By: Fyodor Dostoevsky / Narrated By: Simon Vance
Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
How can something be so heartrending yet so hilarious yet so exasperating yet so yet so yet so?!
Notes from the Underground
Leave It to Psmith
Series: Blandings Castle, Book 2
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
Blandings Castle: Book 2… But Psmith: Book 4?!? Gosh, do I now have to get those?
A Christmas Carol
A Signature Performance by Tim Curry
By: Charles Dickens / Narrated By: Tim Curry
Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
Oops… Methinks I watched “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” waaaay too many times.
Till We Have Faces
A Myth Retold
By: C. S. Lewis / Narrated By: Wanda McCaddon (aka Nadia May, Donada Peters)
Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
Beautifully written, exquisitely narrated!
Captain Blood
Don Quixote
By: Miguel de Cervantes / Translated By: Edith Grossman / Narrated By: George Guidall
Length: 39 hrs and 37 mins
Almost 40 hours went by so very fast!
Love
By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
Not sure, but I think I might’ve mightily liked this…?!
Mansfield Park
(Amazon Classics Edition)
By: Jane Austen / Narrated By: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
A “rediscovered” classic that became a favorite now becomes a TREASURE!
Something Fresh
Series: Blandings Castle, Book 1
By: P. G. Wodehouse / Narrated By: Jonathan Cecil
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
So many P.G. Wodehouse series, so little time: Zany, madcap, delightfully silly
Around the World in Eighty Days
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…
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?!?
The Enchanted April
By: Elizabeth von Arnim / Narrated By: Eleanor Bron
Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
What a delightful surprise!
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!
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!
Maurice
The Magician’s Nephew
The Chronicles of Narnia
Series: The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6 (Publication order), Book 1 (Author’s preferred order)
By: C.S. Lewis / Narrated By: Kenneth Branagh
Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
Kenneth Branagh makes this a real treat!