Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Gulliver Takes Manhattan

By: Justin Luke Zirilli

Narrated by: Cole Ferguson

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Gulliver Takes Manhattan (first published as Gulliver Travels) is the tale of twenty-something Gulliver Leverenz, who abandons sunny L.A. for a fresh start in New York. He’s leaving behind his family, his friends—and one bastard ex-boyfriend who can’t take a hint. With no money, job, or direction, Gully gratefully accepts an invitation to crash... Read more

Trapeze

By: Simon Mawer

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A propulsive novel of World War II espionage by the author of The Glass RoomBarely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out—she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which trains agents to operate in... Read more

The Cove

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Merritt Hicks

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Set during World War One, The Cove is a novel that speaks intimately to today’s politics. Beautifully written, tough, raw, uncompromising, entirely new. Ron Rash is a writer’s writer who writes for others.”
—Colum McCann“Ron Rash is a writer of both the darkly beautiful and the sadly true; The Cove solidifies his reputation as one of our very... Read more

Night Swim

By: Jessica Keener

Narrated by: Rachel Botchan

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Night Swim, the gripping debut novel from Jessica Keener, was heralded as the "arrival of a strong, distinct and fully evolved new voice" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan. In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitz's wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents' constant fighting and her mother's... Read more

The Right-Hand Shore

By: Christopher Tilghman

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War

Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore.

It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss... Read more

Tomato Red

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Brian Troxell

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.

In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee... Read more

The Folded Earth

By: Anuradha Roy

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the evenings she teaches a peasant girl, Charu, to write so she can correspond with her lover in secret. As Maya... Read more

The Death of Sweet Mister

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Nicholas Tecosky

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him -- she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes... Read more

Camille

By: Alexandre Dumas, fils

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Men of great wealth bought her love. She gave it to only one.Marguerite Gautier, the greatest beauty in Paris, was known to all as “the Lady of the Camellias” because she was never seen without her favorite flowers. She was luxuriously kept by the richest men in France, who thronged to her boudoir to lay their fortunes at her feet. She lived... Read more

A Land More Kind Than Home

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan, Lorna Raver & Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bold, daring, graceful, and engrossing.”
—Bobbie Ann Mason“This book will knock your socks off….A first novel that sings with talent.”
—Clyde EdgertonIn his phenomenal debut novel—a mesmerizing literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they face in a small North Carolina town—author Wiley Cash displays a remarkable talent... Read more

Wish You Were Here

By: Graham Swift

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On an autumn day in 2006, on the Isle of Wight, Jack Luxton, former Devon farmer and now the proprietor of a seaside caravan park, receives the news that his soldier brother, Tom, not seen for years, has been killed in Iraq.For Jack and his wife, Ellie, this will have a potentially catastrophic impact. For Jack in particular it means a crucial... Read more

An Unexpected Guest

By: Anne Korkeakivi

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her husband's career. As she shops for fresh stalks of asparagus and works out the menu and seating arrangements, her day is complicated by the unexpected arrival of her son and a random encounter with a Turkish man, whom she... Read more

Where Lilacs Still Bloom

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Susan Denaker

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman, an impossible dream, and the faith it took to see it through, inspired by the life of Hulda Klager
 
German immigrant and farm wife Hulda Klager possesses only an eighth-grade education—and a burning desire to create something beautiful. What begins as a hobby to create an easy-peeling apple for her pies becomes Hulda’s driving purpose:... Read more

Das Gespenst von Canterville - Abridged

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Jürgen Fritsche

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als der amerikanische Gesandte Hiram B. Otis mit seiner Familie auf Schloss Canterville einzieht, ist er vor dem Gespenst, das dort spuken soll, gewarnt worden. Aber ein moderner Amerikaner fürchtet sich doch nicht vor einem verstaubten britischen Geist! Oder vor einem ständig wiederkehrenden Blutfleck in der Bibliothek, dem nicht einmal... Read more

The Lost Wife

By: Alyson Richman

Narrated by: George Guidall & Suzanne Toren

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A rapturous novel of star-crossed love in a time of war—from the international bestselling author of The Secret of Clouds.During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a young art student, and Josef, who is studying medicine, fall in love. With the promise of a better future, they marry—only to have their dreams shattered by the... Read more

The Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's finesse to Oscar Wilde's wit, this unique collection brings... Read more

Brass Ankle Blues

By: Rachel M. Harper

Narrated by: Susan Spain

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel Harper's debut novel has won praise for its vivid protrayal of a mixed-race girl coming of age in a family that's falling apart. Nellie's white mother and black father are breaking up. Nellie, whose black skin and blonde hair have always made her feel like an outsider, feels even more out of place traveling across the country with her... Read more

Hand Me Down

By: Melanie Thorne

Narrated by: Ali Ahn

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A recipient of the Alva Englund fellowship and the Maurice Prize for fiction, Melanie Thorne penned this tender debut brimming with evocative prose. At 14, Elizabeth Reid is searching for a place she and her sister Jaime can call home. Neglected by a father with more vices than work ethic and ignored by a mother bent on starting a new life with... Read more

The House of Velvet and Glass

By: Katherine Howe

Narrated by: Heather Corrigan

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, returns with an entrancing historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from the deaths of... Read more

Bandits

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Almost unbearable suspense. Leonard has produced another winner.”
—PeopleA wild ride with “the coolest, hottest writer in America” (Chicago Tribune), Bandits has everything Elmore Leonard fans love: non-stop thrills, unexpected twists and turns, unforgettable characters, and the most razor-sharp dialogue being rapidly exchanged anywhere in the... Read more

The Song of Names

By: Norman Lebrecht

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Simmond’s father tells him, “Never trust a musician when he speaks about love.” The advice comes too late. Martin already loves Dovidl Rapoport, an eerily gifted Polish violin prodigy whose parents left him in the Simmonds’s care before they perished in the Holocaust. For a time the two boys are closer than brothers. But on the day he is... Read more

The Beginner's Goodbye

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances—in their house, on the roadway, in the market.
 
Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to... Read more

The Coldest Night

By: Robert Olmstead

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Heartland Prize for his fiction, Robert Olmstead crafts riveting prose about love, war, and the human condition. Set in 1950, The Coldest Night follows Henry, a marine who arrives in Korea just before the devastating Chosin Reservoir battle. Days of brutal fighting leave Henry forever haunted by... Read more

Capitol Murder

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Deadly intrigue, breathtaking twists, and exhilarating suspense await in the third book of Phillip Margolin’s New York Times bestselling Washington Trilogy. Hot on the heels of Supreme Justice, Margolin delivers another heart-pounding thriller featuring private investigator Dana Cutler and lawyer Brad Miller, who are forced by a terrorist attack... Read more