To Kill a Mockingbird
By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold... Read more »
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Heroes
By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the bestselling Mythos, legendary author and actor Stephen Fry moves from the exploits of the Olympian gods to the deeds of mortal heroes.
Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly... Read more »
The Odyssey
By: Homer
Narrated by: Ian McKellen
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, the energy and poetry of Homer's original is captured in a bold, contemporary idiom, giving us an edition of The Odyssey that is a joy to listen to, worth savoring treasuring for its sheer lyrical mastery. This... Read more »
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Nick
By: Michael Farris Smith
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this fascinating look into his life before GatsbyBefore Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnel Read more »s... Learn more
Beowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
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1984
By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.
George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities’ will and people live tepid lives by rote.
Winston Smith, the hero with... Read more »
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Rebecca
By: Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by: Anna Massey
Length: 14 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and... Read more »
Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Karen Savage & Elizabeth Klett
Length: 69 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at... Read more »
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Don Quixote
By: Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 39 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Don Quixote is the classic story. Called the first modern novel, this marvelous book has stood the test of time to become irrevocably intertwined with the fabric of society. Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures. But his quest leads to more... Read more »
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The Custom of the Country
By: Edith Wharton
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 15 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature, Edith Wharton stands among the finest writers of early 20th-century America. In The Custom of the Country, Wharton' s scathing social commentary is on full display through the beautiful and manipulative Undine Spragg. When Undine convinces her nouveau riche parents to move to New York,... Read more »
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By: Muriel Spark
Narrated by: Miriam Margolyes
Length: 4 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"You girls are my vocation . . . I am dedicated to you in my prime" So says Miss Jean Brodie, a teacher unlike any other. She is proud and cultured. A romantic, with progressive, sometimes shocking ideas and aspirations for the girls in her charge. When she decides to transform a select group of pupils into the 'crème de la crème' at the... Read more »
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Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of... Read more »
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Gilgamesh
By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: George Guidall & John McDonough
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
This brilliant new treatment of the oldest epic in the world is a literary event. Esteemed translator and best-selling author Stephen Mitchell breathes life into a 3,700-year-old classic, delivering a lithe and muscular rendering that shows how startlingly alive Gilgamesh is, how filled with intelligence and beauty. It is the story of... Read more »
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Right Ho, Jeeves
By: P. G. Wodehouse, M.D. Jean G Mathurin, Nicholas Buxton, Wayne Walker, Susie Hennessy, Diane M. Dresback, RE Johnston & Novoneel Chakraborty
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Mayhem has broken out at Brinkley Court and there would seem to be a desperate need for Jeeves. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. There are more brains in the Wooster household than just Jeeves, you know! Stand back—Bertram Wooster is on the case. Read more »
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
By: Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Coleman Barks & Coleman Barks
Narrated by: John Moyne, A. J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson & Robertson Dean
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than eighty never-before-published poems.
Through his lyrical translations, Coleman Barks has been instrumental in bringing this exquisite literature to a remarkably wide range of readers, making the ecstatic, spiritual poetry of... Read more »
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Dracula & Carmilla
By: Bram Stoker and Sheridan Le Fanu
Narrated by: Clive Hayward and Alison Larkin
Length: 18 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Meet the Vampires who started it all – the original Count Dracula, and his older female counterpart Carmilla – brought to compelling new life by award-winning narrators Clive Hayward and Alison Larkin.
Le Fanu’s tortured, powerful female vampire, Carmilla, has been terrifying generations with its themes of lesbian attraction, forbidden and... Read more »
The Scarlet Letter
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Narrated by: Adam Sims
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th-century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear... Read more »
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B. J. Harrison Reads Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
Length: 17 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Pip is a poor orphaned boy who lives together with his sister and her husband. Pip is not educated but has great dreams of the future. He is determined to get out of the low class and seek progress in the higher class. One day a lawyer appears. Pip has suddenly received a large fortune from a secret benefactor and he has to get to London to... Read more »
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The Mountain Lion
By: Jean Stafford
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Eight-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother Ralph are inseparable, in league with each other against the stodgy and stupid routines of school and daily life; against their prim mother and prissy older sisters; against the world of authority and perhaps the world itself.
One summer they are sent from the genteel Los Angeles suburb that is... Read more »
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Spoon River Anthology
By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Deemed “essential” in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone.
From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more »
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House Made of Dawn
By: N. Scott Momaday
Narrated by: N. Scott Momaday & Darrell Dennis
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic from N. Scott Momaday, with a new preface read by the author
A young Native American, Abel has come home from war to find himself caught between two worlds. The first is the world of his grandfather’s, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons, the harsh beauty of the land, and the ancient rites and... Read more »
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East of Eden
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 25 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more »
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War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy & Constance Garnett
Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
Length: 61 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, it follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic families against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. Individual... Read more »
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Whose Body?
By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
After a corpse wearing pince-nez glasses is found in a bathtub, Lord Peter Wimsey undertakes the case and investigates the deed privately. But determining whether the corpse belongs to a well-known banker or a group of mischief-making medical students is just the beginning of this tangled mystery plot. This atmospheric novel put Dorothy L.... Read more »
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