Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Juliet, Naked

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Bill Irwin

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved New York Times– bestselling author, a quintessential Nick Hornby tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love. Now a major motion picture starring Ethan Hawke. 

Annie loves Duncan—or thinks she does. Duncan loves Annie, but then, all of a sudden, he doesn’t. Duncan really loves Tucker... Read more

Generosity

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The National Book Award-winning author of The Echo Maker proves yet again that "no writer of our time dreams on a grander scale or more knowingly captures the zeitgeist." (The Dallas Morning News).

What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments?... Read more

The Lyre of Orpheus

By: Robertson Davies

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when he and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of the late art expert, collector, and notable eccentric Francis Cornish, whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. It is decided that the Foundation will fund the doctoral work of one... Read more

A Modern Mephistopheles

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for her beloved children’s classics, Louisa May Alcott’s true zeal was for writing sensational literature, which she chose to have published anonymously or under a pseudonym. Her favorite of these works was A Modern Mephistopheles.This chilling tale of greed, lust, and deception opens on a midwinter night when Felix Canaris, a despairing... Read more

Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In this vibrant portrait of Edwardian England and the many intricacies of class relations in English society during the turn of the century, two families with conflicting values are brought together by an inheritance dispute over a charming country house called Howards End. Sisters Margaret and Helen Schlegel and their brother Tibby place their... Read more

Not George Washington

By: P. G. Wodehouse & Herbert Westbrook

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This rollicking semi-autobiographical novel weaves a tale of Wodehouse’s early days as a writer, romance gone awry, and the colorful characters he encountered.James Orlebar Cloyster, in order to marry his true love, embarks on a scheme of such clever deception that he very nearly manages to ruin both his romance and his career.Told from multiple... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Compelling, exotic, and suspenseful, Heart of Darkness is far more than just an adventure story. The novel explores deep into the dark regions of the hearts and souls of its characters and into the conflicts prevalent in more "primitive" cultures. It is also a striking picture of the moral deterioration that can result from prolonged... Read more

Framley Parsonage

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by a local member of parliament to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a moment of weakness agrees to—despite knowing the man is a notorious debtor—and... Read more

Spooner

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award-winning author Pete Dexter excels at writing eccentric characters and comical, yet touching, prose. In Spooner, Dexter weaves the tale of Warren Spooner, a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after he's born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmer's... Read more

Twisted Tree

By: Kent Meyers

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hayley Jo Zimmerman is gone. Taken. And the people of the small town of Twisted Tree must come to terms with this terrible event—their loss, their place in it, and the secrets they all carry. In this brilliantly written novel, one girl’s story unfolds through the stories of those who knew her. Among them, a supermarket clerk recalls an encounter... Read more

Bernarda Albas Haus - Abridged

By: Federico García Lorca

Narrated by: Helene Thimig, Tilla Durieux, Elisabeth Flicken...

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die strenge Witwe Bernarda führt ihr männerloses Haus wie ein Kloster .Ihre ältere Tochter Augustias, fast 40, stammt aus erster Ehe und verfügt über eine beträchtliche Erbschaft. Die jüngere Tochter, Adela, ist 20 und ebenso lebenshungrig wie Augustias. Die Tragödie nimmt ihren Lauf, als der junge Pepe el Romano in das Haus kommt. Read more

Nocturnes

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe & ...

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful.  
 
With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates... Read more

Preface

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the preface to the twelve magnificent stories, originally part of The John Cheever Audio Collection, in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still... Read more

Blood's A Rover

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 26 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex... Read more

Crimen y Castigo

By: Fiodor Dostoievski

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 2 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta novela plantea un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskolnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de un usurero petersburgués. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad será una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante será incapaz... Read more

In the Kitchen

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 19 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated author Monica Ali was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was named one of the 20 best young British novelists by Granta. In the Kitchen stars Gabe Lightfoot, an executive chef overseeing an eclectic kitchen staff-and dealing with a dead porter and an intriguing young lady from Belarus. "Fans and new readers alike are sure to... Read more

The Early Ayn Rand, Revised Edition

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This remarkable, newly revised collection of Ayn Rand’s early fiction, now including the previously unpublished short story, “The Night King,” ranges from beginner’s exercises to excerpts from early versions of We the Living and The Fountainhead. Arranged chronologically, from 1926 through 1940, these works allow readers to follow the... Read more

One More Year

By: Sana Krasikov

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Sana Krasikov's short story collection has won widespread accolades and earmarked the author as a writer of immense promise. In these affecting tales, Russian and Georgian immigrants find love and fear in their new homeland. "In her stunning short story debut, Krasikov hones in on the subtleties of hope and despair that writhe in the hearts of... Read more

Kiss the Sky

By: Farai Chideya

Narrated by: Sharon Washington

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Renowned journalist and respected author Farai Chideya makes her fiction debut with Kiss the Sky. Sophie "Sky" Lee is a washed-up rocker who yearns for the days when she poured her soul into music. She gets a second chance when a charity event reunites the old band, and her savvy manager boyfriend puts the group back on tour. But Sophie is... Read more

Mathilda Savitch

By: Victor Lodato

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is dull is my life. Like now, it's night, not yet time for bed but too late to be outside, and the two of them reading reading reading with their eyes moving like the lights inside a copy machine. When I was helping put the dishes in the washer tonight, I broke a plate. I... Read more

No Time to Wave Goodbye

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard captured the heart of a nation with The Deep End of the Ocean, her celebrated debut novel about mother Beth Cappadora, a child kidnapped, a family in crisis. Now, in No Time to Wave Goodbye, the unforgettable Cappadoras are in peril once again, forced to confront an unimaginable evil.

It has... Read more

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Rice Burroughs is the creator of one of the most iconic figures in American pop culture: Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is the fifth book in the Tarzan series and considered by many to be one of the best.



In one of his earlier adventures, Tarzan visited the mysterious, ruinous city of Opar that dated back to Atlantean... Read more

El Retrato de Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

La obra retrata al propio Wilde y a buena parte de su mundo íntimo, poderosamente vinculado con la pasión estética. Dorian Gray, muchacho de belleza espléndida, se dedica a apurar los momentos de su vida, convirtiéndola en pasión absoluta, ajeno a cualquier moral, inalterablemente joven, mientras un retrato suyo va envejeciendo y recibiendo en... Read more

El Conde de Montecristo

By: Alejandro Dumas

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

El clásico de Alejandro Dumas "El Conde de Montecristo" cuenta la historia de un hombre inocente injustamente encarcelado, que elabora un brillante plan para vengarse de los que le traicionaron. El joven marinero Edmond Dantés (Jim Caviezel) es un hombre honrado y cándido que lleva una vida tranquila. Entre sus planes está casarse con la hermosa... Read more