

A Beautiful Truth

By: Colin McAdam

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth—at times brutal, other times deeply moving—is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity for survival.Looeeis forever set apart, a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple... Read more

Mother, Mother

By: Koren Zailckas

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most
 
Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture... Read more

The Big Crowd

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on one of the great unsolved murders in mob history, and the rise-and-fall of a real-life hero, The Big Crowd tells the sweeping story of Charlie O' Kane. He is the American dream come to life, a poor Irish immigrant who worked his way up from beat cop to mayor of New York at the city' s dazzling, post-war zenith. Famous, powerful, and... Read more

The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman Unab

By: Sena Jeter Naslund

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso & Cynthia Darlow

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?"How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly glamorous and romantic lives? In her groundbreaking new novel, New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the transformative power of art, history, and... Read more

The Aftermath

By: Rhidian Brook

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

1946, post-World War II Hamburg. While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the denazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe. He is awaiting the arrival of his wife, Rachael—still grieving for their eldest... Read more

Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: Jeannie Berlin

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the... Read more