Subscription-based e-book lending service Scribd is now offering audiobooks, the company announced Thursday. Scribd is one of three top contenders -- alongside Oyster and Amazon's Kindle Unlimited -- in the race to become the leading Netflix-for-books provider.

Scribd has added 30,000 audiobooks to its 500,000 e-books, accessible with an $8.99 monthly charge.

The audiobooks are across the genre spectrum. There are literary options such as "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolao, "No Country for Old Men" by Cormac McCarthy and "Hardboiled Wonderland" by Haruki Murakami alongside the bestselling YA trilogy "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.

There are full cast recordings of Shakespeare and classic radio dramas as well as self-help books like "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. And children's books read by celebrities include "Who's in Rabbit's House" read by James Earl Jones, "Chrysanthemum" read by Meryl Streep, "Owen" read by Sarah Jessica Parker and "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" read by Paul Giamatti.

Popular audiobook narrators Jim Dale, Simon Vance and Katherine Kellgren are also in the mix.

The audiobooks will be available on all platforms; many are running now, but iOS users aren't expected to be up and running until next week.

Amazon, which owns leading audiobook company Audible, has not opened those floodgates to its Kindle Unlimited users. Instead, it has only about 2,000 audiobooks on offer via its version of Netflix-for-books.

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Scribd's "Netflix for books" service has added Unlimited Audiobooks to its $8.99 per month plan.

Subscription ebook service Scribd is broadening its horizons to audiobooks.

The company has added 30,000 audiobooks to its library, making it the largest unlimited ebook and audiobook subscription service around. The audiobook library includes new releases and bestsellers like The Dropby Dennis Lehane,How to Build a Girlby Caitlin Moran,Bad Feministby Roxane Gay,The Hard Thing About Hard Thingsby Ben Horowitz,The Hunger Games Trilogy, andDivergent.

The best part is that you won't have to pay extra to listen to the audiobooks. They're now included as part of Scribd's existing $8.99 per month subscription.

"We've always envisioned Scribd as a home for the best writing and storytelling in the world," Scribd co-founder and CEO Trip Adler said in a statement. "This has been one of our most popular requests and we're excited to reach book lovers wherever they are and however they choose to read or listen."

The library also includes children's classics read by actors (Chrysanthemum read by Meryl Streep, Owen read by Sarah Jessica Parker), self-improvement titles (The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, Daring Greatly by Brene Brown, The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton), and novels that inspired blockbuster films (Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick, Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale).

Listeners can browse special audio collections arranged by length, narrator, and subject including "Shakespearean Actors Reading Shakespeare," "Roadtrip Listening: SF to LA," and "What to Listen to on the Way to a Job Interview."

The audiobooks will first be available to subscribers on Android, Kindle Fire, Nook tablets, and the Web. They'll reach iOS users in the coming days.

"Thecommuters around the office are beside themselves," Scribd wrote in a blog post. "Actually, we're all beside ourselves.And we hope you are, too."

For more, check out the slideshow above for some tech-related books you should add to your reading list. And see PCMag's review of the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" and Amazon Kindle Fire HDX 7" .

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- Henry Holt and Company has inked a deal to buy Time magazine editor-at-large Catherine Mayers new biography of longtime heir-apparent Charles, Prince of Wales. Mayer spent a year doing research forBorn to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor, spending time with friends of Charles, palace insiders and the royal himself. The book will be slightly pared down fromthe U.K./international edition from WH Allen.Born to Be Kingreveals Prince Charles in all his complexity, according to Holt, giving fresh and fascinating insights into the first marriage that did so much to define himwith Princess Diana,who died in a car accident in 1997, as well as his current wife, Duchess Camilla. The biography is set to be published in February 2015. [Publishers Weekly]

- Helen Macdonald has won BritainsSamuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction with her autobiographicalH Is for Hawk,a book unlike any other, in the words of the judges.Hawk, the first memoir to ever win the 20,000 prize,is about how the poet and historians passion for the bird of prey helped her grieve herfathers death.The book at heart is a love letter also to nature and the world around us, said Macdonald.I ended up feeling like I was more like a hawk than a person. It really made me think very deeply about life and death. This was also anotableyear for the prizebecauseit marked the first time that the shortlist includedmore women than menthree out of five. [BBC News]

- Ebook library and streaming subscription service Scribd announced via press release today that it will enhanceits catalog of over half a million titleswith a whopping 30,000 new audiobooks.Theaudio additionswill include popular releases old and new fromScholastic, HarperCollins, and Blackstone and Naxos by authors like Cormac McCarthy, Eckhart Tolle, Haruki Murakami and Suzanne Collins. This has been one of our most popular requests and were excited to reach book lovers wherever they are and however they choose to read or listen,said co-founder and CEO Trip Adler. [GalleyCat]

-New York TimesjournalistStephanie Clifford inked a seven figure deal with St. Martins Press for her debut novelEverybody Rise. Though the book isnt due to hit shelves until 2016, it is already being adapted to the screen by Fox 2000 and producer Karen Rosenfelt (The Devil Wears Prada, Twilight). The novel,set inthe viperous social worldof a young woman in2006 Manhattan, was described bySMP Executive Editor Charles Spicer as Edith Wharton meets The Bonfire of the Vanities for the 21st century. [New York Daily News].

- Bestselling novelistDanielle Steel is continuing her prolific career with a new 10-book deal with Ballantine Bantam Dell, a Penguin Random House imprint. With 650 million of her92 titles in print around the worldevery single one a bestsellerSteel is the top sellingauthor alive. BBD is already set to put out four Steel novels next year. [Publishers Weekly]

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What: "Ghost Sonata"

When: Through Nov. 23

Where: Nimbus Theatre, 1517 Central Ave. N.E., Minneapolis

Tickets: $15-$10, nimbustheatre.com

August Strindberg's 100-year-old play, "Ghost Sonata," has been performed thousands of times -- but it's never been done quite the way Nimbus Theatre is doing it: with a live musical score by Stillwater native Charlie McCarron.

It's the first theater music for McCarron, 28, who has a degree in music composition from St. John's/St. Ben's. Having done a fair amount of composing for film and video projects, he got the "Ghost Sonata" gig when another composer, who couldn't do it, suggested him.

"I composed the bulk of it in a week. Kinda crazy," McCarron says. "I had to get it finished before I went on a weeklong road trip with a couple friends."

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Much of the music McCarron composed plays between scenes but there's also something unusual for a play, although common for a movie: underscoring. McCarron discovered it's a little trickier to do it with live musicians (a piano, a clarinet and a cello) than on recorded film.

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