Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Fool

By: Frederick Dillen

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“For Christ sake don’t become a fluffmeister” are the last words Barnaby Griswold’s father utters to him. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby is indisputably a fool. A well-educated, well-connected investments player on the one hand, but an entitled money-driven fool on the other.Barnaby Griswold’s life changes almost overnight... Read more

The Dead Do Not Improve

By: Jay Caspian Kang

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as The Awl’s 2012’s novel to anticipate, this glorious debut stars hippie detectives, a singular city, and an MFA student on the run.
 
      On a residential Bay Area block struggling with the collision of gentrifier condos and longtime residents, stymied recent MFA grad Philip Kim is sleeping the night away when bullets fly through a... Read more

The Dog Stars

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship, the solace of the natural world, and the chance to... Read more

Requiem

By: Frances Itani

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this "evocative and cinematic tale" (Maclean's). In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removes young Bin Okuma and his family from their home at a British Columbia coastal fishing village... Read more

This Is How It Ends

By: Kathleen MacMahon

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

This is when it begins

Fall, 2008.

This is where it begins

The coast of Dublin, Ireland.

This is why it begins

Bruno, an American, has come to Ireland to search for his roots. Addie, an out-of-work architect, is recovering from heartbreak while taking care of her infirm father. When their worlds collide, they experience a connection unlike... Read more

Oblivion

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.

These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's... Read more

In the Shadow of the Banyan

By: Vaddey Ratner

Narrated by: Greta Lee

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful celebration of the power of hope, this New York Times bestselling novel tells the story of a girl who comes of age during the Cambodian genocide.

You are about to read an extraordinary story, a PEN Hemingway Award finalist “rich with history, mythology, folklore, language and emotion.” It will take you to the very depths of despair... Read more

Parade's End

By: Ford Madox Ford

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 38 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy set in England during World War I is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
     First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not…, No More Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last Post) between 1924 and 1928, Parade’s End explores the world of the English ruling class as it descends... Read more

The Land of Decoration

By: Grace McCleen

Narrated by: Kate Harbour

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten-year-old Judith McPherson is a believer. She sees the world with the clear Eyes of Faith. Where others might see rubbish, Judith finds possibility and traces of the divine.But at school Judith’s difference marks her only for persecution at the hands of her classmates. And lately, even at home she struggles to find connection in a house... Read more

Vengeance

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In Vengeance, a bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as Benjamin Black reveals a world where money and sex trump everything.

It's a fine day for a sail, and Victor Delahaye, one of Ireland's most successful businessmen, takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his partner's son—who becomes the sole witness when Delahaye... Read more

Mitz

By: Sigrid Nunez

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1934, “a sickly, pathetic marmoset” called Mitz came into the care of Leonard Woolf. He nursed her back to health and from then on was rarely seen without her on his shoulder. A ubiquitous presence in Bloomsbury society, Mitz moved with Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their circle, developing special relationships with such... Read more

Millroy the Magician

By: Paul Theroux

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Jilly Farina is fourteen. Her father is drunk on the day of the Barnstable County Fair, so she goes by herself, and that night her life is transformed. When she walks into a tent to see Millroy the Magician, his eyes lighten from brown to green and fasten upon her. He performs miracles before her spellbound eyes. He tells her that he will train... Read more

Me Times Three

By: Alex Witchel

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

During the 1980s, a disenchanted assistant editor at a women's magazine is devoted to her fiance, a Wall street moneyman who personifies all her yuppie lifestyle fantasies. However, her bubble bursts when she discovers he's secretly engaged to two other women. Crestfallen, the woman who hates her magazine job becomes devoted to it. Alex Witchel... Read more

Martin Eden

By: Jack London

Narrated by: Andrew Garman

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of such masterpieces as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London is one of American literature's most revered writers. In this semi-autobiographical tale, London tells the story of Martin Eden, a young sailor who, through self-education and determination, rises out of poverty to passionately pursue a dream of literary and... Read more

Lancelot

By: Walker Percy

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Lancelot Lamar, a disenchanted liberal lawyer, finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don’t seem worth remembering—until a visit from an old friend and classmate gives him the opportunity to recount his journey of dark violence.It began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter. That... Read more

The Gombeen Man

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Gombeen Man is an evil moneylender who several peasants owe money to. When the peasants find themselves unable to repay the wicked man on time, he is quick with his desire to take their land from them, refusing to take the payment from them in the future if they should be able to come up with it. The poor peasants are then forced to come up... Read more

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy

By: W. P. Kinsella

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Gideon Clarke is a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world, as his father tried before him, that the world-champion Chicago Cubs traveled to Onamata, Iowa, in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against all-stars from the Iowa Baseball Confederacy, an amateur league. The game, which was to be short, pleasant, and, the Cubs thought,... Read more

How 7 Went Mad

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A young boy, Tineboy, is having trouble his multiplication tables and the number seven. Bored in class one day, he falls asleep and dreams of a story told by his teacher about the number seven going mad. This leads to a world without the number seven and the confusion that comes from getting rid of a number. The schoolhouse bully and Tineboy’s... Read more

The Shadow Builder

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Shadow Builder dwells in the gloomy nether regions of the universe, lonely and haunting in his realm. He dwells in the area beyond the Gate of Dread, where the great procession meets its final end. The Shadow Builder sees all from his gloom, happiness and sadness, hope and despair. He focuses intently on the relationship between a mother and... Read more

The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... Read more

The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

Narrated by: Noah Taylor

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The years-long New York Times bestseller and major motion picture from Spielberg’s Dreamworks is “irresistible…seductive…with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page” (O, The Oprah Magazine).

After four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a job as the lighthouse keeper on... Read more

Slowness

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 3 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

""Irresistible. . . . Slowness is an ode to sensuous leisure, to the enjoyment of pleasure rather than just the search for it."" — MirabellaMilan Kundera's lightest novel, a divertimento, an opera buffa, Slowness is also the first of this author's fictional works to have been written in French.Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows the... Read more

Identity

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

""Kundera, master of the twosome, finds erotic and existential threads everywhere in daily behavior. Like his previous books, Identity is a cluster of jeweled observations. . . . But Identity has a special charm: suspense. . . . [It] gets us turning the pages in excitement and alarm, and Kundera's wit keeps us turning them to the very... Read more