Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Trustee from the Toolroom

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Stewart, a retiring and ingenious engineer, could not have been happier in his little house in the shabby London suburb of Ealing. There he invented the mini-motor, the six-volt generator, and the tiny Congreve clock. Then a chain of events sweeps him into deep waters and leads him to his happiest discovery yet. Read more

The Time In Between

By: Maria Duenas

Narrated by: Zilah Mendoza

Length: 21 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.

Between youth and adulthood...

At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a... Read more

Helmut Schmidt. Politik ist ein Kampfsport

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Helmut Schmidt, geboren 1918, war Hamburger Innensenator, wehrpolitischer Experte der SPD, Vorsitzender der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Bundesverteidigungs-, Finanz- und Wirtschaftsminister und von 1974 bis zu seinem Sturz im Herbst 1982 Bundeskanzler. Sein Leben, das beinahe die Zeitspanne eines Jahrhunderts umfasst, ist oft beleuchtet,... Read more

The Opposite of Art

By: Athol Dickson

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

With The Opposite of Art, three-time Christy Award winner Athol Dickson delivers a compelling tale of reconciliation and redemption. The discovery of a painting signed by a renowned artist-dead for 25 years-causes quite a stir when it seems to be recently completed. After the world's foremost expert pronounces it authentic, three lives are... Read more

Snowdrops

By: A.D. Miller

Narrated by: Kevin Howard

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A.D. Miller's much-heralded debut introduces readers to Nick Platt, a British lawyer working in Russia at the turn of the twenty-first century. The only thing more enticing to Nick than a culture rife with money, corruption, and decadence is the promise of women- particularly the beautiful Masha. But when... Read more

A Sight for Sore Eyes

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin & Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Having published 45 books, Ruth Rendell is an internationally popular mystery writer. She has won four Gold Dagger and three Edgar awards. She has been presented with the Commander of the British Empire honor, and named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America. In A Sight For Sore Eyes, Ruth Rendell's exceptional literary talent shines... Read more

Das Beste aus meinem Liebesleben

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Es wäre natürlich einfacher zu lieben, wenn die Liebe tagaus, tagein immer so groß bliebe, wie sie eigentlich ist. Wenn nicht die Banalitäten des Lebens an ihr nagen würden wie die Biber an den Bäumen … "Das Beste aus meinem Liebesleben" versammelt Axel Hackes Geschichten aus den Beziehungssümpfen des Alltags, Geschichten, die einem geradezu... Read more

The Game

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now, the sisters are grown and have become hostile strangers—until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives. It is the skittish, snake-obsessed... Read more

The Wedding Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved, heartwarming series continues with this celebration of family and friendship. As the wedding day of Sarah McClure's daughter Caroline approaches, Sarah's thoughts are filled with brides of Elm Creek Manor past and present. A wedding quilt is a powerful metaphor, and Sarah is determined that the blocks in her... Read more

Star Struck

By: Katharine Way

Narrated by: Julia Haworth & Philip Bretherton

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A BBC Radio 4 drama by Katharine Way, ‘Star Struck’ was first broadcast on 2 May 2011 and stars Julia Haworth as Sarah, Philip Bretherton as Cal and was produced by Gary Brown.Sarah has got the job of her dreams. Working with Cal, an Astronomy Professor at a remote observatory in New Zealand. Sarah loves her work, but she would rather look at... Read more

The Bet

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever. Read more

Tobacco Road

By: Erskine Caldwell

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester's struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic. Read more

Departures

By: Tony Parsons

Narrated by: Robin Bowerman

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Tony Parsons has been appointed Heathrow’s writer-in-residence. The result is Departures – seven stories of high drama, offbeat humour and raw emotion Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys... Read more

The RUM DIARY

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

**National Bestseller
**New York Times Notable Book

“Nobody tells you that reading Hunter S. Thompson novels as a young adult male while serving in the military is a potentially very bad idea. Some things you simply must absorb and learn on your own.” —Sturgill Simpson

Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a... Read more

Triangles

By: Ellen Hopkins

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Jan Maxwell & Michele Pawk

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath, three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.

Holly, filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. But... Read more

The Infernals

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, a wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy and his dog and their journey to escape the fires of hell.

“Roald Dahl meets Harry Potter”* in this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons.

Young Samuel Johnson is in... Read more

Ed King

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for our own era.
 
In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary—“a guy who weighs risk for a living”—takes a risk of his own, and makes the... Read more

Saving the World

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Blanca Camacho

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award with In the Time of Butterflies, author Julia Alvarez is a beloved voice in modern fiction and poetry. In Saving the World, she weaves the stories of two courageous women-separated by two centuries-into a breathtaking novel of love and idealism in an increasingly troubled world. A... Read more

The Virginian

By: Owen Wister

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1902, Owen Wister' s The Virginian pre-dates the classic novels of Zane Grey and Max Brand and is considered by many to be the original Western. Dedicated to Wister' s friend and fellow outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt, this timeless tale almost single-handedly established the cowboy archetype in literature. A quiet, noble... Read more

Gloryland

By: Shelton Johnson

Narrated by: Shelton Johnson

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Having patrolled Yosemite for more than two decades, author and park ranger Shelton Johnson delivers this fictionalized tribute to its healing grandeur. Born in 1863 to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy becomes a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. cavalry. Ultimately finding his way to the newly created Yosemite National... Read more

The Train of Small Mercies

By: David Rowell

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 3 hoursRead by TBDIn haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy. Read more

Empire Falls

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.

Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days,... Read more

The Whore's Child

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women... Read more

The Marriage Plot

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011

It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is... Read more