Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Sand Queen

By: Helen Benedict

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp.... Read more

One Sweet Quarrel

By: Deirdre McNamer

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Nancy Pearl

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Brother and sister Jerry and Daisy Lou Malone leave behind their provincial Midwestern upbringing to test their mettle in the big, beckoning world of 1920s America. For Jerry, the future lies west, with like-minded pioneer souls keen to play the “land game” as homesteaders on the Great Plains. Daisy, in turn, heads for the lights and luxe life... Read more

A Marker to Measure Drift

By: Alexander Maksik

Narrated by: Angelle Haney Gullett

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Now The Major Motion Picture DRIFT Starring Cynthia Erivo and Alia Shawkat • A New York Times Notable Book •  Hypnotic in its depiction of physical and spiritual hungers, this is a novel about ruin, faith, and the devastating memories that can destroy and redeem us. 

“Immensely powerful. . . . Beautifully written. . . . Jacqueline is a... Read more

The Sweetest Hallelujah

By: Elaine Hussey

Narrated by: Natalie Ross

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable story of two courageous women brought together by one extraordinary little girlBetty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in... Read more

Half Moon Hill

By: Toni Blake

Narrated by: Jennifer Bradshaw

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

You never know what destiny has in store . . .A rugged loner and ex-biker-gang member, Duke Dawson is looking for some peace and quiet while recovering from an accident. But when Anna Romo comes wandering through his woods and into his cabin, she completely rocks his world. The last thing he expected or wanted was to find himself hungering after... Read more

The Skull and the Nightingale

By: Michael Irwin

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England.
 
When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert has led a sedate life in Worcestershire, but feels the... Read more

Sea Creatures

By: Susanna Daniel

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When Georgia Quillian returns to her hometown of Miami, her husband, Graham, and their young son in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. The family has fled Illinois trailing scandal and disappointment, the fallout from Graham's severe sleep disorder and Georgia's failed business. To make matters worse, their charming three-year-old son,... Read more

The Hopeless Life Of Charlie Summers

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Simon J. Williamson

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army and is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo persuades Eck to join the company as a 'greeter' for moneyed clients. All Eck has to do is supply the... Read more

And Sons

By: David Gilbert

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The New Yorker • Esquire • The Austin Chronicle • Kansas City Star • The Guardian (UK) • BookPage • Flavorwire • Bookish

“[A] big, brilliant novel.”—The New York Times Book Review

Who is A. N. Dyer? & Sons is a literary masterwork for readers of The Art of Fielding, The Emperor’s... Read more

Light Of the World

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Robicheaux battles the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in this atmospheric thriller.

Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux’s... Read more

Light Of the World - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dave Robicheaux battles the most diabolical villain he has ever faced in this atmospheric thriller.

Sadist and serial killer Asa Surrette narrowly escaped the death penalty for the string of heinous murders he committed while capital punishment was outlawed in Kansas. But following a series of damning articles written by Dave Robicheaux’s... Read more

Zombie Bake-Off

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

It's time for the annual Recipe Days bake-off in Lubbock, Texas. Soccer moms and grandmothers gather to show off their family recipes, learn new secrets for the perfect shortcake, and perhaps earn a chance to be on the famous cooking show, How Would You Cook It, Then? When the bake-off is crashed by a federation of pro wrestlers -- including... Read more

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish

By: David Rakoff

Narrated by: David Rakoff

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty, and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the twentieth century

Through his books and his radio essays for NPR's This American Life, David Rakoff has built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. Written with humor, sympathy, and tenderness,... Read more

Blood & Beauty

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Italian Renaissance novels—The Birth of Venus, In the Company of the Courtesan, and Sacred Hearts—has an exceptional talent for breathing life into history. Now Sarah Dunant turns her discerning eye to one of the world’s most... Read more

Suite Francaise

By: Irene Nemirovsky

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes & Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of ... Read more

The Wednesday Daughters

By: Meg Waite Clayton

Narrated by: Lesa Lockford

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hope Tantry arrives at cottage in England's pastoral Lake District where her mother, Ally, spent the last years of her life. Ally - one of a group of women who called themselves the Wednesday Sisters - had used the cottage while she worked on her unpublished biography of Beatrix Potter. Traveling with Hope are friends Anna Page and Julie, first... Read more

Lillian and Dash

By: Sam Toperoff

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Lorna Raver & Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This exciting novel about Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man, and Lillian Hellman, author of The Children's Hour, reintroduces their larger-than-life personalities and the vicissitudes of their affair that spanned three decades.Toperoff reimagines the highs and lows of a fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple and... Read more

Mystery Girl

By: David Gordon

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sam Kornberg’s wife, Lala, walks out on him, he’s an unemployed used-book store clerk and failed experimental novelist with a broken heart. Desperate to win her back, he takes a job as assistant detective to the enigmatic Solar Lonsky, a private eye who might be an eccentric and morbid genius or just a morbidly obese madman.It’s a simple... Read more

The Escape Artist

By: Diane Chamberlain

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Susanna Miller loses custody of her eleven-month-old son, Tyler, but rather than turning the little boy over to her ex-husband and his new wife, she goes on the run. She dyes her hair, changes her name, and escapes from Boulder, Colorado, leaving behind everyone she knows, including Linc Sebastian, the man who has been her best friend since... Read more

The Cage Keeper, and Other Stories

By: Andre Dubus

Narrated by: Andre Dubus

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Passion and betrayal, violent desperation, ambivalent love that hinges on hatred, and the quest for acceptance by those who stand on the edge of society—these are the hard-hitting themes of a stunningly crafted first collection of stories by the bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog.In the title story, a vigilant young man working in a... Read more

Vertell doch mal! 20 Jahre

By: NDR Welle Nord

Narrated by: Jens Scheiblich, Oskar Ketelhut, Meike Meiners,...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Zum 20jährigen Jubiläum gab es eine Auswahl von 11 der schönsten Geschichten des Wettbewerbs aus den Jahren 1993 bis 2007 Der plattdeutsche Schreibwettbewerb "Vertell doch mal" des NDR und Radio Bremen ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Bis zu 3000 Hobbyautoren beteiligen sich jährlich daran. Eine Jury wählt die 25 besten Geschichten zu einem jährlich... Read more

Vertell doch mal! 1

By: NDR Welle Nord

Narrated by: Uwe-Detlev Jessen, Herma Koehn, Wilfried Dziall...

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine Auswahl von 9 der schönsten Geschichten des Wettbewerbs aus den Jahren 1997 bis 2000. Der plattdeutsche Schreibwettbewerb "Vertell doch mal" des NDR und Radio Bremen ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Bis zu 3000 Hobbyautoren beteiligen sich jährlich daran. Eine Jury wählt die 25 besten Geschichten zu einem jährlich wechselnden Thema aus. Diese... Read more

Ünner't Strohdack III

By: NDR1 Welle Nord

Narrated by: Ina Müller, Uwe Friedrichsen, Fritz Hollenbeck,...

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Als das NDR Landesfunkhaus Schleswig-Holstein Ende 1969 zur ersten plattdeutschen Lesung im historischen Drathenhof des Schleswig-Holstei nischen Freilichtmuseums einlud, ahnte noch niemand, dass damit eine Erfolgsgeschichte begann. Die alten Bauernhäuser in Molfsee sollten auch in den Herbst- und Wintermonaten genutzt werden, fand der damalige... Read more

Ünner't Strohdack II

By: NDR1 Welle Nord

Narrated by: Ulla Hinrichs, Dirk Römmer, Christa Heise-Batt,...

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Plattdeutsch-Abende des NDR Landesfunkhaus Schleswig-Holstein holen seit 1969 die besten Sprecher mit den schönsten Geschichten ins Freilichtmuseum Molfsee. In der urigen Atmosphäre der alten Bauernhäuser begeistern die Lesungen das Publikum mit der ganzen Breite plattdeutscher Erzählkunst. Nach dem großen Erfolg der Jubiläums-CD zum... Read more