Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Town - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Donnie Wahlberg

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some criminals get a second chance.Will Doug MacRay be one of them?

Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn’t plan on one thing: falling hard for... Read more

You Shall Know Our Velocity

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers announced himself as a literary force with this striking debut. It is the tale of two friends on a globe-trekking quest-at turns hilarious, frustrating, and heartbreaking-to give away money while grieving a painful loss. "Headlong, heartsick and footsore . Frisbee... Read more

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

By: Sloan Wilson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed when first published in 1955, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit captured the mood of a generation. It was a national bestseller that was made into an award-winning film, it was translated into twenty-six languages, and its title has become a permanent part of our cultural vocabulary. Today, it is more relevant than ever.



Here... Read more

Last Night at Chateau Marmont

By: Lauren Weisberger

Narrated by: Merritt Wever

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Devil Wears Prada, a compulsively readable novel about a woman whose struggling singer-songwriter husband is catapulted to fame, dragging them both onto the pages of celebrity gossip magazines—and changing their marriage forever.

Brooke loved reading the dishy celebrity gossip rag Last Night. That... Read more

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A bird of good omen is murdered. A fickle crew is punished by supernatural, spectral beings. A skeletal ship is sighted moving against the wind and tide. The figure of Death along with a singular, gruesome companion man the fiendish craft. And as they draw closer, it becomes clear that the two play at dice for the soul of the Ancient Mariner.... Read more

The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise

By: Julia Stuart

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a... Read more

City of Veils

By: Zoe Ferraris

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When the body of a brutally beaten woman is found on the beach in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Detective Osama Ibrahim dreads investigating another unsolvable murder—chillingly common in a city where the veils of conservative Islam keep women as anonymous in life as the victim is in death.



But Katya, one of the few females in the coroner's office, is... Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Wiglaf Droste

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Wiglaf Droste stellt seinen sonoren Bariton in den Dienst eines seiner Lieblingsbücher: "Voltaires Candide ist, wenn es das gibt, die Bibel der Aufklärung. Seine grimmige Heiterkeit ist ganz wahr. Und selbst das Wissen, dass es niemals Zeiten geben wird, in denen dieses Buch nicht aktuell ist, vermag die Freude beim Lesen nicht zu trüben." Read more

Bill Warrington’s Last Chance

By: James King

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This insightful novel follows Bill Warrington, an elderly Korean War veteran and widower, on his quest to reconcile with his three grown children before he succumbs to Alzheimer’s. When his fifteen-year-old granddaughter, April, runs away from home, Bill obliges her wish to drive from Ohio to San Francisco, where she hopes to become a rock... Read more

A Stranger Like You

By: Elizabeth Brundage

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs, 7 CDs, 9 hours

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A taut and terrifying thriller about the lengths we will go to make our dreams come true. Read more

Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post

An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

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This Side of Paradise

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

If the Roaring Twenties are remembered as the era of "flaming youth," it was F. Scott Fitzgerald who lit the fire. His semiautobiographical first novel, This Side of Paradise, became an instant bestseller and established an image of seemingly carefree, party-mad young men and women out to create a new morality for a new, post-war America. It... Read more

The Garden of Betrayal

By: Lee Vance

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Manhattan, 2002: Mark Wallace has it all—he’s married to Claire, the love of his life; they have two bright, beautiful children, and his is a high-powered Wall Street job. Until one night while on a neighborhood errand by himself, his twelve-year-old son, Kyle, vanishes, brutally snatched off the streets of New York.
Seven years later, Kyle has... Read more

Black Mamba Boy

By: Nadifa Mohamed

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a carnival, at least when he can fill his belly. When his mother dies young, she leaves him only an amulet stuffed with one hundred rupees. Jama decides to spend her life’s meager savings to search for his missing... Read more

Auf mich hört ja keiner

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Auf Axel Hacke hört ja keiner? Die Zeiten sind vorbei. Jetzt können ihn alle hören. Alle, die seine Kolumnen aus dem SZ-Magazin bisher nur lesen konnten, weil sie keine Zeit hatten, zu seinen Lesungen zu gehen, oder zu weit weg wohnen. Und zwar im O-Ton. Auf dieser CD sind die besten Geschichten aus den inzwischen drei Bänden seiner Memoiren aus... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Basil Hallward, an artist, meets Dorian Gray and paints his portrait. The artist is so infatuated with Dorian’s beauty that he begins to believe it is the reason for his quality of art. Dorian becomes convinced that beauty is all-important and wishes his portrait could age instead of him. But each time Dorian commits a sin, his portrait ages,... Read more

My Hollywood

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Bhama Roget

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire, a composer and a new mother, comes to Los Angeles so that her husband can follow his dream of writing television comedy. With Paul working all hours and Claire left with the baby, William, whom she adores but has no idea how to care for, they hire Lola, a fifty-two-year-old mother of five who works in America to pay for her own... Read more

The Confessions of Catherine de Medici

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From C. W. Gortner, acclaimed author of The Last Queen, comes an ambitious and gripping new novel about the dramatic, tragic, and misunderstood life of one of history’s most powerful and influential women: Catherine de Medici.To some, she was the ruthless queen who led France into an era of savage violence. To others, she was the passionate... Read more

The Imperfectionists

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English-language newspaper as they struggle to keep it-and themselves-afloat. Many changes have ensued since an enigmatic millionaire founded the paper 50 years ago, and... Read more

Das Beste aus meinem Leben

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Woche für Woche erscheint im "Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung" Axel Hackes berühmte Kolumne "Das Beste aus meinem Leben". Berichte aus dem Alltag eines Mannes in den besten Jahren, seiner Ehefrau Paola und des kleinen Sohnes Luis. Geschichten, die sich mit den brennenden Fragen unserer Zeit auseinandersetzen: Wieso haben große Sportler einen... Read more

Super Sad True Love Story

By: Gary Shteyngart

Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Ali Ahn

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Gary Shteyngart, author of The Russian Debutante's Handbook, creates a compelling reality in this tale about an illiterate America in the not-too-distant future. Lenny Abramov may just be penning the world's last diary. Which is good, because while falling in love with a rather unpleasant woman and witnessing the fall of a great empire, Lenny... Read more

Mr. Majestyk

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Splendid…entirely engrossing.”
—Los Angeles Times“First-rate…an excellent thriller…well-plotted and smoothly written…crackles with suspense.”
—Bergan RecordA classic crime novel, Mr. Majestyk is vintage Elmore Leonard—an edgy, dark, fiendishly compelling tale of a quiet man making a whole lot of noise.  “The best writer of crime fiction today”... Read more

Crime and Punishment

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 23 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate young man plans the perfect crime—the murder of a despicable pawnbroker, an old woman no one loves and no one will mourn. Is it not just, he reasons, for a man of genius to commit such a crime—to transgress moral law—if it will ultimately benefit humanity?

So begins one of the greatest novels ever written: a powerful psychological... Read more

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 34 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This passionate novel of ethics and morality, religion and philosophy was Dostoevsky’s final and best work.After spending four years in a Siberian penal settlement, during which time he underwent a religious conversion, Dostoevsky developed a keen ability for deep character analysis. In The Brothers Karamazov, he explores human nature at its... Read more