Listen to New Full Audiobooks in Literature, Fairy Tales & Folklore

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Title: The Heart and Other Viscera: Stories

Author: Félix J. Palma

Narrator: Cynthia Farrell, Timothy Andrés Pabon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Release date: September 17, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

The New York Times bestselling author of the “supernatural tour de force” (M.J. Rose, bestselling author) The Map of Time crafts an enchanting collection of twelve evocative and macabre stories delving into the magical, ordinary, and darker aspects of love in all its powerful forms. A young girl receives letters from her lost doll; a cat madly in love with her human neighbor; a bored office worker escapes his monotonous life by traveling on his grandfather’s model train; a man gives all of himself to the woman he loves, piece by piece. These are just a few of the unforgettable characters that inhabit Félix J. Palma’s gorgeously wrought short story collection, by turns mesmerizing, morbid, and melancholy. This collection contains selections from three previously published anthologies, bringing together in one volume some of Palma’s most celebrated stories. Available for the first time in English and with his signature “lyrical storytelling and a rich attention to detail” (Library Journal), The Heart and Other Viscera explores the wonder, madness, and heartbreak of love, and the lengths to which some are willing to go to protect, honor, and cherish the ones they love.

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Title: Quichotte: A Novel

Author: Salman Rushdie

Narrator: Vikas Adam

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Release date: September 3, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.38 of Total 8

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic Don Quixote for the modern age, “a brilliant, funny, world-encompassing wonder” (Time) from internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie   SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • “Lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming . . . a remembrance of what holds our human lives in some equilibrium—a way of feeling and a way of telling. Love and language.”—Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times Book Review NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television who falls in impossible love with a TV star. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a picaresque quest across America to prove worthy of her hand, gallantly braving the tragicomic perils of an age where “Anything-Can-Happen.” Meanwhile, his creator, in a midlife crisis, has equally urgent challenges of his own. Just as Cervantes wrote Don Quixote to satirize the culture of his time, Rushdie takes the reader on a wild ride through a country on the verge of moral and spiritual collapse. And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work, the fully realized lives of DuChamp and Quichotte intertwine in a profoundly human quest for love and a wickedly entertaining portrait of an age in which fact is so often indiscernible from fiction. Praise for Quichotte “Brilliant . . . a perfect fit for a moment of transcontinental derangement.”—Financial Times “Quichotte is one of the cleverest, most enjoyable metafictional capers this side of postmodernism. . . . The narration is fleet of foot, always one step ahead of the reader—somewhere between a pinball machine and a three-dimensional game of snakes and ladders. . . . This novel can fly, it can float, it’s anecdotal, effervescent, charming, and a jolly good story to boot.”—The Sunday Times “Quichotte [is] an updating of Cervantes’s story that proves to be an equally complicated literary encounter, jumbling together a chivalric quest, a satire on Trump’s America and a whole lot of postmodern playfulness in a novel that is as sharp as a flick-knife and as clever as a barrel of monkeys. . . . This is a novel that feeds the heart while it fills the mind.”—The Times (UK)

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Title: Puss in Boots: A Musical

Author: Harvey Edelman, Neil Fishman, Khristine Hvam

Narrator: Meredith Inglesby, Barrett Leddy, Lisa Livesay, Al Fallick, Mark Aldrich, John E. Brady, Brian Holden, Lynn Norris, Nick Sullivan, Johnny Heller, Jim Dale

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Release date: August 27, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Audio Drama 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook 2019 SOVAS Voice Arts Award—Outstanding Production in Audiobook Puss in Boots, a fractured fairytale musical, is a tale of conquering fears, finding your truth, discovering your strengths, and standing for what you believe in, with lots of fun along the way. With 11 original songs, this classic fairytale is transformed into a hilarious adventure that will have the listener feeling like they're front row center at a Broadway show. Narrated by Jim Dale and a full cast, and written and created by the award-winning team behind Spin: The Rumpelstiltskin Musical, this audiobook is a treat for the whole family. Narrated by Jim Dale, Mark Aldrich, Nick Sullivan, Brian Holden, Al Fallick, Lisa Livesay, Lynn Norris, John E. Brady, Johnny Heller, Barrett Leddy, and Meredith Inglesby

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Title: American Saint: A Novel

Author: Sean Gandert

Narrator: Frankie Corzo, Timothy Andrés Pabon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Release date: August 20, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

After his miracles go viral, one man’s crisis of faith puts everything in doubt, erasing the line between memory, reality, and truth. Raised in a poor neighborhood in Albuquerque by his mother and curandera grandmother, Gabriel Romero grows up fervently religious, privately conflicted, and consumed by what he’s certain is the true will of God. A radical activist determined to enlighten the consciousness of a country losing its way, Gabriel starts his own church. His slogans go viral. His protests make him either a hero or an anarchist in a polarized America, and his miracles—if we believe what we see—cast him as either a charlatan or a saint. But Gabriel knows that, above all, to ensure lasting faith he must do something truly memorable. For that, he will see his divine mission to its startling end. In this visionary novel framed as a hagiography, the ruminative, subjective memories of Gabriel’s witnesses—spiritual, familial, romantic, and political—converge to make sense of the man’s confounding works and message. As they do, a surprising portrait develops…not only of the deepening mystery of Gabriel Romero himself but also of a country in conflict and the faith it takes to fight the suspicion and fear that divide us.

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Title: Gods of Jade and Shadow

Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrator: Yetta Gottesman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Release date: July 23, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.41 of Total 29

Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 12

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark, one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. “A spellbinding fairy tale rooted in Mexican mythology . . . Gods of Jade and Shadow is a magical fairy tale about identity, freedom, and love, and it's like nothing you've read before.”—Bustle NEBULA AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Tordotcom • The New York Public Library • BookRiot The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own.  Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it—and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea’s demise, but success could make her dreams come true. In the company of the strangely alluring god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will take her on a cross-country odyssey from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico City—and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld. Praise for Gods of Jade and Shadow “A dark, dazzling fairy tale . . . a whirlwind tour of a 1920s Mexico vivid with jazz, the memories of revolution, and gods, demons, and magic.”—NPR “Snappy dialog, stellar worldbuilding, lyrical prose, and a slow-burn romance make this a standout. . . . Purchase where Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, and N. K. Jemisin are popular.”—Library Journal (starred review) “A magical novel of duality, tradition, and change . . . Moreno-Garcia’s seamless blend of mythology and history provides a ripe setting for Casiopea’s stellar journey of self-discovery, which culminates in a dramatic denouement. Readers will gladly immerse themselves in Moreno-Garcia’s rich and complex tale of desperate hopes and complicated relationships.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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Title: Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe: A Novel

Author: Heather Webber

Narrator: Bethany Lind, Nicholas Techosky, Stephanie Willis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Release date: July 16, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.19 of Total 47

Ratings of Narrator: 4.73 of Total 15

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

'Listeners will be transported to the small Southern town of Wicklow by the drawls and laid-back pacing of the narrators...This is a beautiful story of family, love, and forgiveness.' - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe is a captivating blend of magical realism, heartwarming romance, and small-town Southern charm. Nestled in the mountain shadows of Alabama lies the little town of Wicklow. It is here that Anna Kate has returned to bury her beloved Granny Zee, owner of the Blackbird Café. It was supposed to be a quick trip to close the café and settle her grandmother’s estate, but despite her best intentions to avoid forming ties or even getting to know her father’s side of the family, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and the mysterious blackbird pie everybody can’t stop talking about. As the truth about her past slowly becomes clear, Anna Kate will need to decide if this lone blackbird will finally be able to take her broken wings and fly.

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Title: 59 Memory Lane

Series: #1 of Pengelly Series

Author: Celia Anderson

Narrator: Annette Holland

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

’A brilliantly original and enchanting tale’ Sun ‘Wonderful characters make this a great read’ Good Housekeeping ‘Truly unique…unforgettable’ Woman’s Weekly ‘Warm, romantic and different, in the very best way’ Katie Fforde, Sunday Times bestseller ‘I absolutely adored it!’ Ruth Hogan, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things May Rosevere has reached the grand old age of one-hundred-and-ten, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every morning, a glass (or two) of port, and the wonders of the Cornish sea air – or so she tells everyone. But there’s much more to May than her remarkable age. She has a secret. One that no one has ever discovered … Praise for 59 Memory Lane ‘Wonderfully different and enchanting…A reading treasure trove of delight’ Love Reading ‘Anderson has woven more than a hint of magic through the pages’ Sunday Times bestseller Heidi Swain ‘I haven’t felt so happy sad at the door closing on characters I’ve come to love in a long time’ Jules Wake ‘An absolute gem of a book’ Sue Fortin, USA Today bestseller ‘A rich, warm and enchanting read, stuffed full of wonderful characters that I felt, by the end, I knew like my own neighbours’ Anna Stuart ‘So warm and engaging, with witty and relatable characters I was rooting for every step of the way’ Leah Mercer ‘Scrumptious!’ Julie Vince ‘I defy anyone not to fall in love with this delightful cast of characters, or to be drawn into their compelling, if complicated, lives’ Jenni Keer

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Title: The Girl in Red

Author: Christina Henry

Narrator: January LaVoy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2019

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.93 of Total 14

Ratings of Narrator: 4.43 of Total 7

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic 'Little Red Riding Hood'...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems. It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has no choice. Not since the Crisis came, decimated the population, and sent those who survived fleeing into quarantine camps that serve as breeding grounds for death, destruction, and disease. She is just a woman trying not to get killed in a world that doesn't look anything like the one she grew up in, the one that was perfectly sane and normal and boring until three months ago. There are worse threats in the woods than the things that stalk their prey at night. Sometimes, there are men. Men with dark desires, weak wills, and evil intents. Men in uniform with classified information, deadly secrets, and unforgiving orders. And sometimes, just sometimes, there's something worse than all of the horrible people and vicious beasts combined. Red doesn't like to think of herself as a killer, but she isn't about to let herself get eaten up just because she is a woman alone in the woods....

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Title: The Porpoise: A Novel

Author: Mark Haddon

Narrator: Tim Mcinnerny

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Release date: June 18, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to escape on a boat bound for the Mediterranean. To his surprise he finds himself travelling backwards over two thousand years to a world of pirates and shipwrecks, of plagues and miracles and angry gods. Moving seamlessly between the past and the present, Haddon conjures the worlds of Angelica and her would-be savior in thrilling fashion. As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a stirring and endlessly inventive novel from one of our finest storytellers.

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Title: Fabulous

Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Narrator: John Hopkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 13, 2019

Genres: Fairy Tales & Folklore

Publisher's Summary:

Not since Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders’ Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been so magically combined.  It's in the nature of myth to be infinitely adaptable. Each of these startlingly original stories is set in modern Britain. Their characters include a people-trafficking gang-master and a prostitute, a migrant worker and a cocksure estate agent, an elderly musician doubly befuddled by dementia and the death of his wife, a pest-controller suspected of paedophilia and a librarian so well-behaved that her parents wonder anxiously whether she’ll ever find love. They’re ordinary people, preoccupied, as we all are now, by the deficiencies of the health service, by criminal gangs and homelessness, by the pitfalls of dating in the age of #metoo. All of their stories, though, are inspired by ones drawn from Graeco-Roman myth, from the Bible or from folk-lore. The ancients invented myths to express what they didn’t understand. These witty fables, elegantly written and full of sharp-eyed observation of modern life, are also visionary explorations of potent mysteries and strange passions, charged with the hallucinatory beauty and horror of their originals.