Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Pretty Birds

By: Scott Simon

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Celebrated NPR personality and acclaimed author Scott Simon is an Emmy and Peabody Award winner. This astonishing novel is based on his experiences covering the siege of Sarajevo. Teenaged Irena and her parents are forced into hiding when Bosnian Serbs launch their war of ethnic cleansing against Muslims. But Tedic, a strong-willed Muslim man,... Read more

Something Missing

By: Matthew Dicks

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In this quirky debut novel from author Matthew Dicks, career criminal Martin uses his OCD to pilfer items from his victims' houses without being discovered. It helps that he only takes things the homeowner would never notice are missing-like a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of maple syrup. Martin has spent so much time snooping through homes... Read more

Past Imperfect

By: Julian Fellowes

Narrated by: Richard Morant

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Damian Baxter is hugely wealthy and dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, England, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook, and housemaid. He has but one concern—his fortune in excess of five hundred million and who should inherit it on his death. Past Imperfect is the story of a quest. Damian Baxter wishes to know if he has a living... Read more

The Spectator Bird

By: Wallace Stegner

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "killing time before time gets around to killing me." His parents and his only son are long dead, leaving him with neither ancestors nor descendants, tradition nor ties. His job, trafficking the talent of others, had not been his choice. He passes through life as a spectator.A... Read more

Blame

By: Michelle Huneven

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Blame is a spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all.Patsy MacLemoore, a history professor in her late twenties, has a brand-new PhD from Berkeley and a wild streak. She wakes up in jail after an epic alcoholic blackout. “Okay, what’d I do?” she asks her... Read more

Day After Night

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Dagmara Dominczyk

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and The Salt Lake Tribune

Just as she gave voice to the silent women of the Hebrew Bible in The Red Tent, Anita Diamant creates a cast of breathtakingly vivid characters—young women who escaped to Israel from Nazi Europe—in this intensely dramatic novel.

Day After Night is based on the... Read more

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: John Krasinski, Cory Stoll, Joshua Ferris, Deni...

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.
Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and where hideous men appear in many guises. Among the stories are 'The Depressed Person,' a... Read more

Pellucidar, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to At the Earth's Core, David Innes vows revenge and returns to the inner world of Pellucidar to rescue the beautiful Dian, who had been torn from his arms by trickery. However, his return trip places him far from the land of his beloved, and he is forced to undertake a desperate journey thousands of miles across the fierce inner... Read more

Homer & Langley

By: E.L. Doctorow

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautiful and haunting . . . one of literature’s most unlikely picaresques, a road novel in which the rogue heroes can’t seem to leave home.”—The Boston Globe

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • The Kansas City... Read more

The Death of Bunny Munro

By: Nick Cave

Narrated by: Nick Cave

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years after the publication of his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave brings us the final days of Bunny Munro, a salesman in search of a soul.

Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son, waiting patiently... Read more

Border Songs

By: Jim Lynch

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Jim Lynch sets Border Songs along a 30-mile strip of Washington state and British Columbia. When severely dyslexic Brandon Vanderkool is forced to join the Border Patrol, he learns the border is a haven for illegal drug smugglers and other criminals. Meanwhile, disease has struck his father's herd, and his mother is battling... Read more

Local Girls

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Aasne Vigesaa

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Book Review has noted, "Alice Hoffman writes quite wonderfully about the magic in our lives," and now she casts her spell over a Long Island neighborhood filled with dreamers and dreams. In a dazzling series of family portraits, Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world... Read more

The Embers

By: Hyatt Bass

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A skilled director and screenwriter, Hyatt Bass creates a tale of both regret and rebirth in this debut novel. Emily Ascher's impending marriage forces a family shattered by tragedy and guilt to examine feelings long at rest. Everything changed when Emily's brother died-but what really happened on that cold winter night-and why does her father... Read more

Bright Lights, Big City

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Daniel Passer

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

With the publication of Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, Jay McInerney became a literary sensation, heralded as the voice of a generation. The novel follows a young man, living in Manhattan as if he owned it, through nightclubs, fashion shows, editorial offices, and loft parties as he attempts to outstrip mortality and the recurring approach of... Read more

Waiting for Columbus

By: Thomas Trofimuk

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has... Read more

After You

By: Julie Buxbaum

Narrated by: Amber Sealey

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other—and ourselves.

It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to... Read more

Ice Land

By: Betsy Tobin

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged ? 10 hours

A beautiful epic of love, longing, redemption, and enchantment in the tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradley?s The Mists of Avalon. Read more

The Possessed

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by: Patrick Cullen

Length: 29 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Loosely based on sensational press reports of a Moscow student’s murder by fellow revolutionists, The Possessed depicts the destructive chaos caused by outside agitators who move into a provincial town. The enigmatic and ideological Stavrogin dominates the novel, his magnetic personality influencing his tutor, the liberal intellectual poseur... Read more

The Mandelbaum Gate

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mandelbaum Gate divides the conflict-torn realm of Jerusalem, separating Israel from Jordan. Barbara Vaughn, a stubborn young Englishwoman and half-Jewish Catholic convert, insists upon crossing the divide in order to rendezvous with her fiancé, in spite of the very real danger. Not even the threat of bodily harm and fearful admonishments of... Read more

The Island of Doctor Moreau, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Jonathan Kent

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Island of Dr. Moreau follows a shipwreck survivor to an island on which animals are being transformed into human-like creatures, both physically and socially, by the cold and calculating Dr. Moreau. When it was first published in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau shocked and horrified most of its audience as well as reviewers. H. G. Wells... Read more

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published as a series of short stories in Colliers Weekly, this action-packed sequel to The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu features a number of fiendish doings, including kidnappings, snake murders, albino peacocks, killer apes, quicksand, a haunted house, rat torture, and more. Fu-Manchu summons a poisonous cat, fiery hands of death, and a... Read more

Marie, with eBook

By: Henry Rider Haggard

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This first novel in Henry Rider Haggard's Zulu trilogy depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830s involving the trek-Boers, the French colonists, and the Zulu tribe in the Cape colony of South Africa. Hate and suspicion run high between the home government and the Dutch subjects.



Allan Quatermain accompanies the ill-fated Pieter Retief and... Read more

Beyond the City, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Destiny brings three peculiar households together in the placid English countryside. The desire for money and romance drives these Victorians beyond the natural boundaries of their middle-class lives. As the web of lust and deceit draws these accidental neighbors ever closer, a financial scandal befalls one of them. An outside "rank pirate" is... Read more

Baking Cakes in Kigali

By: Gaile Parkin

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kilgali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day Rwanda—introduces one of the most singular... Read more