Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Man in the Iron Mask

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirty-five years after the events of The Three Musketeers, D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis find themselves caught between conflicting loyalties in a power struggle that could change the face of the French monarchy.For eight long years, a young prisoner has languished within the dreaded Bastille, his face hidden in an iron mask. He knows... Read more

The Postmistress

By: Sarah Blake

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible burden...

Filled with stunning parallels to today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war.

On the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of... Read more

The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

By: Brady Udall

Narrated by: Scott Shina

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This astonishing novel was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly and Newsweek. Contained within is the story of Edgar Mint, the half-Apache, mostly orphaned child who overcomes a serious childhood injury to embark on a life of tragedies, including a boarding school for Native... Read more

One Amazing Thing

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: Neil Shah, Soneela Nankani & Purva Bedi

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry and an American Book Award for her short stories, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores themes of women, immigration, and her vibrant Indian culture to great effect. Divakaruni expands on these ideas in One Amazing Thing, a project long in the making and full of electric prose. Read more

Point Omega

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it.

In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls “prophetic about twenty-first-century America” looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who... Read more

Secrets of Eden

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Susan Denaker, Rebecca Lowman & ...

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot... Read more

The Lost Books of the Odyssey

By: Zachary Mason

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A BRILLIANT AND BEGUILING REIMAGINING OF ONE OF OUR GREATEST MYTHS BY A GIFTED YOUNG WRITER

Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel, The Lost Books of the Odyssey, reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With brilliant prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary... Read more

Shadow Tag

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Shadow Tag is a stunning tour-de-force from Louise Erdrich, the bestselling author of The Plague of Doves and National Book Award-winner The Round House. When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth... Read more

The Three Weissmanns of Westport

By: Cathleen Schine

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this sparkling contemporary adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, sisters Miranda, an impulsive but successful literary agent, and Annie, a pragmatic library director, quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home when their mother, Betty, is dumped by her husband of nearly fifty years. Exiled from her elegant... Read more

Wild Child, and Other Stories

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: T. C. Boyle

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

There may be no one better than T. C. Boyle at engaging, shocking, and ultimately gratifying readers while at the same time testing his characters’ emotional and physical endurance.The fourteen stories in this rich new collection display T. C. Boyle’s astonishing range and imaginative muscle. Nature is the dominant player in many of these... Read more

About Schmidt

By: Louis Begley

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Louis Begley's perceptive novel hums with emotional energy and shimmers with haunting images. A National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist, About Schmidt is a powerful meditation on loneliness, desire, and transformation. Old-school lawyer Albert Schmidt has spent years carefully climbing the ladder of success. But now, at what should be the... Read more

The Brightest Star in the Sky

By: Marian Keyes

Narrated by: Caitriona Keyes

Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A wry and life-affirming tale-and the Irish literary star's latest New York Times bestseller.

Marian Keyes's inimitable blend of rollicking humor, effervescent prose, and captivating stories that deal with real-life issues have won readers around the globe. Reminiscent of the blockbuster movie Love, Actually, her new novel The Brightest Star... Read more

Horseman, Pass By

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Kerin McCue

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In addition to his 29 books, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry is credited on dozens of screenplays-including the Academy Award-winning Brokeback Mountain. Horseman, Pass By is a post-World War II classic first published in 1961 and later made into a feature film. Cattleman Homer Bannon is a walking advertisement for traditional,... Read more

Finn

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Some 120 years ago, Mark Twain left Huckleberry Finn's father dead in a room crowded with oddities: a wooden leg, women's underclothing, two black cloth masks, and more. Clinch's masterly debut draws from the nation's literary heritage to create this completely original story. Unabridged. 9 CDs. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A colonel receives five seeds in the mail—and dies within weeks. A young bride disappears immediately after her wedding. An old hat and a Christmas goose are the only clues to a stolen jewel. A son is accused of his father's murder. These mysteries—and many more—are brought to the house on Baker Street where detective Sherlock Holmes resides. No... Read more

The Unnamed

By: Joshua Ferris

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Unnamed is a dazzling novel about a marriage, family, and the unseen forces of nature and desire that seem to threaten them both.

He was going to lose the house and everything in it.

The rare pleasure of a bath, the copper pots hanging above the kitchen island, his family-again he would lose his family. He stood inside the house and took... Read more

Flatland

By: Edwin A. Abbott

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As a satire, Flatland offers pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "the best introduction one can find into the... Read more

The Vagrants

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Jackie Chung

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance. "Li records these events . with such a magisterial... Read more

Lord Jim

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a novel about a man's lifelong efforts to atone for an act of instinctive cowardice. Young Jim, chief mate of the Patna, dreams of being a hero. He has taken to the seas with the hopes of adventure and the chance to prove his mettle. When the Patna threatens to sink and the cowardly officers decide to save their own skins and escape in... Read more

Alice I Have Been

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story is no less enthralling.


But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does... Read more

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

By: Beth Hoffman

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.

Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town—a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as... Read more

Bloodroot

By: Amy Greene

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies—of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss—that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.

The novel is told in a kaleidoscope of seamlessly woven voices and... Read more

Remarkable Creatures

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Charlotte Parry

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

 A voyage of discovery, two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich this New York Times bestselling novel by Tracy Chevalier, author of At the Edge of the Orchard and Girl With a Pearl Earring. 

On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary Anning learns that she has a unique gift:... Read more

Unfinished Desires

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Gail Godwin, three-time National Book Award finalist and acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Evensong and The Finishing School, comes a sweeping new novel of friendship, loyalty, rivalries, redemption, and memory.

It is the fall of 1951 at Mount St. Gabriel’s, an all-girls school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.... Read more