Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Have Space Suit—Will Travel

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Mark Turetsky

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the mind of the storyteller who has captured the imagination of readers from around the world and across generations comes this classic work of science fiction.First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school... Read more

The Secret of Raven Point

By: Jennifer Vanderbes

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

1943: When seventeen-year-old Juliet Dufresne receives a cryptic letter from her enlisted older brother pleading for help, and then finds out he's been reported missing overseas, she lies about her age and volunteers as an army nurse to find him. Juliet is thrust into the bloody chaos of a field hospital, where she is increasingly consumed by... Read more

The Roving Party

By: Rohan Wilson

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1829, Tasmania. John Batman, ruthless, single-minded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man—this is the roving party, and their purpose is massacre. With promises of freedom, land grants, and money,... Read more

Vienna Nocturne

By: Vivien Shotwell

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Laura Moriarty’s The Chaperone comes a sweeping historical love story and a portrait of an age. Vienna Nocturne is a deeply moving debut novel that brings to life two extraordinary figures—a thirty-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a young English soprano, Anna Storace, who was his muse—in... Read more

Ten Women

By: Marcela Serrano

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning Chilean author Marcela Serrano weaves a beautiful story about the universal connections between women.For nine Chilean women, life couldn’t be more different. There is the teenage computer whiz confronting her sexual identity. A middle-aged recluse who prefers the company of her dog over that of most humans. A housekeeper. A... Read more

Bark

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Lorrie Moore

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's).A literary event—a new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers, her first collection in fifteen years.In these... Read more

Long Man

By: Amy Greene

Narrated by: Dale Dickey

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of Bloodroot, a gripping, wondrously evocative novel of a family in turmoil, set against the backdrop of real-life historical event—the story of three days in the summer of 1936, as a government-built dam is about to flood an Appalachian town, and a little girl goes missing.

A river called Long Man has... Read more

The Forgotten Sister

By: Jennifer Paynter

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The third Bennet sister, Mary, steps into the spotlight in this graceful retelling of Pride and Prejudice.As a middle child flanked by two pairs of closely bonded sisters, marginalized by her mother, and ridiculed by her father, Mary Bennet feels isolated within her own family. She retreats to her room to read and play the pianoforte and, when... Read more

Kinder Than Solitude

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When Moran, Ruyu, and Boyang were young, they were involved in a mysterious "accident" in which a friend of theirs was poisoned. Grown up, the three friends are separated by distance and personal estrangement. Moran and Ruyu live in the United States, Boyang in China; all three are haunted by what really happened in their youth, and by doubt... Read more

The Aspern Papers

By: Henry James

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry James’ acclaimed suspense novelSet in a crumbling Venetian villa, The Aspern Papers is the story of an American editor’s determination to acquire a collection of unpublished letters … at any cost. The letters were written by the editor’s favorite Romantic poet, Jeffrey Asper, to his mistress.In hopes of gaining access to the letters, he... Read more

The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: David Thorn

Length: 20 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Moonstone, credited as the first detective story written in the English language, Wilkie Collins weaves a classic mystery, told from the perspective of several characters with firsthand knowledge surrounding the disappearance of a large yellow diamond known as the Moonstone. The jewel was taken from the room of its young owner, Rachel... Read more

The New York Stories

By: John O'Hara

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, ...

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Collected for the first time, the New York stories of John O'Hara, "among the greatest short story writers in English, or in any other language" (Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker)

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the twentieth century’s definitive chroniclers of the city—the speakeasies and highballs,... Read more

Meine Mutter zu Wasser und zu Lande

By: Erich Kästner

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen, Hans Peter Korff, Ursula Illert...

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Geschichte von Erich Kästner und seiner Mutter ist eine besondere: 'Meine Mutter war mein bester Freund', sagte er über sie. Und sie wusste: 'Mein Sohn verschweigt mir nichts.' Tatsächlich war der kleine Erich seiner Mutter Lebenselixier sowie Schutzengel. Auch in späteren Jahren versuchte er, ihr beides zu sein – und sich trotzdem ganz... Read more

The Museum of Extraordinary Things

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Judith Light, Grace Gummer & Zach Appelman

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The “spellbinding” (People, 4 stars), New York Times bestseller from the author of The Dovekeepers: an extraordinary novel about an electric and impassioned love affair—“an enchanting love story rich with history and a sense of place” (USA TODAY).

Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things,... Read more

Half World

By: Scott O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by real CIA operations, this is the riveting novel of a fraying CIA analyst who conducts secret mind-control experiments and the young agent who, years later, uncovers the appalling legacy of the program and the people destroyed by it.From its official sanction in 1953 to its shutdown in 1973, the CIA clandestinely conducted methods of... Read more

Lives of the Poets

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein & John Rubinstein

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Innocence is lost to unforgettable experience in these brilliant stories by E. L. Doctorow, as full of mystery and meaning as any of the longer works by this American master. In “The Writer in the Family,” a young man learns the difference between lying and literature after he is induced into deceiving a relative through letters. In “Wili,” an... Read more

Coincidence

By: J. W. Ironmonger

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

What determines the course of our lives? Chance . . . or destiny?On Midsummer's Day, 1982, three-year-old Azalea Ives is found alone at a seaside fairground.One year later, her mother's body washes up on a beach—her link to Azalea unnoticed.On Midsummer's Day, 1992, her adoptive parents are killed in a Ugandan rebel uprising; Azalea is narrowly... Read more

Pioneer Girl

By: Bich Minh Nguyen

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jobless with a PhD, Lee Lien returns home to her Chicago suburb from grad school, only to find herself contending with issues she's evaded since college. But when her brother disappears, he leaves behind an object from their mother's Vietnam past that stirs up a forgotten childhood dream: a gold-leaf brooch, abandoned by an American reporter in... Read more

Stonecliff

By: Robert Nathan

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The haunting novel of a strange love…Michael Robb, a young journalist and aspiring author, has just landed a dream assignment: interviewing the renowned but reclusive author Edward Granville. The famous writer and his devoted wife, Virginia, have for many years lived in isolation on the Pacific Coast at their hilltop retreat, Stonecliff. Not... Read more

Whose Names Are Unknown

By: Sanora Babb

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.

This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on the fictional... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorian Gray embodies every artistic element for artist, Basil Hallward. But when Lord Henry reveals the phenomenal world experienced only to the young and beautiful, Dorian makes a devious deal. Thus begins Dorian Gray's extensive journey into dissipation, while somehow maintaining every element of his youth and innocence. What is his secret?... Read more

Perles de sagesse amérindienne - Abridged

By: Claire Payment

Narrated by: Albert Millaire, Claudie Stanké & Sophie Stanké

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Durant notre vie, il nous arrive à tous de subir un outrage, un affront, de nous sentir trahis ou rejetés. Point n'est besoin de nous empresser d'avoir recours à la vengeance pour étouffer notre tristesse. La sagesse amérindienne nous invite à analyser notre chagrin, à le vivre pleinement dans le moment présent et à croire en la bonté innée de... Read more

The Good Luck of Right Now

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Matthew Quick, the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook, comes The Good Luck of Right Now, a funny and tender story about family, friendship, grief, acceptance, and Richard Gere—an entertaining and inspiring tale that will leave you pondering the rhythms of the universe and marveling at the power of kindness and... Read more

Wake

By: Anna Hope

Narrated by: Anna Hope

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Anna Hope’s brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.
 
Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep. 2) Ritual for the dead. 3) Consequence or aftermath.
 
London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of... Read more