Fiction - Literary audiobooks

As Bright as Heaven

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Jorjeana Marie, Cassandra Morris...

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone... Read more

Anatomy of a Scandal

By: Sarah Vaughan

Narrated by: Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane & Sarah ...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

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“A nuanced story line perfectly in tune with our #metoo times.” —People, Book of the Week

“One of the season’s most buzzed-about thrillers.” —Bookish

“A strong choice for book clubs. Former political correspondent Vaughan makes an impressive debut with this savvy, propulsive courtroom... Read more

Everything Here Is Beautiful

By: Mira T. Lee

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Emily Woo Zeller, Ozzie Rod...

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

‟A tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters.”—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You

A dazzling novel of two sisters and their emotional journey through love, loyalty, and heartbreak

Two sisters—Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger... Read more

The Largesse of the Sea Maiden

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney...

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
 
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most... Read more

Heart Spring Mountain

By: Robin MacArthur

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a devastating storm to search for her missing mother and unravel a powerful family secret.It’s August 2011, and Tropical Storm Irene has just wreaked havoc on Vermont, flooding rivers and destroying homes. One thousand miles away—while tending bar... Read more

The Afterlives

By: Thomas Pierce

Narrated by: Thomas Pierce & Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).

Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim... Read more

This Could Hurt

By: Jillian Medoff

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo, Nick Podehl, Saskia Maarleveld, S...

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend... Read more

Green

By: Sam Graham-Felsen

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age novel about race, privilege, and the struggle to rise in America, written by a former Obama campaign staffer and propelled by an exuberant, unforgettable narrator.
 
“A riot of language that’s part hip-hop, part nerd boy, and part pure imagination.”—The Boston Globe

Boston, 1992. David Greenfeld is one of the few white kids at the... Read more

Martin Marten

By: Brian Doyle

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east). Dave will soon enter high school, with adulthood and a future not far off—a future away from his mother, father, his precocious younger sister, and the wilderness where he's... Read more

A Hundred Small Lessons

By: Ashley Hay

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the richly intertwined narratives of two women from different generations, Ashley Hay, known for her “elegant prose, which draws warm and textured portraits as it celebrates the web of human stories” (New York Times Book Review) weaves an intricate, bighearted tale of the many small decisions—the invisible moments—that come to make a... Read more

Wonder Valley

By: Ivy Pochoda

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary... Read more

Heather, the Totality

By: Matthew Weiner

Narrated by: Matthew Weiner

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men.

Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still... Read more

Smile

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Roddy Doyle

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Booker Prize winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, a bold, haunting novel about the uncertainty of memory and how we contend with the past.

"It's his bravest novel yet; it's also, by far, his best." -- npr.org

“The closest thing he’s written to a psychological thriller."– The New York Times Book Review

Just moved into a new... Read more

It Devours!

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the... Read more

The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Karen White & Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman’s struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last... Read more

Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Expectations, recognized as Charles Dickens' finest novel, is told by Pip, an orphan who lives with his sister and her husband, the village blacksmith. The young boy's life is changed forever when he meets and aids an escaped convict who wanders into his yard. Years later, Pip is sent to live with the decaying, bitter Miss Havisham and... Read more

Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi & ...

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017

“A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King... Read more

The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs

By: Janet Peery

Narrated by: Juliana Francis Kelly

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Janet Peery’s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and piercing gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with a new, unflinching audiobook, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.

On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family... Read more

The Ninth Hour

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — AudioFile magazine

A magnificent new audiobook from one of America’s... Read more

Caroline

By: Sarah Miller

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls, ""Ma"" in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little... Read more

The Vengeance of Mothers

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review

The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.

9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jamie Ford

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.

“An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history.”—Kristin Hannah, author... Read more

Forest Dark

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller • A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail""A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration."" —Philip Roth""One of America’s most important novelists"" (New York... Read more

The Child Finder

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book ReviewA haunting, richly... Read more