Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of... Read more

Sima's Undergarments for Women

By: Ilana Stanger-Ross

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There are some life-long quests that all women have in common–meaningful work, true love, and a bra that doesn’t leave red marks on your skin.

In the comfort of her Brooklyn basement bra shop, Sima Goldner teaches other women to appreciate their bodies, but feels betrayed by her own. Shamed by her infertility and by a secret from her youth, she... Read more

Bleak House, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 39 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of... Read more

It’s All Love

By: Marita Golden

Narrated by: Marita Golden & various narrators

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In It's All Love, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred.Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she awoke certain that she would meet her soulmate in "Meeting Joe." Memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts writes stirringly about serving time in prison... Read more

Rabbit Redux

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"A triumph."

NEWSDAY

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How... Read more

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more

Madame Bovary, with eBook

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the acknowledged masterpieces of nineteenth-century realism, Madame Bovary is revered by writers and readers around the world, a mandatory stop on any pilgrimage through modern literature. Gustave Flaubert's legendary style, his intense care over the selection of words and the shaping of sentences, and his unmatched ability to convey a... Read more

Around the World in Eighty Days, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager: He will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic novel—one that remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment and pure adventure.



Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant, Jean Passepartout, embark on a fantastic... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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