Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Maze of Death

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Benjamin L. Darcie

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else and death can strike at any moment. The planet is vast and largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube-shaped beings that give cryptic advice in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer... Read more

Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots

By: Jessica Soffer

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati & Kate Reinders

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story about accepting the people we love — the people we have to love and the people we choose to love, the families we’re given and the families we make. It’s the story of two women adrift in New York, a widow and an almost-orphan, each searching for someone she’s lost. It’s the story of how, even in moments of grief and darkness,... Read more

Nothing Serious

By: Daniel Klein

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Stoned out of his skull—this is how we find washed-up New York magazine writer Digby Maxwell when he is offered a last chance to redeem himself by becoming editor of a small philosophy magazine headquartered in a rural Vermont college town. Digby's assignment is to make the magazine relevant to contemporary culture. For starters, that requires... Read more

The Housekeeper and the Professor

By: Yoko Ogawa

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem—ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.



She is an astute young Housekeeper—with a ten-year-old son—who is hired to care for the Professor.



And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a... Read more

Honor

By: Elif Shafak

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno & Piter Marek

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the blood. Read more

Take Me To The North Laine

By: Various

Narrated by: Jeff Rawle & Gerard McDermott

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The last in a short series of stories that each take us to a different part of the UK. He hasn't told anyone, but today is Charles' last early shift, sweeping the streets of the North Laine in Brighton. This afternoon he's leaving. Forever. All he wants to do is get to the Pavilion Gardens for dawn, to say goodbye properly. But it's not going to... Read more

Motherland

By: William Nicholson

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter, an “affecting…wartime love story in the tradition of Atonement” (Kirkus Reviews), about three friends who fall into a love triangle during World War II and its aftermath.

From an Academy Award–nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind.

Summer, 1942.... Read more

Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory

By: Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Tilly Bagshawe, who delivered the late beloved author’s brilliance in Sidney Sheldon’s After the Darkness, is back with a stunning tale of duplicity and vengeance in Sidney Sheldon’s The Tides of Memory.The members of the formidable and captivating De Vere family of London live enviable lives in the world’s most... Read more

Edward Adrift

By: Craig Lancaster

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s been a year of upheaval for Edward Stanton, a forty-two-year-old with Asperger’s syndrome. He’s lost his job. His trusted therapist has retired. His best friends have moved away. And even his nightly ritual of watching Dragnet reruns has been disrupted. All of this change has left Edward, who lives his life on a rigid schedule, completely... Read more

Dangerous Refuge

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Betsy Zajko

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful, sweet Shay and dark, dangerous Tanner don′t have a lot in common. He′s a suspicious big city cop come home to his family′s ranch and she′s a bleeding heart who works for a group that seeks out ranches to conserve after the owners have passed away.But the suspicious death of Tanner′s uncle at his ranch throws the two opposites together... Read more

The Interestings

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Jen Tullock

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“Remarkable . . . With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.”—The New York Times Book Review

"A victory . . . The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation. . . . She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't... Read more

Revenge

By: Yoko Ogawa

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith & Johanna Parker

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a... Read more

The Avalon Ladies Scrapbooking Society

By: Darien Gee

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past: Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband's affair. Ava Catalina is mourning... Read more

The Memory of Love

By: Linda Olsson

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Memory of Love is a story of courage and survival set on New Zealand's North Island where a Swedish doctor's lonely life is changed when she rescues a small boy. This beautifully written novel explores the destructive, forbidden and healing powers of love. Read more

Number9Dream

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: William Rycroft

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark... Read more

Outer Dark

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • A novel at once fabular and starkly evocative, set is an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century.A woman bears her brother’s child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes.... Read more

The Fever Tree

By: Jennifer McVeigh

Narrated by: Jayne Paterson

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Having drawn comparisons to Gone with the Wind and Out of Africa, The Fever Tree is a page-turner of the very first order.

Frances Irvine, left destitute in the wake of her father’s sudden death, has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. 1880 South Africa is a country torn... Read more

The Edge of the Earth

By: Christina Schwarz

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Drowning Ruth, a haunting, atmospheric novel set at the closing of the frontier about a young wife who moves to a far-flung and forbidding lighthouse where she uncovers a life-changing secret.

In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of... Read more

The Shelter Cycle

By: Peter Rock

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An American original, Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in this haunting novel inspired by true events.The Shelter Cycle tells the story of two children, Francine and Colville, who grew up in the Church Universal and Triumphant, a sect that predicted the world would end in the late 1980s. While their parents... Read more

The Smart One

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

With her best-selling debut, Girls in White Dresses (An “irresistible, pitch-perfect first novel” —Marie Claire), Jennifer Close captured friendship in those what-on-earth-am-I-going-to-do-with-my-life years of early adulthood. Now, with her sparkling new novel of parenthood and sibling rivalry, Close turns her gimlet eye to the only thing... Read more

The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Absolutist comes a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the Romanovs.Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering, and scandal that... Read more

The Mermaid of Brooklyn

By: Amy Shearn

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this beautifully written novel that blends the whimsy of The Time Traveler's Wife with an indelible portrait of motherhood, a young woman strives to pick up the pieces after her husband mysteriously leaves—and she finds strength from the unlikeliest of allies.Jenny Lipkin is an average, stretched-too-thin Brooklyn mom tackling the challenges... Read more

Reconstructing Amelia

By: Kimberly McCreight

Narrated by: Khristine Hvam

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller“Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl, it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year.”  — Entertainment WeeklyThe stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter Amelia’s... Read more

The Pastures of Heaven

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s beautifully rendered depictions of small yet fateful moments that transform ordinary lives, these twelve early stories introduce both the subject and style of artistic expression that recur in the most important works of his career. Each of these self-contained stories is linked to the others by the... Read more