Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Coldest Night

By: Robert Olmstead

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Heartland Prize for his fiction, Robert Olmstead crafts riveting prose about love, war, and the human condition. Set in 1950, The Coldest Night follows Henry, a marine who arrives in Korea just before the devastating Chosin Reservoir battle. Days of brutal fighting leave Henry forever haunted by... Read more

The Beginner's Goodbye

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
 
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to... Read more

Admission

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Colleen Werthmann

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.

For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as... Read more

Sacred Hunger

By: Barry Unsworth

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 22 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the "sacred hunger" to expand its empire and its profits, England entered fully into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. In the Booker Prize–winning work, Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a... Read more

The Quality of Mercy

By: Barry Unsworth

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship, including... Read more

Derby Day

By: D. J. Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

As the shadows lengthen over the June grass, all of England is heading for Epsom Down—high life and low life, society beauties and Whitechapel street girls, bookmakers and gypsies, hawkers and thieves. Hopes are high, nerves are taut, hats are tossed in the air—this is Derby Day. For months people have been waiting and plotting for this day.... Read more

Caring Is Creepy

By: David Zimmerman

Narrated by: Amanda Dolan

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother's pill-popping boyfriend has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy,... Read more

A Bitter Veil

By: Libby Fischer Hellmann

Narrated by: Diane Piron Gelman

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna, a young American studying in Chicago falls in love with fellow-student Nouri, the son of a wealthy Iranian. Anna, whose parents are divorced, eagerly moves to Tehran where she marries and is embraced by Nouri's family. A few months later, however, in February 1978, the Shah is deposed and the Islamic Republic of Iran is formed. Life turns... Read more

Secrets Never Told

By: Rochelle Alers

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Rochelle Alers has written over 25 nationally acclaimed novels and stories. Secrets Never Told is a featured alternate of the Black Expressions Book Club. The moving story of a woman who has lost her mother and the love of her husband, it addresses questions of connection, commitment, and honesty. Read more

Perla

By: Carolina De Robertis

Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age story, based on a recent shocking chapter of Argentine history, about a young woman who makes a devastating discovery about her origins with the help of an enigmatic houseguest.
 
Perla Correa grew up a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, with a cold, polished mother and a straitlaced naval officer father, whose profession she... Read more

The New Republic

By: Lionel Shriver

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Lionel Shriver—author of the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, The Post-Birthday World, and the vivid psychological novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, now a major motion picture—probes the mystery of charisma in a razor-sharp new novel that teases out the intimate relationship between terrorism and cults of... Read more

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack

By: Mark Leyner

Narrated by: Mark Leyner

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and wildly imaginative novelist Mark Leyner, a romp through the excesses and exploits of gods and mortals.

High above the bustling streets of Dubai, in the world's tallest and most luxurious skyscraper, reside the gods and goddesses of the modern world. Since they emerged 14 billion years ago from a bus blaring a tune... Read more

Eine Forschungsreise in das Leben nach dem Tod - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Cordula Stratmann, Götz Schubert & Jasmin Tabat...

Narrated by: Götz Schubert & Jasmin Tabatabai

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Der einzige Vorteil des Todes ist: Man kommt auch ohne Termin dran. Andere sehen darin einen Nachteil. Aber das größere Problem ist auf lange Sicht gesehen sowieso ein anderes: Was kommt danach? Himmel? Hölle? Nirvana? Und wie sieht es da aus? Wie benimmt man sich dort? Was sollte man vorher unbedingt wissen? Cordula Stratmann, die bereits mit... Read more

The Trouble with Bliss

By: Douglas Light

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At age thirty-five, Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia. Enter Stefani, an eighteen-year-old girl in a Catholic school uniform, and Morris's once static life quickly unravels when Stefani's father calls on Morris to work for him. Morris's life becomes further entangled when his best friend, N.J., is recruited by an... Read more

Death Is Not an Option

By: Suzanne Rivecca

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda & Rachel Botchan

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Pushcart Prize winner Suzanne Rivecca quickly made a name for herself as a talented new voice in the literary world. Praised as "gripping, distinctive, and altogether impressive" (Booklist), Rivecca's debut short story collection Death Is Not an Option will captivate listeners with its raw and insightful tales featuring young women grappling... Read more

Das große Mark Twain Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das große Mark Twain Hörbuch! Mark Twain - noch immer der beliebteste amerikanische Schriftsteller weltweit. Mit seinen Geschichten erreichte er Weltruhm und vergnügt noch heute Leser und Hörer rund um den Globus. Das große Mark Twain Hörbuch präsentiert die berühmtesten und lustigsten Kurzgeschichten des Mannes aus Missouri. Tolle Preisleistung... Read more

Das fäut no - Abridged

By: Ernst Burren

Narrated by: Hanspeter Bader & Ernst Burren

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seit vierzig Jahren schreibt Ernst Burren in einer bewundernswerten Konstanz und Brillanz Geschichten über den Alltag in seiner Umgebung. Die Geschichten werden von unterschiedlichen Figuren erzählt, immer im Solothurner Dialekt, sind in Gedichtform abgedruckt und der Mündlichkeit der Alltagssprache verpflichtet. So weit, so einfach: Was sich... Read more

Der Goalie bin ig - Abridged

By: Christian Brantschen & Pedro Lenz

Narrated by: Pedro Lenz & Christian Brantschen

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Der Goalie bin ig" hat Publikum und Kritik berührt und begeistert. Der Goalie: ein junger Mann aus einem Dorf im Mittelland, ein unerschöpflicher Geschichtenerzähler, ein ebenso naiver wie listiger Schelm, der im Erzählen lebt und darin auch immer wieder zu Fall kommt. Pedro Lenz ist über die Geschichte hinaus ein Roman in gesprochener Sprache... Read more

The Good Father

By: Noah Hawley

Narrated by: Bruce Turk, Arthur Morey & Ryan Gesell

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.
 
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing... Read more

The Sea Is My Brother

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1943, during a stint in the merchant marine, twenty-one-year-old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day and night to complete it by hand, he titled it The Sea Is My Brother. Nearly seventy years later, its long-awaited publication provides fascinating details and insight into the early life and... Read more

A Partial History of Lost Causes

By: Jennifer duBois

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Stephen Hoye

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION
 
In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and... Read more

The Bird Sisters

By: Rebecca Rasmussen

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brought them. These spinster sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health.
 
But... Read more

Joseph Conrad - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Matthias Brandt

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Józef Teodor Nałęcz Konrad Korzeniowski wurde als Sohn polnischer Eltern 1857 geboren. Mit elf Jahren ist er Vollwaise, im Alter von 17 Jahren schlägt er sich nach Marseille durch, um Seemann zu werden - eine schicksalhafte Bestimmung. Um 1878 betritt er erstmals englischen Boden und wird zu Joseph Conrad. Seine Laufbahn als Schriftsteller... Read more

Parallel Stories

By: Péter Nádas

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 58 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, the year the Wall came down, a university student in Berlin on his morning run finds a corpse on a park bench and alerts the authorities. This scene opens a novel of extraordinary scope and depth, a masterwork that traces the fate of myriad Europeans—Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Gypsies—across the treacherous years of the mid-twentieth... Read more