Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Nest

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives.Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on... Read more

Two If by Sea

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jacquelyn Mitchard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean, the “suspenseful, otherwordly, and nearly impossible to put down” (People) story about an unlikely hero whose life is transformed when he rescues a boy with an extraordinary gift.

Just hours after his wife and her entire family perish in the Christmas... Read more

At the Edge of the Orchard

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne & ...

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

“With impeccable research and flawless prose, Chevalier perfectly conjures the grandeur of the pristine Wild West . . . and the everyday adventurers—male and female—who were bold enough or foolish enough to be drawn to the unknown. She crafts for us an excellent experience.”
—USA Today

From internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier,... Read more

Shelter

By: Jung Yun

Narrated by: Raymond Lee

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

You can never know what goes on behind closed doors.

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year (Selected by Edan Lepucki)

Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is... Read more

Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

Narrated by: Robert Fass & Nicole Poole

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world where the human population has suffered devastating losses, a handful of survivors cling to what passes for life in a post-apocalyptic, dying landscape. A world where humans wander, drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. A dying world of no children and no art, where reading is forbidden. And a strange love triangle: Spofforth, who... Read more

The Opposite of Everyone

By: Joshilyn Jackson

Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A fiercely independent divorce lawyer learns the power of family and connection when she receives a cryptic message from her estranged mother in this bittersweet, witty novel from the nationally bestselling author of Someone Else’s Love Story and gods in Alabama—an emotionally resonant tale about the endurance of love and the power of stories to... Read more

The Arrangement

By: Ashley Warlick

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Absolutely dazzling.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

“Filled with food and passion...If you love historical fiction, you'll fall hard for this one.”  —Bustle.com


She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.

Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances... Read more

The Ramblers

By: Aidan Donnelley Rowley

Narrated by: Erica Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of J. Courtney Sullivan, Meg Wolitzer, Claire Messud, and Emma Straub, a gorgeous and absorbing novel of a trio of confused souls struggling to find themselves and the way forward in their lives, set against the spectacular backdrop of contemporary New York City.Set in the most magical parts of Manhattan—the Upper West Side, Central... Read more

Georgia

By: Dawn Tripp

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a dazzling work of historical fiction in the vein of Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Dawn Tripp brings to life Georgia O’Keeffe, her love affair with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, and her quest to become an independent artist.

This is not a love story. If it were, we would have the same story. But he has his, and I have... Read more

The Queen of the Night

By: Alexander Chee

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From a writer praised by Junot Díaz as “the fire, in my opinion, and the light,” comes a mesmerizing novel that follows one woman’s rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva.Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singer’s chance at immortality. When... Read more

The Flood Girls

By: Richard Fifield

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more

The Forgetting Time

By: Sharon Guskin

Narrated by: David Pittu & Susan Bennett

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops.

For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has... Read more

Sweetgirl

By: Travis Mulhauser

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the heart, daring, and evocative atmosphere of Winter’s Bone and True Grit, and driven by the raw, whip-smart voice of Percy James, a blistering debut about a fearless sixteen-year old girl whose search for her missing mother leads to an unexpected discovery, and a life or death struggle in the harsh frozen landscape of the Upper Midwest.As... Read more

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book... Read more

Love in Lowercase

By: Francesc Miralles

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A feel-good novel for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Rosie Project, about an eccentric, language-loving bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life’s little pleasures

The Silver Linings Playbook author Matthew Quick:
“A delightfully absurd, life-affirming celebration. I literally stood up and cheered as I read the last page.”

When Samuel, a... Read more

Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist

By: Sunil Yapa

Narrated by: Aaron Landon

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This electrifying novel from an award-winning author follows a grieving father and son as they find themselves on opposite sides of a protest during an important moment in history.

Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both... Read more

Fallen Land

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Poe deftly guides this engaging story, describing the band of marauding former soldiers as they pillage the countryside. Poe's portrayal of the lovely but tragic Ava is most affecting. He uses pacing and pauses to build tension during showdowns and softens his delivery in the tender scenes between the two lovers." — AudioFile Magazine

Fallen... Read more

The Expatriates

By: Janice Y. K. Lee

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Raise a glass: The first great book-club novel of 2016 has arrived.” —USA Today, 4/4 stars

“A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation.” —The Skimm

Janice Y. K. Lee’s New York Times bestselling debut, The... Read more

American Housewife

By: Helen Ellis

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney, Lisa Cordileone, Rebecca Lo...

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon line.

Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. They... Read more

The Guest Room

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò & Grace Experience

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams.

When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his brother’s... Read more

The Song of Hartgrove Hall

By: Natasha Solomons

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating novel that evokes the author’s New York Times bestseller The House at TynefordIt’s a terrible thing to covet your brother’s girl.New Year’s Eve, 1946. Candles flicker, and a gramophone scratches out a tune as guests dance and sip champagne. For one night only, Hartgrove Hall relives better days. Harry Fox-Talbot and his brothers... Read more

Eileen

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense, by one of the brightest new voices in fiction So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid... Read more

In a Dark, Dark Wood

By: Ruth Ware

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

*AUTHOR OF THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 and THE LYING GAME
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

An NPR Best Book of the Year * An Entertainment Weekly Summer Books Pick * A Buzzfeed “31 Books to Get Excited About this Summer” Pick * A Publishers Weekly “Top Ten Mysteries and Thrillers”... Read more

The Book of Speculation

By: Erika Swyler

Narrated by: David Pittu, Katherine Kellgren & Ari Fliakos

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BuzzFeed's Best Fiction Books of the Year

In the tradition of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants, Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus, and Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, The Book of Speculation--with two-color illustrations by the author--is Erika Swyler's moving debut novel about the power of books, family, and magic.

Simon Watson, a... Read more