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The 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 father’s sudden death, and the attack on his... Read more
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Home 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
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Heimito von Doderer - lit.COLOGNE live (Ungekürzt)
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 wäre es - viel Geld, um in einer Folge schwerster sexueller Excesse, sinnloser Saufereien und dementsprechender Gewalthändel endlich und endgültig unterzugehen. Statt dessen hab' ich das weitaus gewagtere Abenteuer der Tugend gewählt" (Heimito von Doderer). "Sie haben noch... Read more
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Paradise 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
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Americanah
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Narrated by: Diana Ángel
Length: 19 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Una original historia sobre la inmigración en Estados Unidos desde el punto de vista de una estudiante de literatura nigeriana. Americanah ha sido galardonada con el National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 y seleccionada por los ciudadanos de Nueva York como el libro ganador de la campaña «One Book, One New York» 2017.-Edición especial limitada... Read more
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The Perfect Nanny
By: Leila Slimani
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
*Soon to be an HBO series starring Nicole Kidman and Maya Erskine*
She has the keys to their apartment. She knows everything. She has embedded herself so deeply in their lives that it now seems impossible to remove her.
One of the 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR of The New York Times Book Review, by the author of Adèle, Sex and Lies, In the Country of... Read more
Waiting for Bojangles
By: Olivier Bourdeaut
Narrated by: Gibson Frazier
Length: 3 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
An “oddball fairy tale” (The New York Times)—shortlisted for one of France’s highest literary prizes—a dark, funny, and wholly charming novel about a young boy and his eccentric family, who grapple with the realities of mental illness in unique and whimsical ways.
A young boy lives with his madcap parents, Louise and George, and an exotic bird in... Read more
A People's History of Heaven
By: Mathangi Subramanian
Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Welcome to Heaven, a thirty-year-old slum hidden between brand-new high-rise apartment buildings and technology incubators in contemporary Bangalore, one of India's fastest-growing cities. In Heaven, you will come to know a community of people living hand-to-mouth and constantly struggling against the city government who wants to bulldoze their... Read more
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Far from the Madding Crowd
By: Thomas Hardy
Narrated by: Joe Jameson
Length: 14 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Gabriel Oak is a shepherd struggling to get ahead when Bathsheba Everdene moves next door. Although he loves her, she sees him as a friend and rejects him for two other suitors. After she leaves town, she and Gabriel are reunited years later, once everything has changed. In this classic novel, Thomas Hardy depicts the English countryside as... Read more
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When the War is Over
By: Anja May
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
During the last months of a brutal war, a sixteen-year-old boy must fight for survival.
The true account of a teenage soldier in World War 2 Germany.
Germany, 1945. Ever since Anton Kohler first heard the vibrant sound of the violin, he's dreamed of mastering the instrument. But when his father dies, the fifteen-year-old must give up his... Read more
Memories of the Future
By: Siri Hustvedt
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence
A provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of The Blazing World, Memories of the Future tells the story of a young Midwestern woman’s first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her... Read more
The Last Year of the War
By: Susan Meissner
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Secrets of a Charmed Life and As Bright as Heaven comes a novel about a German American teenager whose life changes forever when her immigrant family is sent to an internment camp during World War II.
In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware of the war but distanced from its reach. Then... Read more
Make Me a City
By: Jonathan Carr
Narrated by: Fred Berman
Length: 16 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus.
The tale begins with a game of chess—and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great city. From appalling injustice springs forth the story... Read more
On the Bright Side
By: Hendrik Groen
Narrated by: Patrick Ryecart
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"THE MALE ELENA FERRANTE" -- New York Post
In the acclaimed follow-up to the #1 international bestseller The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, everyone's favorite curmudgeon is back and as funny and charming as ever with the newest adventures of the Old-But-Not-Dead Club -- for fans of Frederik Backman and Graeme Simsion.
Everyone's favorite... Read more
The Parade
By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Monk of Mokha and The Circle comes a taut, suspenseful story of two foreigners' role in a nation's fragile peace.
An unnamed country is leaving the darkness of a decade at war, and to commemorate the armistice the government commissions a new road connecting two halves of the state. Two men, foreign contractors... Read more
Solstice
By: Joyce Carol Oates
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
An engrossing early novel from Joyce Carol Oates’s earlier novels explores a fraught and perilous relationship between two women.Originally published in 1985, Solstice is the gripping story of Monica Jensen and Sheila Trask, two young women who are complete opposites yet find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Monica is a shy, modest,... Read more
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Little Boy
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
From the famed publisher and poet, author of the million-copy-selling collection A Coney Island of the Mind, his literary last will and testament -- part autobiography, part summing up, part Beat-inflected torrent of language and feeling, and all magical.
"A volcanic explosion of personal memories, political rants, social commentary,... Read more
Look How Happy I'm Making You
By: Polly Rosenwaike
Narrated by: Various
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"A beautifully written and beautifully conceived series of stories about, well, conception...Among the thousands of books for prospective and new parents, I doubt any will make you feel more understood and less alone than this one."--ANTHONY DOERR, author of ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
A candid, ultimately buoyant debut story collection about the... Read more
Life
By: Lu Yao
Narrated by: Robert Wu
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An essential masterwork from Chinese literary giant Lu Yao—winner of the Mao Dun Literature Prize—available for the first time in English.Lu Yao published only two novels before his untimely death—but their extraordinary influence catapulted the author to the top tier of Chinese contemporary fiction, establishing him as one of the most widely... Read more
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Adèle
By: Leila Slimani
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 5 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to contain the twin forces of compulsion and desire, she... Read more
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Crooked Little Heart
By: Anne Lamott
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.
The Fergusons make their... Read more
Patrimonio
By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Eduard Doncos
Length: 6 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Una historia conmovedora sobre la lucha de Herman Roth, padre del escritor, contra un tumor cerebral. Un agente de seguros jubilado, un hombre que fue muy fuerte, lleno de genio y de encanto, lucha a sus ochenta y seis años contra un tumor cerebral. Este hombre es Herman, el mejor personaje creado por Philip Roth. Su padre. Patrimonio. Una... Read more
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Frannie, Book Two
By: Curt Buckley
Narrated by: Curt Buckley
Length: 16 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The story continues. In Book Two of The Frannie Trilogy, many questions from Book One are answered but, just like in real life, those answers raise new questions. A new character appears who manages to change everyone's life. Read more
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Albanens arv
By: Rolf Rådén
Narrated by: Dan Bratt
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Sigge står vid ett vägskäl, tyngd av sorg efter systerns självmord. För att fundera ut sitt nästa steg beger han sig på en resa med sin motorcykel. Norrlandskusten upp, inlandsvägen ner, det är planen. Bakom sig lämnar han osunt leverne och dåliga vanor. Medelåldern gör sig påmind, liksom skulden över sveket mot den enda han aldrig skulle ha... Read more
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