Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Jazz - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author.

“As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison... Read more

Heartbroken

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Long after anyone expected Kate to do anything with her life, she did. Using the journals left behind by her aunt and grandmother, she wrote a novel based on a very real, generation-old love story that ended in tragedy. On the other side of town, Emily is about to set fire to her life. She’s in a dead-end job and is involved with the wrong man;... Read more

Wife 22

By: Melanie Gideon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.

Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I... Read more

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 18 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Six years after her Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, A Thousand Acres, and three years after her witty, acclaimed, and best-selling novel of academe, Moo, Jane Smiley once again demonstrates her extraordinary range and brilliance.

Her new novel, set in the 1850s, speaks to us in a splendidly quirky voice--the strong, wry, no-nonsense voice of... Read more

Anil's Ghost

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.

Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in... Read more

Drowning Ruth

By: Christina Schwarz

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.

Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers... Read more

Carry Me Across the Water

By: Ethan Canin

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America. At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate — a shocking encounter with a... Read more

The Paradise Guest House

By: Ellen Sussman

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting and poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home—perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garland’s The Beach.
 
It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the... Read more

The Tin Horse

By: Janice Steinberg

Narrated by: Kate McGregor-Stewart

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stunning tradition of Lisa See, Maeve Binchy, and Alice Hoffman, The Tin Horse is a rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience.

It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greenstein’s twin sister, Barbara, ran away,... Read more

Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 38 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light

Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art,... Read more

And Sons

By: David Gilbert

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish

“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

Who is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding, The Emperor’s... Read more

The Drowning House

By: Elizabeth Black

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping suspense story about a woman who returns to Galveston, Texas after a personal tragedy and is irresistibly drawn into the insular world she’s struggled to leave.

Photographer Clare Porterfield's once-happy marriage is coming apart, unraveling under the strain of a family tragedy. When she receives an invitation to direct an exhibition... Read more

The Aviator's Wife

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Loving Frank and The Paris Wife, acclaimed novelist Melanie Benjamin pulls back the curtain on the marriage of one of America’s most extraordinary couples: Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
 
“The history [is] exhilarating. . . . The Aviator’s Wife soars.”—USA Today
 
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

For much of her life, Anne... Read more

A Dual Inheritance

By: Joanna Hershon

Narrated by: Joanna Hershon

Length: 18 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Rules of Civility and The Marriage Plot, Joanna Hershon’s A Dual Inheritance is an engrossing novel of passion, friendship, betrayal, and class—and their reverberations across generations.
 
Autumn 1962: Ed Cantowitz and Hugh Shipley meet in their final year at Harvard. Ed is far removed from Hugh’s privileged upbringing as a... Read more

Ghostman

By: Roger Hobbs

Narrated by: Jake Weber

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist.

When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his... Read more

The Smart One

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing... Read more

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

By: Edward Kelsey Moore

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Pamella D'Pella

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STREAMING ON HULU •  A warmhearted, "complex, believable, and always intriguing story” (The New York Journal of Books) that celebrates female friendship and second chances

This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the... Read more

The Lost Art of Mixing

By: Erica Bauermeister

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Essential Ingredients in this luminous sequel.

Lillian and her restaurant have a way of drawing people together. There’s Al, the accountant who finds meaning in numbers and ritual; Chloe, a budding chef who hasn’t learned to trust after heartbreak;... Read more

Scent of Darkness

By: Margot Berwin

Narrated by: Margot Berwin

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In her best-selling debut, Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire, Margot Berwin brought us to the rain forests of Mexico—to a land of shamans, spirit animals, and snake charmers—in the search for nine rare and valuable plants. Now, with her hotly anticipated second novel, Berwin takes us somewhere darker: deep into the bayous of... Read more

Benediction

By: Kent Haruf

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year

From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.

When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as... Read more

Enon

By: Paul Harding

Narrated by: Paul Harding

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • American Library Association• Kirkus Reviews

A stunning allegorical novel about one man’s enduring love for his daughter

Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “like... Read more

The Antagonist

By: Lynn Coady

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A piercing epistolary novel, The Antagonist explores, with wit and compassion, how the impressions of others shape, pervert, and flummox both our perceptions of ourselves and our very nature.

Gordon Rankin Jr., aka “Rank,” thinks of himself as “King Midas in reverse”—and indeed misfortune seems to follow him at every turn. Against his will and... Read more

Letters From Skye

By: Jessica Brockmole

Narrated by: Elle Newlands, Katy Townsend, Lincoln Hoppe, Ad...

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping story told in letters, spanning two continents and two world wars, Jessica Brockmole’s atmospheric debut novel captures the indelible ways that people fall in love, and celebrates the power of the written word to stir the heart.
 
March 1912: Twenty-four-year-old Elspeth Dunn, a published poet, has never seen the world beyond her home... Read more

Silent House

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: Emrhys Cooper, Jonathan Cowley, John Lee, Julie...

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980.

In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades,... Read more