Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Strangeness in My Mind

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 21 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red: a soaring, panoramic new novel—his first since The Museum of Innocence—telling the unforgettable tale of an Istanbul street vendor and the love of his life.

Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life... Read more

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century

Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness,... Read more

Snapper

By: Brian Kimberling

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

**NPR's Best Books of the Year 2013**

A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
 
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives... Read more

Blood & Beauty

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most... Read more

Torch

By: Cheryl Strayed

Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Wild weaves a searing and luminous tale of a family's grief after unexpected loss. • "A deeply honest novel of life after catastrophe, of intimacy lost and found." —O, The Oprah Magazine

"Work hard. Do good. Be incredible!" is the advice Teresa Rae Wood shares with the listeners of her... Read more

A Thousand Pardons

By: Jonathan Dee

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee’s novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really want when we ask for forgiveness?
 
Once a privileged and... Read more

Save Yourself

By: Kelly Braffet

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an "electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller."

Patrick Cusimano’s life can’t get much worse. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother’s girlfriend, Caro, has pushed their friendship to an uncomfortable new level.  On... Read more

China Dolls

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating portrait of life as a Chinese American woman in the 1930s and ’40s.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Superb . . . This emotional, informative and brilliant page-turner resonates with resilience and humanity.”—The Washington Post (One of the Best Books of the Year) 
 
San Francisco, 1938: A world’s fair is... Read more

This Census-Taker

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: Matthew Frow

Length: 4 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, David Mitchell, and Karen Russell, This Census-Taker is a stunning, uncanny, and profoundly moving novella from multiple-award-winning and bestselling author China Miéville.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a profoundly traumatic... Read more

Arcadia

By: Iain Pears

Narrated by: John Lee & Jayne Entwistle

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the international best seller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Arcadia is an astonishing work of imagination. 

Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future—or the past?

In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his... Read more

Where Lilacs Still Bloom

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Susan Denaker

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager
 
German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose:... Read more

Hostage

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
            It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in... Read more

I Am Forbidden

By: Anouk Markovits

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.

In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by a Gentile maid, who raises him as her own son. Five years later, Josef rescues a young... Read more

Lust for Life

By: Irving Stone

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Lust For Life is Irving Stone's biographical novel about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh. Read more

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

By: Deborah Moggach

Narrated by: Juliet Mills

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major motion picture starring Jude Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson, and Maggie Smith.
 
When Ravi Kapoor, an overworked London doctor, reaches the breaking point with his difficult father-in-law, he asks his wife: “Can’t we just send him away somewhere? Somewhere far, far away.” His prayer is seemingly answered when Ravi’s... Read more

Death Comes to Pemberley

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A rare meeting of literary genius: P. D. James, long among the most admired mystery writers of our time, draws the characters of Jane Austen’s beloved novel Pride and Prejudice into a tale of murder and emotional mayhem.
 
It is 1803, six years since Elizabeth and Darcy embarked on their life together at Pemberley, Darcy’s magnificent... Read more

The Dead Do Not Improve

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run.
 
      On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a... Read more

The Fat Years

By: Chan Koonchung

Narrated by: David Tse

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
 
Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop... Read more

Coincidence Engine

By: Sam Leith

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“A tremendous novel—droll, savvy, original. An invigorating blast of fiction.”
—William Boyd, Author of Any Human Heart and Restless.”
              
A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the back country of Alabama, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junkyard waste. This piques the interest of the enigmatic... Read more

The Watch

By: Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya

Narrated by: Various

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

   Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? Single-minded... Read more

True Believers

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle

In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of... Read more

Ancient Light

By: John Banville

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.

Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this... Read more

The Flowers of War

By: Geling Yan

Narrated by: Samantha Quan

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) has based his latest film starring Christian Bale to be released in 2012.
 
This moving short novel is based on true events that took place during the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese invaded the Chinese city,... Read more

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more