Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

By: Cherise Wolas

Narrated by: Michael Dickes & Gabra Zackman

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"That I got so worked up about a person who doesn't exist is a testament to Cherise Wolas's success in creating a complex and distinct fictional character." — The New York Times Book Review

I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount, absolutely no... Read more

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires

By: Daren Wang

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption." — AudioFile Magazine

Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon... Read more

The Red-Haired Woman

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee & Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.

On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without... Read more

The History of Bees

By: Maja Lunde

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Steve West & Gibson Frazier

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their... Read more

The Party

By: Elizabeth Day

Narrated by: Greg Wagland

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party.

"Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone provide a gleeful, edgy wit.... [a] smart, irresistible romp."-New York Times Book Review

Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have... Read more

Sour Heart

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Greta Jung, Jenny Zhang, Kim Mai Guest, Nancy W...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz

A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant... Read more

The Readymade Thief

By: Augustus Rose

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most must-read of all must-reads.” —Marie Claire

“A kickass debut from start to finish.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad

Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run.
 
Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds refuge in a cooperative of runaways holed up in an abandoned building they call the... Read more

The Address

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence.

When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the... Read more

Mrs. Fletcher

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Finn Wittrock & Carrie Coon

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!

“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college freshman son.

A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve Fletcher is struggling to... Read more

Fierce Kingdom

By: Gin Phillips

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times Book Review's Best Crime Novels of 2017

“Warning: you'll finish this in one sitting.” —TheSkimm  

“Expertly made thriller . . . clever and irresistible.” —The New York Times

An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him.

The zoo is nearly... Read more

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen

By: Hendrik Groen

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 international bestseller in the vein of Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove: a funny and tender-hearted tale about friendship, love, and an old man who is young at heart.

Technically speaking, Hendrik Groen is....elderly. But at age 83 1/4, this feisty, indomitable curmudgeon has no plans to go out quietly. Bored of weak tea and potted... Read more

What We Lose

By: Zinzi Clemmons

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree
NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize Finalist
Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist

Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Buzzfeed, San Francisco Chronicle, Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The Root, Harper’s Bazaar, Paste, Bustle, Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature,... Read more

Hum If You Don't Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan & Bahni Turpin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.

Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but... Read more

The Graybar Hotel

By: Curtis Dawkins

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “toughly courageous, unflinching, and unapologetic” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut collection, Curtis Dawkins, an MFA graduate and convicted murderer serving life without parole, “takes us inside the worlds of prison and prisoners with stories that dazzle with their humor and insight, even as they describe a harsh and barren existence”... Read more

The Reason You're Alive

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: R.C. Bray

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war.After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to... Read more

Spoonbenders

By: Daryl Gregory

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest

Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about... Read more

The Windfall

By: Diksha Basu

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Charming . . . What Kevin Kwan did for rich-people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems.”—People

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY ESQUIRE • A PEOPLE PICK • A TIME PICK  

The Jhas are moving up. For the past thirty years, their lives have been defined by cramped spaces and gossipy neighbors. But when... Read more

Do Not Become Alarmed

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Maile Meloy

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls "smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for."

“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —Marie Claire

The sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.

When Liv and Nora decide to take their... Read more

The Great Passage

By: Shion Miura

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning story of love, friendship, and the power of human connection. Kohei Araki believes that a dictionary is a boat to carry us across the sea of words. But after thirty-seven years of creating dictionaries, it's time for him to retire and find his replacement. He discovers a kindred spirit in Mitsuya Majime—a young, disheveled... Read more

Touch

By: Courtney Maum

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] warm-hearted tale of a woman reconfiguring her priorities.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
 
NPR, "Best Books of 2017"
Belletrist's Book Pick for June
New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
Glamour, "The 6 Juiciest Summer Reads”
New York Post, “The 29 Best Books of the Summer”
Huffington Post, “24 Incredible Books You Should Read This... Read more

Shadow Man

By: Alan Drew

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of psychological suspense about an idyllic community rocked by a serial killer—and a dark secret.

“A stellar achievement, a book that unspools like a dark-toned movie in the reader’s mind.”—The Wall Street Journal (One of the Best Mysteries of the Year)

Detective Ben Wade has returned to his hometown of Rancho Santa Elena in search of a... Read more

Standard Deviation

By: Katherine Heiny

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

TheSkimm’s Best of Skimm Reads
NPR’s Guide to Great Reads
The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of the Year
Minnesota Public Radio’s The Best Books to Give and Get: Fiction Picks of the Year

An uproarious novel ("Both heart-piercing and, crucially, very funny." —Louise Erdrich, The New York Times) from the celebrated author of Single,... Read more

I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus

Narrated by: David de Vries, Susan Ericksen & Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping... Read more