Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By: Dai Sijie

Narrated by: B.D. Wong

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of... Read more

The Woman on the Orient Express

By: Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey.Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling’s first marriage ended... Read more

The Drop

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James... Read more

Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine.

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you're so blackout drunk you... Read more

Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 62 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered to be French novelist Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables, which was published in 1862, is a sprawling historical and philosophical epic that covers from 1815 through the Paris Uprising in 1832. Notable for its many subplots and digressions from the main storyline, the novel's stated aim is a progress from evil to good, from... Read more

Northern Spy

By: Flynn Berry

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Reese’s Book Club Pick
Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Thriller of 2021
A Washington Post Top 10 Thriller or Mystery of 2021
 
“If you love a mystery, then you’ll devour [Northern Spy] . . . I loved this thrill ride of a book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A chilling, gorgeously written tale . . . Berry keeps the... Read more

The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill & Kit Griffiths

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.

“Fantastically gripping…this is fiction roaring on all cylinders.” —The Guardian
“A work of peculiar gonzo genius…Thomas takes a glamorous... Read more

The Gold Bug Variations

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan & Andrew Garman

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller, voted by Time as the #1 novel of 1991, selected as one of the "Best Books of 1991" by Publishers Weekly, and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award--a magnificent story that probes the meaning of love, science, music, and art, by the brilliant author of Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance. Stuart Ressler, an... Read more

To Be a Man

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Nicole Krauss

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the YearTime Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 Financial Times' Best Books of 2020Esquire's Best Books of 2020New York Times Editors' Choice
Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020Library Journal's Best... Read more

The White Book

By: Han Kang

Narrated by: Jennifer Kim

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of... Read more

The Peach Keeper

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to... Read more

Dominoes

By: Phoebe McIntosh

Narrated by: Phoebe McIntosh

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discovery in the days leading up to her wedding that her fiancé’s family may have enslaved her ancestors

“Simultaneously sweet and sobering, this is one you will not want to miss.”—Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, Maybe

Dominoes opens in London,... Read more

Sister Outsider

By: Audre Lorde

Narrated by: Robin Eller

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action... Read more

Alchemy of a Blackbird

By: Claire McMillan

Narrated by: Aida Reluzco, Zac Aleman, Raquel Beattie, Carlo...

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot

For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a “beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship” (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and tarot devotees Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington.

In this “unforgettable adventure, and... Read more

Sabbath’s Theater

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: John Turturro

Length: 18 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book AwardThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral delivers his “richest, most rewarding novel” (New York Times Book Review), about Micky Sabbath, a scandalous hero who embarks on a turbulent journey into his past.Once an inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and... Read more

Red at the Bone

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Pet...

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by LitHub and The Millions.

Called one of the Top 10 Literary Fiction titles of Fall by Publishers Weekly.

An extraordinary new novel about the influence of history on a contemporary family, from the New York Times-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of Another Brooklyn and Brown Girl... Read more

Handle with Care

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris, Charlotte Perry, Alma Cuervo,...

Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King).

Every expectant parent insists the same thing: they... Read more

Belladonna

By: Anbara Salam

Narrated by: Jill Winternitz

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A hypnotizing coming-of-age novel set in 1950s Italy that stares into the heart of longing and at the friendships that have the power to save and destroy us.

"I was utterly captivated, from first page to last." --Anton DiSclafani, New York Times bestselling author of The After Party

Isabella is beautiful, inscrutable, and popular. Her best friend,... Read more

Brooklyn

By: Colm Tóibín

Narrated by: Melania Cruz

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

«Libro del año» según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un poder emocional sobrecogedor Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde. Como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en su pequeño pueblo del sur de... Read more

The Leftovers

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Roel Fooij

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

DE BESTSELLER VAN DE POPULAIRE HBO©-SERIEHet is 14 oktober, de dag van het Plotse Vertrek in Mapleton waarbij uit het niets 140 miljoen mensen verdwenen. Hoe bouw je je leven weer op nadat je familieleden, buren en vrienden er ineens niet meer zijn? De burgemeester van Mapleton, Kevin Garvey, probeert zijn getraumatiseerde dorpsbewoners er weer... Read more

The Auburn Conference

By: Tom Piazza

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1883, and America is at a crossroads. At a tiny college in upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist Forrest Taylor, and romance novelist Lucy Comstock to participate in the first (and last) Auburn... Read more

A Cigarette Lit Backwards

By: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Narrated by: Tea Hacic-Vlahovic

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the punk-rock scene of the early 2000s and vibrating with the intense ache of bad choices and deep longing, a needle-sharp portrait of a young woman and how far she’ll go to find acceptance

Kat is dying to be accepted by the North Carolina punks; she is totally desperate to seem cool. At a punk show, she ends up backstage with a rock star... Read more

Flashman and the Tiger

By: George MacDonald Fraser

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The inimitable and appallingly appealing Flashy is back, in a long-awaited new installment of The Flashman Papers.

When the memoirs of Sir Harry Flashman, the notorious Victorian soldier and scoundrel, first came to light thirty years ago, it was finally revealed what had become of the infamous bully who had darkened Tom Brown's school days. Now,... Read more

The Giving Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts novels are as lovingly crafted and heartwarming as the homemade quilts featured prominently in each story. The milestone 20th entry in this charming series, The Giving Quiltchronicles the week af-ter Thanksgiving- Quiltsgiving- as residents of Elm Creek Manor find creative ways to answer the question, ''Why... Read more