Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Cranford

By: Elizabeth Gaskell

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell's best-known work, is a humorous account of a nineteenth-century English village dominated by a group of genteel but modestly circumstanced women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister, Miss Matty.... Read more

Snakewoman of Little Egypt

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On the morning of his fortieth birthday, anthropology professor Jackson Jones contemplates his future: Should he go back to Africa, where he did his fieldwork, and live with the Mbuti, or should he marry and settle down in the Midwest, where he now teaches?



On the morning of her release from prison, Sunny, who grew up in a snake-handling church... Read more

Fame

By: Daniel Kehlmann

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?
 
But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winesburg, Ohio is Sherwood Anderson's masterpiece, a cycle of short stories concerning life in a small town at the end of the nineteenth century. In the perfectly imagined world of Winesburg, an archetypal small American town, Anderson reveals the hidden passions that turn ordinary lives into fonts of unforgettable emotions. Played out against... Read more

Room

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Ellen Archer, Michal Friedman & ...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first... Read more

Prep

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Julie Dretzin

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times best-seller is a funny and poignant coming-of-age story, a dead-on examination of adolescent angst, and a sharp criticism of America's social structure. Fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora enrolls at the prestigious Ault School of Massachusetts and is surrounded by beautiful, wealthy students. She immediately feels like an outsider,... Read more

Das war ich nicht

By: Kristof Magnusson

Narrated by: Fritzi Haberland, Dietmar Mues & Jens Harzer

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein junger Banker, auf dem Sprung zur Karriere. Jasper, gelesen von Jens Harzer. Eine Literaturübersetzerin, auf der Flucht vor dem schön eingerichteten Leben mit Weinklimaschrank und Salzmühle mit Peugeotmahlwerk. Meike, gelesen von Fritzi Haberlandt. Ein international gefeierter Schriftsteller mit Schreibblockade und Altersangst. Henry... Read more

The Widower's Tale

By: Julia Glass

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In a historic farmhouse outside Boston, seventy-year-old Percy Darling is settling happily into retirement: reading novels, watching old movies, and swimming naked in his pond. His routines are disrupted, however, when he is persuaded to let a locally beloved preschool take over his barn. As Percy sees his rural refuge overrun by children,... Read more

C

By: Tom McCarthy

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Serge Carrefax spends his childhood at Versoie House, where his father teaches deaf children to speak when he's not experimenting with wireless telegraphy. Sophie, Serge's sister and only connection to the world at large, takes outrageous liberties with Serge's young body—which may explain the unusual sexual predilections that haunt him for the... Read more

A Blessing on the Moon

By: Joseph Skibell

Narrated by: Allen Lewis Rickman

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim’s troubles. In the opening pages, he is shot along with the other Jews of his small Polish village. But instead of resting peacefully in the World to Come, Chaim, for reasons unclear to him, is left to wander the earth, accompanied by his rabbi,... Read more

A Curable Romantic

By: Joseph Skibell

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 22 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic and audacious historical novel set in turn-of-the century Vienna and Paris that crosses the lines between characters both real (Sigmund Freud, Emma Eckstein, L. L. Zamenhof, and others) and imaginary (including protagonist Dr. Sammelsohn). It's an entertaining picaresque novel that seamlessly weaves together fifty years of Jewish... Read more

Ape House

By: Sara Gruen

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

 
Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships—but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language.

Isabel Duncan, a scientist at the Great Ape Language Lab, doesn’t understand people, but animals she... Read more

The Witch of Hebron

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sequel to his bestselling World Made by Hand, James Howard Kunstler expands on his vision of a post-oil society with this novel about an America in which the electricity has flickered off, the Internet is a distant memory, and the government is little more than a rumor. In the tiny hamlet of Union Grove, New York, travel is horse-drawn... Read more

A Vintage Affair

By: Isabel Wolff

Narrated by: Violet Mathieson

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Every dress has a history. And so does every woman.
 
In Isabel Wolff’s captivating A Vintage Affair, a treasured child’s coat becomes a thread of hope connecting two very different women.
 
Her friends are stunned when Phoebe Swift abruptly leaves a plum job at the prestigious Sotheby’s auction house to open her own vintage clothing shop in... Read more

The Lonely Polygamist

By: Brady Udall

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 23 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Brady Udall is the acclaimed author of the internationally best-selling The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. In The Lonely Polygamist, Udall pens a tragicomic tale starring Golden Richards-who despite having four wives and 28 children, hasn't quite found fulfillment in life. Like other men in the midst of a mid-life crisis, Golden feels as though... Read more

Dust

By: Joan Frances Turner

Narrated by: Eva Amurri

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens between death and life can change a girl. Jessie is a zombie. And this is her story . . .
Nine years ago, Jessie was in a car crash and died. After she was buried, she awoke and tore through the earth to arise, reborn, as a zombie. And there are others—gangs of undead roaming the Indiana woods, fighting, hunting, hidden.
But when a... Read more

Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: David Ledoux

Length: 24 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Masterful describes not only Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel but also David Ledoux’s reading of the book . . . Ledoux gives a vibrant performance." —AudioFile Magazine

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the... Read more

The 42nd Parallel

By: John Dos Passos

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With his U.S.A. trilogy, comprising The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, John Dos Passos is said by many to have written the great American novel. While Fitzgerald and Hemingway were cultivating what Edmund Wilson once called their "own little corners," Dos Passos was taking on the world. Counted as one of the best novels of the twentieth... Read more

The Violent Bear It Away

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1960, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the gothic sensibility and bracing satirical voice that are united in Flannery O’Connor’s work.The orphaned Francis Marion Tarwater and his cousin, Rayber, struggle to defy the prophecy of their dead uncle—that... Read more

Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

By: Ntozake Shange

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ntozake Shange’s most beloved novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, is the story of three “colored girls,” three sisters and their mama from Charleston, South Carolina. Sassafrass, the oldest, is a poet and a weaver like her mother, gone north to college and living with other artists in Los Angeles, trying to weave a life out of her work, her... Read more

The Silver Chalice

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 23 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest release in the Christian Epic series is an exciting novel that takes place shortly after Christ's death and resurrection. Basil is called to design the case which will hold the silver cup that Christ and His disciples drank from at the Last Supper, and plans to sculpt their likenesses upon it. As he seeks out these followers of... Read more

Bad Boy

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliant! With Bad Boy, author Robinson once again achieves the high bar he’s set in all his previous Inspector Banks books…This one will stay with you for a long time.”
—Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of Roadside CrossesDetective Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most challenging, personal, and terrifying case yet when... Read more

Ride With Me

By: Thomas B. Costain

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ride With Me tells the story of an unusual soldier who has been allowed to drop out of sight. Read more