Fiction - Literary audiobooks

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance;... Read more

In Memory of Us

By: Jacqueline Roy

Narrated by: Jessica Alade

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to remember?
Joined at birth, then pulled apart, Selina and Zora’s relationship is marked by a pattern of closeness and separation. Growing up in 50s’ and 60s’ London under the shadow of Enoch Powell, they are instinctively dependent on each other, and yet Zora yearns for her own identity. But in the eyes of the people around... Read more

The Child Finder

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book ReviewA haunting, richly... Read more

The New Me

By: Halle Butler

Narrated by: Halle Butler

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more

The Butterfly Girl

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Butterfly Girl is a riveting novel that ripples with truth, exploring the depths of love and sacrifice in the face of a past that cannot be left dead and buried. A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who... Read more

Apeirogon: A Novel

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Colum McCann

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers—one Palestinian, one Israeli, both connected by grief and working together for peace—from the National Book Award–winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin

“A quite extraordinary novel. Colum McCann has found the form and... Read more

The Knockout Queen

By: Rufi Thorpe

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles Times

A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs

Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a... 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

Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her... Read more

She Would Be King

By: Wayétu Moore

Narrated by: Wayétu Moore

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Jessica Parker and the American Library Association Book Club Central Official SelectionA novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formationWayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters... 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

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 Editor

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Michael Urie

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus comes a novel about a struggling writer who gets his big break, with a little help from the most famous woman in America.

After years of trying to make it as a writer in 1990s New York City, James Smale finally sells his novel to an editor at a major publishing house: none other than Jacqueline... Read more

American Pop

By: Snowden Wright

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""The House of Forster is built on bubbles; watching each wealth-addled generation try not to blow the family fortune and/or disgrace its name provides not only excellent Southern Gothic fun but a panoramic tour of the American Century.""— Jonathan Dee, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The PrivilegesThe story of a family.
The story of an... Read more

Gold Diggers

By: Sanjena Sathian

Narrated by: Rama Vallury

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of... 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

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

The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

Narrated by: Kevin Barry

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF 2024 FROM THE ECONOMIST AND THE MINNESOTA STAR TRIBUNE

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 Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library Journal

From the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to... Read more

Biography of X : A Novel

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When X—an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter—falls dead in her office, her widow, CM, wild with grief and refusing everyone’s good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life
story. Not even CM... 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

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

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

Honey

By: Victor Lodato

Narrated by: Carrington McDuffie

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“Honey isn’t one of these frail wraiths who sip tea and shuffle in worn slippers. Honey subsists on Viognier and Valium and slips on Louboutins just to run to the grocery store.…a feisty heroine readers will embrace as an octogenarian with attitude to spare.” — BooklistMeet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as... Read more