Literary Fiction Audiobooks | Literature

[German] - Reichskanzlerplatz (Ungekürzt)

"Berlin, 1919: Als Hans die junge Stiefmutter seines Schulfreunds Hellmut Quandt kennenlernt, ahnt er nicht, welche Rolle Magda in seinem Leben spielen wird - für ihn persönlich, aber auch Jahre später als fanatische Nationalsozialistin und Vorzeigemutter des Dritten Reichs. Noch ist die Weimarer Republik im Aufbruch und Hans hoffnungslos in Hellmut verliebt. Doch nach einem Unglücksfall beginnen Hans und Magda eine Affäre, von der sie sich Trost und Vorteile versprechen: Sie will aus ihrer Ehe ausbrechen, er seine Homosexualität verbergen. Als Magda Joseph Goebbels kennenlernt und der NSDAP beitritt, kommt es zwischen ihnen zum Bruch."

Nora Bossong (Author), Cédric Cavatore (Narrator)

Audiobook

What I’d Rather Not Think About

"What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them? This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma’s deceptively simple What I’d Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their childhood, and tells of their adult lives: how her brother tried to find happiness, but lost himself in various men and the Bhagwan movement, though never completely. In brief, precise vignettes, full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour, Posthuma tells the story of a depressive brother, viewed from the perspective of the sister who both loves and resents her twin, struggles to understand him, and misses him terribly."

Jente Posthuma (Author), Sophie Roberts (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Astronaut from Bear Creek

"Ten years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn't been seen since. Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a private jet to meet with the astronaut. The visit prompts the good people of the small town to begin asking questions. Who is Jim Mayfield? Why did he lock himself away? And who is the stranger that visited him? While the small town asks these questions, the most puzzling thing of all occurs when Bear Creek Inn takes in two guests for the first time in ten years."

Nick Allen Brown (Author), Danny Campbell (Narrator)

Audiobook

The States

"“Eloquent and alluring, The States is a novel in which dreams crash into lived realities.” Forward Reviews “A beautiful and thoughtful modernization of Jane Austen’s Persuasion that explores a modern heroine’s discovery of the difference between fantasy and agency.” IndieReader 'An inventive novel about wishes and regret.' Kirkus Reviews From the award-winning author of The Control Problem and When the Wave Collapses comes a modern reimagining of Jane Austen’s Persuasion, a story of love, obligation, and second chances. Tildy Sullivan is the middle child in an elite yet fading Manhattan family. Her quiet practicality hides her deep, profound longing for childhood summers in western Ireland. She also carries a secret regret. After her mother’s death, she’s persuaded to abandon Ireland and the love of the local boy, Aiden. When Tildy volunteers for a lucid dreaming experiment, it gives her all she wants – a life lived for her family during the day and a secret, perfect Ireland of her own at night. Will she face reality, or succumb to the ease of her dreams?"

Norah Woodsey (Author), Síofra Brogan (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Donnerstags im Café unter den Kirschbäumen (Ungekürzte Lesung)

"Ein Café unter Kirschbäumen. Ein magischer Ort. Eine Einladung an das Leben. Das Café Marble liegt beschaulich an einem kleinen Fluss im Schatten der Kirschbäume in einem Vorort von Tokio. Mit seinen drei Tischen aus unbehandeltem Holz ist es eine Oase der Ruhe. Hier arbeitet der junge Wataru, der stets einen klugen Rat für seine Gäste hat. Heimlich schwärmt er für die junge Frau, die jeden Donnerstag bei ihm eine Tasse heißen Kakao trinkt. Jede Woche sitzt sie an ihrem Stammplatz und schreibt Briefe. Es sind Luftpostbriefe, verfasst in englischer Sprache. Manchmal hat sie dabei ein Lächeln im Gesicht, manchmal eine Träne. Wataru würde gerne mehr von ihr erfahren. Neben der geheimnisvollen Briefeschreiberin empfängt er aber auch noch weitere Gäste. Da ist der unglücklich verliebte Verkäufer, die erfolgreiche Unternehmerin, die mit ihrer Mutterrolle hadert, oder die junge Kindergärtnerin mit unkonventionellen Arbeitsmethoden ... Sie alle kommen, um in dem Café einen Moment innezuhalten. Und die meisten Besucher brauchen mehr als nur eine heiße Schokolade, um ihrem Leben eine neue Wendung zu verleihen."

Michiko Aoyama (Author), Jana Kozewa, Tim Gössler (Narrator)

Audiobook

How We Named the Stars

"‘Hearing you say my name was a way of seeing myself as I had never seen myself … you gave my name new meaning, new weight.’ Nerdy and shy, scholarship student Daniel de La Luna arrives at college nervous to meet his golden-haired, athletic roommate, whose Facebook photos depict a boy just like those who made Daniel’s school years hell. Sam Morris is not what he had imagined, though. As the two settle into college life they drink tequila under the stars, go on long runs through snow-covered hills, explore freshman nightlife, and inch closer until they find themselves in love. But their blissful first year is over all too soon. Daniel’s summer in his ancestral homeland of México becomes a rollercoaster of revelations, before his life is brutally upended by the unimaginable. How We Named the Stars is a tale of love, heartache and learning to honour the dead. Daniel and Sam will leave you forever changed."

Andrés N. Ordorica (Author), Christian Barillas (Narrator)

Audiobook

Better by Far

"A story of love and liminality, and the ways in which grief grips us all. Prepare to laugh and cry; Hazel Hayes will break your heart, but then she’ll mend it for you. Following a breakup, Kate and Finn decide to keep sharing their house until the lease runs out in twelve weeks’ time, alternating week by week so that they are occupying the same space but never at the same time. Practically, the plan makes sense, but coming back each Sunday to a home where Finn has been and gone feels far too much like living with a ghost. Kate lost her mother at a young age and now this fresh grief dredges unhealed sorrows up to the surface, and soon, Kate finds herself adrift in her own subconscious, trapped in the liminal space between loving someone and letting go."

Hazel Hayes (Author), Hazel Hayes (Narrator)

Audiobook

[French] - Le rêve du jaguar - Prix Femina et Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie française 2024

"Antonio, abandonné à la naissance à Maracaibo, est promis à une vie de mendicité. C’est sans compter sur son énergie et les incroyables rencontres parsemant son chemin. Vendeur de cigarettes, homme à tout faire dans une maison close… il sera finalement chirurgien. À ses côtés, une compagne d’exception, première femme médecin de la région : Ana Maria. Repoussant les limites, affrontant les révolutions soulevant leur pays tout le long du XXe siècle, ils donnent un jour naissance à Venezuela. Aussi déterminée et courageuse que ses parents, elle se bat à son tour pour s’accomplir… ailleurs, car elle n'a d'yeux que pour Paris. C’est dans le carnet de son fils Cristobal que les mille histoires de cette famille hors du commun pourront, enfin, s’ancrer."

Miguel Bonnefoy (Author), Bertrand Pazos, Miguel Bonnefoy, Zelda Perez (Narrator)

Audiobook

In Tongues: A Novel

"Named a Most Anticipated Book by Time, Bloomberg, and Electric Literature. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June. 'Thomas Grattan is a master of plot—that rare ability—which makes In Tongues a real roller coaster: funny, sad, shocking, and, finally, quite moving.' —Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the Dance 'An amiable, zippy novel that also smuggles in a sharp analysis of family, class and the intergenerational inheritance of gay men.' ―The Washington Post A young gay man upends the lives of a powerful art-world couple in this steamy novel of self-discovery. It’s 2001, and twenty-four-year-old Gordon—handsome, sensitive, and eager for direction—takes a bus from Minnesota to New York City because it’s the only place for a young gay man to go. As he begins to settle into the city’s punishing rhythm, he gets a job walking rich Manhattanites’ dogs. But it isn’t until he stumbles into the West Village brownstone of two of his clients, the powerful gallery owners Phillip and Nicola, that Gordon learns how much the world has hidden from him—and what he’s capable of doing in order to get it for himself. A lush, heart-quickening novel about family and art, sex and class, and the terror of self-discovery, Thomas Grattan’s In Tongues chronicles Gordon’s perilous pursuit of belonging from the Midwest to New York and, later, to Europe and Mexico City. As he floats further into Phillip and Nicola’s exclusive universe, and as lines blur between employee, muse, lover, and mentor, Gordon’s charm, manipulation, and growing ambition begin to escape his own control, in turn threatening to unravel the lives, and lies, of those around him. Anchored by winsome lyricism, glinting intellect, and a main character whose yearnings and mistakes come to feel like our own, In Tongues crackles with fierce longing and pointed emotion, further confirming Grattan as a rare chronicler of young adulthood’s joys and devastations. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux."

Thomas Grattan (Author), Daniel Henning (Narrator)

Audiobook

On the Marble Cliffs

"Set in a world of its own, Ernst Jünger's On the Marble Cliffs is both a mesmerizing work of fantasy and an allegory of the advent of fascism. The narrator of the book and his brother, Otho, live in an ancient house carved out of the great marble cliffs that overlook the Marina, a great and beautiful lake that is surrounded by a peaceable land of ancient cities and temples and flourishing vineyards. To the north of the cliffs are the grasslands of the Campagna, occupied by herders. North of that, the great forest begins. There the brutal Head Forester rules, abetted by the warrior bands of the Mauretanians. The brothers have seen all too much of war. Their youth was consumed in fighting. Now they have resolved to live quietly, studying botany, adding to their herbarium, consulting the books in their library, involving themselves in the timeless pursuit of knowledge. However, rumors of dark deeds begin to reach them in their sanctuary. Agents of the Head Forester are infiltrating the peaceful provinces he views with contempt, while peace itself, it seems, may only be a mask for heedlessness. Tess Lewis's new translation of Jünger's sinister fable of 1939 brings out all of this legendary book's dark luster."

Ernst Jünger (Author), Julian Elfer (Narrator)

Audiobook

[German] - Part of Your World

"Small Town Guy meets City Girl – Wenn du die große Liebe triffst und euch Welten trennen... Als Alexis Montgomery, die Tochter einer legendären Arztfamilie, bei einer Reifenpanne auf Daniel Grant trifft und mit ihm eine Nacht verbringt, sind zwei Dinge klar: Zwischen Alexis und Daniel besteht eine unerklärliche Anziehung – und niemals kann aus ihnen ein echtes Paar werden, weil sie beide Welten trennen. Daniel kommt vom Land, ist 28 und damit zehn Jahre jünger als Alexis, und alles, was ihr Leben ausmacht, ist ihm völlig fremd. Denn Alexis muss in die Fußstapfen ihrer Eltern treten, die das renommierte Royame Hospital in Minneapolis leiten. Sie beschließen, sich exklusiv zu daten – ohne Gefühle, ohne feste Beziehung. Doch allein schon beim Gedanken, Daniel eines Tages aufzugeben, droht Alexis' Herz zu brechen..."

Abby Jimenez (Author), Karoline Mask Von Oppen, Richard Lingscheidt (Narrator)

Audiobook

[French] - Nord Sentinelle

"Pour une banale histoire de bouteille introduite illicitement dans son restaurant, le jeune Alexandre Romani poignarde Alban Genevey au milieu d’une foule de touristes massés sur un port corse. Alban, étudiant dont les parents possèdent une résidence secondaire sur l’île, connaît son agresseur depuis l’enfance. Dès lors, le narrateur, intimement lié aux Romani, remonte – comme on remonterait un fleuve et ses affluents – la ligne de vie des protagonistes et dessine les contours d’une dynastie de la bêtise et de la médiocrité. Sur un fil tragicomique, dans une langue vibrante aux accents corrosifs, Jérôme Ferrari sonde la violence, saisit la douloureuse déception de n’être que soi-même et inaugure, avec la thématique du tourisme intensif, une réflexion nourrie sur l’altérité. Sur ce qui, dès le premier pas posé sur le rivage, corrompt la terre et le cœur des hommes."

Jérôme Ferrari (Author), Pierre-François Garel (Narrator)

Audiobook

Literary Fiction Audiobooks in Literature