Books Set in Louisiana

The Secret to Hummingbird Cake

By: Celeste Fletcher McHale
Narrated by: Nan Kelley
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

". . . celebrates strong women and stronger ties. Its humor, poignancy, and a clash of sass will touch the heart." --CBA ReviewsFriends since kindergarten, Carrigan, Ella Rae, and Laine thought they'd been through everything together. But when cancer threatens to rip the trio apart, their world spins in a way they've never known before. Through... Read more

The Awakening, with eBook

By: Kate Chopin
Narrated by: Shelly Frasier
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.



Enveloped by a small circle of friends, she begins to throw off the... Read more

A Streetcar Named Desire - Abridged

By: Tennessee Williams
Narrated by: Theater Lincoln Center
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire on cd for the first time! Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's New Orleans apartment seeking refuge from a troubled past—but her ethereal spirit irks Stella's husband, the loutish Stanley Kowalski. Crudely, relentlessly, he... Read more

Steel Magnolias

By: Robert Harling
Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt, Amy Pietz, Brittany Snow & Jocelyn Towne. Additional voices by Josh Clark.
Length: TBA

Within the walls of Truvy’s beauty shop are six women whose lives increasingly hinge on the existence of one another. Together, they absorb the passing seasons, just like the weathered wooden structure of the salon “home” that they share.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring
Frances Fisher, Jeanie Hackett, Shannon Holt,
Amy Pietz,... Read more

Interview with the Vampire

Vampire Chronicles: Book #1

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

40th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, "a magnificent, compulsively readable thriller...Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire” (Chicago Tribune). • The inspiration for the hit television... Read more

Dead Until Dark

Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book #1

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Anthony Award winner Charlaine Harris' New York Times and USA Today best-selling Sookie Stackhouse novels entice countless fans with an irresistible mixture of vampire romance, beguiling mystery, and old-fashioned Southern charm. Vampires have officially "come out of the coffin," and Miss Sookie can't wait for one to come her way. Read more

Out of the Easy

By: Ruta Sepetys
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

 It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie... Read more

A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more

Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Cody Roberts
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.



At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel... Read more

All the King's Men

By: Robert Penn Warren
Narrated by: Michael Emerson
Length: 20 hours 55 minutes

This landmark book is a loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, one of the nation's most astounding politicians. All the King's Men tells the story of Willie Stark, a southern-fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back-room deal-makers. Though... Read more