Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Puppet Boy of Warsaw

By: Eva Weaver

Narrated by: Tim Bruce

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us...

Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. And sometimes that hope comes in the form of a small boy, armed with a troupe of puppets - a prince, a girl, a... Read more

The Girl On The Landing

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Clare Wille & David Monteath

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited. There are memories there that Michael will not share with her.

But... Read more

The Exiles

By: Allison Lynn

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A couple escaping the opulent lifestyle of Manhattan’s Upper East Side move to Newport, Rhode Island, only to be confronted by the trappings of the life they tried to leave behind.Nate, a midlevel wall streeter, and his longtime girlfriend Emily are effectively evicted from New York City when they find they can no longer afford their apartment.... Read more

Loteria

By: Mario Alberto Zambrano

Narrated by: Maria Cabezas

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare to be enthralled by this lyrical, achingly human debut novel about a young girl's remarkable resilience in the face of loss. Struggling to cope as her family falls apart, eleven-year-old Luz María Castillo retreats into her beloved set of Lotería cards—a Mexican game featuring riddles and vibrant images. Each card represents a different... Read more

Tampa

By: Alissa Nutting

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her.But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with... Read more

The Translator

By: Nina Schuyler

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In silken prose and with subtle suspense, Nina Schuyler brings us a mesmerizing novel of language and translation, memory loss and heartbreak, and the search for answers in a foreign country. When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, her injury is an unusual but real condition—the loss of her native language. She is... Read more

The Girl in Blue

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Graham Seed

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle, Willoughby, is rich but won't hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicut, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an... Read more

The Demon Lover

By: Juliet Dark

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

I gasped, or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn't draw breath. His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked my breath in and his weight turned from cold marble into warm living flesh.Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York,... Read more

The Yellow Wallpaper and Why I Wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A prominent sociologist, lecturer, and writer of the late nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's unorthodox concepts and lifestyle helped shape future generations of feminists. This audiobook includes her most enduring work, "The Yellow Wallpaper" as well as her 1913 article, "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" The Yellow WallpaperTold... Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Kyle Munley

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the American Civil War, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is the classic short story of Peyton Farquhar, a Confederate sympathizer condemned to death by hanging from Owl Creek Bridge. Flashing between the present and the past—from Peyton's thoughts as he stands on the bridge to his memories as a major Confederate supporter in the... Read more

A Place of Greater Safety

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 33 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and... Read more

The Cleaner of Chartres

By: Salley Vickers

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

There is something very special about Agn├¿s Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres, she can be found cleaning the famed medieval cathedral each morning and doing odd jobs for the townspeople. No one knows where she came from or why. Not Abb├® Paul, who discovered her one morning twenty years ago, sleeping on the north... Read more

Adventure

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherwood Anderson's most enduring work, Winesburg, Ohio, is considered one of earliest works of modernist literature. The sequence of short stories centers on the life of George Willard and those who live in the rural, pre-industrial town. "Adventure," a short story within the novel, tells the tale of Alice Hindman, a twenty-something girl, and... Read more

The Ice Palace

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

One of F. Scott Fitzgerald's earliest short stories, "The Ice Palace" is about Sally Carrol Happer, a young Southern woman who is bored with her conventional life. She's engaged to Harry Bellamy, a young man from the North. Despite concern from her family and friends, Sally travels to Harry's hometown to meet his family. Hoping for an exciting... Read more

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in the same vein as "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" is one of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most imaginative shorter works. John T. Unger is a young southerner who goes to Montana for summer vacation with a wealthy college classmate. But the classmate's family proves to be much more than simply... Read more

Sisterland

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Daily Candy • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Guardian (U.K.)

“Novelists get called master storytellers all the time, but Sittenfeld really is one. . . . What might be most strikingly excellent about Sisterland is the way Sittenfeld depicts domesticity and... Read more

The Universe Versus Alex Woods

By: Gavin Extence

Narrated by: Joe Thomas

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had the easiest childhood.

But when he meets curmudgeonly widower Mr. Peterson, he finds an unlikely friend. Someone who teaches him that that... Read more

The Quarry

By: Iain M. Banks

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at one end, to "nutter" at the other. At least Kit knows who his father is; he and Guy live together in a decaying country house on the unstable brink of a vast quarry. His mother's identity is another matter. Now, though, his... Read more

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

1985. After the death of her beloved twin brother, Felix, and the breakup with her longtime lover, Nathan, Greta Wells embarks on a radical psychiatric treatment to alleviate her suffocating depression. But the treatment has unexpected effects, and Greta finds herself transported to the lives she might have had if she'd been born in different... Read more

Redemption Mountain

By: Gerry FitzGerald

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this emotional debut, a New York executive, restless in his success, is sent to West Virginia, where a small-town girl and her son open his eyes to a richer life than he could have imagined.On the surface, Charlie Burden and Natty Oakes could not be more different: she, the daughter of many generations of rural farmers; he, an executive at a... Read more

Eveline

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eveline" is a short story from James Joyce's classic Dubliners. Nineteen-year-old Eveline has decided to leave home, but her future journey may not be all that she hopes. Like other stories in Dubliners, "Eveline" offers a penetrating analysis of Dublin society, especially its stagnation and paralysis. Each story incorporates epiphanies, by... Read more

Die Brauseboys - 10 Jahre Brauseboys - Das Jubiläums-Album (Live)

By: Volker Surmann

Narrated by: Nils Heinrich, Robert Rescue, Paul Bokowski, We...

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Berlins jüngste wöchentliche Lesebühne wird zehn! Zum Jubiläum öffnen Paul Bokowski, Hinark Husen, Robert Rescue, Frank Sorge, Volker Surmann, Heiko Werning und Ur-Brauseboy Nils Heinrich die Geheimarchive und plündern ihre Giftschränke. In zehn Jahren hat sich reichlich kurioses Text-, Bild- und Audiomaterial angesammelt. Diese CD zeugt davon:... Read more

A Change of Climate

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Sandra Duncan

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and... Read more

Fludd

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and... Read more