Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Pensées d'écrivains célèbres - Abridged

By: Sacha Guitry

Narrated by: Sacha Guitry

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pensées d'auteurs célèbres : Alfred de Musset, J-J Rousseau, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Lord Byron, Gustave Flaubert, et bien d'autres ! Autant de mots d'esprit qui laissent songeur et nous donne un aperçu des pensées et des avis de ces auteurs d'exception. Read more

Le prophète du libéralisme

By: Michel Piquemal

Narrated by: Michel Piquemal

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Il nous avait tous réunis, sur le golf somptueux de sa demeure privée. Et nous le suivions radieux, portant fièrement à tour de rôle le sac garni de ses clubs. Et nous nous tenions là pour apprendre de lui, pleins d'une soif de savoir humble et sans borne. Juges, médecins, banquiers, professeurs, chefs d'entreprise, journalistes... notre cortège... Read more

The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bizarre world of Franz Kafka, salesmen turn into giant bugs, apes give lectures at college academies, and nightmares probe the mysteries of modern humanity's unhappiness. More than any other modern writer in world literature, Kafka captures the loneliness and misery that fill the lives of 20th-century humanity. The Metamorphosis and Other... Read more

Evil Without a Face

By: Jordan Dane

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An Obsessed and Haunted Bounty HunterJessica Beckett uncovers a cyber trail for a covert operation linked to missing teens, but she’s faced with an uphill battle to prove it. Local cops mark her for targeting their lead snitch, a low-life sex peddler. And infringing on her world is a determined man she finds impossible to resist. A Man Plagued... Read more

Dangling Man

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An essential masterwork by Nobel laureate Saul BellowExpecting to be inducted into the army during World War II, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. Written in diary format, Bellow’s first novel... Read more

The Wood Beyond The World

By: William Morris

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Pamela Bethune

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For many readers and listeners, William Morris invented the genre of fantasy fiction. His novel The Wood Beyond the World transports his hero, Walter the Golden, from the English village of Langton-on-Holm across the seas to a magical kingdom in a forest beyond the known world, ruled by the Mistress, an extraordinarly beautiful, complex, and... Read more

Death Comes to Pemberley

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
 
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent... Read more

Coming Up for Air

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

George Bowling, an insurance salesman, hits middle age and feels impelled to "come up for air" from his life of quiet desperation. With seventeen pounds he has won at a race, he steals a vacation from his wife and his family and pays a visit to Lower Binfield, the village where he grew up, to fish for carp in a pool he remembers from thirty... Read more

A Separate Peace

By: John Knowles

Narrated by: Scott Snively

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it’s the summer of 1942, and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school’s peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between... Read more

Good Wives

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Good Wives continues the story of the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they approach womanhood. Meg longs to begin her new life with John Brook, though they can never be rich; Jo returns to devote herself to literature, and to Beth, whose illness has left her weak but whose serenity shines through the household; and Amy has gone to Aunt... Read more

Kismet

By: Jakob Arjouni

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing Kemal Kayankaya, a wise-cracking private detective in Frankfurt—or, as Kayankaya calls it, "the ugliest town in Germany." As a Turkish immigrant raised by Germans, he's regularly subjected to racism in the gritty, working class town, and getting work isn't easy. So when his immigrant friend Rosario asks Kayankaya to protect him... Read more

Luminous Airplanes

By: Paul La Varge

Narrated by: Charles Carroll

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2000, a young programmer comes home from a desert festival to learn that his grandfather has died and that he has to return to Thebes—a town which is so isolated that its inhabitants have their own language—in order to clean out the house where his family lived for five generations. While he’s there, he runs into Yesim, a Turkish... Read more

The Highland Witch

By: Susan Fletcher

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathtaking novel of passion and betrayal in seventeenth-century Scotland and the portrait of an unforgettable heroineFebruary 13, 1692. Thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are killed by soldiers who had previously enjoyed the clan’s hospitality. Many more die from exposure. Forty miles south, brilliant, captivating Corrag—accused... Read more

Queen of America

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world.

Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea,... Read more

Walk Like A Natural Man

By: M. Dion Thompson

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

M. Dion Thompson has contributed to the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, and The Baltimore Sun. He has received many awards for his writing, and here delivers a captivating coming-of-age tale set in mid 20th-century America. Skip lost his parents in a car accident when he was just a boy, and since then Grandma Sarah's been watching over him.... Read more

Cakes and Ale

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Neil Hunt

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Of all Somerset Maugham's novels this is the most entertaining and arguably his best ever. Rosie is a barmaid with a heart of gold and a skeleton in her closet. Maugham's portrait of her makes his novel fairly glow with witty observations of the contemporary literary scene. Features Willie Ashenden, who resurfaces in Maugham's Ashenden. Read more

Men in the Making

By: Bruce Machart

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bruce Machart, the author of The Wake of Forgiveness, pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle and often fail to be good providers, to protect their wives from... Read more

Wingshooters

By: Nina Revoyr

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of a Book Sense 76 pick and Los Angeles Times Best Book, Nina Revoyr is a writer of rare voice and distinct talent. Wingshooters is the tale of an isolated, all-white community torn apart by prejudice after the arrival of a half-Japanese girl and a young black couple. "Revoyr continues her unique and affecting exploration of American... Read more

Those Pearly Gates

By: Julie Cannon

Narrated by: Elizabeth Morton & Katie Firth

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Julie Cannon's beloved Homegrown series has brought joy through good country living to countless readers. The third in the series, Those Pearly Gates looks in on Imogene Lavender and her family two years after the death of her husband and her marriage to the Rev. Lemuel Peddigrew. For Imogene and her daughter, Jeanette, life as pastors'... Read more

Prisoners of War

By: Steve Yarbrough

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Steve Yarbrough has garnered widespread critical acclaim for his rich, powerful novels of the South. Kirkus Reviews calls Prisoners of War "thoroughly impressive." In 1943, as German prisoners work the plantations of Mississippi delta country, Dan Timms roves the area selling goods for his uncle. Dan's partner is L.C., a... Read more

Remember Ben Clayton

By: Stephen Harrigan

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan lit up the publishing world with his Spur Award-winning The Gates of the Alamo. The remarkable follow-up to that acclaimed hit, Remember Ben Clayton further cements Harrigan's place as a premier voice in American fiction. Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis "Gil" Gilheaney... Read more

Hinter dem Bahnhof - Abridged

By: Arno Camenisch

Narrated by: Arno Camenisch

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Arno Camenisch hat für die Gleichzeitigkeit des Schönen und des Schreckens eine zauberhaft leichte Sprache gefunden. Und wer dieses Buch nun mit Camenischs sanft singender Stimme im Ohr liest, dem erschliesst sich in der Musikalität der Sprache die Sinnlichkeit einer weit gewordenen kleinen Welt". Wie die NZZ eine Lesung aus "Hinter dem... Read more

The Third Reich

By: Roberto Bolaño

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in... Read more

Nanjing Requiem

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Ha Jin's celebrated works have claimed several top literary awards, including three Pushcart Prizes. In Nanjing Requiem, the Japanese are poised to invade Nanjing. The dean of Jinling Women's College, Minnie Vautrin mistakenly believes her American citizenship will protect the school. But Vautrin's life becomes a daily struggle as the... Read more