Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Cherry Red Summer

By: Carina Bartsch

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

No girl ever forgets her first love...No one knows that better than Emely Winter. It’s been seven years since she last saw the man with the turquoise eyes, Elyas Schwarz—the embodiment of everything mothers warn their daughters about. Good-looking, charming, and with a hint of arrogance, Elyas is back in Emely’s life and driving her crazy. She... Read more

No River Too Wide

By: Emilie Richards

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Some betrayals are like rivers, so deep, so wide, they can't be crossed. But—for those with enough courage—forgiveness, redemption, and love may be found on the other side.On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't... Read more

Em and the Big Hoom

By: Jerry Pinto

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

First published by a small press in India, Jerry Pinto's devastatingly original debut novel has already taken the literary world by storm. Suffused with compassion, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Em and the Big Hoom is a modern masterpiece, and its American publication is certain to be one of the major literary events of the season.Meet Imelda and... Read more

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club

By: Genevieve Valentine

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo, the firstborn, The General to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is the one who taught them how to dance, the one who gives the signal each night, as they slip out of their father's townhouse and into cabs that will take them to the speakeasy. Together they elude their controlling father.... Read more

Cop Town

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a serial killer targeting cops, and a divided police force... Read more

Shirley

By: Susan Scarf Merrell

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Two imposing literary figures are at the center of this captivating novel: Shirley Jackson, best known for her short story 'The Lottery,' and her husband, Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic and professor at Bennington College. When a young graduate student and his pregnant wife - Fred and Rose Nemser - move into Shirley and Stanley's home in... Read more

Mambo in Chinatown

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.

Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese),... Read more

Suddenly, Love

By: Aharon Appelfeld

Narrated by: Neil Shah

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Ernst is a gruff seventy-year-old Red Army veteran. Retired, he lives alone and spends his time laboring over his unpublished novels. Irena, in her mid-thirties, has been taking care of Ernst since his surgery two years earlier. Quiet and shy, Irena is in awe of Ernst's intellect. And as the months pass, Ernst comes to depend on the gentle young... Read more

Little Mercies

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In her latest ripped-from-the-headlines tour de force, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf shows how one small mistake can have life-altering consequences.…Veteran social worker Ellen Moore has seen the worst side of humanity—the vilest acts one person can commit against another. She is a fiercely dedicated children's advocate... Read more

Las leyes de la frontera

By: Javier Cercas

Narrated by: Javier Viñas

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

He aquí una furiosa historia de amor y desamor, de imposturas y violencia, de lealtades y traiciones, de enigmas sin resolver y venganzas inesperadas. Las mejores obra de Javier Cercas disponibles en formato audiolibro. En el verano de 1978, cuando España no ha salido aún del franquismo y no termina de entrar en la democracia y las fronteras... Read more

The Silkworm

By: Robert Galbraith

Narrated by: Robert Glenister

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Cormoran Strike must track down a missing writer -- and a sinister killer bent on destruction -- in this "wonderfully entertaining" mystery (Harlan Coben, New York Times Book Review) that inspired the acclaimed HBO Max series C.B. Strike.
  When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran... Read more

The Cold Song

By: Linn Ullmann

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Siri Brodal, a chef and restaurant owner, is married to Jon Dreyer, a famous novelist plagued by writer's block. Siri and Jon have two daughters, and together they spend their summers on the coast of Norway, in a mansion belonging to Jenny Brodal, Siri's stylish and unforgiving mother.


Siri and Jon's marriage is loving but difficult and troubled... Read more

Flying Shoes

By: Lisa Howorth

Narrated by: Debra Winger

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

***Bloomsbury lead summer fiction 2014 Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn' t resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve... Read more

I Love You More

By: Jennifer Murphy

Narrated by: Dorothy Dillingham Blue, Johnathan McClain, Cas...

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One man, three wives, the perfect murder. A scintillating novel of betrayal and conspiracy.

Picasso Lane is twelve years old when her father, Oliver, is murdered at their summer beach house. Her mother, Diana, is the primary suspect—until the police discover his second wife, and then his third. The women say they have never met—but Picasso... Read more

All Fall Down

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Tracee Chimo

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her “best book yet” (Philadelphia Inquirer), a “compulsively readable” novel that shows “there’s no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well” (The New York Times Book Review).

Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves,... Read more

The Last Magazine

By: Michael Hastings

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A posthumous debut novel—wry, wise, and outrageous—from award-winning journalist Michael Hastings, based on his experiences working for NewsweekThe year is 2002. Weekly news magazines dominate the political agenda in New York and Washington. A young journalist named Michael M. Hastings is an intern at the Magazine, wet behind the ears, the only... Read more

The Quick

By: Lauren Owen

Narrated by: Simon Slater

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SLATE

For fans of Anne Rice, The Historian, and The Night Circus, an astonishing debut, a novel of epic scope and suspense that conjures up all the magic and menace of Victorian London
 
1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat.... Read more

The City Son

By: Samrat Upadhyay

Narrated by: Priya Ayyar

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay—the first Nepali-born fiction writer writing in English to be published in the West—has crafted a spare, understated work examining a taboo subject: a scorned wife's obsession with her husband's illegitimate son. When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful... Read more

Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

By: Dave Eggers

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Mark Deakins, Michelle Gonzale...

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dave Eggers, best-selling author of The Circle, a tightly controlled, emotionally searching novel. Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? is the formally daring, brilliantly executed story of one man struggling to make sense of his country, seeking answers the only way he knows how.
 
In a barracks on an... Read more

Abroad

By: Katie Crouch

Narrated by: Heather O'Neill

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The city of Grifonia, Italy, is swarming with secrets-thousands of years of dark, murderous secrets. Taz, a British student who has just arrived for her year abroad, thinks that she will spend her time in Italy sipping wine and taking in the rolling Umbrian hills. But she soon falls in with a cabal of posh, reckless girls-the B4-who turn her... Read more

Three Souls

By: Janie Chang

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying loveWe have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this....So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from above and wonders why she is... Read more

The Patron Saint of Ugly

By: Marie Manilla

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors but finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims... Read more

All Fall Down - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Tracee Chimo

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes her “best book yet” (Philadelphia Inquirer), a “compulsively readable” novel that shows “there’s no doubt Weiner knows how to deliver a certain kind of story, and well” (The New York Times Book Review).

Allison Weiss got her happy ending—a handsome husband, an adorable daughter, a job she loves,... Read more

The Rise & Fall of Great Powers

By: Tom Rachman

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver Sun

From the author of The Italian Teacher and The Imperfectionists comes a brilliant, intricately woven novel about a young woman who travels the world to make sense of her puzzling past.
 
Tooly Zylberberg, the... Read more