Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The First Assassin

By: John J. Miller

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1861: the United States teeters on the brink of civil war. In Washington, D.C., Colonel Charles P. Rook is tapped to organize the district’s security and to protect president-elect Abraham Lincoln from the death threats pouring in to the White House. He surrounds the president with bodyguards and fills the city’s rooftops with... Read more

Officers and Gentlemen

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The "wise, amusing, and beautifully written" (Commonweal) second installment in Evelyn Waugh's masterful trilogy of World War Two novels.
Fueled by idealism and eagerness to contribute to the war effort, Guy Crouchback becomes attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and respect... Read more

Unconditional Surrender

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

By 1941, after serving in North Africa and Crete, Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, Crouch becomes finally and fully aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honor.... Read more

A Possible Life

By: Sebastian Faulks

Narrated by: Sian Thomas

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In Second World War Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an old servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In the Catskills, 1971, a girl steps... Read more

Sword of Honor

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 24 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi... Read more

Decline and Fall

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Michael Maloney

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Evelyn Waugh's "irresistible" first novel (New York Times) is a brilliant and hilarious satire of English school life in the 1920s.

Sent down from Oxford after a wild, drunken party, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly surprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at a boys' private school in Wales. His colleagues are an... Read more

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

"The very model of the modern paranoid novel" (New York Times) and an ambitious work of semi-autobiographical fiction from one of England's greatest novelists.

Gilbert Pinfold is a reclusive Catholic novelist suffering from acute inertia. In an attempt to defeat insomnia he has been imbibing an unappetizing cocktail of bromide, chloral, and... Read more

United States of Banana

By: Giannina Braschi

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Giannina Braschi explores the cultural and political journey of nearly 50 million Hispanic Americans living in the United States in this explosive new work of fiction, her first written in originally in English. United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on... Read more

Tomboy

By: Thomas Meinecke

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This innovative novel from German author Thomas Meinecke takes a thought-provoking look at the role of gender in the social, artistic, and intellectual pursuits of a group of inquisitive university students living in Heidelberg. The clique includes bisexual Korinna, a star tennis player and obsessive reader of Michel Foucault’s and Judith... Read more

The Brummstein

By: Peter Adolphsen

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

This astonishing novel begins in 1907, when Josef Siedler, a science-fiction devotee, ventures deep into a series of caves in search of an entrance to the underworld. Disappointed in his quest, he nonetheless returns with a peculiar souvenir: a small rock sample that emits a strange humming sound. Upon Siedler’s death, the rock is bequeathed to... Read more

Men At Arms

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy.
Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an... Read more

Helena

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine.

Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor Constantius. Leaving home for lands unknown, she... Read more

The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"A work of art as rich and subtle and unnerving as anything its author has ever done" (New Yorker), The Loved One is Evelyn Waugh's cutting satire of 1940s California and the Anglo-American cultural divide.

Following the death of a friend, the poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering the artificial Hollywood paradise of... Read more

Why I Love Singlehood

By: Elisa Lorello & Sarah Girrell

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Eva Perino is single and proud of it. Owner of The Grounds, a coffee shop nestled in the heart of a college town, thirtysomething Eva cherishes her comfortable life filled with quirky friends, a fun job, and no significant other. In fact, she’s so content to be on her own that she started a blog about it: Why I Love Singlehood. Yet when she... Read more

Scoop

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Simon Cadell

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times).

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he... Read more

A Handful of Dust

By: Evelyn Waugh

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I.

After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with... Read more

The Land of Later On

By: Anthony Weller

Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Kip—a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological disease—returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife. Resembling the world as he knows it, but unlimited in space and time, it’s unlike any eternity he has contemplated. Its residents are those who choose not to... Read more

Child of God

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road

In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.

While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with... Read more

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

By: Ayana Mathis

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection.
 
The arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction. 
 
A debut of extraordinary distinction: Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration through the trials of one unforgettable family.

In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping... Read more

Bone River

By: Megan Chance

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected by Amazon's editors as a Best Book of the Month in Literature & FictionIn the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father’s lifelong obsession—collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once... Read more

Me and the Devil

By: Nick Tosches

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nick Tosches feels life ebbing out of him. He wanders New York City's streets and alleys, immersing himself in the crowd, eventually retreating to a dimly lit bar. There, in the gloom, he meets a tantalizing young woman, and the night that follows is unlike anything he has ever experienced. Propelled by uncontrollable, primordial desires, he... Read more

In This Hospitable Land

By: Lynmar Brock Jr.

Narrated by: David Baker

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Award Winning Finalist in the Fiction: Historical category of the International Book AwardsWhen the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, chemistry professor André Severin fears the worst. His colleagues believe their social and political positions will protect them during the occupation, but André knows better. He has watched Hitler’s rise to power... Read more

After The Theater

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

After Nadya, a sixteen year old girl, returns home from seeing a play, she is happily consumed with its plot of unrequited love. To Nadya, unrequited love is the most interesting type of love, as love is boring if everyone is happy. Quickly, Nadya’s thoughts turn to her two suitors, Gorny and Guzdev. Although they have both declared their love... Read more

A Transgression

By: Anton Chekhov

Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Miguev, a married, intelligent collegiate assessor, is haunted with anxiety and worry. Miguev has a secret that he doesn’t want his wife, the town, or his colleagues to discover. His mistress, after becoming pregnant and having his child, has recently tried to extort money from him in exchange for her silence. She threatens to ruin his... Read more