Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Freedom Is a Feast

By: Alejandro Puyana

Narrated by: Luis Selgas, Blas Kisic, Graciela Valderrama & ...

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A Finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature

A multigenerational, Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life: “a tour de force” from “the new master” (Luis Alberto Urrea, New York Times bestselling author of Good Night, Irene).

In 1964,... Read more

The Modern Fairies

By: Clare Pollard

Narrated by: Kathryn Drysdale

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Artfully composed…keenly alive…this memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives.” —The New York Times

Lauren Groff’s Matrix meets Ophelia Field’s The Favourite in this wry and “bawdy” (Los Angeles Times) historical novel—inspired by true events—featuring an elite group of Paris... Read more

The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

Narrated by: Kevin Barry

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK: THE LA TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE! • Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.

"A wedding of Cormac McCarthy with Flann O’Brien; a western but also the most Irish of novels; a tragedy written as farce . . .... Read more

The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Read with Jenna Bonus Pick A Little Hope, an uplifting and emotionally resonant novel set in a Delaware beach town about a local restaurant owner at a turning point.

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant and Jack has been at the helm since the death of his father. Jack puts the demands... Read more

Bright and Tender Dark

By: Joanna Pearson

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson, read by Mara Wilson.

For readers of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a wire-taut literary debut about a murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.

“Bright and Tender Dark . . . will sweep you away.” —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing... Read more

A Good Life

By: Virginie Grimaldi

Narrated by: Liz Fodor

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Lovers of Europa Editions' other titles My Brilliant Friend and Fresh Water for Flowers will fall hard for this beautiful, heartbreaking, and healing story. Grab a box of tissues!" — Electric LitFull of humor and compassion, this Indie Next Pick is a profound exploration of sisterhood, healing, and the ineffable beauty of life.Sisters Emma and... Read more

skin & bones

By: Renée Watson

Narrated by: Zenzi Williams

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next
 
At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away,... Read more

Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A “dryly witty” (The New Yorker) and “fabulously revealing” (The New York Times Book Review) debut that follows two sisters-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world on the verge of calamity—a Seinfeldian novel for readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney.

It’s March of 2019, and twenty-eight-year-old Jules Gold—anxious,... Read more

The Tree Doctor

By: Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Narrated by: June Angela

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her... Read more

The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand

Narrated by: James Meunier

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"I loved it!”—Shelby Van Pelt, New York Times bestselling author of Remarkably Bright Creatures 

“An essential, profound read.” —The Washington Post

The right guy, the right place, the wrong time.

It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it all: a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world... Read more

The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min

Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Indie Next Pick

In this hilariously savage, poignant novel by acclaimed author Katherine Min, a grieving daughter’s revenge on the man who caused her mother’s death sets off a series of unexpected reckonings.

On a cold, gloomy night, twenty-three-year-old Kyoko stands in the rain with a knife in her hoodie’s pocket. Her target is Daniel, who... Read more

We Have Always Been Who We Are

By: Sofia T. Romero

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Inés del Castillo & Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From Pushcart Prize–nominated author Sofia T. Romero comes a breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism.In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels... Read more

The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An indelible tale of life, love, death, and Chopin—from the Novel Prize–winning author of Disgrace.

Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential—and provocative—authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want... Read more

Sun Damage

By: Sabine Durrant

Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of the works of Patricia Highsmith and Lucy Foley, a compulsive psychological thriller—“the perfect poolside reading” (Guardian)—involving gorgeous grifters on the loose in the south of France who prey on a group of unsuspecting vacationers . . . and each other.The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. And there is no escape.In... Read more

The Peach Seed

By: Anita Gail Jones

Narrated by: Anita Gail Jones

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal... Read more

Return to Valetto

By: Dominic Smith

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Edoardo Ballerini’s adroit narration conveys the subtle changes in
the family, set against the splendor of Valetto’s changing landscape."- Bookpage

From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith’s Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from... Read more

At the Edge of the Woods

By: Kathryn Bromwich

Narrated by: Gemma Dawson

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathryn Bromwich's masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.



Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the forest, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals.... Read more

Paper Names

By: Susie Luo

Narrated by: Austin Ku

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Publishers Lunch Buzz Book*

An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer in this propulsive and sweeping story of family, identity and the American experience—for fans of Jean Kwok, Mary Beth Keane and Naima Coster.

Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it... Read more

The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz & Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —People

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.

Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of... Read more

Adelaide

By: Genevieve Wheeler

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautifully-written, deeply felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved.”–– Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We Lost

In love . . .

For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the blue: this charming Englishman was... Read more

The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great DepressionHurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal... Read more

American Mermaid

By: Julia Langbein

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR • "Sublime." —New York Times Book Review

"Brilliantly sharp, funny, and thought-provoking, the gripping story of a woman trying to find her way in our chaotic world." —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe

Broke English teacher Penelope Schleeman is as surprised as anyone when her feminist, eco-warrior... 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

The Farewell Tour

By: Stephanie Clifford

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

AUDIOBOOK FEATURES EXCERPTS FROM FOUR ORIGINAL SONGS WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY THE AUTHORFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a rich and riveting novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman’s rise in country and... Read more