Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Realm of Last Chances

By: Steve Yarbrough

Narrated by: James Colby

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In a captivating departure from the Deep South setting of his previous fiction, Southern writer Steve Yarbrough now gives us a richly nuanced portrait of a marriage being reinvented in a small town in the Northeast, in his most surprising and compelling novel yet. When Kristin Stevens loses her administrative job in California' s university... Read more

The Bees

By: Laline Paull

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion.... Read more

Wonderland

By: Stacey D’Erasmo

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable mane of red hair. She came out of nowhere, an immediate indie sensation. And then, life happened.Anna went down as fast as she went up and then walked off the scene for seven years. Without a record deal or clamoring fans, she sells a piece of her... Read more

The Garden of Burning Sand

By: Corban Addison

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Lusaka, Zambia: Zoe Fleming is a young, idealistic American lawyer working with an NGO devoted to combatting the epidemic of child sexual assault in southern Africa. Zoe's organization is called in to help when an adolescent girl is brutally assaulted. The girl's identity is a mystery. Where did she come from? Was the attack a random street... Read more

The Blessings

By: Elise Juska

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bursting with wise observations." -- J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Engagements and Maine

"Gleams like a jewel." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Stunning. . . Unique and unforgettable." -- Glamour

Hailed as one of the best books of 2014 by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Elise Juska's The Blessings is a moving novel about a tight-knit Irish... Read more

Little Lies

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting prequel to her novel Little Mercies, New York Timesbestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores how even the smallest lies can have far-reaching consequences.When the body of a woman is discovered in a local park—with her bewildered four-year-old son sitting beside her—veteran social worker Ellen Moore is called in to assist in... Read more

The Oversight

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Exciting, exhilaring, scary and moving in equal measure, The Oversight is a teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized." -- M. R. Carey

The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other.

Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed... Read more

The Painter

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second novel about an artist trying to outrun his past.

Jim Stegner has seen his share of violence and loss. Years ago he shot a man in a bar. His marriage disintegrated. He grieved the one thing he loved. In the... Read more

Authority

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy. This 10th Anniversary Edition of Authority features a new introduction by Hugo Award–winning author N. K. Jemisin.For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered... Read more

The Orphans of Race Point

By: Patry Francis

Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A passionate and page-turning saga with an unsolved murder that consumes three lives over several decades in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Told through these three voices THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT is a novel of suspense, betrayal, and the different ways we find transcendence and meaning in our lives. But most of all, it is a gorgeous and... Read more

The Oversight

By: Charlie Fletcher

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The end always happens faster than you think."

Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five.

When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the... Read more

God's Pocket

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

The Blessings

By: Elise Juska

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When John Blessing dies and leaves behind two small children, the loss reverberates across his extended family for years to come. His young widow, Lauren, finds solace in her large clan of in-laws, while his brother's wife Kate pursues motherhood even at the expense of her marriage. John's teenage nephew Stephen finds himself involved in an act... Read more

The Snow Queen

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Claire Danes

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours

Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a... Read more

One Night in Winter

By: Simon Sebag Montefiore

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood, danger, and betrayal that unfolds in Stalin's Moscow during the bleak days after World War II.As Moscow celebrates the motherland's glorious victory over... Read more

The Last Kind Words Saloon

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte & Carine Montbertrand

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry McMurtry has done more than any other living writer to shape our literary imagination of the American West. With The Last Kind Words Saloon he returns again to the vivid and unsparing portrait of the nineteenth-century and cowboy lifestyle made so memorable in his classic Lonesome Dove. Evoking the greatest characters and legends of the... Read more

Letters From The Ledge

By: Lynda Meyers

Narrated by: Jessica Lindsay

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Every night he comes to the ledge. So far, he hasn’t jumped. Sarah watches him from her window, unable to look away. Will tonight will be the night that his body hurtles through space and crashes to the ground in a failed attempt to fly?Standing between heaven and hell, life and death, eighteen-year-old Brendan massages the ledge, arms... Read more

Vanity Fair: June 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for the world's most influential and important audience. From print to social media, the big screen to the... Read more

Inside Madeleine

By: Paula Bomer

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Nine Months, which Marcy Dermansky called "deliciously, dangerously rogue," comes a powerful, daring collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys.A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her... Read more

The Confabulist

By: Steven Galloway

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, an exciting new novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a tale of magic, intrigue, and illusion.

What is real and what is an illusion? Can you trust your memory to provide an accurate record of what has happened in your life?

The Confabulist is a clever , entertaining, and... Read more

The Temporary Gentleman

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret ScriptureIn this highly anticipated new novel, Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"—an Irishman whose commission in the British army in WWII was never permanent. Sitting in his lodgings in Accra, Ghana, in 1957, he's writing the story of his life with desperate... Read more

Vanity Fair: January–April 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 21 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to Vanity Fair on the goGet the latest issue as it hits newsstandsBuy a single issue or subscribeVanity Fair is a cultural filter, sparking the global conversation about the people and ideas that matter most. With a dedication to journalistic excellence and powerful storytelling, Vanity Fair is the first choice—often the only choice—for... Read more

Fallout

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Sadie Jones, the award winning, bestselling author of The Uninvited Guests and The Outcast, explores the theater of love, the politics of theater, and the love of writing in this deeply romantic story about a young playwright in 1970s London.Leaving behind an emotionally disastrous childhood in a provincial northern town, budding playwright Luke... Read more

BUtterfield 8

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Gretchen Mol

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation

A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from... Read more