1984
By George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Blackstone Publishing presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before.George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its... 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 »
A Separate Peace
By John Knowles
Narrated by: Scott Snively
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Devon School, an exclusive prep school for boys in New Hampshire, is a world unto itself. But it’s the summer of 1942, and the massive thundercloud of World War II threatens the school’s peaceful environment. Paralleling the war, where enemies real and imagined are sometimes collaborated with and sometimes destroyed, is the friendship between... Read more »
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Betty Smith
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 15 hours 1 minute
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit.... Read more »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom and Huck Series: Book #1
By Mark Twain
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes
Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? From Tom’s sly trickery with the whitewashed fence to his and Becky Thatcher’s calamities in Bat Cave, the enjoyment never ends.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed... Read more »
The Alchemist
By Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 4 hours
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired.Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a... Read more »
Alice in Wonderland - Abridged
By Lewis Carroll
Narrated by: Georgia Lee Schultz, Barbara Rosenblat & a full cast
Length: 59 minutes
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland comes to life again in this dramatized version of the timeless classic, with stellar performances by Georgia Lee Schultz as Alice, and multi-award-winning Barbara Rosenblat as the Mouse, Duchess, Cheshire Cat, and the Queen. This version features a full cast of characters, music, and sound effects and... Read more »
And Then There Were None
By Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a... Read more »
Anne of Green Gables
The Anne of Green Gables Series: Book #1
By L. M. Montgomery
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster family, is one of the most beloved heroines in all of literature.Anne, a wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox, tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds.When... Read more »
Another Country
By James Baldwin
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable... Read more »
Atlas Shrugged
By Ayn Rand
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 52 hours 20 minutes
Atlas Shrugged is the “second most influential book for Americans today” after the Bible, according to a joint survey of five thousand people conducted by the Library of Congress and the Book of the Month Club in 1991.In a scrap heap within an abandoned factory, the greatest invention in history lies dormant and unused. By what fatal error of... Read more »
Beloved
By Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A spellbinding novel that transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. With a new afterword by the author.
This "brutally powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinchingly look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner.
Sethe... Read more »
Bless Me, Ultima
By Rudolfo Anaya
Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Exquisite prose and wondrous storytelling have helped make Rudolfo Anaya the father of Chicano literature in English. Indeed, Anaya's tales fairly shimmer with the haunting beauty and richness of his culture. The winner of the Pen Center West Award for Fiction for his unforgettable novel Alburquerque, Anaya is perhaps best loved for his classic... Read more »
The Book Thief
By Markus Zusak
Narrated by: Allan Corduner
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
The extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller that is now a major motion picture, Markus Zusak's unforgettable story is about the ability of books to feed the soul.
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
When Death has a... Read more »
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Junot Díaz
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 15 hours 58 minutes
Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following... Read more »
The Call of the Wild
By Jack London
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 3 hours 26 minutes
Jack London’s masterpiece describing the timeless bonds between man, dog, and wildernessBuck, half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is a bold-spirited dog living the good life in the Santa Clara Valley. But when a treacherous act of betrayal results in his kidnapping, he is stripped from his comfortable life on the California estate and... Read more »
Charlotte's Web
By E. B. White
Narrated by: E. B. White
Length: 3 hours 34 minutes
Charlotte's Web
“I listened to this audiobook on a road trip and had such a great time! The full cast really brought this beloved, well-known story to life, and Meryl Streep - legend that she is - added so much to this classic! (Warning: Even if you have already read this story, there is a very good chance this version will make you cry!). ”
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Earth's Children® Series: Book #1
By Jean M. Auel
Narrated by: Sandra Burr
Length: 22 hours 17 minutes
This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love.Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThrough Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and... Read more »
The Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 46 hours 56 minutes
Dashing young Edmond Dantes has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him.Falsely accused of a political crime, Edmond Dantes is locked away for life in the infamous prison at the French Chateau d’If.... Read more »
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Narrated by: Anthony Heald
Length: 20 hours 28 minutes
One of the greatest works of fiction ever written, Crime and Punishment is at once an intense psychological study, a terrifying murder mystery, and a fascinating detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary.Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a... Read more »