Howard

The Citadel of the Autarch: The Book of the New Sun, Book 4

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Gene Wolfe
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis

The Citadel of the Autarch brings The Book of the New Sun to its harrowing conclusion, as Severian clashes in a final reckoning with the dread Autarch, fulfilling an ancient prophecy that will alter forever the realm known as Urth.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

• UNABRIDGED (27 hrs and 20 mins)
• By John Irving
• Narrated By Joe Barrett

Why we think it’s a great listen: For 20 years, John Irving believed that his ambitious novel could never be adequately executed in audio – and then he met narrator Joe Barrett.... In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys - best friends - are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument.

Skyfall: A Novel of the Skolian Empire

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Catherine Asaro
• Narrated By Suzanne Weintraub, Catherine Asaro

Skyfall goes back to the very roots of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Skolian Empire.

A Tale of Two Cities

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Charles Dickens
• Narrated By Martin Jarvis
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"; "It is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known"; so the novel begins and ends with some of Dicken's best-known words, and between the two is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Cilia-of-Gold

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 17 mins)
• By Stephen Baxter
• Narrated By Amy Bruce

Two apparently unrelated anomalies have disrupted operations at a mining colony on Mercury. A troubleshooting mission sent to investigate encounters peculiar events and even stranger findings.

Genghis: Birth of an Empire

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Conn Iggulden
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

He was born Temujin, son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the steppe. Temujin's young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe, his family left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured, and from then on, he was driven by a fury to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies from beyond the horizon.

The Count of Monte Cristo

• UNABRIDGED (47 hrs)
• By Alexandre Dumas
• Narrated By John Lee
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

Way Station

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Clifford D. Simak
• Narrated By Eric Michael Summerer

In this Hugo Award-winning classic, Enoch Wallace is an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. But what his neighbors must never know is that, inside his unchanging house, he meets with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars.

The January Dancer

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Michael Flynn
• Narrated By Stefan Rudnicki
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized, interstellar human civilization that the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer, pirates take it, rulers crave it, and all will kill, if necessary, to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

Xenocide

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Orson Scott Card
• Narrated By Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, and others
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults.