Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naïve son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady's father by criticizing the landowning way of life... Read more

Any Known Blood

By: Lawrence Hill

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the #1 best-seller The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill is a writer of immense talent-and his literary reputation grows with each new work. Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at... Read more

Follow the River

By: James Alexander Thom

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Ingles was twenty-three, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit.

With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one... Read more

Remainder

By: Tom McCarthy

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.



Then, one night, an ordinary sight sets off a series of bizarre visions he can't quite place.



How he goes about bringing his visions to life—and what happens afterward—makes for one of the most riveting,... Read more

The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will.



So when Milly Theale arrives in... Read more

The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1881, Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper is a timeless tale of switched identities. After the young Prince Edward VI of England and a peasant boy switch places, the "little king" tries to escape from a world in which he must beg for food, sleep with rodents, face ridicule, and avoid assassination. Meanwhile, the... Read more

Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to... Read more

The Disappeared

By: Kim Echlin

Narrated by: Tandy Cronyn

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Talented novelist Kim Echlin pens this "powerful, transcendent love story" (Publishers Weekly) about two young lovers torn apart by political turmoil. Anne meets Serey-a Cambodian refugee-in MontrEal when she is just 16 years old. But when the Cambodian border opens up for only a short time, Serey returns to find his family. For years Anne hears... Read more

Luka and the Fire of Life

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Lyndam Gregory

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother,... Read more

Rescue

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Dennis Holland

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lifelong tangle of love and wreckage.

Peter Webster pulls a young woman out of a car wreck that should have killed her. Sheila Arsenault haunts his thoughts, and despite his misgivings Peter is soon embroiled in an intense love affair -- and in... Read more

1919

By: John Dos Passos

Narrated by: David Drummond

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With 1919, the second volume of his U.S.A. trilogy, John Dos Passos continues his "vigorous and sweeping panorama of twentieth-century America" (Forum), lauded on publication of the first volume not only for its scope but also for its groundbreaking style. Again, employing a host of experimental devices that would inspire a whole new generation... Read more

The Magnificent Ambersons

By: Booth Tarkington

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the Midwest in the early twentieth century—the dawn of the automobile age—The Magnificent Ambersons begins by introducing the Ambersons, the richest family in town. Exemplifying aristocratic excess, the Ambersons have everything money can buy—and more. But George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled grandson of the family patriarch, is unable to... Read more

The Pilgrim's Progress

By: John Bunyan

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Denn; And I laid me down in that place to sleep: And as I slept I dreamed a Dream."



So begins one of the best-loved and most widely read books in English literature. An acknowledged classic of the heroic Puritan tradition, and a founding text in the... Read more

An Object of Beauty

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city... Read more

Rain Song - Abridged

By: Antje Babendererde

Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Sturz von den Klippen am Cape Flattery hätte tödlich ausgehen können. Doch Hanna überlebt - dank des Makah-Indianers Greg. Als dieser von Hanna den Grund ihrer Reise nach Neah Bay erfährt, schlagen die Wellen der Vergangenheit über den beiden zusammen. Hanna ist auf den Spuren ihrer großen Liebe, Gregs Bruder Jim, der sie vor fünf Jahren... Read more

Sunset Park

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy comes Paul Auster's luminous, tour de force
novel set during the 2008 economic collapse.

"Auster fans and newcomers will find in Sunset Park his usual beautifully nuanced prose.... [and] a tremendous crash bang of an ending.” — NPR

Sunset Park opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles... Read more

Crazy

By: William Peter Blatty

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's okay to love me, Joey. But don't be in love with me."



New York, 1941. Joey El Bueno is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's School on East 28th Street, when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl with red pigtails and yellow smiley-face barrettes, who seems to know him better than he knows... Read more

The Quickening Maze

By: Adam Foulds

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on real events, The Quickening Maze won over UK critics and readers alike with its rapturous prose and vivid exploration of poetry and madness. In 1837, after years of struggling with alcoholism and depression, the great nature poet John Clare finds himself in High Beach-a mental institution located in Epping Forest on the outskirts of... Read more

Work Song

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Award finalist and Wallace Stegner Award winner Ivan Doig has garnered critical and popular acclaim for his vibrant, authentic tales of the American West. In Work Song he takes listeners to Butte, Montana, in 1919 for the tale of one charmer’s efforts to elude Chicago gangsters.Stepping off the train in the world’s copper mining... Read more

Mary Ann in Autumn

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityFollowing the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is a touching portrait of friendship, family, and fresh... Read more

The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 18 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T. S. Eliot, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense.



A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman,... Read more

The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of a Swedish minister growing up in Colorado, Thea Kronborg's musical talent sets her apart from her contemporaries. Driven by her determination to satisfy her artistic impulse, she moves to Chicago, where she falls in love with a wealthy married man. The novel follows Thea's growth from provincial midwesterner to acclaimed... Read more

The Queen’s Necklace

By: Maurice Leblanc

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, written by Maurice Leblanc. Often described as a French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Lupin is often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law. Read more

Angela

By: W. S. Gilbert

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sweet story of a paralyzed man in Venice, who sees out of his window a young girl across the way. Unbeknownst to her, she brightens his days over the course of several years, and he begins to fall in love with her. One day he throws out a flower into the canal between them to say "good morning" and she responds in kind. They still... Read more