Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Сборник (рассказы и повести)

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

В сборник вошли сказки знаменитого русского писателя Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина: Бедный волк Дикий помещик Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил Карась-идеалист Медведь на воеводстве Премудрый пискарь Самоотверженный заяц Read more

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Anthony Pica

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the eerie and captivating world of Washington Irving's timeless classic, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Narrated by the talented Anthony Pica, this haunting tale transports listeners to the quiet, secluded village of Sleepy Hollow, where ghostly legends and superstitions run deep.The story follows the lanky and superstitious... Read more

Премудрый пискарь

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

«Премудрый пискарь» — сатирическая сказка Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина, вышедшая в 1883 году. В сказке Салтыкова-Щедрина «Премудрый пискарь» осмеиваются трусливые люди, которые всю жизнь проживают в страхе, так и не сделав ничего полезного. Read more

Осенняя охота

By: Екатерина Златорунская

Narrated by: Мария Орлова

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Детектив, продолжающий лучшие традиции шведской остросюжетной прозы. Астрид Линдман — добропорядочная женщина двадцати девяти лет, хорошая жена, образцовая мать. Не имеет проблем с алкоголем, наркотиками или законом. Работает медсестрой. Однажды, холодным осенним утром, она отвела свою дочь в детский сад, как делала всегда, и не вернулась домой.... Read more

Candide

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Kevin Kollins

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Captivate yourself in the timeless classic "Candide" by Voltaire like never before with our captivating audiobook rendition. Follow the adventures of the young and optimistic Candide as he navigates a world filled with satire, humor, and profound philosophical insights. This masterpiece takes you on a journey across continents, through trials... Read more

Медведь на воеводстве

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

«Медведь на воеводстве» — одна из «взрослых» сказок Михаила Евграфовича Салтыкова-Щедрина, знаменитого русского писателя ХІХ века, опубликована в 1886 году. Состоит из трех новелл, представляющих пародию на историческую хронику. Три воеводы Топтыгины всячески мечтали продержаться как можно дольше у власти, но исход у каждого был одинаков. Read more

Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Одним из ярких примеров творчества Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина стала «Повесть о том, как один мужик двух генералов прокормил» (1869). Два генерала волею судьбы попадают на остров, на котором нет никакой цивилизации. И эти знатные вельможи, за жизнь к труду не привыкшие, даже еду добыть себе не могут. Всем становится понятно, что дни генералов... Read more

Бедный волк

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

«Бедный волк» — сатирическая сказка Михаила Салтыкова-Щедрина, впервые опубликованная в сентябре 1883 года в женевской эмигрантской газете «Общее дело». Как продолжение «Самоотверженного зайца», эта философская притча высмеивает поведение человека, ограниченного рамками социума. Read more

Das Lied des Propheten

By: Paul Lynch

Narrated by: Kaja Sesterhenn

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

»Wenn es so etwas wie ein zentrales Buch für unsere Zeit gibt, dann ist es dieses. Brillant und Eindringlich« The Observer An einem regennassen Abend in Dublin öffnet die Wissenschaftlerin und vierfache Mutter Eilish Stack ihre Haustür und steht zwei Beamten der neu gegründeten irischen Geheimpolizei gegenüber. Sie sind gekommen, um ihren Mann... Read more

Карась-идеалист

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

«Карась-идеалист» — сказка-притча Михаила Евграфовича Салтыкова-Щедрина, знаменитого русского писателя ХІХ века, опубликованная в 1884 году. Карась, начитанный и оторванный от жизни, встречает однажды ерша — здравомыслящего и приземленного, и делится с ним идеями о равноправии между всеми рыбами. Read more

Дикий помещик

By: Михаил Салтыков-Щедрин

Narrated by: Вячеслав Манылов

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

«Дикий помещик» — сатирическая сказка Михаила Евграфовича Салтыкова-Щедрина, впервые опубликованная в 1869 году. Одному помещику страшно надоели собственные мужики, и он молился Богу, чтобы тот его избавил от них. Бог внял его молитвам, и тех пор с помещиком стали происходить дивные метаморфозы. Read more

The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

Narrated by: William DeMeritt & Shayna Small

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman—in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.

“Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable—I just loved it.”—Claire Lombardo, People “What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This... Read more

There's Nothing Wrong with Her

By: Kate Weinberg

Narrated by: Louiza Patikaz

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beautiful." —Sarah Jessica Parker

"The best thing you'll read this year." —Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age

A raw, tenderly comic, and perfectly off-kilter novel about a woman who occasionally finds herself in "The Pit”—a delirious state of semiconsciousness—and the improbable, sometimes imagined people who meet her there.

Vita Woods is on the... Read more

The Princess of 72nd Street

By: Elaine Kraf

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“That rare thing: a true underappreciated classic” (The New Yorker), about a smart and sensitive yet deeply troubled young woman fighting to live on her own terms

“Provocative . . . Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.”—The... Read more

Night on the Galactic Railroad and Other Stories from Ihatov

By: Kenji Miyazawa

Narrated by: James Takahashi

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) is one of Japan's most beloved writers and poets, known particularly for his sensitive and symbolist children's fiction. This volume collects stories which focus on Miyazawa's love of space and his use of the galaxy as a metaphor for the concepts of purity, self-sacrifice and faith which were near and dear to his... Read more

Adeline

By: Norah Vincent

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Daring . . . Vincent’s psychological approach is intriguing.” — USA Today

“Vincent is a sensitive recorder of a mind’s movements as it shifts in and out of inspiration, and as it fights before submitting to despair.” — New York Times Book Review

With poetic precision and psychological acuity, Norah Vincent’s Adeline reimagines the events that... Read more

Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

Narrated by: Julian Cihi

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An exciting and “inventive” (HuffPost) debut novel about a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or companion of any kind—who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.

Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? The father to your child?

In... Read more

Eye of the Beholder

By: Emma Bamford

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

“Highly recommended for fans of Vertigo and readers who enjoy the intricately plotted novels of Ruth Ware, Sarah Pearse, and Riley Sager” (Booklist), this atmospheric and sinister novel follows a ghostwriter searching for answers when her lover reappears after his mysterious death.

When Maddy Wight is hired to ghostwrite the memoir of... Read more

The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo

By: Ian Stansel

Narrated by: Megan Tusing

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most compelling novels I’ve read in a long time.” —Eowyn Ivey
 
“Shares the trail with the likes of Edward Abbey, Cormac McCarthy, and Larry McMurtry.” —Craig Johnson, best-selling author of the Walt Longmire Mysteries, the basis for the hit show Longmire
 
When Silas Van Loy flees home on horseback to avoid capture for his brother’s... Read more

Unspeakable Home

By: Ismet Prcic

Narrated by: Ismet Prcic

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning writer Ismet Prcic, a “brutal and tender and beautiful” (Tommy Orange, author of Wandering Stars) novel that is “part existential cry…part anguished confession…a transfiguring of personal memory to obscure the terrible cost of exile” (The New York Times).

Having fled his war-torn hometown of Tuzla as a teenager, our narrator,... Read more

Return to Washington Square

By: Mary Marcus

Narrated by: Natalie Barton

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

New York heiress Catherine Sloper accepted the sad truth that her lover Morris Townsend cared only for her fortune. Morris jilted her after learning she was to be disinherited by her cold, unbending father. Twenty years later, Catherine is a confirmed spinster. Her life is centered on her charities and gardening. She has no intention of letting... Read more

Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel

By: J. H. Markert & James Markert

Narrated by: Keith Brown & Carlotta Brentan

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of the power of memory, Midnight at the Tuscany Hotel explores the mysteries of the mind, the truth behind lore, and the miracle of inspiration. After thirteen months at war, Vittorio Gandy is haunted by memories, and his former life is unrecognizable. Once a gifted painter, now he can’t bear the vivid, bleeding colors on a canvas. His... Read more

Villa E

By: Jane Alison

Narrated by: Brigid Lohrey

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Meander, Spiral, Explode, an astounding novel inspired by the collision of Irish designer Eileen Gray and famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier.



Along the glittering coast of southern France, a white villa sits atop an earthen terrace—a site of artistic genius, now subject to bitter dispute. Eileen, a new architect known for her... Read more

Don't Miss School on Mondays!: Stories for Teachers Who Love to Teach

By: Pat James

Narrated by: Susan Marlowe

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have to go to school on Monday;
Mrs. James misses us too much on the weekends."
"The title of this book came from a conversation between a first grader and his mother. He must have felt that his teacher was pining away every evening, every weekend, and every summer, just waiting to be with the class again. Actually, most teachers fill their... Read more