Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Winged Creatures

By: Roy Freirich

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Winged Creatures is the startling story of six survivors of a gun massacre at a fast-food restaurant along a Michigan highway.Teenagers Anne and Jimmy watch the gunman indiscriminately murder Anne’s father and others, then himself. Struggling to understand her father’s death, Anne experiences a virulent religious conversion, while Jimmy becomes... Read more

The Painter of Battles

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller. Now, he gives us his most accomplished novel to date.

Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired to a life of solitude on the Spanish coast. He spends his days painting a huge mural that pays homage to history’s... Read more

Homecoming

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller The Reader, Homecoming is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit.

A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his... Read more

Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! tells the story of Thomas Sutpen, the enigmatic stranger who came to Jefferson township in the early 1830s. With a French architect and a band of wild Haitians, he wrung a fabulous plantation out of the muddy bottoms of the north Mississippi wilderness.

Sutpen was a man, Faulker said, "who wanted sons and the sons destroyed... Read more

Europe Central

By: William T. Vollmann

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 31 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and the USSR in the twentieth century. The result is a daring and mesmerizing perspective on human actions during wartime.Assembling a composite portrait of these two warring leviathans and the terrible age they defined, the... Read more

Dodsworth

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Sam Dodsworth, an amiable fifty-year-old millionaire and "American Captain of Industry, believing in the Republican Party, high tariffs and, so long as they did not annoy him personally, in Prohibition and the Episcopal Church." Dodsworth runs an auto manufacturing firm, but his beautiful wife, Fran, obsessed with the notion that she is... Read more

Mothers and Sons

By: Colm Tóibín

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning novelist Tóibín brings to this stunning first collection of short works an acute understanding of human frailty and longing. These nine beautifully written, intensely intimate stories explore the psychological push and pull between mother and son. Each story is centered on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of... Read more

Essential Doris Lessing - Abridged

By: Doris Lessing

Narrated by: Doris Lessing

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A feminist landmark, The Golden Notebook tells the story of writer Anna Wulf and the crises she faces in her personal, political and professional life. Confounded by writer's block, the ferociously independent Wulf explores her situation in four notebooks, one for each of the strands in her life. The Golden Notebook is the one in which,... Read more

Best Friends

By: Martha Moody

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Before arriving at Oberlin in 1973, Clare Mann had never met anyone like Sally Rose. Rich and beautiful, Sally is utterly foreign to a middle-class, Midwestern Protestant like Clare—and utterly fascinating. The fascination only grows when Sally brings her home to L.A. Mr. Rose—charismatic, charming, and the owner of a profitable business... Read more

Told After Supper

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

There's a long tradition of English Christmas stories, sometimes serious, sometimes humorous, often revolving around ghosts and apparitions. Dickens drew on it in a serious vein in A Christmas Carol; here Jerome K. Jerome tells hilarious stories from around an English Christmas fireside.



A few selected Christmas poems and stories rounds out the... Read more

A Bite of Bierce

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Five wonderful stories by Ambrose Bierce, full of vivid characters, precise and evocative language, surprises and suspense. Written more than a century ago, these stories still capture the imagination with vivid, precise language that bites--and may even draw blood! This Freshwater Seas production presents these five classic stories performed by... Read more

Voices of the Ghost I: Spirits with Issues

By: H. G. Wells & John Kendrick Bangs

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are three stories that will make you chuckle and shiver at the same time. Spirits can be funny when they turn out to have issues and problems of their own, and the authors of these stories, John Kendrick Bangs and H. G. Wells, have a fine time putting smiles on our faces - and wiping them off again!
"The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall"
What do... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.”
This presentation of the beloved tale tells he classic story of the long night Ebenezer Scrooge spend with the ghosts of Christmas, the lessons it taught him, the change it made in his life, and the joy it... Read more

Dulce Domum, Gift of the Magi, Christmas Morning

By: Kenneth Grahame, O. Henry & Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are three of the most wonderful Christmas stores ever written, presented for you on one disk along with two short pieces that just can't be left out of any Christmas collection worth it's salt.

"Dulce Domum," from The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
Rat and Mole find Christmas in Mole's old home, and deepen their friendship along the... Read more

Last Call

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A kid from Miami's meanest streets, Theo Knight lost his mother to a violent crime. He was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit when lawyer Jack Swyteck proved him innocent. Now they are best friends. Theo is a semi-respectable and successful bar owner, but the past, with its risks and its terrors, has come knocking on his back door. An... Read more

Gods Behaving Badly - Abridged

By: Marie Phillips

Narrated by: Tom Sellwood

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this “witty and entertaining” twist on Greek mythology (James Urquhart), the once all-powerful gods find themselves scraping by in a run-down London townhouse as they learn how to be human—and try not to destroy the world in the process.

Being a Greek god is not all it once was. Yes, the twelve gods of Olympus are alive and well in the... Read more

Someone Knows My Name

By: Lawrence Hill

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Aminata Diallo (“an amazing literary creation,” Literary Review of Canada) is the beguil­ing heroine of Lawrence Hill’s SOMEONE KNOWS MY NAME. In it, Hill exquisitely imagines the tale of an eighteenth-century woman’s life, spanning six decades and three continents. The fascinating story that Hill tells is a work of the soul and the imagination.... Read more

Collected Stories

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Various

Length: 31 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.” —William Faulkner
 
Winner of the National Book Award

Forty-two stories make up this magisterial collection by the writer who... Read more

We the Living

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. At its center is a girl whose passionate love is her fortress against the cruelty and oppression of a totalitarian state.Of this book, Ayn Rand said, “it is as near to an autobiography as I will ever write. The plot is... Read more

América

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: Sergio Gutierrez

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Topanga Canyon es el hogar de dos parejas cuyos destinos están a punto de chocar. El estilo liberal de vida de Delaney y Kyra Mossbacker les permite gozar de una existencia sencilla y placentera en una nueva comunidad privada. El es un escritor amante de la naturaleza, y ella una obsesiva agente de bienes y raices. Cándido y América Rincón son... Read more

The Witch of Portobello

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Rita Wolf

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

How do we find the courage to always be true to ourselves—even if we are unsure of who we are?



That is the central question of international bestselling author Paulo Coelho’s profound new work, The Witch of Portobello. It is the story of a mysterious woman named Athena, told by the many who knew her well—or hardly at all. Like The Alchemist, The... Read more

A Miracle of Catfish

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Before his untimely death in 2004, Larry Brown was hailed as one of the world's greatest living writers. With A Miracle of Catfish, the unfinished but largely complete novel Brown left behind, readers can once again savor his eloquent and unique style. This tale of fatherhood, alienation, and loneliness introduces readers to another set of... Read more

Geek Love

By: Katherine Dunn

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the National Book Award, Geek Love is mesmerizing, daring, and unconventional. Award-winning novelist Katherine Dunn fascinates and amazes much the same way tornados, earthquakes, and volcanos do. No one wants to be a victim, but most find the event too hypnotic to ignore. In order to save their traveling carnival from bankruptcy,... Read more

Cormac

By: Sonny Brewer

Narrated by: Sonny Brewer

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Cormac is a novel based on real events, and tells the tale of a Golden Retriever, who ran away from his Alabama home while the owner was on a book tour in San Francisco. Cormac had always been afraid of storms, they made him cower and tremble. Or, in this case, run, run like the shrieking wind that blew the rain across the land. Maybe if Cormac... Read more