Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Submarine

By: Joe Dunthorne

Narrated by: Bruce Mann

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

At once a self-styled social scientist, a spy in the baffling adult world, and a budding, hormone-driven emotional explorer, Oliver Tate is stealthily nosing his way forward through the murky and uniquely perilous waters of adolescence. His objectives? Uncovering the secrets behind his parents’ teetering marriage, unraveling the mystery that is... Read more

Scaramouche

By: Rafael Sabatini

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The passionate Andre-Louis Moreau makes an unexpected entrance into the French Revolution when he vows to avenge his best friend's death. His target: Monsieur de La Tour d'Azyr, the aristocratic villain who killed his friend. Andre-Louis rallies the underclass to join him in his mission against the supreme power of the nobility. Soon the rebel... Read more

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

By: Monique Roffey

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad. Monique Roffey’s Orange Prize-shortlisted novel is a gripping portrait of post-colonialism that stands among great works by Caribbean writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Andrea Levy. When George and Sabine Harwood... Read more

Vaclav & Lena

By: Haley Tanner

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR

Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They meet as children in an ESL class in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Vaclav is precocious and verbal. Lena, struggling with English, takes comfort in the safety of his adoration, his noisy, loving home, and the care of Rasia, his big-hearted... Read more

Oil on Water

By: Helon Habila

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the oil-rich and environmentally devastated Nigerian Delta, a British oil executive's wife has been kidnapped. Two journalists - a young upstart, Rufus, and a once-great, now disillusioned veteran, Zaq - are sent to find her. In a story rich with atmosphere and taut with suspense, Oil on Water explores the conflict between idealism and... Read more

A Town Like Alice

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Neil Hunt

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight hundred women and children begin a 1,200-mile journey on foot across Japanese-occupied Malaya. At journey's end only 30 will still be alive. This is the story of one woman, of her ordeal, and of how she was saved by the sacrifice of an Australian soldier. It is a story of rare individual courage in the face of certain death, and hope in... Read more

I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive

By: Steve Earle

Narrated by: Steve Earle

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.In 1963, ten years after Hank’s death, Doc himself is wracked by addiction. Since he lost his license... Read more

Flappers and Philosophers

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Flappers and Philosophers marked F. Scott Fitzgerald’s entry into the realm of the short story, in which he adroitly proved himself “a master of the mechanism of short-story technique” (Boston Transcript). Several of his most well-known tales are represented in this classic collection of eight, including “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” and “Head and... Read more

Cannery Row

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Jerry Farden

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependent on one another for both physical and emotional survivalPublished in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of... Read more

Big Girl Small

By: Rachel DeWoskin & Kim Liggett

Narrated by: Tai Sammons

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Judy Lohden is your above-average sixteen-year-old: sarcastic and vulnerable, talented and uncertain, full of big dreams for a big future. With a singing voice that can shake an auditorium, she should be the star of Darcy Arts Academy, the local performing arts high school. So why is a girl this promising hiding out in a seedy motel room on the... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Kathryn Harrison
Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren
 
A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal... Read more

Saints and Sinners

By: Edna O'Brien

Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who - whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York - remind us of our own humanity. A librarian waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel - expecting to meet a celebrated poet while... Read more

Delta Wedding

By: Eudora Welty

Narrated by: Sally Darling

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for... Read more

Beyond the Black Stump

By: Nevil Shute

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

When Stanton Laird, American geologist, goes prospecting for the Topeka Exploration Company in the savage Australian outback, he finds something a good deal more precious than oil. Read more

Emily, Alone

By: Stewart O'Nan

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of numerous novels, Stewart O'Nan has been lauded with critical acclaim and best-seller status on his way to consideration as one of America's most gifted novelists. Emily, Alone, a sequel to Wish You Were Here, revolves around widow and grandmother Emily Maxwell, whose ordered life is jarred when her sister-in-law suffers a stroke.... Read more

Tabloid City

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Ellen Archer & Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In a stately West Village town house, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity surrounds their shocking deaths:

The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge fund manager flees the country.... Read more

Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in three separate volumes from 1855 to 1863, Bulfinch's Mythology quickly became the standard source of classic tales from ancient Greece and Rome, the Norse tradition, and beyond. This edition contains the full text of The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, the first volume of Bulfinch's seminal work. From stories of... Read more

The Story of Beautiful Girl

By: Rachel Simon

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white woman with a developmental disability, and Homan, an African American deaf man, are locked away in an institution, the School for the Incurable and Feebleminded, and have been left to languish, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape, and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow.... Read more

Doc

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 16 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp.... Read more

In Country

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Jill Brennan

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ""Astronauts have been to the moon,"" she blurted out to the picture. ""You missed Watergate. I was in the second... Read more

Caleb's Crossing

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At age twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a... Read more

A Far Cry from Kensington

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation.Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London. There, as a fat and much admired... Read more

Love among the Chickens

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge has hit upon a foolproof plan to get rich quick: he's starting a chicken farm. Dragging his adoring wife Millie and his long-suffering friend and novelist Jeremy Garnet with him to Dorset, he begins his enterprise. Complications ensue, involving the taciturn Hired Man and his bumptious dog, supercilious... Read more

Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Phyllida Law

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved.In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is shell-shocked and on the brink of madness. Smith’s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.Past, present, and... Read more