Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Gilly Salt Sisters

By: Tiffany Baker

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Little Giant of Aberdeen County returns with a magic-tinged tale of dreams, family secrets, and betrayals on a New England salt farm.

In the isolated Cape Cod village of Prospect, the Gilly sisters are as different as can be. Jo, a fierce and quiet loner, is devoted to the mysteries of her... Read more

Arcadia

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lauren Groff's acclaimed debut novel The Monsters of Templeton was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her second novel, Arcadia opens in the late 1960s with a group of young idealists forming a commune in western New York State. Into this group is born Bit, who grows into a quiet, distant man. Over the course of 50 years, Bit witnesses the... Read more

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By: Deborah Moggach

Narrated by: Juliet Mills

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Jude Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith.
 
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s... Read more

Tommy's Tale

By: Alan Cumming

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy is twenty-nine, lives and loves in London, and has a morbid fear of the c word (commitment), the b word (boyfriend), and the f word (forgetting to call his drug dealer before the weekend). But when he begins to feel the urge to become a father, and the pressure from his boyfriend to make a real commitment to their relationship, Tommy... Read more

Schmidt Steps Back

By: Louis Begley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A PEN/Hemingway Award winner and finalist for the National Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Award, and National Book Critics' Circle Award, Louis Begley offers listeners the third novel starring retired lawyer Albert Schmidt. "Schmidtie" (to people who know him) is languishing alone, with only two real friends and his daughter in contact.... Read more

Mythologies

By: Roland Barthes

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An
epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconic
images of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they are
fabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these
"mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass... Read more

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

By: Gary Shteyngart

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Gary Shteyngart's exquisite fiction is met with a level of critical acclaim reserved for the very best in the field. In this startlingly provocative work, Russian immigrant Vladimir Girshkin searches for love and self-identity while interacting with a quirky set of acquaintances. "No novelist thinks more globally than Gary... Read more

Meistererzählungen von Anton Tschechow - Abridged

By: Anton Tschechow

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anton Tschechow gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Autoren der russischen Literatur. Geschichten wie "Die Dame mit dem Hündchen" oder "Die Braut" gehören zu den Klassikern der Literatur. Meisterhafte Erzählungen, die in humoristisch - ironischem Ton vom Leben in Russland handeln, finden sich auf diesem Hörbuch wieder, meisterhaft interpretiert von... Read more

Das große Theodor Storm Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Theodor Storm

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche & Sven Görtz

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Theodor Storm (1817 - 1888) ist wohl einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter des literarischen Realismus. Insbesondere seine Novellen begründeten seinen Ruhm. Fünf seiner Meisterwerke zeigen Storms Themenvielfalt vom Naturmärchen bis hin zur Spukgeschichte. Storms Dialoge lassen die Hörer ins 19. Jahrhundert eintauchen, sind aber gleichzeitig so... Read more

Lust for Life

By: Irving Stone

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Read more

The Moonflower Vine

By: Jetta Carleton

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy’s fate will be the family’s greatest tragedy.... Read more

Enchantments

By: Kathryn Harrison

Narrated by: Julia Emelin & Rustam Kasymov

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire.
 
St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Neva River, his eighteen-year-old daughter, Masha, is sent to live at... Read more

Coral Glynn

By: Peter Cameron

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950, to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart. Hart House is also inhabited by the perpetually disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart's war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his latent homosexuality. When... Read more

Clair de Lune

By: Jetta Carleton

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

With its atmospheric story of small-town dreams and romance, Clair de Lune weaves an irresistible spell of longing, hope, love, and nostalgia. A newly discovered novel by Jetta Carleton, Clair de Lune will delight the legions of readers who have treasured her first—and, until now, only—published novel, The Moonflower Vine. A book of... Read more

The O'Briens

By: Peter Behrens

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The O' Briens is an unforgettable saga of love, loss, and change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless patriarch and his splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O' Brien-- backwoods boy, railroad magnate, brooding soul-- Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a... Read more

Carry the One

By: Carol Anshaw

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen's
wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy
guests accidently hits and kills a girl on a dark, country road. For the
next twenty-five years, those involved, including Carmen and her
brother and sister, connect and disconnect and reconnect with each other
and their... Read more

Puck of Pook’s Hill

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On Midsummer’s Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night’s Dream three times over—right under Pook’s Hill. That is how they meet Puck, “the oldest Old Thing in England,” and the last of the People of the Hills.Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England’s history and to characters that can illuminate their own... Read more

This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel features Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy, spoiled, and snobbish young man from the Midwest who attends Princeton University to acquire a refined sense of the proper “social” values. Lacking all sense of purpose, he interests himself primarily in literary cults, vaguely “liberal” student activities, and a... Read more

I Heart New York

By: Lindsey Kelk

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

”I’ll read anything she writes” — Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe perfect book for Sex and the City and Emily in Paris fans, I Heart New York by Lindsey Kelk truly celebrates the city that never sleeps.It’s official. Angela Clarke is in love—with the most fabulous city in the world.When Angela catches her boyfriend with... Read more

Forgotten Country

By: Catherine Chung

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night Janie waits for her sister Hannah to be born, her grandmother tells her a story: Since the Japanese occupation of Korea, their family has lost a daughter in every generation, so Janie is charged with keeping Hannah safe. As time passes, Janie hears more stories, while facts remain unspoken. Her father tells tales about numbers, and... Read more

Ball-of-Fat

By: Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A stagecoach containing a microcosm of French society seek to escape to Le Havre during the Prussian war. Stopping at an inn along the way, they soon realize they have blundered into Prussian occupied territory. The travelers are not allowed to leave until one woman, a prostitute known as Boule de Suif, (literally suet dumpling, or ball of fat),... Read more

Letters from an Unknown Woman

By: Gerard Woodward

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With her children evacuated and her husband at the front, Tory Pace is grudgingly sharing the family home with her irascible mother, working at the local gelatin factory—to help the war effort, and generally doing just about as well as could be expected in difficult times. Her quiet life is thrown into turmoil, however, when her prisoner-of-war... Read more

A Bigamist's Daughter

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestselling Author of After This and Charming Billy

Elizabeth Connelly, editor at a New York vanity press, sells the dream of publication (admittedly, to writers of questionable talent). Stories of true emotional depth rarely cross her desk. But when a young writer named Tupper Daniels walks in, bearing an unfinished novel,... Read more

Half-Blood Blues

By: Esi Edugyan

Narrated by: Kyle Riley

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction

Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their young trumpet-player Hieronymus Falk, declared a musical genius by none... Read more