Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Testimony - Abridged

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Eve Bianco & Ellen Archer

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which... Read more

More Favorite Stories of Christmas Past

By: Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, Cha...

Narrated by: Simon Prebble & Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Tantor Media presents a collection of some of the most popular Christmas stories read by two award-winning narrators. This special anthology will transport listeners back to the Christmases of their youth, when they first heard these holiday tales. From Henry Van Dyke's classic Christmas blessing, "Keeping Christmas," to Charles Dickens's... Read more

I See You Everywhere

By: Julia Glass

Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson & Julia Glass

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the best-selling Three Junes comes an intimate new work of fiction: a tale of two sisters, together and apart, told in their alternating voices over twenty-five years.

Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who years for a good marriage, an artistic career, a family. Clem, the... Read more

Mistakes In The Background

By: Laura Dockrill

Narrated by: Laura Dockrill

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Feast your eyes on a treasury of words and illustrations from one of the most exciting young talents around, recently voted by The Times as one of the top ten literary talents of 2008. Enter the weird and wonderful world of Laura Dockrill … I draw like a left-handed baby, I can hardly spell my own name and watching... Read more

In Morocco

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guidebook, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the most replete sightseer. The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbor of Algeciras and scramble onto a little black boat headed across the... Read more

The Glass Bead Game

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 21 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literatureSet in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his... Read more

Der kleine Prinz

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Lorenz Christian Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Armin Rohd...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein Hörspiel mit vielen bekannten Schauspielern, die den Figuren aus dem kleinen Prinzen ihre Stimme gaben. Die Inszenierung orientiert sich eng an der Vorlage des Autors, verzichtet aber keineswegs auf eigene Akzente. In bester Theatertradition werden einige Abläufe dramaturgisch verändert, um deren Sinn zu verdeutlichen und den Zuhörern ein... Read more

A Partisan's Daughter

By: Louis de Bernieres

Narrated by: Sian Thomas & Jeff Rawle

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without Wings comes an intimate new novel, a love story at once raw and sweetly funny, wry and heartbreakingly sad.
He’s Chris: bored, lonely, trapped in a loveless, sexless marriage. In his forties, he’s a stranger inside the youth culture of London in the late 1970s, a stranger to... Read more

Serena

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1929, and newlyweds George and Serena Pemberton arrive in North Carolina to create a timber empire. Although George has already lived in the camp long enough to father an illegitimate child, Serena is new to the mountains—but she soon shows herself to be the equal of any worker, overseeing crews, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving her... Read more

Lulu in Marrakech

By: Diane Johnson

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Like Jane Austen [Diane Johnston] steps out of the frame to anatomize her characters with sudden insight; like Virginia Woolf she creeps back in to record their inappropriate thoughts–and their consternation at having them.” –Newsweek

Lulu Sawyer arrives in Marrakech, Morocco, hoping to rekindle her romance with a worldly Englishman, Ian Drumm.... Read more

The Man in Lower Ten

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been called the mistress of mystery. In fact, the phrase "The butler did it" originated in one of her books. In 1905 Rinehart entered a field exclusive to men: detective fiction. Now, nearly a century after she began her ground-breaking career, her celebrated thrillers still remain un-put-down-able... Read more

The Cowboy with the Tiffany Gun

By: Aaron Latham

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Aaron Latham's popular Code of the West took its inspiration from Arthurian legend, exchanging cowboys and ranchers for knights and kings. In this rousing sequel, Jimmy Goodnight's son Percy, or Pyg as he is known, comes of age. Returning to their ranch land in Texas, Pyg and his mother discover their family heirloom ax is missing. Now Pyg's... Read more

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears

By: Dinaw Mengestu

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Ethiopian EmigrE author Dinaw Mengestu is a skilled observer of people who earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly for this colorful debut. Insightful and swiftly paced, this novel evokes past and present in the course of its compelling narrative. It's the '70s, and one D.C. neighborhood is undergoing big changes. In the mix is Ethiopian... Read more

Readers & Writers

By: Walter R. Brooks, Italo Calvino, Adam Haslett, ...

Narrated by: Tony Roberts, John Shea, Blair Brown, Christina...

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A boon for book lovers, this compilation features funny, fantastical and poignant stories about people with unique and passionate connections to the written word. Read more

For Better and For Worse

By: Sherman Alexie, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ethan Canin,...

Narrated by: Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Frances Sternhagen...

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection that anyone who's taken that walk down the aisle can relate to! Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves. Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius. This volume of selected stories represent an... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1901, The Hound of the Baskervilles tells the story of Sir Henry Baskerville, who arrives at Baskerville Hall to investigate the mysterious death of his uncle, Sir Charles. Charles's strange and unexpected death resurrects long-ignored fears about a gigantic ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his family for... Read more

Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Washington Irving

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You are probably familiar with the popularized stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," but have you heard the original unabridged versions by Washington Irving? His skillfully written and colorful tales have much more meaning and depth. In "Rip Van Winkle," Irving makes a profound social comment about the changes that were... Read more

The Bible Salesman

By: Clyde Edgerton

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A musician and songwriter, Clyde Edgerton has penned multiple best-sellers and has had five of his novels named New York Times Notable Books. In The Bible Salesman, Preston Clearwater is scoring cash working a car-theft ring in post-World War II North Carolina. When he picks up 19-year-old Bible salesman Henry Dampier, Preston convinces the kid... Read more

Hotel Honolulu

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Paul Theroux weaves a multilayered tale charged with humor, lust, and tragedy. Looking to get away, a man suffering from writer's block winds up at the run-down Hotel Honolulu, where he becomes the new manager. Intrigued by the human drama developing all around him, he hopes to rekindle his writing passion. Read more

Großtante Hortense: Bowlen, Punsche & Amouren - Abridged

By: Leonhard Reinirkens

Narrated by: Leonhard Reinirkens

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ja, die gute alte Zeit ... Der Kaiser regiert, das Familienunternehmen ist in beträchtlicher Schieflage - und Großtante Hortense becirct die Männer mit ihren raffinierten Bowlen- und Punschrezepturen. Jahre später erzählt sie im Familienkreise von ihren amourösen Abenteuern - und vererbt im gleichen Zuge die Geheimnisse für die leckersten... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray, with eBook

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparkling prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. This dandy, who remains forever unchanged—petulant, hedonistic, vain, and amoral—while a painting of him ages and grows increasingly hideous... Read more

Tales of the Fish Patrol

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Jonathan Reese

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this classic collection of stories drawn from his own experiences, author Jack London looks back on his days as a teenager aboard the fishing boats of San Francisco Bay. In the early 1900s, men of all stripes descended on these waters to plunder its rich oyster beds. To stop the run on the waters, a patrol was established. London began his... Read more

The Flowers

By: Dagoberto Gilb

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dagoberto Gilb has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sonny Bravo is a young Mexican American struggling to become a man while living with his mom and step-father in a small urban community known as the Flowers. There the assorted residents teach Sonny life lessons, even as racial tensions... Read more