Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Trespass

By: Rose Tremain

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying novel about disputed territory, sibling love, and devastating revenge. In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Aramon, the owner, is so haunted by his violent past that he's become incapable of all meaningful action, letting his hunting dogs starve and his land go to ruin.... Read more

Ohio Angels

By: Harriet Scott Chessman

Narrated by: Norma Lana

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Harriet Scott Chessman's arresting first novel, Hallie Greaves comes home to Ohio one hot week in July. She hopes to help her mother, who confines her life wholly to her bedroom. To enter her mother's room, however, is to face her own disappointments and yearnings. At an impasse in her painting and her marriage, Hallie confronts questions of... 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

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

Dragon Seed

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII. Centering her story around the fictional family of Ling Tan, Buck recreates the heart wrenching devastation that war inflicted on these gentle innocent people. Ling Tan and... Read more

Pavilion of Women

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 15 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame... Read more

Our Tragic Universe

By: Scarlett Thomas

Narrated by: Sarah Le Fevre

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Meg Carpenter is broke. Her novel is years overdue. Her cell phone is out of minutes. And her moody boyfriend's only contribution to the household is his sour attitude. So she jumps at the chance to review a pseudoscientific book that promises life everlasting. Consulting cosmology and physics, tarot cards, koans (and riddles and jokes), new age... Read more

Comedy in a Minor Key

By: Hans Keilson

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"For busy, harried or distractible readers who have the time and energy only to skim the opening paragraph of a review, I'll say this as quickly and clearly as possible: The Death of the Adversary and Comedy in a Minor Key are masterpieces, and Hans Keilson is a genius..." —Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

A penetrating study of... Read more

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: David Manis

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean claims that “in my family, there is no clear line between religion and fly-fishing.” Nor is there a clear line between family and fly-fishing. It is the one activity where brother can connect with brother and father with son, bridging troubled relationships at the junction of great trout rivers in... Read more

The Death of the Adversary

By: Hans Keilson

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Written while Hans Keilson was in hiding during World War II, The Death of the Adversary is the self-portrait of a young man helplessly fascinated by an unnamed "adversary" whom he watches rise to power in 1930s Germany. It is a tale of horror, not only in its evocation of Hitler's gathering menace but also in its hero's desperate attempt to... Read more

The Good Soldier

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Handsome, wealthy, and a veteran of service in India, Captain Edward Ashburnham appears to be the ideal "good soldier" and the embodiment of English upper-class virtues. But for his creator, Ford Madox Ford, he also represents the corruption at society's core. Beneath Ashburnham's charming, polished exterior lurks a soul well-versed in the arts... Read more

King of Kings

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warrior of Rome is back.In AD 256, the specter of treachery hangs ominously over the Roman Empire. The sparks of Christian fervor have spread through the empire like wildfire, and the imperium is alive with the machinations of dangerous and powerful men. All the while, Sassanid forces press forward relentlessly along the eastern frontier.... Read more

Swann's Way

By: Marcel Proust

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Swann's Way is the first novel of Marcel Proust's seven-volume magnum opus In Search of Lost Time. Following the narrator's opening ruminations about the nature of sleep is one of twentieth-century literature's most famous scenes: the eating of the madeleine soaked in a "decoction of lime-flowers," the associative act from which the remainder of... Read more

Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be E. M. Forster's greatest novel, Howards End is a beautifully subtle tale of two very different families brought together by an unusual event. The Schlegels are intellectuals, devotees of art and literature. The Wilcoxes are practical and materialistic, leading lives of "telegrams and anger." When the elder Mrs. Wilcox... Read more

Die Nacht ist aus Tinte gemacht

By: Thomas Böhm, Herta Müller & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Herta Müller

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In "Die Nacht ist aus Tinte gemacht" erzählt die Berliner Schriftstellerin Herta Müller ihre Kindheit im rumänischen Banat. Aus dem Gespräch heraus, ohne Manuskriptvorlage, erzeugt ihre behutsam sich vorantastende Stimme eine dichte, spannungsreiche Atmosphäre, in der vor dem Ohr des Hörers eine Welt zum Leben erweckt wird, die nur noch in der... Read more

By Nightfall

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Hugh Dancy

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger... Read more

Mary

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of serio-comic Russian émigrés, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly... Read more

Da fährt mein Zug

By: Peter Kurzeck & Klaus Sander

Narrated by: Peter Kurzeck

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Haben Sie schon jemals in Ihrem Leben etwas Wichtiges verloren?" Der Taxifahrer, dem sie gestellt wird, muss lange über die Frage nachdenken, doch der Ich-Erzähler ist schon mitten drin in seiner Geschichte. Und während er mit existenzieller Dringlichkeit sein ohne ihn im Nachtzug aus Straßburg davongefahrenes Reisegepäck wiederzuerlangen... Read more

Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska, Paul Giamatti, Laura Carmichael, Ezra Miller, and Rhys Ifans, and directed by Sophie Barthes
 
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, she is married to the provincial doctor Charles Bovary yet harbors dreams of an elegant and passionate life. Escaping into... Read more

The Beautiful and Damned

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, The Beautiful and Damned, is a savage and haunting satire of the young, rootless postwar generation who live intent only on the pursuit of wealth and decadent pleasure. Anthony Patch is a 1920s socialite and the presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune. His marriage to the beautiful but selfish Gloria is idyllic... Read more

Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?

By: Leo N. Tolstoi

Narrated by: Peter Matic

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Bauer Pachom kann ein kleines Stück Land kaufen und hat es damit eigentlich gut getroffen. Doch schon bald will er mehr und lässt sich auf ein verlockendes Angebot ein: Er darf so viel Land behalten, wie er an einem Tag zu Fuß umgehen kann. Pachom läuft so schnell er kann, doch in seiner Gier überschätzt er seine Kräfte. In der bekannten... Read more

Dogfight, A Love Story

By: Matt Burgess

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

What Jonathan Lethem did for Brooklyn, Matt Burgess does for Queens in this exuberant and brilliant debut novel about a young drug dealer having a very bad weekend.

Alfredo Batista has some worries. Okay, a lot of worries. His older brother, Jose—sorry, Tariq—is returning from a stretch in prison after an unsuccessful robbery, a burglary that... Read more

The Enchanter

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov’s classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose coltish grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special bud on the verge of bloom. “Masterly . . . brilliant.” —... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartless convict. The devil's fairy godmother. A beautiful girl with eyes of stone. A spectral benefactor. These and many others shape the fortunes of young Pip, as he is transformed from a blacksmith's apprentice to a young gentleman with Great Expectations. Read more