Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Good Hard Look

By: Ann Napolitano

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful and Dear Edward, a novel set in Flannery O'Connor's hometown of Milledgeville, and a tragedy that forever alters the town and the author herself

"A wholly believable world shaped by duty, small pleasures, and fateful choices."—O, The Oprah Magazine

Forced by illness to leave behind a... Read more

French Lessons

By: Ellen Sussman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A single day in Paris changes the lives of three Americans as they each set off to explore the city with a French tutor, learning about language, love, and loss as their lives intersect in surprising ways.

Josie, Riley, and Jeremy have come to the City of Light for different reasons: Josie, a young high school teacher, arrives in hopes of healing... Read more

Turn of Mind

By: Alice LaPlante

Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller—a stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired orthopedic surgeon with dementia. With unmatched patience and a pulsating intensity, Alice LaPlante brings us deep into a brilliant woman's deteriorating mind, where the impossibility of recognizing reality can be both a blessing and a curse. As the... Read more

The Kid

By: Sapphire

Narrated by: Sapphire

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen years after the publication of Push, one year after the Academy Award-winning film adaptation, Sapphire gives voice to Precious's son, Abdul. In The Kid bestselling author Sapphire tells the electrifying story of Abdul Jones, the son of Push's unforgettable heroine, Precious.A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh... Read more

Smuggled

By: Christina Shea

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Christina Shea follows up her compelling debut novel with an intimate look at the effects of history on an individual life. Smuggled out of Hungary to escape the Nazi menace, five-year-old Eva Farkas now lives with her aunt and uncle in Romania. Renamed Anca Balaj, she's told to forget her Hungarian past and language and accept a new identity.... Read more

A Death in Summer

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Chicago Tribune's Best Reads of 2011

One of Dublin's most powerful men meets a violent end— and an acknowledged master of crime fiction delivers his most gripping novel yet

On a sweltering summer afternoon, newspaper tycoon Richard Jewell—known to his many enemies as Diamond Dick—is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast.... Read more

Zorba the Greek

By: Nikos Kazantzakis

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A wonderful tale of a young man's coming of age, Zorba the Greek has been a classic of world literature since it was first translated into English in 1952 and made into an unforgettable movie with Anthony Quinn. Zorba, an irrepressible, earthy hedonist, sweeps his young disciple along as he wines, dines, and loves his way through a life... Read more

On Black Sisters Street

By: Chika Unigwe

Narrated by: Chinasa Ogbuagu

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This stunning U.S. debut from Chika Unigwe won immense acclaim and immediately established its author as a writer to be reckoned with. Lured to Belgium from Lagos by an unscrupulous businessman, Sisi falls into prostitution, her life disintegrating as "Black Sisters Street" saps her every hope. "The author's raw voice, unflinching eye for... Read more

Man Walks Into a Room

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicole Krauss' Great House was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Man Walks Into a Room follows Samson Greene, who, during the removal of a brain tumor, loses his adult memories. Feeling lost as an outsider in his own life, Samson agrees to participate in a scientific experiment in which memories are... Read more

One Man, One Murder

By: Jakob Arjouni

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is never easy—especially when your girlfriend is an illegal Thai prostitute who has been kidnapped (again) by a gang of sex traffickers. Fortunately for the hapless fiance╠ü, wisecracking gumshoe Kemal Kayankaya is on the case. The son of a Turkish garbage collector, he knows a thing or two about living in the ethnic fringes of the ugliest... Read more

The Madonna of Excelsior

By: Zakes Mda

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1971, nineteen citizens of Excelsior, a farming community in South Africa's rural Free States, were charged with breaking apartheid's Immorality Act, which forbade sexual relations between blacks and whites on the pretext of avoiding miscegenation. The women were jailed as they awaited trial and their white counterparts were released on bail.... Read more

The Illumination

By: Kevin Brockmeier

Narrated by: Graham Rowat

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Kevin Brockmeier counts the O. Henry Prize among the many accolades his speculative fiction has earned. In The Illumination he offers "an inspiring take on suffering and the often fleeting nature of connection" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). When physical pain suddenly manifests itself as shining light, the wounded nature of... Read more

Absurdistan

By: Gary Shteyngart

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Named as one of the New York Times Year's Ten Best upon its publication, Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan is a biting, poignant satire of American-style democracy and the American Dream. After returning to Russia to attend his father's funeral, 30-year-old Misha is subsequently denied a visa when he attempts to re-enter the United States. What... Read more

Prairie Nocturne

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award finalist Ivan Doig writes about Big Sky country with raw authenticity. Set during the 1920s, Prairie Nocturne finds Susan Duff, the young songbird from Doig's Dancing at the Rascal Fair, now a middle-aged singing coach living in Helena. When her old flame Wes Williamson asks her to mentor his black chauffeur, Monty, she... Read more

The Girl in the Blue Beret

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to... Read more

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By: Harriet Jacobs

Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Published in 1861, Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical account of the author's experiences as a slave in nineteenth-century North Carolina, from her relatively happy childhood to the brutality she experienced as a teenager and young woman to her eventual escape to the North. One of the few slave... Read more

Untold Story

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Emma Fielding & Nicholas Farrell

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from one of the most versatile and bold writers of our time—“an astonishing, tightly structured, and lyrically told” novel (People) inspired by Princess Diana.

What if Princess Diana hadn’t died? Diana’s life and marriage were fairy tale and nightmare rolled into one. Adored by millions, in her personal life she... Read more

The Ghost of Greenwich Village

By: Lorna Graham

Narrated by: Nicole Vilencia

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Sophie Kinsella and Lauren Weisberger comes this charming debut about a young woman who moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement, only to find that her apartment is haunted by the cantankerous ghost of an old beat-generation writer, who needs her help in finishing his life’s work.For Eve Weldon, moving to... Read more

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

By: Tiphanie Yanique

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Andrew Garman & Dion Graham

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Like Gabriel GarcIa MArquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse CondE before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a debut collection that is heartbreaking, hilarious, and mesmerizing. Set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, these lyrical and haunting stories are part oral history, part postcolonial narrative-but ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly... Read more

Les Miserables

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 60 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great classics of world literature and the inspiration for the most beloved stage musical of all time, Les MisErables is legendary author Victor Hugo's masterpiece. This extraordinary English version by renowned translator Julie Rose captures all the majesty and brilliance of Hugo's work. Here is the timeless story of the... Read more

Bel Ami

By: Guy De Maupassant

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Guy de Maupassant is revered for his naturalistic fiction, which brilliantly captures flesh-and-blood characters as it evokes the most telling details of everyday life. Considered one of the finest French novels ever written, Bel Ami follows journalist Georges Duroy and his increasing stature among the Paris elite. With an immense thirst for... Read more

Long Drive Home

By: Will Allison

Narrated by: Tony Ward

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Publishers Weekly calls this moving novel by acclaimed author Will Allison "a tight drama, part psychological thriller, part tragedy." Taking his daughter Sara home from school one day, New Jersey accountant Glen drives his car into another vehicle, killing its driver. Since no one else saw the accident, Glen lies about it to the police-a... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubliners is a collection of short stories by James Joyce that was first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century.



The stories were written at a time when Irish nationalism was at its peak and a search for a... Read more

The Red Pony

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

John Steinbeck's masterpiece celebrates the spirit and courage of adolescence. Steinbeck draws on his memories of childhood in these stories about a boy who embodies both the rebellious spirit and the contradictory desire for acceptance of early adolescence. Unlike most coming-of-age stories, the cycle does not end with a hero "matured" by... Read more