Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Half Life

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Katie Finneran

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s short story, The Half Life, previously published in Redbook magazine is now available on audio.

From Redbook ’s Red-Hot Read series, a short story by the New York Times #1 bestselling author of In Her Shoes and Fly Away Home …

“My life is over,” Piper DeWitt thinks to herself, awaiting... Read more

Die Leiden des jungen Werther - Abridged

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein junger Mann verliebt sich in ein Mädchen, die ihn auch liebt, aber seine Gefühle nicht erwidern kann - denn sie ist schon verlobt… Ja, klingt fast wie das Thema eines "Biss…"-Romans - es ist aber die Geschichte der "Leiden des jungen Werther", der Roman in Briefen, der aus dem jungen Wolfgang von Goethe seinerzeit quasi einen weltweiten... Read more

Mark Twain erklärt die deutsche Sprache - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vor über 100 Jahren starb Amerikas beliebtester Schriftsteller. Auf seinen ausgedehnten Reisen durch Europa blieb Mark Twain auch eine längere Zeit in Deutschland, um dort die Sprache zu lernen. Was uns Deutschen mit der Muttermilch gegeben wird, ist für einen Ausländer eine äußerst mühselige Sache. Und wenn man Twains Geschichte gehört hat,... Read more

Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag - Abridged

By: Eduard Mörike

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wie immer von Geldsorgen geplagt, befinden sich Wolfgang Amadeus und Constanze Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag, wo die Oper "Don Juan" uraufgeführt werden soll. Sollte die Premiere ein Reinfall werden, sähe es wirklich finster aus… Sie machen Rast in einem Schloss, wo Mozart bei einer Verlobungsfeier Teile des Don Juan vorspielt. Insbesondere die... Read more

Frauen sind eitel. Männer? Nie! - Abridged

By: Kurt Tucholsky

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Natürlich sind wir Männer die uneitelsten Geschöpfe der Welt. Das wusste nicht nur Kurt Tucholsky, das weiß auch der pflegebewusste metrosexuelle Mann von heute… In diesem Hörbuch werden in 20 kleinen Episoden die Eigenheiten des menschlichen Zusammenlebens aufs Korn genommen, beißend satirisch, lustig, unterhaltsam - immer nach Tucholskys... Read more

Mark Twain Today - Von Journalisten und anderen Lügnern - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seine Reiseberichte über die fanatische Liebe der Deutschen zu ihren Opernsängern, die Hochnäsigkeit der Pariser Kellner oder die Tücken des türkischen Bades stammen aus dem 19. Jahrhundert - aber man könnte denken, er habe sie gestern geschrieben! Manchmal ließ Twain aber auch bei seinen Wild-West-Stories der Phantasie die Zügel schießen...... Read more

Die große Wilhelm Busch Box - Abridged

By: Wilhelm Busch

Narrated by: Andreas Muthesius

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten und erfolgreichsten Gedichte und Geschichten von Wilhelm Busch in einer schönen Box! Geschichten wie "Meiers Hinnerk", "Eduards Traum" und "Der Schmetterling" sowie viele Gedichte werden gelesen von Andreas Muthesius. Die berühmten Zeichengeschichten von "Max & Moritz", durch die Wilhelm Busch weltberühmt geworden ist, sowie... Read more

Das große Kurzgeschichtenhörbuch - Abridged

By: Mark Twain, Kurt Tucholsky, Manfred Kyber, Jean...

Narrated by: Sven Görtz, Andreas Muthesius & Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die schönsten Kurzgeschichten aus aller Welt. Kurz, knackig, auf den Punkt: Das zeichnet die 40 ungekürzten Kurzgeschichten aus, die hier versammelt sind. Autorenschwergewichte wie Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Tschechow, Ambrose Bierce, Kurt Tucholsky, Joachim Ringelnatz und viele mehr haben hier ihre Meisterwerke... Read more

The Storyteller of Marrakesh

By: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Gerard Kyle

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Each year, the storyteller, Hassan, gathers listeners to the city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple, Hassan hopes to light upon the details that will explain what happened to them, and to absolve his own... Read more

Wie eine Ratte nagt am Putz die Zeit - Abridged

By: Arthur Schnabl, Jan Cep, Robert Musil, Joseph R...

Narrated by: Lenka Hubácková & Arthur Schnabl

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mähren? Wo liegt das? Gute Frage. Mähren ist das östliche Drittel Tschechiens. Es liegt also hinter Böhmen, aber nur vom Westen aus. Von Osten gesehen, kommt es zuerst. Ein kleines Land mit einer großen Seele und einer großen Kultur, spürbar beeinflusst vom Osten Europas. Am deutlichsten ist das seiner Dichtung abzulesen: Zwischen südmährischen... Read more

Augustus

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits... Read more

A Cup of Friendship

By: Deborah Rodriguez

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “bighearted . . . inspiring” (Vogue) memoir Kabul Beauty School comes a fiction debut as compelling as real life: the story of a remarkable coffee shop in the heart of Afghanistan, and the men and women who meet there—thrown together by circumstance, bonded by secrets, and united in an extraordinary friendship.

After hard... Read more

The Power and the Glory

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a poor, remote section of southern Mexico, the Red Shirts have taken control. God has been outlawed, and the priests have been systematically hunted down and killed. Now, the last priest strives to overcome physical and moral cowardice in order to find redemption.Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in... Read more

The Red Garden

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Nancy Travis

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hoffman’s characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them.”—New York Times Book Review

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion,... Read more

The Eye

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Fred Stella

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Nabokov’s fourth novel, The Eye is as much a farcical detective story as it is a profoundly refractive tale about the vicissitudes of identities and appearances. Smurov, a lovelorn, excruciatingly self-conscious Russian émigré living in pre-war Berlin, commits suicide after being humiliated by a jealous husband, only to suffer even greater... Read more

Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

By: Elizabeth Buchan

Narrated by: Joanna David

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The coming-of-middle-age story a whole generation of women have been waiting for...poised, witty, and emotionally resonantFor twenty-five years, Rose Lloyd has juggled marriage, motherhood, and career with remarkable success. It has been a life of family picnics, books and wine, a cherished house, and her own exquisitely designed garden—sunny... Read more

Miral

By: Rula Jebreal

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture from award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire)Written by the much-admired Italo-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal, Miral is a novel that focuses on remarkable women whose lives unfold in the turbulent political climate along the borders of Israel and Palestine.In 1948, as... Read more

Elliot Allagash

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Simon Rich dazzled readers with his absurdist sense of humor in his hilarious collections Ant Farm and Free-Range Chickens. Now comes Rich’s rollicking debut novel, which explores the strangest, most twisted, and comically fraught terrain of them all: high school.Seymour Herson is the least popular student at Glendale, a private school in... Read more

Heart of the City

By: Ariel Sabar

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The handsome Texas sailor who offers dinner to a runaway in Central Park. The Midwestern college girl who stops a cop in Times Square for restaurant advice. The Brooklyn man on a midnight subway who helps a weary tourist find her way to Chinatown. The Columbia University graduate student who encounters an unexpected object of beauty at the... Read more

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the unforgettable backdrop of New York near the turn of the twentieth century, from the Gilded Age world of formal balls and opera to the immigrant poverty of the Lower East Side, bestselling author Susan Vreeland again breathes life into a work of art in this extraordinary novel, which brings a woman once lost in the shadows into vivid... Read more

Oliver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Dickens's classic morality tale of a starving orphan caught between opposing forces of good and evil is a powerful indictment of Victorian England's Poor Laws. Filled with dark humor and an unforgettable cast of characters Oliver Twist, Fagin, Nancy, Bill Sykes, and the Artful Dodger, to name a few Dickens's second novel is a compelling social... Read more

The True Memoirs of Little K

By: Adrienne Sharp

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Sharp studied ballet before turning to writing, and Booklist called White Swan, Black Swan, her acclaimed collection of short stories focusing on the world of dance, "breathtaking" in a starred review. In The True Memoirs of Little K, Sharp returns once again to the stage in a beautifully imagined tale of love. Now 99 years old,... Read more

Shatter the Bones

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestseller from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. The seventh DS Logan McRae thriller is a gripping page-turner in which fame and fortune crash head-on with crime and punishment. No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. 'You will raise money for... Read more

Little Earthquakes

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood.

Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the... Read more