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Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
By: Tom Robbins
Narrated by: Barry Bostwick
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling... Read more
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The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Lesley Ann Warren
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tackles the subjects of social stigma, shame, and judgment. Hester Prynne is at the forefront of the scandal, subject to public humiliation for bearing a child out of wedlock. Forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing for the rest of her life, she cannot run from her sin. Hester refuses... Read more
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Gump & Co. - Abridged
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Gump phenomenon continues!
Forrest Gump is back!
The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his own unique way, he is... Read more
Sacrifice of Isaac - Abridged
By: Neil Gordon
Narrated by: Tony Shaloub & Cynthia Nixon
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In the tradition of John Le Carre...a stunning debut thriller.
A legacy of shadows...
Luke Benami thought his father Yossef was the great man the world said he was: professor, general, Israeli national hero. Luke also thought his brother Danni was the prodigal his family said he was: army deserter, political exile, criminal. But when his father's... Read more
From Time to Time - Abridged
By: Jack Finney
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again.
Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret,... Read more
Time and Again - Abridged
By: Jack Finney
Narrated by: Campbell Scott
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.
When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he... Read more
The Invisible Circus
By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and... Read more
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The Fountainhead
By: Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 32 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three... Read more
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Closing Time - Abridged
By: Joseph Heller
Narrated by: Elliott Gould
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22.
In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and... Read more
Madame Bovary - Abridged
By: Gustave Flaubert
Narrated by: Glenda Jackson
Length: 5 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, Emma is not content to be the mere dutiful wife of a French country doctor. She believes she was meant for something more—a life of luxury, leisure, and, above all, true and passionate love. She spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and throws herself headlong into a... Read more
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Shadow Song - Abridged
By: Terry Kay
Narrated by: Terry Kay
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.
In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more
Forrest Gump - Abridged
By: Winston Groom
Narrated by: Winston Groom
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.
When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more
Charms for the Easy Life - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more
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Second Nature - Abridged
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Kate Nelligan
Length: 2 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more
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Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - Abridged
By: Evan Connell
Narrated by: Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge is the saga of a clean-cut, “upper-class” couple who increasingly find their post-WWII world and traditional belief systems challenged by a changing society. For Walter Bridge, an ambitious lawyer, and his wife, whose focus is her household, affluence and material comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that... Read more
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Down and Out in Paris and London
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his... Read more
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Heart of Darkness
By: Joseph Conrad
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Heart of Darkness tells of the conflicting drives of two men—Charles Marlow, the captain of a steamboat, and Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious figure who oversees a trading post in Africa. After an arduous journey, Marlow finally encounters Kurtz, and the men come to grips with their differences—and their similarities. Joseph Conrad's most famous work is... Read more
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The Three Musketeers - Abridged
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This swashbuckling epic of intrigue, romance, and swordplay has earned a reputation as one of the most thrilling adventure novels ever written. A young Gascon nobleman, D'Artagnan, makes his way to Paris, hoping to join the Musketeers, a legion of heroes held in high esteem by the king. D'Artagnan quickly proves he has the heart of a Musketeer... Read more
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Black Water - Abridged
By: Joyce Oates
Narrated by: Amanda Plummer
Length: 3 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Twenty-six-year-old Kelly Kelleher longs for something interesting to happen to her, so when she meets a senator and he invites her to his hotel room, she says yes. Even though the man is old enough to be her father and even though he has perhaps been drinking too heavily, saying yes is an exciting part of the adventure Kelly is finally going to... Read more
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The Adventures of Augie March
By: Saul Bellow
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 22 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression.While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wild succession of occupations, proudly... Read more
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The Inklings
By: Humphrey Carpenter
Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
During the 1930s at Oxford, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams—remarkable friends, writers, and scholars—met regularly to discuss philosophy and literature and to read aloud from their own works in progress. Calling themselves the Inklings, their circle grew. It was in this company that such classics as The Lord of the Rings,... Read more
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Because It is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart - Abridged
By: Joyce Oates
Narrated by: Contance Towers
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
In the early 1950s— the decade before the Civil rights movement— racial boundaries kept people apart or brought them together in explosive and dramatic ways. Iris Courtney, a young white woman, begins a clandestine relationship with Jinx Fairchild, a Black man who defended her in a fatal street fight with a white man.... Read more
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Picturing Will - Abridged
By: Ann Beattie
Narrated by: Ann Beattie
Length: 2 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A complex look at adulthood through the eyes of one remarkable child.Five-year-old Will is the precocious child of Jody and Wayne. Jody is a woman who dreams of becoming a celebrity and is having an affair with a man named Mel, while Wayne is no stranger to infidelity, either. The details of their intertwined lives form an intricate and often... Read more
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Vanity Fair
By: William Makepeace Thackeray
Narrated by: Jill Masters
Length: 32 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"I do not say there is no character as well drawn in Shakespeare [as D'Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly."
--Robert Louis Stevenson
"The lasting and universal popularity of The Three Musketeers shows that Dumas, by artlessly expressing his own nature in the persons of his heroes, was responding to that craving for action,... Read more