Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Moon Is Down

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Occupied by enemy troops, a small, peaceable town comes face-to-face with evil imposed from the outside--and betrayal born within the close-knit community. Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germanyâ's power, this masterful fable uncovers profound, often unsettling truths about war--and about human nature. Steinbeck's self-described... Read more

Sweet Thursday

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jerry Farden

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"A postwar continuation of Cannery Row, [Sweet Thursday is] every bit as juicy and relaxed as the original. . . . This is comedy--bawdy, sentimental, and good fun.” The Atlantic

In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to... Read more

The Pearl

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Hector Elizondo

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“There it lay, the great pearl, perfect as the moon.”
 
Like his father and grandfather before him, Kino is a poor diver, gathering pearls from the gulf beds that once brought great wealth to the Kings of Spain and now provide Kino, Juana, and their infant son with meager subsistence. Then, on a day like any other, Kino emerges from the sea with... Read more

The Girl in the Garden

By: Kamala Nair

Narrated by: Anitha Gandhi

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a... Read more

Maine

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 17 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In her best-selling debut, Commencement, J. Courtney Sullivan explored the complicated and contradictory landscape of female friendship. Now, in her highly anticipated second novel, Sullivan takes us into even richer territory, introducing four unforgettable women who have nothing in common but the fact that, like it or not, they’re family.

For... Read more

Before I Go To Sleep

By: S. J. Watson

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller“An exceptional thriller. It left my nerves jangling for hours after I finished the last page.”  –Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Shutter Island“Imagine drifting off every night knowing that your memories will be wiped away by morning. That’s the fate of Christine Lucas, whose bewildering internal... Read more

One Summer

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

David Baldacci delivers a moving, family drama about learning to love again after terrible heartbreak and loss in this classic New York Times bestseller—soon to be a Hallmark original movie. 

It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days... Read more

Jamrach's Menagerie

By: Carol Birch

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident... Read more

The Astral

By: Kate Christensen

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Astral is a huge rose-colored old pile of an apartment building in the gentrifying neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. For decades it was the happy home (or so he thought) of poet Harry Quirk and his wife, Luz, a nurse, and of their two children: Karina, now a fervent Freegan, and Hector, now in the clutches of a cultish Christian... Read more

The Offshore Pirate

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ardita Farnam, flapper and demimondaine, has a feisty will and a fiery tongue. But when 7 hulking musicians seize her yacht while her rich uncle goes ashore, she soon discovers the limits of her persuasive powers, and a battle of wits begins. Read more

The Sentimentalists

By: Johanna Skibsrud

Narrated by: Celeste Ciulla, Joey Collins & Greg Steinbruner

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Johanna Skibsrud won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for this compelling debut novel. Napoleon Haskell lives in Casablanca, Ontario, on the shores of a man-made lake that covers the remains of the former town. When his daughter's life unravels, she retreats to Casablanca and is soon immersed in the complicated family stories that lurk below the... Read more

Angoisse et anxiété

By: Michelle Larivey

Narrated by: Martine Mignot

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

L'angoisse et l'anxiété sont les équivalents psychiques de la douleur : des signes de notre organisme pour nous avertir d'un problème négligé. Il est relativement facile d'y trouver des solutions si on comprend bien ce qui se passe et si on connaît les moyens d'en tenir compte. Mais si on ignore ce précieux signal, nous glissons vers des... Read more

Joy for Beginners

By: Erica Bauermeister

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Moving, touching, wonderfully written, inspiring to read." -Garth Stein, author of The Art of Racing in the RainAt an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's recovery from cancer. Wineglass in hand, Kate strikes a bargain with them. To celebrate her new lease on life, she'll do the one thing... Read more

Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations. When a... Read more

Uneasy Money

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Nigel Lambert

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

These are strange times for the English aristocracy. When hard-up William Fitz William Delamere Chalmers, Lord Dawlish—otherwise known as Bill—sets off for America to make a fortune, he does not expect to be left one by an American millionaire with whom he strikes up a passing acquaintance.Honor demands that Bill Dawlish should restore this... Read more

Autobiography of a Fat Bride

By: Laurie Notaro

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold... Read more

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, and Other Stories

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” is a masterpiece of polished cynicism in which poison, explosive clocks, and finally murder forerun married bliss. Also included are “The Canterville Ghost,” “The Model Millionaire,” “The Young King,” “The Fisherman and His Soul,” “The Happy Prince,” “The Devoted Friend,” and “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” These eight... Read more

Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 31 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothea Brooke is a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life. Enamored of a man whom she believes is setting this example, she unwittingly traps herself into a loveless marriage.Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a visionary young doctor from the city, whose passionate ambition to spread the new science... Read more

Centuries of June

By: Keith Donohue

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magical tale of love and redemption that is as wonderfully written as... Read more

Dreams of Joy

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In her beloved New York Times bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony in Love, and, most recently, Shanghai Girls, Lisa See has brilliantly illuminated the potent bonds of mother love, romantic love, and love of country. Now, in her most powerful novel yet, she returns to these timeless themes, continuing the story of sisters Pearl and... Read more

Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author William Boyd—the novelist who has been called a “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune) and “a gutsy writer who is good company to keep” (Time)—here gives us his most entertaining, sly, and compelling novel to date. The novel evokes the tumult, events, and iconic faces of our time as it tells the story of Logan... Read more

Citrus County

By: John Brandon

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

John Brandon has quickly become a critical darling thanks to his evocative prose and recognizable, yet quirky, characters. Citrus County introduces teenaged Shelby Register and her offbeat family. Moving to the swampy Citrus County region of Florida, Shelby is quickly confronted by life's challenges and possibilities. "A great story in great... Read more

The Tragedy of Arthur

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez, Greg Steinbruner, Jordan K...

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Arthur Phillips won critical acclaim for his novels Prague and The Egyptologist, and Publishers Weekly called him a "master manipulator" for his ability to write fiction spun out of imagination and illusion. In The Tragedy of Arthur, Phillips tells the (mostly) true story of being asked to write the introduction to a lost... Read more

Children and Fire

By: Ursula Hegi

Narrated by: Ursula Hegi

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic reading lists, and continues to be adopted by book groups.

Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi's Children and Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever transform the... Read more