Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Car Thief

By: Theodore Weesner

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Described as "one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century," Theodore Weesner's modern American classic is now on audio!It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and... Read more

The Water Witch

By: Juliet Dark

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Deborah Harkness and Elizabeth Kostova, The Water Witch is a breathtakingly sexy and atmospheric novel of ancient folklore, passionate love, and thrilling magic.After casting out a dark spirit, Callie McFay, a professor of Gothic literature, has at last restored a semblance of calm to her rambling Victorian house. But in the... Read more

When a Camel Breaks Your Heart

By: Kodi Scheer

Narrated by: Kodi Scheer

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this haunting and fabulist tale, a young woman’s would-be fiancé, Mahir, transforms—quite literally—into a camel.Mahir—once the object of her affection and muse for her art—now embodies the vast differences between their respective backgrounds as a white American woman and a first-generation American Muslim. She attempts to uncover the... Read more

Hollywood

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot.  He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld... Read more

Pulp

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Bukowski's own brand of humour and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles. Read more

Post Office

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

""It began as a mistake."" By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard... Read more

Women

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred... Read more

Ham On Rye

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own hardscrabble youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled high school years and his adolescent discoveries of alcohol, women, and the Los Angeles Public... Read more

The Infatuations

By: Javier Marías

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or do we?—through one woman’s ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.

At the Madrid café where she stops... Read more

Scissors

By: Stéphane Michaka

Narrated by: various narrators, Lloyd James, Kathe Mazur, Sc...

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on the life of the great short-story writer Raymond Carver, particularly his last ten, postalcoholic years, Scissors is that rare thing: a funny, compassionate, and convincing portrayal of the creative life—its compulsions, its rewards, its frustrations, its affinities with tragedy.Raymond is a writer whose life is fraught with personal... Read more

Hot Water Music

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music.  He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of... Read more

South of No North

By: Charles Bukowski

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society. Read more

The Scavenger's Daughters

By: Kay Bratt

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Having survived torture and imprisonment during China’s Cultural Revolution, Benfu escaped to find love with his compassionate and beautiful Calla Lily. Together they build a fulfilling life around the most menial of jobs—Benfu’s work collecting trash. As he sorts through the discards of others, he regularly discovers abandoned children. With... Read more

The Color Master

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wondrous collection of dreamy, strange, and magical stories.

Truly beloved by readers and critics alike, Aimee Bender has become known as something of an enchantress whose lush prose is “moving, fanciful, and gorgeously strange” (People), “richly imagined and... Read more

Approaching the Speed of Light

By: Victoria Lustbader

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartbreaking tale of pain, love, and redemption set in New York City Approaching the Speed of Light is a story of tragedy and triumph, fragility and strength. Victoria Lustbader's brave narrative shines a powerful light on the lasting damage caused by childhood demons that can prevent a life from blossoming, on the relationships needed in... Read more

A Wild Sheep Chase

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising confrontation with his demons.
 
An advertising executive receives a... Read more

Big Egos

By: S. G. Browne

Narrated by: Tasso Feldman

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Does your lifestyle not fit the person inside you? Then try someone else on for size!Call him whatever. Call him whomever. He can be any legally authorized fictional character or dead celebrity he wants for six to eight hours, simply by injecting a DNA-laced cocktail into his brain stem. It's called Big Egos and it's the ultimate role-playing... Read more

Paris Was the Place

By: Susan Conley

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Susan Conley comes a novel that gives us a luminous emotional portrait of a young woman living abroad in Paris in the 1980s and trying to make sense of the chaotic world around her as she learns the true meaning of family.When Willie Pears agrees to teach at a Parisian center for immigrant girls who have requested French... Read more

The Gravity of Birds

By: Tracy Guzeman

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel already destined to be a book club favorite. “With its deft interweaving of psychological complexity and riveting narrative momentum, with its gorgeous prose and poetic justice, The Gravity of Birds is about sibling rivalry, tragedies, and resurrections. And it’s irresistibly exquisite” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Forty-four years... Read more

Firebrand

By: Elizabeth Fremantle

Narrated by: Georgina Sutton

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for the major motion picture Firebrand—which reveals the tumultuous darker side to the marriages of the notorious King of England, Henry VIII, and the wife who survived.

“Smart, sensual, and suspenseful as a thriller, this is a must-read for Philippa Gregory fans.” —People

Widowed for the second time at age thirty-one, Katherine Parr... Read more

Love and Lament

By: John Milliken Thompson

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in rural North Carolina between the Civil War and World War I, Love and Lament chronicles the Hartsoe family's ex­traordinary hardships and misfortunes.Mary Bet, the youngest of nine children, was born the same year the first railroad arrived in their county. As she comes of age during the South's reconstruction and industrialization, she... Read more

Snow Hunters

By: Paul Yoon

Narrated by: Paul Yoon

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award, Snow Hunters is “a subtle, elegant, poignant read” (Oprah.com), featuring a Korean War refugee who emigrates to Brazil to become a tailor’s apprentice and confronts the wreckage of his past.

“Exquisitely enigmatic…a small but radiant star in the current literary firmament” (The Dallas Morning News), Snow... Read more

The Wicked Girls

By: Alex Marwood

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview... Read more

Ask Bob

By: Peter Gethers

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, witty, sometimes heartbreaking love story about a pet doctor who discovers that the best relationships are often the most surprisingDr. Robert Heller is one of New York City's leading veterinarians, and his Ask Dr. Bob advice column is hugely popular among pet lovers. Yet Dr. Bob understands animals a lot better than people, and he could... Read more