Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Torch

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine

"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her... Read more

Fujisan

By: Randy Taguchi

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed Japanese author Randy Taguchi come four unforgettable stories of redemption, discovery, loss, and remembrance anchored by one of the world’s holiest peaks. Mount Fuji has been a source of spiritual inspiration since it was first ascended by a monk over a millennium ago.“Blue Summit” introduces a former cult member struggling to... Read more

Adressat unbekannt

By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

Narrated by: Stephan Schad & Matthias Brandt

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Adressat unbekannt" von Kathrine Kressmann Taylor ist eine Novelle in Briefform, geschrieben als Korrespondenz zwischen dem Deutschen Martin und dem amerikanischen Juden Max zwischen 1932 und 1934. Eine zunächst innige Freundschaft in Zeiten des Dritten Reichs, zwischen zwei Menschen, die eigentlich unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Doch... Read more

Catcher, Caught

By: Sarah Collins Honenberger

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

After an earth-shattering diagnosis of leukemia, 15-year-old Daniel Landon sees a reflection of himself in the words of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Inspired by Holden Caulfield, Daniel begins to question the intentions and authority of those around him in his own search for identity as he faces death. Tired of his cramped... Read more

Classic Christmas Stories

By: Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain, O. Henry, ...

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Catch the holiday spirit with this magical collection of beloved Christmas tales. Christmas favorites from Mark Twain, O. Henry, Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte and others are lovingly recorded and presented here in one enchanting volume. Read more

The Translation of the Bones

By: Francesca Kay

Narrated by: Fiona Shaw

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Faith or delusion? Fantasy or fact? From the winner of the 2009 Orange New Writers Award comes a profound meditation on the nature of faith and a riveting story of religious passion gone tragically wrong in London.

When word gets out that Mary-Margaret O’Reilly, a somewhat slow-witted but apparently harmless young woman, may have been witness to... Read more

Leukämie - Ein poetisches Tagebuch - Abridged

By: Günter Erdmann & Frida Feld

Narrated by: Frida Feld

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""Die Texte entstanden nicht in meinem Kopf, sie wurden vielmehr in meinem Inneren geboren und schrieben sich wie von selbst, indem sie mir die geschwächte Hand führten und sich - kaum lesbar- auf das Papier niederließen". Feld intensiv mit spirituellen Erlebnissen und schrieb. Was zunächst als Krisenbewältigung. angefangen hatte, führt zu... Read more

Mein erster Selbstmord - Abridged

By: Carola Wolff

Narrated by: Caroline du Fresne

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Wenn Sie immer schon mal wissen wollten, aber sich nicht zu fragen trauten:Wie sich manischer Sex anfühlt. Warum die englische Küche besser ist als ihr Ruf. Was passiert, wenn man vom Europa Center springen will. Und wenn Sie auf Sex, Drugs and Rock n Roll stehen (nicht unbedingt in dieser Reihenfolge). Dann fragen sie Maxi. Maxi Winter,... Read more

The Man on the Third Floor

By: Anne Bernays

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Walter Samson is a successful book editor in post–World War II New York. He has more than enough money, an interesting wife, two smart children, and reason to believe he's leading the good American life—until a chance meeting with Barry Rogers. Barry is blue-collar, handsome, single, and poor.Walter is instantly drawn to Barry and, despite the... Read more

Eternal on the Water

By: Joseph Monninger

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the day Cobb and Mary meet kayaking on Maine's Allagash River and fall deeply in love, the two approach life with the same sense of adventure they use to conquer the river's treacherous rapids. But rivers do not let go so easily—and neither does their love. When Mary's life takes the cruelest turn, she vows to face those rough waters on... Read more

The World as We Know It

By: Joseph Monninger

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Eternal on the Water, whose style is described as "Henry David Thoreau meets Nicholas Sparks" (Publishers Weekly), comes a novel about two brothers who save a girl from drowning when they are young—an experience that intertwines their destinies and changes their lives forever.On an early spring afternoon... Read more

The Lawgiver

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Peter Riegert & Zosia Mamet

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"A lighthearted and delightful tour de force" (The Washington Times).

A romantic and suspenseful epistolary novel about a group of people trying to make a movie about Moses in the present day, The Lawgiver is a story that emerges from letters, memos, e-mails, journals, news articles, Skype transcripts, and text messages.

At the center of The... Read more

Daughters Of The River Huong

By: Uyen Nicole Duong

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Daughters of the River Huong by Vietnam-born, Houston-based writer Uyen Nicole Duong is a richly woven tapestry of family, country, conflict, and redemption. A saga spanning four generations of Vietnamese women, we discover lives inextricably tied to their country’s struggle for independence. Narrated by the teenaged Simone, a girl who flaunts... Read more

Dear Life

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time.

Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In story after story, she illumines the moment a life is... Read more

Dead Stars

By: Bruce Wagner

Narrated by: Bruce Wagner

Length: 19 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Bruce Wagner is also a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist and a notable contributor to the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. With Dead Stars, Wagner delivers uproarious and sharply critical views on the sex- and money-obsessed world of Hollywood through the story of Telma, a 13-year-old girl who's also the world's youngest... Read more

Signs and Wonders

By: Alix Ohlin

Narrated by: Graham Rowat, Tandy Cronyn & Morgan Hallett

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

These sixteen stories by the much-celebrated Alix Ohlin illuminate the connections between all of us-connections we choose to break, those broken for us, and those we find and make in spite of ourselves. Read more

The Polish Boxer

By: Eduardo Halfon

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young... Read more

Birds of a Lesser Paradise

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “astonishing debut collection, by a writer reminiscent of such greats as Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and even Chekhov” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants), focusing on women navigating relationships with humans, animals, and the natural world.

Exploring the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of... Read more

Alison Wonderland

By: Helen Smith

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

After Alison Temple discovers that her husband is cheating on her, she does what any jilted woman would do: She spray-paints a nasty message for him on her wedding dress and takes a job with the detective firm that found him out. Being a researcher at the all-female Fitzgerald’s Bureau of Investigation in London is certainly a change of pace... Read more

Are You Happy Now?

By: Richard Babcock

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

John Lincoln is a book editor miserably ensconced at Pistakee, a dinky Chicago publisher. His overwhelming ambition is to flee the bland, over polite Midwest and land in New York—where, he imagines, he’ll work with real writers; brandish success at his skeptical, patrician East Coast parents; and experience again the glories of a city where,... Read more

A Guest in the Jungle

By: James Polster

Narrated by: David Doersch

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When Pittsburgh attorney Whitehill begins his vacation, he is anticipating a leisurely jaunt across South America. But he gets more than he bargained for when a sightseeing trip goes awry, leaving him stranded in the heart of the Amazon jungle. Whitehill isn’t exactly the outdoorsy type—he hikes in Brooks Brothers pants—so he is relieved when he... Read more

Tom Sawyer Abroad

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Matt Armstrong

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Not satisifed simply reliving his adventures down the river with Huck and Jim, Tom Sawyer finds himself thirsting once again for adventure and excitement. So, when Tom, Huck, and Jim find themselves unwitting passengers aboard a hot-air balloon set to circumnavigate the world, Tom takes the opportunity to bask in the excitement of unplanned... Read more

May We Be Forgiven

By: A.M. Homes

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A.M. Homes is acclaimed for her unnerving looks at suburban life in such searing works as The Safety of Objects, Jack, and Music for Torching. May We Be Forgiven stars Harold Silver, a historian who's always been jealous of his successful brother, George. But when the hot-tempered George is institutionalized for committing a violent act, Harold... Read more

That’s Not a Feeling

By: Dan Josefson

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is there to stay. Sixteen-years-old and with two failed suicides to his name, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of "popped privileges,"... Read more