Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

All the Living

By: C.E. Morgan

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Aloma's chances of becoming a concert pianist diminish.Aloma is an orphan, raised by her aunt and uncle, educated at a mission school in the Kentucky mountains. At the start of the novel, she moves to an isolated tobacco farm to be with her lover, a young man named Orren, whose family has died in a car accident, leaving him in charge. The place... Read more

Lark and Termite

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

Narrated by: James Yaegashi

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, many-layered novel from one of our major writers, her first in nine years. Set in the 1950s in West Virginia and Korea, it is a story of the power of loss and love, the echoing ramifications of war, family secrets, dreams and ghosts, and the unseen, almost magical bonds that unite and sustain us. At its center: Lark and her brother,... Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Maria Schrader, Tom Schilling & Paul Ingendaay

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "ein Moralisten im Selbstversuch, der ernsthaft vor die Hunde ging und noch die Kraft fand, darüber zu schreiben" (Paul Ingendaay). Fitzgeralds Leben erzählt sich in unvergesslichen Anekdoten und Geschichten: wie er als junger Mann nichts lieber wollte als Footballspieler oder Soldat zu sein und an beidem scheiterte, wie er... Read more

The Lone Star Ranger, with eBook

By: Zane Grey

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

As the son of an infamous gunfighter, Buck Duane has the natural instincts and lightning-quick reflexes of his father. After killing a man in self-defense, he becomes an outlaw living amongst gunfighters and bandits on the Texas-Mexico border.



Despite his perilous position as a hunted fugitive, Duane risks his life as he tries to rescue a young... Read more

Die Geschichte der Onanie - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Hannelore Hoger, Richy Müller & Andreas Platthaus

Narrated by: Hannelore Hoger, Richy Müller & Andreas Platthaus

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Wichsen macht blind, wassersüchtig und wahnsinnig oder führt zu Impotenz und vorzeitigem Haarverlust - die Geschichte der Onanie ist voller Schreckensbilder, die Liste der Kläger umfasst Rousseau, Kleist und Cornflakes-Erfinder Kellogg. Ihre Vorschläge, wie der "onanistischen Seuche" beizukommen ist, reichen von elastischen Fesseln bis zur... Read more

The Boat

By: Nam Le

Narrated by: Gideon Emery, Henry Strozier, Jesús E. Martínez...

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of stories from Pushcart Prize-winning author Nam Le has been shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, is a New York Times Editors' Pick, and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The seven stories' protagonists range from a Colombian teenage assassin to an elderly painter with health problems. "Powerful ... Lyrical ...... Read more

My Abandonment

By: Peter Rock

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Leave No Trace, a film adaptation of My Abandonment, directed by Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. A thirteen-year-old girl and her father live in Forest Park, an enormous nature preserve in Portland, Oregon. They inhabit an elaborate cave shelter, wash in a nearby creek, store perishables... Read more

The Glister

By: John Burnside

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Leonard describes his hometown as a contemporary hell: part industrial ruin, part Dante’s Inferno. The poisoned woods and the derelict buildings are haunted by wild children, a strange, sickly fauna, and the mysterious Moth Man, an itinerant ecologist who appears to be conducting a bizarre survey into local insect populations,... Read more

The Titan

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: Stuart Langton

Length: 19 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Titan is the second volume in what the author called his “trilogy of desire,” featuring the character of Frank Cowperwood—a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige.Having married his former mistress, Aileen Butler, and moved to Chicago, Cowperwood almost succeeds in his... Read more

Daisy Chain

By: Mary E DeMuth

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The abrupt disappearance of young Daisy Chance from a small Texas town in 1973 spins three lives out of control—Jed, whose guilt over not protecting his friend Daisy strangles him; Emory Chance, who blames her own choices for her daughter’s demise; and Ouisie Pepper, who is haunted by dreams of Daisy while pierced by the shattered pieces of a... Read more

Whose Body? with eBook

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder—especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who... Read more

American Rust

By: Philipp Meyer

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Philipp Meyer presents his astounding debut American Rust—a powerful, morally complex novel of two friends struggling to face an uncertain future in a crumbling western Pennsylvania steel town.Twenty-year-old Isaac feels trapped by circumstance after his mother’s suicide and his genius older sister’s departure to Yale. His best and only... Read more

No Survivors

By: Tom Cain

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Accident Man returns in a heart-stopping race to prevent a global holy war

Tom Cain's The Accident Man introduced Samuel Carver-a man hired to make bad things happen-to rave reviews from critics and readers alike. Now, Carver is back in a new adventure that takes him from the war rooms of Washington, D.C., and the palaces of the French... Read more

The Decameron

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 29 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1348, the year of the Black Death, seven ladies and three gentlemen escape the dying, corrupt city of Florence to pass ten days in the hills of Fiesole telling each other stories. Reveling in their enchanted dreamworld of beauty and luxury, they take turns playing king or queen for the day, with the designated ruler naming the stipulations... Read more

Angels of Destruction

By: Keith Donohue

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction, opens on a winter’s night, when a young girl appears at the... Read more

Lowboy

By: John Wray

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on a New York City uptown B train on a fantastic and terrifying quest to save the world. Violet Heller, his frantic mother, is joined by Ali Lateef, a missing-persons specialist, in a desperate attempt to locate her son before psychosis claims him... Read more

The Believers

By: Zoe Heller

Narrated by: Andrea Martin

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit.”—New York Times Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed up the critical and commercial success of What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal with another tour-de-force on the meaning of faith, belief, and... Read more

The Kindly Ones

By: Jonathan Littell

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 39 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — TimeA literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class masterpiece of astonishing brutality, originality, and... Read more

Apologize, Apologize!

By: Elizabeth Kelly

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly written epic tale of a quirky, dysfunctional family in the tradition of The Corrections and The Hotel New Hampshire.

Collie Flanagan was named after his mother’s favorite breed of dog. His brother, Bingo, was named for an Irish setter. Their names are the least of their worries because they’re Flanagans, members of a wildly... Read more

The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Between 1841 and 1844, Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective fiction genre with his mesmerizing stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin. Introducing to literature the concept of applying reason to solving crime, these tales brought Poe fame and fortune. Years later, Dorothy Sayers would describe "The Murders in the Rue... Read more

The Lazarus Project

By: Aleksandar Hemon

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Bosnian-American author and MacArthur genius recipient Aleksandar Hemon pens novels of high insight and deft literary accomplishment. The Lazarus Project, alternating between turn-of-the-century Chicago and modern times, features a man attempting to reimagine the death of a Jewish immigrant. "... there's pathos and outrage enough to chip away at... Read more

More Than Human

By: Theodore Sturgeon

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this genre-bending novel, among the first to have launched science fiction into literature, a group of remarkable social outcasts band together for survival and discover that their combined powers render them superhuman. There’s Lone, the simpleton who can hear other people’s thoughts; Janie, who moves things without touching them; and the... Read more