Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Jesus Boy

By: Preston L. Allen

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free, Adam Alexander & Dion Graham

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Sonja H. Stone Prize in Literature, Preston L. Allen's Jesus Boy was listed by O, the Oprah Magazine/ as one of "Ten More Titles to Read Now." Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is dedicated to God. But when the one he loves marries another man, Elwin gets involved with a much older woman. Soon, his lust will test his devotion-and may... Read more

Cage's Bend

By: Carter Coleman

Narrated by: Cecelia Riddett, Richard Poe, Tom Stechschulte,...

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Carter Coleman delivers a novel about the Rutledge brothers: Cage, the golden boy, Nick, slow to blossom but full of potential, and Harper, struggling to live up to his brothers. When the tragedy of Nick's death throws Cage into the vicious cycles of manic depression, Harper and his family discover the true strength of love in their attempt to... Read more

High John the Conqueror

By: John Wilson

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

First printed in 1948, High John the Conqueror, John W. Wilson's only published book, was considered a breakthrough novel for its attention to racism, sexual politics, and the oppressive nature of agribusiness. It has since become a classic depiction of the arduous life and work of African American cotton farmers in southeast Texas. "Mr. Wilson... Read more

Frankland

By: James Whorton

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With droll humor and biting wit, critically acclaimed author James Whorton, Jr. pens enjoyable novels in the tradition of John Kennedy Toole and Walker Percy. In Frankland, a socially challenged young man named John H. Tolley aspires to be a prestigious historian despite his lack of a college degree. To that end, he embarks on a journey to east... Read more

The Patterns of Paper Monsters

By: Emma Rathbone

Narrated by: Steven Boyer

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Born in South Africa, Emma Rathbone was a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she received her M.F.A. The Patterns of Paper Monsters is her debut novel. Convicted of armed robbery, 17-year-old Jacob is sentenced to a Virginia detention center. Bored, Jacob begins romancing an inmate he bumps into once in a while. But when... Read more

Safe From the Sea

By: Peter Geye

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In his "finely crafted first novel" (Booklist), Peter Geye evokes the savage beauty of Lake Superior's north shore and the bittersweet reunion of a dying father and his hurting son after decades of estrangement. When Noah Torr returns to his family's Minnesota cabin to reconnect with his father, he learns for the first time what really happened... Read more

Clay's Quilt

By: Silas House

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Clay's Quilt was a Book Sense 76 Pick and was nominated for the Southeastern Booksellers Book of the Year and the Appalachian Writers Association Book Award. Clay Sizemore loves his home in Free Creek, but he longs for more. Since the death of his mother when he was four, he has felt the absence of family. His father left, and he has no... Read more

John Crow's Devil

By: Marlon James

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Novelist Marlon James had his first book nominated as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and his second book named a New York Times Editor's Choice. In this, his third novel, a failing preacher in 1957 Jamaica is ousted by a fiery newcomer who sends the congregation into a frenzy of spiritual awakening-and violence. "It's 150-proof... Read more

Elizabeth I

By: Margaret George

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 31 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from Margaret George—a captivating novel about history's most enthralling queen, the legendary Elizabeth Tudor.

England’s greatest monarch has baffled and intrigued the world for centuries. But what was the Virgin Queen really like? Lettice Knollys—Elizabeth's flame-haired, look-alike coussin—thinks she knows all too... Read more

The Silver Boat

By: Luanne Rice

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestseller Luanne Rice returns with a novel as timeless as the sea on which it's set.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling Luanne Rice comes a heartwarming yet heart-wrenching portrait of three far-flung sisters who come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true... Read more

Friendship Bread

By: Darien Gee

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An anonymous gift sends a woman on a journey she never could have anticipated.
 
One afternoon, Julia Evarts and her five-year-old daughter, Gracie, arrive home to find an unexpected gift on the front porch: a homemade loaf of Amish Friendship Bread and a simple note: I hope you enjoy it. Also included are a bag of starter, instructions on how... Read more

Once Upon a Time, There Was You

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of Home Safe and The Last Time I Saw You comes a beautiful and moving novel about a man and woman, long divorced, who rediscover the power of love and family in the midst of an unthinkable crisis. 

Even on their wedding day, John and Irene sensed that they were about to make a mistake. Years... Read more

The Daughter's Walk

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother's tragedy, a daughter's desire and the 7000 mile journey that changed their lives. 
 
In 1896 Norwegian American Helga Estby accepted a wager from the fashion industry to walk from Spokane, Washington to New York City within seven months in an effort to earn $10,000. Bringing along her nineteen year-old daughter Clara, the two made their... Read more

Touch

By: Alexi Zentner

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned... Read more

The Imitation of Christ

By: Thomas à Kempis

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

First published anonymously in 1418, Thomas à Kempis's The Imitation of Christ is a classic Christian devotional work that has been read through the ages by such notable figures as Sir Thomas More, John Wesley, and Pope John Paul I. A meditation on spiritual life, it offers instructions for renouncing worldly vanity and discovering eternal... Read more

Bent Road

By: Lori Roy

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return... Read more

Mothers and Daughters

By: Rae Meadows

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich and luminous novel about three generations of women in one family: the love they share, the dreams they refuse to surrender, and the secrets they hold

Samantha is lost in the joys of new motherhood—the softness of her eight-month-old daughter's skin, the lovely weight of her child in her arms—but in trading her artistic dreams to care for... Read more

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

By: Bridget Asher

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of My Husband’s Sweethearts and The Pretend Wife comes a moving novel about love and hope in the face of loss, in which a small house in the French countryside may be responsible for mending hearts since World War II.Brokenhearted and still mourning the loss of her husband, Heidi travels with Abbot, her obsessive-compulsive... Read more

The Mark of Zorro - Abridged

By: Johnston McCulley

Narrated by: Val Kilmer, a full cast, Scott Brick, Stefan Ru...

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Based on Johnston McCulley’s The Curse of Capistrano first published in 1919 by pulp magazine All-Story WeeklySet in Los Angeles during the era of early nineteenth century Colonial Spanish California, the story introduces us to wealthy, young aristocrat Don Diego de la Vega, son of the richest ranchero in the country. Don Diego is an idler who... Read more

Exley

By: Brock Clarke

Narrated by: Michael Sullivan & Chris Sorensen

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Brock Clarke is acclaimed for his wry, absurdist humor. In Exley, Clarke introduces nine-year-old Miller, who becomes convinced that his father-who left without explanation-must have run away to join the military, and is now lying comatose in a VA hospital. Thinking a visit from his father's favorite writer will help revive... Read more

Waterborne

By: Bruce Murkoff

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 15 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Washington Post Book World raves, "Waterborne is a formidable achievement, an engrossing story, masterfully told." During the Great Depression, three lost souls meet one another at Boulder Dam, a massive engineering project in the midst of the Nevada desert. Each is drawn there for a different reason, but they have all been haunted by... Read more

Dead Souls

By: Nikolai Gogol

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowners to make each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these "souls" as collateral to reinvent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient... Read more

When Mountains Walked

By: Kate Wheeler

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Kate Wheeler collected numerous awards for her short stories before making a splash with this atmospheric first novel. It tells the parallel tales of two women who, suffocating in oppressive marriages, travel to faraway lands and are drawn to the intensity of forbidden love. Maggie Goodwin and her husband travel deep into the... Read more

Purple Hibiscus

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a 2003 O Henry Prize winner, and was shortlisted for the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing and the 2004 Orange Prize. In Purple Hibiscus, she recounts the story of a young Nigerian girl searching for freedom. Although her father is greatly respected within their community, 15-year-old Kambili knows a frighteningly... Read more