Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Auf meine Kappe - Abridged

By: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Narrated by: Finn-Ole Heinrich

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als Zivildienstleistender las Finn-Ole Heinrich ein Jahr lang einem Mann vor, der vollständig gelähmt war. Nur noch seine Augen konnte er bewegen – aber er konnte zuhören. Auf diese Weise erlernte Finn-Ole Heinrich seine eindringliche Art des Vorlesens, die den Hörer nicht mehr loslässt. Nach hunderten von Lesungen in den vergangenen Jahren... Read more

The Manhattan Beach Project

By: Peter Lefcourt

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Barely four years after winning an Oscar, Charlie has sunken into the ranks of Hollywood bottom-feeders. But one day at his weekly Debtors Anonymous meeting, he meets a mysterious ex-CIA agent who proposes to resuscitate Charlie’s foundering career in the beyond-surreal world of reality TV. Charlie puts his tap shoes on to sell a show about a... Read more

Unzertrennlich - Abridged

By: Dora Heldt

Narrated by: Ulrike Grote

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die beste Freundin: Sie ist Beraterin, Trösterin und hat einen schon vor manchem Fehler bewahrt. Ihr verzeiht man alles, mit ihr kann man alles teilen … nun ja, fast alles. Männer nicht. Und erst recht nicht über Jahre hinweg. Ihre ehemals beste Freundin Antje ist für die geschiedene Verlagsfrau Christine deshalb ein knallrotes Tuch. Ruth -... Read more

Last Night in Twisted River

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County–to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto–pursued by the implacable constable.... Read more

Makers

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, a major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America
Perry and Lester invent things—seashell robots that make toast, Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars. They also invent entirely new economic systems, like the "New Work," a New Deal for the technological era.... Read more

A Slow Burn

By: Mary E DeMuth

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Burying her grief, Emory Chance is determined to find her daughter Daisy’s murderer—a man she saw in a flicker of a vision. But when the investigation hits every dead end, her despair escalates. Not even the kindness of her persistent suitor Hixon can soften her heart towards the community of friends that long for her healing. And as the... Read more

Invisible

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story with Invisible.

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam... Read more

Les Misérables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion... Read more

The Edge of Time

By: Loula Grace Erdman

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Saturday Review of Literature proclaims The Edge of Time is "a fundamentally honest and literate telling of one of the lesser-known chapters in the American saga." Revered by readers for over 50 years, Loula Grace Erdman tells the story of a young couple settling in the Texas Panhandle in the 1800s. "Miss Erdman's story ... shows imagination... Read more

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In a malarial outpost in the South American rain forest, two misplaced gringos converge and clash. Martin Quarrier has come to convert the fearful and elusive Niaruna Indians to his brand of Christianity. Lewis Moon, a stateless mercenary who is himself part Indian, has come to kill them on behalf of the local commandante. Out of their struggle,... Read more

Look at the Birdie

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat, Norman Dietz, Christopher Ev...

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Look at the Birdie is a collection of fourteen short stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. This series of perfectly rendered vignettes, never before published in Kurt Vonnegut's lifetime, reveals a warm, wise, and funny portrait of life in post-World War II America-a world where squabbling couples, high school... Read more

The Museum of Innocence

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name Is Red. It is 1975, a perfect spring in Istanbul. Kemal, scion of one of the city’s wealthiest families, is about to become engaged to Sibel, daughter of... Read more

Woodsburner

By: John Pipkin

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In his scintillating debut, John Pipkin fictionalizes an ignoble event in noted naturalist Henry David Thoreau's life. One year before his historic retreat to the woods around Walden pond, Thoreau struck a match and carelessly started a mammoth fire that would go on to consume 300 acres of forest and farmland. "A superb historical fiction as... Read more

Confessions of Edward Day

By: Valerie Martin

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of many prestigious literary prizes- including the Orange-Valerie Martin also penned the modern classic Mary Reilly. Here she re-creates the vibrant world of 1970s theater in New York City to craft the tale of Edward Day, an ambitious young actor whose life changes at a bawdy party on the Jersey shore. Read more

Jesus' Son

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

American master Denis Johnson's nationally bestselling collection of blistering and indelible tales about America's outcasts and wanderers.

Denis Johnson's now classic story collection Jesus' Son chronicles a wild netherworld of addicts and lost souls, a violent and disordered landscape that encompasses every extreme of American culture. These... Read more

Chronic City

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.

Chase Insteadman, a handsome, inoffensive fixture on Manhattan's social scene, lives off residuals earned as a child star on a beloved sitcom called... Read more

Julip

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Hillary Huber & William Hughes

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Harrison takes us on a journey of the human heart in three novellas in which the irresistible pull of nature becomes a magnificent backdrop for exploring the toughest questions about life and love.Julip follows a bright and resourceful young woman as she tries to spring her brother from a Florida jail after he shot three of her former lovers... Read more

Der Schimmelreiter - Abridged

By: Theodor Storm

Narrated by: Sven Görtz

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sven Görtz liest "Der Schimmelreiter" von Theodor Storm In der Gestaltung der Erstausgabe von 1888! Obwohl Theodor Storm sich bereits über lange Jahre mit der Sage über den Schimmelreiter befasst hatte, begann er erst im Jahr 1886 mit der Arbeit an seiner bekanntesten Novelle. Kurz vor seinem Tod im Juli 1888 wurde die tragische Geschichte von... Read more

The Tin Drum

By: Günter Grass

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 25 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. Now on the book’s fiftieth anniversary comes this new translation by Breon Mitchell, one that is faithful to Grass’ style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the... Read more

Half Broke Horses

By: Jeannette Walls

Narrated by: Jeannette Walls

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—“Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt” (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.

“Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.” So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith,... Read more

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

By: Peter Ackroyd

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students—Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley—form an unlikely friendship, the result is a tour de force that could only come from one of the world's most accomplished and prolific authors.  
This haunting and atmospheric novel opens with a heated discussion, as... Read more

The Children's Book

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 30 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children's book author and the passions, betrayals, and secrets that tear apart the people she loves.


When Olive Wellwood's oldest son discovers a runaway named Philip sketching in the basement of the new... Read more

Further Tales of the City - Abridged

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons an anchorwoman in her... Read more

Tales of the City Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 18 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The original abridged recordings of the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga, in one collection!For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that... Read more