Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Lie

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.Lonnie is tired. He's tired of his job, the monotony of it, and tired of the predictability of his home life now that he's a father. It's a day like every other day, and he can't face the inevitability of it all. So he lies. It's a small lie, but he knows... Read more

No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories

By: Gabriel García Márquez

Narrated by: Armando Durán, Roxanne Hernandez, Marcelo Tuber...

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, a series of short stories told in "spare, unpretentious…picturesque prose" (Library Journal)Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and... Read more

Hands On

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the Kenyon Review.A divorc├®e disturbed by her upcoming thirty-fifth birthday decides to get a Botox treatment. But then she develops a crush on the plastic surgeon, whose secretary looks like a walking advertisement for the whole industry. When he spurns her advances,... Read more

Bulletproof

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Best Life.Smithstown is a divided community, and Cal is right in the middle. He believes, like his best friend Dave, that evolution is scientific fact. But he's drawn to Lynnese, a devout Christian who believes in intelligent design and whose daughter, Mary-Louise, has... Read more

La Conchita

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.Gordon is a delivery driver with a predilection toward road rage, and he's on the most important delivery of his life. In Santa Barbara there's a mother of three on life support waiting for Gordon, waiting for the liver he's transporting from Los Angeles.... Read more

Sin Dolor

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the New Yorker.Dámaso Funes is a medical miracle. He didn't make a sound when he was born, and as the years go by it's found that he doesn't feel pain. Not when he picks up hot coals with his bare hands or when he breaks his leg. To his father he is a sideshow freak, a... Read more

Wild Child

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the title story from the collection Wild Child and was originally published in McSweeney's.It is at the end of the eighteenth century, in the new French Republic, when the savage is first seen outside the village of Lacaune. The boy quickly becomes a legend among the townsfolk. Is he truly a human child or a wild beast?"Wild Child" is... Read more

Three Quarters of the Way to Hell

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Playboy.It's the middle of a snow storm, and Johnny Bandon, a washed up crooner in the style of Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, is getting ready to record a Christmas single. The session musicians are there, and so is his backup singer. Darlene Delmar is a down and out... Read more

Question 62

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in Harper's.Mae is in her southern California garden early one morning when a tiger shows up at the edge of her yard. Meanwhile Mae's sister, Anita, is in Wisconsin grieving her dead husband, dealing with a pack of feral cats under her trailer, and trying to start a... Read more

Balto

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from the collection Wild Child was originally published in the Paris Review and selected for The Best American Short Stories, 2007 by Stephen King.Angelle's father is a drunk, and Angelle and her little sister, Lisette, know it. Their mother has told them as much. But their mother has abandoned them and gone back to France,... Read more

Anacapa

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This short story from Wild Child was originally published in A Public Space.Reeling from his second divorce, Hunter is taken out on a party boat by his old college roommate, Damian. Looking forward to the promise of distraction, and maybe even the chance to meet a woman, Hunter acquiesces to the fishing adventure, despite his tendency toward... Read more

An Anthology of Classic Stories

By: Guy de Maupassant, D. H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan ...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A treasure trove of short classic stories by some of the greatest storytellers in the world:

1. "Mademoiselle Fifi" by Guy de Maupassant
2. "The Test" by W.W. Jacobs
3. "Miss Brill" by Katharine Mansfield
4. "England, my England" by D. H. Lawrence
5. "The Dead Hand" by Wilkie Collins
6. "The Stalled Ox" by Saki
7. "Red... Read more

Hamilton Stark

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Hamilton Stark is a New Hampshire pipe fitter and the sole inhabitant of the house from which he evicted his own mother. He is the villain of five marriages and the father of a daughter so obsessed that she has been writing a book about him for years. Hamilton Stark is a boor, a misanthrope, a handsome man: funny, passionately honest, and a good... Read more

Start Somewhere

By: Caroline Zancan

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man falls instantly for a woman he spots at a summer backyard party. He knows nothing about her except that she’s wearing a T-shirt of his favorite band but his imagination runs wild with the life he hopes they might share. The young woman ends up changing the course of his life as dramatically as he thought she would upon first sight,... Read more

The Book of Jamaica

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

""A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror—the works."" — Chicago Sun-TimesIn The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the Caribbean and its ever-present racial conflicts. His narrator, a... Read more

Cloudsplitter

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 29 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

""Deeply affecting. . . . Like the best novels of Nadine Gordimer, it makes us appreciate the dynamic between the personal and the political, the public and the private, and the costs and causes of radical belief."" — New York TimesA triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by the enigmatic... Read more

The Angel on the Roof

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

""At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed."" —New York TimesWith The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an astonishing collection of thirty years of his short fiction, revised especially for this volume and... Read more

Rule of the Bone

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’s quintessential novel of a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society “redefines the young modern anti-hero. . . . Rule of the Bone has its own culture and language, and Bone is sure to become a beloved character for generations” (San Francisco Chronicle).... Read more

Death of the Black-Haired Girl

By: Robert Stone

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Robert Stone is a vastly intelligent and entertaining writer, a divinely troubled holy terror ever in pursuit of an absconded God and His purported love. Stone’s superb work with its gallery of remarkable characters is further enhanced here by his repellently smug professor, Steve Brookman, and the black-haired girl’s hopelessly grieving... Read more

A Permanent Member of the Family

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Danny Campbell, Andrus Nichols & Robin Miles

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Suffused with Russell Banks’s trademark lyricism and reckless humor, the twelve stories in A Permanent Member of the Family examine the myriad ways we try—and sometimes fail—to connect with one another, as we seek a home in the world.In the title story, a father looks back on the legend of the cherished family dog whose divided loyalties... Read more

Stella Bain

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve.

When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in.

A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly... Read more

Amy and Isabelle

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Stephanie Roberts

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The debut novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge evokes a teenager's alienation from her distant mother, and a parent's rage at the discovery of her daughter's secrets.

“One of those rare, invigorating books that take an apparently familiar world and peer into it with ruthless intimacy, revealing a... Read more

419

By: Will Ferguson

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Will Ferguson takes readers deep into the labyrinth of lies that is " 419," winner of the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A car tumbles through darkness down a snowy ravine. A woman without a name walks out of a dust storm in sub-Saharan Africa. And in the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the Internet, looking for victims.... Read more

Happy Mutant Baby Pills

By: Jerry Stahl

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Lloyd has a particular set of skills. He writes the small print for prescription drugs, marital aids, and incontinence products. The clients present him with a list of possible side effects. His job is ""to recite and minimize""—sometimes by just saying them really fast and other times by finding the language that can render them acceptable. The... Read more