Literature Audiobooks Under 6 Hours
A Novel
By: Ismail Kadare / Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
An ATROCITY on sooooo many levels…!!!
By: William Trevor / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
ALL Yikes! -and- Good Cow! Basically? Typical William Trevor…
By: Henry James / Narrated By: Penelope Rawlins, Ben Elliot
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
The return of a favorite… yesssss!
By: Gabriel García Márquez / Narrated By: Armando Durán, Roxanne Hernandez, Marcelo Tubert, Thom Rivera
Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
Some of the most Non-Story short stories I’ve encountered
A Novel
By: Daniel Woodrell / Narrated By: Emma Galvin
Length: 4 hrs and 53 mins
Savagery, Poetry, in stark, stark, STARK motion. Just TRY to breathe during this one…!
Series: Jeeves and Wooster, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
I can’t imagine ANYONE other than Jonathan Cecil as the voice of P.G. Wodehouse!!!
By: Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Narrated By: Richard Armitage
Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
Sooo good, even if R. Armitage DID scare me at times…!
A Novel
By: Joseph Walker / Narrated By: Joe Barrett
Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
What’s this? Yet ANOTHER wonderful audiobook for my Christmas-HUZZAHs?!?
By: Barbara Hinske / Narrated By: Piper Goodeve
Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
How lovely! Had me wishing we all were like this, esPECially during Christmas!
By: Christopher Morley / Narrated By: Nadia May
Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
Oh how I loved this little book! Oh what a charmer!
A Novella
By: Kelly Harms / Narrated By: Lauren Fortgang
Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
I stuck this one out, so Huzzah for Meeeeeeee!!!
A Novel
By: Anne Tyler / Narrated By: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
Has the feel of a novel outline rather than a fleshed-out novel
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
By: Sayaka Murata / Translated By: Ginny Tapley Takemori / Narrated By: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
Didn’t feel it so much through the first listen, but really picked up on the humor and depth during the second listen
By: Demetria Martinez / Narrated By: Alyssa Bresnahan
Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
I started out haaating it, but gosh it winds up with a nice punch…!
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?!?
By: John Steinbeck / Narrated By: Gary Sinise
Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
Gary Sinise! What fantastic narration!
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!
Written and Narrated By: Neil Gaiman
Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
A short masterpiece of fantasy and good old-fashioned horror!