Written and Narrated By: Alice Walker
Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
Sometimes Walker’s narration is stilted and unemotional, but all in all: Gosh, I love this book!
The Color Purple, Book 1
The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide / Narrated By: David Shih
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Abrupt ending doesn’t mar the elegance and sensitivity of this story
Ginger Pye
Around the World in Eighty Days
Sounder
Dimension of Miracles
By: Robert Sheckley / Narrated By: John Hodgman
Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
Sometimes it drags, but there’s plenty of humor and even deep philosophical musings to be had throughout
All Quiet on the Western Front
By: Erich Maria Remarque / Narrated By: Frank Muller
Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
Exquisitely written with heartfelt narration. Absolutely devastating…
Carrie
By: Stephen King / Narrated By: Sissy Spacek
Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
Seen the movie? Read the book? ForGET all that, and listen to this!
Rosemary's Baby
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Carmilla
By: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu / Narrated By: Phoebe Fox, Rose Leslie, David Tennant, David Horovitch, James Wilby, Susan Wooldridge, Hannah Genesius
Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
Holy cow! Like nobody’s ever heard of “boundaries” before?!?
Animal Farm
By: George Orwell / Narrated By: Ralph Cosham
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Soooo harrowing it made my heart and soul hurt…!
Collected Fictions
By: Jorge Luis Borges / Translated By: Andrew Hurley / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
CERTAINLY it’s the translation! It CAN’T be that Borges is full of himself?!?
Of Mice and Men
By: John Steinbeck / Narrated By: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Gary Sinise! What fantastic narration!
The Martian Chronicles
By: Ray Bradbury / Narrated By: Mark Boyett
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
I bow low, touching my forehead to the earth; all in homage to the great Ray Bradbury!
Beowulf
A New Verse Translation
Translated By: Seamus Heaney / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
And here’s something else I missed in high school!
Heart of Darkness
A Signature Performance by Kenneth Branagh
By: Joseph Conrad / Narrated By: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
Creepy story; BRILLIANT narration!
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde / Narrated By: Michael Page
Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
So here I am, 30 some odd years outta High School, finally getting around to this book…
Macbeth
(Dramatized)
By: William Shakespeare / Narrated By: Alan Cumming
Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
Don’t sue me, but seriously: I never read Macbeth before!