Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Sherlock Holmes - The Ordeals of Sherlock Holmes

By: Jonathan Barnes

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Four decades. Four cases. One solution. From the plains of Afghanistan to the alleyways of Victorian London, join Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson in a quartet of astonishing new investigations which span their lifelong friendship and beyond... Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Adventure of the Perfidious Mariner

By: Jonathan Barnes

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the summer of 1912. Sherlock Holmes, estranged from Dr Watson, lives in reclusive retirement on the South Downs. Yet he will be forced to try to solve a new mystery - one of the most diabolical and fiendish murders he has ever confronted... Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Tangled Skein

By: David Stuart Davies & adapted by Richard Dinnick

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A threat to Holmes’s life, murders on Hampstead Heath and a deadly phantom lady lead Holmes and Watson into the most dangerous investigation they have ever undertaken: an encounter which brings them face to face with Count Dracula, the Lord of the Undead. Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Reification of Hans Gerber

By: George Mann

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

When one of the Maugham family meets an untimely death, it seems impossible to fathom who the murderer is, and with the arrival of Hans Gerber, the case becomes even more confusing. Holmes must use every ounce of his skill to unravel this dastardly plot. Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Final Problem/The Empty House

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & adapted by Nicholas Br...

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is a hunted man. Having unearthed the criminal mastermind behind the greatest crimes in the land, Holmes has found himself a fugitive. But the Great Detective already has a plan in motion... Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Death and Life

By: David Stuart Davies

Narrated by: Roger Llewellyn

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by the tag of ‘the Sherlock Holmes man’ and tired of his creation, author Arthur Conan Doyle employs the services of Moriarty to end the career of the Great Detective. He did not reckon on his fictional character’s immortality... Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Last Act

By: David Stuart Davies

Narrated by: Roger Llewellyn

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the funeral of John Watson, Sherlock Holmes delves into the darker aspects of his own history, revealing a shocking secret. Realising how lonely and isolated he is, he comes to wonder whether, like Watson, he too has come to the end of his time… Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

Helen Stoner consults Holmes about the death of her twin sister, Julia, who died crying: "it was the Speckled Band!" But can Helen be believed? Is Dr Roycroft as bad as he seems? And can the specked handkerchiefs worn by the gypsies be a coincidence? Read more

Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & adapted by Richard Din...

Narrated by: Nicholas Briggs & Richard Earl

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Dr Mortimer ventures from Devonshire to Baker Street, with news of the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Can it really be that the grisly legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles might have something to do with the case? Read more

The Way Life Should Be

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author of Bird in Hand, comes a novel of love, risk, and self-discovery—includes a special PS section featuring insights, interviews, and more.Angela can feel the clock ticking. She is single in New York City, stuck in a job she doesn’t want and a life... Read more

The Awakening

By: Kate Chopin

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin... Read more

There Is Simply Too Much to Think About

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 20 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping collection and a tribute to one of the most influential, daring, and visionary minds of the twentieth centuryThe year 2015 marks several literary milestones: the centennial of Saul Bellow's birth, the tenth anniversary of his death, and the publication of Zachary Leader's much anticipated biography. Bellow—a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer... Read more

The Infernal

By: Mark Doten

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early years of the Iraq War, a severely burned boy appears on a remote rock formation in the Akkad Valley. A shadowy, powerful group within the U.S. government speculates: Who is he? Where did he come from? And, crucially, what does he know?




In pursuit of that information, an interrogator is summoned from his prison cell, and a hideous and... Read more

The Architect's Apprentice

By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Piter Marek

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire, from the acclaimed author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese’s Book Club Pick) Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s “Reading Room” Book ClubIn this novel, Turkey’s preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman... Read more

The Harder They Come

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Graham Hamilton

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author T.C. Boyle makes his Ecco debut with a powerful, gripping novel that explores the roots of violence and anti-authoritarianism inherent in the American character.Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people—an aging... Read more

The World Before Us

By: Aislinn Hunter

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a hauntingly poignant novel about madness, loss, and the ties that bind our past to our present
 
Deep in the woods of northern England, somewhere between a dilapidated estate and an abandoned Victorian asylum, fifteen-year-old Jane Standen lived through a nightmare.  She was babysitting a sweet young... Read more

Burger’s Daughter

By: Nadine Gordimer

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Burger's Daughter, Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer uses a coming-of-age story to explore the complicated political circumstances of modern South Africa.Rosa Burger is a white South African woman in her early twenties trying to uphold the political heritage handed on by her martyred parents while carving out a sense of self. Cast in the... Read more

The Lost Boys Symphony

By: Mark Ferguson

Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A startingly original, genre-bending literary debut in which a lovesick college student is abducted by his future selves.

After Henry's girlfriend Val leaves him and transfers to another school, his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways. Cause and effect, once so reliable, no longer appear to be related in any... Read more

The Precious One

By: Marisa de los Santos

Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle & Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Together comes a captivating novel about friendship, family, second chances, and the redemptive power of love.In all her life, Eustacia “Taisy” Cleary has given her heart to only three men: her first love, Ben Ransom; her twin brother, Marcus; and Wilson... Read more

A Reunion Of Ghosts

By: Judith Claire Mitchell

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter & William Charlton

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALIST“The Alter sisters are mordant, wry, and crystalline in wit and vision; it is a tremendous pleasure to rocket through generations of their family histories with them.” —Lauren Groff, New York Timesbestselling author of Fates and Furies, The Monsters of Templeton, and ArcadiaIn the waning days of 1999, the... Read more

The Mermaid's Child

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay, and remain an outsider forever, or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a grueling journey that crosses oceans and continents—from... Read more

Notes from a Dead House

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From renowned translators Richard Pevear and Lindsay Volokhonsky comes a new translation—certain to become the definitive version—of the first great prison memoir, a fictionalized account of Fyodor Dostoevsky's life-changing penal servitude in Siberia.Sentenced to death for advocating socialism in 1849, Dostoevsky served a commuted sentence of... Read more

Night at the Fiestas

By: Kirstin Valdez Quade

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

***National Book Foundation 2014 "5 Under 35" honoree*** Set in northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters... Read more

The Animals

By: Christian Kiefer

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Christian Kiefer's highly acclaimed debut novel, The Infinite Tides, was described by Kirkus Reviews as "so rich as to inspire rereading." In The Animals, wildlife sanctuary manager Bill Reed leads an idyllic life in rural Idaho. But when a childhood friend gets out of prison, Bill must confront the consequences of his own criminal youth. Read more