Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Du drehst den Kopf, ich dreh den Kopf

By: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Narrated by: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Autor Finn-Ole Heinrich und der Musiker Spaceman Spiff sind zwei ganz besondere Geschichtenerzähler: Zwei Wortkünstler, jeder für seine Ausdrucksform gefeiert, die seit einiger Zeit gemeinsame Sache machen. Bei ihren ersten Live-Auftritten schufen sie eine fast schon magische Atmosphäre, mit einfachen Songs und Texten, die ungewöhnlich nahe... Read more

The Queen’s Necklace

By: Maurice Leblanc

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, written by Maurice Leblanc. Often described as a French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Lupin is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Read more

Araby

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A teenage boy falls in love with his friend's sister and must finagle a trip to a bazaar at nearby Araby to win her heart. But will it be that easy? Read more

Driving on the Rim

By: Thomas McGuane

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The unforgettable voyager of this dark picaresque is I. B. "Berl" Pickett, MD, whose die was probably cast the moment his mother thought to name him after Irving Berlin. Other insults piled on apace thereafter: the spasms of Pentecostal Sunday worship; the social debilitation of following his parents' itinerant rug-shampooing business; the... Read more

American Appetites

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Joyce Carol Oates has been hailed as America's foremost woman of letters. She is at her best in American Appetites, weaving a masterful tale of personal entanglements, fatal decisions, and courtroom drama. Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected... Read more

I Curse the River of Time

By: Per Petterson

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Per Petterson won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his masterful novel Out Stealing Horses, hailed as a best book of the year by the New York Times. In I Curse the River of Time, he takes listeners to 1989, when Communism was crumbling all over Europe. Struggling through his divorce, an overwhelmed Arvid Jansen leaves Norway to reconnect with... Read more

The Dead Republic

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker Prize winner Roddy Doyle shines with this epic conclusion to the saga of his indomitable Irish rebel Henry Smart. Chronicling nearly 25 years of history, The Dead Republic finds Smart working closely with, then violently severing ties to, legendary Hollywood director John Ford and eventually returning to Ireland in the 1950s. Desiring a... Read more

The Santaroga Barrier

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Santaroga seemed to be nothing more than a prosperous farm community. But there was something...different...about Santaroga.



Santaroga had no juvenile delinquency, or any crime at all. Outsiders found no house for sale or rent in this valley, and no one ever moved out. No one bought cigarettes in Santaroga. No cheese, wine, beer, or produce from... Read more

The Dosadi Experiment

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war—this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned how to pass through the shimmering God Wall to exact their dreadful revenge on the Universe... Read more

Eighteen Acres

By: Nicolle Wallace

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the former Communications Director for the White House and current political media strategist comes a suspenseful and smart commercial novel about the first female president and all dramas and deceptions she faces both in politics and in love.Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex,... Read more

Palo Alto

By: James Franco

Narrated by: James Franco & Stacey Miller

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a “provocative” and “impressive” (Variety) film from director Gia Coppola (Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter)—starring Emma Roberts, James Franco, Nat Wolff, and Val Kilmer—the fiction debut from James Franco that Vogue called “compelling and gutsy.”

James Franco’s story collection traces the lives of a group of teenagers as they... Read more

Wellenbrecher - Das Hörbuch

By: Stefan Kruecken

Narrated by: Uwe Friedrichsen

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Kapitäne erzählen die Geschichte ihres Lebens: Es geht um den verzweifelten Überlebenskampf in einer Rettungsinsel vor Grönland, um einen Hurrikan, der auf ein kleines Schiff im Mississippi zukommt. Um den Mut, Schiffbrüchige aus einer tödlichen Brandung zu bergen, um den Trotz, auch im Angesicht einer verheerenden Sturmflut nicht aufzugeben, um... Read more

We Were the Mulvaneys

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 22 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oprah Book Club® selectionA New York Times Notable BookThe Mulvaneys are blessed by all that makes life sweet. But something happens on Valentine’s Day, 1976—an incident that is hushed up in the town and never spoken of in the Mulvaney home—that rends the fabric of their family life…with tragic consequences. Years later, the youngest son... Read more

I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down

By: William Gay

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury, Richard Ferrone, Tom Stechschult...

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Author William Gay is the winner of the 1999 William Peden Award and the 1999 James A. Michener Memorial Prize. In his debut collection, Gay brings to life 13 stories about a diverse group of colorful characters living in the fertile Tennessee country land. Read more

How to Read the Air

By: Dinaw Mengestu

Narrated by: Corey Allen

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

African-born author Dinaw Mengestu's prose is praised as "heart-rending and indelible" (Publishers Weekly), and his debut novel The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears was a New York Times Notable Book. In How to Read the Air, Mengestu crafts a moving tale about one man's search for identity. After his estranged Ethiopian immigrant father dies,... Read more

The Weekend

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernhard Schlink burst onto the literary scene with the internationally best-selling Oprah's Book Club selection The Reader. Through his unique brand of gripping narrative, Schlink scores again with The Weekend, the tale of old friends who come together for a remarkable reunion. One of the group is a convicted murderer and terrorist, fresh out... Read more

World and Town

By: Gish Jen

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixty-eight-year-old Hattie Kong, descendant of Confucius, daughter of an American missionary, has lived to see both her husband and her best friend die back-to-back in a single year: “It was like having twins…She got to book the same church with the same pianist for both funerals and did think she should have gotten some sort of twofer from the... Read more

Great House

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: George Guidall, Robert Ian McKenzie, Celeste Ci...

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally best-selling author of The History of Love comes this stunning novel. Great House follows the multiple owners of one writing desk and how the desk shapes their lives. A young novelist inherited the desk from a poet taken by Pinochet's police. Then the desk is stolen from her by the poet's supposed daughter. In its... Read more

The Gendarme

By: Mark T. Mustian

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Author and attorney Mark T. Mustian has won rave reviews for his ambitious novel, The Gendarme. Plagued by failing memory, Emmett Conn dreams he was a gendarme in World War I and that his great love, Araxie, was separated from him after the war. With the lines between past and present blurring more every day, Emmett sets out to find the woman he... Read more

Celebrity Chekhov

By: Ben Greenman

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney & Jeff Woodman

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

New Yorker editor and McSweeney's contributor Ben Greenman reshapes Russian literature's most celebrated stories around America's most popular pop culture icons, probing the deep complexities of Anton Chekov (not to mention those of Cruise or Kardashian). Thought-provoking and funny, these wryly re-imagined tales will be sure-fire favorites for... Read more

The False Friend

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Myla Goldberg

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Bee Season comes an astonishingly complex psychological drama with a simple setup: two  eleven-year-old girls, best friends and fierce rivals, go into the woods. Only one comes out . . .

Leaders of a mercurial clique of girls, Celia and Djuna reigned mercilessly over their three followers. One after­noon, they... Read more

The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia

By: Mary Helen Stefaniak

Narrated by: Robynn Rodriguez

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrator Gladys Cailiff is eleven years old in 1938 when a new schoolteacher turns Threestep, Georgia, upside down. Miss Grace Spivey is a well-traveled young woman who believes in field trips, Arabian costumes, and reading aloud from her ten-volume set of The Thousand Nights and a Night. The real trouble begins when she decides to revive the... Read more

The Descendants

By: Kaui Hart Hemmings

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring George Clooney! Matthew King was once considered one of the most fortunate men in Hawaii. His missionary ancestors who came to the islands were financially and culturally progressive—one even married a Hawaiian princess, making Matt a royal descendant and one of the state’s largest landowners. But now his luck... Read more

House of Meetings

By: Martin Amis

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings.The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic.House of Meetings is about one such liaison. It is... Read more