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The Game
By: A. S. Byatt
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
When they were little girls, Cassandra and Julia played a game in which they entered an alternate world modeled on the landscapes of Arthurian romance. Now, the sisters are grown and have become hostile strangers—until a figure from their past, a man they once both loved and suffered over, reenters their lives. It is the skittish, snake-obsessed... Read more
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The Wedding Quilt
By: Jennifer Chiaverini
Narrated by: Christina Moore
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
Author Jennifer Chiaverini's beloved, heartwarming series continues with this celebration of family and friendship. As the wedding day of Sarah McClure's daughter Caroline approaches, Sarah's thoughts are filled with brides of Elm Creek Manor past and present. A wedding quilt is a powerful metaphor, and Sarah is determined that the blocks in her... Read more
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Star Struck
By: Katharine Way
Narrated by: Julia Haworth & Philip Bretherton
Length: 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A BBC Radio 4 drama by Katharine Way, ‘Star Struck’ was first broadcast on 2 May 2011 and stars Julia Haworth as Sarah, Philip Bretherton as Cal and was produced by Gary Brown.Sarah has got the job of her dreams. Working with Cal, an Astronomy Professor at a remote observatory in New Zealand. Sarah loves her work, but she would rather look at... Read more
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Out of Oz
By: Gregory Maguire
Narrated by: John McDonough
Length: 28 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
“Maguire’s work is melodic, symphonic, and beautiful; it is dejected and biting and brave. How great that people flock to these magical novels.”
—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewBestselling author Gregory Maguire’s remarkable series, The Wicked Years, comes full circle with this, his fourth and final excursion across a darker, richer, more complex... Read more
Morgen, Kinder, wird's nichts geben
By: Erich Kästner
Narrated by: Nina Petri, Ulrich Noethen & Konstantin Graudus
Length: 1 hour 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Erich Kästner, 1899 in Dresden geboren, begründete gleich mit seinen ersten beiden Büchern seinen Weltruhm: "Herz auf Taille" (1928) und "Emil und die Detektive" (1929). Nach der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten wurden seine Bücher verbrannt, er erhielt Publikationsverbot, sein Werk erschien nunmehr in der Schweiz beim Atrium Verlag. Erich... Read more
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The Bet
By: Anton Chekhov
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
Length: 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Many say that capital punishment is inhumane. But is it, in fact, more humane to take away life in one swift stroke, rather than condemn an individual to a lifetime in captivity? Two men place wagers, each backing a different side of the argument. After 15 years, this clumsy bet irrevocably changes their lives forever. Read more
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Tobacco Road
By: Erskine Caldwell
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester's struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic. Read more
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Departures
By: Tony Parsons
Narrated by: Robin Bowerman
Length: 2 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author Tony Parsons has been appointed Heathrow’s writer-in-residence. The result is Departures – seven stories of high drama, offbeat humour and raw emotion Here is Heathrow as it has never been seen before – a secret city populated by the 75 million travellers who pass through every year, a place where journeys... Read more
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The RUM DIARY
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.
Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more
The Bite Before Christmas
By: Lynsay Sands & Jeaniene Frost
Narrated by: Paula Christensen & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
With The Bite Before Christmas, New York Times bestsellers Lynsay Sands and Jeaniene Frost—two of the hottest names in paranormal romance—team up for the first time to bring lucky readers a holiday anthology…with teeth! Here are delightful brand new stories featuring familiar faces from their enormously popular Argeneau family and Night Huntress... Read more
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Black Diamond
By: Martin Walker
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Martin Walker's previous two novels starring Chief of Police Bruno CourrEges became hits with fans and critics around the globe. In this thrilling third mystery, Bruno has his hands full with trouble in the truffle trade in St. Denis' marketplace. And when a friend is murdered, things really start heating up. "Walker's... Read more
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The Infernals
By: John Connolly
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, a wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy and his dog and their journey to escape the fires of hell.
“Roald Dahl meets Harry Potter”* in this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel about a boy, his dog, and their struggle to escape the wrath of demons.
Young Samuel Johnson is in... Read more
Triangles
By: Ellen Hopkins
Narrated by: January LaVoy, Jan Maxwell & Michele Pawk
Length: 8 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath, three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.
Holly, filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. But... Read more
Ed King
By: David Guterson
Narrated by: Arthur Morey
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping, propulsive, darkly humorous new novel by the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars: a story of destiny, desire, and destruction that reimagines Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for our own era.
In Seattle in 1962, Walter Cousins, a mild-mannered actuary—“a guy who weighs risk for a living”—takes a risk of his own, and makes the... Read more
Zone One
By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo.... Read more
The Virginian
By: Owen Wister
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Originally published in 1902, Owen Wister' s The Virginian pre-dates the classic novels of Zane Grey and Max Brand and is considered by many to be the original Western. Dedicated to Wister' s friend and fellow outdoorsman Theodore Roosevelt, this timeless tale almost single-handedly established the cowboy archetype in literature. A quiet, noble... Read more
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Saving the World
By: Julia Alvarez
Narrated by: Blanca Camacho
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award with In the Time of Butterflies, author Julia Alvarez is a beloved voice in modern fiction and poetry. In Saving the World, she weaves the stories of two courageous women-separated by two centuries-into a breathtaking novel of love and idealism in an increasingly troubled world. A... Read more
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Gloryland
By: Shelton Johnson
Narrated by: Shelton Johnson
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Having patrolled Yosemite for more than two decades, author and park ranger Shelton Johnson delivers this fictionalized tribute to its healing grandeur. Born in 1863 to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy becomes a Buffalo Soldier in the U.S. cavalry. Ultimately finding his way to the newly created Yosemite National... Read more
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The Train of Small Mercies
By: David Rowell
Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Unabridged, 3 hoursRead by TBDIn haunting and crystalline prose, The Train of Small Mercies follows six characters' intrepid search for hope among the debris of an American tragedy. Read more
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Damascus
By: Joshua Mohr
Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Best-selling author Joshua Mohr's work has been chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Here he takes listeners to 2003 San Francisco as the country divides into groups for and against the Iraq War. Damascus, a dive bar in the Mission District, becomes the unlikely setting for a showdown between the opposing sides. Tensions come... Read more
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The Marriage Plot
By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 15 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011
It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is... Read more
The Whore's Child
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Various
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
To this irresistible debut collection of short stories, Richard Russo brings the same bittersweet wit, deep knowledge of human nature, and spellbinding narrative gifts that distinguish his best-selling novels. His themes are the imperfect bargains of marriage; the discoveries and disillusionments of childhood;the unwinnable battles men and women... Read more
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The Stranger's Child
By: Alan Hollinghurst
Narrated by: James Daniel Wilson
Length: 19 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.
In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home... Read more
Empire Falls
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Ron McLarty
Length: 20 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Richard Russo—from his first novel, Mohawk, to his most recent, Straight Man—has demonstrated a peerless affinity for the human tragicomedy, and with this stunning new novel he extends even further his claims on the small-town, blue-collar heart of the country.
Dexter County, Maine, and specifically the town of Empire Falls, has seen better days,... Read more