Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Arcadia Falls

By: Carol Goodman

Narrated by: Jen Taylor

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In debt after her husband's unexpected death, Meg Rosenthal secures a job as a teacher at an upstate New York boarding school. Leaving suburban Long Island, Meg and her teenage daughter, Sally, embark on a new life in Arcadia Falls, a beautiful but isolated small town and the inspiration for a number of magically eerie fairy tales. With a... Read more

A Good School

By: Richard Yates

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside such titans of modern American fiction as Updike, Roth, Irving, Vonnegut, and Mailer.

In this work, he offers a spare and autumnal novel about a New England prep school. At once a meditation on the twilight of youth and an examination of America's... Read more

A Room with a View

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young Englishwoman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentine piazza. Attracted to this man, George... Read more

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close—the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his... Read more

The Story of Lucy Gault

By: William Trevor

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of more than a dozen novels, including Felicia's Journey, Irish author William Trevor is hailed as one of the most extraordinary writers of today. He has a special talent for examining the innermost regions of his characters' hearts. The Story of Lucy Gault traces the repercussions of a child's attempt to remain in her beloved home.... Read more

Lost Man's River

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 27 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the few American writers ever nominated for the National Book Award for both fiction and nonfiction presents the second novel in his Watson trilogy. Lucius Watson is obsessed with learning the truth about his father. Who was E. J. Watson? Was he a devoted family man, an inspired farmer, a man of progress and vision? Or was he a... Read more

Washington Square

By: Henry James

Narrated by: John McDonough

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry James' stories are classic gems of subtle wit and irony. Set in the exacting social landscape of New York City at the turn of the century, Washington Square is the tale of a wealthy but shy young woman caught between conflicting family expectations. John McDonough's warm narration traces her remarkable inner journey. Read more

The Heights

By: Peter Hedges

Narrated by: Allison Pill, Amy Ryan & Peter Hedges

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Tim Welch is a popular history teacher at the Montague Academy, an exclusive private school in Brooklyn Heights. As he says, "I was an odd-looking, gawky kid but I like to think my rocky start forced me to develop empathy, kindness, and a tendency to be enthusiastic. All of this, I'm now convinced, helped in my quest to be worthy of Kate... Read more

The House of Tomorrow

By: Peter Bognanni

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sebastian Prendergast lives in a geodesic dome with his eccentric grandmother, who homeschooled him in the teachings of futurist philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller. But when his grandmother has a stroke, Sebastian is forced to leave the dome and make his own way in town.



Jared Whitcomb is a chain-smoking sixteen-year-old heart-transplant recipient... Read more

Kim

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"In all India is no one so alone as I!"



Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the story of Kimball O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, who spends his childhood as a vagabond in Lahore. With an old Tibetan lama he travels through India, enthralled by the "roaring whirl" of the landscape and cities of richly colored bazaars and immense diversity of... Read more

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Holmes," I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?"



Sherlock Holmes did not lose his life at the Reichenbach Falls. Nor has three years of absence taken away his power to startle the faithful Dr. Watson. But it is the Park Lane mystery—the murder of the... Read more

The Ask

By: Sam Lipsyte

Narrated by: Sam Lipsyte

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Home Land and Venus Drive comes Sam Lipsyte's searing, beautiful, and deeply comic novel, The Ask.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Milo Burke, a development officer at a third-tier university, has "not been developing": after a run-in with a well-connected undergrad, he finds himself among the burgeoning class of... Read more

The Patience Stone

By: Atiq Rahimi

Narrated by: Carolyn Seymour

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, that absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead... Read more

A Week in December

By: Sebastian Faulks

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the bestselling Birdsong comes a powerful novel that melds the moral heft of Dickens and the scrupulous realism of Trollope with the satirical spirit of Tom Wolfe.

London: the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade... Read more

The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart

By: Mathias Malzieu

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near dead when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans—who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. It is in her orphanage that Jack grows up, amid tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine. Dr.... Read more

Frankenstein

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Matt Armstrong

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Victor Frankenstein was a brilliant and driven scientist with a passion for discovering the way the world worked. In a fit of madness, Frankenstein perfects a method for reanimating dead tissue, and uses it to form a creature. Terrified by his own creation, he is forced to face the consequences of creating a being with superhuman powers and a... Read more

The Infinities

By: John Banville

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

On a languid midsummer’s day in the countryside, old Adam Godley, a renowned theoretical mathematician, is dying. His family gathers at his bedside: his son, young Adam, struggling to maintain his marriage to a radiantly beautiful actress; his nineteen-year-old daughter, Petra, filled with voices and visions as she waits for the inevitable;... Read more

Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“She sprang from the womb and waved to the crowd. Then smiled and took a bow.” And so we first meet Venetia Kelly, the beguiling actress at the center of this new, spellbinding, and epic novel by Frank Delaney, the bestselling author of Ireland and Shannon.

January 1932: While Ireland roils in the run-up to the most important national election in... Read more

Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Lord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman—"as unflinching as a hero in a book"—who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-ship sailing from an eastern port. His life is ruined: an isolated scandal has assumed horrifying proportions. But then he is befriended by an older man... Read more

Lord of Misrule

By: Jaimy Gordon

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaimy Gordon's engrossing Lord of Misrule is a National Book Award winner. In the early 1970s, horse trainer Tommy Hansel cooks up a crafty get-rich-quick scheme. But his plans go awry when everyone at the Indian Mound Downs track seems to be on to his shenanigans. Complicating matters further is Tommy's tragic love, Maggie. She adores the... Read more

The Glass Palace

By: Amitav Ghosh

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the... Read more

The Swiss Family Robinson

By: Johann David Wyss

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. With optimism and boundless enthusiasm, the Robinson family undertakes the... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After his father dies, David Balfour is told to go to his uncle for his inheritance. But the uncle has no intention of letting the riches go—so he plots to kill Balfour, ultimately arranging for him to be kidnapped as a slave bound for the American colonies. Balfour's future looks bleak—until he witnesses a shipwreck and befriends the lone... Read more

Rhino Ranch

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary author Larry McMurtry-who has both a Pulitzer Prize and an Academy Award to his credit-concludes the story of Duane Moore, who first appeared in the 1966 classic The Last Picture Show. Fast approaching 70, Duane is adjusting to the loneliness of retirement. Then things get stirred up when a billionaire heiress moves to the area and... Read more