Fiction - Literary audiobooks

French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her... Read more

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

By: Sunil Yapa

Narrated by: Aaron Landon

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.

Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both... Read more

Rules for Visiting

By: Jessica Francis Kane

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: O Magazine * Good Housekeeping * Real Simple * Vulture * Chicago Tribune
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY: “The Today Show” * “Good Morning America” * Wall Street Journal * San Francisco Chronicle * Southern Living
 
An INDIE NEXT LIST Pick

Shortlisted for the 2020... Read more

A Thousand Natural Shocks

By: Omar Hussain

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of Murder & Mayhem’s Most Anticipated Mystery, Thriller, and Crime Books of 2025Named a Goodreads Best Thriller & Mystery of 2025Omar Hussain’s dazzling debut, A Thousand Natural Shocks, is a mesmerizing meditation on trauma, memory, and identity wrapped in a high-octane thriller.Dash, a reporter in Monterey, California, is... Read more

The Reason You're Alive

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war.After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to... Read more

Selected Hemingway Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NEVER BEFORE ON AUDIO! ALL-NEW PRODUCTIONS OF TWENTY-FOUR CLASSIC ERNEST HEMINGWAY STORIES.

This brand-new audio collection from the iconic Pulitzer and Nobel Prize–winning author is a listener’s delight. The two dozen short stories presented here have never been published on audio; these new recordings of classic stories will remind listeners of... Read more

White Tears

By: Hari Kunzru

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe, Danny Campbell & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

White Tears is a ghost story, a terrifying murder mystery, a timely meditation on race, and a love letter to all the forgotten geniuses of American music and Delta Mississippi Blues.


"An incisive meditation on race, privilege and music. Spanning decades, this novel brings alive the history of old-time blues and America’s racial... Read more

Family of Origin

By: CJ Hauser

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

*BONUS: Includes the viral essay sensation "The Crane Wife"*

"An innovative work of climate fiction, a nuanced and empathic family story, and, for my money, the summer's best novel thus far."
--NPR.org

"The most oddly enticing novel you will read this year...Keenly satirical yet unashamedly tender."
--Wall Street Journal

"Reminiscent of the family... Read more

Meet Me in Monaco

By: Hazel Gaynor & Heather Webb

Narrated by: Nancy Peterson & Jeremy Arthur

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d’Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances.Movie stars and... Read more

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By: Naomi Wood

Narrated by: Lynsey Beauchamp

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of American Housewife and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity.CONTAINS “COMORBIDITIES,” WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZEIn my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had... Read more

We Are All Good People Here

By: Susan Rebecca White

Narrated by: Katharine Powell

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of A Place at the Table and A Soft Place to Land, an “intense, complex, and wholly immersive” (Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author) multigenerational novel that explores the complex relationship between two very different women and the secrets they bequeath to their daughters.

Eve Whalen, privileged child of an... Read more

Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid... Read more

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

By: Anton DiSclafani

Narrated by: Adina Verson

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“This summer’s first romantic page turner.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Named a most anticipated book for Summer 2013 by The Wall Street Journal and Publishers Weekly and USA Today, NPR, and People summer reads pick

From the author of The After Party, a lush, sexy, evocative debut novel of family secrets and girls’-school rituals, set... Read more

Tell It To Me Singing

By: Tita Ramirez

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi & Frankie Corzo

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

An “utterly unforgettable” (Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here) debut novel about a Cuban American family sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of several shocking secrets to her daughter.

Mónica Campo is pregnant with her first child when, moments before being wheeled into... Read more

Elevation

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

From legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting story about “an ordinary man in an extraordinary condition rising above hatred” (The Washington Post) and bringing the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine together—a “joyful, uplifting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale... Read more

Half-Blown Rose

By: Leesa Cross-Smith

Narrated by: Mela Lee & Tim Campbell

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
 
Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and... Read more

Pink Slime

By: Fernanda Trías

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for Translated Literature • Named a BEST BOOK of 2024 by NPR, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, and ScreenRant • “The disconcerting familiarity of this strange, windswept world will haunt you.” —Esquire

A hair-raising, poetic novel about a woman and the people who depend on her as the world around them edges... Read more

The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All

By: Josh Ritter

Narrated by: Josh Ritter

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, a lyrical, sweeping novel about a young boy's coming-of-age during the last days of the lumberjacks.

In the tiny timber town of Cordelia, Idaho, ninety-nine year old Weldon Applegate recounts his life in all its glory, filled with tall tales writ large with murder, mayhem, avalanches and bootlegging. It’s the... Read more

The Afterlives

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: Thomas Pierce & Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).

Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim... Read more

Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool.

“Sumptuous, spirited . . . [Russo] paints a shining fresco of a... Read more

Imagine Me Gone

By: Adam Haslett

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?

When Margaret's fiancée, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his... Read more

Something to Live For

By: Richard Roper

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published as How Not to Die Alone

Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.

"Off-beat and winning...Gives... Read more

Carousel Court

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more

Trinity

By: Louisa Hall

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, David Colacci, Saskia Maarl...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional characters.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray... Read more