Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Magician

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of literature’s finest storytellers comes an enchanting tale of secrets, the supernatural—and fatal attraction.Renowned English surgeon Arthur Burdon is engaged to the beautiful Margaret Dauncey, who is studying art in Paris. The match is met with approval from all sides, and everyone is happy—until the mysterious Oliver Haddo enters... Read more

Fantastic Imaginings

By: Stefan Rudnicki

Narrated by: various narrators

Length: 22 hours

Abridged: No

Collected here are the stories, poems, and religious writings that preceded and helped form the science fiction and fantasy genres. The collection explores the key imaginative roots and their later literary permutations. The author list alone reads like a literary who's who and includes many writers not primarily known for their forays into the... Read more

The Madonnas of Leningrad

By: Debra Dean

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's eye. Vivid images of her youth in war-torn... Read more

San Miguel

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, a historical novel about three women’s lives on a California island

On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary... Read more

The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets

By: Kathleen Alcott

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Ida grew up with Jackson and James—where there was "I" there was a "J." She can't recall a time when she didn't have them around, whether in their early days camping out in the boys' room decorated with circus scenes or later as teenagers when they were drinking on rooftops. While the world outside saw them as neighbors and friends, to each... Read more

Beautiful Lies

By: Clare Clark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

London 1887. For Maribel Campbell Lowe, the beautiful bohemian wife of a maverick politician, it is the year to make something of herself. A self-proclaimed Chilean heiress educated in Paris, she is torn between poetry and the new art of photography. But it is soon plain that Maribel's choices are not so simple. As her husband's career hangs by... Read more

Tempest Rising

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Narrated by: Susan Spain

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author of the national best-seller Tumbling, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is an immensely talented author of African American fiction. It is 1965 in Philadelphia and Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living a financially privileged life. But when Finch's business falls on hard times and Clarise suffers a mental... Read more

Capital

By: John Lanchester

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by the New York Times as an ''elegant and wonderfully witty writer,'' John Lanchester received the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Betty Trask Prize for his critically acclaimed debut, The Debt to Pleasure. In Capital, it's 2008, the height of the financial crisis, and someone is sending anonymous postcards to the affluent residents... Read more

Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh

Narrated by: Tam Dean Burn

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

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Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film.

'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc

Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a... Read more

The Last Block in Harlem

By: Christopher Herz

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A young couple seeking a fresh start moves into a fourth floor walk-up in Sugar Hill, Harlem—where kids run through hydrants and music blares from stereos plugged into lampposts. When the husband notices trash marring the streets, he finds his cause. However, his best intentions go awry when his clean-up efforts bring media coverage that sets... Read more

The White Forest

By: Adam McOmber

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jane Silverlake lives with her father in a crumbling family estate on the edge of Hampstead Heath. Jane has a secret — an unexplainable gift that allows her to see the souls of man-made objects — and this talent isolates her from the outside world. Her greatest joy is wandering the wild heath with her neighbors, Madeline and Nathan. But as... Read more

Escape

By: Perihan Magden

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“There are questions like that. Questions that must never be asked. Subjects that must never be brought up.” Time passes slowly in the hotel rooms. This is what the daughter thinks. They’ve been moving since the beginning, in and out of hotels, sometimes staying for months, sometimes for a mere hour, but never with luggage, heavy things... Read more

The Greenhouse

By: Audur Ava Olafsdottir

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

For Lobbi, the tragic passing of his mother proves to be a profound catalyst. Their shared love of tending rare roses in her greenhouse inspires him to leave his studies behind and travel to a remote village monastery to restore its once fabulous gardens. While transforming the garden under the watchful eye of a cinephile monk, he is surprised... Read more

Ashes to Dust

By: Rex Kusler

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Since first joining forces in Punctured, Alice James and Jim Snow have been a great—if odd—crime-fighting team. He’s a forty-something former Las Vegas homicide detective who quit the force to become a full-time poker player. She’s a model-turned-cocktail waitress whose foray into casino security led her into law enforcement. Together they are... Read more

Telegraph Avenue

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: Clarke Peters

Length: 18 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller“A genuinely moving story about race and class, parenting and marriage. . . Chabon is inarguably one of the greatest prose stylists of all time."" — Benjamin Percy, EsquireNew York Times bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon has transported readers to wonderful places: to New York City during the... Read more

The Yellow Birds

By: Kevin Powers

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq.

"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss.

In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their... Read more

Passing Love

By: Jacqueline E. Luckett

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline E. Luckett's debut novel was heaped with critical acclaim and selected as a "recommended read" by the Essence Book Club. Set in the City of Light, her second novel, Passing Love, is a tender tale of love and discovery. After Nicole-Marie Handy leaves a marriage proposal behind to travel to Paris, she discovers that her father had a... Read more

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 33 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband—and Russian high society—would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds.... Read more

The Great Unexpected

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Heather O'Neill & Erin Moon

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From Newbery Medal winner and bestselling author Sharon Creech comes a grand, sweeping yarn that is a celebration of the great and unexpected gifts of love, friendship, and forgiveness. With a starred review from Kirkus Reviews calling it an ""enchanting tale to treasure,"" The Great Unexpected captures the heart and the imagination.Humorous and... Read more

The Forgetting Tree

By: Tatjana Soli

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But her love for Forster is so strong, she turns away from her literary education and embraces the life of the ranch, succumbing to its intoxicating rhythms and... Read more

In Between Days

By: Andrew Porter

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is an exceptionally engaging first novel from a commanding new voice in fiction, author of the award-winning and widely acclaimed story collection The Theory of Light and Matter.The Harding family is teetering on the brink. Elson—once one of Houston’s most promising architects, but who never quite lived up to expectations—is recently... Read more

Breed

By: Chase Novak

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemary's Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan.

Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and as they... Read more

The Doula

By: Bridget Boland

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the powerful tradition of Chris Bohjalian’s Midwives and Jodi Picoult’s Handle With Care comes a riveting debut novel about a doula, trained to support women and their families during childbirth, on trial for her best friend’s death.

When you come from a family of funeral directors, the telephone rings ominously in the middle of the night. For... Read more

Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures

By: Emma Straub

Narrated by: Molly Ringwald

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The enchanting story of a midwestern girl who escapes a family tragedy and is remade as a movie star during Hollywood’s golden age.

In 1920, Elsa Emerson, the youngest and blondest of three sisters, is born in idyllic Door County, Wisconsin. Her family owns the Cherry County Playhouse, and more than anything, Elsa relishes appearing onstage,... Read more