Island
By: Aldous Huxley
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years.
Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when... Read more
Harlot's Ghost
By: Norman Mailer
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 48 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his societyâand his own pastâtakes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the âmomentous catastropheâ of the Kennedy... Read more
View audiobookBlack Water
By: Louise Doughty
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemptionJohn Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of what heâs already done.In a... Read more
View audiobookIntimations
By: Alexandra Kleeman
Narrated by: Abby Craden, Andy Ingalls, Christa Lewis & Carl...
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
From the celebrated author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine,a thought-provoking, often unsettling story collection that consists, broadly, of narrative diagrams of the three main stages in a human life: birth, life, and death.Alexandra Kleemanâs debut novel You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine earned her comparisons to Thomas Pynchon, Don... Read more
View audiobookA Tree or a Person or a Wall
By: Matt Bell
Narrated by: Karen Chilton, Andrea Gallo, Andrew Garman & T....
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world. A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man... Read more
View audiobookFahrt durchs Leben - Abridged
By: Hagen von Ortloff
Narrated by: Hagen von Ortloff
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Die schönsten Eisenbahngeschichten mit dem Moderator und Erfinder der Kultsendung "Eisenbahnromantik" "Eisenbahnromantik", die Kultsendereihe des SWR, wird 25 Jahre alt. Zum JubilÀum gibt der Erfinder und Moderator der Sendung, Hagen von Ortloff, ein Hörbuch mit den schönsten Geschichten rund ums Thema Eisenbahn heraus. Von ErzÀhlungen aus der... Read more
View audiobookWoman on the Edge of Time
By: Marge Piercy
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Hailed as a classic of speculative fiction, Marge Piercy's landmark novel is a transformative vision of two futuresâand what it takes to will one or the other into reality. Harrowing and prescient, Woman on the Edge of Time speaks to a new generation on whom these choices weigh more heavily than ever before.
Connie Ramos is a Mexican American... Read more
Dear Mr. M
By: Herman Koch
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
The tour-de-force, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool.Once a celebrated writer, M's greatest success came with a suspense novel based on a real-life, unsolved disappearance. It told the story of a history teacher who went missing one winter after his brief... Read more
View audiobookEvery Kind of Wanting
By: Gina Frangello
Narrated by: Almarie Guerra
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his familyâs relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicagoâs wealthy North Shore. When Chadâs sister, Gretchenâstruggling... Read more
View audiobookThe Fortunes
By: Peter Ho Davies
Narrated by: James Chen
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016âDavies writes with a rare emotional resonance and a deft sense of structure; it's hard not to be in awe of the way he's composed this complex, beautiful novel . . . Stunning.â âNPRâDavies [is] a master storyteller.â âEntertainment WeeklySly, funny, intelligent, and artfully... Read more
We Eat Our Own
By: Kea Wilson
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another actor who quit after seeing the scriptâa script the director now claims... Read more
View audiobookThe Prague Orgy
By: Philip Roth
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
In quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament, marked by institutionalized oppression, that is rather different from his own. He also... Read more
View audiobookThe Ballroom
By: Anna Hope
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A searing novel of forbidden love on the Yorkshire moorsââa British version of One Flew Over the Cuckooâs Nestâ (The Times U.K.)âfrom the author of the critically acclaimed debut Wake
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England, 1911. At Sharston Asylum, men and women are separated by thick walls and barred windows. But on Friday nights, they are allowed to mingle in the asylumâs... Read more
Here I Am
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
A monumental new audiobook from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am
In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, âAbraham!â before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, âHere I am.â Later, when Isaac calls out, âMy father!â before asking... Read more
Monticello
By: Sally Cabot Gunning
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughterâThomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph.After the death of her beloved mother, Martha Jefferson spent five years abroad with... Read more
View audiobookThe Velvet Hours
By: Alyson Richman
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert & Kate Reading
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
As Paris teeters on the edge of the German occupation, a young Frenchwoman closes the door to her late grandmotherâs treasure-filled apartment, unsure if sheâll ever return.An elusive courtesan, Marthe de Florian had cultivated a life of art and beauty, casting out all recollections of her impoverished childhood in the dark alleys of Montmartre.... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: AugustâSeptember 2016 Issue
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
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 choiceâoften the only choiceâfor the worldâs most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more
View audiobookPerfume River
By: Robert Olen Butler
Narrated by: Robert Olen Butler
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian, teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam-war protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate... Read more
View audiobookVanity Fair: October 2016 Issue - Abridged
By: Vanity Fair
Narrated by: various narrators
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Exclusive! Bruce Springsteen bares his soul and art in an astonishing new memoir.PlusâŠWilliam Langewiesche on the Internetâs darkest cornersThe outrageous fortune of Sir Phillip GreenInside a Silicon Valley implosionThe secret architects of celebrity social mediaJordan Barrett, Taraji P. Henson, and more!Vanity Fair is a cultural filter,... Read more
View audiobookMaj (oförkortat)
By: Viveca LĂ€rn
Narrated by: Ida Olsson
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Flickan Maj föds 1945 i Göteborg. Vi fÄr följa hennes uppvÀxt pÄ vÀstkusten genom ett förÀnderligt 1950-tal. HÀr ryms glÀdje och vemod liksom drömmar om Paris och poesiskrivande. Redan i de yngre Ären kÀnner hon sig lite utanför, ligger och tÀnker och umgÄs inte sÄ vÀrst mycket med sina jÀmnÄriga. Men tillsammans med sin frejdiga vÀninna... Read more
View audiobookThe Shelf Life of Happiness
By: David Machado
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Ripped apart by Portugalâs financial crisis, Danielâs family is struggling to adjust to circumstances beyond their control. His wife and children move out to live with family hours away, but Daniel believes against all odds that he will find a job and everything will return to normal.Even as he loses his home, suffers severe damage to his car,... Read more
View audiobookAlan Bennett: Stories
By: Alan Bennett
Narrated by: Alan Bennett
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A unique collection of eight Alan Bennett stories, read by the author. Alan Bennett is one of Britain's best-loved authors and an acclaimed storyteller. This exclusive compilation includes eight of his best tales, collected together for the first time.
Here is his celebrated, iconic memoir The Lady in the Van; as well as two fascinating... Read more
The Things We Wish Were True
By: Marybeth Mayhew Whalen
Narrated by: Taylor Ann Krahn
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In an idyllic small-town neighborhood, a near tragedy triggers a series of dark revelations.From the outside, Sycamore Glen, North Carolina, might look like the perfect all-American neighborhood. But behind the white picket fences lies a web of secrets that reach from house to house.Up and down the streets, neighbors quietly bear the weight of... Read more
View audiobookLa señora Dalloway
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Neus Sendra
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Escucha ahora la primera de las novelas con que Virginia Woolf revolucionĂł la narrativa de su tiempo. La señora Dalloway relata un dĂa en la vida londinense de Clarissa, una dama de alta alcurnia casada con un diputado conservador y madre de una adolescente. La historia comienza una soleada mañana de 1923 y termina esa misma noche, cuando... Read more
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