Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Town - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Donnie Wahlberg

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Some criminals get a second chance.Will Doug MacRay be one of them?

Four masked men—thieves, rivals, and friends from the tough streets of Charlestown—take on a Boston bank at gunpoint. Holding bank manager Claire Keesey hostage and cleaning out the vault were simple. But career criminal Doug MacRay didn’t plan on one thing: falling hard for... Read more

Hermines Tür - Abridged

By: Kerstin Michelsen

Narrated by: Caroline du Fresne

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die über siebzig jährige Hermine führt ein trostloses Dasein in Einsamkeit. Seit über dreißig Jahren lebt sie zurück gezogen, in der stetig verfallenden Villa ihrer einst angesehenen Familie. Als sie durch einen Brief plötzlich vom Tod ihres geschiedenen Ehemannes Wilhelm erfährt, kommen alte Gedanken und Erinnerungen in ihr... Read more

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street - Abridged

By: Trevanian

Narrated by: Tom Bosely

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.

Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else... Read more

Vanity Fair: Summer 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s a royal rendezvous for Vanity Fair’s Summer issue! Ahead of the Queen’s 90th birthday, read three intimate reminiscences of her inner majesty, a chronicle of Prince Charlotte’s first year, and about her royal highnesses’ most loyal subjects—her corgis.Plus: Inside Twitter’s $10 billion identity crisisThe mystery of the Ivy League’s Bernie... Read more

Bea geht - Abridged

By: Sebastian Willing

Narrated by: Mike Langhans

Length: 3 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dieses Buch beschreibt den Abschied von einem Kind, einem geliebten Menschen, einem Baby. Es begleitet drei Menschen auf einem Weg, dessen Ende bereits bekannt ist, dem Kampf zwischen Herz und Verstand, in dem Wissen, dass keiner von beiden gewinnen kann. Es gibt keinen Gewinner, wenn man sein Kind verabschieden, sich von seinem Baby trennen... 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

A Thread of Grace - Abridged

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Jay Gregory

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find... Read more

Collected Fictions - Abridged

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. A selection of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and... Read more

Vanity Fair: October–December 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 15 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking a global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the... Read more

Vom Ende der Nacht (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Claire Daverley

Narrated by: Heike Warmuth

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Will und Rosie. Sie könnten gegensätzlicher nicht sein, und doch verlieben sie sich ineinander: verstohlene Blicke, Sonnenuntergänge am Lagerfeuer, Gespräche bis spät in die Nacht. Sie sind kurz davor, etwas Wunderbares zu beginnen. Bis eines Tages ihre Welt zerbricht. Auch wenn die Jahre vergehen, finden sie immer wieder zueinander und können... Read more

Gentleman über Bord - Abridged

By: Herbert Clyde Lewis

Narrated by: Dietmar Bär

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein wohlsituierter New Yorker Geschäftsmann stürzt urplötzlich in eine mentale Krise. Um zu gesunden, so spürt er, muss er seinen von grauem Erfolg geprägten Alltag hinter sich lassen, und kurzerhand tritt er eine Schiffsreise an. Kaum auf See, stellt sich die erhoffte Erleichterung tatsächlich ein, doch dann … macht er einen einzigen falschen... Read more

Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas - Abridged

By: Machado de Assis

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Machado de Assis escreveu em 1880 as Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, o romance fundamental de nossa literatura. Em uma narrativa provocativa e irônica, que parte das digressões do defunto Brás Cubas, o personagem expõe já no início o relato de sua própria morte e funeral. Por seu caráter bastante peculiar, aliado a seu autor defunto, o romance... Read more

The Fall of a Sparrow - Abridged

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: David Birney & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved... Read more

Hércules no Eta - Abridged

By: José Geraldo Heleno

Narrated by: Equipe Multicast

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

O estoicismo de Sêneca apresenta traços que refletem sua condição pessoal de homem novo, de ator na história do Império Romano e de um pensador bastante livre. As linhas de seu pensamento, que se podem chamar de estoico-senequianas, estão presentes em toda sua obra. A tragédia Hércules no Eta, juntamente com sua tradução, constituem a 1ª parte... Read more

Vanity Fair: May 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Special Sisters Issue with America's kid sister, Amy Schumer! She's smart, funny, and loyal—so why is she such a lightning rod? Plus: Love stories (and even some hate stories) from high-profile sisters The intimate bond between Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret The rivalry between Jackie O and Lee Radziwill Plus: Olivia De Havilland,... Read more

Demon Copperhead (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Fabian Busch

Length: 18 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Trailer in den Wäldern Virginias. Das Land der Tabakfarmer und Schwarzbrenner, der "Hillbilly-Cadillac"-Stoßstangenaufkleber an rostigen Pickups, aufgegeben von sämtlichen Superhelden und dem Rest der Nation. Hier kommt Demon Copperhead zur Welt - die Mutter ist noch ein Teenie und frisch auf Entzug, der Vater tot. Ein Junge mit kupferroten... Read more

Yoga Town (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Daniel Speck

Narrated by: Daniel Speck & Mina Tander

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Damals hatten wir sie - eine bessere Zukunft. Der große neue Familien- und Generationenroman von Bestseller-Autor Daniel Speck 2019. Eine Berliner Yogalehrerin, die noch nie in Indien war. Ihr liebevoller Vater, der in der Vergangenheit hängt. Und ihre Mutter, die spurlos verschwindet. Lucy und ihr Vater Lou gehen auf die Suche, zurück an den... Read more

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - Abridged

By: Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with... Read more

El Retrato de Dorian Gray - Abridged

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Staff Audiolibros Colección

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

La obra retrata al propio Wilde y a buena parte de su mundo íntimo, poderosamente vinculado con la pasión estética. Dorian Gray, muchacho de belleza espléndida, se dedica a apurar los momentos de su vida, convirtiéndola en pasión absoluta, ajeno a cualquier moral, inalterablemente joven, mientras un retrato suyo va envejeciendo y recibiendo en... Read more

American Wife - Abridged

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible

“Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time •... Read more

Man müsste mal - Nix gemacht und trotzdem happy - Neue Gute-Laune-Storys (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Tommy Jaud

Narrated by: Tommy Jaud

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das perfekte Rezept gegen sinnlose Planeritis: neue Alltagsgeschichten vom Meister der guten Laune. Jetzt neu mit der Alpaka-Formel! Warum unternehmen alle anderen immer mehr als man selbst? Hat die Künstliche Intelligenz eine Chance gegen die Natürliche Dummheit? Und wo zum Teufel ist der rote Aufreißfaden der Prinzenrolle hin? Da müsste man... Read more

Florence of Arabia - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations–in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight.

Appalled... Read more

Winona's Web - Abridged

By: Priscilla Cogan

Narrated by: Salome Jens

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Winona Pathfinder, an elderly Lakota Sioux medicine woman, announces she intends to die soon, she is referred to psychologist Dr. Meggie O'Connor for counseling. A reluctant client, the feisty Winona decides to turn the tables and teach Dr. O'Connor a thing or two about life. Can the doctor convince Winona to step back from the gates to the... Read more

The Deep End of the Ocean - Abridged

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Dana Ivey

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Masterful...A big story about human connection and emotional survival" - Los Angeles Times 

The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club

Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly... Read more