Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Notes from the Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A predecessor to such monumental works as Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, Notes from the Underground represents a turning point in Fyodor Dostoevsky's writing toward the more political side. In this work, we follow the unnamed narrator of the story, who, disillusioned by the oppression and corruption of the society in which he... Read more

Seize the Day

By: Saul Bellow

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children; at odds with his vain, successful father; failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as "the type that... Read more

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Tales

By: Ambrose Bierce

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a bridge at Owl Creek that is surrounded by dry and cracking driftwood. Burning the bridge would be the perfect way for a civilian Southerner to strike a blow against the Union Army. But Peyton Farkuar doesn’t make it that far. And instead, finds a rope around his neck. Read more

Fly Away Home

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house.

When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s... Read more

Dragon Bones

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death—or is it a murder?—David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who... Read more

Fly Away Home - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Judith Light

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of the nation’s most beloved writers, Fly Away Home is an unforgettable story of a mother and two daughters who seek refuge in an old Connecticut beach house.

When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician’s... Read more

A Thousand Cuts

By: Simon Lelic

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry, James Clamp, John Curless, Eli...

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A former journalist, Simon Lelic caused quite a buzz in the literary world with his stunning debut. A Thousand Cuts is a mesmerizing novel that explores the horrifying consequences of discrimination and bullying. Samuel Szajkowski, a recently hired history teacher, walks into his school with a gun and murders three students and a colleague... Read more

What Is Left the Daughter

By: Howard Norman

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country’s finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books—The Bird Artist, The Museum Guard, and The Haunting of L—in this erotically charged and morally complex story.Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other,... Read more

The News Where You Are

By: Catherine O’Flynn

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Frank Allcroft, a television news anchor in his hometown, is on the verge of a midlife crisis. Beneath his famously corny on-screen persona, Frank is haunted by loss: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor and friend, Phil, and the ongoing demolition of his architect father’s monumental postwar buildings. And then there are the... Read more

Kings of the Earth

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Rich Orlow, T. Ryder Smith, Ken Marks, Ed Sala,...

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the award-winning novel Finn, Jon Clinch has drawn favorable comparisons to such luminaries as William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy. With Kings of the Earth, he weaves the compelling tale of a troubled family haunted by dark secrets. On their upstate New York farm, the three aging Proctor brothers-Vernon, Audie, and Creed-eke out a... Read more

The Cookbook Collector

By: Allegra Goodman

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 15 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Heralded as “a modern day Jane Austen” by USA Today, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about... Read more

Arabian Nights Entertainment

By: Jonathan Scott

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an attempt to win the heart of her king and a nightly stay of execution, the beautiful and wise Scheherazade spares her life and enchants her husband with exotic tales of jinn, magic lamps, daring heroics and true love.First dated as early as the 9th century, this collection of stories-within-a-story, also called The Thousand and One Nights,... Read more

Grimm's Fairy Tales

By: Brothers Grimm

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

First published by brothers Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm in 1812 as a collection of retold Germanic folk stories, this collection of such well-known fairytales as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty transports listeners to a realm where “Once upon a time” often ends up “happily ever after”…and where giants, princesses, kings and fairies pursue power, find... Read more

The Beach House

By: Mary Alice Monroe

Narrated by: Mary Alice Monroe

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Known for her moving characters and emotional honesty, Mary Alice Monroe brings listeners a beautifully rendered story that explores the fragile yet enduring bond between mothers and daughters.Caretta Rutledge thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother—coming just as her own life... Read more

Andersen's Fairy Tales

By: James Baldwin & Hans Christian Andersen

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen Although April 2, Andersen's birthday, is celebrated as International Children's Book Day, the beloved Dane and author of more than 138 fairytales, wrote with a depth and sentiment that far exceeded mere bedtime stories. Few tales have been told that match the wit... Read more

Roughing It

By: Mark Twain

Length: 20 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

To Calvin H. Higbie, of California, an honest man, a genial comrade and a steadfast friend, this book is inscribed by the author, in memory of the curious time when we two were millionaires for ten days. So the witty Mark Twain dedicates his second travelogue and charming SEMI-sequel to The Innocents Abroad. Listeners to Roughing It will find... Read more

Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass

By: Lewis Carroll

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Many a day we rowed together on that quiet stream…and many a fairy tale had been extemporized…yet none of these tales got written down: they lived and died…each in its own golden afternoon until there came a day when, as it chanced, one of the listeners petitioned that the tale might be written down for her. Thus, in 1864, Oxford mathematician... Read more

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures

By: Howard Garis

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in 1910, Howard Roger Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day (except Sundays) for 30 years, much to the delight of both children and adult fans of the elderly gentleman rabbit. Join Uncle Wiggily in outwitting such outrageous creatures as the Pipsiseweh, Skeeziks, Bazumpus, Crozokus and the Scuttlemagoon while teaching... Read more

Uncle Wiggily & Mother Goose

By: Howard Garis

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Beginning in 1910, Howard Roger Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day (except Sundays) for 30 years, much to the delight of both children and adult fans of the elderly gentleman rabbit. Join Uncle Wiggily in outwitting such outrageous creatures as the Pipsiseweh, Skeeziks, Bazumpus, Crozokus and the Scuttlemagoon while teaching... Read more

Innocents Abroad

By: Mark Twain

Length: 24 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

What do you get when you combine classic travel literature with the inimitable wit of Mark Twain? The Innocents Abroad, is a keenly observant, politically incorrect and often hilarious narration of the author’s cruise to the Holy Land aboard a retired Civil War ship. First published in 1869 and the bestselling of Twain’s works in his lifetime,... Read more

Uncle Remus: His Songs & His Sayings

By: Joel Chandler Harris

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Working at a plantation in his youth, Joel Chandler Harris found that much of his shyness disappeared in the slave QTLYters, and his background as the illegitimate son of an Irish immigrant helped fuse a close bond with the slaves. The language of his new friends and the African-American animal tales they shared later became the inspiration for... Read more

Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By: Frank Baum

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Dedicating the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and it went on to become perhaps one of the most successful tales in the history of American children’s literature. Listeners new to the story and longtime fans alike will delight to join Dorothy and her friends in this... Read more

Celebrated Jumping Frog & Other Sketches

By: Mark Twain

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a wild yarn involving a case of mistaken identity, a gambler who’d bet on anything, and a very unusual frog named Daniel Webster. First published in The Saturday Press in 1865, the tale was immensely popular, and in 1867 an expanded version was published with 26 additional short stories, told as... Read more

Don Quixote - Abridged

By: James Baldwin & Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Quixotic” is a word that the dictionary defines as “extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary…” and that is a fitting definition, indeed, for this charming retelling of Don Quixote, the 17th century Spanish classic by Miguel de Cervantes, now updated for the modern reader. The gallant and fragile Quixote will touch listeners, as will his... Read more