Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Hollywood Forever

By: Christopher Herz

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Hall’s popularity, bolstered by a nervous breakdown caught on camera at the Hollywood DMV, has suddenly risen sky-high. Now strangers are taking his picture and uploading his every move to Facebook and Twitter. For a struggling actor looking to leave a legacy, it’s a dream come true. But Harold’s love, Eliah, doesn’t even have a cell... Read more

The Tin Horse

By: Janice Steinberg

Narrated by: Kate McGregor-Stewart

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience.

It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greenstein’s twin sister, Barbara, ran away,... Read more

Scent of Darkness

By: Margot Berwin

Narrated by: Margot Berwin

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In her best-selling debut, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico—to a land of shamans, spirit animals, and snake charmers—in the search for nine rare and valuable plants. Now, with her hotly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes us somewhere darker: deep into the bayous of... Read more

The Lost Art of Mixing

By: Erica Bauermeister

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Essential Ingredients in this luminous sequel.

Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There’s Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers and ritual; Chloe, a budding chef who hasn’t learned to trust after heartbreak;... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen was first published in 1813. The story follows Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England. Elizabeth is the second eldest of five daughters of a country gentleman living in the fictional town... Read more

Good Kids

By: Benjamin Nugent

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khadijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to... Read more

Here I Go Again

By: Jen Lancaster

Narrated by: Jen Lancaster

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of If You Were Here takes us back to the hair metal 80's.

Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn’t understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much. She’s been pink-slipped... Read more

Paraträume - Abridged

By: Mike Reisinger

Narrated by: Bernhard Setzwein

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In der Gegend zwischen Nicht-mehr-wach-Sein und Noch-nicht-Schlafen entstehen grenzübersteigende Phantasien, die zunächst sprach-los und damit kaum zu erinnern sind. Diese Welten folgen eher den Gesetzen der Poesie als denen einer rationalen Kritik. Gelänge es, ihnen eine Sprachstruktur anzupassen, stünde der Poesie nichts im Wege. Es wäre sogar... Read more

Der Zeit entgegen - Shakespeares Vanitas Sonette - Abridged

By: William Shakespeare & Claus Eckermann

Narrated by: Jacques Breuer

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der größte Dramatiker des Abendlandes hat uns 154 Sonette hinterlassen, von denen dieses Hörstück jene 52 Sonette versammelt, die uns in die Abgründe der menschlichen Sterblichkeit entführen, in die ein jeder von uns zu seiner Zeit hinab muß. Der renommierte Schauspieler und preisgekrönte Synchronsprecher Jacques Breuer geleitet seine Zuhörer... Read more

Truth in Advertising

By: John Kenney

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

“A quick-witted, wry sendup of the advertising industry and corporate culture…A clear-eyed, sympathetic story about complex family ties and the possibility of healing” (The Washington Post).

Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn’t know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a... Read more

The Antagonist

By: Lynn Coady

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature.

Gordon Rankin Jr., aka “Rank,” thinks of himself as “King Midas in reverse”—and indeed misfortune seems to follow him at every turn. Against his will and... Read more

The Trespasser

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Trespasser, D. H. Lawrence's second novel, foreshadowed the passion of Lady Chatterley's Lover.Helena Verden, a young woman in her late twenties, and Siegmund MacNair, her violin teacher, are in love. But there is more than one obstacle on their road to happiness. Siegmund is a married man with children, and Helena is full of inhibitions.... Read more

Ella in Bloom

By: Shelby Hearon

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Shelby Hearon, an adept observer and commentator on human nature, focuses on the joys and sorrows of family relationships. Her latest success in marrying style to subject is Ella in Bloom, a novel exploring how it's never too late to make peace with yourself and with others. Terrell has asked her sister, Ella, to conceal her... Read more

Close to the Bone

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. Every murder tells a story. But not every victim tells the truth. ‘A terrific writer … McRae is a delight’ The Times Sticks and... Read more

The Inbetween People

By: Emma McEvoy

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"I am writing this for you Saleem. I am writing about us, about how I loved you, and how I killed you."As Avi Goldberg, the son of a Jewish pioneer, sits at a desk in a dark cell of a military prison in the Negev desert, he fills the long nights writing about his friend Saleem, an Israeli Arab he befriended on a beach one scorching day in July,... Read more

The Drowning House

By: Elizabeth Black

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping suspense story about a woman who returns to Galveston, Texas after a personal tragedy and is irresistibly drawn into the insular world she’s struggled to leave.

Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation to direct an exhibition... Read more

The Aviator's Wife

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
 
“The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA Today
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For much of her life, Anne... Read more

Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini has a gift for transporting listeners into the past for riveting explorations of how seemingly ordinary women overcome extraordinary circumstances. In this departure from her beloved Elm Creek Quilts series, Chiaverini weaves a historical fiction tale profiling the life of Elizabeth Hobbs... Read more

The Virgin in the Garden

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1953, at an isolated boys' school in the Yorkshire moors, is a young teacher, Alexander Wedderburn, whose imagination had been captured by the Queen Elizabeth of Shakespeare and Spenser and who has written an historical verse play about her. Now, suddenly, his play has been taken up by a wealthy patron of the arts who envisions its production... Read more

The Boy

By: Lara Santoro

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna has always been a risk-taker and a free spirit, but now she is raising a young daughter on her own and she has to play it safe. Her twenty-something neighbor with the slow, easy smile is in no way part of Anna's plans. She resists temptation in every way she can, yet Anna is soon drawn into a reckless and obsessive affair.

Provocative,... Read more

Voices of the Ghost II: Mysterious Meetings

By: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Richard Middleton & Am...

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Vacant Lot" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
From the time that the editor of Harper's Bazaar overlooked Freeman's cramped handwriting, difficult to read, and published the story "Two Old Lovers", Mary Wilkins Freeman never looked back. Her Vermont and Massachusetts background forms an important part of many of her stories. This story is both a... Read more

Ulysses

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly & Miriam Healy-Louie

Length: 27 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of 'her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my... Read more

Rage Is Back

By: Adam Mansbach

Narrated by: Danny Hoch, The Gza & Wyatt Cenac

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A fearless novel about the price of revenge from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Go the F*** to Sleep

Kilroy Dondi Vance is an eighteen-year-old mixed-race Brooklynite who deals pot and goes to prep school on scholarship, all while growing up in the shadow of his absentee father, Billy Rage, a legendary graffiti writer who disappeared... Read more

The Painted Girls

By: Cathy Marie Buchanan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Julia Whelan & Danny Campbell

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1878. Following the death of their father from overwork, the three van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without their father's wages, and with what little their mother earns as a laundress disappearing down the absinthe bottle, eviction from their single boarding room seems imminent. With few options for work available for a... Read more