Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Luncheon of the Boating Party

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 16 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid exploration of one of the most beloved Renoir paintings in the world, ?done with a flourish worthy of Renoir himself? (USA Today)

With her richly textured novels, Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of artists? lives. Now, as she did in Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Vreeland once again focuses on a single painting?Auguste Renoir?s... Read more

Dream When You're Feeling Blue

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Berg takes us to Chicago at the time of World War II in this wonderful story about three sisters, their lively Irish family, and the men they love.

As the novel opens, Kitty and Louise Heaney say good-bye to their boyfriends Julian and Michael, who are going to fight overseas. On the domestic front,... Read more

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

By: Douglas Carlton Abrams

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Douglas Abrams’s magical debut novel captures the heart of the Spanish Golden Age and the secret life of the world’s greatest lover–Don Juan.

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous... Read more

Broken Skin - Abridged

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The third DS Logan McRae thriller in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. A crime of passion … or cold-hearted murder? ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James The Granite City’s seedy side is... Read more

Evening - Abridged

By: Susan Minot

Narrated by: Kathryn Walker

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in... Read more

The Lost Diary of Don Juan - Abridged

By: Douglas Carlton Abrams

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Douglas Abrams’s magical debut novel captures the heart of the Spanish Golden Age and the secret life of the world’s greatest lover–Don Juan.

It was a time of discovery and decadence, when life became a gamble and the gold that poured endlessly into the port of Sevilla devalued money, marriage, and love itself. In the midst of these treacherous... Read more

The Second Silence

By: Eileen Goudge

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Romantic, suspenseful, and utterly compelling, The Second Silence takes us into the breaking heart of Noelle Van Doren, whose only child is snatched from her by her estranged husband, Robert, a powerful real estate developer. As Noelle and her long-estranged parents, Mary and Charlie, frantically peel away layers of mystery regarding Robert's... Read more

Body Surfing

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Lolita Davidovich

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront New Hampshire cottage.

But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and Jeff, arrive at the beach house,... Read more

The Ministry of Special Cases

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina’s Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan struggles with a son who won’t accept him; strives for a wife who forever saves him; and spends his nights protecting the good name of a... Read more

The Dune Audio Collection - Abridged

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Frank Herbert

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Read by the author, this compilation of key excerpts from the brilliant Dune trilogy is melded with connective text written by Frank Herbert specifically for these recordings. It includes selections from Dune: The Banquet Scene, Sandworms of Dune, The Battles of Dune, and The Truths of Dune: Fear is the Mind Killer. Read more

Mergers and Acquisitions

By: Dana Vachon

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A stylish and hilarious novel about the lives and loves of well-to-do young Manhattanites in their first year on Wall Street, destined to become one of the year's most buzzed-about debuts.Mergers & Acquisitions is the story of Tommy Quinn, a recent Georgetown grad who has just landed the job of his dreams as an investment banker at J. S.... Read more

April in Paris

By: Michael Wallner

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspenseful and dramatic story of impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in World War Two Paris.

In 1943, Michel Roth is a young soldier working in the German army’s back offices in occupied Paris. But his fluency in French gets Roth a new task when the Gestapo find themselves in need of a translator for the... Read more

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

By: Harriet Scott Chessman

Narrated by: Harriet Scott Chessman

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia Cassatt contemplates her world with courage, openness, and passion. As she addresses and comes to accept her own position as her sister's model, she asks stirring questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Read more

Empire Rising

By: Thomas Kelly

Narrated by: Michael Deehy

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1930—the Depression—and ground has just been broken for the Empire State Building. One of the thousands of men erecting the building high above the city is Michael Briody, an Irish immigrant torn between his desire to make a new life in America and his pledge to gather money and arms for the Irish republican cause. When he meets Grace... Read more

What We Keep

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Stephanie Roberts

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ginny Young is on a plane, en route to see her mother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for thirty-five years. She thinks back to the summer of 1958, when she and her sister, Sharla, were young girls. Moving back and forth in time between the girl she once was and the woman she's become, Ginny at last confronts painful choices that occur in... Read more

The Lake of Dead Languages

By: Carol Goodman

Narrated by: Vivienne Benesch

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before graduation, three lives were taken, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the burden of a mystery that has stayed hidden for more than two decades. Now Jane has returned as a Latin teacher, recently... Read more

Reservation Road

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Haunting. . . . A powerful and affecting novel.”–The New York Times

A tragic accident sets in motion a cycle of violence and retribution in John Burnham Schwartz’s riveting novel RESERVATION ROAD. Two haunted men and their families are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death. Ethan, a respected professor of... Read more

Winterton Blue

By: Trezza Azzopardi

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For the last twenty years, Lewis has been haunted by his brother’s death. He’s tried hiding from it, running from it, even erasing it from his memory, but the relentless ghost of Wayne confronts him at every turn. Then he meets Anna, a young woman who is also haunted - by her mother, Rita, a vivacious spirit who, unlike Wayne, happens to be very... Read more

Sophie's World

By: Jostein Gaarder

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.

One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with... Read more

The Color of A Dog Running Away

By: Richard Gwyn

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucas, a musician and translator living in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter, comes home one day to find a cryptic invitation. When he appears at the appointed time, he sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events that disrupt his previously passive existence. He meets the alluring Nuria and they begin an intense love affair. He... Read more

Burning Bright

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the international bestseller Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard, comes a stirring eighteenth-century coming-of-age tale

In the waning days of eighteenth-century London, poet, artist, and printer William Blake works in obscurity as England is rocked by the shock waves of the French Revolution. Next door,... Read more

Edgar Wallace - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Ingrid van Bergen, Helmut Krauss & Bastian Past...

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Vom unehelichen Sohn einer Schauspielerin zum Bestsellerautor - Edgar Wallace, der Erfinder des "Hexer", pendelte stets zwischen Größenwahn und Desaster: Als Kriegsberichterstatter mit Berufsverbot belegt? Dann eben Zeitungsherausgeber. Als Herausgeber das Blatt an die Wand gefahren? Schnell einen Bestseller schreiben. Kein Verlag will ihn... Read more

You Don't Love Me Yet

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Jonathan Lethem

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomparable Jonathan Lethem, a raucous romantic farce that explores the paradoxes of love and art

Lucinda Hoekke spends eight hours a day at the Complaint Line, listening to anonymous callers air their random grievances. Most of the time, the work is excruciatingly tedious. But one frequent caller, who insists on speaking only to... Read more

White Jazz - Abridged

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Jerry Orbach

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own... Read more