Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024

"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times

“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and magic-realist touches that mark a lot of... Read more

Harbor Lights

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Matt Pittenger, Michael David Axt...

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke.

Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands... 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 Search Party

By: Hannah Richell

Narrated by: Beth Eyre & Jamie Parker

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding locked-room mystery about a glamping trip gone horribly wrong when a powerful storm leaves the participants stranded and forced to confront long-held secrets and a shocking disappearance.

Max and Annie Kingsley have left the London rat race with their twelve-year-old son to set up a glamping site in the wilds of Cornwall. Eager for... Read more

Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply... Read more

True North

By: Andrew J. Graff

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, following one couple as they navigate the changing currents of family, community, and the river itself.As the summer of 1993 begins, Sam and Swami Brecht roll into town with a twenty-six-foot Winnebago camper van, their three young kids, and the deed to... Read more

You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"André Santana's impressive narration deals with one family's contemporary problems...As one crisis bleeds into another, Santana's cool performance and objective distance make this entertaining listening."—AudioFile

“I don’t think I will find a book I love more this year.”
—Jane Green, New York Times bestselling author

“Funny, poignant, joyous,... Read more

The Kingdom of Sweets

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Grace Gray

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Twin sisters, divided by envy and magic, set against one another on a fateful Christmas Eve

Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming Clara, the favorite, grows into a life of beauty and ease, while ignored and... Read more

A Little Blood and Dancing

By: Tyler Parker

Narrated by: Jenny Pudavick

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It’s a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker’s Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers.

Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from... Read more

A True Account

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.

In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury – bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood – is ready to take her... Read more

Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

Narrated by: Robert Powell

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.

An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading... Read more

Before We Say Goodbye

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Kevin Shen

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series

The regulars at the magical Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not... 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

Roman Stories

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Carlotta Brentan, Cassandra Campb...

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR • The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of... Read more

The Girl Who Cried Diamonds & Other Stories

By: Rebecca Hirsch Garcia

Narrated by: Tara Koehler

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The boundaries between realist and fabulist, literary and speculative, are shattered in this remarkable debut collection for readers of Carmen Maria Machado, André Alexis, and Angélique Lalonde A girl born in a small, unnamed pueblo is blessed—or cursed—with the ability to produce valuable gems from her bodily fluids. A tired wife and... Read more

The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

Narrated by: Liza Ross, Anne Enright, Owen Roe & Aoife Duffin

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell... Read more

How I Won a Nobel Prize

By: Julius Taranto

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An incisive, wickedly funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage). Helen is one of the best minds of her generation. A young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature... Read more

Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of News of the World.  Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in battle. His recovery took the... Read more

The Devil of the Provinces

By: Juan Cardenas

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.



When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled... Read more

Cities of Women

By: Kathleen B. Jones

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée, Lauren Ezzo & Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-first century, we meet Verity Frazier, a disillusioned history professor who sets out to prove that the artist responsible for the illuminated artwork in Christine de Pizan’s medieval manuscripts was a remarkable woman named Anastasia. As Anastasia’s story unfolds against the exquisitely-rendered medieval backdrop of moral... Read more

The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

Narrated by: Miranda Raison

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more

Terrace Story

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed novel Temporary, an intimate exploration of time, a fable about love, an epic daydream for a broken-hearted world Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn’t there before, and it seems to... Read more

Eden

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Ben Allen

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden.

The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that beyond the garden walls is a world where disease... Read more

The English Experience

By: Julie Schumacher

Narrated by: Julie Schumacher

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University’s annual “Experience: Abroad” to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow • The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap

“Wise and hilarious and... Read more