Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Midnight Cool

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Whiting Award—winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe—mules.A middle-aged Irish immigrant,... Read more

Leopard at the Door

By: Jennifer McVeigh

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the author of The Fever Tree.
 
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she’d longed for is much changed. Her father’s new... Read more

The Guest Cat

By: Takashi Hiraide

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of... Read more

Nobody Is Ever Missing

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

You can run all the way to New Zealand, but eventually you’ll catch up with yourself.Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking,... Read more

The Red Notebook

By: Antoine Laurain

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red... Read more

Normal

By: Warren Ellis

Narrated by: John Hodgman

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer

Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.

There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about... Read more

The Fate of the Tearling

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Tearling trilogy.In less than a year, Kelsea Glynn has transformed from a gawky teenager into a powerful monarch. As she has come into her own as the Queen of the Tearling, the headstrong, visionary leader has also transformed her realm. In her quest to end corruption and restore... Read more

I'll Take You There

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one Baby Boomer's life—Felix Funicello, introduced in Wishin’ and Hopin’—and the trio of unforgettable women who have changed it, in this radiant homage to the resiliency, strength, and power of women.I’ll Take You There centers on Felix, a film... Read more

Faithful

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Amber Tamblyn

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Marriage of Opposites and The Dovekeepers comes a soul-searching story about a young woman struggling to redefine herself and the power of love, family, and fate.

Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best... Read more

Children of the New World

By: Alexander Weinstein

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN

Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these... Read more

A Gambler's Anatomy

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a devilishly entertaining novel about an international backgammon hustler who thinks he's psychic. Too bad about the tumor in his face.

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from amateur "whales" who think they can... Read more

Mister Monkey

By: Francine Prose

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the... Read more

Nicotine

By: Nell Zink

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The ""wonderfully talented"" (Dwight Garner, New York Times) author of Mislaid returns with a fierce and audaciously funny novel of families—both the ones we’re born into and the ones we create—a story of obsession, idealism, and ownership, centered around a young woman who inherits her bohemian late father's childhood home.Recent business... Read more

Mercury

By: Margot Livesey

Narrated by: Derek Perkins & Nicol Zanzarella

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut emotional thriller about love, obsession and the secrets that pull a family apart.Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optician in suburban Boston, he rests assured that he and his wife, Viv, who works at the local stables, will live out quiet lives with their two children. Then Mercury—a gorgeous young... Read more

Reputations

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant novel about the power of politics and personal memory from one of South America's literary stars, the New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Things Falling.

Javier Mallarino is a living legend. He is his country's most influential political cartoonist, the consciousness of a nation. A man capable of repealing laws,... Read more

Mischling

By: Affinity Konar

Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pearl is in charge of: the sad, the good, the past.

Stasha must care for: the funny, the future, the bad.

It's 1944 when the twin sisters arrive at Auschwitz with their mother and grandfather. In their benighted new world, Pearl and Stasha Zagorski take refuge in their identical natures, comforting themselves with the private language and... Read more

The Nix

By: Nathan Hill

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 21 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.

“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and... Read more

The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko

By: Scott Stambach

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Fault In Our Stars meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan, which is why he turns everything into a game, manipulating people and events around him for his own... Read more

Arrowood

By: Laura McHugh

Narrated by: Sarah Scott

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child

A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds

ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST

Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River... Read more

Another Brooklyn

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the National Book AwardNew York Times Bestseller The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read more

Carousel Court

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more

The Muse

By: Jessie Burton

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Maria Elena Infantino

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Miniaturist comes a captivating and brilliantly realized story of two young women—a Caribbean immigrant in 1960s London, and a bohemian woman in 1930s Spain—and the powerful mystery that ties them together.England, 1967. Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London.... Read more

The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. 

When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more

The Inseparables

By: Stuart Nadler

Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.

In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a... Read more