Authors Reading Audio Books

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, "The Kite Runner" is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

An unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another planet.

An adventure tale in its purest form. A thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island.

Fahrenheit 451 is set in a grim alternate-future setting ruled by a tyrannical government in which firemen as we understand them no longer exist: Here, firemen don't douse fires, they ignite them.

These new poems are powerful, distinctive and as always, full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering.

The sights, smells and sounds of a long-ago Christmas come to life in Dylan Thomas's reading...

A rare and thrilling listening experience. A choice gathering of some of the twentieth century's greatest poetry... read by the century's greatest poets.

More fantasy than science fiction, the stories create a rich allegory of the tragic moral blindness of mankind.

In this beautiful exploration of her life in 1960s Africa, Maya Angelou reaffirms her stature as one of the most gifted authors of our time....

Ray Bradbury's more than 500 short stories have established him as one of this century's most popular and imaginative storytellers...