Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Any Minute - Abridged

By: Joyce Meyer & Deborah Bedford

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sarah Harper is driven to achieve success no matter what the cost. She wants to do good and not hurt the people she loves -- especially children and her husband, Joe -- but her desire to succeed in her career too often leaves little time for family.

One cold, autumn afternoon, all of that changes when Sarah's car plunges off a bridge and into a... Read more

The Count of Monte Cristo, with eBook - Abridged

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is an Abridged Edition



For Edmond Dantes, life couldn't be better. At nineteen, he is soon to be captain of his own ship and about to be married to his true love, Mercedes. But his life is suddenly turned upside down when, on his wedding day, he is arrested. Without a fair trial, he is condemned to solitary confinement in the miserable... Read more

The Little Friend - Abridged

By: Donna Tartt

Narrated by: Donna Tartt

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a... Read more

Vanity Fair: March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Garner on the rebound! The actress opens up about men, Ben, and why her kids—not their nanny—are her focus.Plus:The cheating allegations rocking the Bridge worldNew England’s newest prep-school sex scandalThe battle for PicassoLondon’s Great Hatton Garden heist of 2015Lin-Manuel Miranda, Robert Mapplethorpe, and more!Vanity Fair is a... Read more

The Copper Beech - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Copper Beech is as soothing as a cup of tea.”—People
 
In the little Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials—and those of their loves—into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig’s closed... Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (ungekürzt) - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Stephan Schad

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dublin, 1968. Der zehnjährige Paddy Clarke langweilt sich in der Schule und vertreibt sich die Zeit mit Freunden, zieht durch die Straßen, treibt Unfug oder ärgert seinen kleinen Bruder. Abends sitzt er vor dem Fernseher und knabbert Chips. Doch Paddy lebt nicht in einer heilen Welt: Sein Vater ist dem Alkohol verfallen und streitet immer... Read more

Jesus Out to Sea - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON​

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke... Read more

Нормальные люди - Abridged

By: Салли Руни

Narrated by: Полина Войченко

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Коннелл Уолдрон и Марианна Шеридан учатся в одной школе и даже в одном классе, но почти не общаются — трудно представить себе двух более разных людей. В школе Коннелл душа любой компании, один из самых популярных парней, звезда футбольной команды, а Марианна — замкнутая одиночка, поддерживающая отношения по большей части с книгами. В реальной... Read more

The Man of My Dreams - Abridged

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Anne Heche

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and... Read more

Flower Net - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.

Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's  is underscored.

In the depths of a... Read more

Vanity Fair: January–March 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 19 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the 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 world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... 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

A Christmas Carol - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is... Read more

While I Was Gone - Abridged

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: Yes

A decade ago she put a face on every mother's worst nightmare with her phenomenal best-seller The Good Mother. Now, Sue Miller delivers a spellbinding novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife.

In the summer of 1968, Jo Becker ran out on the marriage and the life her parents wanted for her, and escaped--for one... Read more

Vanity Fair: April 2016 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Becoming Meryl Streep: how personal tragedy and offscreen battles fueled the multiple Academy Award winner’s breakthrough performancePlus:On the road with the Rolling StonesAl Sharpton on the election and the controversies he can’t shakeSumner Redstone’s last chapterThe F. Scott Fitzgerald of CartooningPlus: Titus Burgess, Elizabeth Barlow... Read more

Visions of Cody - Abridged

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: Graham Parker

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“To read On the Road but not Visions of Cody is to take a nice sightseeing tour but to forgo the spectacular rapids of Jack Kerouac’s wildest writings.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“The centerpiece of all [Kerouac’s] novels.”—The Washington Post
 
Originally written in 1951–1952, Visions of Cody was an underground classic by the time it was... Read more

Himmel & Erde - Abridged

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Oliver Dupont

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barack-Obama-Nummer-1-Lieblingsbuch des Jahres • Publishers-Weekly-Nummer-1-Buch des Jahres • Amazon-Nummer-1-Buch-des-Jahres • New-York-Times-Bestseller Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1972: Beim Ausheben der Fundamente für ein neues Baugebiet stoßen die Arbeiter am Grund eines Brunnens auf ein Skelett. Wem es gehörte und wie es dorthin kam, kann... Read more

The Forest - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum

From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their... Read more

The Bluest Eye - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison & Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America... Read more

House of the Rising Sun - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author James Lee Burke’s “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) masterpiece is the story of a father and son separated by war, circumstance, and a race for the Holy Grail—a thrilling entry in the Holland family saga.

After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Texas Ranger Hackberry Holland escapes the... Read more

Vanity Fair: December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE DOWNLOAD: DONALD TRUMP’S HAIR SPEAKS!In this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the November issue All about Bill Murray’s Netflix Christmas special Dispatches from Miami Beach, London, and Palo Alto Burt Reynolds on love, money, and what cost him the most Plus: Lucky Blue Smith, Annabel Astor, and much more!Vanity... Read more

Vanity Fair: September–December 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the 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 world’s most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Turn of the Century - Abridged

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more

The Optimist's Daughter - Abridged

By: Eudora Welty

Narrated by: Eudora Welty

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Along in the old house, Laurel finally... Read more