Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Shavetail

By: Thomas Cobb

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Cobb's second novel is a "thoughtful Western" (Publishers Weekly) based on the actual events of the Camp Grant massacre. The year is 1871, and a 17-year-old runaway named Ned Thorne has just joined Captain Robert Franklin at the Camp Grant outpost located at the edge of Arizona's Chiricahua mountains. When a nearby farmhouse is raided and... Read more

A Separate Peace

By: John Knowles

Narrated by: Spike McClure

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the... Read more

The Other Life

By: Ellen Meister

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

If you could return to the road not taken, would you?



Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice—not only that, she knows how to cross over. But even in her darkest moments—like her mother's... Read more

Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

By: Richard F. Burton

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bawdy and exotic, Tales from the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night features the wily, seductive Scheherazade, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar.



First introduced in the West in... Read more

The Union Quilters

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved Elm Creek Quilts series here takes listeners back to the Civil War for a powerful tale of husbands, wives, and a nation torn apart. Fervent abolitionism rules the day in 1862 Water's Ford, Pennsylvania. So when the local men answer Mr. Lincoln's call to arms, wives are left behind... Read more

The Paris Wife

By: Paula McLain

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley.

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a quiet twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness—until she meets Ernest Hemingway and her... Read more

Peony

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive... Read more

Michael Fitz liest Max Bronski: Die Münchenkrimis

By: Max Bronski

Narrated by: Michael Fitz

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Wilhelm Gossec betreibt einen Trödelladen im Münchner Schlachthofviertel. Wer sich hier durchschlagen will, braucht ein dickes Fell und eine Portion Kaltschnäuzigkeit. Gossec hat beides. In "Sister Sox" heftet er sich auf die Spuren seiner Ziehtochter, die gerade als Sängerin reüssiert, nun aber plötzlich im Münchner Sommer verschwunden ist. Zur... Read more

Fremdenverkehr mit Einheimischen

By: Fritz Eckenga

Narrated by: Fritz Eckenga

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fritz Eckenga bietet jetzt auch akustischen "Fremdenverkehr mit Einheimischen." Er erzählt, spielt und dichtet sich durchs Labyrinth der Gegenwart. Hindernisse muss er nicht suchen. Sie finden ihn. Maulwürfe, die zum Kuschelrock von Silbermond tanzen. Untote Nachbarn in Heimwerkergestalt. Vielfliegende Außenminister, die dem Begriff... Read more

These Things Hidden

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Allison Glenn tried to hide what happened that night . and failed. The consequence? A prison sentence. Now she's free. But secrets have a way of keeping you locked up. When teenager Allison Glenn is sent to prison for a heinous crime, she leaves behind her reputation as Linden Falls' golden girl forever. Her parents deny the existence of their... Read more

Wofür stehst du? - Abridged

By: Axel Hacke & Giovanni di Lorenzo

Narrated by: Axel Hacke & Giovanni di Lorenzo

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In diesem spannenden Hörbuch treten Axel Hacke und Giovanni di Lorenzo in einen ungewöhnlichen Dialog. Sie erzählen und reflektieren, was im Leben und was in der Gesellschaft wichtig ist. Es geht ihnen nicht um einen allgemeinen Tugendkatalog, wie er neuerdings en vogue ist, sondern um eine Inventur bisheriger Lebensführung, geleitet von den... Read more

Wives and Daughters

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 26 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel, is regarded by many as her masterpiece. Molly Gibson is the daughter of the doctor in the small provincial town of Hollingford. Her widowed father marries a second time to give Molly the woman's presence he feels she lacks, but until the arrival of Cynthia, her dazzling stepsister, Molly finds... Read more

Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest political novels in any language, Nostromo reenacts the establishment of modern capitalism in a remote South American province locked between the Andes and the Pacific. In Sulaco, a harbor town in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, a vivid cast of characters is caught up in a civil war to decide whether its... Read more

Playdate

By: Thelma Adams

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance is a former weatherman, now a buff yogi, and stay-at-home dad. Belle is his precocious and quick-witted daughter. Darlene is a classic Type A work-a-holic, she has little time or patience for the needs of her husband and daughter. And just down the street are Alec and Wren. Alec, a womanizing businessman, is also the financial backer - and... Read more

West of Here

By: Jonathan Evison

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the rugged mudflats of the Northwestern frontier to a rusting strip mall, West of Here is a conversation between two epochs. In his eagerly awaited second novel, Jonathan Evison tells the stories of the people who first inhabited the mythical town of Port Bonita in Washington State from 1887-1891. Moving ahead more than a century to... Read more

Nashville Chrome

By: Rick Bass

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The fiction of Rick Bass has been honored with O. Henry Awards, Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Nashville Chrome presents Maxine, Bonnie, and Jim Ed Brown, a family act with a hit record sitting atop 1959's country music charts. The world at their feet, lives of success seem to spread out before them... Read more

Die große Klassiker-Box - Abridged

By: Theodor Storm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Arthur Schnitzl...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz & Andreas Muthesius

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Die große Klassiker-Box: Hier kommt eine ganze Bibliothek des Weges! Die größten Werke der deutschen Literatur - über 40 Stunden ungekürzt gelesen von Sven Görtz. Mit Meisterwerken wie "Die Leiden des jungen Werther", "Der Schimmelreiter", "Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag", "Galgenlieder", "Leutnant Gustl", die schönsten Märchen der Gebrüder... Read more

I Think I Love You

By: Allison Pearson

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the best-selling author of I Don’t Know How She Does It takes us on an unforgettable journey into first love, and—with the emotional intensity and penetrating wit that have made her beloved among readers all over the world—reminds us of how the ardor of our youth can ignite our adult lives.

Wales, 1974. Petra and Sharon, two... Read more

Of Human Bondage

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most widely read novels of the twentieth century, W. Somerset Maugham's masterpiece Of Human Bondage gives a harrowing depiction of unrequited love. Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Diane Johnson
Commentary by G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Rigby, George Saintsbury, and Anthony Trollope

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Initially published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre erupted onto the English literary scene,... Read more

More Than You Can Say

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard Gaunt returns home to his girlfriend with very little of a plan in mind. Finding it difficult to settle into civilian life, he turns to drink and gambling - and is challenged to a bet he cannot resist. All he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours.

But what starts as a... Read more

Journal of a UFO Investigator

By: David Halperin

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This sparkling debut novel, set against the backdrop of the troubled 1960s, is a coming-of-age story that weaves together a compelling psychological drama and vivid outer-space fantasy.Danny Shapiro is an isolated teenager living with a dying mother, a hostile father, and no friends. To cope with these circumstances, Danny forges a reality of... Read more

The Lover’s Dictionary

By: David Levithan

Narrated by: Jot Davies & Cassandra Harwood

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

How does one talk about love? buffoonery, n. You were drunk, and I made the mistake of mentioning Showgirls in a near-empty subway car. The pole had no idea what it was about to endure. In this enchanting compendium of Love, David Leviathan charts the moving portrait of a relationship. Starting... Read more

Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Arielle Sitrick & David Ackroyd

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut... Read more