Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Ona...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its... Read more

Accident of Birth

By: Heather Neff

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Alternating between present-day action and a series of flashbacks, "Accident of Birth" creates an intricate tapestry of suspense, drama, and romance, while also looking at the moral and cultural differences between African Americans and Africans. Read more

A Week in Winter

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned... Read more

The Next Time You See Me

By: Holly Goddard Jones

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A debut novel by award-winning author Holly Goddard Jones, about the people surprisingly connected to the discovery of a dead woman's body in a small townThirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn't have many friends. She finds more comfort playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates, who find her... Read more

The Comfort of Lies

By: Randy Susan Meyers

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Five years ago, Tia fell into obsessive love with a man she could never have. Married, and the father of two boys, Nathan was unavailable in every way. When she became pregnant, he disappeared, and she gave up her baby for adoption.Five years ago, Caroline, a dedicated pathologist, reluctantly adopted a baby to please her husband. She prayed her... Read more

Ghostman

By: Roger Hobbs

Narrated by: Jake Weber

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist.

When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his... Read more

Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the instant New York Times best seller Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of stories that showcases Karen Russell's gifts at their inimitable best.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested... Read more

Above All Things

By: Tanis Rideout

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Tell me the story of Everest,” she said, a fervent smile sweeping across her face, creasing the corners of her eyes. “Tell me about this mountain that’s stealing you away from me.” 

In 1924 George Mallory departs on his third expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Left behind in Cambridge, George’s young wife, Ruth, along with the rest... Read more

The House Girl

By: Tara Conklin

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The House Girl, the historical fiction debut by Tara Conklin, is an unforgettable story of love, history, and a search for justice, set in modern-day New York and 1852 Virginia.Weaving together the story of an escaped slave in the pre–Civil War South and a determined junior lawyer, The House Girl follows Lina Sparrow as she looks for an... Read more

We Live in Water

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Jess Walter

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, the first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter—a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him... Read more

Love Is a Canoe

By: Ben Schrank

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of two critically acclaimed novels, Ben Schrank is especially adept at casting light on the nuances of human relationships. In Love Is a Canoe, Schrank introduces listeners to Peter Herman, who decades before wrote a much-beloved book on marriage. Now a widower, Peter finds himself in a new relationship and questioning his own advice.... Read more

Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

By: Ron Currie

Narrated by: Jake Hart

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, arresting new work of fiction from the acclaimed author of Everything Matters! and the forthcoming novel The One-Eyed Man (March 2017)

In this tour de force of imagination, Ron Currie asks why literal veracity means more to us than deeper truths, creating yet again a genre-bending novel that will at once dazzle, move, and provoke.

The... Read more

Indiscretion

By: Charles Dubow

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Every story has a narrator. Someone who writes it down after it's all over. Why am I the narrator of this story? I am because it is the story of my life—and of the people I love most. . . ."Harry and Madeleine Winslow have been blessed with talent, money, and charm. Harry is a National Book Award–winning author on the cusp of greatness.... Read more

Man in the Empty Suit

By: Sean Ferrell

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

Say you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and... Read more

Schroder

By: Amity Gaige

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.

Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on... Read more

See Now Then

By: Jamaica Kincaid

Narrated by: Jamaica Kincaid

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all it's joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a Mother and... Read more

Wise Men

By: Stuart Nadler

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A wealthy lawyer and his family struggle to overcome the dark secrets of the past in this historical generational saga set in 1950s Cape Cod.Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the wealthiest and most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint, a town on the far edge of... Read more

The Love Song of Jonny Valentine

By: Teddy Wayne

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of A Visit from the Goon Squad and Joyce Carol Oates' Blonde, here is a scathing and enthralling new novel about America's monstrous obsession with fame from the winner of a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award.Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the fans don't love him for who he is. His image, his voice,... Read more

The City of Devi

By: Manil Suri

Narrated by: Vikas Adam & Priya Ayyar

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but—with its epic reach from quarks to mythology to geopolitics—also encapsulates the fate of the entire world.As Mumbai empties under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, Sarita, a thirty-three-year-old statistician, can only think of one thing: being reunited... Read more

Jo's Boys

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Jo's Boys, written by Louisa May Alcott and first published in 1886, is the third novel in the Little Women series. It follows the lives of Jo's adopted sons, who range from mischievous young boys to young adults navigating the path to adulthood. Through the characters' experiences, readers gain insight into the joys and struggles of growing up,... Read more

Zwischen hier und dort

By: Erich Kästner

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen, Hans Peter Korff, Ursula Illert...

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Endlich: die besten Kästner-Gedichte und -Geschichten rund ums Reisen und unterwegs sein! Ob am Strand, am Ufer eines Sees, in der Stadt oder in den Bergen – dieses Hörbuch ist der ideale Begleiter: geistreich, witzig und höchst unterhaltsam. Mit zahlreichen schwarz-weiß Fotos, Coverillustration von Christoph Niemann. Read more

The Dinner

By: Herman Koch

Narrated by: Clive Mantle

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The darkly suspenseful tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal. Now a major motion picture.“Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable.”—Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl It’s a summer’s evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a... Read more

Light Shining in the Forest

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: David Timson

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'An unsettling, haunting story...memorable, atmospheric and tense' THE LADY

'Well-written, well-crafted and constantly gripping' DAILY MAIL

'A disquieting and atmospheric psychological novel' DAILY EXPRESS

'A grippingly dark thriller...Great writing from a master storyteller' RED MAGAZINE

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the... Read more

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

By: Dina Nayeri

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Spellbinding in its narration, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is the story of an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live.Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister... Read more