Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Mark Twain Sampler

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Blair Einstein

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An unforgettable collection of Mark Twain's best writings—witty, passionate, fiery, and nothing short of profound. This collection includes the following stories: "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County""The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut""Autobiographical Anecdotes""The Lesson""As Regards Patriotism""Speech... Read more

Zombie

By: J. R. Angelella

Narrated by: Alston Brown

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen-year-old Jeremy Barker is obsessed with zombie movies. He attends an all-boys Catholic High School where roving gangs in plaid make his days a living hell. His mother is an absentee pillhead, his older brother a self-diagnosed sex-addict, and his father an ex-Marine realtor who disappears night after night without explanation. Jeremy... Read more

The Yard

By: Alex Grecian

Narrated by: Toby Leonard Moore

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate thousands of murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one... Read more

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex

By: Oksana Zabuzhko

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence, Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt provoked by a top literary scandal of the decade. The author, a noted Ukrainian poet and novelist, explains: “When you turn 30, you inevitably start reconsidering what you have... Read more

So Far Away

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren & Emma Galvin

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Natalie Gallagher is trying to escape: from her parents' ugly divorce, and from the vicious cyber-bullying of her former best friend. Adrift, confused, she is a girl trying to find her way in a world that seems to either neglect or despise her. Her salvation arrives in an unlikely form: Bridget O'Connell, an Irish maid working... Read more

Wife 22

By: Melanie Gideon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.

Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I... Read more

We Agreed to Meet Just Here

By: Scott Blackwood

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

WE AGREED TO MEET JUST HERE is a lyrical mystery about disappearance, told in precise and luminous prose. A young lifeguard in an Austin suburb vanishes one night while returning from a screening of The Third Man. A doctor, ill with cancer, goes missing from his home, and is later seen, bearded and ragged, wandering the aisles of a grocery... Read more

A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar

By: Suzanne Joinson

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1923. Evangeline (Eva) English and her sister Lizzie are missionaries heading for the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Though Lizzie is on fire with her religious calling, Eva's motives are not quite as noble, but with her green bicycle and a commission from a publisher to write A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar, she is ready for... Read more

Canada

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

""First, I’ll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then the murders, which happened later.”So begins Canada, the unforgettable story of a boy attempting to find grace, written by the only writer in history to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel.   This is the story of Dell Parsons, whose parents rob a... Read more

Beautiful Sacrifice

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“This author delivers pure, undiluted excitement.""
—Jayne Ann Krentz
 
“Romantic suspense is her true forte.”
—Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
“Elizabeth Lowell’s keen ear for dialogue and intuitive characterizations consistently place her a cut above most writers in this genre.”
—Charlotte News & ObserverPerennial New York Times bestselling author... Read more

The World We Found

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author and PEN/Beyond Margins Award finalist Thrity Umrigar's acclaimed novels "resonate with rich prose and vibrant depictions of India" (Booklist). In The World We Found, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta-once friends at the University of Bombay-reconnect 30 years later when Armaiti is diagnosed with cancer. Coming together, all... Read more

Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook—an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race—contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such... Read more

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

By: Milan Kundera

Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

""An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous."" —Newsweek""The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever... Read more

Home

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Notable Book • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man

When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little... Read more

The Arrivals

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Two empty nesters living a quiet life have their lives changed overnight as each of their children returns home to recover under the guidance of their parents in this story of relationships and familial connections.
It's early summer when Ginny and William's peaceful life in Vermont comes to an abrupt halt.

First, their daughter Lillian... Read more

Bring Up the Bodies

By: Hilary Mantel

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.

The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is... Read more

I Am Forbidden

By: Anouk Markovits

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.

In 1939, five-year-old Josef witnesses the murder of his family by the Romanian Iron Guard. He is taken in by a Gentile maid, who raises him as her own son. Five years later, Josef rescues a young... Read more

In One Person

By: John Irving

Narrated by: John Benjamin Hickey

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair).

A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and... Read more

The Master’s Muse

By: Varley O’Connor

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“We set our sights on each other almost from the beginning.”So begins The Master’s Muse, an exquisite, deeply affecting novel about the true love affair between two artistic legends: George Balanchine, the Russian émigré to America who is widely considered the Shakespeare of dance, and his wife and muse, Tanaquil Le Clercq.Copenhagen, 1956.... Read more

Night After Night

By: Kathryn Smith

Narrated by: Aricka Escalona

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Centuries ago, this magnificent chalice sealed my fate as a vampire, and now I am its protector. Many have hunted me for it, but only Vivian has accomplished the task. Strong, lovely, haunted . . . I am more attracted to her than I should be, yet her loyalty lies with a man determined to bring about my destruction. But I am not so easily locked... Read more

The Soldier’s Wife

By: Joanna Trollope

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Soldier’s Wife examines how three generations of a family struggle with the impact of war on their relationships, long after the tour of duty is over. Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a... Read more

The Newlyweds

By: Nell Freudenberger

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America’s most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals, that takes us from the backyards of America to the back alleys and villages of Bangladesh.
In The Newlyweds, we follow the story of Amina Mazid, who at age twenty-four moves from Bangladesh to... Read more

More Than You Know

By: Penny Vincenzi

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

It all comes down to love or money in a harrowing custody battle over a little girl, set against the glossy backdrop of the magazine and advertising worlds in 1960s London. A privileged girl from a privileged class, Eliza has a dazzling career in the magazine world of the 1960s. But when she falls deeply in love with Matt, an edgy working-class... Read more

The Undertow

By: Jo Baker

Narrated by: Anna Bentinck

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the Hasting family—their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks—captured in a seamless series of individual moments that span the years between the first World War and the present. The novel opens in 1914 as William, a young factory worker, spends one last evening at home before his departure for the... Read more