Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary Fiction

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Title: All That I Am

Author: Anna Funder

Narrator: Saul Reichlin, Judy Bennett

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Release date: October 13, 2011

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Anna Funder's All That I Am, a powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance. Read by Judy Bennett and Saul Reichlin. One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. Opening its delicate pages she meets with a flood of memories... It's 1933 and she is back in her light-filled flat in Berlin. Hans is making caipirinhas, snow falls outside the kitchen window, and Hitler is making his first speech as Chancellor of Germany. Her life and those of her tight-knit group of friends are about to change beyond all recognition. Having dedicated themselves to resisting the Nazi's rise, they have become hunted outlaws overnight. Fleeing the country, Ruth and Hans find refuge in a basement flat in Bloomsbury, but inspired by Ruth's fearless cousin Dora, they defy the conditions of their visas and risk being sent back to Germany in order continue their dangerous resistance work. But with each breathtaking act of courage and every person that they trust, they cannot help but risk betrayal and deceit. And then, one day, they face the chilling realisation that Hitler's reach extends much further than they had thought, even to London itself. Inspiring, tragic and based on real events, All That I Am is a masterful and devastating novel of bravery and betrayal, of the risks and sacrifices that people endure to protect their beliefs and of discovering remarkable heroism hidden in the most unexpected of places.

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Title: Prairie Nocturne

Series: #6 of Two Medicine Country

Author: Ivan Doig

Narrator: Scott Sowers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Release date: July 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig writes about Big Sky country with raw authenticity. Set during the 1920s, Prairie Nocturne finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she agrees. But racial tensions erupt when Susan's private lessons with Monty attract the attention of the KKK. 'Fine work from a quintessentially American writer.'-Kirkus Reviews

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Title: Beyond the Black Stump

Author: Nevil Shute

Narrator: Davina Porter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Release date: May 6, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil.

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Title: Mrs. Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

Narrator: Phyllida Law

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Release date: May 1, 2011

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Past, present, and future are brought together on a momentous June day in 1923.

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Title: A River Runs Through It

Author: Norman Maclean

Narrator: Joel Fabiani

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Release date: June 12, 2009

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 3

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Two brothers growing up in Missoula, Montana in the 1930s learn the art of fly fishing from their father. But one brother's life off the river is as fragmented and troubled as his life on the river is fluid and gracious. His older brother labors to save him before his art is only a memory. Also includes: Logging and Pimping, 'Your Pal, Jim' and USFS 1919: The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky.

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Title: The Glass Bead Game

Author: Herman Hesse

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 20 minutes

Release date: October 8, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.43 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The final novel of Hermann Hesse, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature Set in the twenty-third century, The Glass Bead Game is the story of Joseph Knecht, who has been raised in Castalia, the remote place his society has provided for the intellectual elite to grow and flourish. Since childhood, Knecht has been consumed with mastering the Glass Bead Game, which requires a synthesis of aesthetics and scientific arts, such as mathematics, music, logic, and philosophy, which he achieves in adulthood, becoming a Magister Ludi (Master of the Game).

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Title: Johnny Got His Gun

Author: Dalton Trumbo

Narrator: William Dufris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Release date: April 21, 2008

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.17 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 3

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered—not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives…. This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless, and gruesome...but so is war. Johnny Got His Gun holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I—he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with his mind intact—was an immediate bestseller. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during World War II, and it became perhaps the most popular novel of protest during the Vietnam era.

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Title: Girls in Trucks

Author: Katie Crouch

Narrator: Joshua Ferris

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Release date: April 7, 2008

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.) But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. When life' s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto 'Once a Camellia, always a Camellia' -- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best. Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.

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Title: The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel

Author: Heidi Julavits

Narrator: Shelly Frasier

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2007

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

In late afternoon on November 7, 1985, sixteen-year-old Mary Veal was abducted after field hockey practice at her all-girls New England prep school. Or was she? A few weeks later an unharmed Mary reappears as suddenly and mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming to have little memory of what happened to her. Her mother, concerned that Mary has somehow been sullied by the experience, sends her to therapy with a psychologist named Dr. Hammer. Mary turns out to be a cagey and difficult patient and Dr. Hammer begins to suspect Mary concocted her tale of abduction when he discovers its parallels with a seventeenth-century narrative of a girl who was abducted by Indians and later caused her rescuer to be hanged as a witch. Hammer, eager to further his professional reputation, decides to write a book about Mary's faked abduction, a project her mother sanctions because she'd rather her daughter be a liar than a rape victim. Fifteen years later, Mary has returned to Boston for her mother's funeral. Her abduction—real or imagined—has tainted many lives, including her own. When Mary finds a suggestive letter sent to her mother, she suspects her mother planned a reconciliation before her death. Thus begins a quest that requires Mary to revisit the people and places in her past. The Uses of Enchantment weaves a spell in which the power of a young woman's sexuality, and her desire to wield it, has a devastating effect on all involved. The riveting cat-and-mouse power games between doctor and patient, and between abductor and abductee, are gradually, dreamily revealed, along with the truth about what actually happened in 1985. Heidi Julavits is in full command of her considerable gifts, and has crafted a dazzling narrative sure to garner her further acclaim as one of the best novelists working today.

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Title: The Lady and the Unicorn

Author: Tracy Chevalier

Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld, Terry Donnelly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 0 minutes

Release date: January 1, 2004

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is unknown—until now. Paris, 1490.  A shrewd French nobleman commissions six lavish tapestries celebrating his rising status at Court. He hires the charismatic, arrogant, sublimely talented Nicolas des Innocents to design them. Nicolas creates havoc among the women in the house—mother and daughter, servant, and lady-in-waiting—before taking his designs north to the Brussels workshop where the tapestries are to be woven. There, master weaver Georges de la Chapelle risks everything he has to finish the tapestries—his finest, most intricate work—on time for his exacting French client. The results change all their lives—lives that have been captured in the tapestries, for those who know where to look. In The Lady and the Unicorn, Tracy Chevalier weaves fact and fiction into a beautiful, timeless, and intriguing literary tapestry—an extraordinary story exquisitely told.