Fiction - Literary audiobooks

My World and Welcome to It

By: James Thurber

Narrated by: John Cullum

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of James Thurber is splendidly sampled in these thirty stories, sketches, and articles that range from the wildest comedy to the serious business of murder. Animal courtship, maids, Macbeth, baseball, sailing, marriage—all fall within Thurber's scope of wit and humor. Read more

The Widow and the Tree

By: Sonny Brewer

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

With novels such as The Poet of Tolstoy Park to his credit, Sonny Brewer has established himself as one of the South's most critically acclaimed authors. The Widow and the Tree features a 500-year-old Ghosthead Oak, whose stately presence has borne witness to the rise and fall of generations, to the hopes and dreams of untold lives, and to the... Read more

The Surrendered

By: Chang-Rae Lee

Narrated by: James Yaegashi

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN/Hemingway Award-winning, best-selling author Chang-rae Lee delivers a "completely engrossing story of great complexity and tragedy" (Library Journal). At the end of the Korean War, the lives of orphan June Han and American soldier Hector Brennan collide. Thirty years later, they meet again and are forced to come to terms with the secrets of... Read more

Francesco, der Kater des Papstes - Abridged

By: Renate Fabel

Narrated by: Marina Köhler

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vergnügliche Episoden aus dem abenteuerlichen Leben des Katers Franzl, der aus der Oberpfalz nach Rom auswandert, um als Francesco seinem geliebten Herrn, Benedikt XVI., nahe zu sein. Kein einfacher Tapetenwechsel, doch mit bayerischer Dickköpfigkeit und viel Charme schafft er es sogar, die undurchdringlichen Mauern des heiligen Vatikans zu... Read more

Kleine Menschen - Abridged

By: Nora Gomringer & Michael Stauffer

Narrated by: Nora Gomringer & Michael Stauffer

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nora Gomringer und Michael Stauffer, zwei Ausnahmeerscheinungen in der Spoken-Word-Szene, spannen zusammen: Ihr Text-duett "Kleine Menschen" streift die grossen Themen der Welt, vom Geld über Beziehung, Erfolg, Sex, Tod, Sprache bis zur Natur. Mit sprachlicher Virtuosität und Improvisation erzählen sie Erlebnisse von "kleinen Menschen", welche... Read more

Dimanche and Other Stories

By: Irène Némirovsky

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of never-before-translated stories by the bestselling author of Suite Française, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irène Némirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels: a keen eye for the details of social class;... Read more

All That Follows

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The prodigiously talented Jim Crace has returned with a new novel that explores the complexities of love and violence with a scenario that juxtaposes humor and human aspiration. 

British jazzman Leonard Lessing spent a memorable yet unsuccessful few days in Austin, Texas, trying to seduce a woman he fancied. During his stay, he became caught up... Read more

Parrot and Olivier in America

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 17 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Olivier (a fictional variation of Alexis de Tocqueville) is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be joined by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United... Read more

The Aeneid

By: Virgil

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

After a century of civil strife in Rome and Italy, the poet Virgil wrote The Aeneid to honor the emperor Augustus by praising Aeneas, Augustus's legendary ancestor. As a patriotic epic imitating Homer, The Aeneid also set out to provide Rome with a literature equal to that of Greece. It tells of Aeneas, survivor of the sack of Troy, and of his... Read more

The Yokota Officers Club

By: Sarah Bird

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Bird authors brilliant, introspective novels of bittersweet reminiscence tempered with humor. The Yokota Officers Club is a tale both courageous and touching--a journey of the heart that speaks volumes of the transient, isolated lifestyle of military families. Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in... Read more

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains.Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the... Read more

Every Last One

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

2011 Audie Award Finalist for Fiction

Beloved blockbuster storyteller Anna Quindlen’s powerhouse new novel, her first since the #1 bestseller Rise and Shine , confirms her status as an incomparably accurate and compassionate observer of families and the tragedies they face.

This moving, suspenseful, and surprising new novel by beloved author... Read more

Elegy for April

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Quirke—the hard-drinking, insatiably curious Dublin pathologist—is back, and he's determined to find his daughter's best friend, a well-connected young doctor

April Latimer has vanished. A junior doctor at a local hospital, she is something of a scandal in the conservative and highly patriarchal society of 1950s Dublin. Though her family is one... Read more

Beatrice and Virgil

By: Yann Martel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Fate takes many forms. . . .
 
When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey—named Beatrice and Virgil—and the epic journey they... Read more

In Free Fall

By: Juli Zeh

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping international bestseller that fuses an ingenious detective tale with stunning, cinematic storytelling—and a provocative riff on quantum physics—from Germany’s foremost young literary talent.

A child is kidnapped but does not know it. One man dies, two physicists fight, and a senior constable falls in love. In the end, everything is... Read more

The Hand That First Held Mine

By: Maggie O’Farrell & Alexis Soto Ramírez

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lexie Sinclair yearns for more than her parents’ genteel country life. She makes her way to the city, where she meets a magazine editor, Innes, a man unlike any she has ever imagined. He introduces her to the thrilling world of bohemian postwar London, and Lexie learns to become a reporter, to know art and artists, to live fully,... Read more

Men and Dogs

By: Katie Crouch

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When Hannah Legare was 11, her father went on a fishing trip in the Charleston harbor and never came back. And while most of the town and her family accepted Buzz's disappearance, Hannah remained steadfastly convinced of his imminent return.

Twenty years later Hannah's new life in San Francisco is unraveling. Her marriage is on the rocks, her... Read more

The Lake Shore Limited

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Sue Miller

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008’s heralded best seller The Senator’s Wife. First among them is Wilhelmina—Billy—Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on The Lake Shore Limited—a play... Read more

The Last Time I Saw You

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved bestselling author of Home Safe and The Year of Pleasures, comes a wonderful new novel about women and men reconnecting with one another—and themselves—at their fortieth high school reunion.

To each of the men and women in The Last Time I Saw You, this reunion means something different—a last opportunity to say something long... Read more

Imperfect Birds

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hallelujah Anyway, Almost Everything, and Bird by Bird, a powerful and redemptive novel of love and family

Rosie Ferguson is seventeen and ready to enjoy the summer before her senior year of high school. She's intelligent-she aced AP physics; athletic-a former state-ranked tennis doubles champion;... Read more

Prinzessin auf vier Pfoten

By: Gudrun Thiele

Narrated by: Gudrun Thiele

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Glück im Unglück: Krümel wurde ausgesetzt und findet ein neues paradiesisches Zuhause - bei Freddy, dem Katzenkönig, und Flax, dem Naturburschen, und ihrem neuen Frauchen, für Krümel auch nur eine große Katze auf zwei Beinen. Doch selbst Haustiger im Paradies haben Sorgen. Gudrun Thiele lässt ihre Heldin zauberhafte Geschichten erzählen, die... Read more

Solar

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Roger Allam

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Universally acclaimed as one of the world's greatest novelists, Ian McEwan is a Booker Prize-winning, best-selling literary master. He displays a fresh facet of his considerable talent in Solar, a satirical novel rife with blistering humor. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Michael Beard is fast approaching 60, a mere shell of the academic titan he... Read more

Bone Fire

By: Mark Spragg

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Mark Spragg writes about the American West with unmatched skill and vision. In Bone Fire, Spragg weaves the tale of Ishawooa, Wyoming, a city marred by the realities of modern life. Sheriff Crane Carlson is having enough trouble with his pot-addled and alcoholic wife when he finds a teen murdered in a meth lab. Violence... Read more

Where the Line Bleeds

By: Jesmyn Ward

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut novel from Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds is a rich tale of twins raised by their grandmother in a stiflingly poor rural community on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. Upon graduating from high school, growing tensions between brothers Joshua and Christophe test their loyalties-and a violent altercation forever changes their... Read more