Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!

"You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King

"Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . . The ideas are big and the journey is a whole lot of fun." —The New York Times

"[An] excellent page-turner. . . a... Read more

The Snowbirds

By: Christina Clancy

Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Karissa Vacker

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble in this engrossing story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads.

"Vacker's easily distinguishable voices and Halstead's clear readings combine for an enjoyable listening experience.” —AudioFile

Kim and Grant are at a... Read more

The Wilderness of Girls

By: Madeline Claire Franklin

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching YA debut about a troubled teen who discovers a pack of feral girls in the woods and is swept up in the ensuing mystery: Are the Wild Girls of Happy Valley lost princesses from a faraway land, as they believe, or are they brainwashed victims of a deranged kidnapper?   In her ambitious debut perfect for fans of Sadie and The Hazel... Read more

Hotel Cuba

By: Aaron Hamburger

Narrated by: Marie Hoffman

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its stunning conclusion. In short: You need to read this book.... Read more

A Funny Kind of Paradise

By: Jo Owens

Narrated by: Maggie Huculak

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant, uplifting, brilliantly insightful story of one woman's end-of-life reckoning with her past, her lost daughter and herself, for readers of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Still Alice and Elizabeth Is Missing.

When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she wasn't always gentle or... Read more

The Anatomy of Desire

By: L. R. Dorn

Narrated by: Santino Fontana, Shelby Young, Marin Ireland, J...

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Audie Award finalist for Multi-Voice Performance!Performed docuseries style by a star-studded full cast including Santino Fontana, Shelby Young , Marin Ireland, JD Jackson, Dan Bittner, Vikas Adam, Gabra Zackman, Fred Berman, Darrell Dennis, Oliver Wyman, Jonathan Davis, Hilary Huber, and Lisa FlanaganFor fans of riveting true crime docuseries a... 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

My Monticello

By: Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, January LaVoy, Landon Woodson, ...

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An AudioFile Earphones Award winner

Read by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King

“A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle

"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer... Read more

Something to Live For

By: Richard Roper

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published as How Not to Die Alone

Smart, darkly funny, and life-affirming, for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Something to Live For is the bighearted debut novel we all need, a story about love, loneliness, and the importance of taking a chance when we feel we have the most to lose.

"Off-beat and winning...Gives... Read more

Night and Day

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon, Gerard Logan, Jeff Harding & M...

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author John Connolly, “one of the best thriller writers we have” (Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author), returns with a shivery collection of supernatural tales.

Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional... Read more

All My Puny Sorrows

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly).

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's life is enviable (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too... Read more

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

By: Anthony Marra

Narrated by: Colette Whitaker

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, hailed as “an absolute masterpiece” (Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly)—from the renowned author of Mercury Pictures Presents
 
“Extraordinary . . . a twenty-first century War and Peace.”—The New York Times... Read more

Hummingbird Salamander

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all thingsSecurity consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the... Read more

Everything I Never Told You

By: Celeste Ng

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book... Read more

Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a... Read more

Turbulence

By: David Szalay

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice*

A “masterful” (The Washington Post), “cathartic” (Star Tribune, Minneapolis), novel about twelve people, mostly strangers, and the surprising ripple effect each one has on the life of the next as they cross paths while in transit around the world—from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of All That... Read more

Setting Free the Kites

By: Alex George

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope.
 
For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who... Read more

The Office of Historical Corrections

By: Danielle Evans

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Nicole Lewis, Brittany Pr...

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2021 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY O MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, THE WASHINGTON POST, REAL SIMPLE, THE GUARDIAN, AND MORE 

FINALIST FOR: THE STORY PRIZE, THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE

“Sublime short stories of race, grief, and belonging . . . an extraordinary... Read more

Summerlings

By: Lisa Howorth

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s the summer of 1959 in the seemingly tranquil suburbs of Washington, D.C. But our young narrator, John, and his best friends, Ivan and Max, know the truth: every door on their street could be hiding an escaped Nazi or a spy with secrets about the A-bomb. The entire city is being plagued by an inexplicable spider infestation—surely evidence... Read more

The Wanderers

By: Meg Howrey

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.
 
“A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross planetary journey into the mysteries of space and... Read more

Year of Wonders

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post

An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize 

... Read more

On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more

The Betrayals

By: Bridget Collins

Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Sam Woolf & Sarah Ovens

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller!“Dizzyingly wonderful . . . a perfectly constructed work of fiction, with audacious twists . . . Collins plays her own game here with perfect skill.” — The Times (UK) An intricate and utterly spellbinding literary epic brimming with enchantment, mystery, and dark secrets from the highly acclaimed author of the #1... Read more

Eartheater

By: Dolores Reyes

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A ""FALL 2020 MUST-READ"" AND ONE OF THE ""BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020"" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, WIRED, COSMOPOLITAN AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people—an imaginative synthesis... Read more