Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

The Last Runaway

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled this extraordinary freedom movement. 

Honor Bright,... Read more

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

NAMED ONE... Read more

The River Swimmer

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison is one of America's most beloved and critically acclaimed authors, and this collection of novellas is Harrison at his most memorable—a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.In "The Land of Unlikeness," sixty-year-old art history academic... Read more

Watching the Dark

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson brings back Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks and his colleague DI Annie Cabbot in a case riddled with corruption.A decorated policeman is murdered on the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, shot through the heart with a crossbow arrow, and compromising photographs are... Read more

Little Wolves

By: Thomas Maltman

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the Minnesota prairie in the late 1980s during a drought season that's pushing family farms to the brink, Little Wolves features the intertwining stories of a father searching for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, and a pastor's wife (and washed-out scholar of early Anglo-Saxon literature) who has returned to the town for... Read more

Through the Looking-Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Marianne Graffam & Gordon Griffin

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The little Alice has new adventures. This time she climbs behind a mirror, where the world is like a big chessboard. There she meets talking flowers, singing walrus and the grumpy Humpty Dumpty. But is everything just a dream? "Through the Looking Glass" is the sequel to "Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland". Die kleine Alice erlebt neue... Read more

The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The story "The Jungle Book" takes place in a tropical jungle where people are obviously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat. Feeling pity on the child, Bagheera takes him to be raised with the wolves. Ten years later, the child has grown into Mowgli. Mowgli discovers that his life is in danger because... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris, who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" has been claimed as the first detective story. In Paris... Read more

Weihnachtslied

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Dietmar Mues

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Wer kennt ihn nicht, den zynischen, alten Blutsauger Ebenezer Scrooge, der es selbst am Weihnachtsabend bedauert, seinem Angestellten frei geben zu müssen, Bittsteller verjagt und die Einladung seines Neffen zum Weihnachtsessen barsch ablehnt. Scrooge, dessen Name als Bezeichnung für extremen Geiz in die englische Umgangssprache Eingang gefunden... Read more

Nächsten Sommer - Abridged

By: Edgar Rai

Narrated by: Andreas Petri

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eigentlich wollten Felix, Marc, Zoe und Bernhard nur zusammen fernsehen, doch am nächsten Morgen sitzen die Jungs in Marcs orangefarbenem VW-Bus. In Südfrankreich wartet ein Haus auf sie, das Felix geerbt hat. Zoe dagegen zieht es vor, mit ihrem Chef Ludger zu einem Kongress zu reisen. Währenddessen lassen die drei Freunde die Haare im Fahrtwind... Read more

Kein Wort zu Papa - Abridged

By: Dora Heldt

Narrated by: Dora Heldt

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Norderney hat sie wieder: Christine und Ines hüten für einige Tage die Pension ihrer Freundin Marleen. Doch die Insel ist klein und ihre Anwesenheit spricht sich schnell herum. Zu schnell. Und so dauert es nicht lang, bis Papa Heinz vor der Tür steht, um seine Töchter tatkräftig und mit eigenwilligen Ideen zu unterstützen. "Kein Wort zu Papa"... Read more

Libellensommer - Abridged

By: Antje Babendererde

Narrated by: Carla Swiderski

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jodie ist unglücklich - mit ihrer Figur und mit ihren ständig streitenden Eltern. Sie beschließt abzuhauen und zu ihrer Internetbekanntschaft Tim zu trampen. Als Jodie einem zudringlichen Truckfahrer in die Hände fällt, rettet sie Jay, ein Indianerjunge. Jay nimmt sie mit auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in der kanadischen Wildnis. Jodie verbringt... Read more

Die große Hörbuch Box - Abridged

By: Arthur Schnitzler, Kurt Tucholsky, Franz Kafka,...

Narrated by: Jürgen Goslar, Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die große Hörbuch Box: 820 Minuten feinster Literatur zum denkbar günstigen Preis! (UVP: EUR 19,95!) In dieser feinen 10CD-Box (die nur den Platz einer Multibox benötigt)haben sich Perlen der Weltliteratur versammelt, von Morgensterns Galgenliedern über Casanovas Erotische Memoiren bis hin zu den Bäsle-Briefen von Mozart und Gedichten von... Read more

Two for Texas

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This James Lee Burke classic features Son Holland, the great-grandfather of beloved hero Billy Bob Holland, as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow.

James Lee Burke steps back three generations to reveal the lightning-paced tale of western lawman Billy Bob Holland’s great-grandfather, a... Read more

Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See

By: Juliann Garey

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In her tour de force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul of Greyson Todd, a successful Hollywood studio executive who leaves his wife and young daughter and for a decade and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to keep hidden for almost twenty... Read more

Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch

By: Richard Hine

Narrated by: Aaron Abano

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Russell Wiley is in deep trouble. A media executive for the failing Daily Business Chronicle, his career is teetering on the brink of collapse, and his sexless marriage is fast approaching its expiration date. With his professional and personal lives floundering, it’s no wonder Russell is distracted, unhappy, and losing faith in himself. Making... Read more

Margaret from Maine

By: Joseph Monninger

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought together by war, separated by duty—a love story for the ages by an author hailed as "Henry David Thoreau meets Nicholas Sparks" (Publishers Weekly)Margaret Kennedy lives on a dairy farm in rural Maine. Her husband, Thomas, was injured in a war overseas, and he will never again be the man he was. When the president signs a bill in... Read more

The Chocolate Money

By: Ashley Prentice Norton

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 1980s Chicago and on the East Coast, this electric debut chronicles the relationship between an impossibly rich chocolate heiress, Babs Ballentyne, and her sensitive and bookish young daughter, Bettina. Babs plays by no one's rules: naked Christmas cards, lavish theme parties with lewd installations at her Lake Shore Drive penthouse,... Read more

Ghosts of Manhattan

By: Douglas Brunt

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining his marriage and corroding his soul.

It’s 2005. Nick Farmer is a thirty-five-year-old bond trader with Bear Stearns clearing seven figures... Read more

What Happened to My Sister

By: Elizabeth Flock

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine-year-old Carrie Parker and her mother, Libby, are making a fresh
start in the small town of Hartsville, North Carolina, ready to put
their turbulent past behind them. Violence has shattered their family
and left Libby nearly unable to cope. And while Carrie once took comfort
in her beloved sister, Emma, her mother has now forbidden even the... Read more

Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe

By: Roda Roda

Narrated by: Philipp Bernhard

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"Der Schnaps, der Rauchtabak und die verfluchte Liebe" ist eine Sammlung von 101 Anekdoten aus der Feder von Sandor Friedrich Rosenfeld (Roda Roda). Amüsant geben sie Einblick in das Leben und das Militär der k. u. k. Monarchie und nehmen auf liebevoll satirische Weise die Eigenheiten und Kuriositäten der Donaumonarchie und im Besonderen des... Read more

Stalina

By: Emily Rubin

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Stalina Folskaya’s homeland is little more than a bankrupt country of broken dreams. She flees St. Petersburg in search of a better life in America, leaving behind her elderly mother and the grief of the past. However, Stalina quickly realizes that her pursuit of happiness will be a hard road. A trained... Read more

Black Mischief

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"A hilarious and still timely tale of emerging Africa and declining England" (Time), Evelyn Waugh's third novel helped to establish his reputation as a mater satirist.
"We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way." When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his... Read more