Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Fever

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Lisa Johansen, world traveler, had tasted the exotic and seen the extraordinary. But when a rancher called Rye came into her life, he ignited a feverish desire foreign to her mind, her body, her soul... Rye was certain Lisa was like the gold-digging women in his past. He'd been burned before, and he vowed he would make no more mistakes. Still,... Read more

Gulliver Takes Five

By: Justin Luke Zirilli

Narrated by: Cole Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In his wild and addictive follow-up to Gulliver Takes Manhattan, author Justin Luke Zirilli revisits a single epic night in the life of Gulliver Leverenz; this time through the eyes of six of Gully’s closest companions. There’s Marty, Gully’s ex-boyfriend, who gets a shot at a breakthrough role that could propel him straight to Broadway;... Read more

The Fun Stuff

By: James Wood

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, far-ranging collection of essays from "the strongest…literary critic we have." (New York Review of Books)Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works—books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation—The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's preeminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as... Read more

Astray

By: Emma Donoghue

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Dion Graham, Robert Petkoff, Jam...

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
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The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and... Read more

The Giving Quilt

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts novels are as lovingly crafted and heartwarming as the homemade quilts featured prominently in each story. The milestone 20th entry in this charming series, The Giving Quiltchronicles the week af-ter Thanksgiving- Quiltsgiving- as residents of Elm Creek Manor find creative ways to answer the question, ''Why... Read more

Stardust: The Gift Edition

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This extended edition of Stardust includes a special introduction from the author as well as “Wall: A Prologue,” the prequel story from which Stardust was born.""A twisting, wondrous tale full of magic that only Neil Gaiman could have written.""—Chicago Tribune""Beautiful, memorable . . . A book full of marvels.""—Milwaukee Journal SentinelAmong... Read more

The Confidant

By: Helene Gremillon

Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff & Natalie Moore

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"A gripping first novel" (Le Figaro Littéraire) and an award-winning international sensation as haunting and unforgettable as Suite FrançaiseParis, 1975. Camille sifts through letters of condolence after her mother's death when a strange, handwritten missive stops her short. At first she believes she received it by mistake. But then, a new... Read more

One Dead Hen

By: Charlie Williams

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The town of Mangel has always been a rough place, but rough turns to nightmarish when headless corpses begin piling up. The police are desperate for a suspect, and Royston Blake, the former pub doorman-turned-recluse is prime for the taking. He’s hauled in for questioning, but to no avail: this is one crime Blake didn’t commit. Yet the... Read more

The Garden of Evening Mists

By: Tan Twan Eng

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This “elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follows the only Malaysian survivor of a Japanese wartime camp as she begins working for an exiled former gardener of the Emperor.Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese... Read more

Vulcan's Hammer

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

After the twentieth century's devastating series of wars, the world's governments banded together into one globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. But some people don't like being taken out of the equation. And others resent the idea that the... Read more

Back to Blood

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 20 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking... Read more

Time Out of Joint

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Ragle Gumm has a unique job: every day he wins a newspaper contest. And when he isn’t consulting his charts and tables, he enjoys his life in a small town in 1959. At least, that’s what he thinks. But then strange things start happening. He finds a phone book where all the numbers have been disconnected, and a magazine article about a famous... Read more

The Game-Players of Titan

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Years ago, Earth and Titan fought a war and Earth lost. The planet was irradiated and most of the surviving population is sterile. The few survivors play an intricate and unending game called Bluff at the behest of the slug-like aliens who rule the planet. At stake in the game are two very important commodities: land and spouses. Pete Garden... Read more

Confessions of a Crap Artist

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"A funny, horribly accurate portrait of a life in California in the Fifties."—Rolling StoneJack Isidore doesn't see the world like most people. According to his brother-in-law Charlie, he’s a crap artist, obsessed with his own bizarre theories and ideas, which he fanatically records in his many notebooks. He is so grossly unequipped for real... Read more

The Elephant Keepers’ Children

By: Peter Høeg

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Fin├©, where people of... Read more

Testaments Betrayed

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""A defense of fiction and a lesson in the art of reading."" —New York Times Book Review""Testaments Betrayed is to be savored paragraph by paragraph. . . . It must be purchased, read, pondered, and argued within the margins. And frequently reread."" — Washington PostA brilliant and thought-provoking essay from one of the twentieth century’s... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Christina Ricci

Length: 19 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless classic is now an easy-to-read chapter book!

The four March sisters--Meg, Amy, Beth, and feisty Jo--share the joys and sorrows of growing up while their father is away at war. The family is poor in worldly goods, but rich in love and character. Read more

Back to Blood - Abridged

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay -- with officer Nestor Camacho on board -- Tom Wolfe is off and running. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking... Read more

The Bad Miss Bennet

By: Jean Burnett

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, n├®e Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husband.Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? At least she bested her elder sisters and... Read more

Off Keck Road

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From Anywhere But Here (a first novel that prompted Anne Tyler to proclaim, “She is already a master”) to A Regular Guy (“What a pleasure,” observed Newsweek, “to see a successful novelist take a huge chance and fly high with it”), Mona Simpson has proven herself one of her generation’s defining voices. In each book she has created a memorable... Read more

The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 26 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The end of the world was only the beginning. 

In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward . . .

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King of the Road

By: Charlie Williams

Narrated by: James Clamp

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Three years have passed since Royston Blake left Mangel for Parpham Mental Hospital, his unstable mind finally entrusted to professionals. He served his stretch, and now he’s out, pronounced “cured” by the Doc. But a lot can change in three years, even in Mangel. Blake’s gal, Sal, has gone off and had a kid for one. His kid…whom Blake’s never... Read more

A Regular Guy

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In this luminous and tartly comic new novel, Mona Simpson, modern master of the surreal family drama, trains her eye on a generation - and a man - torn between idealism and self-absorption.Tom Owens is a brilliant barefoot entrepreneur who has become rich and famous by inventing a new kind of business - a man who is fond of showering his... Read more

The Lost Father

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 22 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“All you have to do to become somebody’s God is disappear.” The speaker is Mayan Atassi, the wise and frighteningly vulnerable heroine who captivated readers of Mona Simpson’s Anywhere But Here and who now narrates the novel’s immensely powerful successor. Mayan’s god is her father, who left her when she was a child. Up until now she has... Read more