Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Gold

By: Chris Cleave

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest novel from Chris Cleave—the award-winning and international #1 bestselling author of Little Bee—is “a heartstring-tugger with an adrenaline-fueled plot” (People) that asks: how much are we willing to sacrifice for the people we love?

IT’S THE ULTIMATE TEST OF A MOTHER’S LOVE . . .

IF your dreams pull you in one direction and your heart... Read more

Alif the Unseen

By: G. Willow Wilson

Narrated by: Sanjiv Jhaveri

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has jilted him... Read more

The Good Dream

By: Donna VanLiere

Narrated by: Donna VanLiere

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this full-length novel from the New York Times Bestselling author of The Christmas Hope series Donna VanLiere has written a beautifully rendered and poignant story about one woman's unlikely path to motherhood and the healing power of love.

Tennessee, 1950: Still single and in her early thirties, Ivorie Walker is considered an old maid; a... Read more

Crooken Sands

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Crooken sands is a short fantasy horror story following a London merchant on his mysterious adventure to Scotland. Read more

The Next Best Thing

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Olivia Thirlby

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…

At three years old, Ruth Saunders miraculously survives the car crash that takes her parents’ lives on the icy Massachusetts Turnpike. Her eccentric grandmother, who comes out of Florida... Read more

The Next Best Thing - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Olivia Thirlby

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner returns with an irresistible story about a young woman trying to make it in Hollywood…

At three years old, Ruth Saunders miraculously survives the car crash that takes her parents’ lives on the icy Massachusetts Turnpike. Her eccentric grandmother, who comes out of Florida... Read more

The Unfinished Work of Elizabeth D.

By: Nichole Bernier

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer vacation on the island was supposed to be a restorative time for Kate, who'd lost her close friend Elizabeth in a sudden accident. But when she inherits a trunk of Elizabeth's journals, they reveal a woman far different than the cheerful wife and mother Kate had known. The complicated portrait of Elizabeth—her upbringing, her marriage,... Read more

Sentimental Education

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross again and again over the years. Through financial... Read more

Am Leben - Notarzt im Rettungshubschrauber - Abridged

By: Tino Lorenz

Narrated by: Henk Flemming

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Mehrfach täglich donnert ein Rettungshubschrauber über unsere Köpfe hinweg. Wir haben uns schon fast daran gewöhnt. Oft fragen wir uns, zu welchem schweren Verkehrsunfall oder welchem tragischen Schicksal dieses hoch spezialisierte Team gerade unterwegs ist? Welchen Patienten sie wohl an Bord haben? Ob sie gerade um sein Leben kämpfen? Dr. Tino... Read more

The Green Shore

By: Natalie Bakopoulos

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An award-winning author of short fiction, Natalie Bakopoulos presents her debut novel, The Green Shore, which chronicles the lives of four family members trying to survive under Greece's military dictatorship in the late 1960s. Deep in the night on April 21, 1967, a group of colonels engineer a coup d'Etat, overthrowing the Greek government. In... Read more

Inside

By: Alix Ohlin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A critically acclaimed, award-winning author, Alix Ohlin pens a masterpiece of emotional complexity with Inside. In this literary tour de force, a therapist named Grace attempts to help a man recover from his failed suicide attempt. Meanwhile, Grace's teen patient Annie runs away from home to reinvent herself in New York, and Grace's ex-husband... Read more

The Bellwether Revivals

By: Benjamin Wood

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has escaped the squalid urban neighborhood where he was raised and made a new life for himself amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. He has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home, where he has forged a close friendship with its most ill-tempered resident, Dr.... Read more

Leben trinken oder warum das Leben an einem Biertrinker vorbeigeht - Abridged

By: Peter Bohlen

Narrated by: Konrad Halver

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Peter Bohlen, seines Zeichens Weinhändler, erzählt mit Augenzwinkern, Charme und Witz, was das Weintrinken ausmacht. Nicht alles ist Ernst zunehmen, wenn er z.B. verspricht, dass im Kerzenschein mit einem Glas Rotwein in der Hand und den Rest des Weins bereits im Körper und einem tiefen Blick in die Augen der angebeteten Dame, diese nicht nur... Read more

Dat lustige Vördragsbok I - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Herbert Ehlers

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Geschichten von John Brinkmann, Manfred Kyber, Gorch Fock, Fritz Reuter u.a. Inhalt: Friedrich Freudenthal: De Paster het Besöök, John Brinkmann: De Operatschon, Dr. Strump, De Warmkruuk, De Vornehmigkeit, Georg Droste: Ottjen Aldag un de Regentunn, Paul Wriede: De Beseuk, Willem Schröder: Dat Wettlopen, Manfred Kyber: Jakob Krack, Theodor... Read more

The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 25 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet: well-connected ladies vying with each other to exert influence on his behalf. Even Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, prime minister of England, supports the exotic imposter. Palliser, respectable man of... Read more

One Breath Away

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Narrated by: Joyce Bean, Susan Ericksen, Laural Merlington, ...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun... Read more

Heartbroken

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real, generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She’s in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man;... Read more

Willow Springs

By: Toni Blake

Narrated by: Jennifer Bradshaw

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“A book by Toni Blake is truly special.”
—Lori Foster“Her books are sexy and full of heart.”
—Teresa MedeirosNo contemporary romance author combines steamy hot and heartwarming better than Toni Blake. Now she transports readers back to the small town of Destiny, Ohio, once again in Willow Springs, as a longtime friendship turns into something oh... Read more

The Age of Miracles

By: Karen Thompson Walker

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles... Read more

Talulla Rising

By: Glen Duncan

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When I change I change fast. The moon drags the whatever-it-is up from the earth and it goes through me with crazy wriggling impatience . . . I’m twisted, torn, churned, throttled—then rushed through a blind chicane into ludicrous power . . . A heel settles. A last canine hurries through. A shoulder blade pops. The woman is a werewolf.
 
The... Read more

Cimarron Rose

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His... Read more

This Bright River

By: Patrick Somerville

Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Scott Holst & David W. Collins

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer and producer of HBO's acclaimed apocalyptic drama series The Leftovers comes a compelling story of young love and old secrets.

Ben Hanson's aimless life has bottomed out after a series of bad decisions, but an unexpected offer from his father draws him home to Wisconsin. There, he finds his family fractured, still reeling from his... Read more

Eine Zierde für den Verein - Abridged

By: Marieluise Fleißer

Narrated by: Eva Sixt

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: Yes

Eine oberbayerische Provinzstadt am Ende der 20er Jahre. Wo die Liebe hinfällt: Frieda Geier, die auf ihren eigenen Beinen mitten im Leben steht, sich ohne männliche Hilfe durch die Wirtschaftskrise schlägt und ihrer kleinen Schwester eine höhere Schulausbildung finanziert, verliebt sich in Gustl Gillich, Tabakwarenhändler, Sportkanone, Stolz... Read more

One Breath Away - Abridged

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun... Read more