Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Gardens of Water

By: Alan Drew

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Powerful, emotional, and beautifully written, Alan Drew’s stunning first novel brings to life two unforgettable families–one Kurdish, one American–and the sacrifice and love that bind them together.

In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing for their nine-year-old son’s coming-of-age... Read more

The Emperor's Children

By: Claire Messud

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark forces them to confront their own desires and expectations. The Emperor's Children is a sweeping portrait of... Read more

helden:tot

By: Stefan Sprang

Narrated by: Andreas Fröhlich

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Basierend auf einem Theaterstück von Stefan Sprang, ist die Hörspielfassung von "helden:tot" ein faszinierender Trip durch die Gedanken und Gefühlswelt der Hauptfigur Marcus Wennmann. Der Hörer wird Zeuge eines gefühlvollen und ironischen Monologes, den Wennmann in den heimischen vier Wänden einem Aufnahmegerät anvertraut - es entsteht ein... Read more

Fay

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry Brown is hailed as one of today's most talented Southern writers. With the release of each book, including Dirty Work, Father and Son, and Joe, reviewers and fans offer increasingly enthusiastic praise for the astonishing characters he creates. At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her... Read more

Family Linen

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Smith is one of today's most critically acclaimed authors writing about contemporary life in the South. In Family Linen, with a remarkable economy of description and dialogue, Smith sketches eccentric, yet familiar characters moving through a family drama that resonates with both tension and humor. Sybil Hess, a polished, Southern apartment... Read more

Fair and Tender Ladies

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of many novels and short stories, best-selling writer Lee Smith has received numerous awards for her works, including two O Henry Awards. Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel that traces the life of Ivy Rowe, born in the isolated Virginia mountain community of Sugar Fork. Through births and deaths, marriages and funerals, the... Read more

The Egyptologist

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Bianca Amato, Gerard Doyle, Simon Prebble & Gia...

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Prague comes a witty, inventive, brilliantly constructed novel about an Egyptologist obsessed with finding the tomb of an apocryphal king. This darkly comic labyrinth of a story opens on the desert plains of Egypt in 1922, then winds its way from the slums of Australia to the ballrooms of Boston by way of Oxford,... Read more

The Invention of Everything Else

By: Samantha Hunt

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Invention of Everything Else is a luminous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla, and a young hotel chambermaid, Louisa, who is obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the hotel guests. Louisa first catches sight of the hotel’s most famous resident on New Year’s Day, 1943, and is... Read more

Everyman

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of "The Plot Against America" now turns his attention to one man's lifelong confrontation with mortality in this fiercely intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. Unabridged. 5 CDs. Read more

The Devil's Dream

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Mark Hammer, Ruth Ann Phimister, Christina Moor...

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Devil's Dream is an animated, lyrical novel that is meant to be savored as spoken word. Consummate storyteller Lee Smith's creation will delight anyone who enjoys the sound of language and a good story. Preacher's son Moses Bailey believed that the fiddle was the voice of the Devil and denied his... Read more

Duplicate Keys

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Smiley's talent for creating emotionally-gripping tales of family relationships was celebrated when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for A Thousand Acres. In Duplicate Keys, Smiley displays her flair for creating a haunting mystery. Everyone has keys to Susan's New York apartment: all her friends, and friends... Read more

The Doctor's House

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Jeff Woodman & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Ann Beattie has won three O.Henry Awards and the PEN/Bernard Malamud Award. The Washington Post says "few novelists are more adept at creating fictional atmospheres." This novel, framed in a trilogy of voices, is a complex portrait of one family and the fictions a mother, son, and daughter... Read more

Dirty Work

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Peter Francis James & Ed Sala

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping novel is not only one of the best books written about Vietnam; it is also one of the most powerful anti-war novels in American literature. Walter James has no face. Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. They lost them 22 years ago, in Vietnam. Now, in the course of one long night in a V.A. hospital, these two soldiers-one black, the... Read more

The Dew Breaker

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling, American Book Award-winning author Edwidge Danticat-a two-time selectee of Oprah's Book Club-delivers a powerful tale of facing the past and making the decisions and sacrifices that shape the future. In Haiti during the dictatorial 1960s, the man known as the "dew breaker" was a torturer. Now a fixture in Brooklyn, he maintains a... Read more

Day

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in English under the title The Accident, Elie Wiesel's third novel in his trilogy of Holocaust literature has now adopted Wiesel's original title: Day. In the opening scene, a Holocaust survivor and successful journalist steps off a curb in New York City directly into the pathway of an oncoming cab. As he struggles between life... Read more

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Daisy is as free as the air, but an innocent abroad. Her garden of earthly delights bristles with the thorns of youth, tradition and of love. "Hearing Daisy Miller, listeners will recognize the tragic difficulties of youth, love, and tradition. Flo Gibson reads splendidly and portrays Daisy with requisite innocence and insolence."-Booklist Read more

Daughter

By: Asha Bandele

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed memoirist and poet asha bandele writes a startlingly honest work of fiction. Miriam Rivers tries to give her daughter Aya a good life, but also keeps her at an emotional distance. One tragic night while Aya is taking a jog, she is mistaken for a robber and shot. With her daughter fighting for her life, Miriam must open up and let... Read more

Mozart's Ghost

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Anna, a thirtysomething Mid-westerner living alone in New York City. A schoolteacher by day, she is a medium by night, covertly helping people reunite with their lost loved ones. Anna leads a double life, guarding her secret as much as she guards her heart—until Edward, a gangly yet quietly handsome concert pianist, moves into her... Read more

Song Yet Sung

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Leslie Uggams

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave

In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore,... Read more

Sanctuary

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Rediscover this Faulkner classic--or explore it for the first time.


A powerful novel examining the nature of evil, informed by the works of T. S. Eliot and Freud, mythology, local lore, and hard-boiled detective fiction, Sanctuary is the dark, at times brutal, story of the kidnapping of Mississippi debutante Temple Drake, who introduces her own... Read more

His Illegal Self

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents—radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI’s most wanted—he’s denied all access to television and the news. But he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who predicts: “They will come for you, man.... Read more

Chasing Sophea

By: Gabrielle Pina

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Gabrielle Pina delivers a moving tale that reveals the soothing potential of family love to heal life's deepest hurts. Michael's wife Dahlia seems to have it all-a successful career, a devoted husband, and a loving daughter. But something sinister troubles her tortured mind. When Michael discovers her eccentric mortician father... Read more

A Conversation with the Mann

By: John Ridley

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A Conversation with the Mann is the remarkable fictional story of the life of black comedian extraordinaire Jackie Mann. Jackie is a poor boy from Harlem and the victim of abuse from his widowed, alcoholic father. But everything changes on the day he discovers the power of comedy. When his classmates make fun of his tattered clothes, Jackie... Read more

The Castle

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

On his deathbed, Franz Kafka asked that all his unpublished manuscripts be burned. Fortunately, his request was ignored, allowing such works as The Trial to earn recognition among the literary masterpieces of the 20th century. This brilliant translation of The Castle captures comedic elements and visual imagery that earlier interpretations... Read more