Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 24 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more

The Shipping News - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Joy

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

The World Below

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Judith Ivey

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.

Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed,... Read more

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

By: Ann B. Ross

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in... Read more

Good Harbor - Abridged

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anita Diamant, whose rich portrayal of the biblical world of women illuminated her acclaimed international bestseller The Red Tent, now crafts a moving novel of contemporary female friendship.

Good Harbor is the long stretch of Cape Ann beach where two women friends walk and talk, sharing their personal histories and learning life's lessons from... Read more

Swift As Desire - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.

Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he... Read more

Hearts In Atlantis

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: William Hurt & Stephen King

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues... Read more

The Corrections - Abridged

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have... Read more

The Smoke Jumper - Abridged

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Luke Perry

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His first novel, the international phenomenon The Horse Whisperer, became a publishing legend, setting a benchmark for contemporary bestsellers when it hit #1 on the New York Times list faster than any first novel in history.

He returned to enthrall his fans all across the world with his second triumph, The Loop, proving that here was a master... Read more

The Fourth Hand

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. But what if the donor’s widow... Read more

Among the Missing - Abridged

By: Dan Chaon

Narrated by: Dylan Baker & Becky Ann Baker

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor,... Read more

Bitterroot - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more

The Cold Six Thousand

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the... Read more

Carry Me Across the Water

By: Ethan Canin

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate — a shocking encounter with a... Read more

Good In Bed - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Paula Cale

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rediscover the modern classic that launched the career of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Everything and Big Summer with this beautiful anniversary edition of her “contemporary Cinderella tale told with intelligence, wit, and style” (Susan Isaacs, New York Times bestselling author).

For twenty-eight years, things have been... Read more

Hypochondrie für Anfänger - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)

By: Ingo Naujoks, Cordula Stratmann & Gustav Peter ...

Narrated by: Ingo Naujoks, Cordula Stratmann & Gustav Peter ...

Length: 1 hour 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Ohne Risiken - aber mit Nebenwirkungen: Wissenszuwachs und Lachreiz. Die großen Denker und Geistesfürsten haben es gewusst: Die Welt ist ein gefährlicher Ort und der menschliche Körper ein fragiles Konstrukt. Montaigne macht sich Sorgen um die Farbe seines Urins, Samuel Pepys verzweifelt an seiner Verdauung und Jerome K. Jerome ist überzeugt,... Read more

A Painted House

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the... Read more

The Body Artist

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Laurie Anderson

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld.

Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is... Read more

The Smoke Jumper

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

His first novel, the international phenomenon The Horse Whisperer, became a publishing legend, setting a benchmark for contemporary bestsellers when it hit #1 on the New York Times list faster than any first novel in history.

He returned to enthrall his fans all across the world with his second triumph, The Loop, proving that here was a master... Read more

El Decameron - Selecciones

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Narrated by: Laura García

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Un grupo de nobles italianos tienen que refugiarse la peste negra en una casa para pasar el rato, se cuentan el uno al otro historias. La serie de cien cuentos que se narran son divertidos por que se mofan de todas las que se supone sean buenas costumbres. Read more

Dressing Up for the Carnival

By: Carol Shields

Narrated by: Jean Smart

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Carol Shields had a knack for turning the ordinary into the extraordinary and nowhere more than in this luminous collection of short stories. Throughout these stories runs Shields' preoccupation with identity—as in the title story, about a compacted day in the life of the world, in which a procession of characters try on new selves. Yet these... Read more

Rojo Y Negro - Abridged

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Fabio Camero

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Algunos lo interpretan como el contraste entre dos epocas, otros dicen que se refiere a la suerte de la ruleta o al contraste entre la vida militar y la religiosa. Lo cierto es que su protagonista lucha contra una sociedad que no lo comprende y que acaba destruyendolo. Read more

Crimen Y Castigo - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Fabio Camero

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

El mundo desesperado de un criminal. Invariablemente en cualquier encuesta que se haga sobre las obras maestras de la novela, figuran por los menos una del insigne escritor ruso Fedor Dostoyevsky, en especial Crimen y Castigo, que figura en esta edicion y Los Hermanos Karamazov. En la novela que se presenta, se ve la mente de Raskolnikov, un... Read more