Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Book of Strange New Things

By: Michel Faber

Narrated by: Josh D. Cohen

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents.

It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter... Read more

Us

By: David Nicholls

Narrated by: David Haig

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a PBS Masterpiece television miniseries starring Tom Hollander and Saskia Reeves“I loved this book. Funny, sad, tender: for anyone who wants to know what happens after the Happy Ever After.” — Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You David Nicholls brings the wit and intelligence that graced his New York Times bestseller, One Day, to a... Read more

Beyond the Pale Motel

By: Francesca Lia Block

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Maternal, sexy Catt and her beautiful, daring best friend Bree are hairdressers at an L.A. salon called Head Hunter, and work out at a gym called Body Farm. They have over a decade of sobriety behind them and are getting close to living the lives they've always wanted. But when Catt's husband, Dash, leaves her, and then her neighbor is brutally... Read more

Der Fall Moriarty - Abridged

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Londoner Unterwelt ist in Aufruhr, die Gerüchteküche brodelt: Der gefürchtete amerikanische Gangster Clarence Devereux will seine Geschäfte nach England ausdehnen. Auch Professor Moriarty, einst der große Gegenspieler Sherlock Holmes', soll seine Hände im Spiel haben - doch ist dieser nicht tragisch ums Leben gekommen? Und welche Rolle... Read more

Die Vampirschwestern 2 - Abridged

By: Franziska Gehm

Narrated by: Katja Danowski, Laura Roge, Marta Martin & Chri...

Length: 1 hour 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sommerferien und Schmetterlinge, äh, Fledermäuse im Bauch. Was gibt es Schöneres? Dakaria ist bis über beide Eckzähne in Murdo verknallt, den Sänger der Vampir-Band Krypton Krax. Obwohl ihre Eltern es streng verboten haben, fliegt sie mit Silvania nachts zum Konzert. Doch Bandmanager Xantor hat noch eine alte Rechnung mit ihrem Vater offen. Und... Read more

Six Stories and an Essay

By: Andrea Levy

Narrated by: Andrea Levy

Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Levy, author of the Man Booker shortlisted novel THE LONG SONG and the prize-winning, million-copy bestseller SMALL ISLAND, draws together a remarkable collection of short stories from across her writing career, which began twenty years ago with the publication of her first novel, the semi-autobiographical EVERY LIGHT IN THE HOUSE... Read more

Last Winter, We Parted

By: Fuminori Nakamura

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Richard Powers & P. J. Ochlan

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Instantly reminiscent of the work of Osamu Dazai and Patricia Highsmith, Fuminori Nakamura's latest novel is a dark and twisting house of mirrors that philosophically explores the violence of aesthetics and the horrors of identity.A young writer arrives at a prison to interview a convict. The writer has been commissioned to write a full account... Read more

A Grave Matter

By: Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to her childhood home, Lady Kiera Darby hopes her beloved brother Trevor and the merriment of the Hogmanay Ball will distract her. But when a caretaker is murdered and a grave is disturbed at nearby Dryburgh Abbey, Kiera is once more thrust into the cold grasp of death.

While Kiera knows that aiding in another inquiry will only... Read more

The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 27 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Into a compellingly real portrait of nineteenth-century Russian society, Dostoevsky introduces his ideal hero, the saintly Prince Myshkin. The tensions subsequently unleashed by the hero's innocence, truthfulness, and humility betray the inadequacy of his moral idealism and disclose the spiritual emptiness of a society that cannot accommodate... Read more

First Impressions

By: Charlie Lovett

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale

Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman’s Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature’s most popular and beloved... Read more

Gretel and the Dark

By: Eliza Granville

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them togetherGretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories we learn as children can illuminate the darkest... Read more

Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 37 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

For more... Read more

The Goddess of Small Victories

By: Yannick Grannec

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Dawn Harvey

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel—the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the twentieth century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking... Read more

Where There's Smoke (Short Story) and Larger Than Life (Novella)

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur & Rebecca Lowman

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Where There's Smoke:

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who “writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships” (The Boston Globe). Now, in this original short story, Picoult introduces Serenity Jones, one of the fascinating characters from her eagerly... Read more

Ruth's Journey

By: Donald McCaig

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched . . . brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone with the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who demonstrates a magisterial understanding of the period, its clashing cultures, and its heartbreaking crises. ” —Geraldine... Read more

There Were Many Horses

By: Luiz Ruffato

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

There Were Many Horses is a groundbreaking work of contemporary Brazilian literature now available in English for the first time.It’s May 9, 2000, and São Paulo is teeming with life. As Luiz Ruffato describes the scenes around him on this one typical day, he deciphers every minute and second of a metropolis marked by diversity—a mosaic of people... Read more

Your Face in Mine

By: Jess Row

Narrated by: Zach Villa

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved back to his hometown of Baltimore, an African American man he doesn't recognize calls out to him. To Kelly's shock, the man identifies himself as Martin, who was one of Kelly's closest friends in high school - and, before his disappearance nearly twenty years before, skinny, white, and... Read more

The Ice Cream Man

By: Katri Lipson

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two years after the end of World War II, a director sets out to mimic real life by creating a film without a script, where the actors learn the story and their part in it as they go. The tale unfolds of a young couple on the run during the Nazi occupation, but soon the characters they play begin to take on lives of their own. As the lines... Read more

Keep Me Safe

By: Maya Banks

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A sizzling story of a woman who risks her life and her heart to find a wealthy man’s missing sister—the first novel in a sexy new romantic suspense series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maya BanksWhen Caleb Devereaux's younger sister is kidnapped, this scion of a powerful and wealthy family turns to an unlikely source for help: a... Read more

Lila (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Marilynne Robinson

Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Gilead and Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the town of Gilead in an unforgettable story of a girlhood lived on the fringes of society in fear, awe, and wonder.
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside,... Read more

The Rehearsal

By: Eleanor Catton

Narrated by: Nicole Arumugum

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the safe place where they can test out their abilities to attract and manipulate. It seems their... Read more

Full Measure

By: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrated by: Snyder Jay

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"A tense and compelling drama of the wars without and the wars within—and of the flame of violence that burns through the American psyche." —T.C. Boyle, New York Times bestselling author of The Women

"Stunning . . . [Parker is] a brave and daring writer." —Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author of Shanghai Girls and Dreams of Joy

"A great... Read more

Messed Up

By: René Schweitzer

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Antonio loses his job through no fault of his own. What’s worse: after a brutal confrontation with his boss, he even risks going to prison. Disillusioned, aimless, and full of hate, Anto wanders the streets of the German metropolis he calls home. Driven by unconstrained inner rage and frustration, he and a group of friends leave a trail of... Read more

Some Luck

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel—the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America. 

On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter Langdon abide by time-honored values that they pass on to their five wildly different... Read more