Fiction - Literary audiobooks

By Blood

By: Ellen Ullman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter.San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks the streets. A disgraced professor takes an office in a... Read more

Threats

By: Amelia Gray

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

David’s wife is dead—at least, he thinks she’s dead—but he can’t figure out what killed her or why she had to die. His efforts to sort out what’s happened have been interrupted by his discovery of a series of elaborate and escalating threats hidden in strange places around his home—one buried in the sugar bag, another carved into the side of his... Read more

Lone Wolf

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Nick Cordero, Louis Changchien, Celeste Ciulla,...

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A regular at the #1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list, Jodi Picoult crafts stories about family, love, and redemption. Here Picoult tells the tale of Edward Warren, an estranged son who faces a monumental decision when his father is left comatose after a terrible car accident. Edward wants to terminate life support, but his sister Cara... Read more

The Dressmaker

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic comes a vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy.
 
Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly... Read more

Sonoma Rose

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's delightful Elm Creek Quilts series features strong women who face life head-on and chronicle their triumphs and tragedies in elaborate quilts. Here, listeners meet Rosa Diaz Barclay, a woman fighting for her family's survival in Prohibition-era Southern California. "Jennifer Chiaverini's... Read more

Good In Bed

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).

For twenty-eight years, things have been... Read more

A Good and Useful Hurt

By: Aric Davis

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Mike is a tattoo artist running his own shop, and Deb is the piercing artist he hires to round out the motley crew at his studio of four. The last thing either expects is romance, but that’s exactly what happens when they follow their off-kilter careers and love lives into complete disaster.When Mike follows a growing trend and tattoos the ashes... Read more

The Technologists

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 18 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The first class at M.I.T. The last hope for a city in peril.
 
The acclaimed author of The Dante Club reinvigorates the historical thriller. Matthew Pearl’s spellbinding new novel transports readers to tumultuous nineteenth-century Boston, where the word “technology” represents a bold and frightening new concept. The fight for the future will... Read more

Before the Poison

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Susan Lyons & Toby Lennet Moore

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this mesmerizing story-within-a-story about a man pulled into a murder from the past—and his quest to uncover the truth.Quietly reeling from the death of his beloved wife, Chris Lowndes decides to return to the Yorkshire Dales after twenty-five successful years spent in Hollywood... Read more

The Darlings

By: Cristina Alger

Narrated by: Jonathan Fried

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A sophisticated page-turner about a wealthy New York family embroiled in a financial scandal with cataclysmic consequences. Now that he's married to Merrill Darling, daughter of billionaire financier Carter Darling, attorney Paul Ross has grown accustomed to New York society and all of its luxuries: a Park Avenue apartment, weekends in the... Read more

Thirst

By: Andrei Gelasimov

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Masterfully translated from the original Russian by award-winning translator Marian Schwartz, Thirst tells the story of 20-year-old Chechen War veteran Kostya. Maimed beyond recognition by a tank explosion, he spends weeks on end locked inside his apartment, his sole companions the vodka bottles spilling from the refrigerator. But soon Kostya’s... Read more

The Detour

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Dan Butler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernst Vogler is twenty-six-years old in 1938 when he is sent to Rome by his employer—the Third Reich's Sonderprojekte, which is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Führer. Vogler is to collect a famous classical Roman marble statue, The Discus Thrower, and get it to the German border, where it will be turned... Read more

An Available Man

By: Hilma Wolitzer

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning... Read more

Heft

By: Jenny Piening & Liz Moore

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming novel about larger-than-life characters and second chancesFormer academic Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn’t left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles away in Yonkers, seventeen-year-old Kel Keller navigates life as the poor kid in a rich school and pins his hopes on what seems like a promising baseball... Read more

A Good American

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Gibson Frazier

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautifully written novel, laced with history and music.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven

An uplifting novel about the families we create and the places we call home.It is 1904. When Frederick and Jette must flee her disapproving mother, where better to go than America, the land of the new? Originally set to board a boat to... Read more

The Flowers of War

By: Geling Yan

Narrated by: Samantha Quan

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012.
 
This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city,... Read more

Coincidence Engine

By: Sam Leith

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“A tremendous novel—droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.”
—William Boyd, Author of Any Human Heart and Restless.”
              
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the interest of the enigmatic... Read more

What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction.
 
The title story, inspired by Raymond Carver’s... Read more

Desiree's Baby

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Désirée and Armand’s marriage was passionate and loving. But everything changes when their baby is born, who appears to be of mixed race. Set before the Civil War in Louisiana, and originally published on January 14, 1893, Kate Chopin shines a light on the antebellum culture, which rendered some of the most vulnerable absolutely powerless. Read more

Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When attractive, impulsive, English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian twelve years her junior. Her prim, snobbish in-laws make no attempt to hide their disapproval, and when Lilia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition... Read more

Come In and Cover Me

By: Gin Phillips

Narrated by: Angela Brazil

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ren was only twelve years old, she lost her older brother, Scott, to a car accident. Since then, Scott has been a presence in her life, appearing with a snatch of a song or a reflection in the moonlight. Now, twenty-five years later, her talent for connecting with the ghosts around her has made her especially sensitive as an archaeologist.... Read more

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

By: Jan-Philipp Sendker

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese... Read more

Obedience

By: Jacqueline Yallop

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The thought of him was irresistible, a mystery. It made her feel beautiful. And, while it lasted, it gave her a glimpse of paradise.

A once bustling convent in the south of France is closing, leaving behind three elderly nuns. Forced for the first time to confront the community that she betrayed decades ago, one of those nuns, Sister Bernard,... Read more

Das Große Novellen Hörbuch II - Abridged

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Anton Tschechow & Guy de Maupa...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach dem großen Erfolg des "Großen Novellen-Hörbuches" hier nun der Nachfolger: Das Große Novellen Hörbuch II! Diese Anthologie wirft unter anderem auch einen Blick ins Ausland, wo mit Anton Tschechow und Guy de Maupassant zwei überragende Vertreter des Genres wirkten. Ungekürzt auf 8 CDs gelesen von Sven Görtz, dessen sensible... Read more