Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
House of Names
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson & Pippa Nixon
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year
* Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch
From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in... Read more
Spoils
By: Brian Van Reet
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella, Armando Duran & Andrew Eiden
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
It is April 2003. American forces have taken Baghdad and are now charged with winning hearts and minds. But this vital tipping point is barely recognized for what it is, as a series of miscalculations and blunders fuels an already-simmering insurgency intent on making Iraq the next graveyard of empires.
In dazzling and propulsive prose, Brian... Read more
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
By: Sun-mi Hwang
Narrated by: Jill Larson
Length: 2 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A Korean Charlotte's Web
More than 2 million copies sold
This is the story of a hen named Sprout. No longer content to lay eggs on command, only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild—and to hatch an... Read more
Love in the Time of Cholera
By: Gabriel García Márquez
Narrated by: Armando Durán
Length: 15 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds two people’s lives together for more than half a century.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born... Read more
View audiobook
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
By: Milan Kundera
Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
When The Unbearable Lightness of Being was first published in English, it was hailed as ""a work of the boldest mastery, originality, and richness"" by critic Elizabeth Hardwick and named one of the best books of 1984 by the New York Times Book Review. It went on to win the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and quickly became an... Read more
View audiobook
Pride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The provincial Bennet family, home to five unmarried daughters, is turned upside down when a wealthy bachelor takes up a house nearby.Mr. Bingley enhances his instant popularity by hosting a ball and taking an interest in the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane. Meanwhile, Mr. Darcy, Bingley's even wealthier friend, makes himself equally unpopular by... Read more
View audiobook
The Invisible Man
By: H.G. Wells
Narrated by: Victoria Morgan
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more
View audiobook
Persuasion
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more
View audiobook
Sense and Sensibility
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 11 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways.One daughter, the impetuous Marianne, falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret... Read more
View audiobook
Candide
By: Voltaire
Narrated by: Martyn Swain
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Pangloss would have been right at home in a post-truth, social media world. You can imagine the tweets, “I was hanged and survived #soggyrope", or, “#nosyphilisnochocolate". Candide, written in 1759, was never more relevant than today. Blind obeisance and denial, barbarous villainy, greed, and rapacity, are all in a day’s toil for the young... Read more
View audiobook
The Shadow Within
By: Karen Hancock
Narrated by: Adam Verner
Length: 19 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Abramm Kalladorne has returned to Kiriath to claim the crown he thought he would never wear and to prepare his people for the inevitable attack of the armies of the Black Moon. Though fiercely opposed by his own kin and reluctant to thrust his country into civil war at the worst possible time, he nevertheless believes this course of action is... Read more
View audiobook
The Uses of Literature
By: Italo Calvino
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Read more
View audiobook
Measure for Measure - Abridged
By: William Shakespeare
Narrated by: Denis Daly, Kendra Murray, Josh Innerst, Simon ...
Length: 2 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Measure for Measure is one of darkest of Shakespeare’s comedies. Written in about 1603 and first performed in 1604, it immediately preceded the composition of the major tragedies Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the people may have become lazy and lax. He decides to “go... Read more
View audiobook
The Watsons - Abridged
By: L. Oulton & Jane Austen
Narrated by: Graham Scott, Denis Daly, Catherine Bilson, Lin...
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Jane Austen probably commenced writing The Watsons in 1803 and discontinued it after her father’s death in 1805. The original text contains no chapter divisions. It was first published in 1871 as an appendix to A Memoir of Jane Austen, by the novelist’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh.The story concerns the young and vivacious Emma Watson, one... Read more
View audiobook
Das verlorne Lachen
By: Gottfried Keller
Narrated by: Nikolaus Benda
Length: 3 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Irrwege des Lebens. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Das verlorne Lachen. Novelle von GOTTFRIED KELLER. Auf einem großen Fest lernt der junge Jukundus Meyenthal die hübsche Justine Glor von Schwanau kennen, deren Familie große selbsterworbene Besitztümer in Schwanau verwaltet. Während des Schlussbankettes sitzen sich beide gegenüber und... Read more
View audiobook
Some Do Not…
By: Ford Madox Ford
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The first installment of Ford Madox Ford's acclaimed Parade's End tetralogy. There is a hard brightness overlying the emotion and the human suffering and the human passions… Mr. Ford achieves not only what is probably his own best work but what is certainly one of the ablest of recent English novels. — The New York Times, 1924 Some Do Not… is... Read more
View audiobook
In a German Pension
By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Susannah Fullerton, Lisa Giles, Erin White, Nao...
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
In a German Pension (1911) was Katherine Mansfield’s first published collection of short stories. Many of these works had been previously published in the British weekly magazine, The New Age, which also featured work by figures including G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and George Bernard Shaw. The word “pension" in the title refers to a European... Read more
View audiobook
Mansfield Park and Lovers’ Vows - Abridged
By: Jane Austen & August Kotzebue
Narrated by: a full cast, Sarah Jane Rose, Graham Scott, Den...
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The unlikely heroine of this novel is the bashful and unadventurous Fanny Price, who occupies a Cinderella-like position in the residence of her wealthy cousins, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. Fanny is the butt of ridicule for the young Bertram sisters (Maria and Julia), and is relentlessly bullied by her manipulative and penny-pinching aunt,... Read more
View audiobook
Jane Eyre - Abridged
By: Charlotte Brontë
Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Blaise Doran, Graham Scott, Ma...
Length: 21 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
First published in 1847, Jane Eyre was the last and most popular of the novels composed by the Brontë sisters. The narrative bristles with energy and passionate conviction, and is one of the first novels written from the perspective of a child.Jane is an orphan, raised in the household of an unsympathetic aunt, who shows great favor to her own... Read more
View audiobook
Weiße Nächte
By: Fjodor Dostojewskij
Narrated by: Matthias Grundig
Length: 2 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Tief bewegende Begegnung. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Weiße Nächte. Roman von FJODOR M. DOSTOJEWSKI. Die verlassenen Uferpromenaden der Petersburger Kanäle sind Schauplatz der Begegnung mit einer jungen Frau. Vier helle Frühlingsnächte lang trifft er sich mit Nastjenka, die bei ihm, dem Träumer, Trost sucht, weil sie sich von ihrem... Read more
View audiobook
Schloß Kostenitz
By: Ferdinand von Saar
Narrated by: Anna Barbara Kurek
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Sensibles Zeitkolorit. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Schloß Kostenitz. Novelle von FERDINAND VON SAAR. 1849 zieht sich der liberale Freiherr von Günthersheim aus der Politik zurück und läßt sich mit seiner jungen Frau Klothilde im Schloß Kostenitz nieder. Das Paar steht beispielhaft für die gesellschaftlichen Gegensätzlichkeiten seiner... Read more
View audiobook
Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
By: Joseph von Eichendorff
Narrated by: Florian Stetter
Length: 3 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Leichtigkeit des Seins. Lesung mit musikalischem Feature. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts. Novelle von JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF. Die märchenhafte Geschichte von der ›Leichtigkeit des Seins‹ erzählt von einfältiger und unbekümmerter Jugend, von den Lockungen und Enttäuschungen der schönen Ferne, vom Reiz des Zufälligen, von Liebe und... Read more
View audiobook
Bliss and Other Stories
By: Katherine Mansfield
Narrated by: Naomi Barton, Sarah Bacaller, Kylie Elliott, Li...
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This collection of short stories, by celebrated New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield, was first published in 1920. Many of Mansfield’s short stories explore New Zealand landscapes and identity, and her work has been a shaping force in the short story genre.CONTENTS:Prelude - Je ne Parle pas Français - Bliss - The Wind Blows - Psychology -... Read more
View audiobook
Los Hermanos Karamazov
By: Fiodor Dostoyevski
Narrated by: Rodrigo Martinez
Length: 33 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"Los hermanos Karamazov" de Fiodor Dostoyevski es una obra maestra que profundiza en temas como la fe, la duda, el libre albedrío y la naturaleza del mal, a través de la compleja relación entre los miembros de la familia Karamazov en la Rusia del siglo XIX. Dostoyevski, uno de los más grandes escritores de la literatura universal, utiliza esta... Read more
View audiobook