Classics bestsellers
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Circe
By Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Circe
“Unlike most of my peers, I did not learn about mythology in school. Circe intimidated me for far too long before I finally took the plunge to read it. How glad I am that I faced my fear! Even to my untrained mind, the chronicles of Circe were easy to follow, and with Perdita Weeks’ sublime narration, soon I was engrossed. Ostracized and outcast, Circe—the goddess, the witch—exhibits unbelievable strength and passion in her many years, and Madeline Miller has molded her into the feminist icon of my dreams. After spending so much time with her, I was emotional to say goodbye. This one should not be missed!”
Mary, Raven Book Store
Bestseller #2
Their Eyes Were Watching God
By Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith
One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love...
Read more »Bestseller #3
The Chronicles of Narnia Complete Audio Collection
Chronicles of Narnia
By C. S. Lewis
Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, Alex Jennings, Michael York, Lynn Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Northam & Patrick Stewart
Length: 33 hours 44 minutes
For over sixty years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia.
This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia—The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of...
Read more »Bestseller #4
A Thousand Ships
A Novel
By Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
A Thousand Ships
“A Thousand Ships transports the reader back in time to the Trojan War, but in such an intriguing way. Rather than the women playing "bit parts" in the story, Natalie Hayes puts them front and center relegating the "heroes" of the past to the back burner. Her brilliant format weaves together smaller stories and experiences of ordinary women and women famous to the Iliad and the Odyssey in a way that is refreshing and enlightening. Hayes' story telling fleshes out these women in a way that is insightful and worthy of so much more conversation than they have received in the past. Hayes' narration of the audiobook is brilliant and imminently engaging. ”
Rebecca, Rediscovered Books
Bestseller #5
The Iliad
A New Translation by Caroline Alexander
By Homer & Caroline Alexander
Narrated by: Dominic Keating
Length: 19 hours 46 minutes
With her virtuoso translation, classicist and bestselling author Caroline Alexander brings to life Homer’s timeless epic of the Trojan War
Composed around 730 B.C., Homer’s Iliad recounts the events of a few momentous weeks in the protracted ten-year war between the invading Achaeans, or Greeks, and the Trojans in their besieged city of Ilion....
Read more »Bestseller #6
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 43 hours 13 minutes
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling... Read more »
Bestseller #7
HP Lovecraft: Selected Stories
By H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 19 hours 51 minutes
This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of 12 of H. P. Lovecraft's most well-renowned stories, read by Audie-Award winner Jonathan Keeble. The stories included here are:
- At the Mountains of Madness
- Dagon ; From Beyond
- In the Vault
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Colour Out of Space
- The Dreams in the Witch House
- The Dunwich Horror
-...
Read more »Bestseller #8
The Bell Jar
By Sylvia Plath
Narrated by: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Length: 7 hours 24 minutes
A realistic and emotional look at a woman who falls into the grips of insanity written by the iconic American writer Sylvia Plath
“It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath’s voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal.” — USA Today
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant,...
Read more »Bestseller #9
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of... Read more »
Bestseller #10
Heroes
The Greek Myths Reimagined
By Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read more »
Bestseller #11
Charles Dickens: The Collection (Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Great Expectations...)
By Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Michael Kyle, Mil Nicholson & James Mendes
Length: 127 hours 12 minutes
This audiobook contains the greatest works of Charles Dickens such as "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol", "David Copperfield", "Bleak House", "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations". Read more »
Bestseller #12
Les Miserables
By Victor Hugo
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 60 hours 27 minutes
One of the great classics of world literature and the inspiration for the most beloved stage musical of all time, Les MisErables is legendary author Victor Hugo's masterpiece. This extraordinary English version by renowned translator Julie Rose captures all the majesty and brilliance of Hugo's work. Here is the timeless story of the... Read more »
Bestseller #13
The Thomas Mann Collection: Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, and Death in Venice
By Thomas Mann
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 70 hours 45 minutes
The Thomas Mann Collection includes unabridged recordings of Thomas Mann's 3 greatest works of fiction in one audiobook.
This audiobook is fully indexed. Once downloaded, each book and chapter will be listed so you can easily navigate to the individual section.
The titles included here are:
The Magic Mountain - In this dizzyingly rich novel of...
Read more »Bestseller #14
Middlemarch
By George Eliot
Narrated by: Margaret Espaillat
Length: 34 hours 56 minutes
By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830. Vast and crowded, rich... Read more »
Bestseller #15
To Kill a Mockingbird
By Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold...
Read more »Bestseller #16
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Novel
By Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as "a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an...
Read more »Bestseller #17
East of Eden
Penguin Audio Classics
By John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 25 hours 18 minutes
The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more »
Bestseller #18
Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Love in the Time of Cholera
“I am a hopeless and dedicated romantic who believes in beauty and kindness above all things. Magical realism + florid language + the knowledge that your true love is worth waiting for, no matter what the battles ahead. This book is as timely as it ever was.”
Jeremy, Tattered Cover
Bestseller #19
Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)
By Jane Austen
Narrated by: Karen Savage & Elizabeth Klett
Length: 69 hours 28 minutes
This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at... Read more »
Bestseller #20
Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 36 hours 42 minutes
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia. The extravagant and... Read more »
Bestseller #21
Women
A Novel
By Charles Bukowski
Narrated by: Christian Baskous
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred...
Read more »Bestseller #22
March
By Geraldine Brooks
Narrated by: Richard Easton
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.
From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war... Read more »
Bestseller #23
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
50th Anniversary Edition
Penguin Audio Classics
By Ken Kesey
Narrated by: John C. Reilly
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic.
Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental...
Read more »Bestseller #24
A Farewell to Arms
By Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: John Slattery
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes
Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime.
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming... Read more »
Bestseller #25
Moby Dick
By Herman Melville
Narrated by: Jonathan Epstein
Length: 25 hours 6 minutes
Melville’s epic tale of one man versus a great white whale will delight Melville devotees as well as those who have yet to sail on this adventure in this mesmerizing new recording read by Jonathan Epstein.
The mountain whose whale-like shape first gave Melville the idea of writing Moby Dick rests in the Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts, a short... Read more »
Bestseller #26
Continental Drift
By Russell Banks
Narrated by: Zach Villa
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
“The most convincing portrait I know of contemporary America . . . a great American novel.”— James Atlas, The Atlantic Monthly
From acclaimed author Russell Banks, a masterful novel of hope lost and gained—a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions and realities of the...
Read more »Bestseller #27
Bless Me, Ultima
By Rudolfo Anaya
Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic... Read more »
Bestseller #28
A Confederacy of Dunces
By John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book Review
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears...
Read more »Bestseller #29
If Beale Street Could Talk
A Novel
By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless” (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best...
Read more »Bestseller #30
A Tale of Two Cities
By Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Adams
Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
The French Revolution comes to vivid life in Charles Dickens's famous novel about the best of times and the worst of times... The storming of the Bastille…the death carts with their doomed human cargo…the swift drop of the guillotine blade—this is the French Revolution that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two... Read more »
Bestseller #31
Ulysses
By James Joyce
Narrated by: Donal Donnelly & Miriam Healy-Louie
Length: 27 hours 15 minutes
The young poet Stephen has been recalled from Paris to Dublin to be at his mother's deathbed. But he refuses her dying wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now, holed up in his Martello tower outside the city walls, he has to suffer the taunts of Buck Mulligan by day and, by night, the vision of 'her eyes, shaking out of death to shake and bend my... Read more »
Bestseller #32
Cannery Row
Penguin Audio Classics
By John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jerry Farden
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of... Read more »
Bestseller #33
The Winter of Our Discontent
Penguin Audio Classics
By John Steinbeck
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis
A Penguin Classic
In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an... Read more »
Bestseller #34
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 8 hours
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before.
“One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street Journal
Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately...
Read more »Bestseller #35
Underworld
By Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 31 hours 22 minutes
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books
“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
*With a... Read more »
Bestseller #36
The Pursuit of Love
Radlett and Montdore Trilogy: Book #1
By Nancy Mitford
Narrated by: Bessie Carter
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Mitford's most enduringly popular novel, The Pursuit of Love is a classic comedy about growing up and falling in love among the privileged and eccentric.
Mitford modeled her characters on her own famously unconventional family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin Fanny, who stays with them at Alconleigh, their... Read more »
Bestseller #37
The Street
By Ann Petry
Narrated by: Danielle Deadwyler
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
With a new introduction from New York Times best-selling author Tayari Jones, The Street was Ann Petry's first novel, originally published in 1946 and hailed by critics as a masterwork.
The Street tells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and her spirited struggle to raise her son amid the violence,...
Bestseller #38
White Fang
By Jack London
Narrated by: Mark Smith
Length: 7 hours 38 minutes
Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, White Fang – half-dog, half-wolf – is the only animal in the litter to survive. He soon learns the harsh laws of nature, yet buried deep inside him are the distant memories of affection and love. Will this fiercely independent creature of the wild learn to trust man again? Read more »
Bestseller #39
Sentimental Education
By Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Michael Maloney
Length: 15 hours 21 minutes
Frederic Moreau is a law student returning home from Paris when he first notices Mme Arnoux, a slender, dark woman several years older than himself. It is the beginning of an infatuation that will last a lifetime. He befriends her husband, an influential businessman, and their paths cross again and again over the years. Through financial...
Read more »Bestseller #40
The Hopkins Manuscript
A Novel
By R.C. Sherriff
Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes
A stunning speculative novel about a small English village preparing of the end of the world.
Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that... Read more »
Bestseller #41
Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 33 hours 36 minutes
Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband—and Russian high society—would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds....
Read more »Bestseller #42
Don Quixote
By Miguel de Cervantes
Narrated by: M. Expatriate
Length: 37 hours 45 minutes
Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways. While Quixote’s fancy often leads him astray — he tilts at windmills, imagining them to be giants — Sancho acquires... Read more »
Bestseller #43
Family Happiness
By Laurie Colwin
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted—and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.
“Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives.” —Entertainment Weekly
To the rest of the world, Polly Solo-Miller Demarest lives acharmed life. She has a... Read more »
Bestseller #44
The Confession of Brother Haluin
Chronicles of Brother Cadfael: Book #15
By Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Patrick Tull
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Brother Cadfael accompanies a crippled young monk on his journey of penance-a path that will lead them into a web of old jealousy and deceit. Read more »
Bestseller #45
In Dubious Battle
Penguin Audio Classics
By John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
A riveting novel of labor strife and apocalyptic violence that maps the frontier where the masses become a mobAt once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against... Read more »
Bestseller #46
The Early Cases of Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot
By Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
This collection of twenty-five Hercule Poirot adventures is compiled from short stories written by Agatha Christie for The Sketch magazine in 1923 from March to December. In these stories, including “The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim,” “The Veiled Lady,” and “The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb,” the eccentric private detective slowly and surely... Read more »
Bestseller #47
The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection - Abridged
By Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Kurt Vonnegut
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. himself reads from his most celebrated works: Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five, and three complete stories from Welcome to the Monkey House.
Read more »Bestseller #48
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion with The History of England and Poems
By Jane Austen
Narrated by: Alison Larkin
Length: 19 hours 41 minutes
Award-winning narrator and internationally acclaimed writer/comedienne, Alison Larkin brings depth and wit to this rich, hugely entertaining audio production of Jane Austen's last two great novels Northanger Abbey & Persuasion.
The novels are followed by The History of England, a short satirical piece in which the teenage Austen writes about... Read more »
Bestseller #49
The Heather Blazing
A Novel
By Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Colm Tóibín’s “lovely, understated” novel that “proceeds with stately grace” (The Washington Post Book World) about an uncompromising judge whose principles, when brought home to his own family, are tragic.
Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he... Read more »
Bestseller #50
Les Misérables - Abridged
By Victor Hugo
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion...
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