Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Jaguar's Children

By: John Vaillant

Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez & David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing.
 
Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not... Read more

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe

By: Romain Puertolas

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A charmingly exuberant comic debut from an exciting new literary voice,  and a “quirky, hilarious, elegantly written farce” (The Daily Telegraph), The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his adventure of a lifetime.  

When the fakir—a professional... Read more

The Grown Ups

By: Robin Antalek

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Spanning over a decade, told in alternating voices, The Grown Ups explores the indelible bonds of friends and family and the connections that form between Sam, Suzie, and Bella as they navigate parents, siblings, and one another on the way to becoming who they really want to be when they grow up. Read more

A Love Most Dangerous

By: Martin Lake

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Her beauty was a blessing…and a dangerous burden…As a Maid of Honor at the Court of King Henry VIII, beautiful Alice Petherton receives her share of admirers. But when the powerful, philandering Sir Richard Rich attempts to seduce her, she knows she cannot thwart his advances for long. She turns to the most powerful man in England for... Read more

My Struggle, Book 1

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

My Struggle: Book One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the rare work of dazzling literary originality that... Read more

Frog

By: Mo Yan

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Red Sorghum and China’s most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize.

In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan’s position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history... Read more

Blood-Drenched Beard

By: Daniel Galera

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man's father, close to death, reveals to his son the true story of his grandfather's death, or at least the truth as he knows it. The mean old gaucho was murdered by some fellow villagers in Garopaba, a sleepy town on the Atlantic now famous for its surfing and fishing. It was almost an execution, vigilante style. Or so the story goes.... Read more

A Small Indiscretion

By: Jan Ellison

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a brilliantly paced, beautifully written debut novel about one woman’s reckoning with a youthful mistake.

“Part... Read more

Almost Famous Women

By: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating lives of the characters in Almost Famous Women have mostly been forgotten, but their stories are burning to be told. Nearly every story in this dazzling collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity - she raced speed boats or was a conjoined twin in show business; a reclusive painter of renown; a member of the first... Read more

Black River

By: S. M. Hulse

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Wes Carver returns to Black River, he carries two things in the cab of his truck: his wife's ashes and a letter from the prison parole board. The convict who held him hostage during a riot twenty years ago is being considered for release.



Wes has been away from Black River ever since the riot. He grew up in this small Montana town, and, like... Read more

The Quaker Café

By: Brenda Bevan Remmes

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When Liz Hoole, a free-spirited liberal from the Midwest, marries into a conservative Quaker family, she knows that raising children in compliance with Quaker values will be challenging. Twenty-five years later, she still feels like she’s falling short of expectations. Fortunately, her faith and her friends in the small, rural North Carolina... Read more

Mobile Library

By: David Whitehouse

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning novelist David Whitehouse, hailed by The New York Times as “a writer to watch,” a tragicomic adventure about a troubled adolescent boy who escapes his small town in a stolen library-on-wheels.

“An archivist of his mother,” Bobby Nusku spends his nights meticulously cataloging her hair, clothing, and other traces of the life... Read more

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By: Emma Hooper

Narrated by: Robert G. Slade

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This “poetic, poignant” (US Weekly) debut features last great adventures, unlikely heroes, and a “sweet, disarming story of lasting love” (The New York Times Book Review).

Eighty-three-year-old Etta has never seen the ocean. So early one morning she takes a rifle, some chocolate, and her best boots and begins walking the 3,232 kilometers from... Read more

Cane and Abe

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author James Grippando, in which Miami’s top prosecutor becomes a prime suspect in his wife’s disappearance, which may have a chilling connection to the woman he can’t forget.Unbelievable was the word for her. Samantha Vine was unbelievably beautiful. It was unbelievable that she’d... Read more

My Father's Wives

By: Mike Greenberg

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The co-host of ESPN’s Mike and Mike follows up his New York Times bestseller All You Could Ask For with this poignant story of one man’s search to understand himself, his marriage, and his father.Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one... Read more

See How Small

By: Scott Blackwood

Narrated by: Rengin Altay

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting novel about the aftermath of a brutal murder of three teenage girls, written in incantatory prose "that's as fine as any being written by an American author today" (Ben Fountain).

One late autumn evening in a Texas town, two strangers walk into an ice cream shop shortly before closing time. They bind up the three teenage girls who are... Read more

First Frost

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Addison Allen, beloved author of Garden Spells, returns with a luminous story of the trouble with hanging on too long, and the magic that happens when you finally let go.Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beat-up suitcase. He has stories to tell, stories... Read more

Of Marriageable Age

By: Sharon Maas

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 18 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A spellbinding story of forbidden love. Three continents, three decades, three very disparate lives:



Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in Madras. But the traditional customs of her Brahmin family clash against English upper-class prejudice, threatening her love for the privileged son of... Read more

Mort(e)

By: Robert Repino

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A genre-busting postapocalyptic first novel—a page-turning adventure channeling Animal Farm as imagined by Cormac McCarthyThe "war with no name" has begun; its goal, human extinction. The instigator of this war is the Colony, a race of intelligent ants who, for thousands of years, have been silently building an army that will forever eradicate... Read more

Let the Great World Spin

By: Colum McCann

Narrated by: Various

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • Colum McCann’s beloved novel inspired by Philippe Petit’s daring high-wire stunt, which is also depicted in the film The Walk starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a... Read more

The Missing and the Dead

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Steve Worsley

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The ninth Logan McRae thriller from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride. ‘Dark and griping. A riveting page-turner’ Independent on Sunday One mistake can cost you everything… A little girl’s body washes up just outside the sleepy... Read more

The First Bad Man

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller

The “brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing” (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut novel from Miranda July, acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and author of All Fours, a finalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction.

Cheryl Glickman believes in romances that span centuries and a soul that migrates between babies. She... Read more

The Girl on the Train

By: Paula Hawkins

Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.
 
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
 
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair

“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller... Read more

West of Sunset

By: Stewart O’Nan

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long over. In poor health, with his wife consigned to a mental asylum and his finances in ruins, he struggled to make a new start as a screenwriter in Hollywood. By December of 1940, he would be dead of a heart attack.Those last three years of Fitzgerald's life,... Read more