Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major... Read more

Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour,... Read more

Redhead by the Side of the Road

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

“Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up—but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” —NPR

From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.

Micah Mortimer is a creature of... Read more

Mouth to Mouth

By: Antoine Wilson

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 * An NPR and Time Best Book of the Year * Longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize (Canada) * Finalist for CALIBA’s 2022 Golden Poppy Awards

A successful art dealer confesses the story of his meteoric rise in this “powerful, intoxicating, and shocking” (The New York Times) novel that’s a “slow... Read more

Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

Narrated by: Garth Greenwell

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garth Greenwell’s superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work. This bleak, honest novel is about the impossibility of knowing all the complicated truths of a person. Though the novel includes dialogue, Greenwell doesn’t alter his voice as he shifts between characters, a choice that adds to the intensity and power... Read more

A Forty Year Kiss

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"A story that captures the hope, grace, and joy of new love—but also the mistakes, scar tissue, and regret of past love. It's a wonder to behold, a novel capable of such breadth. This is the kind of book that makes me a better human."—Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness From the critically acclaimed author... Read more

The Garden

By: Nick Newman

Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world.

In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not... 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

Tangerine

By: Christine Mangan

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Erin Mallon

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the accident at Bennington, the two friends—once inseparable roommates—haven’t spoken in over a year. But there Lucy was, trying to make things right and return to their old rhythms. Perhaps Alice should be happy. She has not... Read more

Good Eggs

By: Rebecca Hardiman

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Gary Furlong & Siobhan Waring

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Feel-Good Book by The Washington Post

When a home aide arrives to assist a rambunctious family at a crossroads, simmering tensions boil over in this “witty, exuberant debut” (People) that is an “absolute delight from start to finish” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and... Read more

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.

“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more

The Last Ranger

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and act swiftly to discover the truth and stay alive.

“A good story that’s... Read more

A Good Neighborhood

By: Therese Anne Fowler

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented... Read more

Soft Core

By: Brittany Newell

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman’s madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell’s savage, tender Soft Core.

Ruth is lost. She’s living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her master’s degree. When she starts dancing... Read more

Darling Rose Gold

By: Stephanie Wrobel

Narrated by: Megan Dodds & Jill Winternitz

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER

"If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold."—Washington Post

“Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction...”—Lee Child
 
A most anticipated book of 2020 by Newsweek ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Shondaland ∙ PopSugar ∙... Read more

Valentine

By: Elizabeth Wetmore

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Jenna Lamia

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Written with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like this . . .It’s February 1976, and Odessa, Texas,... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible, tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one... Read more

The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco Chronicle

This program is read by the author.

A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle... Read more

Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

Narrated by: Melissa Broder

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!

From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly,... Read more

The Topeka School

By: Ben Lerner

Narrated by: Nancy Linari, Peter Berkrot & Tristan Wright

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the most anticipated fall books by:
Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Vogue, Vulture, The Observer, Kirkus, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Week, Oprah Magazine, The Paris Review Daily, Nylon, Pacific Standard, Publishers Weekly, Slate, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Guardian

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha... Read more

Memorial

By: Bryan Washington

Narrated by: Bryan Washington & Akie Kotabe

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, O, the Oprah Magazine, Esquire, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, Good Housekeeping, Refinery29, Real Simple, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and... Read more

Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyw...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK • A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community

“Both blunt and exquisite . . . O’Connor’s excellent debut . . .  is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s... Read more

Actress

By: Anne Enright

Narrated by: Anne Enright

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her
mother’s hidden truths.

Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career and
bohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career... 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