Fiction - Literary audiobooks

What Was She Thinking?

By: Zoë Heller

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A complex psychological portrait framed as a wicked satire, a story of passion and repression, mercy and betrayalSchoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a bitter, lonely life as a self-made careerist. Sheba Hart is the ethereal, inexperienced new pottery teacher at St. George’s school. When Barbara hears of Sheba’s problems in the classroom, her... Read more

Barchester Towers

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent sequel to The Warden satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy of a cathedral city as they contend for each newly vacant post within the archdiocese.The contest for power is between Archdeacon Grantly and his followers, who favor high-church tendencies, and the new bishop and his followers, with their distinctly... Read more

Returning to Earth

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard, Tom Weiner, Ray Porter, Rich...

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared. As old crimes, dreams, wounds, and sacred moments are revived... Read more

Messer Marco Polo

By: Donn Byrne

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine the kingdom of Asia sifted through the Celtic imagination. Messer Marco Polo is the fictionalized account of the travels of Marco Polo as told by Malichi Campbell, an Ulsterman.Young Marco Polo meets Kubla Khan, the King of Siam, and Saint Paul, and he falls in love with the beautiful Golden Bells. After her magicians save him from death... Read more

The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

Narrated by: Tony Jay

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed under mysterious circumstances. His calculating father, Manfred, fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself—despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this... Read more

Thérèse Raquin

By: Émile Zola

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband’s earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a... Read more

The Cossacks

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Olenin is an aimless young nobleman who is disenchanted with city life. Taking a post as a Cadet in the army, he finds himself assigned to the remote Cossack outpost in the Caucasus. It is here, among the Tatars, the Chechens, and the Old Believers, that he will fall in love with a beautiful Cossack girl. The only problem is that she is promised... Read more

The Tortilla Curtain

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In this explosive and timely novel, T. C. Boyle explores an issue at the forefront of the political arena. He confronts the controversy over illegal immigration head-on, illuminating through a poignant, gripping story the people on both sides of the issue: the haves and the have-nots.In Southern California’s Topanga Canyon, two couples live in... Read more

The Martian Child

By: David Gerrold

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Gerrold, a science fiction writer from California, adopts a son who has been classified as "unadoptable" due to his violent emotional outbursts resulting from abuse. Another side-effect of his turbulent early years is that he believes himself to be a Martian. Gerrold begins the long, involving work of trying to earn the acceptance of Dennis, a... Read more

The Warden

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his... Read more

The Accidental

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen, Simon Prebble & Heather O'Neill

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Barefoot, thirty-something Amber shows up at the door of a Norfolk cottage that the Smarts are renting for the summer, insinuating herself into their family. Dazzled by her seeming exoticism, the Smarts begin to examine the accidents of their lives under the searing lens of Amber's perceptions. When the mother Eve finally banishes her from the... Read more

Summer Crossing

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Witness the coming together of Truman Capote’s voice, the electric-into-neon blaze that is surely one of the premier styles of postwar American literature.”—The Washington Post Book World

“A great breezy read . . . with Capote’s trademark wit, but also with genuine youthful awe at the exhilaration of late-forties New York.”—New York

A lost... Read more

A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies

By: Ellen Cooney

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1900 in a small, prosperous Massachusetts town. Charlotte Heath, a lively, independent redhead of humble beginnings, is married to the scion of the powerful Heath family. When, on her first outing after a long illness, she spies her husband, Hays, bending to kiss another woman in the village square, impulsive Charlotte heads her horses... Read more

Late and Soon

By: Robert J. Hughes

Narrated by: Robert J. Hughes

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In this exquisite debut novel, a host of characters confront their confusions in love. Claire, an art specialist at Sotheby's, lives in a world of glamour and achievement–but after attending an art opening, where she runs into the young man her husband had left her for five years earlier, she realizes that her broken heart has never truly... Read more

Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A stand alone edition of Annie Proulx’s beloved story “Brokeback Mountain” (in the collection Close Range)—the basis for the major motion picture directed by Ang Lee, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger, screenplay by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana.

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in... Read more

The Doctor's Wife

By: Elizabeth Brundage

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff & Ellen Archer

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

So begins The Doctor’s Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women’s health clinic. But Annie, his wife, has become tired of her workaholic husband’s absences, and the... Read more

Homeland and Other Stories - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book ReviewWith the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of numerous literary awards... Read more

Pigs in Heaven - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

""A novel full of miracles.”  — Newsweek“Breathtaking. . . unforgettable. . . . This profound, funny, bighearted novel, in which people actually find love and kinship in surprising places, is also heavenly. . . . A rare feat and a triumph.” — CosmopolitanIn Pigs in Heaven, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver, recipient of the... Read more

The Grace That Keeps This World

By: Tom Bailey

Narrated by: Tom Bailey

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, survival is a way of life for the Hazen family. Gary Hazen is a respected forester and hunter, known for his good instincts and meticulous planning. He and his wife, Susan, have raised their sons to appreciate the satisfaction of this difficult but honest life. In spite of this, the boys, men now, are... Read more

Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

Narrated by: Chad Lowe

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the... Read more

Wish You Well

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Norma Lana

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of... Read more

Wish You Well - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following a family tragedy, siblings Lou and Oz must leave New York and adjust to life in the Virginia mountains--but just as the farm begins to feel like home, they'll have to defend it from a dark threat in this New York Times bestselling coming-of-age story.

Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of... Read more

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Abridged

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Ruby Dee

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love... Read more

Überall ist Wunderland

By: Joachim Ringelnatz

Narrated by: Otto Sander, Sissi Perlinger, Hannelore Elsner,...

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Große Schauspieler unserer Zeit interpretieren die schrägsten und schrulligsten, aber auch nachdenkliche und wehmütige Gedichte des großen Ironikers Ringelnatz. Read more