Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Beren and Lúthien

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Timothy West & Samuel West

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Presented for the first time on audio, the epic tale of Beren and Lúthien will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves, Men and Orcs and the rich landscape unique to Tolkien’s Middle-earth in this unabridged recording read by critically acclaimed father and son, Timothy and Samuel West. ... Read more

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features original sound design.

"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal

"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

Narrated by: Tui Asau, G.K. Bowes, Kaleo Griffith & Jolene Kim

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean.... Read more

A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Roxana Ortega

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune).

One of the New... Read more

The Trespasser

By: Tana French

Narrated by: Hilda Fay

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past... Read more

Hild

By: Nicola Griffith

Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt

Length: 23 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Nicola Griffith's brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild.

In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods are struggling, their priests worrying. Hild is the king's youngest... Read more

Frankenstein in Baghdad

By: Ahmed Saadawi

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Kaleo Griffith

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

International Booker Prize finalist

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction

“Brave and ingenious.” —The New York Times

“Gripping, darkly humorous . . . profound.” —Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

“Extraordinary . . . A devastating but essential read.” —Kevin Powers, bestselling author and... Read more

Familiaris (Oprah's Book Club)

By: David Wroblewski

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 37 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Oprah’s Book Club Pick for Summer 2024“An extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship, and living your life’s true purpose.”—Oprah WinfreyThe follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris... Read more

Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

Narrated by: Nadia Albina

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

After years away from her family’s homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir returns to Haifa to visit her older sister Haneen. This is her first trip back since the second intifada and the deaths of their grandparents: while Haneen made a life here commuting to
Tel Aviv to teach at the university, Sonia remained... Read more

The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a... Read more

Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers. Now featuring bonus content!

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her.... Read more

The Snow Child

By: Eowyn Ivey

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling... Read more

Salvage the Bones

By: Jesmyn Ward

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, read by January LaVoy.

Winner of the National Book Award
A New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century
An Atlantic Great American Novel of the Last 100 Years

"A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her reader’s... Read more

Vanishing World

By: Sayaka Murata

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.

Sayaka Murata has proven herself to be one of the most exciting chroniclers of... Read more

The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

By: C.L. Miller

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

One of NPR’s 2024 Books We Love

In this “irresistible, immersive, and completely unputdownable” (Ellery Lloyd, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her in the high-stakes world of tracking stolen artifacts.

What antique would you kill for?

... Read more

In the Time of the Butterflies

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Noemi De La Puente, Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho...

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain... Read more

The Drowned

By: John Banville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Amazon Editors' Pick: Best Literature and Fiction books of October

From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmospheric new mystery about a woman’s sudden disappearance in a small coastal town in Ireland, where nothing is as it seems.

"John Banville is one of my favorite writers alive, and I... Read more

Several People Are Typing: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Calvin Kasulke

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Neil Shah, Dani Martineck, Sop...

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. • "An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
 
Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and... Read more

Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Joe Morton & Roxane Gay

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

James Baldwin's haunting coming-of-age story, with a new introduction by Roxane Gay.

Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and... Read more

Writers & Lovers

By: Lily King

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

#ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayEmma Roberts Belletrist Book Club PickA New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection“I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph… The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life.” —Curtis Sittenfeld... Read more

The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a hit Netflix miniseries directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy HuttonPast the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits.Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called... Read more

The Winners

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown with this “engrossing page-turner” (Woman’s World) about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove.

Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change.

Two years have passed since the... Read more

Let's Call Her Barbie

By: Renée Rosen

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fresh and fun take on Barbie lore…clever and satisfying.” – Shelby Van Pelt, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures


She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.

When Ruth Handler walks into the boardroom... Read more

The Bear and the Nightingale

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
 
“A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted

Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian... Read more