Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Grapes of Wrath

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 21 hours

Abridged: No

John Steinbeck's powerful evocation of the suffering and hardship caused by the Great Depression, and a panoramic vision of the struggle for the American Dream, The Grapes of Wrath includes a critical introduction by Robert DeMott in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.'... Read more

The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more

Florida

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Lauren Groff

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds

In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more

A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before... Read more

The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick

For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the... Read more

Vladimir

By: Julia May Jonas

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York Times * “Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny.” —People (Book of the Week) * One of Shondaland’s 13 Best College-Set... Read more

The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

Narrated by: Lara Sawalha

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly... Read more

My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.

“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter... 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

The Blueprint

By: Rae Giana Rashad

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I’ve never read before. A remarkable new talent, and a... Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

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

Dear Edward

By: Ann Napolitano

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker” (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Hello Beautiful.

Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring... Read more

A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the... Read more

The Wind Knows My Name

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Maria Liatis

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta

“Timely, provocative . . . emotionally satisfying . . . [a... Read more

The Exiles

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever... Read more

A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New... Read more

Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet... Read more

Small Great Things

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell & Ari Fliakos

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning page-turner with richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America... Read more

Nineteen Minutes

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.

Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie... Read more

Beneath a Scarlet Sky

By: Mark Sullivan

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the true story of a forgotten hero, the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestseller Beneath a Scarlet Sky is the triumphant, epic tale of one young man’s incredible courage and resilience during one of history’s darkest hours.Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music,... Read more

Libby Lost and Found

By: Stephanie Booth

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-bestselling fantasy series the Falling Children—written as “F. T. Goldhero” to maintain her privacy. With the final manuscript months overdue to her publisher and rabid fans around the world growing impatient, Libby is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Already suffering from crippling anxiety, Libby’s... Read more

Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies... Read more

The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Gary Farmer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the... Read more

To Paradise

By: Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Catherine Ho, BD Wong, Feodo...

Length: 28 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS

To Paradise is a... Read more