Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Old Land, New Tales

By: Chen Zhongshi & Jia Pingwa

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this captivating collection from the Shaanxi region, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, twenty disparate and unique voices come together to show a China caught between new-world advancements and old-world traditions. From the homeland of China’s first dynasty and the world-famous terra-cotta warriors, these tales show rugged rural... Read more

Lisette's List

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Kim Bubbs

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From Susan Vreeland, bestselling author of such acclaimed novels as Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Luncheon of the Boating Party, and Clara and Mr. Tiffany, comes a richly imagined story of a woman’s awakening in the south of Vichy France—to the power of art, to the beauty of provincial life, and to love in the midst of war.
 
In 1937, young Lisette Roux... Read more

The Furies

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Furies is a psychologically complex, dark and twisting novel about loss, obsession and the deep tragedies that can connect us to each other even as they blind us to our fate, from the bestselling author of A Thousand Ships

After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with the past.... Read more

F

By: Daniel Kehlmann

Narrated by: Robert Fass, Jim Meskimen & Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern worldOne day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of... Read more

Church Folk

By: Michele Andrea Bowen

Narrated by: Denise Burse

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Raised in the South with strong religious influences, Michele Andrea Bowen makes her literary debut with Church Folk. Weaving together the turbulent 1960s Civil Rights movement with the chaos within the Greater Hope Gospel United Church, Bowen carries a message of hope that transcends human failings. Young, handsome Rev. Theophilus Simmons and... Read more

Temptation

By: Victoria Christopher Murray

Narrated by: Caroline Clay

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For 16 years, Kyla and Jefferson have enjoyed a seemingly perfect marriage. They share a wonderful daughter, a passionate love for one another, and a deep spirituality. But their happiness is shattered when Kyla finds Jefferson in bed with another woman-a woman who happens to be her childhood friend. If there's any hope to repair their broken... Read more

Hometown Legend

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Left Behind series, Jerry B. Jenkins returns with this heartwarming tale. In Athens City, Alabama, hard times have driven the town to desperation. But with the return of an old friend, the town's football team might be able to bring back the glory. Read more

The Communist's Daughter

By: Dennis Bock

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The Communist's Daughter is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he... Read more

Singsation

By: Jacquelin Thomas

Narrated by: Susan Spain

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden Blessings, the debut novel by the highly acclaimed author Jacquelin Thomas, became a popular made-for-television movie for Black Entertainment Television. In Singsation she focuses on a young woman's journey into maturity. While singing hymns in church back home in Georgia, Deborah Anne Peterson was confident about the role God played in... Read more

Sweetness #9

By: Stephan Eirik Clark

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1973, and David Leveraux has landed his dream job as a Flavorist-in-Training, working in the secretive industry where chemists create the flavors for everything from the cherry in your can of soda to the butter on your popcorn. While testing a new artificial sweetener -- "Sweetness #9" -- he notices unusual side-effects in the laboratory... Read more

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

By: Ellen Cooney

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Evie is stuck at The Inn, managed by the stern and mysterious Mrs. Auberchon, although she's supposed to join a training program at The Sanctuary. That's what she signed up for - never mind that she lied and doesn't know the first thing about animals. Once up on the mountain with staffers, volunteers, and her dog students, Evie takes notes on... Read more

Confessions

By: Kanae Minato

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis & Noah Galvin

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.

After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her... Read more

Adultery

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

I want to change. I need to change. I'm gradually losing touch with myself.

Adultery, the provocative new novel by Paulo Coelho, best-selling author of The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, explores the question of what it means to live life fully and happily, finding the balance between life's routine and the desire for something new. Read more

We Are Not Ourselves

By: Matthew Thomas

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 20 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.”

As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that... Read more

The Story Hour

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An experienced psychologist, Maggie carefully maintains emotional distance from her patients. But when she meets a young Indian woman who tried to kill herself, her professional detachment disintegrates. Cut off from her family in India, Lakshmi is desperately lonely and trapped in a loveless marriage. Moved by her plight, Maggie treats Lakshmi... Read more

Never Mind Miss Fox

By: Olivia Glazebrook

Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past.

Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the story of this happy marriage harbors a secret scene: a... Read more

Sweetness #9

By: Stephan Eirik Clark

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Funny and moving. After this, nothing will ever taste the same again."--T. C. Boyle
It's 1973, and David Leveraux is a young and ambitious flavor chemist working at a world-renowned flavor-production house. While testing a new artificial sweetener--Sweetness #9--he notices some unsettling side effects in the laboratory rats and monkeys:... Read more

Flings

By: Justin Taylor

Narrated by: Justin Taylor

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new suite of powerful and incisive stories, Justin Taylor captures the lives of men and women unmoored from their pasts and uncertain of their futures. A man writes his girlfriend a Dear John letter, gets in his car, and just drives. A widowed insomniac is roused from malaise when an alligator appears in her backyard. A group of college... Read more

Dear Committee Members

By: Julie Schumacher

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Finally a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters, while one floor above them the Economics Department is... Read more

Confessions

By: Kanae Minato

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Her pupils murdered her daughter. Now she will have her revenge.
After calling off her engagement in the wake of a tragic revelation, Yuko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old child, Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yuko has given up and tendered her... Read more

Never Mind Miss Fox

By: Olivia Glazebrook

Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A gripping and suspenseful novel about secrets, betrayal, and the power of the past.

Clive and Martha have been a couple since they met at university; they now have a young daughter, Eliza, and on the surface, all seems well in their family. But neither Martha nor young Eliza know that the story of this happy marriage harbors a secret scene: a... Read more

Song of the Shank

By: Jeffery Renard Allen

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 21 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

***Graywolf Press Lead Summer 2014 Fiction*** Song of the Shank is a novel loosely based on the life of Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth century African American piano virtuoso and composer who performed under the stage name Blind Tom. Told through the eyes and minds of people who try to manipulate or use Tom for one reason or another, the... Read more

Really the Blues

By: Joseph Koenig

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Piron thinks that performing in jazz clubs in Nazi-occupied Paris is bad enough, but when the drummer in his band is found facedown in the Seine and the police start asking questions, he realizes that his trouble is just beginning.Paris, 1941. American jazz musician Eddie Piron has lived in the City of Light since before the war began. But... Read more

The Invention of Exile

By: Vanessa Manko

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother of his three children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending... Read more