Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Vanity Fair: January–April 2015 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for... Read more

Odysseus Abroad

By: Amit Chaudhuri

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1985. Twenty-two-year-old Ananda has been in London for two years, practicing at being a poet. He's homesick, thinks of himself as an outsider, and yet he can't help feeling that there's something romantic, even poetic, in his isolation. His uncle, Radhesh, a magnificent failure who lives in genteel impoverishment and celibacy, has been in... Read more

Wings of the Dove - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Prunella Scales

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically acclaimed film. The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically... Read more

The Vorrh

By: Brian Catling

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 17 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of The Vorrh, a daring debut that Alan Moore has called “a phosphorescent masterpiece” and “the current century's first landmark work of fantasy.” 

Next to the colonial town of Essenwald sits the Vorrh, a vast—perhaps endless—forest. It is a place of demons and angels, of warriors and... Read more

My Struggle, Book 3

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A family of four-mother, father, and two boys-move to the south coast of Norway, to a new house on a newly developed site. It is the early 1970s and the family's trajectory is upwardly mobile: the future seems limitless. In painstaking, sometimes self-lacerating detail, Karl Ove Knausgaard paints a world familiar to anyone who can recall the... Read more

Devotion

By: Maile Meloy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the most popular and acclaimed story writers of her generation, a single-volume short story from the author of 2017's Do Not Become Alarmed, a beautifully packaged palm-sized gift book.

“That the yellow house was thrillingly affordable might have been a warning sign, if Eleanor had known how to read it. But she’d been desperate. She... Read more

Madam President

By: Nicolle Wallace

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Take “a breezy romp through the corridors of power town” (USA TODAY) with co-host of The View and former White House Communications director Nicolle Wallace in her electrifying insider novel of three powerful women on a day that will change the country forever.

Charlotte Kramer, the 45th President of the United States, has done the unprecedented... Read more

Early Warning

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winner: the second installment, following Some Luck, of her widely acclaimed, best-selling American trilogy, which brings the journey of a remarkable family with roots in the Iowa heartland into mid-century America

Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdon family at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who... Read more

The Art of Raising Hell

By: Thomas Lopinski

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL FROM BEST INDIE BOOK AWARDS.
“There are some people that walk around on two feet and others like me that run on all four.”
The Art of Raising Hell is a compelling, coming-of-age story that reminds its audience of the difference between chasing life and just living. It captures the essence of being young, green... Read more

Citizen

By: Claudia Rankine

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the... Read more

Jeremy Poldark

By: Winston Graham

Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"From the incomparable Winston Graham...who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more."
-THE GUARDIAN

Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life in this third novel of the Poldark series. Reeling from the tragic death of a loved one, Captain Poldark vents his grief by inciting impoverished locals to salvage the contents of a... Read more

Pleasantville

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFrom Attica Locke, a writer and producer of FOX’s Empire, this sophisticated thriller sees lawyer Jay Porter—hero of her bestseller Black Water Rising—return to fight one last case, only to become embroiled in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are... Read more

The Dive From Clausen's Pier

By: Ann Packer

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Dive from Clausen's Pier is one of those small miracles that reinforce our faith in fiction. It does what the best novels so often do, making the largest things visible by its perfect rendering of life on the smaller scale. It is witty, tragic and touching, and beguiling from the first page." --Scott Turow

A riveting novel about loyalty and... Read more

The Red Badge of Courage

By: Stephen Crane

Narrated by: Chris Lutkin

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Eighteen-year-old Henry Fleming is a private in the Union Army's 304th New York Regiment. Having enlisted despite his mother's protest, Henry internally questions if his bravery will hold true in the face of battle. Determining that all hope is lost during his regiment's first skirmish, Henry flees in the midst of a bleak and bloody situation.... Read more

The One I Was

By: Eliza Graham

Narrated by: Sue Pitkin & Michael Page

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Restless, troubled Rosamond Hunter has spent most of her life running away from the past, filled with guilt about her involuntary role in her mother’s death. When her nursing job brings her back to Fairfleet, her childhood home, to care for an elderly refugee, she is forced to confront the ghosts that have haunted her for so long.Her patient,... Read more

The Great Love Story Collection

By: Katherine Mansfield, George Gissing & Leonard M...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful collection of great classic love stories for the incurable romantic in all of us.

"The Scrupulous Father" by George Gissing
"The Marquise" by George Sand
"Her Lover" by Maxim Gorky
"A Long-Ago Affair" by John Galsworthy
"A Dill Pickle" by Katherine Mansfield
"Portrait of a Lady" by Jerome K. Jerome
"The Pig and... Read more

The Great Short Story Collection

By: Barry Pain, O. Henry & Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 26 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The short story is considered to be one of the most challenging genres because of the need for compact plotlines and the ability to conjure up atmosphere and character in a few sentences and to engage the reader instantly. This collection presents 66 of the greatest examples of the genre - many of them well known, some hidden literary treasures,... Read more

The Great Detective Collection

By: Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton & Ernest B...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 hours

Abridged: No

An engrossing collection of detective stories featuring all the great classic sleuths, including Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Max Carrados, J. G. Reeder, and C. Auguste Dupin.

1. "The Tea-Leaf" by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace
2. "The Queer Feet" by G. K. Chesterton
3. "The Curious Circumstances of the Two Left Shoes" by Ernest... Read more

Ten Childhood Tales

By: Katherine Mansfield, Kenneth Grahame & Sherwood...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A poignant and profound collection of stories which explore the theme of childhood and a child's perspective on the world.

"The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
"The Doll’s House" by Katherine Mansfield
"The Roman Road" by Kenneth Grahame
"The Sailor Uncle" by Mary Lamb
"The Egg" by Sherwood Anderson
"Gabriel-Ernest" by Saki
"A... Read more

The Turner House

By: Angela Flournoy

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, timely debut, The Turner House marks a major new contribution to the story of the American family.The Turners have lived on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house has seen thirteen children grown and gone—and some returned; it has seen the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father.... Read more

Waiting for the Man

By: Arjun Basu

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe, a 35-year-old advertising copywriter for a slick New York company, feels disillusioned with his life. Soon he starts dreaming of a mysterious man and, not long after, begins seeing him on the street and hearing his voice. The voice overwhelms Joe and he starts to listen to it, camping out on the front steps of his stoop, waiting for... Read more

Ross Poldark

By: Winston Graham

Narrated by: Oliver Hembrough

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters and one of the greatest love stories of our age.

Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family and his beloved Elizabeth. But instead he discovers that his father has... Read more

The Fishermen

By: Chigozie Obioma

Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this striking novel about an unforgettable childhood, four Nigerian brothers encounter a madman whose mystic prophecy of violence threatens the core of their close-knit family

Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure.... Read more

The Fair Fight

By: Anna Freeman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre & Steve West

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club in this page-turning novel set in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late-eighteenth-century England.Moving from a filthy brothel to a fine manor house, from the world of street fighters to the world of champions, The Fair Fight is a vivid, propulsive historical novel announcing... Read more