Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

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

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 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

The End of Vandalism

By: Tom Drury & Jesse LaVercombe

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, Tom Drury's groundbreaking debut, The End of Vandalism, was serialized in the New Yorker, was compared to the work of Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner by USA Today, and was named a Best Book of the Year in multiple publications.Welcome to Grouse County—a fictional Midwest that is at once familiar and amusingly... Read more

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades

By: Anonymous

Narrated by: Chema Bazán, Alfonso Laguna, Chema Lara & Maris...

Length: 2 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, de autor anónimo, es una de las mejores obras de la picaresca española. En ella, Lázaro de Tormes nos relata su niñez y su adolescencia, los diferentes amos a los que sirvió, y lo que aprendió en su lucha por sobrevivir. Una novela llena de crítica a la sociedad de su tiempo, de... Read more

The Creed of Violence

By: Boston Teran

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mexico, 1910. The landscape pulses with the force of the upcoming revolution, an atmosphere rich in opportunity for a criminal such as Rawbone. His fortune arrives across the haze of the Sierra Blanca in the form of a truck loaded with weapons.But Rawbone's plan spins against him, and he soon finds himself at the Mexican-American border and in... Read more

Why Can't I Be You

By: Allie Larkin

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

At one time or another, everyone has wished they could be someone else. Exploring this universal longing, Allie Larkin follows up the success of her debut novel, Stay, with a moving portrait of friendship and identity.When Jenny Shaw hears someone shout “Jessie!” across a hotel lobby, she impulsively answers. All her life, Jenny has toed the... Read more

Babayaga

By: Toby Barlow

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. It's 1959 and the Cold War is going strong. But Will doesn't think he's a warrior—he's just a good-hearted Detroit ad guy who can't seem to figure out Parisian girls.



Zoya is a beautiful young woman wandering les boulevards, sad-eyed, and coming off a bad... Read more

Middle Men

By: Jim Gavin

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen, Jonathan Todd Ross & T. Ryder S...

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In Middle Men, Stegner Fellow and New Yorker contributor Jim Gavin delivers a hilarious and panoramic vision of California, portraying a group of men, from young dreamers to old vets, as they make valiant forays into middle-class respectability. In " Play the Man" a high-school basketball player aspires to a college scholarship, in " Elephant... Read more

Ostrich

By: Matt Greene

Narrated by: Matthew Frow & Suzan Crowley

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and moving coming-of-age story in the tradition of Wonder by R. J. Palacio and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon—this debut novel is written with tremendous humor and charm.
 
This is Alex’s story. But he doesn’t know exactly what it’s about yet, so you probably shouldn’t either.
 
Instead, here are some... Read more

Claire of the Sea Light

By: Edwidge Danticat

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

MacArthur Fellowship recipient Edwidge Danticat has received a host of honors, including a National Book Critics Circle Award for Brother, I'm Dying. An undeniably affecting tale of love and heartbreak, Claire of the Sea Light takes place in a seaside town in Haiti. There, widower Nozias finally makes the gut-wrenching decision to give up his... Read more

Thought I Knew You

By: Kate Moretti

Narrated by: Anne Damman

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times & USA Today Bestseller
Big Al's Books & Pals 2013 Readers' Choice Award Romance Winner
Claire Barnes is shattered when her husband, Greg, goes on a business trip and never returns. Unwilling to just wait for the police to find him, Claire conducts her own investigation. Her best friend Drew helps her look for answers, but... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A pillar of American literature, Mark Twain's prototypical coming-of-age introduces the iconic Tom Sawyer and his best friend Huckleberry Finn. Tom's panache for mischief and unyielding desire for adventure commonly leads him into trouble, but quick wits and a smooth tongue always navigates him to safety. When Tom and Huck witness a murder and... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the events of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn is under the watchful stewardship of the Widow Douglas. However, when he is forced back into his drunken father's custody, Huck fakes his own death and runs off down river. In the process, he meets up with Jim, a runaway slave, and the two become friends as well as travel... Read more

The Disenchanted Widow

By: Christina McKenna

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

It’s 1981 and Belfast is burning. So, too, is freshly widowed Bessie Halstone: she burns with a desire to break with her troubled past. With her feckless husband gone, she leaves home hurriedly with her naughty nine-year-old son, Herkie, and not much else. The Dentist, an IRA enforcer, is on her tail. He’s convinced that Bessie, with her “yella... Read more

The Affairs of Others

By: Amy Grace Loyd

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A MESMERIZING DEBUT NOVEL ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN, HAUNTED BY LOSS, WHO REDISCOVERS PASSION AND POSSIBILITY WHEN SHE'S DRAWN INTO THE TANGLED LIVES OF HER NEIGHBORS

Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she has... Read more

Monster

By: Bridget Clerkin

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A powerful story about a mother struggling to keep her family together amid unsettling events: the family dog goes missing, her teenage daughter has become increasingly rebellious, and a bloated, unidentifiable animal corpse washes up on the local beach.As her two younger children hang up missing dog posters around the neighborhood, she... Read more

Holy Orders

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke is plunged into a world of corruption that takes him to the darkest corners of the Irish Church and State.

"At first they thought it was the body of a child. Later, when they got it out of the water and saw the pubic hair and the nicotine stains on the fingers, they... Read more

Lookaway, Lookaway

By: Wilton Barnhardt

Narrated by: Scott Shepherd

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Move over, Tom Wolfe! Writing with brilliance and brio, Barnhardt has penned a hilarious satire which often has surprising depth and hits way too close to the truth." —Lee Smith

Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina's high society, a world where old Southern money and the secrets behind it meet... Read more

Night Film

By: Marisha Pessl

Narrated by: Jake Weber

Length: 23 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A hair-raising mystery that’s equal parts family drama, horror movie, and jigsaw puzzle. . . . It’s impossible to look away.”— People (four stars)

“Maniacally clever . . . like an M.C. Escher nightmare about Edgar Allan Poe . . . You’ll miss your subway stop, let dinner burn, and start sleeping with the lights... Read more

The Good Lord Bird

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he's a... Read more

The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner)

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who... Read more

The Seventh Gate

By: Richard Zimler

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 25 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

By the author of the critically acclaimed international hits The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and The Warsaw Anagrams, this novel proves Richard Zimler's mastery of the "riveting literary murder mystery" (Independent on Sunday).Berlin, 1932. Sophie is a smart and sexually precocious fourteen-year-old coming of age during Hitler's rise to power.... Read more