Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Bern ist überall - partout - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta, Pedro Lenz, Gerhard Meister, Michae...

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vielleicht sind sie die erste Band der Schweizer Literaturgeschichte - auf jeden Fall blüht dank des Spoken-Word-Ensembles "Bern ist überall" die gesprochene (Mundart-)Literatur wie nie zuvor: Die Bühnenprogramme der sieben Autor/innen und drei Musiker/innen finden ein immer grösseres, begeistertes Publikum. Nach der Live-CD "Im Kairo" (2006)... Read more

The School of Essential Ingredients

By: Erica Bauermeister

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Reese Witherspoon's Book Club pick The Scent Keeper comes a “heartbreakingly delicious” national bestseller about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food teaches about life. 

Once a month on a Monday night, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman... Read more

Der Totbeter

By: Herbert Rosendorfer

Narrated by: Herbert Rosendorfer

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Tag, an dem Staatsanwalt Riegel lernt, wie man störende Zeitgenossen totbetet, verändert sein Leben: Vom lärmenden Heimwerker bis zur nörgelnden Mutter überlebt niemand aus seinem Umfeld. Doch was so praktisch erschien, kann er nun nicht mehr abstellen... Rosendorfers schaurig-boshafte Geschichten aus dem Leben. Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with eBook

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in medieval Paris, Victor Hugo's powerful historical romance The Hunchback of Notre Dame has resonated with succeeding generations ever since its initial publication in 1837. It tells the story of the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda, condemned as a witch by the tormented archdeacon Claude Frollo, who lusts after her. Quasimodo, the deformed bell... Read more

Dancing in the Dark

By: Caryl Phillips

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Caryl Phillips has received international acclaim for his works, including the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and membership in the Royal Society of Literature. Dancing in the Dark brilliantly re-creates the life of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer to achieve stardom in America. In 1896, when Bert decides... Read more

Wartime Lies

By: Louis Begley

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

As the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, nine-year-old Maciek’s once closeted existence outside Warsaw is no more. When Warsaw falls, the orphaned Maciek escapes with his sharp-tongued aunt Tania. Posing as Catholic Poles to hide their Jewish identity, they endure the war together—running, hiding, changing their names, forging... Read more

Voices of the Ghost IV: The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Pity Sir Simon de Canterville, the poor Ghost of Canterville Chase! He killed his wife and was then starved to death by her brothers, but ever since then he's been happily haunting the family's mansion, always inventing fresh characters and costumes and blood-curdling shrieks.
Now along comes the Otis family, confident brash Americans who really... Read more

The Piano Teacher

By: Janice Y. K. Lee

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." —Elizabeth Gilbert

The New York Times bestseller 

Janice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin

In the sweeping tradition of The English Patient, Janice Y.K. Lee's debut novel is a tale of love... Read more

The Night Battles

By: M. F. Bloxam

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Joan Severance has returned to the Sicily of her childhood, ostensibly to do research in the archives of the remote fortress town of Valparuta. In truth, her academic career lies in ruin behind her after being relieved of her teaching duties at Brown University for assaulting a student. Unable to approach her own long-buried history of... Read more

Hard Times, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Red brick, machinery, and smoke-darkened chimneys. Reason, facts, and statistics. This is the world of Coketown, the depressed mill town that is the setting for one of Charles Dickens's most powerful and unforgettable novels.

The highest priority for Thomas Gradgrind, head of the Gradgrind model day school, is his version of education—feeding... Read more

Finding Nouf

By: Zoe Ferraris

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Zoe Ferraris' debut novel is hailed as a startling, richly textured work of the highest literary merit. Finding Nouf, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all... Read more

Tomato Girl

By: Jayne Pupek

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing favorable comparisons to the literary stylings of Carson McCullers and Kaye Gibbons, Jayne Pupek's debut is hailed by Library Journal as a "wrenching, stunning, and pitch-perfect novel." Eleven-year-old Ellie Sanders is forced to grow up quickly when her pregnant mother develops health problems and her father's attentions become diverted... Read more

Netherland

By: Joseph O'Neill

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans-a banker originally from the Netherlands-finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New... Read more

Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American... Read more

Still Water Saints

By: Alex Espinoza

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Still Water Saints chronicles a momentous year in the life of Agua Mansa, a largely Latino town beyond the fringes of Los Angeles. Agua Mansa is home to the Botánica Oshún, where people come seeking charms, herbs, candles, and above all, the guidance of the shop’s owner, Perla Portillo. Perla has served the community for years, arming her... Read more

Adam Bede, with eBook

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam and Seth Bede work as carpenters in Hayslope. Seth proposes to Dinah Morris, a gifted Methodist preacher. However, she prefers to devote herself to God's work. Meanwhile, Adam Bede woos Dinah's cousin Hetty Sorrel. But she is distracted by the attentions of Captain Arthur Donnithorne. When Adam finds out about Arthur's intentions toward... Read more

The Turn of the Screw, with eBook

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for Miles. But Peter Quint is dead.



To all immediate... Read more

The Zahir - Abridged

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It begins with a glimpse or a passing thought. It ends in obsession. One day a renowned author discovers that his wife, a war correspondent, has disappeared leaving no trace. Though time brings more success and new love, he remains mystified – and increasingly fascinated – by her absence. Was she... Read more

The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Jen Taylor

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Lizzy Bennet married Mr. Darcy, Jane Bennet married Mr. Bingley—but what became of the middle daughter, Mary? Readers of Pride and Prejudice will remember that there were five Bennet sisters. Now, twenty years on, Jane has a happy marriage and large family; Lizzy and Mr. Darcy now have a formidable social reputation; Lydia has a reputation of... Read more

The Bells of San Carlos

By: Max Brand

Narrated by: Cat Parker

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“The whip had cut him like a knife in a dozen places...”but the friar still won't talk about church gold. Is there any chance of mercy from the horrifying leader of the tomb robbers? Read more

The Man Who Shot the Favourite

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Hamilton Alexander

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A Society of Men hired a secretary to invest their money. When they Read more

Me and Kaminski

By: Daniel Kehlmann

Narrated by: Nicholas Coster

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann comes this provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men—one an artist and the other a journalist—who embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results. Sebastian Zollner's failure as a journalist is matched only by his personal failures. Searching for redemption... Read more

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Abridged

By: Tennessee Williams

Narrated by: Shirley Knight

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is the story of a fiftyish wealthy American widow who was most recently a famous stage beauty but is now drifting after the death of her husband. With poignant wit and his own particular brand of relish, Williams charts her drift into an affair with a cruel young gigolo. Read more

Rabbit, Run

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball... Read more