Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Family Christmas - Abridged

By: Caroline Kennedy

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just in time for the holidays: a collection of beloved Christmas stories and writings that every family will cherish.



One of the many joys of Christmas comes from the traditions associated with it. Bestselling author Caroline Kennedy drew on her own family's traditions to create this charming collection of favorite stories, poems, and writings... Read more

Abendland

By: Michael Köhlmeier

Narrated by: Jürgen Uter

Length: 29 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Jacob Candoris - Mathematiker, Weltbürger, Dandy und Jazz-Fan - ist fünfundneunzig, als er seine Lebensbeichte ablegt. Aufschreiben soll sie der Schriftsteller Sebastian Lukasser, Sohn des Gitarristen Georg Lukasser, den Candoris in den Jazz-Kellern im Wien der Nachkriegsjahre kennengelernt hat. Im Spiegel zweier ungleicher Familien... Read more

April & Oliver

By: Tess Callahan

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

April and Oliver have been soul mates since childhood, and the attraction between them has always been palpable. Now, years after being completely inseparable, they have become strangers, but the wildly different paths of their lives are about to collide once again with the sudden death of April’s brother.
    
Sexual tension builds as Oliver, the... Read more

The Evil Genius, with eBook

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Kitty is the child of Herbert and Catherine Linley, a spoiled, coddled little girl who is at the same time—in the tradition of all Victorian children—adorable. The Evil Genius begins with the story of Kitty's ill-fated governess Sydney Westerfield, a girl thrown aside in the grand tradition of Jane Eyre and David Copperfield.



And now an "evil... Read more

The German Woman

By: Paul Griner

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik & Michael Page

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting war story introduces us to beautiful Kate Zweig, the English widow of a German surgeon, and Claus Murphy, an exiled American with German roots—two lovers with complicated loyalties.In 1918, Kate and her husband, Horst, are taken for spies by Russian soldiers and forced to flee their field hospital on the eastern front, barely... Read more

The End

By: Salvatore Scibona

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This debut novel from Salvatore Scibona has garnered widespread praise as a literary triumph and was a National Book Award finalist. Set in 1953 Cleveland during a carnival in the Italian immigrant neighborhood of Elephant Park, The End explores the lives of six people in the crowd and the tragedy that connects them. Fraught with racial tension... Read more

Snakepit

By: Moses Isegawa

Narrated by: Nyambi Nyambi

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically hailed, Uganda-born authorMoses Isegawa's Snakepit is a "high-octane melodrama bearing a potent . message [that] delivers the goods" (Kirkus Reviews). Bat Katanga, a Cambridge University post-graduate, returns to his dictator-oppressed African homeland in the 1970s. Rising rapidly through the government's bureaucratic ranks, Bat must... Read more

Can I Get a Witness?

By: ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Narrated by: Kim Brockington

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Essence magazine #1 best-selling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley succeeds again in Can I Get a Witness? Vanessa Colton-Kirk is a divorce court judge who's seen it all, but nothing prepares her for her own husband Thomas asking for a divorce. Vanessa's career has driven him to a woman who can satisfy his needs-and give him a child. Now a... Read more

Through Black Spruce

By: Joseph Boyden

Narrated by: James Jenner & Ali Ahn

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Boyden's first novel, Three Day Road, was a Today Show Book Club selection. Through Black Spruce is the exceptional follow-up to his acclaimed debut. Cree bush pilot Will Bird lies comatose in a hospital, while his wayward niece Annie arrives to sit in silent vigil by his side. Slowly their stories reveal two people previously separated... Read more

The Signal

By: Ron Carlson

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Well known for his short stories, critically acclaimed author Ron Carlson has been featured in the New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. Carlson has also won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, a National Society of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize.... Read more

2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

Narrated by: various narrators, John Lee, Armando Durán, G. ...

Length: 39 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bolaño’s life, 2666 was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his most brilliant achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strange beauty, daring experimentation, and epic scope. The book’s subject matter ranges from the heady heights of literature and love to the gritty realism of violence... Read more

The Stalin Epigram

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik & John Lee

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Stalin Epigram is a masterful rendering of the life of Osip Mandelstam, one of Russia's greatest poets of the twentieth century. His heroic protest against the Stalin regime—particularly his outspoken criticism of the collectivization that drove millions of Russian peasants to starvation—finally reached its apex in 1934. When he composed a... Read more

Shanghai Girls

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience.”—USA Today

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, ... Read more

Come Sunday

By: Isla Morley

Narrated by: Jennifer Wiltsie

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa.

Come Sunday is that joyous, special thing: a saga that captivates from the very first page, breaking our hearts while making our spirits soar.

Abbe Deighton is a woman who has lost her bearings. Once a child of the African... Read more

The City & The City

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other–real or imagined.

When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlú of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he... Read more

Song of Solomon - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

Milkman Dead was born shortly after... Read more

Fort Pillow

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was composed of almost 600 troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to attack the fort with about 1,500 men. The Confederates overran the fort and drove the Federals into a... Read more

The World Set Free, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last War erupts in Europe, rapidly escalating from bloody trench warfare and vicious aerial duels into a world-consuming atomic holocaust. Paris is engulfed by an atomic maelstrom, Berlin is an ever-flaming crater, and the cold waters of the North Sea roar past Dutch dikes and sweep across the Low Countries. Moscow, Chicago, Tokyo, London,... Read more

The Circular Staircase, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy, middle-aged spinster Rachel Innes is persuaded by her niece Gertrude and nephew Halsey to take a house in the country for the summer. Rachel is unaware that the house hides a sinister secret, and soon unexplained happenings and murder follow.



The Circular Staircase is perhaps Mary Roberts Rinehart's most famous story. The tale mixes... Read more

Trent's Last Case, with eBook

By: E. C. Bentley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be the first modern mystery novel, Trent's Last Case introduces the gentleman sleuth Philip Trent, a freelance reporter and investigator. Trent becomes involved in the case of the murder of millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson, slain while on holiday in England. During the course of his investigation, Trent... Read more

All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: John Randolph Jones

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An icon of American letters, Larry McMurtry counts a Pulitzer Prize and a screenwriting Academy Award among his numerous accomplishments. Here, Danny Deck-Emma's friend from Terms of Endearment-is a promising young writer losing touch with his talent and drifting from Texas to California because "that's where all the writers are." Set in the... Read more

Inselstolz - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Gerhard Waldherr & Uwe Bahn

Narrated by: Axel Prahl & Katharina Thalbach

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

18 Insulaner berichten vom Leben zwischen Land und Meer. Dort, wo der Wind wohnt und der Blick endlos ist. Wo morgens die Dünen glühen und abends kein Schiff mehr geht. Wie lebt es sich im Sehnsuchtsland, in dem andere nur Urlaub machen? In diesem Buch erzählen unter anderem Sylts Austernprinzessin, Borkums singender Wattführer und ein mutiger... Read more

The Bean Trees

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.”  — Los Angeles TimesA bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career.It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables, with eBook

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets the carpenter Mathew Maule's land. A few years later, during the witch hysteria in Salem, Maule is brought before a judge on witchcraft charges and is sentenced to death. Before his execution, Maule curses the Pyncheon family. The Colonel, undaunted, continues to build an extravagant house on Maule's property.... Read more