Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Karl Valentin - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Karl Valentin

Narrated by: Christine Urspruch, Edmund Jäger & Peter Lohmeyer

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sicher is', dass nix sicher is', drum bin i' vorsichtshalber misstrauisch." Das war er. Im Biergarten deckte Karl Valentin sein Bir stets mit einem Bierdeckel hab, damit kein Vogel hineinkacken konnte. Ein Leben voller Pleiten, unglückseliger Einfälle und seltsamer Ideen, voller Trotz und voller Witz. Und so absurd, komisch und tragisch wie... Read more

A Far Country

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning new novel about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.
Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought and war grip the backlands, her... Read more

My French Whore

By: Gene Wilder

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved actor and screenwriter’s first novel, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It’s almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists, and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of... Read more

Fieldwork

By: Mischa Berlinski

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

When his girlfriend takes a job as a schoolteacher in northern Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working as little as possible for one of Thailand's English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead—a suicide—in... Read more

Christine Falls

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted,... Read more

PARIS TROUT - Abridged

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: Charles S. Dutton

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. Read more

A Far Country - Abridged

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the best-selling author of The Piano Tuner, a stunning new audio about a young girl’s journey through a vast, unnamed country in search of her brother.
Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, fourteen-year-old Isabel was born with the gift and curse of “seeing farther.” When drought and war grip the backlands, her... Read more

Sophie's Choice - Abridged

By: William Styron

Narrated by: Norman Snow

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

"[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That very day, William Styron began writing the first... Read more

BROTHERLY LOVE - Abridged

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: Chris Sarandon

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Philadelphia city, 1961, a division of power exists between the Italian mobs and the predominantly Irish labour leaders. When the youngest daughter of union man Charley Flood is accidentally killed by one of the Mafia's cops it is the beginning of a suicidal chain of retaliation. Read more

Light Action In the Caribbean - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his first new work of fiction since Field Notes (1994), Barry Lopez embraces fable, historical fiction, and contemporary social realism in these spellbinding stories, all informed by his deep spiritual connection to the natural world. Read more

Then We Came to the End - Abridged

By: Joshua Ferris

Narrated by: Deanna Hurst

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented writer.

The characters in Then We Came to the End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office... Read more

This Heart of Mine

By: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips magic is vibrantly alive, and it's on display in This Heart of Mine, the fifth book in her wildly popular Chicago Stars series!Molly Somerville loves her career as the creator of the Daphne the Bunny children's book series, but the rest of her life could use some improvement. She has a... Read more

Snow

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A great and almost irresistibly beguiling . . . novelist. . . . [Snow is] enriched by . . . mesmerizing mixes: cruelty and farce, poetry and violence, and a voice whose timbres range from a storyteller’s playfulness to the dark torment of an explorer, lost.”–The New York Times

An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the... Read more

The Double Bind

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding... Read more

The Double Bind - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding... Read more

Cold Granite - Abridged

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets. Winter in Aberdeen: murder, mayhem and terrible weather… ... Read more

Dying Light - Abridged

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: John Sessions

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second crime thriller in the No.1 bestselling Logan McRae series from Stuart MacBride. Even the darkest crimes will come to light… ‘Stuart MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James Crime never sleeps. ... Read more

Exit A

By: Anthony Swofford

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony Swofford follows his international best-seller Jarhead with an unforgettable first novel -- a powerful story about a youth spent on a U.S. air base in Japan and the gritty neon streets just outside it, where the Japanese underworld lurks and a rebellious young girl finds herself in great danger........

Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx,... Read more

The Dead Fathers Club

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Andrew Dennis

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all.



Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's... Read more

A Golden Age

By: Tahmima Anam

Narrated by: Madhur Jaffrey

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

As young widow Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she might be forgiven for feeling happy. Her children are almost grown, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air.But no one can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country on the brink of... Read more

Dandelion Wine - Abridged

By: Ray Bradbury & Nancy Curran Willis

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ray Bradbury’s endearing, lyrical tale of boyhood and an idyllic Midwestern summer is presented here as a full-cast audio dramatization by The Colonial Theatre on the Air, complete with sound effects and a brilliant music score.Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole world that lies beyond.... Read more

Season of the Snake

By: Claire Davis

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Winter Range comes a powerful and frightening literary thriller of love, loyalty, and menacing secrets.Nance Able has finally recovered from the violent death of her first husband and is living a new life in the West with her second husband, Ned. When Meredith, her younger, errant sister, decides to move to the same town,... Read more

Jane Austen’s Charlotte

By: Julia Barrett

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In completing Jane Austen’s last novel, Julia Barrett has emerged with a literary treasure, holding true to the characters and theme designed by Ms. Austen. Set in the developing seaside town of Sanditon, it portrays a young woman from the countryside who is exposed to the sophistication and cynicism of resort life. Her name is Charlotte. With... Read more

A Whistling Woman

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh.Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous... Read more