Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

A Likely Story

By: Leigh McMullan Abramson

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Cynthia Farrell, James Fouhey, Adam...

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick

“Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author

The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled... Read more

The Sanctuary

By: Katrine Engberg

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author Katrine Engberg, the series that is a “gripping addition to the Scandinavian crime fiction pantheon” (Oprah Daily) comes to a stunning conclusion as Jeppe Kørner and Anette Werner rush to untangle a long-simmering mystery before a brutal killer strikes again.

Jeppe Kørner, on leave from the police force and... Read more

The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

“A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown

A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s... 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

The Turnout: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Megan Abbott

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic. It’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ in ballet shoes." —Stephen King

Best Book of the Year
NPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air Mail

Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick An Instant New York... 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

The Red Garden

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Nancy Travis

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hoffman’s characters are always moving back and forth, challenging our perceptions, daring us to judge them.”—New York Times Book Review

The Red Garden introduces us to the luminous and haunting world of Blackwell, Massachusetts. Hoffman offers a transforming glimpse of small-town America, presenting us with some three hundred years of passion,... Read more

White Houses

By: Amy Bloom

Narrated by: Tonya Cornelisse

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real Simple

Lorena... Read more

Maggie Brown & Others

By: Peter Orner

Narrated by: Peter Orner, Ari Fliakos & Brittany Pressley

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful and virtuosic collection of interlocking stories, each one "a marvel of concision and compassion" (Washington Post), Peter Orner, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and "master of his form" (New York Times), takes the short story to new heights.
 
Through forty-four compressed gems, Peter Orner, a writer who "doesn't... Read more

The Language of Flowers

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing, moving, and elegantly written debut novel, The Language of Flowers beautifully weaves past and present, creating a vivid portrait of an unforgettable woman whose gift for flowers helps her change the lives of others even as she struggles to overcome her own troubled past.

The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey... Read more

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming, warmhearted novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller A Man Called Ove.

Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy—as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her... Read more

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen... Read more

Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?

The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and... Read more

Rainbow Milk

By: Paul Mendez

Narrated by: Paul Mendez

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing.
 
"The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting... Read more

Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq

Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst... Read more

The Director

By: Daniel Kehlmann

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize–winning author), a visionary tale inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who fled to Hollywood to resist the Nazis only to be forced to return to his homeland and create propaganda films for the German Reich.

An artist’s life, a... Read more

The Butterfly Lampshade

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world

On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight... Read more

A Room Called Earth

By: Madeleine Ryan

Narrated by: Madeleine Ryan

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A resolute deep dive into an inner self, a transcendent character study, and a timely reminder that there’s an entire universe inside of everyone we meet. You will be moved.” —Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook

“[N]uanced and uplifting.” —Buzzfeed

An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young... Read more

A Key to Treehouse Living

By: Elliot Reed

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Mark Haddon, Tony Earley, and Jonathan Safran Foer, an epic tale of boyhood from an unforgettable new voice.

"Disorienting, weirdly wise, indescribably transparent, impossibly recognizable. Fun, too." —Joy Williams
A Key to Treehouse Living is the adventure of William Tyce, a boy without parents, who grows up near a river... 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

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

A Wild Winter Swan

By: Gregory Maguire

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's poignant coming-of-age story, set amid the magic of... Read more