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The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka
Narrated by: Semih Owens
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position... Read more

Cat's Cradle

By: Kurt Vonnegut
Narrated by: Tony Roberts
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a little person as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. Read more

The Sheltering Sky

A Novel

By: Paul Bowles
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Audio edition of the landmark of 20th Century literature, by acclaimed author Paul Bowles“The Sheltering Sky is one of the most original, even visionary, works of fiction to appear in the twentieth century.” —Tobias Wolff""It stands head and shoulders above most other novels published in English since World War II.” —New RepublicIn this classic... Read more

Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller
Narrated by: Steven Culp, Maureen Flannigan, Jason Henning, Jane Kaczmarek, Stacy Keach, Sam McMurray, Kathryn Meisle, Tim Monsion, John Sloan, Kate Steele & Kenneth Alan Williams
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Stacy Keach and Jane Kaczmarek star in Arthur Miller’s 1949 masterpiece, a searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman (Keach) is the play’s iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with success and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Narrated by: Tim Robbins
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

An undisputed masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, perfect for Fitzgerald lovers and classics collectors alike.
Set against a backdrop of jazz music, bootlegging, and lavish parties, The Great Gatsby is the story of Midwesterner Nick Carraway’s curious introduction to the decadent world of his mysterious, wealthy neighbor Jay Gatsby,... Read more

Gilgamesh

A New English Version

By: Stephen Mitchell
Narrated by: George Guidall & John McDonough
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

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

Lord of the Flies

By: William Golding
Narrated by: William Golding
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle... Read more

Women

A Novel

By: Charles Bukowski
Narrated by: Christian Baskous
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred... Read more

Nelson Algren Reading from The Man with the Golden Arm

From Great American Authors Read from Their Works, Volume 2

The Great American Authors Read from Their Works Series: Book #0

By: Nelson Algren
Narrated by: Nelson Algren
Length: 17 minutes

Author Nelson Algren reads from his award-winning novel, The Man with the Golden Arm. The passage tells of Frankie Machine's wife, Sophie, who confined to a wheelchair since a drunk-driving accident caused by Frankie. The narration implies that Sophie's paralysis is psychological in origin, and is unconsciously used to keep Frankie with her.... Read more

Gravity's Rainbow

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George Guidall
Length: 37 hours 18 minutes

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

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Hatchet

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

13-year-old Brian Robeson learns to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with his hatchet and resourcefulness. Read more

Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jim Colby
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

“Want to have your brain scrambled in a good way? Read Fight Club. The main character is odd at best, obsessed with death and masquerading as a cancer patient in support groups. He meets Tyler Durden, and together they start a fight club as a way of therapy, forgetting the nonsense that is the world they live in. A critique of toxic masculinity,... Read more

Ender's Game

The Ender Saga: Book #1

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

“For my first sci-fi book, this was recommended for me. I was NOT disappointed! Read more