Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Nostalgia

By: Dennis McFarland

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Dennis McFarland comes an extraordinary Civil War novel: the journey of a nineteen-year-old private abandoned by his comrades in the Wilderness, struggling to regain his voice, his identity, and his place in a world utterly changed by what he has experienced on the battlefield.In the winter of 1864, young Summerfield... Read more

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Earl Hammond

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection featuring three classic horror stories, read by actor Earl Hammond: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado", and "The Black Cat". Read more

The Night Guest

By: Fiona McFarlane

Narrated by: Lisbeth Kennelly

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida—claims to be a care worker sent by the government. Ruth lets her in.Now that Frida is in the house, is Ruth right to... Read more

The Tilted World

By: Tom Franklin & Beth Ann Fennelly

Narrated by: Brian D'Arcy James

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of the historic flooding of the Mississippi River, The Tilted World is an extraordinary tale of murder and moonshine, sandbagging and saboteurs, and a man and a woman who find unexpected love, from Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and award-winning poet... Read more

Christmas with Anne

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Anne Shirley has endured generation after generation and catapulted L.M. Montgomery into the ethos of literature. Here, Dreamscape presents a collection of holiday stories featuring Anne and other characters. Disc one includes: Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves; Christmas at Red Butte; Aunt Cyrilla's Christmas Basket; Clorinda's... Read more

Die alte Erde - Abridged

By: Mahmud Doulatabadi

Narrated by: Maximilian Hilbrand

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: Yes

Gholam, der Mann mit dem Motorrad und dem feuerroten Kampfhahn, ist kein Bauer wie all die anderen Männer in diesem Dorf am Rande der Salzwüste. Er wohnt in der Karawanserei und hat ein Auge auf den Acker der schönen Witwe Adeleh geworfen. Aber diesen Boden bearbeitet seit alten Zeiten Baba Sobhan, der zähe, gütige Alte mit seinen beiden Söhnen.... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2013 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Aladdin and Other Arabian Nights Tales - Abridged

By: Philip Smith

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captivating tales of devious magicians, monstrous giants, determined suitors, and a host of other unforgettable characters—now in audiobook format read by award-winning actress Suzanne Toren. Contains "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," and "Abou Hassan." Read more

Five Star Billionaire

By: Tash Aw

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe is a factory girl who has come to Shanghai with the promise of a job—but when she arrives she discovers that the job doesn't exist. Gary is a country boy turned pop star who is spinning out of control. Justin is in Shanghai to expand his family's real estate empire, only to find that he might not be up to the task. He has long harbored a... Read more

Mama's Child

By: Joan Steinau Lester

Narrated by: Rachel Leslie & Eliza Foss

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning tale about the deeply entrenched conflicts between a white mother and her biracial daughter. Mama' s Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced... Read more

Beneath a Marble Sky

By: John Shors

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. The story surrounding the construction of the Taj Mahal occurs, however, against a scrim of fratricidal war, murderous rebellion,... Read more

Cartwheel

By: Jennifer duBois

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Slate • Cosmopolitan • Salon • BuzzFeed • BookPage

Written with the riveting storytelling of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold... Read more

The Lowland

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award Finalist
Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman... Read more

Friends of Whitmore

By: Michael Famighetti

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex works in a gallery in the small Connecticut town where he moved after inheriting his parents’ house. One day, at a local CPR class, he meets Tea, a young woman and aspiring artist who invents a mutual acquaintance named Whitmore as a means of breaking the ice and introducing herself. As their relationship deepens, Alex becomes preoccupied... Read more

Ajax Penumbra 1969

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, the story of Mr. Penumbra's first trip to San Francisco—and of how he got entangled with the city's most unusual always-open enterprise…


It is August 1969. The Summer of Love is a fading memory. The streets of San Francisco pulse to the sounds of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye. And of... Read more

Mother, Mother

By: Koren Zailckas

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most
 
Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughters, a brilliantly intelligent son, a tech-guru of a husband and a historical landmark home, her life is picture... Read more

The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman Unab

By: Sena Jeter Naslund

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso & Cynthia Darlow

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Is it a crime to live? To create happiness for yourself through your own work?"How do writers and painters get their ideas? And what are the hard realities of such seemingly glamorous and romantic lives? In her groundbreaking new novel, New York Times bestselling author Sena Jeter Naslund explores the transformative power of art, history, and... Read more

The Aftermath

By: Rhidian Brook

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

1946, post-World War II Hamburg. While thousands wander the rubble, lost and homeless, Colonel Lewis Morgan, charged with overseeing the rebuilding of this devastated city and the denazification of its defeated people, is stationed in a grand house on the River Elbe. He is awaiting the arrival of his wife, Rachael—still grieving for their eldest... Read more

Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: Jeannie Berlin

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the... Read more

A Beautiful Truth

By: Colin McAdam

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Told simultaneously from the perspective of humans and chimpanzees, A Beautiful Truth—at times brutal, other times deeply moving—is about the simple truths that transcend species, the meaning of family, the lure of belonging, and the capacity for survival.Looeeis forever set apart, a chimp raised by a well-meaning and compassionate human couple... Read more

The Big Crowd

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 16 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on one of the great unsolved murders in mob history, and the rise-and-fall of a real-life hero, The Big Crowd tells the sweeping story of Charlie O' Kane. He is the American dream come to life, a poor Irish immigrant who worked his way up from beat cop to mayor of New York at the city' s dazzling, post-war zenith. Famous, powerful, and... Read more

Taipei

By: Tao Lin

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode—or lament—to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the Internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the... Read more

Nato Kollateralschaden Jugoslawien

By: Berthold W. Knabe

Narrated by: Dirk Theodor van Dinter

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Aus heutiger Sicht politisch fragwürdig und militärisch ein Desaster, beginnt die NATO am 24. März 1999 ohne UN-Mandat und ohne Vorliegen eines Bündnisfalles, die Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien zu bombardieren. Der Schweißer Goran, der mit Beginn der Bombardierung kurzerhand zum Blockwart seiner kleinen Welt, mitten in der Großstadt Novi Sad ernannt... Read more

Someone

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award–winning author

An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of... Read more