Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Clairvoyant Countess

By: Dorothy Gilman

Narrated by: Ruth Ann Phimister

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of the famous Mrs. Pollifax series comes another delightfully eccentric and sage female sleuth-the exotic Madame Karitska. Although she is a genuine countess, Marina Elena Provovnitchek Gaylord Von Domm Karitska is foremost a psychic. When one of her clients turns up dead, Madame Karitska makes the acquaintance of... Read more

Autobiography of Us

By: Aria Beth Sloss

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping debut novel about friendship, loss, and love—a confession of what passed between two women who met as girlsComing of age in the patrician neighborhood of Pasadena, California, during the 1960s, Rebecca Madden and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers' narrow expectations. Their struggle to define... Read more

Why Worry?

By: George Lincoln Walton

Narrated by: Anthony Rogers

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"The habit of worry is not to be overcome by unaided resolution. It is hoped that the victim of this unfortunate tendency may find, among the homely illustrations and commonplace suggestions here offered, something to turn his mind into more healthy channels. It is not the aim of the writer to transform the busy man into a philosopher of the... Read more

All That Is

By: James Salter

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary literary event, a major new novel by the PEN/Faulkner winner and acclaimed master, here is a sweeping, seductive, deeply moving story set in the years after World War II.After his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. It is a time when... Read more

The Woman Upstairs

By: Claire Messud

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children, a masterly new novel: the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed and betrayed by a desire for a world beyond her own.

Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, long ago compromised her dream to be a successful artist, mother and... Read more

Five Days

By: Douglas Kennedy

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically lauded, internationally bestselling author of The Moment comes a profoundly moving novel that explores how a single brief encounter can change one’s life.Laura spends her days looking at other people’s potential calamities. She works in the radiography unit of a small hospital on the Maine coast, bearing constant witness to... Read more

The Morels

By: Christopher Hacker

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Morels—Arthur, Penny, and Will—are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthur's old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he becomes accidentally reacquainted with Arthur. A... Read more

Telling the Bees

By: Peggy Hesketh

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Honig's most constant companions have always been his bees. A never-married octogenarian, he makes a modest living as a beekeeper, as his father and his father's father did before him. Deeply acquainted with the workings of the hives, Albert is less versed in the ways of people, especially his friend Claire, whose presence and absence in... Read more

Ghostwritten

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: William Rycroft

Length: 15 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

David Mitchell's electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives. Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters-a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong,... Read more

Harvest

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A remote English village wakes on the morning after harvest, looking forward to enjoying a hard-earned day of rest and feasting. But two mysterious columns of smoke mar the sky, raising alarm and suspicion. The first column of smoke comes from the edge of the village land, sent as a signal by newcomers to announce their presence as per regional... Read more

Sea Glass Summer

By: Dorothy Cannell

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Glass on the Maine coast, and is soon caught up in the lives of its inhabitants. As she helps elegant but troubled widow Gwen cope with her desperately ill son, and assists nine-year-old orphan Oliver in uncovering the secrets surrounding the... Read more

The Humanity Project

By: Jean Thompson

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an “instantly addictive…tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist)After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly... Read more

Walk Me Home

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

Narrated by: Cristina Panfilio

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a story of two young sisters who embark on a journey across the American Southwest to uncover what it really means to be a family. Since their mother’s sudden death, sixteen-year-old Carly and her eleven-year-old sister, Jen, have been walking and hitchhiking across the Southwest... Read more

Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Jean Gilpin

Length: 38 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light

Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art,... Read more

Snapper

By: Brian Kimberling

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

**NPR's Best Books of the Year 2013**

A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place and its people.
 
Nathan Lochmueller studies birds, earning just enough money to live on. He drives... Read more

Maya's Notebook

By: Isabel Allende

Narrated by: Maria Cabezas

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Maya’s Notebook is a startling novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende.
 
This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life... Read more

The Good Father

By: Diane Chamberlain

Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle, Emily Durante & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his own. While most of his friends were out partying and meeting girls, Travis was at home, changing diapers and worrying about keeping food on the table. But he's never regretted his decision. Bella is the light of his life. The reason behind every... Read more

Clans of the Alphane Moon

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes, the hospital was left unguarded and the inmates set up their own society, made up of competing factions based on their particular mental illnesses. When Earth sends a delegation to take back the colony, they... Read more

Deus Irae

By: Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An artist searches for God so he can paint his portrait in Philip K. Dick's collaboration with Roger Zelazny. After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity. But to worship the man, they need an image of him as a god, and no one has ever... Read more

Dr. Futurity

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Solar Lottery, in a future where death is embraced, a time-traveling doctor is the only one who can save a wounded resistance leader. When Dr. Jim Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young. But to keep the world run by the young, death is fetishized, and those who... Read more

Our Friends from Frolix 8

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

By the author of A Scanner Darkly—a satirical adventure dealing with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites.In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn't wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is... Read more

Galactic Pot-Healer

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful andenigmatic alien recruits humans and aliens to help it restore a sunken cathedral in this touching and hilarious novel. Sometimes even gods need help. In Galactic Pot-Healer that god is an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order... Read more

All That I Am

By: Anna Funder

Narrated by: Judy Bennett & Saul Reichlin

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Hitler seizes power in 1933, a tight-knit group of friends and lovers suddenly become hunted outlaws overnight. Dora, liberated and fearless; her lover, the great playwright Ernst Toller; Ruth; and Ruth's journalist husband, Hans find refuge in London. There, using secret contacts deep inside the Nazi regime, they take breathtaking risks to... Read more

Amity & Sorrow

By: Peggy Riley

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine what the world holds outside their father's polygamous compound.

Rescue comes... Read more