Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Into the Jungle

By: Erica Ferencik

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a... Read more

The Confessions of Frannie Langton

By: Sara Collins

Narrated by: Sara Collins & Roy McMillan

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss the TV miniseries premiering March 8, exclusively on BritBox!“A blistering historical thriller.” — Entertainment WeeklyA servant and former slave is accused of murdering her employer and his wife in this breathtaking debut that moves from a Jamaican sugar plantation to the fetid streets of Georgian London—a gripping historical... 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

The Farm

By: Joanne Ramos

Narrated by: Fran de Leon

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules.

Skimm Reads Pick • People Book of the Week • Belletrist Book Pick • “[Joanne] Ramos’s debut novel couldn’t be more relevant or timely.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • Glamour • Real Simple • Good Housekeeping • Marie... Read more

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

By: Juliet Grames

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.In her rugged Italian village, Stella... Read more

Cape May

By: Chip Cheek

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Chip Cheek's intense, erotic debut novel, narrator George Newbern offers perfect voices for innocent newlyweds Henry, 20, and Effie, 18." — AudioFile Magazine

A mesmerizing debut by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by... Read more

Walking on the Ceiling

By: Aysegül Savas

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence..." -- The New York Times

"I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation

A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and... Read more

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine

“HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea)

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town... Read more

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

By: C. A. Fletcher

Narrated by: C. A. Fletcher

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.

My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.... Read more

The Parisian

By: Isabella Hammad

Narrated by: Fiona Button

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile... Read more

Lost Roses

By: Martha Hall Kelly

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker & ...

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.

“A nuanced tale that speaks to the... Read more

The Book of Dreams

By: Nina George

Narrated by: Steve West, Elizabeth Knowelden & Xalvador Tin-...

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death

Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the... Read more

A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah Magazine

A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel--the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie--about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love

At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben... Read more

White Elephant

By: Julie Langsdorf

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this hilarious, addictive, and sharply observant debut novel.The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the houses that surround it. When owner Nick Cox cuts down... Read more

If, Then

By: Kate Hope Day

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the... Read more

Tomorrow There Will Be Sun

By: Dana Reinhardt

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“This novel is a ray of light in the canon of vacation lit—in Reinhardt’s hands, paradise gone wrong feels very right.” —People

A private Mexican villa is the backdrop to this smart, absorbing story of a milestone vacation in a tropical paradise gone wrong, wrong, wrong

Two families arrive in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for a once-in-a-lifetime... Read more

The New Me

By: Halle Butler

Narrated by: Halle Butler

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more

When All Is Said

By: Anne Griffin

Narrated by: Niall Buggy

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"An extraordinary novel, a poetic writer, and a story that moved me to tears." —New York Times John Boyne, bestselling author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

"I'm here to remember–all that I have been and all that I will never be again."

If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each... Read more

Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.

Mona is... Read more

Leading Men

By: Christopher Castellani

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"A timeless and heartbreaking love story." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

"An extraordinary book." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida

Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century - Tennessee Williams and his longtime... Read more

Bowlaway

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley.

From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a... Read more

When You Read This

By: Mary Adkins

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by... Read more

The Lost Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace ...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Three women. One daring mission.

1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the... Read more