Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

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

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

Historia De Dos Ciudades - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Guillermo Piedrahita

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una novela historica de la revolucion. Carlos Dickens, el gran escritor ingles incursiono muy poco en la novela historica, que tan de boga estuvo a mediados del siglo XIX. De hecho, dentro de su inmensa produccion, tanto en numero como en calidad, solo hay dos novelas historicas de las cuales La historia de dos ciudades es una. Las dos ciudades... 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

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

El Principe Y El Mendigo - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Carlos J. Vega

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Una novela sobre hipocresia social e injusticia. El incredible parecido entre el heredero de la corona inglesa y un mendigo, permite que por un azar del destino, al encontrarse los ninos de dos mundos tan opuestos, el principe pueda cumplir con su deseo de ver como vive y sufre la otra mitad, mientras que el mendigo se ve inesperadamente... Read more

The Constant Gardener - Abridged

By: John le Carre

Narrated by: John le Carre

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by New York Times bestselling author John le Carré, one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.

The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on... Read more

O Bed! O Breakfast!

By: Robert Dalby

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When the queen of the tabloids, Juliette Cadbury, decides to film a movie in Fort Rosalie, Mississippi, local Tourist Bureau executive Mary Dell Hoskins is given the unenviable task of setting up a whirlwind inspection tour of the town's three bed-and-breakfasts - only one of which can win the right to host the outrageous actress and her hunky... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
 
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”... 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

The Diagnosis

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Alan Lightman's first novel, Einstein's Dreams, was greeted with international praise. Salman Rushdie called it "at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written." Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times that the novel creates "a magical, metaphysical realm . . . as in Calvino's work, the fantastical... Read more

Disobedience - Abridged

By: Jane Hamilton

Narrated by: Robert Sean Leonard

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Jane Hamilton, author of the beloved New York Times bestsellers A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth, comes a warmly humorous, poignant novel about a young man, his mother's e-mail, and the often surprising path of infidelity.

Henry Shaw, a high school senior, is about as comfortable with his family as any seventeen-year-old can be. His... Read more

The Golden Age

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline... Read more

The Golden Age - Abridged

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Kathryn Walker

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Golden Age is the concluding volume in Gore Vidal's celebrated and bestselling Narratives of Empire series-a unique pageant of the national experience from the United States' entry into World War Two to the end of the Korean War.

The historical novel is once again in vogue, and Gore Vidal stands as its undisputed American master. In his six... Read more

The Man Who Ate the 747

By: Ben Sherwood

Narrated by: David Schramm

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the greatest love, ever....

J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed... Read more

Flashman and the Tiger

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitable and appallingly appealing Flashy is back, in a long-awaited new installment of The Flashman Papers.

When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now,... Read more

A Friend of the Earth

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A Friend of the Earth opens in the year 2025, as Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tidewater ekes out a bleak living in southern California, managing a rock star's private menagerie. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most of the major mammalian species are extinct. Once Ty was so seriously committed to environmental causes that he... Read more

Circle of Friends - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents... Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins... Read more

The Return Journey

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this extraordinary collection of stories, New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy once again reveals her incomparable understanding of matters of the heart with powerfully compelling stories of love, loss, revelation, and reconciliation.

A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip. . . .
A man and a... Read more

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.

Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of... Read more

Anil's Ghost

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in... Read more

The Horse Whisperer

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.  It is an odyssey that will bring her to...

The Horse Whisperer

He is the stuff of... Read more

The Loop

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Horse Whisperer comes the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller, an extraordinary new novel of love, family, and man's struggle with the wild.

A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Biologist Helen... Read more