Fiction - Literary audiobooks

All the Happiness You Deserve

By: Michael Piafsky

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Piafsky's captivating, Tarot-inspired debut depicts the dramatic arc of an Everyman's life from childhood to old age.An Everyman searches for truth and meaning in a life fraught with unsettling challenges, joyful milestones, and the unconscious awareness of the passage of time. The seventy-eight evocative cards of the Tarot deck frame... Read more

Bread & Butter

By: Michelle Wildgen

Narrated by: Elijah Alexander

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Britt and Leo have spent ten years running Winesap, the best restaurant in their small Pennsylvania town. They cater to their loyal customers; they don't sleep with the staff; and business is good, even if their temperamental pastry chef is bored with making the same chocolate cake night after night. But when their younger brother, Harry, opens... Read more

Thirty Girls

By: Susan Minot

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Evening is a literary tour de force set in war-torn Africa.Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities. She is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and... Read more

Let the Drum Speak

By: Linda Lay Shuler

Narrated by: Cris Dukehart

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

She is called Antelope, the daughter of Kwani— She Who Remembers. Possessed of the same mystical powers that made her mother beloved and feared, Antelope takes her infant daughter and follows her wandering mate to the fabled city of the Great Sun. Here, her beauty arouses the lust of the city’s supreme ruler—a man who will become her most... Read more

The Sun and Other Stars

By: Brigid Pasulka

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the seaside town of San Benedetto, soccer (or calcio) is more than just a sport: it's an obsession. Twenty-two-year-old Etto, however, couldn't care less about soccer. His twin brother Luca, a rising soccer star, died tragically in a motorcycle accident, and their mother, unable to cope with her grief, drowned herself on the anniversary of... Read more

The Center of Everything

By: Laura Moriarty

Narrated by: Julie Dretzin

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable debut that has been called a hybrid of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next... Read more

Queen Sugar

By: Natalie Baszile

Narrated by: Miriam Hyman

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Why exactly Charley Bordelon's late father left her eight hundred sprawling acres of sugarcane land in rural Louisiana is as mysterious as it was generous. Recognizing this as a chance to start over, Charley and her eleven-year-old daughter, Micah, say good-bye to Los Angeles. They arrive just in time for growing season but no amount of planning... Read more

Vanity Fair: March 2014 Issue - Abridged

By: Vanity Fair

Narrated by: Graydon Carter & various narrators

Length: 6 hours 44 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

I Always Loved You

By: Robin Oliveira

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas’s great romance from the New York Times bestselling author of My Name Is Mary Sutter

The young Mary Cassatt never thought moving to Paris after the Civil War to be an artist was going to be easy, but when, after a decade of work, her submission to the Paris Salon is rejected, Mary’s fierce determination... Read more

Road to Reckoning

By: Robert Lautner

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Remarkable…A novel about a young man reaching for manhood after the killing of his father and about the invention and selling of Col. Samuel Colt’s revolving pistol, and the way it changed the West. Those who love True Grit will love this” (Michael Korda, author of Hero).

One does not travel the path to vengeance alone

Twelve-year-old Thomas... Read more

Cold Storage, Alaska

By: John Straley

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-twentieth century, at the height of the... Read more

The Book of Jonah

By: Joshua Max Feldman

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary debut, an epic tale of love, failure, and unexpected faith set in New York, Amsterdam, and Las Vegas

The modern-day Jonah at the center of Joshua Max Feldman's brilliantly conceived retelling of the Book of Jonah is a young Manhattan lawyer named Jonah Jacobstein. He's a lucky man: healthy and handsome, with two beautiful women... Read more

The Free

By: Willy Vlautin

Narrated by: Willy Vlautin

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In his heartbreaking yet hopeful fourth novel, award-winning author Willy Vlautin demonstrates his extraordinary talent for illuminating the disquiet of modern American life, captured in the experiences of three memorable characters looking for meaning in distressing times.Severely wounded in the Iraq war, Leroy Kervin has lived in a group home... Read more

That Part Was True

By: Deborah McKinlay

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser & Katherine Kellgren

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In this affecting and "rewarding" epistolary novel, two unlikely divorcés -- a romantic pessimist and a newfound bachelor -- get a second chance at love (New York Times Book Review).
When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against... Read more

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Already optioned for film, The Girl with a Clock for a Heart is Peter Swanson’s electrifying tale of romantic noir, with shades of Hitchcock and reminiscent of the classic movie Body Heat. It is the story of a man swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears.On an ordinary Friday evening at his... Read more

Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

By: Kerry Hudson

Narrated by: Jane MacFarlane

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“A witty and lively novel set somewhere between the worlds of Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh.” —William Dalyrymple, The Guardian

Reminiscent of early Roddy Doyle, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma begins with our singular heroine’s less than idyllic birth and quickly moves to a spectacular fight that lands Janie and her... Read more

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A superb love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Anna QuindlenStill Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank... Read more

The Last Enchantments

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Enchantments is a powerfully moving and lyrically written novel. A young American embarks on a year at Oxford and has an impassioned affair that will change his life forever

After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's... Read more

This Dark Road to Mercy

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Erik Bergmann & Scott Sowers

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home—hailed as ""a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird"" (Richmond Times Dispatch)—returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, set in western North... Read more

Why Are You So Sad?

By: Jason Porter

Narrated by: Jason Porter

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like a well-stocked IKEA, Why Are You So Sad? Has everything you need for your home and your heart. Jason Porter has written an astute, intelligent, and hilarious book." —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love StoryHave we all sunken into a species-wide bout of clinical depression?Porter’s uproarious, intelligent debut centers on... Read more

Espedair Street

By: Iain Banks

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Weir used to be a famous - not to say infamous - rock star. Maybe still is. At thirty-one he has been both a brilliant failure and a dull success. He's made a lot of mistakes that have paid off and a lot of smart moves he'll regret forever (however long that turns out to be). Daniel Weir has gone from rags to riches and back, and... Read more

The Bridge

By: Iain Banks

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The man who wakes up in the extraordinary world of a bridge has amnesia, and his doctor doesn't seem to want to cure him. Does it matter? Exploring the bridge occupies most of his days. But at night there are his dreams. Dreams in which desperate men drive sealed carriages across barren mountains to a bizarre rendezvous; an illiterate... Read more

The Guts

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Laurence Kinlan

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Rabbitte of The Commitments returns in the triumphant new novel from the Booker Prize–winning author

The distinct wit and lively, authentic dialogue that are the hallmarks of Roddy Doyle’s fiction are on a full display as he reintroduces Jimmy Rabbitte in this follow-up to his beloved debut novel The Commitments.

In the 1980s Jimmy Rabbitte... Read more

The Crane Wife

By: Patrick Ness

Narrated by: Jamie Glover

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken-hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard.

George Duncan is an American living and working in London.  At forty-eight, he owns a small print shop, is divorced, and lonelier than he realizes.  All of the... Read more