Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Ivanhoe

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The epitome of the chivalric novel, Ivanhoe sweeps listeners into Medieval England and the lives of a memorable cast of characters. Ivanhoe, a trusted ally of Richard the Lion Hearted, returns from the Crusades to reclaim the inheritance his father denied him. Rebecca, a vibrant, beautiful Jewish woman, is defended by Ivanhoe against a charge of... Read more

Journey to the Center of the Earth

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An eccentric geology professor acquires an old book and finds an ancient parchment hidden within its pages. On it is a coded message that reveals directions to a secret passageway that leads deep within the earth's interior. The professor immediately sets off on a daring journey to Iceland, where he and his companions enter into an extinct... Read more

The Painted Bird

By: Jerzy Kosinski

Narrated by: Michael Aronov & Fred Berman

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Called by the Los Angeles Times “one of the most imposing novels of the decade,” it was eventually translated into more than thirty languages. A harrowing story that follows the wanderings of a boy abandoned by his parents during World War II,... Read more

If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This

By: Robin Black

Narrated by: Mark Deakins, Kimberly Farr, Ann Marie Lee & Ki...

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Heralding the arrival of a stunning new voice in American fiction, Robin Black’s If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This takes readers into the minds and hearts of people navigating the unsettling transitions that life presents to us all.
 
Written with maturity and insight, and in beautiful, clear-eyed prose, these stories plumb the depths of love,... Read more

Beowulf

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: No

When sleep was at its deepest, night at its blackest, up from the mist-filled marsh came Grendel stalking...



Thus begins the battle between good and evil, for lying in wait and anxious to challenge the ogre Grendel is a young man, strong-willed and fire-hearted. This man is Beowulf, whose heroic dragon-slaying deeds were sung in the courts of... Read more

Moby Dick

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 25 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by the cunningly observant crew member Ishmael, Moby... Read more

Love and Summer

By: William Trevor

Narrated by: Jim Norton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An author who has received international critical acclaim for his exquisite prose, William Trevor saw his novel The Story of Lucy Gault short-listed for the prestigious Booker Prize. Love and Summer tells the tale of Ellie Dillahan, an orphan entered into a bleak future with the man she wed. As the story unfolds, Ellie's life is thrown into... Read more

In the Falling Snow

By: Caryl Phillips

Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Caryl Phillips has won numerous awards for heralded works of fiction and nonfiction. In the Falling Snow revolves around Keith, born in England to West Indian parents and raised-for the most part-by his white stepmother. Unmoored by a failing marriage, a distant son, and estrangement from his own... Read more

Commencement

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

J. Courtney Sullivan's celebrated debut novel is a sparkling tale of friendship and a fascinating portrait of the first generation of women who have all the opportunities in the world, but no clear idea about what to choose. Assigned to the same dorm their first year at Smith College, Celia, Bree, Sally, and April couldn't have less in common.... Read more

The Godfather of Kathmandu

By: John Burdett

Narrated by: Stephen Hogan

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

John Burdett writes darkly inventive fiction with a comic twist. In The Godfather of Kathmandu, Royal Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to a grisly murder scene that could make or break his career, but he's more worried about impressing Tietsin, his new Buddhist guru. However, Tietsin would rather use Sonchai to help him... Read more

The Listener

By: Shira Nayman

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Shira Nayman has been praised by School Library Journal for her "breathtaking storytelling" and her ability to write with "stunning clarity." Nayman's debut novel, The Listener is a tale of madness and passion set in a psychiatric hospital just after the end of WWII. Read more

The Attack

By: Yasmina Khadra

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a respected, dedicated surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. He has learned to live with the violence that plagues his city and works tirelessly to help the victims brought to the emergency room. But one night, a deadly bombing in a local restaurant takes a horrifyingly personal turn, when his wife’s... Read more

Matterhorn

By: Karl Marlantes

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 21 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An incredible publishing story—written over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times bestseller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next, and a USA Today bestseller—Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war" (New York Times Book Review).Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of... Read more

The Language of Secrets

By: Dianne Dixon

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From a fresh and exciting new voice in women's fiction, The Language of Secrets unflinchingly examines the lifelong repercussions of a father's betrayal. Justin Fisher has a successful career as the manager of a luxury hotel, a lovely wife, and a charming young son. While all signs point to a bright future, Justin can no longer ignore the hole... Read more

The Anthologist

By: Nicholson Baker

Narrated by: Nicholson Baker

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The Anthologist is narrated by Paul Chowder—a once-in-a-while-published kind of poet who is writing the introduction to a new anthology of poetry. He's having a hard time getting started because his career is floundering; his girlfriend Roz has recently left him; and he is thinking about the great poets throughout history who have suffered far... Read more

Long for This World

By: Sonya Chung

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1953, on a remote island in South Korea, a young boy stows away on the ferry that is carrying his older brother and sister-in-law to the mainland. Fifty-two years later, Han Hyun-kyu is on a plane back to Korea, leaving behind his wife and grown children in America. It is his daughter, Jane—a war photographer recently injured in a bombing in... Read more

Freak out! - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Anna Thalbach, Christian Brückner & Andreas Pla...

Narrated by: Anna Thalbach, Christian Brückner & Andreas Pla...

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Die geheime Weltgeschichte der Narren, Visionäre und Mutanten. Seit jeher hat man sie geschmäht, verfolgt und weggesperrt - zu einem Leben im Schatten verdammt: die Freaks. Aber jetzt treten sie ins Rampenlicht und verschaffen sich Gehör. Freak Attack! Erzählt die Geschichte ihres geheimen Aufstands gegen die antiseptischen Helden und... Read more

Indigosommer - Abridged

By: Antje Babendererde

Narrated by: Philipp Baltus & Muriel Baumeister

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein einsamer Strand, ein grenzenloser Ozean, ein Ort voller Magie und Geheimnisse - die 15-jährige Austauschschülerin Smilla wähnt sich in La Push im Paradies. Alles scheint perfekt, als die Clique im Indianerreservat ihr Surfcamp aufschlägt. Und dann ist da noch Conrad, der stille Indianerjunge, der Smilla fasziniert. Doch warum ist er der... Read more

The Girl Who Chased the Moon

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to a quirky little Southern town with more magic than a full Carolina moon. Here two very different women discover how to find their place in the world—no matter how out of place they feel.

Emily Benedict came to Mullaby, North Carolina, hoping to... Read more

The Man from Saigon

By: Marti Leimbach

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon. She is dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war, from combat missions to the workings of... Read more

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

By: Dexter Palmer

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Imprisoned aboard a zeppelin that floats above a city reminiscent of those of the classic films Metropolis and Brazil, the greeting card writer Harold Winslow is composing his memoirs. His companions are the only woman he has ever loved, who has gone insane, and the cryogenically frozen body of her father, the devilish genius who drove her mad.... Read more

His Last Bow

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales published individually between 1908 and 1917. It also contains one early story, 1892's "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box," which, with its themes of adultery, was previously considered too "scandalous" for... Read more

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

Narrated by: Ken Danziger

Length: 35 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Fielding’s bawdy, colorful, high-spirited novel painted human vices and virtues with unprecedented honesty and good humor, making Tom Jones as fresh and entertaining today as it was when first published nearly three hundred years ago.A foundling of mysterious parentage, Tom Jones is brought up by the benevolent and wealthy Squire Allworthy... Read more

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance;... Read more