Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Himmel & Erde - Abridged

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Oliver Dupont

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barack-Obama-Nummer-1-Lieblingsbuch des Jahres • Publishers-Weekly-Nummer-1-Buch des Jahres • Amazon-Nummer-1-Buch-des-Jahres • New-York-Times-Bestseller Pottstown, Pennsylvania, 1972: Beim Ausheben der Fundamente für ein neues Baugebiet stoßen die Arbeiter am Grund eines Brunnens auf ein Skelett. Wem es gehörte und wie es dorthin kam, kann... Read more

Azhakin Sirippu - Abridged

By: Bharathidasan

Narrated by: Ramani

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

பாவேந்தர் பாரதிதாசன் அவர்கள், "அழகின் சிரிப்பு" என்ற இக்கவிதைத் தொகுப்பில் இயற்கையின் சிரிப்பில் தான் ரசித்தவை எவ்வளவு அழகு என்பதைச் செந்தமிழில் மிகவும் நயமாக எழுதியுள்ளார். கடல், தென்றல், காடு, குன்றம், ஆறு, செந்தாமரை, ஞாயிறு, வானம் எனப் பல தலைப்புகளில் கவிதைகள் இருப்பினும் தமிழ் மொழியின் சிறப்புக்கள் நல்கும் இறுதிக் கவிதைகள் தனிச் சிறப்பு.... Read more

Goodnight Nobody - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Emily Skinner

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.

For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her... Read more

Vanity Fair: October 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

FREE EXTRA: Download the audio version of our cover story on Mark Zuckerberg, featuring an exclusive interview with writer Max Chafkin.What it’s like to wear the RiftHow the investment stacks upWhat to expect for the future of virtual realityIn this issue: Editor’s Letter: Graydon Carter’s introduction to the October issueMark Zuckerberg on how... Read more

A Family Christmas - Abridged

By: Caroline Kennedy

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just in time for the holidays: a collection of beloved Christmas stories and writings that every family will cherish.



One of the many joys of Christmas comes from the traditions associated with it. Bestselling author Caroline Kennedy drew on her own family's traditions to create this charming collection of favorite stories, poems, and writings... Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (ungekürzt) - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Stephan Schad

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dublin, 1968. Der zehnjährige Paddy Clarke langweilt sich in der Schule und vertreibt sich die Zeit mit Freunden, zieht durch die Straßen, treibt Unfug oder ärgert seinen kleinen Bruder. Abends sitzt er vor dem Fernseher und knabbert Chips. Doch Paddy lebt nicht in einer heilen Welt: Sein Vater ist dem Alkohol verfallen und streitet immer... Read more

Les Misérables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the Parisian underworld of the early nineteenth century, Les Misérables follows the adventures of Jean Valjean, once an honest peasant, who was imprisoned for nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his sister’s starving family. A hardened and bitter criminal upon his release, Valjean is transformed when an act of compassion... Read more

Falling Bodies - Abridged

By: Andrew Mark

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more

Light Action In the Caribbean - Abridged

By: Barry Lopez

Narrated by: Barry Lopez

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his first new work of fiction since Field Notes (1994), Barry Lopez embraces fable, historical fiction, and contemporary social realism in these spellbinding stories, all informed by his deep spiritual connection to the natural world. 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

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Abridged

By: Oscar Wilde & Gerhard Symons

Narrated by: Gerhard Symons

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is an abridged audiobook of The Picture of Dorian Gray in English. It is intended for intermediate English-language students (CEFR: level B1/B2).This audiobook is a simplified version of the classic story by nineteenth-century playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900).It is abridged and narrated by Gerhard Symons, a native English... Read more

E.T.A. Hoffmann Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht - Abridged

By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

Narrated by: Hans-Jürgen Schatz

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

E.T.A. Hoffmann Die Abenteuer der Sylvester-Nacht Als der knapp 25jährige Heinrich Heine 1822 die "Briefe aus Berlin" schrieb, konnte er sich den schwer erkrankten, berühmten Juristen, Komponisten und Schriftsteller Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776-1822) ins Berliner Café Royal (Unter den Linden/Ecke Charlottenstrasse) als Gast nur... Read more

Обгусевшие лебеди - Abridged

By: Игорь Губерман

Narrated by: Игорь Губерман

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Бывают такие строчки, которые, раз услышав, не можешь выкинуть из головы, так они и продолжают там крутиться. Таковы стихи Игоря Губермана – блестяще меткие, изобретательные, афористичные, ироничные и правдивые. За все это поэзию Губермана и любят, и бесконечно цитируют уже не один десяток лет. «Обгусевшие лебеди» – сборник стихотворений... Read more

Clara Callan - Abridged

By: Richard B. Wright

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clara Callan is a deeply moving portrait of two women and of an age heralding seismic changes—the Depression era—that will alter the fabric of their inner lives and the world as they once knew it. Read more

Le Morte D'Arthur - Abridged

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For over 1,000 years, tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have enthralled people, among them Henry VIII and T. E. Lawrence. Proof of the Arthurian legend's timeless appeal is the fact that scarcely a year goes by without a new adaptation. Published in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory's epic poem Le Morte d'Arthur became the standard... Read more

Red Poppies - Abridged

By: Alai

Narrated by: Ping Wu

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tibet, a tiny nation cloaked in mystery and clouded by myth, is the setting for this riveting family saga. Read more

How to be Single - Abridged

By: Liz Tuccillo

Narrated by: Judy Greer

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the hit film!

From the coauthor of He’s Just Not That Into You and a former story editor for Sex and the City, How to Be Single is about one woman’s attempts to navigate a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.

Julie Jenson is a single thirty-seven-year-old book publicist in New York. When her friend Georgia’s... Read more

Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more

Sudden Rain - Abridged

By: Maritta Wolff

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A novel set in the fall of 1972, it perfectly captures, with expansive emotion and keen observation, the domestic trends. Read more

New York: The Novel - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

A Virtuous Woman - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more

Das kommunistische Manifest - Abridged

By: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels

Narrated by: Katharina Thalbach

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein faszinierender literarisch-philosophischer Text in einer künstlerischen Fassung, die beständig fragt, irritiert, herausfordert, nicht loslässt. 1848 erschien in London ein Text, der die Welt veränderte. Er wurde zum Ausgangspunkt ökonomischer Systeme, politischer Konflikte und nicht zuletzt einer Vielzahl von Missverständnissen, die bis... Read more

The Sugar Queen - Abridged

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season,... Read more

Bucking the Sun - Abridged

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.

Through the story of each family member—a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons, and the memorable women they marry—Doig conveys... Read more