Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Maybe a Miracle - Abridged

By: Brian Strause

Narrated by: Michael Louis Wells

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this disarming debut, Brian Strause has written a vastly entertaining novel about an American family transfixed by a series of mysterious events. From a comfortable suburb of Columbus, Ohio, emerges a story of rebellion, faith and hope, bridging the cultural gap between those who believe in miracles and those who wish they could.Monroe... Read more

论法的精神 - Abridged

By: 孟德斯鸠

Narrated by: 清川

Length: 25 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：《论法的精神》是一部综合性的政治学著作。该书阐述了自然法理论、法和法律定义，法律与政体关系，以及政体分类、各种政体的性质和原则等问题；阐述了政治自由和三权分立学说，并以英国为例提出了君主立宪制的政治主张。论述了自然条件同政治法律的关系，认为自然地理环境对社会政治法律制度具有重大的制约性；论述了法律和工业、商业、货币、贸易、人口及宗教等关系，主张兴办工商业，发展贸易，反对横征暴敛，促进国际交往和世界和平；论述了罗马继承法和法国民法的起源和变革。强调了严格区分各种法律规定的范围和制定法律应遵循的原则及其应注意的问题。作者简介：孟德斯鸠Montesquieu，法国启蒙时期思想家、律师、西方国家学说和法学理论的奠基人，与伏尔泰、卢梭合称“法兰西启蒙运动三剑侠”。出生于法国贵族世家，自... Read more

The Piano Tuner - Abridged

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.

In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more

That Old Ace in the Hole - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Arliss Howard

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Annie Proulx comes an exhilarating story brimming with language, history, landscape, music, and love.

Bob Dollar is a young man from Denver trying to make good in a bad world. Out of college and aimless, Dollar takes a job with Global Pork Rind, scouting out big spreads of land that can be... Read more

Fly Away Home - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house.

When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s... Read more

Thirteen Moons - Abridged

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading... Read more

Plötzlich Sommer - Abridged

By: Thomas Kautenburger

Narrated by: Thomas Kautenburger

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Protagonist Jean Degrange erzählt einer Journalistin, die für ihr Magazin über Schicksale berichtet, seine Lebensgeschichte. In Frankreich aufgewachsen, früh seiner Wurzeln durch die Ehescheidung der Eltern beraubt, schlägt er sich im für ihn fremden Deutschland durch. Er studiert Grafik-Design und macht sich selbstständig. Beruflich... Read more

I Don't Know How She Does It - Abridged

By: Allison Pearson

Narrated by: Emma Fielding

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental... Read more

Her - Abridged

By: Laura Zigman

Narrated by: Ilana Levine

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A smart, deeply satisfying romantic comedy about a woman's obsession with the return of her fiancé's ex.

On the Delta Shuttle between New York and Washington, Elise finds herself sitting next to Donald—tall, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. She’s left the world of women's magazines in Manhattan for graduate school in D.C. He’s left... Read more

Inselstolz - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Gerhard Waldherr & Uwe Bahn

Narrated by: Axel Prahl & Katharina Thalbach

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

18 Insulaner berichten vom Leben zwischen Land und Meer. Dort, wo der Wind wohnt und der Blick endlos ist. Wo morgens die Dünen glühen und abends kein Schiff mehr geht. Wie lebt es sich im Sehnsuchtsland, in dem andere nur Urlaub machen? In diesem Buch erzählen unter anderem Sylts Austernprinzessin, Borkums singender Wattführer und ein mutiger... Read more

Sturmkap - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Stefan Kruecken & Hans-Peter Jürgens

Narrated by: Axel Prahl

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vor Kap Hoorn, 1939: Seit Wochen kämpft die Besatzung der Viermastbark Priwall gegen schwere Stürme. Als der Großsegler aus Hamburg in Valparaiso festmacht, beginnt für den fünfzehnjährigen Schiffsjungen Hans Peter Jürgens eine Irrfahrt durch eine Welt im Krieg. Er arbeitet als Straßenbauer in Chile, überlebt ein Lager im afrikanischen Dschungel... Read more

Unverkäuflich! - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: Stefan Kruecken

Narrated by: Stephan Benson

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bobby Dekeyser ist fünfzehn, als er im Unterricht aufsteht und beschließt, Fußballprofi zu werden. Vier Jahre später steht er im Tor des FC Bayern München. Nachdem ihn ein Gegenspieler schwer verletzt hat, beginnt ein spektakuläres Abenteuer: Von einem Bauernhof in Niedersachsen aus schafft es Dekeyser, Vater von drei Kindern, ein globales... Read more

Zechenkinder - Das Hörbuch - Abridged

By: David Schraven & Uwe Weber

Narrated by: Uwe Fellensiek

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicht mehr lange, dann wird der Bergbau im Ruhrgebiet Geschichte sein. In ZECHENKINDER erzählen 25 Kumpel von der schwarzen Seele des "Potts". Über Kameradschaft, von Maloche unter Tage, über den Willen zu überleben und den Fluch der Staublunge. Über eine Arbeiterwelt, in der das Wort "Arschloch" keine Beleidigung sein muss und ein gemeinsames... Read more

Tepper Isn't Going Out - Abridged

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.

Tepper... Read more

The Mistake – Niemand ist perfekt - Abridged

By: Elle Kennedy

Narrated by: Sarah Dorsel

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

College-Eishockey-Star Logan ahnt nicht, dass er die richtige Frau am falschen Ort trifft, als er sich eines Nachts im Zimmer irrt und aus Versehen bei Grace im Bett landet. Das erste Kennenlernen verläuft dementsprechend verheerend. Trotzdem geht ihm dieses hübsche, scharfzüngige Mauerblümchen fortan nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Irgendwie muss er... Read more

CASA AMOR - Abridged

By: Glyn Ridgley

Narrated by: Alister Austin

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A young man arrives in an abandoned village where the only inhabitant offers to lead him down a dangerous trail to safety.Love is paid with love, reads a plaque on their way. But is this really true?Mysterious as the solitary hamlet. Deep as the protective forest. Playful as the trilling mountain stream. Threatening as the virus raging around... Read more

Deep in the Heart - Abridged

By: Mark Dunn

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 1 hour 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A serious comedy about the value of family and friendship, the importance of self-forgiveness, and the special healing joy that comes to those who know how to “drink life to the dregs.”Deep in the Heart, adapted from the award-winning comedy-drama The Deer and the Antelope Play, tells the story of an East Texas family—a mother, daughter, and... Read more

The Journeys of Socrates - Abridged

By: Dan Millman

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The international bestselling author is back with a page-turning tale of the origins of the peaceful warriorIn the heart of nineteenth century Tsarist Russia an orphaned boy born of both Jewish and Cossack blood desperately seeks to find a place in a dangerous world. Sergei Ivanov’s (Socrates’) journey from a military academy to America is a... Read more

The Mercy of Thin Air - Abridged

By: Ronlyn Domingue

Narrated by: Rebecca Gayheart

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From debut author Ronlyn Domingue comes a stunning, imaginative novel that beautifully captures the nature of love and how it transcends all barriers -- even death.
In 1920s New Orleans, smart and fearless Raziela Nolan is in the throes of a magnificent love affair when she suddenly dies in a tragic accident. Immediately after her death, she... Read more

Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more

Sense and Sensibility - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.View our feature on Jane Austen.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.... Read more

The View from Mount Joy - Abridged

By: Lorna Landvik

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.

When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi... Read more

Sacrifice of Isaac - Abridged

By: Neil Gordon

Narrated by: Tony Shaloub & Cynthia Nixon

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of John Le Carre...a stunning debut thriller.
A legacy of shadows...
Luke Benami thought his father Yossef was the great man the world said he was: professor, general, Israeli national hero. Luke also thought his brother Danni was the prodigal his family said he was: army deserter, political exile, criminal. But when his father's... Read more

母亲 - Abridged

By: 梁晓声

Narrated by: 咚咚

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

内容简介：《母亲》是著名作家梁晓声的小说。该小说部分内容被选入了国家统编版五年级上册第六单元第18课。作者在小说中记叙了母亲在极其艰难的生活条件下，勤劳节俭，保持善良、纯正的品格，以身作则，在做人、做事方面给儿女树立了良好的形象。表现了慈母对子女的深情，以及孩子对母亲的敬爱之情。同时，作者以母亲为缩影，描述了中国社会的起伏变迁，多层次描写了社会底层人物的命运。小说语言朴实，字里行间充满了感人至深的意境，在严肃的同时，作者巧妙的文笔又让文章时不时充满幽默氛围。作品体现了中国人对家的看重，也含有父母为子女无条件付出的精神，具备及其强烈的人文关怀。作者简介：梁晓声，原名梁绍生，祖籍山东荣成，1949年生于哈尔滨，当代知名作家、学者。北京语言大学人文学院资深教授，全国政协委员、中央文史研究馆馆... Read more