Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Pair of Silk Stockings

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Chopin is a widely considered a forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana. In "A Pair of Silk Stockings," a young woman unexpected finds herself with fifteen dollars. Inspired by her newfound wealth, she ignores her natural... Read more

Children of the Jacaranda Tree

By: Sahar Delijani

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A country divided by revolution A people united by loveNeda is born in Tehran’s Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before the arms of a guard appear at the cell door one day and, simply, take her away. In another part of the city, three-year-old Omid witnesses the arrests of his political activist parents... Read more

A Cookbook Conspiracy

By: Kate Carlisle

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Brooklyn has always been a little obsessed with food, but it was her sister Savannah who became a chef, graduating from the prestigious Cordon Bleu school in Paris. She and her classmates all went on to successful careers, but none of them achieved culinary superstardom like Savannah's ex-boyfriend Baxter Cromwell. When Baxter invites the old... Read more

The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Tish Hicks

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Chopin is a widely considered the forerunner to the feminist authors of the twentieth century. Focusing on themes of race and gender, her short stories largely center on life in rural Louisiana. In "The Story of an Hour," Louise Mallard has just learned that her husband is dead—believed to have died during a train accident. Her family fears... Read more

Secret Lives

By: Diane Chamberlain

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Actress Eden Riley's decision to make a film about her mother plunges her into a shattering confrontation with her own past, irrevocably altering her life and the lives of those she loves. Her mother, Katherine Swift, was a renowned children's author who died when Eden was very young. Now Eden, recovering from a divorce and disillusioned with... Read more

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Though known for his classic novels of adventure and coming of age, Mark Twain is equally esteemed for his short stories, which abound with the colorful characters and often comic antics readers have come to expect from his longer works. Included here is "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken... Read more

The Strange Truth About Us

By: M.A.C. Farrant

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author M.A.C. Farrant has been hailed as "a brave iconoclast" by Publishers Weekly and is well known for her pithy wit and maverick sensibilities. Broken into three sections, The Strange Truth About Us is a fusion of fragmented prose, probing questions and caustic satire. The result is both a meditation on absence and a commentary on... Read more

The Orchard Keeper

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed first novel from one of America’s most celebrated novelists, the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • Set is a remote community in rural Tennessee in the years between the two world wars, it is the story of a young boy and a bootlegger who, unbeknownst to either of them, has killed the... Read more

Bartleby. Eine Geschichte aus Wall Street

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Bartleby: Das Novellen-Meisterwerk von Herman Melville, dem Autor von Moby Dick. Bartleby ist ein Schreibgehilfe, ein Anwaltskopist. Der Erzähler, ein menschenfreundlicher Anwalt, stellt Bartleby ein. Zunächst glänzt der neue Gehilfe bei der Arbeit und bewältigt ein gewaltiges Arbeitspensum. Bald jedoch beginnt Bartlebys Eifer nachzulassen;... Read more

Mad Hope

By: Heather Birrell

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn, Erin Moon, Morgan Hallett & Graha...

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories of Mad Hope, Heather Birrell finds the heart of her characters and lets them lead us into worlds both unrecognizable and alarming. We think we know these people but discover we don't-they are more alive, more real, and more complex than we first imagined. A high school science teacher is forced to re-examine the role he played in... Read more

The Nice People

By: Henry Cuyler Bunner

Narrated by: Scott O’Neill

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Culyer Bunner is considered a comedic genius of the short story form. Known for choosing distinctly American themes and characters, his stories are often seen as trivial, merely expanded anecdotes, yet they are so vitally treated that they grip and remain, and, often, lift and chasten. Here is "The Nice People," one of his best known... Read more

The Miracles of Ordinary Men

By: Amanda Leduc

Narrated by: Morgan Hallett

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed author Amanda Leduc has been shortlisted for numerous accolades, including the PRISM International Short Fiction Award. In Leduc's debut novel, The Miracles of Ordinary Men, Sam wakes to discover that he's growing wings on his back. Elsewhere, Lilah undergoes her own transformation as she seeks sexual penance from her... Read more

Guardian of Deceit

By: William H. Coles

Narrated by: William H. Coles

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Darwin Hastings is seventeen and his dying aunt sends him from Pittsburgh to New York to a new guardian, a famous wealthy football player. He is excited and afraid; he wants to recapture the love he knew with his parents before they died and become a doctor like his father. But in his new home of celebrities, crooks, untrustworthiness, and... Read more

Until She Comes Home

By: Lori Roy

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of an Edgar Award for Best First Novel for Bent Road, Lori Roy returns with Until She Comes Home, a tale of spellbinding suspense in which murder crumbles the façade of a changing Detroit neighborhood.In 1958 Detroit, neighbors on Alder Avenue struggle to care for one another amid a city rife with conflicts that threaten their peaceful... Read more

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

By: Elizabeth L. Silver

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman & Amanda Carlin

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive
 
      Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ended with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later, having accepted her fate, she sits on death row in a... Read more

Evil and the Mask

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The second book by prize-winning Japanese novelist Fuminori Nakamura to be available in English translation, a follow-up to 2012's critically acclaimed The Thief—another fantastically creepy, electric literary thriller that explores the limits of human depravity—and the powerful human instinct to resist evil. When Fumihiro Kuki is eleven years... Read more

The Silver Star

By: Jeannette Walls

Narrated by: Jeannette Walls

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls’s gripping novel "transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where the hardest thing to do may be to not run away" (O, The Oprah Magazine).

It is 1970 in a... Read more

Trains and Lovers

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As they journey by rail from Edinburgh to London, four strangers pass the time by sharing tales of trains that have changed their lives. A keen-eyed Scotsman recounts how he turned a friendship with a coworker into a romance by spotting an anachronistic train in an eighteenth-century painting. An Australian woman shares how her parents fell in... Read more

The Stone of Invisibility

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The most enduring work by the Renaissance humanist Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron is a collection of one hundred stories about ten young noblemen and noblewomen who escape the plague by moving to a country villa outside the Italian city of Florence. Highly influential, numerous writers have borrowed from Boccaccio's tales, including Edgar... Read more

Two Illuminating Stories

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Though known for his classic novels of adventure and coming of age, Mark Twain is equally esteemed for his short stories, which abound with the colorful characters and often comic antics readers have come to expect from his longer works. Included here are two of his most beloved short stories: "The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to... Read more

The Open Window

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Gary Dikeos

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered a master of the short story, Saki was best known for his witty and mischievous stories that satirized the culture and society of Edwardian England. In "The Open Window," his best-known vignette, a teenage girl regales the tale of an eerie family tragedy to a high-strung visitor, who receives something of a shock.Proceeds from sale of... Read more

Elders

By: Ryan McIlvain

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious debut that T.C. Boyle calls "powerful and deeply moving" that follows two young Mormon missionaries in Brazil and their tense, peculiar friendship. Elder McLeod-outspoken, surly, a brash American-is nearing the end of his mission in Brazil. For nearly two years he has spent his days studying the Bible and the Book of Mormon, knocking... Read more

A Society

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Known as one of the foremost modernist novelists of the twentieth century, Virginia Woolf also wrote several shorter works. In "A Society," one of her earlier short stories, a young woman receives a substantial inheritance from her father, on the condition that she reads all of the books in London Library. Distressed by the unsatisfactory... Read more

Horrorgeschichten - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Horrorgeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe: Diese Sammlung beinhaltet sieben der berühmtesten Schauergeschichten von Edgar Allan Poe, dem Großmeister des Horrors. Obwohl seit über hundertfünfzig Jahren tot, vermögen seine Werke noch immer zu packen - vom wohligen Grusel bis zum schieren Entsetzen! Inhalt: Das verräterische Herz: Ein Mann... Read more