Fiction - Literary audiobooks

NW

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Karen Bryson & Don Gilet

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A new novel from Zadie Smith, set in Northwest London Somewhere in Northwest London stands Caldwell housing estate, relic of 70s urban planning. Five identical blocks, deliberately named: Hobbes, Smith, Bentham, Locke, and Russell. If you grew up here, the plan was to get out and get on, to something bigger, better. Thirty years later... 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

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

Love Bomb

By: Lisa Zeidner

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In quaint Haddonfield, New Jersey, Tess is about to marry Gabe in her childhood home. Her mother, Helen, is in a panic about the guests, who include warring exes, crying babies, jealous girlfriends, and too many psychiatrists. But the most difficult guest was never on the list at all: a woman in a wedding dress and a gas mask, armed with a... Read more

The Bloodletter's Daughter

By: Linda Lafferty

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Within the glittering Hapsburg court in Prague lurks a darkness of which no one dares speak…In 1606, the city of Prague shines as a golden mecca of art and culture carefully cultivated by Emperor Rudolf II. But the emperor hides an ugly secret: His bastard son, Don Julius, is afflicted with a madness that pushes the young prince to unspeakable... Read more

The Other Family

By: Joanna Trollope

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Richie Rossiter, once a famous pianist, dies unexpectedly, Chrissie knows that she must now tell the truth to their three daughters: their parents were never married. Yet there is one more shock to come when Richie’s will is read. It seems he never forgot the wife and son he left behind years ago—Margaret, who lives a quiet life of routine... Read more

Abdication

By: Juliet Nicolson

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

England, 1936. The year began with the death of a beloved king and the ascension of a charismatic young monarch, sympathetic to the needs of the working class, glamorous, and single. By year's end, the world would be stunned as it witnessed that new leader give up his throne in the name of love, just as the unrest and violence that would result... Read more

Kästner im Schnee - Abridged

By: Erich Kästner

Narrated by: Sebastian Blomberg, August Zirner & Walter Kreye

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Erich Kästner liebte den Schnee und ganz besonders Schnee und Sonnenschein im Hochgebirge: Hier fand er Zeit zum Schreiben, Ruhe und Erholung – und genoss das 'Obensein'. Die alpine Wintersportlandschaft mag sich seit Kästners Tagen verändert haben – die Glücksmomente beim Anblick des schneebedeckten, in der Sonne schimmernden Hochgebirges sind... Read more

Breakdown

By: Katherine Amt Hanna

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An influenza plague decimates humanity…A man loses his wife and baby daughter…Six years after a pandemic devastates the human population, former rock star Chris Price finally makes it from New York to Britain to reunite with his brother. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and... Read more

Freud's Sister

By: Goce Smilevski

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The award-winning international sensation that poses the question: Was Sigmund Freud responsible for the death of his sister in a Nazi concentration camp?

The boy in her memories who strokes her with the apple, who whispers to her the fairy tale, who gives her the knife, is her brother Sigmund.

Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund... Read more

Bloodstar

By: Ian Douglas

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With his Heritage, Legacy, and Inheritance trilogies, New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas established himself as one of the true masters of military sf—sharing center stage with such authors as Rick Shelley, John Ringo, David Sherman, and Dan Cragg in a wildly popular sub-genre of science fiction that includes such enduring classics as... Read more

Glaciers

By: Alexis M. Smith

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the perfect vintage dress move... Read more

The Spy Lover

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Todd Haberkorn

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Thrust into the savagery of the Civil War, a Chinese immigrant serving in the Union Army, a nurse doubling as a spy for the North, and a one-armed Confederate cavalryman find their lives inextricably entwined.Fleeing drought and famine in China, Johnny Tom arrives in America with dreams of becoming a citizen. Having survived vigilantes hunting... Read more

Suttree

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 20 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

No discussion of great modern authors is complete without mention of Cormac McCarthy, whose rare and blazing talent makes his every work a true literary event. A grand addition to the American literary canon, Suttree introduces readers to Cornelius Suttree, a man who abandons his affluent family to live among a dissolute array of vagabonds along... Read more

Farewell Waltz

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""After Farewell Waltz there cannot be any doubt. Kundera is a master of contemporary literature. This novel is both an an example of virtuosity and a descent into the human soul."" —L'UniteSet in an old-fashioned Central European spa town, Farewell Waltz poses the most serious questions with a blasphemous lightness that makes us see that the... Read more

One Last Thing Before I Go

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: John Shea

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the New York Times bestseller This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper’s latest novel is a moving, funny look at one broken family’s attempt to reconnect—without destroying each other in the process.
Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy Silver can’t... Read more

A Face in the Crowd

By: Stephen King & Stewart O'Nan

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award

The writing team that delivered the bestselling Faithful, about the 2004 Red Sox championship season, takes listeners to the ballpark again, and to a world beyond.

Dean Evers, an elderly widower, sits in front of the television with nothing better to do than waste his... Read more

Life Is Elsewhere

By: Milan Kundera & Aaron Asher

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""I will say no more about this lacerating book except to urge it upon all who care about literature in our difficult era."" — Boston Globe""A sly and merciless lampoon of revolutionary romanticism. . . Kundera commits some of the funniest literary savaging since Evelyn Waugh polished off Dickens in A Handful of Dust.""— TimeMilan Kundera... Read more

Hostage

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Elie Wiesel, Nobel laureate and author of Night, a charged, deeply moving novel about the legacy of the Holocaust in today’s troubled world and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
            It’s 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg—professional storyteller, writer and beloved husband—has been taken hostage: abducted from his home in... Read more

Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski - Abridged

By: Heinrich Heine

Narrated by: Stefan Kaminski

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Um sein Studium der Theologie aufzunehmen, reist der junge Herr von Schnabelewopski von Polen über Hamburg, Cuxhaven und Amsterdam in das niederländische Leiden. Doch sein frommes Vorhaben wird den von sinnlich-weltlichen Genüssen der Landesküchen und der Damenwelt korrumpiert. "Von der deutschen Küche kein Wort. Sie hat alle möglichen... Read more

The Headmaster's Wager

By: Vincent Lam

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From Giller Prize winner, internationally acclaimed, and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War.
 
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a bon vivant, a compulsive gambler and an... Read more

The Constant Gardener

By: John le Carre

Narrated by: Michael Jayston

Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The Constant Gardener is a magnificent exploration of the new world order by New York Times bestselling author John le Carré, one of the most compelling and elegant storytellers of our time.

The novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of Tessa Quayle -- young, beautiful, and dearly beloved to husband Justin. When Justin sets out on... Read more

Pale Blue

By: Thomas Meinecke

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The United States has long congratulated itself on being the world’s melting pot, but during a long, hot summer in coastal North Carolina, three young people will put that theory to the test.Our protagonist is Tillmann, a German vacationing in the States and corresponding with both his ex-girlfriend about the genesis of techno and an African... Read more

HHhH

By: Laurent Binet

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

HHhH: "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most dangerous man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich was known as the "Butcher of Prague." He was feared by all and loathed by most. With his cold Aryan features and implacable cruelty, Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two men, a Slovak and a Czech... Read more