Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Dekameron - Abridged

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Maike Wessel & Christian Baumann

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Pest, der "Schwarze Tod", wütet 1348 in Florenz. Eine Gruppe junger, lebens- und liebeshungriger Frauen und Männer hat sich in die Campagna, in Sonne, Licht und Natur geflüchtet. Jeden Abend erzählen sie sich prickelnd, frivole Geschichten - dem Schrecken zum Trotz. Loblieder auf das Leben und die Liebe. - Der Gärtner im Frauenkloster -... Read more

Wart' mal schnell - Minima Temporalia - Abridged

By: Karlheinz A. Geißler

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wer hat schon Zeit in unserer Zeit? Zeit, über die Zeit zu schmunzeln? Vergessen Sie doch einfach eine Weile die Zeit, indem Sie sich mit ihr beschäftigen. Karlheinz A. Geißlers Überlegungen sind klug, amüsant, ironisch und tiefsinnig. Ein Hörbuch von einem Liebhaber der Zeit, für Menschen, die diese lieben oder zu lieben vorhaben. Read more

Vom Kriege - Abridged

By: Carl von Clausewitz

Narrated by: Anja Buczkowsky, Achim Höppner & Uwe Kosubek

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carl von Clausewitz (1780 - 1831) war Soldat und wurde in jungen Jahren geprägt durch die Kriege Napoleons und die Befreiungskriege (1813 - 1815). Er war aber auch Philosoph und Psychologe. Seine Abhandlung "Vom Kriege" macht ihn zum eigentlichen Begründer der modernen Kriegslehre. Er definierte Taktik und Strategie und formulierte das... Read more

Al Capone & Company - Abridged

By: Achim Höppner

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

In den wilden 20er & 30er Jahren und mit Beginn der Prohibition explodierte in Amerika die Kriminalität. Illegale Bars, Schwarzbrennereien und Prostitution schufen einen boomenden Schwarzmarkt mit gewaltigen Profiten. Auf den Straßen war der Umgangston rau und hart. Die Luft war bleihaltig. Die wahren Geschichten von Al Capone &... Read more

Michel, sag ich - Abridged

By: Ulla Berkéwicz

Narrated by: Hermann Beil

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eine große Stadt an einem dunklen Fluß, mit einer geheimnisvoll bunten Unterwelt und einer geheimnislosen Oberwelt, mit einer heißen Vergangenheit und einer eisigen Zukunft. Schattenhaft die Gegenwart, von lebendigen Toten bevölkert. In dieser halb realen, halb imaginären Welt der Zerstörungen sucht eine Frau ihren Mann. Eine insgeheime Orpheus-... Read more

First Love - Abridged

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: John Moulder-Brown

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"A few paces from me on a lawn flanked by green rasperry canes stood a tall, slender girl in a striped pink dress with a white kerchief on her head. Four young men clustered round her, and she was tapping them one by one on the forehead with those small grey flowers." At the end of a dinner party, the remaining guests drink wine and tell... Read more

Höllensturz und Himmelfahrt des Luftschiffers Giannozzo - Abridged

By: Jean Paul & Heinz von Cramer

Narrated by: Rita Russek, Franz Kolasch, Paul Bürks, Grete W...

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der "wilde Menschenverächter" Giannozzo entflieht im Ballon seiner alltäglichen Existenz, um einsam über der sinnentleerten Welt "ein stilles weites Land der Seelen" zu suchen. - Eine bittere Satire auf das zerfallene deutsche Reich und den beginnenden Kapitalismus. Dem Hörspiel von Heinz von Cramer liegt "Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo... Read more

Der Fürst - Abridged

By: Niccolo Machiavelli

Narrated by: Achim Höppner & Anja Buczkowsky

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Entschlossenheit, Großmut, Klugheit und Gerechtigkeit - das sind die Eigenschaften, deren Zusammenklang sich Machiavelli für seine Herrschergestalt wünscht. Hinzu kam seine Beurteilung aus Geschichte und eigener Erfahrung, dass die Interessen des Staates und seine Sicherheit in der Politik den Vorrang vor allen ethnischen Erwägungen haben... Read more

Gespräche mit Einstein - Abridged

By: Herbert Lenz

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seine Spezielle Relativitätstheorie, die Quantenstruktur des Lichts sowie die atomistische Struktur der Materie hatten Einstein Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts bekannt gemacht. Neben seiner Lehrtätigkeit an der Universität Berlin war er ab 1917 begehrter Gast und Gesprächspartner in der "Literarischen Gesellschaft" im Hotel Bristol. Hier verkehrten... Read more

Die Bienen sind verrückt geworden - Abridged

By: Johannes Mario Simmel

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Hörbuch ist ein Manifest der Courage, der klaren Worte, des politischen Engagements. Gegen Faschismus und Rassismus, gegen Rechtsextremisten und skrupellose Multis, ein Manifest gegen die Verlogenheit und die Grausamkeit in unserer Zeit. Es ist ein Hörbuch für die Freiheit des Wortes, für die Achtung der Menschenrechte und für einen... Read more

Q & A - Abridged

By: Vikas Swarup

Narrated by: Kerry Shale

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through... Read more

On Beauty - Abridged

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth

"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews

Having hit bestseller lists from the New York... Read more

The Painted Drum

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the author of the National Book Award Winner The Round House, Louise Erdrich's breathtaking, lyrical novel of a priceless Ojibwe artifact and the effect it has had on those who have come into contact with it over the years.“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between... Read more

Tooth and Claw

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: T.C. Boyle

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourteen stories gathered here, which have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Harper's, McSweeney's, and Playboy, as well as in The O. Henry Prize Stories and Best American Stories volumes, display T. C. Boyle's imaginative muscle, emotional sensitivity and astonishing range. There are the whimsical tales for which Boyle is justly famous,... Read more

Indecision

By: Benjamin Kunkel

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Benjamin Kunkel’s brilliantly comic debut novel concerns one of the central maladies of our time–a pathological indecision that turns abundance into an affliction and opportunity into a curse.Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he’s having a midlife crisis. Of course, living a dissolute, dorm like existence in a tiny apartment and... Read more

The Widow of the South - Abridged

By: Robert Hicks

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Tom Wopat, David Chandler & Jo...

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war.
This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field... Read more

Die Bergwerke zu Falun - Abridged

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

Narrated by: Jan Koester

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Stoff geht auf eine reale Begebenheit zurück: Anfang des 18. Jahrhunderts wird in einem schwedischen Bergwerk die Leiche eines 50 Jahre zuvor auf rätselhafte Weise verschollenen jungen Bergmanns gefunden - völlig unversehrt. Hoffmann schildert die Umstände dieses Geschehens aus seiner Sicht: Der labile Elis Fröbom, ehemals Seemann, fühlt... Read more

As I Lay Dying

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

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

From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories

One of William Faulkner’s finest novels, As I Lay Dying,... Read more

Lunar Park

By: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrated by: James Van Der Beek

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of American Psycho and Less Than Zero comes a chilling tale that combines reality, memoir, and fantasy to create a fascinating portrait of this most controversial writer but also a deeply moving novel about love and loss, parents and children, and ultimately forgiveness. 

“John... Read more

A Sudden Country

By: Karen Fisher

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid and revelatory novel based on actual events of the 1847 Oregon migration, A Sudden Country follows two characters of remarkable complexity and strength in a journey of survival and redemption.

James MacLaren, once a resourceful and ambitious Hudson’s Bay Company trader, has renounced his aspirations for a quiet family life in the... Read more

Housekeeping

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Becket Royce

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An unabridged audio edition of Marilynne Robinson's classic work Housekeeping, on the 25th anniversary of its first publication.

Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award

A modern classic, Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother,... Read more

A Hole in Texas

By: Herman Wouk

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With this rollicking novel hailed equally for its satiric bite, its lightly borne scientific savvy, and its tender compassion for foible-prone humanity, one of America's preeminent storytellers returns to fiction.

Guy Carpenter is a regular guy, a family man, an obscure NASA scientist, when he is jolted out of his quiet life and summoned to the... Read more

The Dancing Floor - Abridged

By: Barbara Michaels

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

For years, Heather Tradescant had dreamed of the journey she and her father would take to England--a pilgrimage to the great gardens of history.Now that her father is dead, Heather is determined to fulfill his dreams. Unfortunately, her request to see the fabled 17th-century garden of Troytan House is denied by the owner. Though unwelcome, she... Read more

No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, instead finds men shot dead, a load of heroin, and more than $2 million in cash. Packing the money out, he knows, will change everything. But only after two more men are murdered does a victim's burning car lead Sheriff Bell to the carnage out in the desert, and he soon realizes how... Read more