Lists and Suggestions
List: Celebrity Narrators
The Testament of Mary (read by Meryl Streep)
A provocative imagining of the later years of the mother of Jesus finds her living a solitary existe...
The Things They Carried (read by Bryan Cranston)
O'Brien, Tim
The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mit...
Go Set a Watchman (read by Reese Witherspoon)
Lee, Harper
Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later...
The End of the Affair (read by Colin Firth)
Greene, Graham
In London, just after World War II, a love flourishes between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles. Witho...
Silver: Return to Treasure Island (read by David Tennant)
Motion, Andrew
"In the eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his s...
Sherlock Holmes: The Rediscovered Railway Mysteries (read by Benedict Cumberbatch)
Taylor, John
John Taylor presents a collection of short stories featuring legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes....
Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (read by Matt Damon, Helen Mirren, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, and others)
Mandela, Nelson
Presents 22 tales, chiefly from South Africa and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, as written a...
Brideshead Revisited (read by Jeremy Irons)
Waugh, Evelyn
Waugh's classic and most widely read novel is brought to life by acclaimed actor Jeremy Irons. ...
Chronicles, Vol. 1 (read by Sean Penn)
Dylan, Bob
Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume One explores the critical junctions in his life and career....
Sister, Mother, Husband, Dog, Etc. (read by Meg Ryan)
Ephron, Delia
A collection of nonfiction essays featuring a story about the author's sister, Nora Ephron....

Christine Falls (read by Timothy Dalton)
Black, Benjamin,
In the debut crime novel from the Booker Prize-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corp...
On the Road (read by Matt Dillon)
Kerouac, Jack
"On the Road "chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent ...
Heart of the Matter (read by Cynthia Nixon)
Giffin, Emily
When plastic surgeon Nick Russo takes the case of a six-year-old burn victim, he becomes attracted t...

To Kill a Mockingbird (read by Sissy Spacek)
Lee, Harper
Scout Finch, daughter of the town lawyer Atticus, has just started school; but her carefree days com...
Peter & Max (read by Wil Wheaton)
Willingham, Bill
"When an unspeakable tragedy befalls a family of traveling minstrels, they become stranded and ...
The Return of the Native (read by Alan Rickman)
Hardy, Thomas
A young beauty who feels trapped living in the country with her grandfather plots her escape with a ...
The Odyssey (read by Sir Ian McKellan)
Homer
Homer's best-loved epic, recounting Odysseus's wanderings after the Trojan War. With wit a...
The Gun Seller (read by Hugh Laurie)
Laurie, Hugh
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a bundle to assassinate a...
Slaughterhouse-Five (read by Ethan Hawke)
Vonnegut, Kurt
When an American is captured by German soldiers during World War II, he becomes unstuck in time and ...
Road to Purgatory (read by Stanley Tucci)
Collins, Max Allan
This follow-up to "Road to Perdition" begins in 1942, and young Michael O'Sullivan, t...
Gentlemen of the Road (read by Andre Braugher)
Chabon, Michael
A physician and an ex-soldier travelling through the Caucasus Mountains, circa a.d. 950, meet a prin...
The House of Silk (read by Derek Jacobi)
Horowitz, Anthony
It is 1890. A year after Holmes's death, Watson--now in a retirement home--narrates a tale of S...
Boardwalk Empire (read by Joe Mantegna)
Johnson, Nelson
"Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City was controlled by a powerful partnership of lo...
The Sun Also Rises (read by William Hurt)
Hemingway, Ernest
A story of expatriate Americans and British living in Paris after the First World War....
The Chaperone (read by Elizabeth McGovern)
Moriarty, Laura
A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-ol...
Portobello (read by Tim Curry)
Rendell, Ruth
Fifty-year-old Eugene Wren inherited from his father an art gallery near an arcade that now sells ca...
Life (read by Johnny Depp and Joe Hurley)
Richards, Keith
The lead guitarist for The Rolling Stones recounts his life, from a youth obsessed with Chuck Berry ...
Matterhorn (read by Bronson Pinchot)
Marlantes, Karl
In the monsoon season of 1968-69 at a fire support base called Matterhorn, located in the remote mou...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (read by Stephen Fry)
Adams, Douglas,
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off th...
The Butler: A Witness to History (read by David Oyelowo, Forest Whitaker, and Oprah Winfrey)
Haygood, Wil
When acclaimed Washington Post writer Wil Haygood had an early hunch that Obama would win the 2008 e...