Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Feast Day of Fools

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for Mystery

The critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece.

James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a... Read more

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore

By: Stella Duffy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who was... Read more

Aleph

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Transform your life. Rewrite your destiny.

In his most personal novel to date, internationally best-selling author Paulo Coelho returns with a remarkable journey of self-discovery. Like the main character in his much-beloved The Alchemist, Paulo is facing a grave crisis of faith. As he seeks a path of spiritual renewal and growth, he decides to... 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

Feast Day of Fools - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the 2012 Audie Award for Mystery

The critically acclaimed thirtieth entry from New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke, featuring Texas Sheriff Hackberry Holland in an epic tale that is equal parts thriller, Western, and literary masterpiece.

James Lee Burke returns to the Texas border town of his bestseller Rain Gods, where a... Read more

Carry Yourself Back to Me

By: Deborah Reed

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family, singer-songwriter Annie Walsh seeks refuge at her secluded home, surrounded by a lush Florida tangelo grove and the company of her old dog Detour. But a crime connected to her brother Calder threatens to tear her family apart, and Annie is forced to shore up her loyalties and question... Read more

Paris Noire

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Madisun Leigh

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The dawn of postwar Paris in the 1940s: for one family, it’s a time of celebration, danger, and liberating romance in a breathtaking novel by the author of The Daughter of Union County.Paris in 1944 is emerging from a devastating war. So are proud Martinican immigrants Marie-Thérèse Brillard and her two children, Collette and Christophe. In... Read more

Page from a Tennessee Journal

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Daughter of Union County comes an intimate and heart-pounding novel about two families—one black, one white—colliding against the explosive backdrop of the post–Civil War South.It’s been fifty years since the Civil War ended, but the racial divide is as rigid and unforgiving as ever. For two families in the rural South,... Read more

Last Man in Tower

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: Sam Dastor

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and... Read more

Ada, or Ardor

By: Vladimir Nabokov

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 20 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Published two weeks after Vladimir Nabokov’s seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of his greatest masterpieces, the glorious culmination of his career as a novelist. It tells a love story troubled by incest, but it is also at once a fairy tale, epic, philosophical treatise on the nature of time, parody of the history of the novel, and... Read more

The Stone Virgins

By: Yvonne Vera

Narrated by: Danai Gurira

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Yvonne Vera is one of Zimbabwe's most acclaimed writers and social critics. The New Yorker calls The Stone Virgins "haunting." After decades of guerrilla war, Rhodesia finally succeeded in severing the reigns of British colonial rule. But by 1982, the leadership of Robert Mugabe had led the country toward a horrifying... Read more

Lamb

By: Bonnie Nadzam

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced... Read more

A Drink Before the War

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As richly complex and brutal as the terrain it depicts, here is the mesmerizing, darkly original novel that heralded the arrival of Dennis Lehane, the master of the new noir—and introduced Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, his smart and tough private investigators weaned on the blue-collar streets of Dorchester.A cabal of powerful Boston... Read more

Gone, Baby, Gone

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful and raw, harrowing, and unsentimental.” —Washington Post Book World  “Chilling, completely credible….[An] absolutely gripping story.”—Chicago Tribune  “Mr. Lehane delivers big time.”
—Wall Street Journal In Gone, Baby, Gone, the master of the new noir, New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island),... Read more

Light from a Distant Star

By: Mary McGarry Morris

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping coming-of-age novel with a murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s ScoutLight from a Distant Star is the moving and powerful story of innocence and betrayal told in the endearingly wise voice of thirteen-year-old Nellie Peck. It is early summer, and her beloved father’s business is failing. Her mother has to... Read more

Sacred

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money…Enter tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the streets of blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen it all – and survived. But this case leads them into unexpected territory: a place of... Read more

Dove Season

By: Johnny Shaw

Narrated by: Gary Dikeos

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve years have passed since Jimmy Veeder set foot in the Imperial Valley of southern California. The only person that could bring him back is his father, Jack, who is dying of cancer. Jimmy is prepared to spend Jack’s final days joking and reminiscing, but the old man has other plans. He needs Jimmy to cross the border into Mexico and find a... Read more

Prayers for Rain

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

When a former client jumps naked from a Boston landmark, Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why. Once a perky young woman in love with life, her suicide is the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction.What Kenzie discovers is a sadistic stalker who targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death – a monster that the... Read more

In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Eugen Ruge

Narrated by: Ulrich Noethen

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Vom Flüchten, vom Heimkommen,vom Altern Von den Jahren des Exils bis ins Wendejahr '89 und darüber hinaus reicht diese wechselvolle Geschichte einer deutschen Familie. Sie führt von Mexiko über Sibirien nach Ostberlin, über die Gipfel und durch die Abgründe des 20. Jahrhunderts. So entsteht ein weites Panorama, ein großer Deutschlandroman, der... Read more

The Art of Fielding

By: Chad Harbach

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this award-nominated tale about love, life, and baseball.
At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are... Read more

Birds of Paradise

By: Diana Abu-Jaber

Narrated by: Tamara Marston

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Avis Muir is a brilliant pastry chef, Brian Muir a corporate real estate attorney. Their son, Stanley, is the proprietor of a trendy food market. Their beautiful daughter, Felice, is missing. A runaway at 13, Felice has spent five years modeling tattoos, skateboarding, clubbing, and sleeping in a squat house or on the beach. She’s about to turn... Read more

Second Nature

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novels, with their riveting stories and unforgettable characters, have won the hearts of millions of readers. Now, from the author of The Deep End of the Ocean and No Time to Wave Goodbye, comes the fierce and moving tale of one woman’s fight for her identity and her life when fate holds out... Read more

Arguably

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 28 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles... Read more