Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Robinson Crusoe - Abridged

By: Daniel Defoe & James Baldwin

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Poor Robin Crusoe! Where are you? Where have you been? How come you here?” In Daniel Defoe’s 17th century masterpiece of English literature, hero Robinson Crusoe relates his story of shipwreck, perseverance hope and redemption. Full of adventure, suspense and daring heroics, this celebration of Robinson Crusoe, updated for the modern young... Read more

Gulliver's Travels - Abridged

By: James Baldwin & Jonathan Swift

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Travelers visit many strange places. They see very many wonderful things. When they return home they tell wonderful stories about what they have seen. Thus begin the words of Jonathan Swift’s immortal Lemuel Gulliver in his witty masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels. Retold for the modern young reader while retaining all of the tongue-in-cheek charm... 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

Anna Karenina

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 39 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity.



Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army... Read more

The Quickening

By: Michelle Hoover

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie & Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an... Read more

Kraken

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 16 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police, cultists, and wizards are locked in a war to bring about—or... Read more

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Paula Wilcox & Jonathan Aris

Length: 18 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud AtlasLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh... Read more

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is both a whimsical fantasy and a social satire chock-full of brilliant Twainisms. Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American—a Connecticut Yankee—by a stroke of fate is sent back into time to sixth-century England and ends up in Camelot and King Arthur's Court. Although of average intelligence, he... Read more

Safe From the Neighbors

By: Steve Yarbrough

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This tightly constructed tale by PEN/Faulkner finalist Steve Yarbrough tells the story of a Mississippi history teacher who's determined to unravel the truth about one tragic day in 1962. Even as he pursues an affair with a long-lost friend, he wonders if she could hold the missing piece to this racially charged puzzle. "Safe from the Neighbors... Read more

Collected Fictions - Abridged

By: Jorge Luis Borges

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. A selection of Borges' dazzling fictions are gathered in this audiobook, brilliantly translated by Andrew Hurley. These enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display Borges' talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and... Read more

Nostromo

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Joseph Conrad’s multilayered masterpiece tells of one nation’s violent revolution and one hero’s moral degeneration. Conrad convincingly invents an entire country, Costaguana, and sets it afire as warlords compete for power and a fortune in silver.Señor Gould, adamant that his silver should not become spoil for his enemies, entrusts it to his... Read more

Mr. Peanut

By: Adam Ross

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can’t imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively contemplates her demise. Soon she is dead, and David is both deeply distraught and the prime suspect.

The detectives... Read more

The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

By: Ellen Bryson

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellen Bryson's first novel, The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno earned instant critical acclaim. This first-person narrative follows one of P.T. Barnum's socalled freaks on a mesmerizing journey of self-discovery. Bartholomew is a feature attraction at Barnum's American Museum as the world's thinnest man. He enjoys providing audiences with... Read more

The Lovers

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Vendela Vida has written a riveting and suspenseful novel about an American woman’s voyage to self-discovery.”
—Joyce Carol Oates “Stunning. A masterful meditation on grief and love. The Lovers is a sensational novel from one of our finest writers at the height of her craft.”
—Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries In 2007, Vendela... Read more

If

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved poem from the great Rudyard Kipling. If you can follow these precepts, you will indeed be a man, my son. Read more

The Sisters from Hardscrabble Bay

By: Beverly Jensen

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a tale of two sisters over seventy years that recovers the vibrant and unforgettable voice of Beverly Jensen, whom Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist, said has "rewritten the literary history of Maine."In 1916, Idella and Avis Hillock live on the edge of a chilly bluff in New Brunswick, Canada; a hardscrabble world... Read more

This Bitter Earth

By: Bernice L. McFadden

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past.

When Sugar Lacey returns to Short Junction to find the aunts who raised her, she hopes they will be able to tell... Read more

Holy Water

By: James P. Othmer

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Tuhoe is the quintessential twenty-first-century man. He has a vague, well-compensated job working for a multinational conglomerate—but everyone around him is getting laid off as the company outsources everything it can to third-world countries.



Henry has a beautiful wife—his college sweetheart—and an idyllic new home in the leafy... Read more

This is Where We Live

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Erik Davies & Phoebe Zimmermann

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This Is Where We Live tells the story of Claudia and Jeremy, a young married couple (she’s an aspiring filmmaker, he’s an indie musician) who are on the verge of making it. Her first film was a sensation at Sundance and is about to have its theatrical release, he’s assembled a new band and is a few songs shy of an album. They’ve recently... Read more

Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

Narrated by: Andrew McCarthy

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut, Less Than Zero, is one of the signal novels of the last thirty years, and he now follows those infamous teenagers into an even more desperate middle age.

Clay, a successful screenwriter, has returned from New York to Los Angeles to help cast his new movie, and he’s soon drifting through a long-familiar circle. Blair,... Read more

To Build a Fire

By: Jack London

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A man with no name follows a wandering path into the frozen Klondike. And here, deep in the heart of God’s country, he is forced to pit his will, mind and spirit against the forces of Mother Nature, herself. Read more

Not Untrue & Not Unkind

By: Ed O’Loughlin

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dublin, a newspaper editor called Cartwright is found dead. One of his colleagues, Owen Simmons, discovers a dossier on Cartwright’s desk containing a photograph that brings him back to a dusty road in Africa and to a woman he once loved.Not Untrue & Not Unkind is Owen’s story—a gripping tale of friendship, rivalry, and betrayal among a... Read more

Stoner

By: John Williams

Narrated by: Robin Field

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar’s life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known.Yet as the years pass, William Stoner encounters a... Read more

Walks with Men

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Ann Beattie

Length: 2 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules for a life well lived: If you take food home from a restaurant, don’t say it’s because you want... Read more