Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Messenger

By: Stephen Miller

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Screenwriter, playwright, and novelist Stephen Miller crafts this harrowing tale about two people on opposite ends of the war on terror. Daria, an Iraqi refugee, has lost everything she holds dear- and now seeks revenge on those responsible. Recruited for a dangerous mission, she boards a plane to New York with instructions to make contact with-... Read more

Ignorance

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kundera once more delivers a seductive, intelligent entertainment … [with] elegance and grace.” — Washington Post Book World“Nothing short of masterful.”  — NewsweekA brilliant novel set in contemporary Prague, by one of the most distinguished writers of our time.A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had... Read more

Triburbia

By: Karl Taro Greenfeld

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A group of fathers meets each morning at a local Tribeca coffee shop after walking their children to school. The sound engineer looks uncomfortably like the guy on the sex offender posters around the neighborhood; the memoirist is on the verge of being outed for fabricating his experiences; and the chef puts his quest for the perfect quail-egg... Read more

Hector and the Search for Lost Time

By: Francois Lelord

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful third book in the multimillion-copy internationally bestselling seriesFirst he tackled happiness. Then he took on love. And now Hector, our endearing young French psychiatrist, confronts the persistent march of time.His patients lament that there is not enough time in the day. Or they feel that life is passing them by. And in one... Read more

The Neruda Case

By: Roberto Ampuero

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberto Ampuero's novels starring the wonderfully roguish Cayetano Brulé are an international sensation. In The Neruda Case, listeners are introduced to Cayetano as he takes on his first case as a private eye. Set against the fraught political world of pre-Pinochet Chile, Castro's Cuba, and perilous behind-the-Wall East Berlin, this mystery... Read more

Truth Like the Sun

By: Jim Lynch

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Internationally best-selling author and Washington State Book Award winner Jim Lynch's Truth Like the Sun was named one of Amazon's Best Books of the Month. In 1962, Roger Morgan became the golden boy behind the Seattle World's Fair. Nearly 40 years later, he's a shoo-in for mayor. But when an ambitious journalist begins digging into his past,... Read more

Leaving Cecil Street

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

Narrated by: Saidah Arrika Ekulona

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Diane McKinney-Whetstone has won such prizes as the Zora Neale Hurston Society award for creative contribution to literature. Set in 1969, Leaving Cecil Street takes place in a proud neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The block has just thrown a summertime street party. Joe and Louise have been married for awhile, and Joe... Read more

Tell the Wolves I’m Home

By: Carol Rifka Brunt

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this striking literary debut, Carol Rifka Brunt unfolds a moving story of love, grief, and renewal as two lonely people become the unlikeliest of friends and find that sometimes you don't know you've lost someone until you've found them. 1987. There's only one person who has ever truly understood fourteen-year-old June Elbus, and that's her... Read more

Paradise Dogs

By: Man Martin

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgia Author of the Year Award winner Man Martin delivers a riotous, briskly paced work that Atlanta Magazine honored as a Top Ten Pick. Erstwhile hot-dog-restaurant manager Adam Newman has a lot on his plate-and usually more than a bit in his drinking glass. With an ex-wife to win back, a fiancEe to lose, a son to mentor, and a load of... Read more

Emma - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Fiona Shaw

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Penguin Classics presents Jane Austen's Emma, adapted for audio and now available as a digital download as part of the Penguin English Library series. Read by the actress Fiona Shaw.

'I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall'

Beautiful, clever, rich - and single - Emma Woodhouse is perfectly... Read more

Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Harold N. Cropp

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In these two devastatingly funny essays, Tom Wolfe examines political stances, social styles, "black rage," and "white guilt" in our status-minded world.In "These Radical Chic Evenings," Wolfe focuses primarily on one symbolic event: a gathering of the politically correct at Leonard Bernstein's duplex apartment on Park Avenue to meet spokesmen... Read more

Sorry Please Thank You

By: Charles Yu

Narrated by: A Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Notable Book author Charles Yu wrote the best-selling novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe. In his stunning, often humorous collection Sorry Please Thank You, Yu draws on pop culture and science to make incisive observations about society- and offer touching insight into the human condition. In two of Yu's... Read more

Vlad

By: Carlos Fuentes

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Vlad' is Vlad the Impaler, of course, whose mythic cruelty was an inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula. In this sly sequel, Vlad really is undead. More than a postmodern riff on 'the vampire craze,'Vlad' is also an anatomy of the Mexican bourgeoisie, as well as our culture's ways of dealing with death. For - as in Dracula - Vlad has need of... Read more

This One and Magic Life

By: Anne C. George

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the deep South, where love and hatred run deep and close, dissension often summers just beneath the surface. When a family gathers for a funeral as its old homestead above the waters of Mobile Bay, it must carry out the last wish of the aunt and sister whom it has come to mourn. It is a wish that will unearth a terrible secret, one that will... Read more

The Blue Asylum

By: Kathy Hepinstall

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A first-rate choice for fans of intelligent historical romances."-- Library Journal , starred review Amid the mayhem of the Civil War, Iris Dunleavy is put on trial by her husband, convicted of madness, and sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a compliant Virginia plantation wife. But her husband is the true criminal; she is no lunatic, only... Read more

Creole Belle

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).

Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux... Read more

Office Girl

By: Joe Meno

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

No one dies in Office Girl. Nobody talks about the international political situation. There is no mention of any economic collapse. Instead, this novel is about young people doing interesting things in the final moments of the last century. Odile is a lovely twenty-three-year-old art-school dropout, a minor vandal, and a hopeless dreamer. Jack... Read more

Tigers in Red Weather

By: Liza Klaussmann

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives':... Read more

Bitterroot

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more

Creole Belle - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“America’s best novelist” James Lee Burke returns with another New York Times bestselling entry in the Dave Robicheaux thriller series (The Denver Post).

Set against the events of the Gulf Coast oil spill, rife with “the menaces of greed and violence and man-made horror” (The Christian Science Monitor), Creole Belle finds Dave Robicheaux... Read more

Hey Rube

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sports, politics, and sex collide in Hunter S. Thompson’s wildly popular ESPN.com columns. From the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and father of “Gonzo” journalism comes Hey Rube.Insightful, incendiary, outrageously brilliant, such was the man who galvanized American journalism with his radical ideas and gonzo tactics. For over half a... Read more

Chicago Confidential

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1950 in Chicago, P.I. Nate Heller’s old stomping grounds. But things are different now, and the wind is blowing in a different, decidedly more dangerous direction. Congressman-with-a-cause and presidential-hopeful Estes Kefauver creates the Committee on Organized Crime to put the squeeze on the mob—and anyone who ever associated with them.... Read more

True Believers

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 18 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • San Francisco Chronicle

In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of... Read more

To Wed a Wicked Earl

By: Olivia Parker

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

He's on the hunt for a bride . . .Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife—immediately!—or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he's lusted after—and loved—for years. It's rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte Greene would never consent to... Read more