Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Tin Woodman of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Woot the Wanderer finds himself at the home of the Tin Woodman of Oz and desires to hear the story of how a woodman made of tin could come to be. The Tin Woodman tells the tale of how he was once Nick Chopper, a man of flesh and blood, in love with a young girl named Nimmie Amee. The Wicked Witch of the East was not happy about this and so she... Read more

The Royal Book of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Professor Wogglebug gets the characters of Oz thinking about their genealogy and where they came from because he wants to write 'The Royal Book of Oz,' recording all this information. This topic especially upsets the Scarecrow, as he knows that he was discovered by Dorothy hanging from a beanpole in a cornfield and he thinks that this mean he... Read more

The Cherry Cola Book Club

By: Ashton Lee

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With its corrugated iron siding and cramped interior, the Cherico, Mississippi library is no Antebellum gem. But for young librarian Maura Beth Mayhew, it’s as essential to the community as the delicious desserts at the Twinkle, Twinkle Café. It’s a place for neighbors to mingle and browse through the newest bestsellers, for the indomitable Miss... Read more

Further Tales of the City

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Frances McDormand

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Frances McDormandInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons... Read more

Tales of the City

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Frances McDormand

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction written and read by Rachel Maddow • Narrated by Frances McDormandThe first novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series, Tales of the City“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian... Read more

After The Theater

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

After Nadya, a sixteen year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya's thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love... Read more

The Paradise Guest House

By: Ellen Sussman

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home—perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach.
 
It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the... Read more

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes

By: Diane Chamberlain

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1977, pregnant Genevieve Russell disappeared. Twenty years later, her remains are discovered and Timothy Gleason is charged with murder. But there is no sign of the unborn child.



CeeCee Wilkes knows how Genevieve Russell died, because she was there. And she also knows what happened to the missing infant, because two decades ago she made the... Read more

The School at Thrush Green

By: Miss Read

Narrated by: Gwen Watford

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The School at Thrush Green returns readers to the heart of the Cotswolds just as beloved primary school teachers Dorothy Watson and Agnes Fogerty announce their retirement and make plans to leave Thrush Green and buy a new home at Barton-on-Sea. The village people are aflutter with the news, musing about the teachers’ replacements, the fate of... Read more

What the Family Needed

By: Steven Amsterdam

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Okay, tell me which you want,” Alek asks his cousin at the outset of What the Family Needed. “To be able to fly or to be invisible?” And soon Giordana, a teenager suffering the bitter fallout of her parents’ divorce, finds that she can, at will, become as invisible as she feels. Later, Alek’s mother, newly adrift in the disturbing awareness... Read more

The Sea-Wolf

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Stuart Whitman

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The two men—one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class while the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined—inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White... Read more

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

By: Kristopher Jansma

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

These stories are all true, but only somewhere else. As early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable - yet hopelessly earnest - narrator of this remarkable debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's irresistible narrator will be inspired and haunted by the... Read more

What Is the What

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The epic novel based on the life of Valentino Achak Deng who, along with thousands of other children —the so-called Lost Boys—was forced to leave his village in Sudan at the age of seven and trek hundreds of miles by foot, pursued by militias, government bombers, and wild animals, crossing the deserts of three... Read more

A Tranquil Star

By: Primo Levi

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A Tranquil Star, the first new American collection of Primo Levi's previously untranslated fiction to appear since 1990, affirms his position as one of the twentieth century's most enduring writers. These seventeen stories, first published in Italian between 1949 and 1986 and translated by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli, demonstrate... Read more

Great Classic Stories

By: various authors

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A treasure chest of the written and spoken word, this collection is read by brilliant actors who make this audio anthology a genuine treat for the listener.This audio recording includes the following short stories:“Reginald on House Parties” by Saki, read by Nigel Hawthorne“The Sphinx without a Secret” by Oscar Wilde, read by Martin... Read more

The Dead Season

By: Christobel Kent

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat, but this year the heat wave is fiercer than usual and the city's inhabitants have fled to the cool of the hills and beaches of the surrounding countryside. So it is no surprise that amid the shrubbery of a normally busy roundabout, a corpse lies unnoticed, bloating in the humid air.Sandro... Read more

Siddhartha - Abridged

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This compelling spiritual quest by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is considered one of the most important works of twentieth century fiction. Siddhartha's search for enlightenment leads him to the river of life itself. On his journey he learns from many teachers: the ascetic Samanas, the all-knowing Gotama, the... Read more

Double Feature

By: Owen King

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“An ambitious and warmhearted first novel” (Entertainment Weekly) from Owen King—the epic tale of a young man coming to terms with his life in the aftermath of the spectacularly bizarre failure of his first film.

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult... Read more

The House of Rumour

By: Jake Arnott

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Mixing the invented and the real, The House of Rumour explores WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming), occultism (Aleister Crowley), the West Coast science fiction set (Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and Philip K. Dick all appear), and the new wave music scene of the ’80s. The decades-spanning, labyrinthine plot even weaves in The Jonestown... Read more

Die schönsten Blamagen der Weltliteratur - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Bjarne Mädel, Senta Berger & Jörg Thadeusz

Narrated by: Bjarne Mädel, Senta Berger & Jörg Thadeusz

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Peinlichkeiten führen wie ein roter Faden durch die Menscheitsgeschichte - und sind nirgends schonungsloser dokumentiert als in der Literatur. Die größten Dummheiten, die erbärmlichsten Gefühlsausbrüche und die misslungensten Versuche, sich anständig zu benehmen, haben wir hier für Sie versammelt. Und können versprechen: Wenn Sie das gehört... Read more

A Thousand Pardons

By: Jonathan Dee

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee’s novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really want when we ask for forgiveness?
 
Once a privileged and... Read more

Days by Moonlight

By: André Alexis

Narrated by: André Alexis

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign... Read more

The Liars' Gospel

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Neil Dickson, Moira Quirk & Matthew Wolf

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer reimagines the life of Jesus, from the points of view of four people closest to him before his death.

This is the story of Yehoshuah, who wandered Roman-occupied Judea giving sermons and healing the sick. Now, a year after his death, four people tell their stories. His mother grieves, his friend Iehuda loses his faith,... Read more

The Woodlanders

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel was described as one of Hardys' best and indeed one of the better novels of the latter part of the 19th century. With its publication the author entered into a period of controversy which was to follow him for the rest of his life. Grace Melbury, the timber merchant's daughter, comes back to Little Hintock after some years at... Read more