Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Magic Seeds

By: V.S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Aasif Mandvi

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its... Read more

Le Divorce

By: Diane Johnson

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Diane Johnson, critically acclaimed author of Le Mariage, has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize during her distinguished career. The best-selling Le Divorce, a witty and insightful look at clashing cultures, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Isabel Walker has flown to Paris to offer moral support for Roxy, her pregnant... Read more

Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is America ... its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere ..." With the first line of his novel, Sinclair Lewis captures an America on the brink of change. Main Street vividly draws the lines of tension between tradition and progress in ways that make them timeless, yet still new. Carol Milford, educated, sophisticated,... Read more

The Reivers

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Faulkner's comic masterpieces, The Reivers is a picaresque that tells of three unlikely car thieves from rural Mississippi. Eleven-year-old Lucius Priest is persuaded by Boon Hogganbeck, one of his family's retainers, to steal his grandfather's car and make a trip to Memphis. The Priest's black coachman, Ned McCaslin, stows away, and... Read more

Loop Group

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times best-selling author Larry McMurtry is one of America's best novelists. Several of his books are modern classics, including Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment, which was adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture. Now McMurtry delivers a funny yet sobering road trip novel reminiscent of Thelma... Read more

Liza of Lambeth

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinarily popular author during his lifetime, W. Somerset Maugham created a literary legacy that includes such classics as The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor' s Edge. Maugham' s first novel, Liza of Lambeth is the story of 18-year-old Liza Kemp, a London factory worker near the beginning of the 20th century who falls deeply in love... Read more

Little Children

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times best-seller has earned universal acclaim, including starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Booklist . With hits like Election and Joe College to his credit, author Tom Perrotta has established himself as a master of satire. Unhappily married Sarah passes her days at the local playground... Read more

Krik? Krak!

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Dion Graham

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat earned a National Book Award nomination for this brilliant collection of stories, which includes Pushcart Prize winner "Between the Pool and the Gardenias." A "remarkably gifted writer" (Publishers Weekly), Danticat examines the brutality of her native Haiti, particularly as it affects women,... Read more

Chasing Windmills

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & Amber Sealey

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Sebastian, a lonely seventeen-year-old, is suffocating under his dominant father’s control. In the ten years since his mother passed away, his father has kept him “safe” by barely allowing him out of their apartment. Sebastian’s secret late-night subway rides are rare acts of rebellion.

Maria, a young mother of two, is trying to keep peace at... Read more

The Silver Swan

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist. His beloved Sarah is dead, the Judge lies in a convent hospital paralyzed by a devastating stroke, and Phoebe, Quirke's long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and... Read more

Claudius the God

By: Robert Graves

Narrated by: Nelson Runger

Length: 19 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudius, whom none of his bloody-minded relatives considered worth the trouble of executing, poisoning, forcing to suicide, banishing to a desert island or starving to death—which was how they one by one got rid of each other—was one day unexpectedly proclaimed Emperor.Claudius picks up the remarkable story he began in I, Claudius with his... Read more

The Gathering

By: Anne Enright

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Regarded as one of her country's foremost voices, Irish author Anne Enright makes a fresh mark on a rich literary tradition. "The Gathering" is a deeply insightful family saga, steeped in secrets and intrigue, unfolding over three generations. "Enright's hypnotic prose turns . desperation into something fierce and beautiful."-Booklist, starred... Read more

Tiere im Text - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Maria Schrader, Gustav Peter Wöhler & Max Moor

Narrated by: Maria Schrader, Gustav Peter Wöhler, Richy Müll...

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Seit Jahrhunderten entscheiden sie im Verborgenen über Worte, Sätze, Kapitel, Genres. Endlich haben sich die wahren Strippenzieher im Literaturbetrieb zu erkennen gegeben: Katze, Hund und Kakerlake berichten, wie sie die Dichter betreuen, inspirieren oder erschrecken. Die SchauspielerInnen Maria Schrader, Richy Müller und Gustav Peter Wöhler... Read more

Mister Pip

By: Lloyd Jones

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Lloyd Jones' Mister Pip is a modern tragedy set on a tiny copper-rich tropical island emabattled by internal strife. Thirteen-year-old Matilda watches as all the foreigners flee her homeland-all but one, the white man Mr. Watts. Amidst the ruins of the town schoolhouse, Watts reads Dickens' Great... Read more

The Soul Thief

By: Charles Baxter

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

As a graduate student in upstate New York, Nathaniel Mason is drawn into a tangle of relationships with people who seem to hover just beyond his grasp. There's Theresa, alluring but elusive, and Jamie, who is fickle if not wholly unavailable. But Jerome Coolberg is the most mysterious and compelling. Not only cryptic about himself, he seems also... Read more

Richard Yates - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Richard Yates

Narrated by: Joachim Król, Maria Schrader & Roger Willemsen

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Gibt es den perfekten Roman, in dem keine Figur überzeichnet ist, kein Adjektiv zu viel ist, kein Gedanke ins Leere läuft? Es gibt ihn, er heißt "Zeiten des Aufruhrs" und stammt aus der Feder eines Vergessenen: Richard Yates. So ungeheuerlich seine Themen, so gnadenlos seine Analyse des amerikanischen Alltages, dass Leser und Kritik ihn... Read more

The Labrador Pact

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a family in crisis and the loyal dog that holds them together, from the witty, imaginative author of The Dead Fathers Club. The Hunters—Adam, Kate, and their children Hal and Charlotte—are a typical family, with typical concerns: work, money, love, and the trials of adolescence. What sets them apart is Prince, their black... Read more

Wondrous Women

By: Teolinda Gersão, Kim Edwards, Allan Garganus, D...

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant, Holly Hunter, Harold Gould, ...

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Strong female protagonists grace this collection celebrating women in all their incarnations, young and old: mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, lovers, widows ... and a 70-year-old nun. Read more

And Sometimes Why

By: Rebecca Johnson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From a contributing editor for Vogue, a pitch-perfect, funny, and poignant novel about the joy and heartache of how deeply one person's life can affect so many others.

With wit and warmth, And Sometimes Why captures the fragile rhythm and unpredictable drama of family life. When Sophia and Darius say good-bye to their teenage daughters one... Read more

Joe

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An ALA Notable Book, Joe has earned critical acclaim nationwide, and Larry Brown has been compared to great Southern writers such as William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. In the Mississippi countryside, a friendship between a middle-aged, alcoholic contractor and an abused teen-aged boy becomes a bizarre rite of passage for both of them. The... Read more

Friend of the Devil

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling and Edgar award-winning author Peter Robinson—a riveting double homicide leaves two seasoned detectives baffled as they race against the clock before more corpses surface.Two murders . . . two towns . . .A woman sits in a wheelchair perched on a cliff high above the sea, her throat slit from ear to ear . . .In a maze... Read more

One True Thing

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen has been admired for her extraordinary intelligence, insight, and honesty. A young woman sits in jail, accused of the mercy killing of her dying mother. She didn't do it, but she thinks she knows who did. In the last months of her life, Ellen Gulden's mother revealed startling secrets... Read more

The Sacred Place

By: Daniel Black

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely hailed for its historical resonance, Daniel Black's The Sacred Place is a powerful examination of racial tensions in 1955 Mississippi. Visiting from Chicago, 14-year-old Clement is unfamiliar with social customs of the tiny town of Money. Striding into a general store, he offends the white store clerk by not placing his nickel in her... Read more

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Noemi De La Puente, Blanca Camacho, Annie Henk,...

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "simply wonderful" How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents captures the vivid lives of the Garcia sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America. In the 1960s, political tension forces the Garcia family away from Santo Domingo and toward the Bronx. The sisters all... Read more