Fiction - Literary audiobooks

American Music

By: Jane Mendelsohn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This luminous love story centers on Milo, a severely wounded veteran of the Iraq war confined to a rehabilitation hospital, and Honor, his physical therapist. When Honor touches Milo’s destroyed back, mysterious images from the past appear to each of them, puzzling her and shaking him to the core.As Milo’s treatment progresses, the images begin... Read more

The Madonnas of Echo Park

By: Brando Skyhorse

Narrated by: Robert Ramirez, Luis Moreno, Alma Cuervo, Alyss...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Reminiscent of Sherman Alexie and Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author Brando Skyhorse’s “engaging storytelling” (Vanity Fair) brings the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles to life in this poignant and propulsive novel following several generations of Mexican immigrants through their shifting cultural and physical landscapes.

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Aimee Bender

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse.

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a... Read more

The Confession of Katherine Howard

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The new novel from the bestselling author of THE SIXTH WIFE. ‘England: firelight and fireblush; wine-dark, winking gemstones and a frost of pearls. Wool as soft as silk, in leaf-green and moss; satins glossy like a midsummer night or opalescent like winter sunrise…Little did we know it but that night we were already ghosts... Read more

Anthropology of an American Girl

By: Hilary Thayer Hamann

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 24 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Anthropology of an American Girl is a semi-autobiographical novel. It is the story of a young woman and her culture that strives for a measure of narrative depth, detail, and objectivity. It follows its protagonist, Eveline Auerbach, as she moves through a pre-digital American landscape during the 1970s and 1980s. In the most basic respect, it... Read more

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

By: Philip Pullman

Narrated by: Philip Pullman

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a story.In this ingenious and spellbinding retelling of the life of Jesus, Philip Pullman revisits the most influential story ever told. Charged with mystery, compassion and enormous power, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ throws fresh light on who Jesus was and asks the listener questions that will continue to reverberate... Read more

St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

By: Karen Russell

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent.

In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In “Haunting Olivia,” two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead... Read more

My Wife's Affair

By: Nancy Woodruff

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgie and Peter, very much in love, move to London with their three children. Once there, Georgie's dormant acting career takes off and she wins the role of Dora Jordan in a one-woman show. Dora Jordan was the most famous comic actress of the eighteenth century (she had thirteen illegitimate children, including ten by the future king of... Read more

Pearl of China

By: Anchee Min

Narrated by: Angela Lin

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An internationally best-selling author, Anchee Min draws upon her Chinese heritage to pen lush historical epics. Here she transports listeners to the Far East for a fictionalized account of acclaimed author Pearl Buck's youth. Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up... Read more

The Day of the Scorpion

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in The Raj Quartet: the arrest by British police of Mohammed Ali Kasim, who is known to sympathise with the Quit India movement, signifies a further deterioration in Anglo-India relations. For families such as the Laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations, the immediate social and political realities are both... Read more

A Division of the Spoils

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 28 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the backdrop of the violent partition of India and Pakistan, this volume sketches one last bittersweet romance, revealing the divided loyalties of the British as they flee, retreat from, or cling to India. Read more

The Jewel in the Crown

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The first volume in Paul Scott's historical tour-de-force opens in 1942 as the British fear both Japanese invasion and Indian demands for self-rule. In the Mayapore gardens, Daphne Manners, daughter of the provincial governor, leaves her Indian lover, who will soon be arrested for her alleged rape. Read more

Staying On

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Raj Quartet, Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley stay on in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Finally fed up with accommodating her husband, Lucy claims a degree of independence herself. Eloquent and hilarious, she and Tusker act out class tensions among the British of the Raj... Read more

All the Little Live Things

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of "crackling vividness" (New York Times Book Review).Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in Stegner's National Book Award–winning novelThe Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of... Read more

The Towers of Silence

By: Paul Scott

Narrated by: Richard Brown

Length: 18 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This volume follows the fates of the Laytons and a retired missionary teacher, all of whom can foresee the end of the Raj--and both welcome and lament its passing. Read more

Ulysses

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 29 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Joyce’s experimental masterpiece set a new standard for modernist fiction, pushing the English language past all previous thresholds in its quest to capture a day in the life of an Everyman in turn-of-the-century Dublin. Obliquely borrowing characters and situations from Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce takes us on an internal odyssey along the current of... Read more

The Invisible Bridge

By: Julie Orringer

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 27 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Julie Orringer’s astonishing first novel, eagerly awaited since the publication of her heralded best-selling short-story collection, How to Breathe Underwater (“fiercely beautiful”—The New York Times; “unbelievably good”—Monica Ali), is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris, an epic tale of three brothers whose lives... Read more

Private Life

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II.

Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a... Read more

Nemesis

By: Jo Nesbo

Narrated by: Thor Knai

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Nesbø’s storytelling abilities are incomparable. Nemesis is crime novel as art form and great entertainment.” —USA TodayDetective Harry Hole must use his maverick methods once again as he investigates a slew of brutal bank robberies and the suspicious suicide of a female artist in this clever and harrowing installment in the Harry Hole series... Read more

Sweetgrass

By: Mary Alice Monroe

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sweetgrass is a historic tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass—named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area—is in trouble. Taxes are skyrocketing. Bulldozers are leveling the surrounding properties. And the Blakelys could be forced to sell the one thing that... Read more

Ilustrado

By: Miguel Syjuco

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Ilustrado opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young acolyte, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's suspicious death and the strange disappearance of an unfinished manuscript—a work that had been planned not just to return the once-great author to fame but to expose the corruption behind... Read more

Dark Blood

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Stuart MacBride

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The sixth gripping thriller in the No.1 bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Scotland’s finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder… ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer’ Peter James ... Read more

Girl in Translation

By: Jean Kwok

Narrated by: Grayce Wey

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, the iconic, New York Times-bestselling debut novel that introduced an important Chinese-American voice with an inspiring story of an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. 

When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a... Read more

Gulliver’s Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

Narrated by: Pamela Garelick

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This enduring classic tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an English ship's surgeon who becomes a castaway in strange and faraway lands. Shipwrecked upon the shores of Lilliput, he encounters the six-inch-high Lilliputians, whose petty wars, civil strife, and vanities are human follies so reduced in scale as to be rendered... Read more