Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Man Called Ove

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: J. K. Simmons

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks!

#1 New York Times bestseller—more than 3 million copies sold!

Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the... Read more

Acceptance

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick, Bronson Pinchot & Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this climactic volume of the Southern Reach series, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying. This 10th Anniversary Edition of Acceptance features a new introduction by award-winning author Helen Macdonald.It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the... Read more

Before We Were Yours

By: Lisa Wingate

Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller

“Poignant, engrossing.”—People • “Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation’s history and weaves a tale of enduring power.”—Paula McLain

Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four... Read more

Munichs

By: David Peace

Narrated by: Christopher Eccleston

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1958, Manchester United was flying high: the best-known soccer team in the world and reigning English champions, the team was led by a bright young group of star players nicknamed the "Busby Babes" after their charismatic manager Matt Busby. But on a snowy afternoon that February, a plane carrying the team back from a European Cup match... Read more

Middlemarch, with eBook

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Middlemarch is a recognized masterpiece that explores the complex social world of nineteenth-century England. It is concerned with the lives of several ordinary people, albeit ones with high social standing.

The novel is set in the small town of Middlemarch and follows the interrelated lives of several characters. At the heart of the book is... Read more

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

By: Betty Smith

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickThe beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century.From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for growing up in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn, New York demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit.... Read more

The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't... Read more

House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus

Narrated by: Andre Dubus & Fontaine Dollas Dubus

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting novel of almost unbearable suspense, three fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Colonel Behrani, once a wealthy man in Iran, is now a struggling immigrant willing to bet everything he has to restore his family's dignity. Kathy Nicolo is a troubled young woman whose... Read more

Bear

By: Julia Phillips

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week).

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ... Read more

The Silence

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Bobb, Marin Ireland, Ro...

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award–winning author of Underworld, a “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics... Read more

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man... Read more

Civilizations

By: Laurent Binet

Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Freydis is the leader of a band of Viking warriors who get as far as Panama. Nobody knows what became of them . . .



Five hundred years later, Christopher Columbus is sailing for the Americas, dreaming of gold and conquest. Even after he is captured by the Taínos, his faith in his superiority and his mission is unshaken.



Thirty-nine years after... Read more

The Marriage Plot

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book of 2011
A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title
One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011
A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 title
One of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011

It's the early 1980s—the country is in a deep recession, and life after college is... Read more

Noopiming

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of... Read more

One Two Three

By: Laurie Frankel

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." -- Booklist (starred review)

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It... Read more

Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“Like A.S. Byatt’s Possession, Enlightenment is a baroque, genre-bending novel of ideas, ghosts and hidden histories. A richly layered epic....a heartfelt paean to the consolations of the sublime, where religion and science meet."" -- Telegraph""Read it, then read it again. This is a book full of unexpected... Read more

The Great Fire

By: Shirley Hazzard

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their... Read more

The Melancholy of Untold History

By: Minsoo Kang

Narrated by: Keong Sim

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope like Anthony Doerr’s Cloud Cuckoo Land, and lyrically exciting like David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, interweaving four complex yet entertaining stories as... Read more

Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky & Rachel Kenney

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A breath of fresh air."—BookPage

"Both narrators bring deep emotional tonality...this exceptional listen will foster deep book club discussions." —Booklist

"Alternately gripping, moving, and thought-provoking...this is an audiobook to savor." - AudioFile

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned... Read more

The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In... Read more

What We Fed to the Manticore

By: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Narrated by: Neil Shah & Nikki Massoud

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.Through nine emotionally vivid stories, all narrated from animal perspectives, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri’s debut collection... Read more

The Mosquito Coast

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+. This riveting tale from critically acclaimed author Paul Theroux inspired a powerful motion picture and is considered a modern masterpiece. Allie Fox is a brilliant inventor. He's also a deeply paranoid man who is disenchanted with American materialism and conformity.Abandoning his old life, he... Read more

Other People We Married

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Barrie Kreinik & Marin Ireland

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved story collection from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Vacationers, All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow

In Other People We Married, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In “Some People... Read more

The Princes of Ireland

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 26 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of London and Sarum, a magnificent epic about love and battle, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of eleven centuries.  The Princes of Ireland brilliantly weaves impeccable historical research and mesmerizing storytelling in capturing the essence of a place and its people.
 
Edward Rutherfurd... Read more