Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Green on Blue

By: Elliot Ackerman

Narrated by: Piter Marek

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"From a decorated veteran of the Iraq and Afghan Wars, and White House Fellow, a stirring debut novel about a young Afghan orphan and the harrowing, intractable nature of war.

Aziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan. There is no school, but their mother... Read more

Welcome to Braggsville

By: T. Geronimo Johnson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, MEN’S JOURNAL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, NPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEEDWINNER OF THE 2015 ERNEST J. GAINES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCELONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR... Read more

Satin Island

By: Tom McCarthy

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

MEET U. - CORPORATE ANTHROPOLOGIST secreted in the basement of a large consultancy. U. spends his time toiling away at a great, epoch-defining public project which no one, least of all its own creators, understands. Besieged by data, confronted at every turn by the fact of his own redundancy, U. grows obsessed with the images - oil-spills,... Read more

The Room

By: Jonas Karlsson

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“The daily grind got you down? Escape into this Swedish dark comedy about a scaldingly contemptuous office drone who discovers a secret room in his workplace.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

The inspiration for the upcoming feature film Corner Office, starring Jon Hamm

Björn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the... Read more

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty

By: Amanda Filipacchi

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A magical and comedic take on modern love, the power of friendship, and the allure of disguise.

Meet the knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams--a man who can... Read more

The Ten Best Days of My Life

By: Adena Halpern

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-nine-year-old Alexandra Dorenfield suddenly finds herself in heaven after an unfortunate encounter with a Mini Cooper. The seventh—and highest—level of heaven to be exact. Her dog, Peaches, is with her; she is reunited with her beloved grandparents; she has the wardrobe of a movie star; and she lives in the house of her dreams next door... Read more

How to be both

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: John Banks

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel all about art’s versatility, borrowing from painting’s fresco technique to make an original literary double-take.

How to be both is a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There’s a Renaissance artist of the 1460s. There’s the child of a child of the 1960s. Two tales of love and injustice twist... Read more

Not Forgetting The Whale

By: John Ironmonger

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

THE STORY OF A MAN WHO HAD GIVEN UP HOPE...
...AND THE VILLAGE THAT GAVE IT BACK TO HIM
'Forget everything you know about apocalypses: this novel, set in Cornwall, will restore your faith in humanity' Elle UK
'A gentle and uplifting tale of warding off apocalypse in a remote corner of Cornwall' Financial Times
'As the front pages crowd with... Read more

Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story

By: Andrea Bennett

Narrated by: Maggie Mash

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The ‘bonkers’ book that 'it is impossible not to be moved by' DAILY MAIL A joyful and hilarious tale of some very spirited septuagenarians as they overcome innumerable obstacles to save their beloved mutt from a heartless exterminator in a land where bureaucracy reigns above all else. Perhaps you’re not a member of... Read more

Half Hour Stories

By: E. F. Benson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy de Ma...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 33 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A comprehensive collection of superb classic 30-minute short stories. Perfect for commuters, joggers or bedtime listening.

1. 'The Step' by E. F. Benson
2. 'The Squaw' by Bram Stoker
3. 'The Venturers' by O. Henry
4. 'The Assignation' by Edgar Allan Poe
5. 'Mixed Relations' by W. W. Jacobs
6. 'Mademoiselle Fifi' by Guy de... Read more

The Damned

By: Andrew Pyper

Narrated by: Corey Brill

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Demonologist, called “smart, thrilling, utterly unnerving” by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, comes a spine-tingling supernatural thriller.

Danny Orchard died on his sixteenth birthday—and so did his twin sister, Ashleigh—but Danny came back. He wrote a bestselling memoir about his experience... Read more

Anatomical Stories

By: Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins & W. F. Harvey

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying and macabre collection of anatomically inspired stories by the masters of gruseome fiction.

"The Telltale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Hair" by A. J. Alan
"Fingers of a Hand" by H. D. Everett
"Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Severed Hand" by Wilhelm Hauff
"The Mummy’s Foot" by Théophile Gautier
"The Eyes" by... Read more

El amor en los tiempos del cólera

By: Gabriel García Márquez & John D. Preston

Narrated by: Hector Almenara

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

De j├│venes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un m├®dico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est├í anonadado, pero es un rom├íntico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 peque├▒os romances, su coraz├│n todav├¡a pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el... Read more

Great Victorian Detective Stories

By: G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle & Edgar Wa...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the... Read more

Fifteen Minute Stories

By: O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling & Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A rich anthology of forty-five great stories by some of the most renowned storytellers in the world. Saki, O. Henry, Edgar Allan Poe, Barry Pain, Guy de Maupassant, M. R. James, A. J. Allan, Guy Boothby, Jerome K. Jerome and many more giants of the piterary world contribute to this collection of tiny tales which pack a huge punch. Read more

Twenty Minute Tales

By: O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle & Guy de Maupassant

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection of the most significant short stories by some of the world's greatest writers. Each story packs a great tale into around 20 minutes of concise and evocative narrative. Perfect for the 20-minute commute, the jog around the block, or the bed-time wind down. Read more

Crazy Love You

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the New York Times bestselling Jones Cooper series by Lisa Unger, falling in love should be a dream but sometimes it’s a living nightmare in this “haunting, compulsive tale that will have you under its spell long after you’ve closed the book” (Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author).

Darkness has a way of finding Ian when he is with... Read more

Amherst

By: William Nicholson

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Lesa Lockford

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Alice Dickinson, a young advertising executive in London, decides to take time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of the scandalous, adulterous love affair that took place between a young, Amherst college faculty wife, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson, in the 1880s. Austin, twenty-four... Read more

The Ten Minute Tales

By: Kate Chopin, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe & Var...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of 40 classic short stories which carry a huge punch, from the great classic authors: Oscar Wilde, Saki, Kate Chopin, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Banjo Paterson, W. W. Jacobs, Guy de Maupassant, and many more great names.

Look forward to the train being delayed, friends turning up late, walking the dog round the block, ironing that... Read more

Riveting Stories: Thirty Gripping Tales by Literary Masters

By: E. F. Benson, G. K. Chesterton & John Buchan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing collection of 30 wonderful stories by great classic writers.

1.The Invisible Man by G. K. Chesterton
2. At the Farmhouse by E. F. Benson
3. The Parasite by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4. The Watcher by the Threshold by John Buchan
5. Query by Seamark
6. The Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace
7. The Earl, the Warder... Read more

My Sunshine Away

By: M. O. Walsh

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"A tantalizing mystery and a tender coming-of-age story...Unputdownable."—Oprah.com

In the summer of 1989, a Baton Rouge neighborhood best known for cookouts on sweltering summer afternoons, cauldrons of spicy crawfish, and passionate football fandom is rocked by a violent crime when fifteen-year-old Lindy... Read more

In the Midst of Life

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer, Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of twenty-six short stories originally published in 1909 detailing the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. Ambrose Bierce’s stories about Civil War soldiers include“A Horseman in the Sky,”“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,”“Chickamauga,”“A Son of... Read more

A Spool of Blue Thread

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 

“It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon. . .” This is how Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate togetherness: an indefinable, enviable kind of specialness. But they are also like all... Read more

The Last Good Paradise

By: Tatjana Soli

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

On a small, unnamed coral atoll in the South Pacific, a group of troubled dreamers must face the possibility that the hopes they've labored after to single-mindedly might not lead lead them to the happiness that feel they were promised. Ann and Richard, an aspiring, Los Angeles power couple, are already sensing the cracks in their version of the... Read more