While attempting to isolate and eliminate the evil that he believes lurks within him and all men, Dr. Henry Jekyll creates a potion that instead unleashes that evil upon both himself and Victorian London in the murderous personage of Mr. Hyde.  This e-audiobook is a perfect companion for a late-night stroll through the neighborhood as long as you aren’t worried about that guy in the mask coming up behind you. 2h 56m.

A small footbridge in Peru collapses, and five people fall to their deaths. After witnessing the event, Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary, spends six years compiling the stories of the five who died in order to try and prove that their deaths were part of God’s divine intervention rather than mere chance. 3h 33m.

Written by Voltaire in the course of three days, this satirical classic can be listened to in about three and a half hours. Candide struggles to maintain the optimistic philosophy that “all is for the best in this best of all possible worlds” while facing all the horrors the world has to offer before deciding that “we must all cultivate our own garden”. Amazingly relevant today, 261 years after having been published. 3h 40m.

Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow typically wrote long, dense, philosophical novels, which may not lend themselves to being listened to while working out on the elliptical or doing laundry. However, Bellow’s writing style is perfectly distilled in this tight story of fortysomething Tommy Wilhelm, a failed actor, failed husband and failed son who experiences a “day of reckoning.” 3h 47m.

A small gem of a novel about a woman who opens up a bookshop in a small English seaside town that probably doesn’t want one. Midway through her career Fitzgerald turned to historical fiction and produced two short masterpieces, The Gate of Angels and The Blue Flower. 3h 53m.

You may have already read it...so why not listen to it? Fitzgerald’s beautiful prose provides a perfect listening experience, and we currently offers five different readers to choose from. Listen to a sample of each and then choose the narrator you enjoy the most. 4h 44m.

Taking her title from a poem by Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O, Pioneers!” Willa Cather drew on her memory of growing up on the plains of Nebraska to write this story of Alexandra Bergstrom, who inherits her family farm and struggles to make it successful, with little help from her brothers. 5h 23m.

An unreliable narrator, neo-gothic setting and tense atmosphere combine to provide a twisted modern fairy tale about an 18-year old girl and her beloved older sister living in the cloistered aftermath of an unspeakable event. If your tastes run more to straight-up horror, try Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House. 5h 32m.

Spanning the years 1919 to 1965, this is the story of the African-American community of Bottom and the long relationship between Nel and Sula, whose friendship is altered first by tragedy and then by betrayal. A lot is packed into this short novel, which can almost be described as a mini-epic. 5h 46m.

The Lord of the Flies posited that without the rule of law imposed upon them, children would revert to a savage state. Hughes saw children as much more unknowable—interested in order while at the same time adaptable to any situation, utterly amoral and most decidedly NOT simply little adults. 6h 13m.