Fiction - Literary audiobooks

So weer dad - so is dad - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Herbert Ehlers

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

So weer dat - so is dat Von 13 Morgensterner Schriewerslüüd Ut dat Book "So weer dat - So is dat" leest Herbert Ehlers een bunten Struuß an Riemels und Vertellens. Read more

Immortality

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""Inspired. . . . Kundera's most brilliantly imagined novel. . . . A book that entrances, beguiles and charms us from first page to last."" — Cleveland Plain DealerMilan Kundera's sixth novel springs from a casual gesture of a woman to her swimming instructor, a gesture that creates a character in the mind of a writer... Read more

Growing Up Dead in Texas

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Joey Collins

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Prolific, award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones deftly blends fiction and reality in this captivating novel about small-town paranoia and coming home. Twenty-five years ago in Greenwood, Texas, a violent fire erupted in the tiny cotton-growing community. No one ever took responsibility and no one was ever caught. Instead, the town moved... Read more

Laughable Loves

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

""An intellectual heavyweight and a pure literary virtuoso, Milan Kundera takes some of Freud's most cherished complexes and irreverently whirls them about in acts of legerdemain that capture our darkest, deepest human passions. . . . The tales in Laughable Loves surprise and illuminate. . . . Kundera's world is complex, full of mockeries and... Read more

The Orphanmaster

By: Jean Zimmerman

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A love story wrapped around a murder mystery, set in seventeenth-century Manhattan

In 1663 in the hardscrabble colony of New Amsterdam—today’s lower Manhattan—orphan children are going missing and residents suspect a serial killer. The list of possible culprits is long and strange. Among those looking into the mystery are a shrewd young Dutch... Read more

Tumbleweeds

By: Leila Meacham

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A recently orphaned girl moves to the Texas panhandle and struggles to forge new friendships in a town of football glory in this unforgettable novel of surprising plot twists and unexpected beginnings.
Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move... Read more

Woe to Live On

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without... Read more

A Hologram for the King

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. In A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING, Dave Eggers takes us around the world to show how one man fights to hold himself and his... Read more

Makeda

By: Randall Robinson

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Political activist and best-selling author Randall Robinson is a pillar of scholarship and insight within the African-American literary community. His acclaimed novel Makeda stars Gray March, a young man who, beginning in the 1950s, embarks on a journey of spiritual and historical enlightenment through stories he hears from his blind... Read more

Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain

By: Lucia Perillo

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut from an award-winning poetPopulating a small town in the Pacific Northwest, the characters in Lucia Perillo's story collection all resist giving the world what it expects of them—and are surprised when the world comes roaring back. An addict trapped in a country house becomes obsessed with vacuum cleaners and the people who... Read more

You Came Back

By: Christopher Coake

Narrated by: Scott Holst

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-something midwesterner Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved past the accidental death of his young son Brendan, as well as his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart Chloe. He's successful, he's in love again, and he believes he's mastered his own memories.

But then he is contacted by a strange woman who tells him not... Read more

Beautiful Ruins

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.  

“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an... Read more

A Conspiracy of Friends

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beloved author Alexander McCall Smith is a worldwide phenomenon thanks to his multiple best-selling series. In A Conspiracy of Friends, life at Corduroy Mansions, nestled in London's hip Pimlico neighborhood, is as lively as ever. While Berthea Snark scribbles a scathing biography of a Parliament member- her son!- William French frets that his... Read more

The Bird Saviors

By: William J. Cobb

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Having received an abundance of critical acclaim for his previous novels, award-winning author William J. Cobb adds to his already impressive reputation with this superbly crafted dystopian novel. Ruby Cole sees her Colorado town struck by a dust storm and blanketed in pink snow. With the world slipping into turmoil, Ruby's father presents her... Read more

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: L. Frank Baum

Narrated by: Brooke Shields & Paul Rudd

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a century after L. Frank Baum first released this magical tale of a young girl, Brooke Shields entrances a new generation of young listeners with her narration of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 

Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her
and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land... Read more

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A country governess is hired to raise two orphaned children in a lonely estate in Essex. But mystery surrounds the house, the grounds, and the children. P<>Haunting questions arise, and Henry James pens one of the most famous American ghost stories. Read more

I Heart London

By: Lindsey Kelk

Narrated by: Cassandra Harwood

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Angela’s back on home turf – and in her biggest romantic scrape yet… Angela Clark has fallen in love with New York – and it’s starting to love her back. But when she’s summoned home to England, she’s at risk of losing her shiny new life to rain, warm beer and bad memories. Talk about stepping back in time ... Read more

Little Night

By: Luanne Rice

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Clare Burke’s life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne’s defense of her spouse—all lies—and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Clare is living a quiet life in... Read more

Incendiary

By: Chris Cleave

Narrated by: Tracy-Ann Oberman

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Chris Cleave’s debut novel Incendiary—winner of the Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize—is sure to captivate the same people who made Little Bee one of the most talked-about novels of the last decade.

I am a woman built upon the wreckage of myself.

In an emotionally raw voice alive with grief,... Read more

The Queen’s Vow

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“No one believed I was destined for greatness.” So begins Isabella’s story, in this evocative, vividly imagined novel about one of history’s most famous and controversial queens—the warrior who united a fractured country, the champion of the faith whose reign gave rise to the Inquisition, and the visionary who sent Columbus to discover a new... Read more

After Life

By: Rhian Ellis

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Naomi Ash was born in New Orleans and raised by her mother, Patsy, a medium who schooled her young daughter in the parlor-trick chicanery of the trade. From Naomi recreating presences with table cloths to providing the voice of the dead by talking through a fan, their act is part theater, part magic, and a little too much playing with the letter... Read more

The Watch

By: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Various

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

   Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? Single-minded... Read more

The Chaperone

By: Laura Moriarty

Narrated by: McGovern Elizabeth

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a feature film from the creators of Downton Abbey starring Elizabeth McGovern, The Chaperone is a New York Times-bestselling novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in the 1920s and the summer that would change them both.
 
Only a few years before becoming a famous silent-film star and an icon... Read more

Night of the Huntress

By: Kathryn Smith

Narrated by: Tobin Doyle

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Bishop has been a vampire for 700 years and though he wishes nothing more than to live his life in peace, getting humans to believe that vampires are not monsters is a difficult task, and vampire hunters like The Reaper make it even more difficult.Believing that a vampire killed her mother, Irina leads a band of vigilantes, determined to rid the... Read more