Fiction - Literary audiobooks

I'm a Box

By: Natalia Carrero

Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Nadila is a writer who believes blindly in the redemptive power of literature. In her search for her own voice, she sets to work studying the complete oeuvre of Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. As if trying different styles in front of a mirror, the protagonist, who can’t quite figure out who she is or what she has to say, measures herself... Read more

Wild Girls

By: Mary Stewart Atwell

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Riordan fears two things as she grows up in the small Appalachian town of Swan River: that she’ll be a frustrated townie forever or that she’ll turn into one of the mysterious and terrifying wild girls, killers who start fires and menace the community. Struggling to better her chances of escaping, Kate attends the posh Swan River Academy... Read more

The Perfect Landscape

By: Ragna Sigurdardottir

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When a wealthy patron donates a valuable landscape painting to Reykjavik’s art museum, the staff can hardly believe its luck. It was painted by one of Iceland’s most beloved artists, and the acquisition is sure to elevate the museum’s already sterling reputation.For newly arrived art theorist Hanna, the acquisition is a chance to begin her job... Read more

Northwestern - Das Hörbuch

By: Sig Hansen & Mark Sundeen

Narrated by: Axel Prahl

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Auf der wilden Beringsee fühlen sich Sig Hansen und seine beiden Brüder frei. Eine Freiheit, die ihren Preis hat, wie ihre packende Familiengeschichte verrät. Sig erzählt vom Leben seines Großvaters und Vater, von seinem entbehrungsreichen Kampf mit den Naturgewalten und der tiefen Sehnsucht nach der See. Spannende Innenansichten des rauen,... Read more

Muff - Abridged

By: Die Gebirgspoeten

Narrated by: Matto Kämpf, Rolf Hermann & Achim Parterre

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Gebirgspoeten verwursten die Mythen und Klischees der ländlichen Schweiz zu einer skurrilen und schwarzhumorigen Schlacke. Für ihre zweite CD "Muff" steigen sie wiederum in alpine Abgründe und fördern Absonderliches zutage. In ihren bern- und walliserdeutschen Texten fangen die Gebirgspoeten die Grundstimmung der Alpenbewohner ein, das... Read more

Care of Wooden Floors

By: Will Wiles

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A witty debut novel about a house-sitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong.A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar’s elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: feed the cats, don’t touch the piano, and make sure nothing harms the priceless wooden floors. Content for... Read more

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

By: Oksana Zabuzhko

Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal

Length: 30 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden.While researching a story, journalist Daryna unearths a worn photograph of Olena... Read more

Silent House

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: Emrhys Cooper, Jonathan Cowley, John Lee, Julie...

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980.

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades,... Read more

In Sunlight and in Shadow

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 29 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all?New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and... Read more

Ancient Light

By: John Banville

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this... Read more

The Last Night at the Ritz

By: Elizabeth Savage

Narrated by: Janet Metzger

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Brazen, candid, and always willing to take chances, the unnamed and not entirely trustworthy narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz celebrates her birthday with three old and dear friends. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, Wes, was once her lover.Organizing a luncheon at Boston’s... Read more

Deadfolk

By: Charlie Williams

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Royston Blake is head doorman at Hoppers Wine Bar & Bistro in the backwater English town of Mangel. He drives a Ford Capri 2.8i and can walk the streets of his town knowing he’s respected by one and all—until a rumour begins to circulate that Blake’s “lost his bottle.” Even his sharp-tongued girl, Sal, has overheard the talk that the... Read more

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Frazier's uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy—beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and... Read more

Live by Night

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane comes this epic, unflinching tale of the making and unmaking of a gangster in the Prohibition Era of the Roaring Twenties—now a Warner Bros. movie starring Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Zoe Saldana, and Sienna Miller.Meticulously researched and artfully told, Live by Night is the riveting story... Read more

The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Gary Farmer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the... Read more

The Uninvited Guests

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of... Read more

The Indispensable Milton Friedman

By: Lanny Ebenstein

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists in history. His writings and theories on everything from capitalism and freedom to deregulation and welfare have inspired movements, influenced government policies, and changed the course of America’s economic history. Now, acclaimed Friedman biographer Lanny Ebenstein brings together twenty... Read more

Wind, Sand und Sterne - Durst (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Ulrich Mühe

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Ich bin schon eins mit der Wüste. Ich bringe keinen Speichel mehr hervor und auch keine Bilder, nach denen ich mich sehnen könnte... Nun ist die Sahara in uns, und da erst zeigt sie sich." "Wind, Sand und Sterne - Durst" erzählt vom Absturz des Autors Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in der libyschen Wüste im Jahr 1936, von der verzweifelten Suche nach... Read more

The Chemistry of Tears

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Susan Lyons & Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Critics have used every possible superlative to praise the works of two-time Man Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. In The Chemistry of Tears, Carey continues to astound with a story of love, death and human invention. Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the... Read more

Heart of Darkness - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: David Threlfall

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, adapted for audio and available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by David Threlfall, the star of the hit Channel 4 series, Shameless.

'The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.... Read more

Punctured

By: Rex Kusler

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Snow and his sister Karen have never been very close. In fact, they haven’t seen each other since their mother’s funeral two years ago, despite living just three miles apart. But then Snow gets a panicked phone call from Karen telling him that her estranged husband has been murdered and she is the number-one suspect. Snow agrees to help,... Read more

Panorama City

By: Antoine Wilson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

With its blend of fool’s wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Steve Martin’s The Jerk.　 From his deathbed*, twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter—an openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described “slow absorber”—unspools into a cassette recorder his tale of self-determination,... Read more

Becoming Clementine

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer 1944, Paris, a secret mission, a dangerous passion—a spellbinding story you will never forgetAfter delivering a B-17 Flying Fortress to Britain, an American volunteers to copilot a plane carrying special agents to their drop spot over Normandy. Her personal mission: to find her brother, who is missing in action. Their plane is shot down,... Read more

You Are the Love of My Life

By: Susan Richards Shreve

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her... Read more