Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

Narrated by: Kathryn Aboya

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Anthropologists by Aysegül Savas, read by Kathryn Aboya.

"Like Walter Benjamin, Aysegül Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell

“Savas... Read more

The Wilderness of Girls

By: Madeline Claire Franklin

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and is swept up in the ensuing mystery: Are the Wild Girls of Happy Valley lost princesses from a faraway land, as they believe, or are they brainwashed victims of a deranged kidnapper?   In her ambitious debut perfect for fans of Sadie and The Hazel... Read more

Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

Narrated by: Mikaela Hoover & Manijeh Khakpour

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, W MAGAZINE, AND VANITY FAIR! •  MEET THE MILANIS. FAST-FOOD HEIRESSES, L.A. ROYALTY, AND YOUR NEWEST REALITY TV OBSESSION • "Think the Kardashians meet Little Women and Crazy Rich Asians…An indelible, uproarious snapshot of young womanhood."—Vogue

“Delightfully twisted and... Read more

Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

Narrated by: Simone Collins

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST for the WOMEN’S PRIZE for FICTION * One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s “lyrical and incisive” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

Soldier Sailor takes readers deep inside the early... Read more

The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“The last great book I read . . . an early proof of debut novelist Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road, about women in ’90s Ireland negotiating the complexities of marriage in a country where divorce is illegal. It will no doubt be a bestseller.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and... Read more

The Great State of West Florida

By: Kent Wascom

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed... Read more

Mother Doll

By: Katya Apekina

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a... Read more

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

Narrated by: Marin Ireland, Sarah Gadon, Jackie Sanders & Ca...

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author Janet Skeslien Charles and based on the true story of Jessie Carson—the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France—this is “a moving tale of sacrifice, heroism, and inspired storytelling immersed in the power of books to change our lives” (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times... Read more

Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

Narrated by: Sam Rushton

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk, read by Sam Rushton.

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.

Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war... 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

Grey Dog

By: Elliott Gish

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1901, and Ada Byrd―spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist―accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful for the chance to re-establish herself where no one knows her secrets. She develops friendships with her neighbors, explores the woods with her students, and begins to see a future in this tiny farming community. Her... Read more

The Cryptic Clue

By: Amanda Hampson

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome back to Zig Zag Lane in the heart of Sydney's rag-trade district, where our intrepid tea ladies, Hazel, Betty and Irene, have their work cut out. Solving a murder, kidnapping and arson case, and outwitting an arch criminal, earned them the respect of a local police officer. Now he needs their assistance to help solve a plot that... Read more

Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside... Read more

The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht 

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A touching, inventive novel about belonging and loss” (People) from the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife and Inland

“I marveled at the subtle beauty and precision of Obreht’s prose. . . Read in the context of today’s conflicts and injustices, climate emergencies, and political and racial... Read more

The Stars Turned Inside Out

By: Nova Jacobs

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Many and wondrous are the charms of this witty, suspenseful, and enchanting book.” —The Wall Street Journal

The discovery of a suspicious death at a famous Swiss physics laboratory sparks a mystery that merges science, philosophy, and the high-stakes race to unlock the fundamental nature of our universe in this thrilling new novel from the... Read more

Wolf at the Table

By: Adam Rapp

Narrated by: Paul Sparks

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Corrections meets We Need to Talk About Kevin in this harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst, from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award finalist playwright Adam Rapp.
 
As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a... Read more

Until August

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Cristobal Pera & Rodri...

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The extraordinary rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize–winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude—a moving tale of female desire and abandon
 
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been... Read more

Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan & Joy Osmanski

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

* “Mesmerizing.” —Town & Country * “Twisty and unsettling.” —People * “Ancient Greece meets Succession by way of Emma Cline…deliciously dark.” —Ruth Gilligan *

A “superb…refreshing” (The New York Times Book Review) reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set on a lush private island, exploring themes of addiction and sex, family,... Read more

Mona of the Manor

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Mara Wilson“Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers.”—Neil Gaiman Set in the early 1990s, the long-awaited tenth novel in Armistead Maupin’s beloved and enduring Tales of the City series follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey, now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in Britain’s golden Cotswolds, and her fabulous adopted... Read more

Island Rule

By: Katie M. Flynn

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Corey Brill, Erin deWard, Kit...

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “urgent and heartfelt” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel The Companions, a genre-bending collection of interconnected short stories in the tradition of Jennifer Egan and Karen Russell.

An angry mother turns into a literal monster. A company in San Francisco can scrub your entire reputation and create a new one…for a price. A... Read more

Loved and Missed

By: Susie Boyt

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth is a woman who believes in and despairs of the curative power of love. Her daughter, Eleanor, who is addicted to drugs, has just had a baby, Lily. Ruth adjusts herself in ways large and small to give to Eleanor what she thinks she may need—nourishment, distance, affection—but all her gifts fall short. After someone dies of an overdose in... Read more

Ours

By: Phillip B. Williams

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 22 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah’s Book Club, Elle, Reader’s Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions, Lit Hub, and more

“An inventive ode to self-determination and also a surrealistic vision of Black life as forged within the crucible of American history . . . [written in] lush, ornamental prose.” —The New Yorker

“Fans... Read more

Americanah

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 18 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic about star-crossed lovers that explores questions of race and being Black in America—and the search for what it means to call a place home. • From the award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Half of a Yellow Sun • WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

"An expansive,... Read more

Swanna in Love

By: Jennifer Belle

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late—stoned and radiant—in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and... Read more