Fiction - Literary audiobooks

McTeague

By: Frank Norris

Narrated by: Wolfram Kandinsky

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic immediacy as Frank Norris’ McTeague. Heredity and environment play the role of fate in this portrayal of human degradation in turn-of-the-century San Francisco.McTeague, a successful but naive dentist, marries Trina, introduced to him by her cousin Marcus Schouler.... Read more

The Well and the Mine

By: Gin Phillips

Narrated by: T.J. Kenneally & Margaret Nichols

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931 Carbon Hill, a small Alabama coal-mining town, nine-year-old Tess Moore watches a woman shove the cover off the family well and toss in a baby without a word. For the Moore family, focused on helping anyone in need during the Great Depression, the apparent murder forces them to face the darker side of their community and question the... Read more

Pushkin and the Queen of Spades

By: Alice Randall

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Windsor Armstrong is a polished, Harvard educated, African American professor of Russian literature. Her son, Pushkin X, is an exceedingly famous pro-football player, an achievement that impresses his mother not at all. Even more distressing, however, is that her beloved son has just become engaged to a gorgeous white Russian émigré who also... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a crumbling Venetian villa, The Aspern Papers is a story about the heart’s romantic ambitions and the pragmatic methods we use to pursue them. An American editor arrives in Venice on a quest to acquire some unpublished letters written by his favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Aspern. He tracks down the mistress to whom the letters were... Read more

The History of Now

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Small, almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. The sixty-five-year-old projectionist at the local movie theater encounters an unexpected love affair. The town’s drama leader wrestles with self-doubt over a politically-correct play a New... Read more

Otto of the Silver Hand

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“This tale that I am about to tell is of a little boy who lived and suffered in those dark middle ages; of how he saw both the good and the bad of men, and of how, by gentleness and love and not by strife and hatred, he came at last to stand above other men and to be looked up to by all.”—from the bookYoung Otto is born into a warring household... Read more

What Dreams May Come

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens to us after we die? Chris Nielsen had no idea, until an unexpected accident cut his life short, separating him from his beloved wife, Annie.Now Chris must discover the true nature of life after death. But even heaven is not complete without Annie, and the divided soul mates will do anything to reach each other across the boundaries... Read more

The Winner Stands Alone

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Coelho’s] special talent seems to be his ability to speak to everyone at once. The kind of spirituality he espouses is to all comers. . . . His readers often say that they see their own lives in his own books.”
—New Yorker From the bestselling author of The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, comes an absorbing new novel that holds a mirror up to our... Read more

Under the Volcano

By: Malcolm Lowry

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On the Day of the Dead, 1938, former British consul Geoffrey Firmin is in Quauhnahuac, Mexico, where his life has become overshadowed by the debilitating malaise of drinking. His wife, Yvonne, has just arrived on a mission to rescue their failing marriage, inspired by a vision of a life together away from Mexico and the circumstances that have... Read more

Thanks for the Memories

By: Cecelia Ahern

Narrated by: Sile Bermingham

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Ahern] gives us full permission to believe in magic.” —Redbook Magazine One of the world’s most popular writers of women’s fiction—author of the beloved international bestseller, P.S. I Love You, basis for the popular film starring Hilary Swank—Cecelia Ahern now gives us Thanks for the Memories, a heartwarming tale of déjà vu and second... Read more

The Song Is You

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Each song on Julian's iPod, "that greatest of all human inventions," is a touchstone. There are songs for the girls from when he was single, there's the one for the day he met his wife-to-be, there's one for the day his son was born. But when Julian's family falls apart, even music loses its hold on him. Until one snowy night in Brooklyn, when... Read more

English

By: Wang Gang

Narrated by: Michael Sun Lee

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"I loved this book and can't stop talking about it. . . . Transcendent." —Carolyn See, The Washington Post

In the tradition of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Wang Gang's English is a captivating coming-of-age novel about the power of language to launch a journey of self-discovery. When a new teacher—a tall, elegantly dressed man from... Read more

As They Were

By: M. F. K. Fisher

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Written in her fine prosaic style as a series of vignettes, this rewarding book recounts the life and adventures of respected writer Mary Fisher during her travels in America and Europe. The events are filled with wonderful details of people, places, foods, and thoughts, through decades of her life. Read more

Whodunit?

By: C.S. Montanye, Dashiell Hammett, Ed McBain, Lou...

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan, John Shea, Hattie Wilson, Is...

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix.

Stories in this set include: Dashiell Hammett's "The Creeping Siamese", performed by John Shea - The Continental Op gets his man C.S. Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess", performed... Read more

Confessions of a Contractor

By: Richard Murphy

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Henry Sullivan has spent seventeen years renovating houses for wealthy women in Los Angeles. To distance himself from his clients, and the intimate environments he works in, he has devised a set of rules to keep him out of trouble. Over the course of one very complicated summer, he begins breaking those rules when he takes on the houses and the... Read more

The William Hurt Collection

By: Tobias Wolff, Ron Carlson, Aleksandar Hemon & R...

Narrated by: William Hurt

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award-winning actor William Hurt.  This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.

Stories in this set include: Aleksandar Hemon's "Blind Josef Pronek" - A... Read more

The Color of Lightning

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Meticulously researched and beautifully crafted.... This is glorious work.” — Washington Post “A gripping, deeply relevant book.” — New York Times Book Review From Paulette Jiles, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Enemy Women and Stormy Weather, comes a stirring work of fiction set on the untamed Texas frontier in... Read more

Veronika Decides to Die

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Fran Tunno

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything—youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. But something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning, she takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does—at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to... Read more

The Black Tulip, with eBook

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The tulip craze of seventeenth-century Holland has a dark side! Cornelius van Baerle, a wealthy but naive tulip grower, finds himself entangled in the deadly politics of his time. Cornelius's one desire is to grow the perfect black tulip. But after his godfather is murdered, he finds himself in prison, facing a death sentence. His jailer's... Read more

The House of Blue Mangoes

By: David Davidar

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, renowned for its groves of a rare variety of blue mango, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village from both catastrophe and change, and the decisions he makes... Read more

Slumdog Millionaire

By: Vikas Swarup

Narrated by: Christopher Simpson

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Former tiffin boy Ram Mohammad Thomas has correctly answered twelve questions on a television quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees. But he is brutally slung in prison on suspicion of cheating—for how else could a poor, uneducated orphan know so much: the name of the smallest planet, global capitals, and diplomatic policy? In the order of... Read more

Up in the Air

By: Walter Kirn

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of... Read more

Paradise - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged infants were born in one family. Daughters refused to get out of bed. Brides disappeared on their honeymoons. Two brothers shot each other on New... Read more

Sonata for Miriam

By: Linda Olsson

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan & Andy Paris

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Olsson's Astrid & Veronika became a New York Times best-seller and an international phenomenon. With Sonata for Miriam, Olsson further explores themes of loss and redemption. After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one... Read more