Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

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

All the Time in the World

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: John Rubinstein, Joshua Swanson & Jesse Bernstein

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ragtime and Billy Bathgate to World’s Fair, The March, and Homer & Langley, the fiction of E. L. Doctorow comprises a towering achievement in modern American letters. Now Doctorow returns with an enthralling collection of brilliant, startling short fiction about people who, as the author notes in his Preface, are somehow “distinct from... Read more

You Think That’s Bad

By: Jim Shepard

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Culling the vastness of experience—from its bizarre fringes and breathtaking pinnacles to the mediocre and desperately below average—like an expert curator, Jim Shepard populates this collection with characters at once wildly diverse and wholly fascinating. A “black world” operative can’t tell his wife a word about his daily activities, but... Read more

The Four Ms. Bradwells

By: Meg Waite Clayton

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mia, Laney, Betts and Ginger, best friends since law school, have reunited for a long weekend as Betts waits for Senate confirmation of her appointment to the Supreme Court. Nicknamed 'the Ms. Bradwells' during their first class at law school in 1979, the four have supported one another through life's challenges: marriages and divorces, births... Read more

The Peach Keeper

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest locale: Walls of Water, North Carolina, where the secrets are thicker than the fog from the town’s famous waterfalls, and the stuff of superstition is just as real as you want it to be.

It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to... Read more

Ever After

By: Edwardo Jackson

Narrated by: Thomas Penny

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of the 1993 NAACP ACTSO Silver Medal in Playwriting, Edwardo Jackson is a popular novelist and screenwriter. In Ever After, recent Morehouse graduate Nick takes his first job in New York, where he falls in love with the mesmerizing Jasmine. After two years together, Nick proposes-but gets turned down. Hurt and confused, he leaves for... Read more

The Red and the Black

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 18 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the great novels of the nineteenth century, The Red and the Black is a powerful character study of Julien Sorel, a clever and idealistic young opportunist who attempts to rise above his station through a combination of talent, deception, and hypocrisy. Sorel uses his powers of seduction and charm to secure advancement, only to find... Read more

The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York to Europe, the apartments of the nouveau riche to ancient French estates, Edith Wharton tells the story of Undine Spragg, a girl from a Midwestern town with unquenchable social aspirations. Though Undine is narcissistic, pampered, and incredibly selfish, she is a beguiling heroine whose marital initiation into New York high society... Read more

Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Paul Hecht

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more

The Trinity Six

By: Charles Cumming

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year

The most closely-guarded secret of the Cold War is about to be exposed – the identity of a SIXTH member of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. And people are killing for it, in Charles Cumming's bestselling thriller The Trinity Six.

London, 1992. Late one night, Edward Crane, 76, is declared dead... Read more

In Her Shoes

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide... Read more

Goodnight Nobody

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.

For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her... Read more

Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 31 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books

“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle

*With a... Read more

She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.

"Mine is a story of craving: an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free... Read more

Moondogs

By: Alexander Yates

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him.

Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysome­thing Benicio—aka Benny—travels to Manila... Read more

So Much Pretty

By: Cara Hoffman

Narrated by: Aimee Bruneau

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pipers are a family built on optimism. Claire and Gene moved with their precocious, beguiling daughter Alice to Haeden, New York for a fresh start. In doing so, they unwittingly re-write the story of her life. Wendy White has strong roots in Haeden, a late-blooming young woman, mindful of family and home. Her story has a beginning and an... Read more

The Deerslayer

By: James Fenimore Cooper

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Natty Bumppo , one of the greatest heroes in American literature, is the rugged frontiersman of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels that includes The Last of the Mohicans and The Deerslayer. Although it was the final volume to be written, The Deerslayer is the first in the chronology of Natty Bumppo's life,... Read more

Wanderer Springs

By: Robert Flynn

Narrated by: Joel Leffert

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author Robert Flynn delivers a witty and thought-provoking novel about a dying Texas town. When the new highway bypasses it, Wanderer Springs is left to wither in the dust. Will Callaghan, back home for a funeral, remembers the town's sometimes funny, sometimes painful past, including the time he cost his high school the football... Read more

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The timely story of how the forces of change converge on a small tribe of Niaruna Indians living in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. In addition to being a prophetic commentary on emerging threats to the environment, and the troublesome encroachment of the modern world on traditional cultures, the novel is a suspenseful adventure story about... Read more

The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of Hope

By: Robert Flynn

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Recognized by the Texas Institute of Letters, critically acclaimed author Robert Flynn is a treasure of the Lone Star State. The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope is his masterpiece. World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, he bails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it... Read more

In the House of the Lord

By: Robert Flynn

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Robert Flynn has won numerous accolades for his writing, including a Spur Award, a Western Heritage Award and a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. In the House of the Lord follows one day in the life of a Protestant minister as he balances faith with selfdoubt while answering the demands of his church.... Read more

Next

By: James Hynes

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most distinctive voices, James Hynes taps his dark humor for this startling novel. In the wake of a terrorist attack, neurotic Kevin Quinn flies to Austin, Texas, for a job interview. But when he lands, he finds himself following the beguiling young woman who sat next to him on the plane. ". this funny, surprising, and sobering... Read more

Big Fish

By: Daniel Wallace

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Writer and illustrator Daniel Wallace has published stories in various literary magazines. Big Fish is a novel reminiscent of Garrison Keillor and Mark Twain. It is a surprising work, filled with imagination, homespun humor, and hyperbole. Edward Bloom, an aging salesman, is dying. As his grown son, William, cares for him, the young man tries to... Read more