Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Noah's Compass

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.

Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school,... Read more

A Dangerous Woman

By: Mary McGarry Morris

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha Horgan is not like other women. She stares. She has violent crushes on people. She can't stop telling the truth. Martha craves love, independence, and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian; Birdy, who befriends her, then cruelly... Read more

Unfinished Desires

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.

It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.... Read more

Union Atlantic

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The eagerly anticipated debut novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist You Are Not a Stranger Here: a deeply affecting portrait of the modern gilded age, the first decade of the twenty-first century. At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired schoolteacher, Charlotte... Read more

Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

 A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. 

On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift:... Read more

The Man Who Loved Children

By: Christina Stead

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 19 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for one another. As Sam uses the children’s adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of the relations between parents and children, husbands and... Read more

Vanished

By: Mary McGarry Morris

Narrated by: Kimberly Schraf

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is snatched from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped child - bound... Read more

The Gambler

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Art imitates life in this brilliant psychological study of a compulsive gambler, modeled on Dostoevsky's own tendencies. Like so many characters in Dostoevsky's novels, Alexei, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general, is trying to break through the wall of the established order and the human condition itself, but... Read more

The Kingdom of Ohio

By: Matthew Flaming

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels... Read more

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 25 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bo Mason, his wife, and his two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks his fortune in the hotel business, in new farmland, and, eventually, in illegal rum-running throughout the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Each peak of success... Read more

A Fair Maiden

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Angela Goethals

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Katya Spivak is out for a walk on the gracious streets of Bayhead Harbor with her two summer babysitting charges when she's approached by silver-haired, elegant Marcus Kidder. At first, his interest in her seems harmless, even pleasant; like his name, a sort of gentle joke. His beautiful home, the children's books that he's... Read more

Shades of Grey

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing standalone novel from the great literary fantasist and author of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde

As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure... Read more

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncle Tom is a high-minded, devoutly Christian black slave to a kind family, the Shelbys. Beset by financial difficulties, the Shelbys sell Tom to a slave trader. Young George Shelby promises to someday redeem him. The story relates Uncle Tom’s trials, suffering, and religious fortitude.Uncle Tom’s Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its... Read more

Siddhartha

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Hermann Hesse's famous and influential novel Siddhartha is perhaps the most important and compelling allegory produced in the last hundred years. Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this strangely simple tale, written with a deep and moving empathy for humanity, has touched the lives of... Read more

Too Much Money

By: Dominick Dunne

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee & Nicholas Hormann

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is Gus Bailey…It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that people whisper things in my ear, very private things, about themselves or others. I have always understood the art of listening.
 
The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. His propensity for gossip has... Read more

The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 30 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (commonly known as The Pickwick Papers) is the first novel by Charles Dickens. The book became the first real publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise. Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of... Read more

Blood Kin

By: Ceridwen Dovey

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel is a stunning literary achievement and an acute character study of three men held captive after a military coup. All linked closely with the deposed president, the portraitist longs for his pregnant wife, the chef takes solace in preparing meals for the new regime, and the barber lives with the knowledge that he'd... Read more

Die Insassen - Abridged

By: Katharina Münk

Narrated by: Jürgen Uter

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Drei Insassen der Nervenklinik St. Ägidius bringen ihre Anstalt zunächst auf Kurs und anschließend an die Börse. Schließlich sind sie vom Fach - handelt es sich doch um drei ehemalige Topmanager. Ohnehin ist Exfinanzvorstand Dr. Wilhelm Löhring überzeugt, die Klinik sei seine eigene Firma und forciert eisern den Börsengang von Station 4. Die als... Read more

Driftless

By: David Rhodes

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Driftless is an unforgettable story of contemporary life in rural America. Home to a few hundred people yet absent from state maps, Words, Wisconsin, comes richly to life by way of an extraordinary cast of characters. Among them, a middle-aged couple guards the family farm from the mendacious schemes of their milk cooperative; a lifelong invalid... Read more

Spanish Fly

By: Will Ferguson

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Ferguson's Spanish Fly was long-listed for an IMPAC Dublin Award and short-listed for a Leacock Medal for humor. Times are tough for young Jack McGreary in the American Dust Bowl. Living with his father, Jack is only getting by thanks to a solid repertoire of cons and scams. Everything gets shaken up, though, when shysters Virgil Ray and... Read more

Ann Veronica

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Passionate, headstrong, and fiercely independent, twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her life to the fullest. When her autocratic father attempts to curb her academic ambitions and social experiences, she escapes her stodgy, conventional world and sets out alone to make a fresh start in London. There, enrolled as a... Read more

The Polished Hoe

By: Austin Clarke

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of both the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Polished Hoe is acclaimed author Austin Clarke's masterpiece. On a Caribbean island in the 1950s, elderly Mary Gertrude Mathilda commits murder. As she explains herself to police, her story exposes the ugly underbelly of life on Caribbean plantations, with its slavery and... Read more

Far North

By: Marcel Theroux

Narrated by: Yelena Schmulenson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Far North is a 2009 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much history as I know of, people have moved west to settle and find freedom. But our... Read more

The Window at the White Cat, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful girl seeks the help of an attorney when her father, State Treasurer Fleming, vanishes. Before long, her aunt also disappears—from a locked house in the dead of night. The search leads to the infamous White Cat, a seedy nightclub frequented by crooked politicians, where Fleming is found murdered.



The Window at the White Cat is another... Read more