Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Three Short Stories, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Dickens is known not only for his novels but also for his shorter works. Particularly notable are his five Christmas novellas, especially A Christmas Carol. In this genre, Dickens's stories had a powerful commercial impulse, for it became an annual tradition for the author to publish one in time for the holiday season between 1843 and... Read more

The Window at the White Cat, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautiful girl seeks the help of an attorney when her father, State Treasurer Fleming, vanishes. Before long, her aunt also disappears—from a locked house in the dead of night. The search leads to the infamous White Cat, a seedy nightclub frequented by crooked politicians, where Fleming is found murdered.



The Window at the White Cat is another... Read more

American Sketches

By: Walter Isaacson

Narrated by: Cotter Smith

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's most versatile writers, author of bestselling biographies such as Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, has assembled a gallery of portraits of (mostly) Americans that celebreate genius, talent, and versatility, and traces his own education as a writer and biographer.

In this collection of essays, the brilliant, acclaimed biographer... Read more

The Sign of Four

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman—Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an... Read more

The Leavenworth Case, with eBook

By: Anna Katharine Green

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Horatio Leavenworth is a New York merchant whose material wealth is matched by his eminence in the community and reputation for good works. He is also the guardian of two striking nieces who share his Fifth Avenue mansion. Mary, her uncle's favorite, is to inherit his fortune at his death.



As this mystery opens, that lamentable event has just... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the first of all the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dr. John Watson, discharged from military service after suffering severe wounds, is at a loose end until a chance encounter leads him to take rooms with a remarkable young man. The arrogant, irascible Sherlock Holmes is a master chemist, a talented musician, and an expert on all aspects of crime.... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale—the legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home. The tale warned the descendants of that ancient family never to venture out on the moor "in those dark... Read more

Too Much Happiness

By: Alice Munro

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Arthur Morey

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.

In the first story a young wife and mother receives release from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the aftermath of an unusual and humiliating... Read more

Keyshia and Clyde

By: Treasure E. Blue

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Treasure E. Blue–acclaimed author of Harlem Girl Lost and A Street Girl Named Desire–is back with a heartbreaking urban love story of two star-crossed lovers up against the dirtiest dealer Harlem has ever seen.

Knocked up by a Southern preacher, Keyshia is sent to live with her aunt in New York, but after a horrific act of violence, the timid... Read more

Family Album

By: Penelope Lively

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

All Alison ever wanted was a blissful childhood for her six children, with summers at the beach and birthday parties on the lawn at their family home. Together with Ingrid, the family au pair, she has worked hard to create a real "old-fashioned family life." But beneath its postcard sheen, the picture is clouded by a distant father, Alison's... Read more

Three Men on the Bummel, with eBook

By: Jerome K. Jerome

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Men on the Bummel is the story of a Victorian bicycle trip gone wrong—then wrong and wrong again! A trio of British gentlemen attempt a cycling expedition in Germany's Black Forest. Confusion about the differences in language and culture get them into continual trouble, whether it's boarding a train, buying a present for an aunt, or simply... Read more

The After House, with eBook

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: Rebecca Burns

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Just out of the hospital and totally out of funds, Ralph Leslie jumped at the chance to sign aboard millionaire Marshall Turner's luxurious super-yacht as steward to the passengers lodged in its after house. His job was easy sailing until one sultry summer night, when the dream voyage suddenly became a nightmare of blood and terror. One ship's... Read more

The Easter Parade

By: Richard Yates

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Easter Parade, first published in 1976, we meet sisters Sarah and Emily Grimes when they are still the children of divorced parents. We observe the sisters over four decades, watching them grow into two very different women. Sarah is stable and stalwart, settling into an unhappy marriage. Emily is precocious and independent, struggling... Read more

New York: The Novel

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 37 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

New York: The Novel - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day.Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling... Read more

Human Traces

By: Sebastian Faulks

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 24 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebière is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease and is resigned to follow his father’s wishes to pursue a career in medicine.A fateful seaside meeting four... Read more

The Weight of Silence

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Narrated by: Tony Ward, Thérèse Plummer, Jim Colby, Eliza Fo...

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Masterfully written and beautifully told, Heather Gudenkauf's debut is a stunning novel of family devotion, honesty and regret that will linger long after the last page is turned. It happens quietly one August morning. As dawn's shimmering light drenches the humid Iowa air, two families awaken to find their little girls have gone missing in the... Read more

Damascus Gate

By: Robert Stone

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 19 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Stone receives critical acclaim for the philosophical layers of his writing as well as the intensity of his multidimensional characters. Setting this deeply provocative, best-selling novel in modern day Jerusalem, Stone puts a disillusioned American journalist adrift in the supercharged atmosphere at the end of the millennium. Christopher... Read more

Fall

By: Colin McAdam

Narrated by: Andy Paris, Stafford Clark-Price & Tony Ward

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning author, Colin McAdam is a master of characterization who paints vivid portraits of the inner forces driving people's darkest desires. In this riveting work, a girl named Fall disappears, leaving behind her good-looking and well-liked boyfriend Julius. Hovering about the proceedings too is Noel, an odd loner who may hold the key... Read more

The Dropper

By: Ron McLarty

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

After the death of his mother, Albert "Shoe" Horn is left to provide for his alcoholic father and look after his younger brother Bobby—a teenager with the mind of a child. After Shoe inadvertently kills a man in a fight, he must try to balance the need to protect his brother and his desire to protect himself. Shoe’s story unfolds against the... Read more

The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver

Length: 19 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, and Kansas City Star • Winner of the Orange Prize“Breathtaking. . . dazzling.”  — New York Times Book Review“Epic and deeply personal. . . . This is thought-provoking, and potentially thought-changing, historical fiction... Read more

Say You're One of Them

By: Uwem Akpan

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Dion Graham & Kevin R. Free

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. 

Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately.... Read more

Knit the Season

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A new heartwarming novel from the #1 New York Times- bestselling author.

Knit the Season is a loving, moving, laugh-out-loud celebration of special times with friends and family. The story begins a year after the end of Knit Two, with Dakota Walker's trip to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran in Scotland-accompanied by her father, her... Read more

The Memory Quilt

By: T.D. Jakes

Narrated by: CCH Pounder

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Bishop Jakes weaves inspirational life lessons into this tender and touching tale, a thoughtful reflection on our actions throughout the giving season and all year-round.

Lela Edwards wants nothing more than to spend the holidays with her family. But her husband of fifty years passed away recently, her daughters live far from their old Chicago... Read more