I'm Fine and Neither Are You
By: Camille PagĂĄn
Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.Honesty is the best policyâŠexcept maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille PagĂĄn.Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it allâand barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet,... Read more
View audiobookGalatea 2.2
By: Richard Powers
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2?Richard Powers?returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of... Read more
View audiobookThe Metamorphosis
By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Step into the surreal world of "The Metamorphosis," where reality blurs and the boundaries between humans and insects become indistinct. Follow Gregor Samsa's bewildering transformation and the subsequent upheaval it brings to his family's life. As you accompany Gregor through his bizarre ordeal, you'll confront profound questions about... Read more
View audiobookFarthest House
By: Margaret Lukas
Narrated by: Mary Jane Conlon
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
When Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding debut novel knows the death isn't from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anais, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells the story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave. Following Willow's life and Willow's... Read more
View audiobookThe Kremlin Letters
By: David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 33 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"
Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volumeâthe fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaborationâthe messages are... Read more
The Cook
By: Maylis de Kerangal
Narrated by: Carly Robins
Length: 2 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for MarchMaylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chefMore like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young... Read more
View audiobookAnother Kind of Madness
By: Ed Pavlic
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite:
Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day... Read more
The Hero's Walk
By: Anita Rau Badami
Narrated by: Laara Sadiq
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in... Read more
View audiobookMamma, pappa, barn
By: Eva Busch
Narrated by: Lisa Carlehed
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
TÀnk att det blev Jenny och Kaj tillslut. Jenny kan nÀstan inte förstÄ att han valt att vara med henne. Hon som Àr sÄ vanlig och Kaj som Àr sÄ stilig och driven i sin karriÀr. Dagen för bröllopet Àr en av Jennys lyckligaste dagar, men det visar sig ocksÄ vara en vÀndpunkt. Kaj vill att hon slutar jobba pÄ bokförlaget, ett jobb hon Àlskar, för... Read more
View audiobookMisstÀnkt
By: Jan Linders
Narrated by: Kristina Leon
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"Hon kÀnde fingrarna treva mot struphuvudet. Hans hud var kall, precis som hans röst, det var bara andedrÀkten som var overkligt varm. Ingbritt behövde hjÀlp, men ingen kunde skydda henne mot mannen med de hemska hotelserna. Hon var utlÀmnad. I hans vÄld."Ett beslut taget innan Ingbritt hunnit tÀnka efter leder henne in i en mardrömslik serie... Read more
View audiobookManhattan Transfer
By: John Dos Passos
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Considered by many to be John Dos Passos's greatest work, Manhattan Transfer is an "expressionistic picture of New York" (New York Times) in the 1920s that reveals the lives of wealthy power brokers and struggling immigrants alike. From Fourteenth Street to the Bowery, Delmonico's to the underbelly of the city waterfront, Dos Passos chronicles... Read more
View audiobookTomorrow's Bread
By: Anna Jean Mayhew
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1961 Charlotte, North Carolina, the predominantly black neighborhood of Brooklyn is a bustling city within a city. Self-contained and vibrant, it has its own restaurants, schools, theaters, churches, and night clubs. There are shotgun shacks and poverty, along with well-maintained houses like the one Loraylee Hawkins shares with her young... Read more
View audiobookThe Artist's Portrait
By: Julie Keys
Narrated by: Julie Nihill
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020
'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor, debauchery and fascinating historical detail.' Who Weekly
'a brisk, original tale written with verve' Mud Literary Prize judging committee
A story about art, murder, and making your place in history.
Whatever... Read more
Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe
By: Evan James
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Named one of 2019âs most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, âa hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a familyâs insanely dramatic summer at their new island homeâ (Cosmopolitan) in the Pacific Northwest.
The inimitableâsome might say incorrigibleâFrank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes.... Read more
kaddish.com
By: Nathan Englander
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
Length: 5 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a sonâs failure to say Kaddish for his father.
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies,... Read more
Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
By: Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?
âSearingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.ââHelen Simonson, New York Times bestselling... Read more
Sing to It
By: Amy Hempel
Narrated by: Amy Hempel
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
ONE OF TIMEâS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPRâS BEST BOOKS OF 2019
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are âriveting in precisionâ (The Atlantic) and âscintillating as the blade of a... Read more
Döden pÄ Rotaryklubben
By: Nils Hövenmark
Narrated by: HĂ„kan Mohede
Length: 6 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Kalle By Àr inte den mest omtyckta medborgaren i Svartsele, de flesta tycker bara han Àr en nedgÄngen suput. Men som medlem i den lokala Rotaryklubben har han dock ett sammanhang dÀr han betyder nÄgot. Och nÀr Kalle By hittas död, förfrusen i snön, sÄ blir det dock uppenbart att allt inte Àr som det ska i klubben. Det finns en mördare bland... Read more
View audiobookMördaren
By: Olle Högstrand
Narrated by: Anders Mossling
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Det börjar i Stockholm. En kvinna blir mördad. Sedan nÀsta. NÀr inga nya kroppar dyker upp i Stockholm hittas plötsligt nÀsta offer i Uppsala. Det stÄr klart att mördaren förflyttar sig. Men att hitta gÀrningsmannen blir lÀttare sagt Àn gjort nÀr det inte finns nÄgra uppenbara samband mellan morden och nÀr ingen av de misstÀnkta verkar vara den... Read more
View audiobookHeimito von Doderer - lit.COLOGNE live (UngekĂŒrzt)
By: Heimito von Doderer
Narrated by: Eva Menasse & Senta Berger
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"Wenn ich mich frage, was ich eigentlich und wirklich haben möchte: so wĂ€re es - viel Geld, um in einer Folge schwerster sexueller Excesse, sinnloser Saufereien und dementsprechender GewalthĂ€ndel endlich und endgĂŒltig unterzugehen. Statt dessen hab' ich das weitaus gewagtere Abenteuer der Tugend gewĂ€hlt" (Heimito von Doderer). "Sie haben noch... Read more
View audiobookParadise City
By: Elizabeth Day
Narrated by: Melissa Woodbridge
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
An audacious, compassionate state-of-the-nation novel about four strangers whose lives collide with far-reaching consequences. Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a... Read more
View audiobookHome Fires
By: Elizabeth Day
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption. Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves for his first army posting in central Africa. What happens to him changes the lives of his family forever. At home, his parents struggle... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghost Factory
By: Jenny McCartney
Narrated by: Adam Best
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful debut set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the twentieth century. The Troubles turned Northern Ireland into a ghost factory: as the manufacturing industry withered, the death business boomed. In trying to come to terms with his fatherâs sudden death, and the attack on his... Read more
View audiobookMord i det förflutna
By: Annika Duvert
Narrated by: Hanna K Schmitz
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Kriminalinspektör Alexandra Steen har fÄtt Ànnu ett svÄrlöst fall. En gÄng för lÀngesedan lovade fyra smÄ flickor varandra att aldrig avslöja en hemlighet. En av flickorna hittas vÄldtagen och mördad. TrettiotvÄ Är senare hittas en kvinna död i MÀrsta. Vad Àr det för hemlighet kvinnans tvÄ vÀninnor döljer? Samtidigt fÄr polisen in rapporter om... Read more
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