Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

Narrated by: Claire Kinson

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who... Read more

A Country You Can Leave

By: Asale Angel-Ajani

Narrated by: Amanda Cordner

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"From page one, A Country You Can Leave is a riveting, exasperating, and deeply heartbreaking tale of mother-daughter strife and resilience." —Xochitl Gonzalez, author of Olga Dies Dreaming

A stunning debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black, biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the... Read more

Keeping Lucy

By: T. Greenwood

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019
Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019
Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer

The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart... Read more

In Our Mad and Furious City

By: Guy Gunaratne

Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith & Lou Marie Kerr

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Ben Bailey Smith and Lou Marie Kerr expertly intertwine multiple first-person points of view in this gritty debut audiobook...Listeners unfamiliar with the dialects — Irish, Jamaican, and British among them — will be especially buoyed by the power of the performances." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Long-listed for the... Read more

The Nix

By: Nathan Hill

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 21 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and... Read more

The Gilded Years

By: Karin Tanabe

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Passing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.

Since... Read more

To Keep the Sun Alive

By: Rabeah Ghaffari

Narrated by: Rabeah Ghaffari

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner, as is a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse. Meanwhile, in the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi, run an ancient orchard, growing apples, plums, peaches, and sour cherries, and looking after several generations of family members. The days here are... Read more

The Falconer

By: Dana Czapnik

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick

“A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, The... Read more

Raft of Stars

By: Andrew J. Graff

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard RussoAn instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying to find and protect them reach them before it’s too... Read more

The Book of Essie

By: Meghan MacLean Weir

Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Tara Sands & Erin Spencer

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD

"Both timelessly beautiful and unbelievably timely."—Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant 

A captivating novel of family, fame, and religion that tells the story of the seventeen-year-old daughter of an evangelical preacher, star of the family's hit... Read more

Lake Success

By: Gary Shteyngart

Narrated by: Arthur Morey & Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Spectacular.”—NPR • “Uproariously funny.”—The Boston Globe • “An artistic triumph.”—San Francisco Chronicle • “A novel in which comedy and pathos are exquisitely balanced.”—The Washington Post • “Shteyngart’s best book.”—The Seattle Times

The bestselling author of Super Sad True Love Story returns with a biting, brilliant, emotionally resonant... Read more

Carnegie's Maid

By: Marie Benedict

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.

Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets.... Read more

I'll Take You There

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women.I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film... Read more

Night and Day

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon, Gerard Logan, Jeff Harding & M...

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author), returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales.

Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional... Read more

The Family Tabor

By: Cherise Wolas

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"...the sense of loyalty to one’s family history is so vivid in the novel that it is practically its own character.” —New York Times Book Review

The Family Tabor is the next audiobook from Cherise Wolas, acclaimed author of The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Harry Tabor is about to be named Man of the Decade, a distinction that feels like the... Read more

Her Every Fear

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.The danger isn’t all in your head . . . Growing up,... Read more

Every Vow You Break

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A bride’s dream honeymoon becomes a nightmare when a man with whom she’s had a regrettable one-night stand shows up in this electrifying psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Eight Perfect Murders.

Abigail Baskin never thought she’d fall in love with a millionaire. Then she met Bruce Lamb. He’s a good guy, stable, level-headed,... Read more

Modern Lovers

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Jen Tullock

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“It’s ‘Friends’ meets ‘Almost Famous’ meets the beach read you’ll be recommending all summer.” –TheSkimm

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers All Adults Here and This Time Tomorrow, a smart, highly entertaining novel about a tight-knit group of friends from college— and what it means to finally grow up, well after adulthood has set... Read more

Perfect Little World

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduated from high school and is pregnant with her art teacher's baby. Her mother is dead and her father is a drunk. The art teacher is too much of a head-case to help raise the child. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or... Read more

A Separation

By: Katie Kitamura

Narrated by: Katherine Waterston

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.

“Kitamura’s prose gallops, combining Elena Ferrante-style intricacies with... Read more

Do Not Become Alarmed

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Maile Meloy

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."

“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire

The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their... Read more

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Johanna Parker

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time.... Read more

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires

By: Daren Wang

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption." — AudioFile Magazine

Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon... Read more

Confessions

By: Catherine Airey

Narrated by: Eileen O'Higgins, Bronagh Waugh, Ruby Campbell,...

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

""Confessions is a remarkable debut. A complex and compulsive read that unravels the intricate twists and revelations among three generations of women with elegance and urgency."" —Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceFor fans of The Goldfinch and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a mesmerizing and absorbing debut that follows... Read more