Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Uses of Enchantment

By: Heidi Julavits

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school. Or was she?



A few weeks later an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her mother, concerned that Mary has... Read more

Animal Farm

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.The animals of Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society... Read more

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas De Quincey

Narrated by: Thomas Whitworth

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning a sound it was at that time!"Confessions of... 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

The Saffron Kitchen

By: Yasmin Crowther

Narrated by: Mehr Mansuri & Ariana Fraval

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours

A passionate and timely debut novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, from the remote mountains and riotous streets of Iran to the rain-soaked suburbs of London. Read more

Against the Day

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 53 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tunguska Event, Mexico during the Revolution, postwar... Read more

The Rebels of Ireland

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 29 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed; plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is... Read more

The Long Night of Winchell Dear

By: Robert James Waller

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he... Read more

The Whistling Season

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of 11 books, including a finalist for the National Book Award, Ivan Doig is hailed as the “West’s preeminent literary novelist” by The Denver Post. A Montana native and respected historian, Doig leavens this tale of the prairie frontier with wonderful humor.In 1909, struggling to farm his remote homestead and raise three sons, widower... Read more

The View from Castle Rock

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction.

A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father's dream. In stories that follow, as the dream... Read more

The Handmaid and the Carpenter

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wonderful audio about love and trust, hope and belief, Elizabeth Berg, the bestselling author of We Are All Welcome Here and The Year of Pleasures, transports us to Nazareth in biblical times to reimagine the events of the classic Christmas story.

We see Mary–young, strong, and inquisitive–as she first meets Joseph, a serious-minded young... Read more

The Gods of Newport - Abridged

By: John Jakes

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness.

In 1893,... Read more

The View from Castle Rock - Abridged

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In stories that are more personal than any that she has written before, Alice Munro pieces her family history into gloriously imagined fiction.

A young boy is taken to Edinburgh Castle Rock, where his father assures him that on a clear day he can see America, and he catches a glimpse of his father's dream. In stories that follow, as the dream... Read more

Im Arbeitslosenpark

By: Andreas Krenzke

Narrated by: Andreas Krenzke

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Andreas "Spider" Krenzke ist einer der bekanntesten Autoren der Lesebühnenszene, Mitbegründer von "LSD - Liebe statt Drogen" und seit 2000 festes Mitglied bei den Surfpoeten. In seinen Texten seziert er die Umwelt mit messerscharfem Blick, seine Geschichten sind facettenreich, hintergründigund voller Humor. br>Man wundert sich beim Lesen... Read more

Rütli Rapport - Junge Dichterstimmen der Schweiz - Abridged

By: Jörg Halter, Susi Stühlinger, Heinz Holliger, G...

Narrated by: Gabriel Vetter, Susi Stühlinger, Holliger Holli...

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Schweiz zwischen Heimat und Gefängnis: Acht junge Autorinnen und Performance-Poeten sprechen in einem literarischen "Rütli-Rapport" über ihre Schweiz. In Mundart und Hochdeutsch, mit ruhiger und vibrierender Stimme bieten sie ein amüsantes und freches Stimmenkonzert mit Ausflügen aufs Rütli, zu den Miss-Schweiz-Wahlen, zu erfundenen... Read more

Im Kairo - Abridged

By: Guy Krneta, Michael Stauffer, Gerhard Meister, ...

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sie sind 'die' Autorengruppe der Stunde und Motor der Spoken-Word-Bewegung in der Schweiz: "Bern ist überall" alias Stefanie Grob, Guy Krneta, Pedro Lenz, Gerhard Meister, Michael Stauffer, Beat Sterchi, Adi Blum (Akkordeon) und Michael Pfeuti (Bass). Die Auftritte von "Bern ist überall" sind zum Markenzeichen für eine (Mundart-)Literatur... Read more

Treten Sie in meinen Verein ein - Abridged

By: Ralf Schlatter

Narrated by: DJ Piotr & Ralf Schlatter

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Treten Sie in meinen Verein ein" zeigt Schlatters unverkennbare Slam-Poesie, wie sie auch auf den Slam-Bühnen wirkt: Sein ihm eigenes Reimschema - ein lyrisches Ping-Pong - treibt die Geschichten theatralisch und dynamisch voran. Da ist eine Vorliebe für Spielereien mit Alltagsworten wie Verlagsnamen ("Die Suhrkampschlampe") oder... Read more

I wott nüt gseit ha - Monologe des Kummers - Abridged

By: Pedro Lenz

Narrated by: Pedro Lenz

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sie reden und reden und reden sich nicht selten in Rage, doch sie können den kleinen oder grossen Nöten des Alltags selten etwas entgegenhalten: Die Figuren in Pedro Lenz' Monologen verlieren die Fassung, wenn ihr Sohn beim ersten Rausch in den Hundekorb kotzt oder wenn sie im indischen Restaurant kein währschaftes Stück Fleisch... Read more

The Aeneid

By: Virgil & Robert Fagles

Narrated by: Simon Callow

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epic

Fleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love... Read more

The Garden of Eden

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Patrick Wilson

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.

A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until... Read more

The Plague

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: James Jenner

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror... Read more

Lisey's Story

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

*Now an Apple TV+ limited series starring Julianne Moore and Clive Owen*

The “haunting…tender, intimate book that makes an epic interior journey” (The New York Times), Lisey’s Story is a literary masterpiece—an extraordinarily moving and haunting portrait of a marriage and its aftermath.

Lisey lost her husband Scott two years ago, after a... Read more

The Lay of the Land

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 24 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

BONUS FEATURE: Exclusive interview with the author.

With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later – after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award – was hailed by The Times of London as “an extraordinary epic [that] is nothing less than the story of the twentieth century... Read more

The Sun Also Rises

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: William Hurt

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Classics

Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway’s first novel and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.​

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake... Read more