Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Maples Stories

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Peter Van Norden

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity. In 1956, Updike published a story, "Snowing in Greenwich Village," about a young couple, Joan and Richard Maple, at the beginning of... Read more

Lover’s Knot

By: Emilie Richards

Narrated by: Isabel Keating

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In a cave in the Shenandoah National Park, two bodies are discovered, wrapped in the tattered remains of a lover's knot quilt. In Washington, DC, Isaac Taylor inherits a nearly identical quilt from a grandmother whose name he never even knew. After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in... Read more

Etta

By: Gerald Kolpan

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When Philadelphia debutante Lorinda Jameson’s bankrupt father commits suicide, the infamous Black Hand mafia is dispatched to collect his debts—or her head. The young orphan rechristens herself “Etta Place” and goes west to earn her keep as a waitress in a remote railroad outpost. But fate and murder soon intervene, and Etta joins forces with... Read more

Mit Tucholsky auf Reisen

By: Kurt Tucholsky & Peter Bramböck

Narrated by: Lutz Schäfer

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ihre lebendige Diktion und ihr wohlwollendes Lächeln machen aus Tucholskys Reisfeuilletons ein aktuelles Vergnügen. Das Hörbuch enthält die folgenden Erzählungen: Die Kunst, falsch zu reisen - Saisonbeginn an der Ostsee - Herr Wendriner nimmt ein Bad - Das Zeitdorf - Wer kennt Odenwald und Spessart? - Die beiden Flaschen - Drei auf dem... Read more

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

By: Jennifer Niven

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean Learns to Drive is a poignant story of a spirited young girl growing up in the gold-mining and moonshining South.

Before she dies, Velva Jean's mother urges her to "live out there in the great wide world." Velva Jean dreams of becoming a big-time singer in Nashville until she falls... Read more

Labor Day

By: Joyce Maynard

Narrated by: Wilson Bethel

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss.”—Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Keeping Faith“Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks.”—St. Petersburg TimesJoyce Maynard, acclaimed author of At Home in... Read more

Mystery Stories of Violet Strange, with eBook

By: Anna Katharine Green

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to her family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows,... Read more

Active Service, with eBook

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

How far would a father go to keep his daughter from marrying the wrong man? Rufus Coleman, the respected editor of the New York Eclipse, plans to marry Marjory Wainwright. Yet to her father, Professor Wainwright, Rufus is still the wastrel that he thought him to be as a student in college. To thwart the marriage, the professor drags Marjory off... Read more

Bad Things Happen

By: Harry Dolan

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping novel about a man trying to escape his violent past and soon becomes a murder suspect when a publisher—and the husband of the woman he's having an affair with—turns up dead.

The man who calls himself David Loogan is hoping to escape a violent past by living a quiet, anonymous life in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But when he's hired as an... Read more

Baree: The Wolf Dog, with eBook

By: James Oliver Curwood

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Baree, the son of a grey wolf and a black dog, was born in the vast Canadian wilderness. He learns about nature and his fellow animals by trial and error—fighting with owls and playing with beavers. Being alone in the wild, he desperately seeks to join a pack of wolves, but they see him as a dog, and he is driven away.



If the wolves are... Read more

Beyond Good and Evil

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

Narrated by: Stephen Van Doren

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

This is one of the most important works written by Nietzsche and represents his attempt to sum up his philosophy. The great nineteenth-century philosopher refines his previously expressed ideal of the superman in this work, a fascinating examination of human values and morality. It takes up and expands on the ideas of his previous work, Thus... Read more

Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded as the first great masterpiece of Russian literature, Dead Souls mixes realism and symbolism for a vivid and highly original portrait of Russian life.Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town with a bizarre but seductive proposition for local landowners. He proposes to buy the names of their serfs who have died but... Read more

The Ginseng Hunter

By: Jeff Talarigo

Narrated by: Jaeson Ma

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Set at the turn of the twenty-first century in China along the Tumen River, which separates northeast China and North Korea, The Ginseng Hunter follows the daily life of a Chinese ginseng hunter, who lives alone in the valley, spending his days up in the mountains looking for ginseng and preparing for winter. He is little aware of the world... Read more

Swimming

By: Nicola Keegan

Narrated by: Aya Cash

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A ferociously original novel, sparkling with wit and blazing
with emotion, from a gifted new novelist.

A spectacular debut about the rise of an Olympic champion -- a novel about competition, obsession, the hunger for victory, and a young girl with an unsinkable spirit struggling to stay afloat in the only way she can.

When we first meet Pip,... Read more

Jericho's Fall

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen L. Carter’s brilliant debut, The Emperor of Ocean Park, spent eleven week son the New York Times best-seller list. Now, in Jericho’s Fall, Carter turns his formidable talents to the shadowy world of spies, official secrecy, and financial fraud in a thriller that rivets the reader’s attention until the very last page.

In an imposing house... Read more

Sacred Hearts

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1570, and in the convent of Santa Caterina, in the Italian city of Ferrara, noblewomen find space to pursue their lives under God’s protection. But any community, however smoothly run, suffers tremors when it takes in someone by force. And the arrival of Santa Caterina’s new novice sets in motion a chain of events that will shake the... Read more

Rain Gods

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller.

In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by... Read more

Rain Gods - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post) brings back one of his most fascinating characters—Texas sheriff Hackberry Holland, cousin to lawman Billy Bob Holland—in this heart-pounding bestseller.

In a heat-cracked border town, the bodies of nine illegal aliens—women and girls, killed execution-style—are unearthed in a shallow grave. Haunted by... Read more

Best Friends Forever - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Kate Baldwin & Rick Holmes

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes "a smart, witty fairy tale for grownups" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR).

Addie Downs and Valerie Adler will be best friends forever. That’s what Addie believes after Valerie moves across the street when they’re both nine years old. But in the wake of betrayal during their teenage years, Val is... Read more

The Blue Notebook

By: James A. Levine

Narrated by: Meera Simhan

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Dear Reader:

Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levine’s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution... Read more

Bone by Bone

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Bone by Bone, Peter Matthiessen speaks in the extraordinary voice of the enigmatic and dangerous E. J. Watson, whom we first saw, obliquely, through the eyes of his early twentieth-century Everglades community in Killing Mister Watson. This astonishing new novel, calling to account the violence, virulent racism, and destruction of the land... Read more

Short Stories by Saki

By: Hector Hugh Munro

Narrated by: Stephen Fry

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Stephen writes “Saki remains, from a distance of a hundred years, just about the... Read more

The Man with the Golden Arm

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the first National Book Award in 1950, this modern classic takes us into the gritty underbelly of post–World War II America. It is the story of “Frankie Machine,” a veteran, drug addict, and card-dealer in an illicit poker game being run in Chicago’s near northwest side. Frankie has just returned from the federal prison for narcotics... Read more

Any Minute - Abridged

By: Joyce Meyer & Deborah Bedford

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sarah Harper is driven to achieve success no matter what the cost. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves -- especially children and her husband, Joe -- but her desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for family.

One cold, autumn afternoon, all of that changes when Sarah's car plunges off a bridge and into a... Read more