Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Bright I Burn

By: Molly Aitken

Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • IRISH BESTSELLER • A fierce, electrifying novel inspired by the true story of the first woman to be condemned as a witch in Ireland

In thirteenth-century Ireland, a woman with power is a woman to be feared.

Alice, the daughter of a wealthy innkeeper in Kilkenny, grows up watching her mother wither under the constraints... Read more

All Our Wrong Todays

By: Elan Mastai

Narrated by: Elan Mastai

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

One of Wall Street Journal’s Best of 2017

“Entertainingly mixes thrills and humor.”—Entertainment Weekly

“[An] amazing debut novel. . . . Dazzling and complex. . . . Fearlessly funny storytelling.”—The Washington Post

“Instantly engaging. . . . A timeless, if mind-bending, story about the journeys we take, populated by friends, family, lovers,... Read more

Together We Will Go

By: J. Michael Straczynski

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Mi...

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.

Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is... Read more

The Night Always Comes

By: Willy Vlautin

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Willy Vlautin is not known for happy endings, but there’s something here that defies the downward pull. In the end, Lynette is pure life force: fierce and canny and blazing through a city that no longer has space for her, and it’s all Portland’s loss.”—Portland Monthly MagazineAward-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of... 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

Libertie

By: Kaitlyn Greenidge

Narrated by: Channie Waites

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed and Whiting Award–winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman returns with Libertie, an unforgettable story about one young Black girl’s attempt to find a place where she can be fully, and only, herself.

Coming of age as a freeborn Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her... Read more

Second Place

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Kate Fleetwood

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets... Read more

Don't Cry for Me

By: Daniel Black

Narrated by: Daniel Black

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss Daniel Black's next novel Isaac's Song coming January 2025

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK IN ESSENCE MAGAZINE, THE MILLIONS AND BOOKISH


"Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."—Jesmyn Ward

A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for... Read more

Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.



Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of... Read more

In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

Narrated by: Christian Coulson

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait

A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The... 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

The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

Narrated by: Emma Lowe

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” –Maggie O'Farrell


"This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family." –Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let... Read more

The Displacements

By: Bruce Holsinger

Narrated by: Austenne Grey

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hypnotic.” – New York Times

“Cinematic.” – USA Today

"I gripped the covers of this book as though it might be blown from my hands. . .powerful." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post

"A full-throttle page turner."– Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace

An adrenaline-fueled story of lives upended and... Read more

Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one... Read more

White Cat, Black Dog

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman, Dan Stevens, Dominic Hoffman, K...

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven ingeniously reinvented fairy tales that play out with astonishing consequences in the modern world, from one of today’s finest short story writers—MacArthur “Genius Grant” fellow Kelly Link, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Get in Trouble

Finding seeds of inspiration in the Brothers Grimm, seventeenth-century French lore,... Read more

Little Foxes Took Up Matches

By: Katya Kazbek

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An arresting coming of age, an exploration of gender, a modern folktale, a powerful portrait of a family—Katya Kazbek breaks out as a new voice to watch.

When Mitya was two years old, he swallowed his grandmother’s sewing needle. For his family, it marks the beginning of the end, the promise of certain death. For Mitya, it is a small, metal... Read more

The Gone Dead

By: Chanelle Benz

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years... Read more

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

Narrated by: Sara Collins & Roy McMillan

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox!“A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment WeeklyA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical... 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

Godspeed

By: Nickolas Butler

Narrated by: Jon Orsini

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
 
In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.

Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three... Read more

Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner

By: Jason Mott

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Ronald Peet

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***

***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie... Read more

Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 21 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a... Read more

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 Snakes

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Snakes is many things—a parable and an ancient drama where a father’s greed devours his children, a police procedural, an avid take on tabloid venality, and a bitter comedy, superbly observed, where behind a woman’s eyes she is ‘all movement inside herself, like a wasp in a glass.’ I admit that I’m still shaken by parts of this novel. Sadie... Read more