Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Guest

By: Emma Cline

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
 
“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully... Read more

Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more

Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ""a hell of a debut""

""Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book."" —Louise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is... Read more

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By: Marianne Cronin

Narrated by: Sheila Reid & Rebecca Benson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life’s obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot are fine companions for all our springtime... Read more

The Butterfly Lampshade

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world

On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight... Read more

Sweetgirl

By: Travis Mulhauser

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.As... Read more

Annihilation

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award–winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson). This 10th... Read more

The Old Woman with the Knife

By: Gu Byeong-mo

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Editors' Choice* Pick
*A Most Anticipated Read in LitHub, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and Popsugar*

The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career—this is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean author 

At... Read more

Where the Forest Meets the Stars

By: Glendy Vanderah

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist.In this gorgeously stunning debut, a mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again.After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in... Read more

On Beauty

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 18 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth

"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews

Having hit bestseller lists from the New York... Read more

Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

Narrated by: Prasanna Puwanarajah

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, “an engrossing tale of one man’s personal odyssey as he grows up, framed in exquisite language” (The New York Times Book Review)

“The finest novel yet from one of the great writers of our time.”—The Guardian

A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Did I have a... Read more

Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking the arrival of a major fiction talent.

The world is not made for mothers.
Yet mothers made the world…

Clove has gone to extremes to... Read more

Hester

By: Laurie Lico Albanese

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"This well-written, well-researched, and masterfully performed novel provides satisfying listening."- AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials.

Who is the... Read more

People of the Book

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Edwina Wren

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book.From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war

In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been... Read more

A Talent for Murder

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Stephen Graybill, Saskia Maarleve...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders. Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with... Read more

Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

Narrated by: Will Watt

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine Call Me By Your Name set in Communist Poland and you'll get a sense of Jedrowski's moving debut about a consuming love affair amidst a country being torn apart.”  — O Magazine, LGBTQ Books That’ll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020“Captivating both for its shimmering surfaces and its terrifying depths. Tomasz Jedrowski is a... Read more

Unlikely Animals

By: Annie Hartnett

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“This tragicomic novel is heartfelt, touching, and delightfully quirky. You’ll fall in love with the offbeat cast of characters (both living and dead) and find yourself rooting for them right through the last page.”—Good Housekeeping (Book Club pick)

A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in... Read more

All the Broken Places

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Helen Lloyd

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can’t prepare yourself for the magnitude and emotional impact of this powerful novel.” —John Irving, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The World According to Garp

“Exceptional, layered and compelling…This book moves like a freight train.” —Amy Bloom, New York Times bestselling author of In Love

From the New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Dallergut Dream Department Store

By: Miye Lee

Narrated by: Shannon Tyo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD

For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.

What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you buy? And who might you become when you wake up?

In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious... Read more

Fourteen Days

By: The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood & Douglas Pr...

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and... Read more

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat & Cassandra Morris

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting New York Times and international bestseller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

Renée Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her... Read more

Held

By: Anne Michaels

Narrated by: Anne Michaels

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate

1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a... Read more

This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest contemporary novelists.Over seven decades, from 1940 to 2010, the pieds-noirs Cassars live in an itinerant state—separated in the chaos of World War II, running from a complicated colonial homeland, and, after Algerian independence, without a... Read more

The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus, Jeremy Bobb, ...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social... Read more