Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Goodnight June

By: Sarah Jio

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter imagines the inspiration for Goodnight MoonGoodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be.June Andersen is professionally... Read more

The Girls From the Five Great Valleys

By: Elizabeth Savage

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Five girls. Five dreams. Five destinies. Determined to climb the social ladder in Missoula, Montana, Hilary knows appearances are crucial to getting ahead—but she’s in for a rude awakening. With a rough home life, Doll seeks every chance she can to escape and hang out with one of the local bad boys, but her need to be noticed may land her in... Read more

The Lobster Kings

By: Alexi Zentner

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, and they've been blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kingses, every blessing comes with a curse. Woody Kings, the leader of the island's lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne. Cordelia, the oldest of Woody's three daughters,... Read more

Chase Us

By: Sean Ennis

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully imaginative collection, young people attempt to negotiate the often surreal terrain of childhood and adolescence where family, friends, clergy, and teachers often pose a threat instead of providing safe harbor. At the heart of the collection is the relationship between the meek narrator, his best friend alpha-male Clip, and... Read more

Malachi's Cove

By: Anthony Trollope

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful and respected English novelists. Malachi's Cove tells the story of Mally, the granddaughter of an old seaweed collector, who takes over the family trade as her "Dada" becomes too old and infirm to carry on. Mally is plagued by interlopers from local farms who come down to collect... Read more

The Box Tunnel

By: Charles Reade

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Reade (1814-1884) was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.

"The Box Tunnel" tells the story of a bet between two soldiers, travelling on a train across Britain, in the spring of 1847, that one of them will not manage to kiss one of the two other ladies travelling in the carriage. One of these... Read more

The Heaven of Animals

By: David James Poissant

Narrated by: Susan Bennett, Ken Marks, Scott Sowers, Richard...

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In this masterful debut, an award-winning writer and first-rate storyteller explores the tenuous bonds of family-- fathers and sons, husbands and wives-- as they are tested by the sometimes brutal power of love. In each of the stories in this remarkable collection, David James Poissant delivers a moving portrayal of a relationship in turmoil.... Read more

Lydia's Party

By: Margaret Hawkins

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Lydia is having a party—it's a party she hosts every year for six women friends who treasure the midwinter bash. Over a table laden with a feast of food and wine, the women revel in sharing newsy updates, simmering secrets, and laughter. As this particular evening unfolds, Lydia prepares to make a shattering announcement.





As we follow these... Read more

People We Meet: Unforgettable Conversations

By: NPR

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Nationally known NPR on-air personalities—including Melissa Block, David Greene, Rachel Martin, Guy Raz, Scott Simon, Susan Stamberg and many more—share the lasting impressions made during interviews with a wide variety of exceptional individuals. Each story is introduced by the NPR host and offers a candid account of how the encounter was... Read more

Wynne’s War

By: Aaron Gwyn

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An elite platoon of Special Forces soldiers infiltrates a forbidding Afghan war zone on horseback in search of vast treasure in this lyrical, thrilling blend of military fiction and Western.When Corporal Elijah Russell's superb horsemanship is revealed during a firefight in northern Iraq, the young Army Ranger is assigned to an elite Special... Read more

Black Lake

By: Johanna Lane

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel about a family losing grip of its legacy: a majestic house on the cliffs of Ireland.

The Campbells have lived happily at Dulough -- an idyllic, rambling estate isolated on the Irish seaside -- for generations. But upkeep has drained the family coffers, and so John Campbell must be bold: to keep Dulough, he will open its doors to... Read more

Lost for Words

By: Edward St. Aubyn

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times)

Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated works of fiction of the past decade. Ecstatic praise came from a wide range of admirers, from literary superstars such as Zadie Smith, Francine Prose, Jeffrey Eugenides,... Read more

David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: David Foster Wallace

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"[DFW's] delivery is dead-on and fresh, the words often springing from his mouth as if conceived on the spot . . . . an audible confirmation that modern American writing continues to gain strength." -- Publishers Weekly on Consider the Lobster

Collected here for the first time are the stories and speeches of David Foster Wallace as read by the... Read more

The Girl in the Road

By: Monica Byrne

Narrated by: Dioni Michelle Collins & Nazneen Contractor

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut that the Los Angeles Times calls “vividly imagined,” The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching.

Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of the future.  In a world where global power has shifted east and revolution is brewing, two women embark on vastly... Read more

The One & Only

By: Emily Giffin

Narrated by: Sofia Willingham

Length: 14 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of Something Borrowed and Where We Belong returns with an extraordinary story of love and loyalty—and an unconventional heroine struggling to reconcile both.

Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a... Read more

Mark Twain: 40 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten - Abridged

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mark Twain: 40 humorvolle Kurzgeschichten. Die große Box. Hören Sie 40 der lustigsten Stories des berühmtesten Schriftstellers aus Amerika: Kandidatenfreuden, Ein Zwiegespräch, Prinzenverehrung, Sonntagsheiligung in Deutschland, Über frühreife Kinder, Die Hunde von Konstantinopel, Mehr Glück als Verstand, Einiges über Barbiere, Ein Miniaturreich... Read more

Next Life Might Be Kinder

By: Howard Norman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me."Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel,... Read more

Remember Me Like This

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times Book Review • Esquire • BookPage

A gripping novel with the pace of a thriller but the nuanced characterization and deep empathy of some of the literary canon’s most beloved novels, Remember Me Like This introduces Bret Anthony Johnston as one of the most gifted storytellers writing... Read more

Jack of Spies

By: David Downing

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city—Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York—he moonlights... Read more

Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed creator of the Easy Rawlins series, Debbie Dare, a black porn queen, has to come to terms with her sordid life in the adult entertainment industry after her tomcatting husband dies in a hot tub. Electrocuted. With another woman in there with... Read more

The Boy in His Winter

By: Norman Lock

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Launched into existence by Mark Twain in 1835, Huck Finn and Jim have now been transported by Norman Lock through three vital, violent, and transformative centuries of American history. As time unfurls on the river's banks, they witness decisive battles of the Civil War, the betrayal of Reconstruction's promises to the freed slaves, the crushing... Read more

The Possibilities

By: Kaui Hart Hemmings

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Descendants—a “funny, insightful, and unsentimental” (People, 4 stars) novel about a grieving mother and the shocking surprise that may help her reclaim her hold on life.

In the idyllic ski town of Breckenridge, Colorado, Sarah St. John is reeling. Three months ago, her twenty-two-year-old son,... Read more

The Orenda

By: Joseph Boyden

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Rowat & Ali Ahn

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years is truly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and... Read more

Faces in the Crowd

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Armando Durán & Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem... Read more