Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The MANIAC

By: Benjamin Labatut

Narrated by: Gergo Danka & Eva Magyar

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

“Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray... Read more

All's Well

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost?

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting... Read more

How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

By: Anna Montague

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road tripMost days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates. She’s mourning the recent loss of her best friend,... Read more

The Museum of Rain

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: Jeff Daniels

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Oisín Mahoney is an American Army vet in his seventies who is asked to lead a group of young grand-nieces and grand-nephews on a walk through the hills of California’s Central Coast. Walking toward a setting sun, their destination is a place called The Museum of Rain, which may or may not still exist, and whose origin and meaning are elusive to... Read more

The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection

“I am... Read more

Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Matthew Edison

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and... Read more

Our Long Marvelous Dying

By: Anna DeForest

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Palliative-care physician and award-winning author Anna DeForest returns with an ode to life and to death, and the ways we care for ourselves and others on our long, marvelous walk toward the end.

In a pandemic-hushed city, a young doctor lives a life of insecure attachments: to a distant partner in an untended marriage, to a loaner child who... Read more

The Guest Book

By: Sarah Blake

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 16 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Orlagh Cassidy narrates Blake's beautifully written multigenerational story of love and lies with consummate skill. Elegant and clear, distant yet passionate, she helps listeners discover the quirks in characters' personalities and explore their motives, both evident and hidden." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

This program includes... Read more

Mercury Pictures Presents

By: Anthony Marra

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction • The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“A... Read more

State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston GlobeFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and... Read more

The Liar's Dictionary

By: Eley Williams

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Jon Glover

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review

An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the... Read more

Utopia Avenue

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 25 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post
 
“A... Read more

The Age of Light

By: Whitney Scharer

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Best Books of the Year: Parade, Glamour, Real Simple, Refinery29, Yahoo! Lifestyle. "A startlingly modern love story and a mesmerizing portrait of a woman's self-transformation from muse to artist." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris... Read more

Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

Narrated by: Dani Shapiro

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings)

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.

A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book... Read more

Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“There... Read more

The World That We Knew

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Audio bonus! The audio download edition includes an exclusive interview with Alice Hoffman and Judith Light!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL

On the brink of World War II, with the Nazis tightening their grip on Berlin, a mother’s act of courage and love offers her daughter a chance of survival.

“[A] hymn to... Read more

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jimenez

Narrated by: Claire Jimenez

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.

Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction · Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary... Read more

What Could Be Saved

By: Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When a mysterious man claims to be her long-missing brother, a woman must confront her family’s closely guarded secrets in this “delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance” (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Beatrice as their elegant,... Read more

The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

Narrated by: Samantha Tan

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION 2024 FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

In this “espionage-laden family epic” (Vanity Fair), an ordinary housewife becomes an unlikely spy—and her dark secrets will test even the most unbreakable ties.

Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger:... Read more

Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize!

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together,... Read more

Enter the Aardvark

By: Jessica Anthony

Narrated by: Matt Amendt

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire).

It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine... Read more

Little Faith

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year... Read more

Sister Snake

By: Amanda Lee Koe

Narrated by: Zoë Chao

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secretSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim... Read more

We Run the Tides

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoTeenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and... Read more