Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Number One Chinese Restaurant

By: Lillian Li

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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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

Who Is Vera Kelly?

By: Rosalie Knecht

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She’s working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she’s in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman... Read more

Visible Empire

By: Hannah Pittard

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel-based on true events-of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post) It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight... Read more

Gods of Howl Mountain

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

In Gods of Howl Mountain, award-winning author Taylor Brown explores a world of folk healers, whiskey-runners, and dark family secrets in the high country of 1950s North Carolina.Bootlegger Rory Docherty has returned home to the fabled mountain of his childhood—a misty wilderness that holds its secrets close and keeps the outside world at... Read more

The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”—People (Book of the Week)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • “In the smart, breezy, sweet spot between Meg Wolitzer and Elin Hilderbrand.”—Entertainment Weekly

No matter what the world throws her way, at least... Read more

The Ensemble

By: Aja Gabel

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pitch-perfect." —People

"You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop

The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives.

Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been... Read more

My Ex-Life

By: Stephen McCauley

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"In McCauley's entertaining audiobook...[Narrator George Newbern's] tone is skillfully timed for subtle humor and thoughtful wisdom. He hits just the right notes as multiple characters face major decisions in their lives." — AudioFile Magazine

From Stephen McCauley comes a long-anticipated audiobook about love, life, and friendship.

David Hedges’s... Read more

Warlight

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BEST SELLER

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.

In a narrative... Read more

Mr. Flood's Last Resort

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Himself comes a spellbinding and “magically entertaining read” (Good Housekeeping, UK) about a lonely caregiver and a cranky hoarder with a house full of secrets that “will appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal measure” (BookPage).

Maud Drennan is a dedicated... Read more

Love and Ruin

By: Paula McLain

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful novel of the stormy marriage between Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, a fiercely independent woman who became one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century—from the author of The Paris Wife and When the Stars Go Dark

“Romance, infidelity, war—Paula McLain’s powerhouse novel has it... Read more

You Think It, I'll Say It

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible

“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments... Read more

The Girl Who Never Read Noam Chomsky

By: Jana Casale

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Kirkus Reviews, "11 Debuts You Need to Pay Attention To"
HelloGiggles, "Books you don't want to miss"
Bustle, "Books you need to know"

An ambitious debut, at once timely and timeless, that captures the complexity and joys of modern womanhood.  This novel is gem like—in its precision, its many facets, and its containing multitudes. Following in the... Read more

Paris by the Book

By: Liam Callanan

Narrated by: Kim Bubbs

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris

Once a week, I chase men who are not my husband. . . .

When eccentric novelist Robert Eady abruptly vanishes, he leaves behind his wife, Leah, their daughters, and, hidden in an unexpected spot, plane tickets to Paris.

Hoping to uncover... Read more

The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
 
“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle

“Ultra-readable.” —Vogue 
 
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want... Read more

The Italian Teacher

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Sam Alexander

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“An exotic touch of intrigue arises in THE ITALIAN TEACHER . . . deliciously ironic and deeply affectionate.”—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
 
A masterful novel about the son of a great painter striving to create his own legacy, by the bestselling author of The Imperfectionists.

Conceived while his father, Bear, cavorted around Rome in the... Read more

Stray City

By: Chelsey Johnson

Narrated by: Natalie Moore

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic... Read more

The Italian Party

By: Christina Lynch

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Italian Party by Christina Lynch is a delicious and sharply funny audiobook about “innocent” Americans abroad in 1950s Siena.

Newly married, Scottie and Michael are seduced by Tuscany's famous beauty. But the secrets they are keeping from each other force them beneath the splendid surface to a more complex view of ltaly, America and each... Read more

Anatomy of a Miracle

By: Jonathan Miles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Funny, bighearted...Miles specializes in giving fully rounded humanity to characters who might elsewhere be treated as stock figures...pitch-perfect.”
— New York Times Book Review

"Miles is a writer so virtuosic that readers will feel themselves becoming better, more observant people from reading him."
— Los Angeles Review of Books

A profound new... Read more

Speak No Evil

By: Uzodinma Iweala

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top... Read more

The Reluctant Fortune-Teller

By: Keziah Frost

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A retired accountant becomes the town’s fortune-teller in this witty and charming debut

Norbert Zelenka has always lived life on the sidelines. It’s why at seventy-three years old he’s broke and alone except for the company of a Chihuahua. But when “Carlotta’s Club”—three strong-willed seniors with plenty of time on their hands—decide to make... Read more

Census

By: Jesse Ball

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful and moving new novel from an award-winning, acclaimed author: in the wake of a devastating revelation, a father and son journey north across a tapestry of towns.When a widower receives notice from a doctor that he doesn’t have long left to live, he is struck by the question of who will care for his adult son—a son whom he fiercely... Read more

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover

By: Michael Andreasen

Narrated by: Various

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing fiction debut from a UC Irvine MFA graduate and recent contributor to The New Yorker.

Bewitching and playful, with its feet only slightly tethered to the world we know, The Sea Beast Takes a Lover explores hope, love, and loss across a series of surreal landscapes and wild metamorphoses. Just because Jenny was born without a head... Read more

Promise

By: Minrose Gwin

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart—one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager—fight for their families’ survival in this lyrical and powerful novel.“Gwin’s gift shines in the complexity of her... Read more