Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Taipei

By: Tao Lin

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Taipei by Tao Lin is an ode—or lament—to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York, where he comically navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes, to Taipei, Taiwan, where he confronts his family's roots, we see one relationship fail, while another is born on the Internet and blooms into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the... Read more

Nato Kollateralschaden Jugoslawien

By: Berthold W. Knabe

Narrated by: Dirk Theodor van Dinter

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Aus heutiger Sicht politisch fragwürdig und militärisch ein Desaster, beginnt die NATO am 24. März 1999 ohne UN-Mandat und ohne Vorliegen eines Bündnisfalles, die Bundesrepublik Jugoslawien zu bombardieren. Der Schweißer Goran, der mit Beginn der Bombardierung kurzerhand zum Blockwart seiner kleinen Welt, mitten in der Großstadt Novi Sad ernannt... Read more

Songs of Willow Frost

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Ryan Gesell

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Jamie Ford, author of the beloved Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, comes a much-anticipated second novel. Set against the backdrop of Depression-era Seattle, Songs of Willow Frost is a powerful tale of two souls—a boy with dreams for his future and a woman escaping her haunted past—both seeking love, hope,... Read more

Enon

By: Paul Harding

Narrated by: Paul Harding

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • American Library Association• Kirkus Reviews

A stunning allegorical novel about one man’s enduring love for his daughter

Hailed as “a masterpiece” (NPR), Tinkers, Paul Harding’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut, is a modern classic. The Dallas Morning News observed that “like... Read more

Rivers

By: Michael Farris Smith

Narrated by: Michael Farris Smith

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region.

It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the... Read more

The Testament of Mary

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Meryl Streep

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

2014 Audie Award Finalist for Audiobook of the Year, Literary Fiction, and Solo Narration—Female!

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's provocative, haunting, and indelible portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the... Read more

Someone

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A fully realized portrait of one woman's life in all its complexity, by the National Book Award–winning author

An ordinary life—its sharp pains and unexpected joys, its bursts of clarity and moments of confusion—lived by an ordinary woman: this is the subject of Someone, Alice McDermott's extraordinary return, seven years after the publication of... Read more

In the Tunnel

By: Takamichi Okubo

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Haruki is traveling to the vast plains of Hokkaido, Japan, on a lone bus about to enter a three-kilometer-long tunnel. He is grieving for the loss of his wife when the tunnel collapses and traps the bus inside. In the darkness that follows, he manages to fumble out of the bus with the only other survivor, an astute and gentle woman who reminds... Read more

Dissident Gardens

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers—an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals

At the center of Jonathan Lethem’s superb new novel stand two extraordinary women: Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Communist who savages neighbors, family, and... Read more

My Notorious Life

By: Kate Manning

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 19 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a real midwife who became one of the most controversial figures in Victorian New York City, this “action-packed, thought-provoking page-turner” (The New York Times) is an unforgettable tale—a love story, a family saga, and the confessions of a charismatic and passionate woman who changed the lives of countless others.

Meet the... Read more

Burial Rites

By: Hannah Kent

Narrated by: Morven Christie

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution.

Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master,... Read more

Nine Inches

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning short story collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Tom Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families

The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar... Read more

Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Kevin T. Collins & Aasif Mandvi

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama and author of Homeland Elegies, a "sparkling and combustible" play about identity in America after September 11 (Bloomberg). "In dialogue that bristles with wit and intelligence, Akhtar puts contemporary attitudes toward religion under a microscope, revealing how tenuous self-image can be for people born... Read more

The Hive

By: Gill Hornby

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

There's only room for one Queen Bee: A hilarious and touching novel about the social world of school mothers.

It's the start of another school year at St. Ambrose. While the children are busy in the classroom, their mothers are learning sharper lessons. Lessons in friendship. Lessons in betrayal. Lessons in the laws of community, the transience... Read more

A Guide for the Perplexed

By: Dara Horn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling new novel exploring how memory shapes the soul, by "an astonishing storyteller" (Financial Times)Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented a program that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt's postrevolutionary... Read more

Hold It 'Til It Hurts

By: T. Geronimo Johnson

Narrated by: Corey Allen

Length: 17 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"The magnificence of Hold It 'Til It Hurts is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don't teach us how to live but Hold It 'Til It Hurts will make you hush and... Read more

Dolly

By: Susan Hill

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling ghost story from the author of The Woman in Black, set in a crumbling English houseThe remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost, and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward, are parked for the summer with their aging spinster aunt and her cruel... Read more

At the Bottom of Everything

By: Ben Dolnick

Narrated by: Chris Patton

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This stunning novel of friendship, guilt, and madness tells the story of two friends torn apart by a terrible secret—and the dark adventure that neither of them ever meant to embark upon.It's been ten years since the "incident," and Adam has long decided he's better off without his former best friend, Thomas. Adam is working as a tutor, sleeping... Read more

The Maid's Version

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.

Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister... Read more

Shaman

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy and 2312, has, on many occasions, imagined our future. Now, in Shaman, he brings our past to life as never before.

There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories -- to teach those who would follow... Read more

The Drowning Guard

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Suzanne Cypress

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Colorado Book Award winner, Historical Fiction.Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die…The Drowning Guard is the tale of the Ottoman princess, Esma Sultan—one of the most powerful women in Ottoman... Read more

Never Change

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

You know people like me. I'm the one who sat in a folding chair out in the hall selling tickets to the prom but never going, the one everybody liked but no one wanted to be with.
A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by doting on her dog, Frank, and immersing herself in her career as a... Read more

The Angel Stone

By: Juliet Dark

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and Karen Marie Moning, the author of The Demon Lover offers the climactic conclusion to her steamy and enchanting paranormal trilogy featuring magical professor Callie McFay.Doorkeeper-in-training, Fairwick professor Cailleach "Callie" McFay has her work cut out for her. After a great battle... Read more

The Mask Carver's Son

By: Alyson Richman

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

1890. Yamamoto Kiyoki is a Japanese art student, dreaming of studying in Paris with the inspiring and vibrant Impressionist painters.



Yamamoto Ryusei is Kiyoki's father. Ryusei's art, carving intricate masks for traditional Japanese theater, has been his refuge from loneliness since the death of his beloved wife, and he is revered as the most... Read more