Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, including the classic Crime and Punishment, secured the great Russian writer an exalted position in the literary pantheon of 20th-century authors. The Gambler stands as one of the literary genius' most highly regarded shorter works. At the casino in Roulettenburg, Germany, a Russian family awaits word that a... Read more

Meeks

By: Julia Holmes

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte, George Guidall, Scott Sowers ...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Former Texas resident and current Rolling Stone editor Julia Holmes earned glowing acclaim for this darkly humorous dystopian novel. Ben has just returned from a war waged against a nameless enemy. To avoid being nabbed by police and forced to work in a factory, he'll need to find a wife. But to do that, he must wear a bachelor's suit-and the... Read more

Hugo

By: Tino Hemmann

Narrated by: Bodo Henkel

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Hugo wird am heiligen Abend 1931 in Leipzig geboren. Von klein auf vom eigenen Vater gedemütigt und brutal misshandelt, erschafft der Junge sich den imaginären Bruder Fritz, der fortan den Schrecken und die Schmerzen für Hugo erträgt. Hugo, äußerst intelligent und wissbegierig, erregt das Interesse von Professor von Rasch. Dieser vermutet eine... Read more

Next to Love

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Postmistress, and Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, a story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave set during the years of World War II and its aftermath.
 
Set in a small town in Massachusetts, Next to Love follows three childhood friends, Babe, Millie, and Grace, whose... Read more

Northwest Corner

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Book Review called Reservation Road “a triumph,” and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to Reservation Road’s unforgettable characters in a superb new work of fiction that stands... Read more

Close Your Eyes

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Meera Simhan & Phoebe Zimmermann

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets.

For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her father is a murderer.

Before the horrific tragedy, Lauren led a sheltered life in a wealthy corner of America, in a town... Read more

The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In her national bestseller Alice I Have Been, Melanie Benjamin imagined the life of the woman who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Now, in this jubilant new novel, Benjamin shines a dazzling spotlight on another fascinating female figure whose story has never fully been told: a woman who became a nineteenth century icon and inspiration—and whose... Read more

Le Why café

By: John P. Strelecky

Narrated by: Jean Leclerc

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Pour fuir le stress et la pression au travail et dans la vie quotidienne, John prend la route pour quelques jours de vacances. Retardé par un accident, il se voit contraint de modifier son itinéraire et d'emprunter un chemin inconnu et isolé sur lequel il se perd. Contre toute attente, alors qu'il est sur le point de manquer d'essence et qu'il... Read more

Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 21 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D. H. Lawrence inWomen in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun... Read more

The Night Train

By: Clyde Edgerton

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of nine novels, Clyde Edgerton has built a reputation as a sage commentator on the American experience. In The Night Train, Edgerton weaves the ultimately uplifting tale of friends Dwayne, a James Brown-inspired crooner, and Larry, apprentice to a jazz musician. One black, one white, Dwayne and Larry face daunting challenges to their... Read more

O, Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Alexis O'Donahue

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On the harsh and wild frontier of the American West, Alexandra Bergson struggles to fulfill her father's dying wish of establishing his family on the Nebraska table lands. Through hard times and abundant, through love and loss, through joy and suffering, Alexandra challenges both her family and the land in her quiet, honest way. Cather's... Read more

Riley's Fire

By: Lee Merrill Byrd

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Merrill Byrd's first full-length novel is a product of personal experience. Riley came to the burn institute with third-degree burns on over 63 percent of his body. Through his painful and slow recovery, Riley learns that life is still possible behind a mask and destiny is impossible to escape. "Against this backdrop of fear and pain, Byrd... Read more

Dr. Lüdi Show - Abridged

By: Andreas Lutz

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Immer mal wieder in den letzten Jahren ist Andres Lutz (Lutz&Guggisberg, Geholten Stühle) als Dr. Lüdi verkleidet aus seinem Versteck hervorgekommen und hat den Menschen viel Freude geschenkt: im Helsinki-Club, im Säli eines Berghotels oder am Zürcher Theaterspektakel. Viele kostbare Aufnahmen sind dabei entstanden, die nun als Doppel-CD... Read more

Aristokratie und Wahnsinn - Abridged

By: Elsa Fitzgerald & Ribi Rimini

Narrated by: Semih Yavsaner, Pedro Lenz, Nicolette Kretz, Sa...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine neue, ganz eigene Stimme im Spoken Word! Fitzgerald & Rimini erzählen vom Alltag und Wahnsinn, von Randgruppen und Aristokraten: Ein moldawischer Kampfhund verliebt sich in eine schwermütige Schweizer Kuh, Berns Radikale steigen auf die Barrikaden, eine stinkreiche Hotelerbin langweilt sich zu Tode. Die Figuren verbindet eine grosse... Read more

Tar Baby

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Desiree Coleman

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner

Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their ... Read more

Burnt Mountain

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose life is forever changed by the betrayal of her mother and by the man she loves.

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of the world’s masterpieces of psychological realism, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high-court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own... Read more

Trinken hilft

By: Maxi Buhl

Narrated by: Pascal Breuer & Melanie Manstein

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ratgeber für Trinker, das ist sein Erfolgsrezept. Der Protagonist dieses herrlich skurrilen Romans wird zum Bestsellerautor und Millionär: Jakobsweg für Trinker, Steuern sparen für Trinker, Dänisch für Trinker... Eines Morgens muss der Workaholic feststellen, dass ihn seine Frau verlassen hat. Nun ist guter Rat teuer. Die Lösung all seiner... Read more

Then Came You

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jenni Barber, Aya Cash, Annalynne McCord & Kare...

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner takes readers into the heart of women’s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale.

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior on a full scholarship who plans on selling her “pedigree” eggs to help save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow, a struggling Pennsylvania housewife, thinks that carrying... Read more

The Devil All the Time

By: Donald Ray Pollock

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson

A dark and riveting vision of 1960s America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree. 

In The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock has written a novel that marries the twisted intensity of Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers with the religious and Gothic over­tones of... Read more

Conquistadora

By: Esmeralda Santiago

Narrated by: Esmeralda Santiago

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure by the author of the best-selling memoir When I Was Puerto Rican.

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with... Read more

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

By: Jenny Wingfield

Narrated by: Catherine Taber

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at “the old home place,” a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as... Read more

Then Came You - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jenni Barber, Aya Cash, Annalynne McCord & Kare...

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner takes readers into the heart of women’s lives in an unforgettable, timely tale.

Jules Strauss is a Princeton senior on a full scholarship who plans on selling her “pedigree” eggs to help save her father from addiction.

Annie Barrow, a struggling Pennsylvania housewife, thinks that carrying... Read more

Road Rage

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A proposed highway through a forest near Kingsmarkham has caused loud cries of protest. One group has taken more drastic measures. It will risk everything-including the lives of five hostages-to halt construction. When Inspector Wexford learns that one of the hostages is his wife Dora, he is caught in a spiral of frustration and fear. The... Read more