Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Broken for You

By: Stephanie Kallos

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect.Elderly Margaret Hughes is living alone in a mansion in Seattle, with only a massive collection of antiques for company, when she meets Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come to... Read more

An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An Unfinished Season captures the postwar moment of the 1950s, a time of rabid anti-communism, worker unrest, and government corruption, when the modern world lay just over the horizon.On the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Gruff, unapproachable Teddy Ravan is confronting a... Read more

True North

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up... Read more

Haussmann

By: Paul LaFarge

Narrated by: Erik Bauersfeld

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann was the architect of modern Paris. In two decades, from 1853 to 1869, he transformed the cramped, filthy lanes of the medieval city into the airy boulevards and green... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more

The Meadow

By: James Galvin

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are... Read more

An Unpardonable Crime

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses, a man is found horribly mutilated on a building site,another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district, a deathbed vigil ends in theft,and an... Read more

Broken Ground

By: Kai Maristed

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaethe Shalk faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West.Having lived in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth. Her journey from America to the broken ground of... Read more

Memento Mori

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unforgettably astounding and a joy to read, Memento Mori is considered by many to be the greatest novel by the wizardly Dame Muriel Spark.In late 1950s London, a group of aging eccentrics is brought together by a series of uncanny events. Lettie Colston is the first to receive an anonymous phone call from an insinuating voice reminding her that... Read more

Zermatt

By: Frank Schaeffer

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced—and... Read more

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

By: Geoff Dyer

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Every two years the international art world descends on Venice for the opening of the Biennale. Among them is Jeff Atman, a jaded and dissolute journalist, whose dedication to the cause of bellini-fuelled party-going is only intermittently disturbed by the obligation to file a story. When he meets the spellbinding Laura, he is rejuvenated,... Read more

Other People

By: Sol Stein

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a man know about love? This is the story of three very different men in love with the same woman. It is also the story of that woman, Francine Widmer: twenty-seven, beautiful, intelligent, resourceful, and insistent on running her own life.Suddenly, control of Francine’s life is torn apart when she is raped. Finding the doctors and... Read more

Pasadena

By: David Ebershoff

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 20 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This sweeping, richly imagined novel charts the rapid transformation of Southern California from frontier to suburb during the first half of the twentieth century. At the story's center is Linda Stamp, a fisher girl born in 1903 on a coastal farm in San Diego's North County, and the three men who upend her life and vie for her affection: her... Read more

The Rich Are Different

By: Susan Howatch

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 28 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Dinah Slade is a young Englishwoman of immense vitality, great sensual power, and fierce ambition. When the handsome and powerful Paul Van Zale commits the imprudence of falling in love with her, her life and desires become intertwined with the fate of his great American banking family. Among the new acquaintances she makes is Paul’s wife, with... Read more

The Weather in Berlin

By: Ward Just

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

On a whim, aging director Dixon Greenwood accepted the three-month fellowship in post-wall Berlin, with the promise that nothing would be required of him but an interview about his moviemaking career. Thirty years had passed since he had directed his greatest film, a cult classic called Summer, about a group of German artists between the wars.... Read more

Loitering with Intent

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"How wonderful to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century," Fleur Talbot rejoices. Loitering about London in 1949, with intent to gather material for her writing, Fleur finds a job "on the grubby edge of the literary world," as secretary to the odd Autobiographical Association. Are they a group of mad egomaniacs, hilariously writing... Read more

A Beggar in Jerusalem

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the days following the Six-Day War, a survivor of the Holocaust visits the reunited city of Jerusalem. At the Western Wall in the Old City, he encounters the beggars and madmen that congregate there every evening, who force him to confront the ghosts of his past and his ties to the present.Weaving together myth and mystery, parable and... Read more

Sister Carrie

By: Theodore Dreiser

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When small-town girl Carrie Meeber sets out for Chicago, she is equipped with nothing but a few dollars, a certain unspoiled beauty and charm, and a pitiful lack of preparation for the complex moral choices she will face. Adrift in an indifferent city, she struggles from the sweatshop to stage success and inspires an obsessive love in a married... Read more

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street

By: Trevanian

Narrated by: Leonardo Leoncavallo

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

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

When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful novel from one of the most admired writers of our time.Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Ian Richardson

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the... Read more

Crime and Punishment - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police... Read more

Moby-Dick - Abridged

By: Herman Melville

Narrated by: William Hootkins

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Moby-Dick is one of the great epics in all of literature. Captain Ahab's hunt for the white whale drives the narrative at a relentless pace, while Ishmael's meditations on whales and whaling, on the sublime indifference of nature, and on the grimy physical details of the extraction of oil provide a reflective counterpoint to the headlong... Read more

Great Expectations - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Hugh Laurie

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients... Read more