Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Free Love

By: Tessa Hadley

Narrated by: Abigail Thaw

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exquisite."" —Minneapolis Star Tribune • ""Brilliantly observed.” — People, Pick of the Week“A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.” — Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s... Read more

The Pages

By: Hugo Hamilton

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

An entirely original novel in which a book—Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion—narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of a gripping mystery.
 
“A powerful, powerful piece of work.” —Colum McCann, best-selling author of Apeirogon

One old copy of the novel Rebellion sits in Lena Knecht’s tote... Read more

Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Zadie Smith & Bahni Turpin

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith
 
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she... Read more

Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—“a... Read more

The Hummingbird

By: Sandro Veronesi

Narrated by: Victor Vertunni, Silvia Presente & Kristin Athe...

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“The Hummingbird is a remarkable accomplishment, a true gift to the world.” —Michael Cunningham“Long considered one of Italy's leading writers, Sandro Veronesi has re-written the family saga. Ardent, gripping, and inventive to the core, it has already been hailed a classic.”—Jhumpa Lahiri""The Hummingbird is a... Read more

Perpetual West

By: Mesha Maren

Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

​“Stunning . . . A forceful addition to the literature of the U.S.-Mexican border and its ongoing history of tragedy and joy.”
—Jennifer Clement, The New York Times Book Review 

“Suspenseful, seductive . . . A thrill ride from cover to cover.”
—Oprah Daily, “The 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022” 

The riveting new novel by the acclaimed author of... Read more

Tides

By: Sara Freeman

Narrated by: Amy Rutherford

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Henfield Prize–winner and brilliant newcomer Sara Freeman debuts with an intoxicating, compact novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy seaside town. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her... Read more

Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying."" —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she... Read more

Carry the Dog

By: Stephanie Gangi

Narrated by: Cheryl Smith

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powered by insight and true wit.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion

“I can’t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.” —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and... Read more

The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted... Read more

My Monticello

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, ...

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An AudioFile Earphones Award winner

Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King

“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer... Read more

What Storm, What Thunder

By: Myriam J.A. Chancy

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of a long, sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster? Richard, an expat and wealthy water-bottling executive... Read more

The Morning Star

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Michael Crouch, Edoardo Ballerini, ...

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her... Read more

Olga

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Two world wars and the passage of more than a century do not overshadow [Bernhard Schlink’s] story of lovers who never fully belong to each other, just as they never fully belonged to the world.”—Booklist“A brilliant novel about history and the nature of memory.”—Evening StandardA sweeping novel of love and passion from author of the... Read more

Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a... 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 Archer

By: Shruti Swamy

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”
—NPR
 
In this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s-... Read more

Fault Lines

By: Emily Itami

Narrated by: Lydia Wilson

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD""What is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy."" -- New York Times Book Review""The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami."" -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor SyndromeMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two... Read more

Red X

By: David Demchuk

Narrated by: Salvatore Antonio & David Demchuk

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A hunted community. A haunted author. A horror that spans centuries.

Men are disappearing from Toronto's gay village. They're the marginalized, the vulnerable. One by one, stalked and vanished, they leave behind small circles of baffled, frightened friends. Against the shifting backdrop of homophobia throughout the decades, from the HIV/AIDS... Read more

The Guide

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta,... Read more

The Turnout: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Megan Abbott

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic. It’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ in ballet shoes." —Stephen King

Best Book of the Year
NPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air Mail

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick An Instant New York... Read more

The Hunter and the Old Woman

By: Pamela Korgemagi

Narrated by: Tiffany Ayalik

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award The intertwined story of a cougar and a man that portrays the strength, vulnerability, and consciousness of two top predators. Not since Life of Pi have we encountered such transcendence or walked so fully in the footsteps of a big cat. The “Old Woman” lives in the wild, searching for food, raising her... Read more

The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

Narrated by: Tanha Dil

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

*"A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups." —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR

In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social... Read more

Build Your House Around My Body

By: Violet Kupersmith

Narrated by: Quyen Ngo

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into “a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve” (The New York Times Editors’ Choice).
 
FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • ONE OF THE BEST... Read more