Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Damascus

By: Joshua Mohr

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Joshua Mohr's work has been chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. Here he takes listeners to 2003 San Francisco as the country divides into groups for and against the Iraq War. Damascus, a dive bar in the Mission District, becomes the unlikely setting for a showdown between the opposing sides. Tensions come... Read more

The Stranger's Child

By: Alan Hollinghurst

Narrated by: James Daniel Wilson

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Line of Beauty: a magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations.

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate—a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance—to his family’s modest home... Read more

Gourmet Rhapsody

By: Muriel Barbery

Narrated by: Pete Larkin, Eliza Foss & Barbara Caruso

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heart of Paris, in the posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, the greatest food critic in the world is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Pierre Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years. But now, during these, his final hours, his mind has turned to simpler things. He... Read more

The Outlaw Album

By: Daniel Woodrell

Narrated by: Leslie Bellair & Brian Troxell

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" American master (Associated Press).

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological -- motivates his characters. A husband cruelly... Read more

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A palm reader notifies Lord Arthur that murder is in his future. But not his murder – he’s the murderer. This really throws a wrench into his wedding plans, for Lord Arthur is soon to be married to the most beautiful lady in London. In fact he loves her so much, he decides to postpone the wedding until his business is done. Now, for a tasteful... Read more

A Sound Among the Trees

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

A house shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but... Read more

Falling Together

By: Marisa de los Santos

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“Her writing is both vividly descriptive and surprisingly insightful.”
—Boston Globe“It’s the three-dimensional men, women, and children who populate her fiction that I’ll remember for a very long time.”
—Nancy Pearl’s PicksFollowing the phenomenal success of her novels Love Walked In and Belong to Me, New York Times bestselling author Marisa de... Read more

The Visible Man

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Annabella Sciorra & Scott Shepherd

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, “the Ethicist” of the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second novel—an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient, a man who can render himself invisible.

Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic,... Read more

Elizabeth Street

By: Laurie Fabiano

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten years of the last century, but of the vicious criminals who preyed on them.” —Mike Dash, author of The First FamilyIn Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable,... Read more

The Cat's Table

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the... Read more

The Great Leader

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In his most original work to date, Harrison delivers an enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel following one man’s hunt for an elusive cult leader, dubbed the Great Leader.On the verge of... Read more

The Night Strangers

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Alison Fraser & Mark Bramhall

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story.
 
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. 
           
The home's new owners are Chip and... Read more

A Sleepwalk On The Severn

By: Alice Oswald

Narrated by: Emma Fielding, Ron Cook & Sam Dale

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

BBC Radio 4's extraordinary evocation of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary, by award-winning poet Alice Oswald. Originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 10 March 2011. Set to original music by Roger Goula, the subject of 'A Sleepwalk on the Severn' is moonrise, which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half... Read more

Mr. Fox

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Carole Boyd

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding, and the fairy tales don't get complicated. In this book, celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It is not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold... Read more

Ordeal

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Ian Stewart

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Life in the Corbett family turned upside down when the first German bombs struck their well-ordered street. But life goes on through fire and destruction, life and love rising from the rubble of London and "the Blitz." Read more

The Breaking Wave

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Allan had been away from Coombaragana, flying in the Royal Air Force. Now he has returned, wounded and disillusioned, to his ancestral home. Days before, Jessie Proctor had taken her own life. Why? Allan looked at the young face in the photograph in Jessie's passport and froze. He knew who she really was. Read more

On the Beach

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Nevil Shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a post-apocalyptic world. After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone... Read more

Pastoral

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

She was from the hills of Yorkshire, country born and bred. He was a city boy. By the stream where they fished they were two young people falling in love. Overhead, the bombers roared, threatening to blow their idyllic world, so young, so fresh, to smithereens. Read more

Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes

By: William Kennedy

Narrated by: William Kennedy

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed, a dramatic novel of love and revolution from one of America’s finest writersWhen journalist Daniel Quinn meets Ernest Hemingway at the Floridita bar in Havana, Cuba, in 1957, he has no idea that his own affinity for simple, declarative sentences will change his life radically overnight.So... Read more

If Jack's in Love

By: Stephen Wetta

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 9 hoursRead by TBDA Crime in the Neighborhood told with the deadpan humor of Nick Hornby-a wonderful novel about a boy genius whose brother may, or may not, be a murderer. Read more

The Revisionists

By: Thomas Mullen

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth.

Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair.

His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm... Read more

Nightwoods

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s.
 
Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human... Read more

The Funny Man

By: John Warner

Narrated by: Mauro Hantman

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son, by night he performs in small clubs, sandwiched between other aspiring comics. His wife waits tables to support the family. It doesn't sound like much, but they're happy, more or less. Until the day he comes up with it. His thing. His gimmick. And... Read more

Leaving the Atocha Station

By: Ben Lerner

Narrated by: Ben Lerner

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's 'research' becomes a meditation on the possibility of the genuine in the arts and beyond: are his... Read more