Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Vernon Subutex 1

By: Virginie Despentes

Narrated by: Christopher Harper

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris,... Read more

The Only Harmless Great Thing

By: Brooke Bolander

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette



Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards



The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.



In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of... Read more

All This Could Be Yours

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” —Refinery29“Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” —Parade“This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” —New York... Read more

Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada.

These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully... Read more

Marley

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

“Marley was dead, to begin... Read more

Empty Hearts

By: Juli Zeh

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelists

A few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit. There's a global... Read more

The Dearly Beloved

By: Cara Wall

Narrated by: Kathy Keane

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” —Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!)

This “moving portrait of love and friendship set against a backdrop of social change” (The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice) traces two married couples whose lives become entangled when 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

A Pure Heart

By: Rajia Hassib

Narrated by: Ariana Delawari

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a... Read more

Summerlings

By: Lisa Howorth

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation—surely evidence... 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

Good Girl, Bad Girl

By: Michael Robotham

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author who Stephen King calls “an absolute master,” a “gripping and eerie” (Karin Slaughter) thriller about a dangerous young woman with the ability to know when someone is lying—and the criminal psychologist who must outwit her to survive.

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a... 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

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

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

Turbulence

By: David Szalay

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*

A “masterful” (The Washington Post), “cathartic” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world—from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of All That... Read more

Finding Mrs. Ford

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in... Read more

The Travelers

By: Regina Porter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly

“An astoundingly audacious debut.”—O: The Oprah Magazine • “A... Read more

The History of Living Forever

By: Jake Wolff

Narrated by: Maxwell Glick

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A chemistry student falls for his teacher and uncovers a centuries-old quest for the elixir of life

The morning after the death of his first love, Conrad Aybinder receives a bequest. Sammy Tampari was Conrad’s lover. He was his teacher. And, it turns out, he was not just a chemist, but an alchemist, searching for a mythic elixir of life. Sammy’s... Read more

Man of the Year

By: Caroline Louise Walker

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Michael Crouch, George Newb...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A sinister, sophisticated debut thriller by “a remarkable new voice to watch” (J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author), Man of the Year has been lauded by Shelf Awareness as “an impressive slow burn that builds suspense and cracks the whip at the end…redolent with menace and ego.”

Dr. Robert Hart, Sag Harbor’s just-named Man of the Year,... Read more

Call Your Daughter Home

By: Deb Spera

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List

For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.

It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a... Read more

The Islanders

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets.Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony’s debut novel spent two years on... Read more

Searching for Sylvie Lee

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Angela Lin, Samantha Quan & Caroline McLaughlin

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick!NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times • Time • Marie Claire • Elle • Buzzfeed • Huffington Post • Good Housekeeping • The Week • Goodreads • New York Post • and many more!“Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love,... 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