Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Norwegian by Night

By: Derek B. Miller

Narrated by: Mike Ortego

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner and Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. 

Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in... Read more

Life After Kafka

By: Magdaléna Platzová

Narrated by: Christa Lewis

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of Felice Bauer, Franz Kafka's first fiancée, and the story behind Letters to Felice



Franz Kafka scholars know Felice Bauer, his onetime fiancée, through his Letters to Felice, as little more than a woman with a raucous laugh and a taste for bourgeois comforts. Life After Kafka is her story. The novel begins in 1935 as Felice flees with... Read more

The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley

By: Shelley Wood

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

WHAT IF YOU GREW ONLY ONE YEAR OLDER EVERY FOUR YEARS?FEBRUARY 29, 1916: After an unusually long pregnancy, war widow Lillian McKinley gives birth to a baby girl on leap day. Kit proves to be a healthy, happy, and intelligent child, but unnaturally slow to age—growing just one year older every four years. For decades, she and her family must... Read more

The Breast

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the... Read more

Last Post

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them. — W. H. Auden Last Post is the fourth and final installment of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, a work that Ford hoped would contribute to the obviating of all future wars. The story follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner... Read more

The Miniature Wife

By: Manuel Gonzales

Narrated by: Manuel Gonzales, Kirsten Potter & Lee Osorio

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena.

The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that thrums with energy and shimmers with beauty. In “The... Read more

Jellyfish Have No Ears

By: Adèle Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since she was a child, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf—her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests a cochlear implant. This irreversible operation would give Louise a new sense of hearing—but it would come... Read more

Северный лес

By: Дэниел Мейсон

Narrated by: Алексей Багдасаров & Мария Орлова

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Новый долгожданный роман, превосходящий границы любых жанров, от финалиста Пулитцеровской премии. Молодая пара сбегает из пуританской колонии и начинает новую жизнь в хижине, затерянной в лесах Западного Массачусетса. Влюбленные ищут в глуши уединения, но вместо этого их дом станет пристанищем для удивительных человеческих и нечеловеческих... Read more

Part of Your World

By: Abby Jimenez

Narrated by: Karoline Mask von Oppen & Richard Lingscheidt

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Small Town Guy meets City Girl – Wenn du die große Liebe triffst und euch Welten trennen... Als Alexis Montgomery, die Tochter einer legendären Arztfamilie, bei einer Reifenpanne auf Daniel Grant trifft und mit ihm eine Nacht verbringt, sind zwei Dinge klar: Zwischen Alexis und Daniel besteht eine unerklärliche Anziehung – und niemals kann... Read more

The Seduction of an English twat magnet

By: John Armstrong

Narrated by: John Armstrong

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In this surreal and captivating narrative of "The Seduction of an English Twat Magnet," John Armstrong takes readers on an introspective journey through the fragmented psyche of Jean, a man grappling with Dissociative Identity Disorder. This disorder, characterized by depersonalization and derealization, blurs the lines between reality and the... Read more

Le garçon d'encre

By: Marie-Christine Chartier

Narrated by: Marie-Christine Chartier

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

À la mort de son père, Maxine doit retourner dans son village natal, qu’elle a fui six ans plus tôt. Cela ravive chez elle des souvenirs douloureux, dont la perte de sa mère et sa relation houleuse avec son père. Elle a l'intention de repartir juste après les funérailles. Mais une énorme surprise l’attend. En effet, dans son testament, son père... Read more

Die Unmöglichkeit des Lebens

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Leslie Malton

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Leslie Malton erweckt einfühlsam und humorvoll Grace' späte Abenteuersuche zum Leben. Was aussieht wie Magie ist einfach ein Teil des Lebens, den wir noch nicht verstehen ... Als Grace, eine pensionierte Mathematiklehrerin, von einer fast vergessenen Freundin ein heruntergekommenes Häuschen auf einer Mittelmeerinsel erbt, siegt ihre Neugier.... Read more

Glück (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Jackie Thomae

Narrated by: Yara Blümel

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Kann man nur als Mutter oder auch anders glücklich werden? Marie-Claire, kurz MC, bekannt als die gut gelaunte Stimme aus dem Radio, bekommt mit knapp vierzig von ihrer Frauenärztin diesen Satz zu hören: Sie hatten ein Vierteljahrhundert Zeit. Und jetzt ist es zu spät oder so gut wie. Die wichtigste Deadline des Lebens: verpasst. Den im Grunde... Read more

Distancia de rescate

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Paula Pichersky

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

La extraordinaria primera novela de Samanta Schweblin en la que se basa la película de Claudia Llosa. Hipnótica, incómoda y atrapante. *** PREMIO IBEROAMERICANO DE LETRAS JOSÉ DONOSO 2022 PREMIO TIGRE JUAN PREMIO OJO CRÍTICO NOMINADA AL PREMIO MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL El campo ha cambiado frente a nuestros ojos sin que nadie se diera cuenta.... Read more

Locus Amoenus

By: V. N. Alexander

Narrated by: Ben Jorgensen

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dark comedy, a 9/11 widow and her son, Hamlet, have retreated from Brooklyn to the idyllic rural countryside upstate, where for nearly eight years they have tried organic farming. Unfortunately, their outrageously obese neighbors, who prefer the starchy products of industrial agriculture, shun their elitist ways (recycling, eating... Read more

Costanza

By: Rachel Blackmore

Narrated by: Esther Wane

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'In Blackmore's striking fictional retelling of this true history, Costanza refuses to accept a fate as nothing more than a victim of male exploitation' SUNDAY TIMES, BEST HISTORICAL FICTION
'Emotionally intense' DAILY MAIL
'A stunning, visceral portrait of a woman and her life and a story as relevant now as it was then. I was gripped' JENNIE... Read more

Leergut (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Jörg Maurer

Narrated by: Jörg Maurer

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Von den Abenteuern eines vergesslichen Mannes Daniel Koch ist sportlich, freundlich und fühlt sich topfit. Dass er manchmal Sachen vergisst, kümmert ihn nicht, das passiert ja jedem mal. Dann aber sagt ihm seine Ärztin, dass er Alzheimer hat und der Verlauf der Erkrankung nicht aufzuhalten sei. Und tatsächlich, Daniel driftet sehr rasch immer... Read more

Und dahinter das Meer (Autorisierte Lesefassung)

By: Laura Spence-Ash

Narrated by: Sandrine Mittelstädt

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

London 1940: Um ihre elfjährige Tochter vor Luftangriffen zu schützen, beschließen die Thompsons schweren Herzens, Beatrix für ungewisse Zeit zu einer Gastfamilie in die USA zu schicken. Nach der langen Schiffspassage trifft Bea wütend und verängstigt in Boston ein, aber schon bald fühlt sie sich bei den Gregorys zu Hause, während ihre... Read more

The Man in the Moon

By: Andrew Barrow

Narrated by: John Sackville

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Are all aspiring stand-up comics as tragic as Baby Reindeer? If William is anything to go by, the answer is possibly ‘yes’. Nostalgic, razor-sharp and deliciously peculiar, this is a weird but wonderful comedy of manners by the award-winning author of The Tap Dancer. William is a lonely young man on... Read more

Голова профессора Доуэля

By: Александр Беляев

Narrated by: Руслан Драпалюк

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

«Голова профессора Доуэля» — научно-фантастический роман русского писателя-фантаста Александра Беляева, одно из наиболее известных произведений писателя. Первый вариант в виде рассказа был опубликован в «Рабочей газете» в 1925 году. Роман был впервые опубликован в том же году в журнале «Всемирный следопыт». Read more

திருப்பாடற்றிரட்டு

By: Kunankuti Masthan

Narrated by: Ramani

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

குணங்குடி மஸ்தான் சாகிபுவின் காலம் கிபி 1788 – 1835 க்கு இடைப்பட்டது. அரபியிலும் தமிழிலும் புலமை பெற்றவர். இஸ்லாமிய மார்க்கப்பிரிவுகளில் ஒன்றான காதிரிய்யா தரீகாவின் செயக்ப்துல் காதிரிலெப்பை ஆலிமிடம் மார்க்க கல்வி பெற்றார். திரிசிரபுரத்து ஆலிம் மௌலவி ஷாம் சாகிபுவிடம் தீட்சைபெற்றுக் கொண்டு தொண்டியில் நான்கு மாதங்கள் கல்வத்து இருந்தார். தொண்டி... Read more

Рыжая Фрея

By: Константин Зарубин

Narrated by: Алексей Багдасаров & Юлия Яблонская

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Перед вами три сказки для взрослых детей про тайны вселенной, науку и смысл жизни. Одна сказка исландская: о скрытом народе, рыжей лошадке по имени Фрея и девушке по имени Катла, которая хотела изучать звёзды. Другая сказка постсоветская: о том, как Аля Зайцева встретила за границей погибшую тетю Иру, которой досталась запасная жизнь. Третья... Read more

Mirall trencat - Abridged

By: Mercè Rodoreda

Narrated by: Montse Germán & Mia Esteve

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una família rica, una casa abandonada, un jardí desolat… Tenia ganes de fer una novel·la on hi hagués de tot això." Mirall trencat és la més profusa de les novel·les de Mercè Rodoreda, un retrat de família al llarg de tres generacions, i un imponent retrat de dona amb la figura de Teresa Goday. "Figurava que els camins de la vida i de la... Read more

The Girl in Green

By: Derek B. Miller

Narrated by: Josh Innerst

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before.

1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a... Read more