Fiction - Literary audiobooks
Yo-Yo Boing!
By: Giannina Braschi
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi has crafted this creative and insightful examination of the Hispanic-American experience, taking on the voices of a variety of characters–painters, poets,... Read more
View audiobookBlack As Snow
By: Nick Nolan
Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Sebastian Black is a god amongst men: he’s devastatingly handsome and charismatic—and telepathic. So when his scheming mother, prophetess Kitty Black, announces that her son is the “next species of man,” the world begins taking notice. Together, Kitty and Sebastian forge a spiritual movement that celebrates “divine evolution” while warning of a... Read more
View audiobookThe South
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Terry Donnelly
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A highly acclaimed novel from the author of Brooklyn and an “immensely gifted and accomplished writer” (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain.
In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of... Read more
Me and the Devil
By: Nick Tosches
Narrated by: Rick Zieff
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
An aging New Yorker, a writer named Nick, feels life ebbing out of him. The world has gone to hell and Nick is so sick of it all that he can't even have a glass of champagne. Then one night he meets a tantalizing young woman who agrees to come back to his apartment. Their encounter is the most strangely extraordinary of his life. Propelled by... Read more
View audiobookBone 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
View audiobookIn 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
View audiobookA Yellow Raft in Blue Water
By: Michael Dorris
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 14 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Michael Dorris' contemporary classic novel is a fierce saga of three generations of Indian women, beset by hardships and torn by angry secrets, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of kinship. Starting at the present day and moving back in time, the novel is told in the voices of three women: fifteen-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a... Read more
View audiobookFull Moon
By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jeremy Sinden
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Despite marriage to a millionaire's daughter and success as a vice-president of Donaldson's, Inc., manufacturers of the world-famous Donaldson's Dog-Joy, Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth's younger son, still goes in fear of his aunts when at Blandings Castle. Full Moon tells the story of how he faces them down while promoting the love of Bill... Read more
View audiobookScrewjack
By: Hunter S. Thompson
Narrated by: Scott Sowers
Length: 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Hunter S. Thompson’s legions of fans have waited a decade for this book.They will not be disappointed. His notorious Screwjack is as salacious, unsettling, and brutally lyrical as it has been rumored to be since the private printing in 1991 of three hundred fine collectors’ copies and twenty-six leather-bound presentation copies. Only the first... Read more
View audiobookTo a God Unknown
By: John Steinbeck
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Set in familiar Steinbeck territory, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man's attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God. Read more
View audiobookPentatonic
By: Jonathan Coe
Narrated by: Jonathan Coe
Length: 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Pentatonic, written and read by Jonathan Coe, is a daring and original story about family and memory, originally inspired by the accompanying music from Danny Manners.
When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his living room piano recital,... Read more
Double Bound
By: Nick Nolan
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Reader Views Reader’s Choice Award Winner in Gay & Lesbian Fiction
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner in Gay & Lesbian FictionNick Nolan’s Double Bound reunites us with many of the characters introduced in his delightful Strings Attached: Jeremy, now in a committed relationship with fun-loving, hotheaded Carlo; Arthur,... Read more
Greyhound
By: Steffan Piper
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
Ushered out from his Stockton, California home by his emotionally detached mother and her latest boyfriend, twelve-year-old Sebastien Ranes must fend for himself and travel two thousand miles across the country. He is on his way to live with his grandmother and sister in Pennsylvania. Along the way, he will learn that sometimes caring, guidance... Read more
View audiobookDeclaring Spinsterhood
By: Jamie Lynn Braziel
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Emma Bailey is thirty years old and single. No problem for her, but a point of round-the-clock contention for her mother, her family, and too many of her friends. In Jamie Lynn Braziel’s Declaring Spinsterhood, the terminal illness known as “old maid” is explored from every angle, and the result is a compassionate, compelling, and wickedly funny... Read more
View audiobookCity of Dark Magic
By: Magnus Flyte
Narrated by: Natalie Gold & Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative, this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspense
Once a city of enormous wealth and culture, Prague was home to emperors, alchemists, astronomers, and, as it’s whispered, hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethoven’s manuscripts,... Read more
Postcards From Nam
By: Uyen Nicole Duong
Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
Length: 2 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
International Book Award Finalist, Fiction: Multicultural category.Mimi (the protagonist of Mimi and Her Mirror) is a successful young Vietnamese immigrant practicing law in Washington, D.C. when the postcards begin to arrive. Postmarked from Thailand, each hand-drawn card is beautifully rendered and signed simply “Nam.” Mimi doesn’t recognize... Read more
View audiobookOld Town
By: Lin Zhe
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 22 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Lin Zhe, one of China’s most prolific writers, paints an unforgettable picture of an ordinary family caught up in the maelstrom that was China’s most recent century. Her narrative ranges across the entire length of China, to California and back again, to the battlefields of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance and the brutal “struggle” sessions... Read more
View audiobookStrings Attached
By: Nick Nolan
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award Winner in Gay & Lesbian FictionAdolescence is a hazardous way of life for 17-year-old Jeremy Tyler; his father died in a mysterious accident when he was a child, and his mother has since descended into alcoholic hell and forced rehab; that’s when he’s sent from the Fresno slums of his childhood to the... Read more
View audiobookMimi and Her Mirror
By: Uyen Nicole Duong
Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
International Book Award Winner, Fiction: Multicultural.Vietnamese American attorney Mimi Sean Young turns forty and has it all: a partnership in a leading Houston law firm, a sexy younger boyfriend, Brad, also a successful attorney, and all the trappings of a woman who has made it big. When her firm becomes embroiled in what could be an... Read more
View audiobookBooze and Burn
By: Charlie Williams
Narrated by: James Clamp
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
In this darkly comedic follow-up to Charlie Williams’ breakthrough novel Deadfolk, Hoppers head doorman Royston Blake is once again up to his eyeballs in trouble of the worst kind. Since his face-off with the Munton brothers, Blake has been enjoying life as a “pillar” of the Mangel community. Sure, it’s a bleak and rather dodgy town, but it’s... Read more
View audiobookEmpire of Dreams
By: Giannina Braschi
Narrated by: Adriana Sananes
Length: 4 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
An intriguing and hypnotizing work of postmodern fiction from groundbreaking Hispanic-American writer Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams chronicles a decade-long love affair with 1980s New York and all its contradictions. The city’s perversions and passions, power and marginality, grandeur and squalor come vibrantly to life in each of the book’s... Read more
View audiobookBrown
By: James Polster
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Former Boston sportswriter McGee Brown is traveling cross-country with his fiancée when they call it quits somewhere around Nevada. With no job and no girl, Brown pushes on to California, where a fruitless job hunt lands him on his old buddy Fillmore’s doorstep. Fillmore is an accomplished clinical psychologist (and part-time bartender) whose... Read more
View audiobookSold
By: Patricia McCormick
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Lakshmi is a thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her family in a small hut on a mountain in Nepal. Though she is desperately poor, her life is full of simple pleasures, like playing hopscotch with her best friend from school and having her mother brush her hair by the light of an oil lamp. But when the harsh Himalayan monsoons wash away all... Read more
View audiobookIlluminations
By: Mary Sharratt
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Skillfully interweaving historical fact with psychological insight and vivid imagination, Sharratt's redemptive novel, Illuminations, brings to life one of the most extraordinary women of the Middle Ages: Hildegard von Bingen, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath.
Offered to the Church at the age of eight, Hildegard was entombed in a small... Read more