Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

Narrated by: Ruth Ozeki

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, unforgettable, and long-awaited novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki

“A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before... Read more

Bay of Fires

By: Poppy Gee

Narrated by: Cynthia Barrett

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Avery's reckless behavior has cost her a job, her boyfriend, and the independence she desperately craves. Reluctantly home for the holidays in the Bay of Fires, a tiny seaside town on the Tasmanian coast, she hopes for a calm, quiet visit, with time to reflect on all that's gone wrong. Those hopes are crushed when, early one morning, she... Read more

The Blue Book

By: A. L. Kennedy

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the U.K.’s most dazzling novelists — whom Richard Ford has called “a profound writer” — comes this daring new novel set in the unsteady, self-contained world of a luxury liner.While on a transatlantic trip with her soon-to-be-fiancé Derek, Elizabeth unexpectedly runs into ex-lover Arthur, with whom she shares a shady past: the pair... Read more

The Summer Guest

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

With a rare combination of emotional insight, narrative power, and lyrical grace, Justin Cronin transforms the simple story of a dying man’s last wish into a rich tapestry of family love.

“A work of art . . . a great American novel.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

On an evening in late summer, the great financier Harry Wainwright, nearing the end... Read more

Mary and O'Neil

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not healed. How likely was it that they could learn to trust, much less love, again?

Justin Cronin's... Read more

The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

By: Edward Kelsey Moore

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo & Pamella D'Pella

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STREAMING ON HULU •  A warmhearted, "complex, believable, and always intriguing story” (The New York Journal of Books) that celebrates female friendship and second chances

This diner in Plainview, Indiana is home away from home for Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. Dubbed "The Supremes" by high school pals in the... Read more

Fever

By: Mary Beth Keane

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” who becomes, “in Keane’s assured hands…a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Mary Beth Keane has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in... Read more

Mary Coin

By: Marisa Silver

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Alison Fraser & Mark Zeisler

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In her first novel since The God of War, critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter.

In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in... Read more

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the boldly imagined tale of a poor boy’s quest for wealth and love.

His first two novels established Mohsin Hamid as a radically inventive storyteller with his finger on the world’s pulse. How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia meets that reputation—and exceeds it. the... Read more

The Demonologist

By: Andrew Pyper

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of The Historian won’t be able to put down this spellbinding literary horror story in which a Columbia professor must use his knowledge of demonic mythology to rescue his daughter from the Underworld.

Professor David Ullman is among the world’s leading authorities on demonic literature, with special expertise in Milton’s Paradise Lost. Not... Read more

The Accursed

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 22 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A major historical novel from "one of the great artistic forces of our time" (The Nation)—an eerie, unforgettable story of possession, power, and loss in early-twentieth-century Princeton, a cultural crossroads of the powerful and the damnedPrinceton, New Jersey, at the turn of the twentieth century: a tranquil place to raise a family, a genteel... Read more

Donnybrook

By: Frank Bill

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The raw and as-insane-as-anticipated first novel from Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana The Donnybrook is a three-day bare-knuckle tournament held on a thousand-acre plot out in the sticks of southern Indiana. Twenty fighters. One wire-fence ring. Fight until only one man is left standing while a rowdy festival of onlookers-drunk... Read more

Solo Pass

By: Ronald De Feo

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a dark yet often funny novel told from the point of view of a man who for the past two months has been a patient at a New York City mental ward. Having suffered a breakdown—due to his shattered marriage and an irrational fear of fading away as a human—he now finds himself caught between two worlds, neither of which is a place of comfort... Read more

Ghana Must Go

By: Taiye Selasi

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing a powerful new novelist whose evocation of an unforgettable African family is testament to the transformative power of unconditional love

Kwaku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside the home he shares in Ghana with his second wife. The news of Kwaku’s death sends a ripple around the... Read more

Y

By: Marjorie Celona

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

With her powerful debut novel, author Marjorie Celona has made a mark with critics and listeners everywhere. In Y, Shannon is abandoned as an infant on the doorstep of a local YMCA. Taken into the foster-care system, she endures years of abuse. But her luck finally changes when she's sent to live with a kind single mom named Miranda. Even so,... Read more

The Space Between Us

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Purva Bedi

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Thrity Umrigar won the Nieman Fellowship and earned a finalist spot for the PEN/Beyond Margins award with The Space Between Us. Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though... Read more

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn’s startling book led, almost 30 years later, to Glasnost, Perestroika, and the “Fall of the Wall.” One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovichbrilliantly portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Along with... Read more

The Bride Stripped Bare

By: Nikki Gemmell

Narrated by: Alice Frayn

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey – the international bestseller – an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book of lessons. It is the story of her secret self. On honeymoon, in the heat and shadows of sultry Marrakech, a conventional young wife makes a shocking... Read more

White Dog Fell from the Sky

By: Eleanor Morse

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Botswana, 1976. Isaac Muthethe thinks he is dead. Smuggled across the border from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens covered in dust, staring at blue sky and the face of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical student in South Africa, he was forced to flee after witnessing a friend... Read more

House of Earth

By: Woody Guthrie

Narrated by: Will Patton & Douglas Brinkley

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring the song, ""House of Earth"" performed by Lucinda Williams.Finished in 1947 and lost to readers until now, House of Earth is Woody Guthrie's only fully realized novel, a powerful portrait of dust bowl America. It is the story of an ordinary couple's dreams of a better life and their search for love and meaning in a corrupt world.Tike... Read more

The Storyteller

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno, Suzanne Toren, Fred Berman, Jenni...

Length: 18 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Picoult's poignant #1 New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he... Read more

Benediction

By: Kent Haruf

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year

From the beloved and best-selling author of Plainsong and Eventide comes a story of life and death, and the ties that bind, once again set out on the High Plains in Holt, Colorado.

When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife, Mary, must work together to make his final days as... Read more

The Wanting

By: Michael Lavigne

Narrated by: Robert Fass, Cassandra Campbell & Neil Shah

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Not Me, this powerful novel of an Israeli father and daughter brings to life a rich canvas of events and unexpected change in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.In the captivating opening of this novel, the celebrated Russian-born modern architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing; his life and perceptions become... Read more

The Suitors

By: Cécile David-Weill

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A present-day comedy of manners that serves as an insightful look at the lives of those in the upper classesAfter sisters Laure and Marie learn of their parents' plan to sell the family's summer retreat, L'Agapanthe, they devise a scheme for attracting a wealthy suitor who can afford to purchase the estate. Selling it would mean more than just... Read more