Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Wir steuern den Kurs unserer Ehe nur mit tiefer Liebe - Abridged

By: Anais Nin

Narrated by: Gaby Dohm

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Es ist das Fieber des Lebens, der verzehrende Wunsch, intensiv zu leben, etwas Starkes und Großes zu schaffen, alles zu verstehen, im Besitz allen Wissens und jeder Erfahrung zu sein", so die Autorin. Anaïs Nin ist frisch verheiratet mit Hugh Guiler und versucht, die neuen Anforderungen als Ehefrau perfekt zu erfüllen. Sie möchte ihrem Ideal... Read more

Them

By: Nathan McCall

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenue, once the richest Negro street in the world. Barlowe works as a printer and passes the time reading books from... Read more

Lost

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.”
—Boston Sunday Globe  Publishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories, the... Read more

Intruder in the Dust

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Faulkner novel which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. An aging black who has long refused to adopt the black's traditionally servile attitude is wrongfully accused of murdering a white man. Read more

The Bathhouse

By: Farnoosh Moshiri

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early days of the fundamentalist revolution in Iran, a seventeen-year-old girl is arrested because of her brother's involvement with leftist politics. She is placed in a makeshift jail—a former bathhouse, in which other women are also being held captive. These women range in age from adolescence to eldery, their mental states from stoic... Read more

On Canaan’s Side

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the two-time Man Booker short–listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America.Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere’s life over seventeen days, On Canaan’s Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back... Read more

Kuperman’s Fire

By: John J. Clayton

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

High-tech entrepreneur Michael Kuperman has discovered that a powerful American corporation has been selling chemical weapons abroad illegally. What must he do with this knowledge? Ultimately, the Kuperman family must flee Boston and hide their identity. Dealing with danger soon changes their life as a family.Kuperman struggles with his heritage... Read more

A Free Life

By: Ha Jin

Narrated by: Jaeson Ma

Length: 21 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the Wu family—father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao. They are arranging to fully sever ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square, and to begin a new, free life in the United States. At first, their future seems well-assured. But after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him toward... Read more

Everlasting - Abridged

By: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Narrated by: Xanthe Elbrick

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once Abrielle was a proud, exceptional lady coveted for her bearing, her breeding, her wit, and her beauty. But when her stepfather is denied his rightful title and the wealth that accompanies it, Abrielle finds herself suddenly disgraced. Only one would still have her, the oafish and grotesque Desmond de Marlé. Yet no one else can rescue her... Read more

The Living

By: Annie Dillard

Narrated by: Laurence Luckinbill

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  — San Francisco ChronicleThis New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a... Read more

On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A 50th anniversary hardcover edition of Kerouac’s classic novel that defined a generation

Few novels have had as profound an impact on American culture as On the Road. Pulsating with the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, illicit drugs, and the mystery and promise of the open road, Kerouac’s classic novel of freedom and longing... Read more

No One Belongs Here More Than You

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Time, the bestselling debut story collection by the extraordinarily talented Miranda July, award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

In No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July gives the most seemingly insignificant moments a sly... Read more

The Abstinence Teacher

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Abstinence Teacher illuminates the powerful emotions that run beneath the placid surface of modern American family life, and explores the complicated spiritual and sexual lives of ordinary people. It is elegantly and simply written, characterized by the distinctive mix of satire and compassion that has become Tom Perrotta's... Read more

A Soldier of the Great War

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 31 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed novelist Mark Helprin comes a lush, literary epic about love, beauty, and the world at war.Alessandro Giuliani, the young son of a prosperous Roman lawyer, enjoys an idyllic life full of privilege: he races horses across the country to the sea, he climbs mountains in the Alps, and, while a student of painting at the ancient... Read more

O Pioneers!

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful early Cather novel, a landmark of American fiction, tells the story of the young Alexandra Bergson, whose dying father leaves her in charge of the family and of the Nebraska lands they have struggled to farm. In Alexandra's lifelong fight to survive and succeed, Cather relates an important chapter in the history of the American... Read more

Kaspar Hauser - Das Rätsel seiner Zeit - Abridged

By: Kurd E. Heyne

Narrated by: Alfed Schnös, Hans-Christian Blech, Willy Knöre...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Unlängst haben DNA-Analysen die Diskussion um den vor 160 Jahren eines gewaltsamen Todes gestorbenen Kaspar Hauser neu entfacht: War er der Sohn des Großherzogs Karl von Baden, der wegen dynastischer Ränke um die Erbfolge mit einem toten Kinde vertauscht und jahrelang versteckt worden war? Tatsache ist, daß am 26.5.1828 auf dem... Read more

Affaire Blum - Abridged

By: Robert A. Stemmle

Narrated by: Hans-Christian Blech, Erich Ponto, Paul Hoffman...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Hörspiel geht auf einen waren Kriminalfall zurück: Magdeburg 1926, die Untersuchung eines Mordes durch die rassistisch voreingenommene Justiz wird dem jüdischen Fabrikanten Blum zum Verhängnis. Die Verfilmung der "Affaire Blum" von Erich Engel (1948), das Filmdebüt Hans-Christian Blechs, wurde zu einem Klassiker des frühen deutschen... Read more

Beatrice und Juana - Abridged

By: Günter Eich

Narrated by: Rudolf Vogel, Leonhard Steckel, Fritz Strassner...

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Günter Eich siedelt seine Themen immer wieder zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit an, so auch in dieser Hörspielkomödie nach einem Motiv von Prosper Mérimée: Carlo wird beim Tennisspiel von einer Rokoko-Statue ins 18. Jahrhundert entführt. Hier, in seinem früheren Leben, steht noch eine Entscheidung aus: Beatrice oder Juana? Read more

Das Lied der Wildgänse - Abridged

By: Helmut Habrich

Narrated by: Hans-Christian Blech, Ernie Wilhelmi & Agnes Fink

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Paris 1942: Der deutsche Soldat Karl hat eine Romanze mit der Französin Marie. Dann muss er nach Rußland zurück. Hier wird er verwundet, er erblindet. Eine Lazarettschwester liebt ihn trotz seiner Entstellungen. Read more

Tales of Betrayal

By: John Biguenet, Adam Haslett, Galina Vromen, Joh...

Narrated by: David Strathairn, John Shea, Anne Meara, B. D. ...

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compilation characters make choices that define their lives and suffer consequences often dire or disquieting. Abraham prepares to slay Isaac; siblings fall in love with the same man; a Thai man hides his secret guilt from his best friend on draft selection day; delve into the secret lives of people and discover what drives them to... Read more

Wartime Lives

By: Robert Olen Butler, Tom Bissell, Benjamin Percy...

Narrated by: Kathleen Chalfant, Oskar Eustis, Dylan Baker, K...

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in WWI, a mother goes to the front lines to... Read more

Pets!

By: Gail Godwin, Ana Menendez, Max Steele, Molly Gi...

Narrated by: Jane Curtin, Jacqueline Kim, Charles Keating, I...

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The cast of characters in this compilation is a menagerie of animals... cats, dogs, birds, even a dragon... and their owners. These stories look at the myriad of experiences, and adventures, that pet ownership can bring. Join a medieval scholar who discovers that not all mythical creatures are extinct, stalk the night with the Cat of... Read more

The Solitude of Thomas Cave

By: Georgina Harding

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1616, as the last warm days dwindle in the north Atlantic, the men on an English whaling ship prepare to head home. But there is one exception among them: the quiet, headstrong Thomas Cave. Cave has made a bet with the rest of the crew that he can spend a winter on this Arctic island—alone.His shipmates sail away, the days shorten, and the... Read more

Los Santos de Agua Mansa, California [Still Water Saints]

By: Alex Espinoza

Narrated by: Cony Madera

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Santos de Agua Mansa, California (Still Water Saints) chronicles a momentous year in the life of Agua Mansa, a largely Latino town beyond the fringes of Los Angeles. It is home to the Botánica Oshún, where people come seeking charms, herbs, candles, and, above all, the guidance of the shop’s owner, Perla Portillo. Perla has served the... Read more