Arts & Entertainment Top 100 Best Selling Audio Books

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town.

We loved this dramatized reading of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King". The performances were way over the top as the play demands and the translation was very easy to follow.

"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last 15 years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Caedmon is proud to release this archival full-cast recording of Tennessee Williams's "A Streetcar Named Desire" on audio for the first time.

The tragic romance of Verona's two too-young star-crossed lovers, loving each other in spite of their parents' spite, told in beautiful imagery and poetry.

Once, she felt lucky to be part of the Jackson clan. A former teenage runaway who had barely survived...

This final play from the pen of Oscar Wilde is a stylish send-up of Victorian courtship and manners, complete with assumed names, mistaken lovers, and a lost handbag.

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece.

In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

Seduced by the promises of witches and spurred by his wife, Macbeth lives by the law of ambition alone. Experience this haunting study of power that traces the rise and fall of an ambitious man.

Shakespeare's legendary tragedy is revisited in this spirited and entertaining production that ran in London from November 2007 to February 2008.

The lives and music of the great composers of classical music unfold in this entertaining account, introduced by the conductor and musical personality Marin Alsop....

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

The Grammy(-nominated, bestselling classic returns, just in time for the holiday season.

Simultaneously releasing with the 80th anniversary paperback edition, Hemingway's first great novel makes its regal debut in an all-new, unabridged recording.

The skies over ancient Rome blaze with terrifying portents, and soothsayers warn Julius Caesar, a brilliant politician at the height of his power and popularity, of approaching doom.

In this comedy, a rich Paduan gentleman refuses to marry off his younger daughter until a husband is found for her insufferable older sister, Kate.

Pygmalion remains one of the most popular stories, but mainly in the medium of the musical; the evergreen My Fair Lady....

This anniversary release features highlights from 25 years on the air, including favorite monologues like "Truckstop," "Gospel Birds" and "Pontoon Boat," plus brand-new stories never before available on audio.

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...

This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...

In Julius Caesar, there are no heroes, only heroic words spoken by men of ambition, arrogance, and jealousy.

This dazzling journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture explores the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. Alain de Botton argues that our environment heavily influences who we can be.

Writers once dreamed of writing novels. Now screenplays top the dream list. Hear two top teachers explain the sometimes ungentle art of writing salable movie and television scripts.