Fiction - Literary audiobooks

More Than It Hurts You

By: Darin Strauss

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Read Darin Strauss's posts on the Penguin Blog

Josh Goldin's happy yet unexamined existence is shattered one morning when his wife, Dori, rushes their eight-month- old son to the emergency room in severe distress. Dr. Darlene Stokes, an African-American physician and single mother, suspects Munchausen by proxy, a rarely diagnosed and... Read more

Made in the U.S.A.

By: Billie Letts

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Where the Heart Is returns with a heartrending tale of two children in search of a place to call home.

Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost everything. With her mother long dead and her father long gone to find his fortune in Las Vegas, 15-year-old Lutie lives... Read more

The Beach House

By: Jane Green

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Falling and Sister Stardust comes the New York Times bestseller about finding your place in the place you call home.

Ever since her life took an unexpected turn, Nan Powell has enjoyed living alone on the sun-drenched shores of Nantucket. At sixty-five, she’s just as likely to be found at Windermere, her beach front home, as... Read more

Stealing Athena

By: Karen Essex

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the bestselling Leonardo’s Swans traverses the centuries into the hearts of two extraordinary women to reveal the passions, ambitions, and controversies surrounding the Elgin Marbles.

The Elgin Marbles have been displayed in the British Museum for nearly two hundred years, and for just as long they have been the center of a raging... Read more

The Sister

By: Poppy Adams

Narrated by: Juliet Mills

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that define her days, carrying on her father’s solitary work... Read more

Die Vogelwelt von Auschwitz

By: Arno Surminski

Narrated by: Peter Striebeck

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Zwei Männer begegnen sich in der Hölle. Sie könnten unterschiedlicher nicht sein: Der eine ist abkommandierter KZ-Wachmann, der andere Lagerhäftling. Sie verbindet, dass sie einander nützlich sein können. Nur als Menschen können sie sich nie nahe kommen. Zu viel steht zwischen ihnen: Macht, Ohnmacht, Schuld, Sühne. So stehen sie am Ende allein... Read more

The Story of Forgetting

By: Stefan Merrill Block

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man, he believed himself to be "the one person too many"; now he is all that remains. Hundreds of miles to the south, in Austin, Seth Waller is... Read more

Kräutermärchen

By: Folke Tegetthoff

Narrated by: Folke Tegetthoff

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Originelle Geschichten über die geheime Kraft der Kräuter, gelesen vom Meister des Märchenerzählens. Folke Tegetthoff schenkt uns in seiner berühmten und unnachahmlichen Erzählweise Märchen von den Pflanzen und Kräutern aus unserer Umgebung und von den Menschen, die sie verwenden. Er lässt so verlorengeglaubtes Wissen um die Kräfte und den... Read more

Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 28 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously satirical attack on a money-mad society, Vanity Fair, which first appeared in 1847, is an immensely moral novel, and an immensely witty one. Vanity Fair features two heroines: the faithful, loyal Amelia Sedley, and the beautiful and scheming social climber Becky Sharp. It also engages a huge cast of wonderful supporting characters... Read more

How to be Single - Abridged

By: Liz Tuccillo

Narrated by: Judy Greer

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the hit film!

From the coauthor of He’s Just Not That Into You and a former story editor for Sex and the City, How to Be Single is about one woman’s attempts to navigate a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia’s... Read more

Lying Awake

By: Mark Salzman

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Salzman received critical acclaim for Iron & Silk, his personal account of two years spent in China. In Lying Awake, he creates a fascinating spiritual landscape that lies behind the walls of a monastery. Readers around the world praise the beauty and originality of this novel. Sister John has devoted her life to serving God. For almost... Read more

Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician

By: Daniel Wallace

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith, Norman Dietz, Tom Stechschulte,...

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Walker was once a world-class magician, performing to sold-out shows in New York. But now he has been reduced to joining Musgrove's Chinese Circus (which at no point in its tour of the deep South has ever included a single Chinese person) as the shambling Negro Magician, whose dark black skin and electric green eyes bewitch most audiences.... Read more

The Virgin Suicides

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece... Read more

The Other

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars, a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life.

John William Barry has inherited the pedigree–and wealth–of two of Seattle’s elite families; Neil Countryman is blue-collar Irish.... Read more

Rudyard Kipling Tales of the Jungle

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In these two tales drawn from the magical world of the jungles of India, Rudyard Kipling explores issues of good and evil, courage and honor, materialism and spirituality. In "The King's Ankus", the wolf-boy Mowgli confronts a treasure made long ago by humankind--treasure for which humankind will kill, and kill, and kill again. In "The Miracle... Read more

Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time. This classic tale of shipwreck and survival on an uninhabited island was an instant success when first published in 1719, and it has inspired countless imitations.



In his own words, Robinson Crusoe... Read more

Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas Hardy's novel of seduction and abandonment introduced his most memorable tragic heroine, the unworldly maiden Tess. On her morning journey to earn money for her impoverished family, Tess' horse has an accident, forcing her to seek assistance from some newly rich relatives. There, she is vigorously pursued by Alec, who corners her in a... Read more

Disgrace

By: J. M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Michael Cumpsty

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee

"Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker

At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with... Read more

Die gute Erde - Abridged

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der berühmteste Roman der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Pearl S. Buck gelesen von Ulrich Noethen. Es ist die ergreifende Geschichte des armen Bauern Wang Lung, der sich mit Fleiß, Sparsamkeit und Verzicht großen Reichtum erwirbt. Weder Hungersnöte noch Überschwemmungen können Wang entmutigen, auf seine "gute Erde" zu vertrauen. Doch die Freude... Read more

Mit Fontane auf Reisen - Abridged

By: Theodor Fontane

Narrated by: Philipp Kreisselmeier

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Notizen und Feuilletons des Reiseschriftstellers Theodor Fontane, herausgegeben von Peter Bramböck. Obwohl weit über 100 Jahre alt, sind Fontanes Betrachtungen über die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Urlaubs, über Hoteliers, Gastwirte und Mitreisende aktuell wie ehedem. Überraschend ist auch Fontanes Umgang mit Sehenswürdigkeiten wie... Read more

An Absolute Scandal

By: Penny Vincenzi

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 35 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Penny Vincenzi, master of the contemporary blockbuster, returns with a moving, engaging portrait of people coping with a notorious financial disaster and its unpredictable emotional repercussions.

Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, An Absolute Scandal follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary... Read more

Atmospheric Disturbances

By: Rivka Galchen

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Leo Liebenstein’s wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to... Read more

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 14 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she... Read more

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Abridged

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she... Read more