Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Mr. g

By: Alan Lightman

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With echoes of Calvino, Rushdie, and Saramago, this is a stunningly imaginative work that celebrates the tragic and joyous nature of existence on the grandest possible scale. “As I remember, I had just woken up from a nap when I decided to create the universe.” So begins Alan Lightman’s playful and profound new novel, Mr. g, the story of... Read more

The Penultimate Truth

By: Philip K. Dick

Narrated by: Nick Podehl

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they’ve fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return above ground. But when Nick St. James, president of... Read more

The Leisure Seeker

By: Michael Zadoorian

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Leisure Seeker is a sweet natured travelogue that’s about the end of the road in more ways than one….The Dangerous Book for Seniors!”
—Bob Morris, author of Assisted Loving
A sort of Easy Rider meets The Notebook, Michael Zadoorian’s poignant, funny, vibrant, and unforgettable novel, The Leisure Seeker, is a story of two seniors who escape... Read more

What It Was

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington, D.C., 1972. Derek Strange has left the police department and set up shop as a private investigator. His former partner, Frank "Hound Dog" Vaughn, is still on the force. When a young woman comes to Strange asking for his help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value, the case leads him onto Vaughn's turf, where a local... Read more

The Odds

By: Stewart O'Nan

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Stewart O'Nan earned a place on Granta's list of Best Young American Novelists and coauthored the New York Times best-seller Faithful with Stephen King. In The Odds, O'Nan crafts the moving, quirky tale of a couple desperately trying to save their marriage. Eagerly fleeing their Cleveland suburb, Art and Marion Fowler empty... Read more

The Victim

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this unique noir masterpiece by the incomparable Saul Bellow, a young man is sucked into the mysterious, heat-filled vortex of New York City.Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor with his wife away on a visit to her mother, attempts to find relief from a Gotham heat wave only to be accosted in the park by a down-at-the-heels stranger who... Read more

The Flame Alphabet

By: Ben Marcus

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Marcus has received numerous awards for his groundbreaking fiction, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. In The Flame Alphabet, Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and... Read more

Plainsong

By: Kent Haruf

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award FinalistA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since... Read more

You Believers

By: Jane Bradley

Narrated by: Susan Bennett & T. Ryder Smith

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman goes missing, and her mother uproots her life to find her daughter. A professional searcher with uncanny empathetic skill works to find the missing and to comfort desperate loved ones left behind. A tortured young man hell-bent on destruction leaves a trail of pain, sorrow and even hope, as he moves through the lives of friends,... Read more

The Underside of Joy

By: Sere Prince Halverson

Narrated by: Geneva Carr

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of Redwood forests and shimmering vineyards, Seré Prince Halverson's compelling debut tells the story of two women, bound by an unspeakable loss, who each claims to be the mother of the same two children. To Ella Beene, happiness means living in the northern California river town of Elbow with her husband, Joe, and... Read more

Hope: a Tragedy

By: Shalom Auslander

Narrated by: Shalom Auslander

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The rural town of Stockton, New York, is famous for nothing: No one was born there, no one died there, nothing of any historical import at all has ever happened there, which is why Solomon Kugel, like other urbanites fleeing their pasts and histories, decided to move his wife and young son there. To begin again. To start anew. But it isn't quite... Read more

The Winter Palace

By: Eva Stachniak

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 18 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • The Washington Post

From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen... Read more

The Fat Years

By: Chan Koonchung

Narrated by: David Tse

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history.
 
Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop... Read more

The Last Nude

By: Ellis Avery

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Barbara Caruso

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Paris, 1927, a day in July. A destitute young American named Rafaela Fano gets into the car of a dazzling stranger, the Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Struggling to halt a downward slide toward prostitution, Rafaela agrees to model for the artist. The two become lovers, and Rafaela inspires Tamara’s most accomplished and prized works of... Read more

The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall

By: Paul Torday

Narrated by: Richard Mitchley

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ed Hartlepool has been living in self-imposed exile for five years, but with a settlement regarding his inheritance looming, he must return to his ancestral seat, Hartlepool Hall. On his return, he discovers that his father has left him, along with the house, a seven million pound tax bill, two massive overdrafts, an 80-year-old butler, and a... Read more

The Invisible Ones

By: Stef Penney

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Small-time private investigator Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, the wife of a charismatic son of a traveling Gypsy family, who went missing seven years earlier. Half Romany himself, Ray is well aware that he's been chosen more... Read more

Wild Abandon

By: Joe Dunthorne

Narrated by: Tom Lawrence

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At a once vibrant communal-living property in the British countryside, back-to-basics fervor has given way to a vague discontent. A place that once buzzed with activity, from the polytunnels to the pottery shed, now functions with a skeleton crew. Founder Don Riley surveys his domain with the grim focus of someone who knows what’s best for... Read more

Night Train to Lisbon

By: Pascal Mercier

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Raimund Gregorius teaches classical languages at a Swiss lycée, and lives a life governed by routine. One day, a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires him to question his life—and leads him to an extraordinary book that will open the possibility of changing it. Inspired by the words of Amadeu de Prado, a doctor whose intelligence and... Read more

Sights Unseen

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kate Fleming

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads "her best novel since Ellen Foster."

Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the "story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that... Read more

Perlmann's Silence

By: Pascal Mercier

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 24 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An academic finds himself contemplating the unthinkable in a “tour de force” psychological thriller by the philosopher and author of Night Train to Lisbon (De Volkskrant, Netherlands).Pascal Mercier’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Night Train to Lisbon, became an international bestseller and the basis for a film starring Jeremy Irons. Now,... Read more

Iago

By: David Snodin

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable adventure beginning where Shakespeare's Othello leaves off

Wounded in love, tormented by his past, Shakespeare's most complex villain is brought magnificently to life in this tale of two adversaries—one an accused killer; the other, one of the most powerful men in Venice. Having escaped from Cyprus, accused of the murders of the... Read more

Charms for the Easy Life

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kate Fleming

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more

The Uninnocent

By: Bradford Morrow

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Joe Barrett & Rachael Warren

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bradford Morrow's stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his finest gothic tales. A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and birds' nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with... Read more

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Little Women begins the much-loved story of the March sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. The girls grow up amidst the turmoils, adventures, and hardships of the American Civil War.There is Meg, the eldest, plump and fair; Jo, the tomboy who longs to be a writer and fights against the constraints of her sex; Beth, shy, timid, and delicate, who... Read more