Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Silver Linings Playbook

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. The Silver Linings Playbook is the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his wife’s betrayal, an enchanting first novel about love,... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more

American Wife

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible

“Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time •... Read more

American Wife - Abridged

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible

“Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time •... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From its sharply satiric opening sentence, Mansfield Park deals with money and marriage, and how strongly they affect each other. Shy, fragile Fanny Price is the consummate "poor relation." Sent to live with her wealthy uncle Thomas, she clashes with his spoiled, selfish daughters and falls in love with his son. Their lives are further... Read more

Walk Through Darkness

By: David Anthony Durham

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

David Anthony Durham has won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award and a Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award. Walk Through Darkness is the story of a fugitive slave in search of his pregnant wife, and the lethal hunter who is tracking him. As these two quests intertwine, they form a fascinating mosaic of the Civil War era.... Read more

The Stolen Child

By: Keith Donohue

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman & Andy Paris

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When Henry Day is seven years old, he is kidnapped by ageless beings called changelings, who leave another child in Henry's place, a boy who will be his duplicate. Haunted by memories, both boys are driven to search for the keys to whom they once were before they switched places. Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis & a full cast

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Tabard Inn, thirty travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their... Read more

The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis

A Penguin Classic

In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an... Read more

Angie's Delight

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story with a cruel twist, about a lawyer and a criminal. Read more

The Girl in the Yellow Bikini

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

I've always thought of myself as a fan more than a writer. Never in a million years did I imagine that I'd ever get my fiction published, let alone have all of my books become New York Times bestsellers. It wasn't until I was in my 30's that I published my first short story, The Girl in the Yellow Bikini. It was released in 1974 in Mike Shayne... Read more

The Jailhouse Lawyer

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Jailhouse Lawyer"" appears in the 1998 anthology Legal Briefs as well as the 1999 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories. Read more

The Country Life

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of England's Whitbread Award for Saving Agnes and the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award, Rachel Cusk has won popular and critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. This young British author's beguiling novel is both poignant and hilarious. When Stella leaves London for a small village in Sussex, she hopes that the country life will... Read more

De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Silvia Sierra, Laura Gomez, Rossmery Almonte, A...

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandonando la tension politica de la RepublicaDominicana de los explosivos anos sesenta, las cuatro hermanasGarcia acompanadas de sus padres se autoexilian en el Bronx Neoyorquino, arribando a un ambiente totalmente desconocido y en extremo liberal para sus conservadores padres. La excelente narrativa de Julia Alvarez nos lleva de la mano por... Read more

Ceremony

By: Leslie Marmon Silko

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his... Read more

Man in the Dark

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books

From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered by many to be Charles Dickens's finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, the orphan Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens's most memorable characters.... Read more

Oliver Twist - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frank Stöckle

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der kleine Weltbürger Oliver Twist, Sohn unbekannter Eltern, wächst im Armenhaus einer Kleinstadt unter dem harten Regiment des selbstgefälligen Mr. Bumble auf. Er kommt zu einem Leichenbestatter in die Lehre, flieht ohne einen Pfennig nach London und gerät in die Fänge des Hehlers Fagin, der eine Bande jugendlicher Taschendiebe anführt. Und es... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo, with eBook - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is an Abridged Edition



For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At nineteen, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when, on his wedding day, he is arrested. Without a fair trial, he is condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable... Read more

3165 - Abridged

By: Bernhard Setzwein

Narrated by: Waltraud Janner-Stahl & Christian Hofmann

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dreitausendeinhundertfünfundsechzig mal war Johann Reichhart dienstlich im Einsatz. Reichhart war Bayerns letzter Scharfrichter. Seit 1924 richtete er Mörder und Sittlichkeitsverbrecher hin, aber auch Unschuldige und "Politische" wie die Geschwister Scholl - ja einmal sogar seine eigenen Lebensretter. Und plötzlich, Dezember 1948, steht er... Read more

The Little Book

By: Selden Edwards

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 14 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A marvelous debut novel about love and basketball, time travel and rock'n'roll. 

Thirty years in the writing, Selden Edwards' dazzling first novel is an irresistible triumph of the imagination. Wheeler Burden-banking heir, philosopher, student of history, legend's son, rock idol, writer, lover, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero-one day... Read more

The Sirens of Baghdad

By: Yasmina Khadra

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A student at the University of Baghdad must return to his small village home when the Americans invade Iraq. There, he witnesses American soldiers kill the benign village idiot, bomb a wedding, and finally, terrorize his family in his own home. Consumed by the desire for vengeance, the youth leaves for the city, where he is taken in by a radical... Read more

Der kleine König Dezember

By: Axel Hacke

Narrated by: Axel Hacke

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Er ist angezogen wie ein richtiger König, wie ein großer König. Er trägt einen roten Samtmantel mit weißem Hermelinbesatz. Aber er ist ein Winzling, nicht länger als ein Zeigefinger. Und dick ist er, denn seine Lieblingsspeise sind Gummibärchen. Wenn er eins isst, muss er es mit beiden Armen umfassen. Er kann es kaum hochheben, denn es ist... Read more

The Invisible Man, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Once a brilliant scientist, Griffin has been gradually consumed by his research. When he finally achieves his goal—becoming completely invisible—the final result is his departure from humanity. He feels no remorse in using his invisibility to gratify his increasing desires. As he gradually loses his mind, it is hard to determine if it is a... Read more