Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Missing

By: Tim Gautreaux

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this spellbinder by critically acclaimed author Tim Gautreaux, Sam Simoneaux returns from World War I to rebuild his life. But when a girl is snatched from the New Orleans department store where he's working, he hops aboard a Mississippi steamboat to find her-and dredges up ghosts from his painful past. "An exceptional novel . fluent prose,... Read more

Everything Matters!

By: Ron Currie

Narrated by: Abby Craden, Mark Deakins, Lincoln Hoppe & Hill...

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel, with eBook

By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 1792, Sir Percy and Lady Marguerite Blakeney are the darlings of British society—he is known as one of the wealthiest men in England and a dimwit; she is French, a stunning former actress, and "the cleverest woman in Europe"—and they find themselves at the center of a deadly political intrigue. The Reign of Terror controls France,... Read more

A Walk on the Wild Side

By: Nelson Algren

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

With its depictions of the downtrodden prostitutes, bootleggers, and hustlers of Perdido Street in the old French Quarter of 1930s New Orleans, A Walk on the Wild Side found a place in the imaginations of all the generations that have followed. “I found my way to the streets on the other side of the Southern Pacific station, where the big jukes... Read more

The Survivors of the Chancellor, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Kazallon thought that booking passage on a cargo ship from Charleston to Liverpool would be a charming way to return to his English homeland. If he only knew! A crazed sea captain, a disaster in the hold, storms, oppressive heat, sharks, and starvation are just some of the many travails that beset both passengers and crew. Will any of them... Read more

The Yellow Claw, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The elusive Oriental villain known as "Mr. King" masterminds an insidious plot to hold London's wealthy at his mercy. His henchmen have already killed one socialite, and more are threatened. Hot on the trail are two of Sax Rohmer's greatest detectives, Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar, as they undertake a case that threatens to destroy the cream... Read more

The Septembers of Shiraz

By: Dalia Sofer

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times Notable Book-a "story that needs to be told" (Library Journal, starred review)-is the critically lauded, best-selling debut from Iranian-born author Dalia Sofer. Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him. "A remarkable debut .... Read more

Brothers

By: Yu Hua

Narrated by: Louis Changchien

Length: 28 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed novelist Yu Hua became the first Chinese author to win the distinguished James Joyce Foundation Award. Controversial in his own country for his biting satire, he creates insightful portraits of Chinese society. Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldn't be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and... Read more

Ms. Hempel Chronicles

By: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Ms. Beatrice Hempel, a seventh-grade teacher, is new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her devoted father. Overwhelmed by her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expected of her in life and at work. Is it acceptable to introduce swear words to the English curriculum, enlist students to write their own... Read more

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

By: Muriel Barbery

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat & Cassandra Morris

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting New York Times and international bestseller and award-winner about life, art, literature, philosophy, culture, class, privilege, and power, seen through the eyes of a 54-year old French concierge and a precocious but troubled 12-year-old girl.

Renée Michel is the 54-year-old concierge of a luxury Paris apartment building. Her... Read more

Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire

By: Margot Berwin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In the heart of New York City, hidden in the back room of an old Laundromat, are nine rare and valuable plants. Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire tells the story of this legendary garden, and the distance one woman must travel—from the cold, harsh streets of Manhattan to the lush jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula—to claim what is... Read more

The Angel's Game

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game—a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.

“The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to believe that, when I opened those windows, its streets would... Read more

The Deep End of the Ocean - Abridged

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Dana Ivey

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Masterful...A big story about human connection and emotional survival" - Los Angeles Times 

The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club

Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly... Read more

A River Runs Through It

By: Norman Maclean

Narrated by: Joel Fabiani

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Two brothers growing up in Missoula, Montana in the 1930s learn the art of fly fishing from their father. But one brother's life off the river is as fragmented and troubled as his life on the river is fluid and gracious. His older brother labors to save him before his art is only a memory. Also includes: Logging and Pimping, "Your Pal, Jim" and... Read more

Soul City

By: Toure

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author TourE's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Essays and The New York Times. This playful and hip fantasy is the tale of a utopian city, where residents can attend St. Pimp's House of Baptist Rapture, and the candidates for mayor battle to determine who the better DJ is. Into this wonderful place... Read more

A Fortunate Age

By: Joanna Smith Rakoff

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 19 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Like The Group, Mary McCarthy's classic tale about coming of age in New York, Joanna Smith Rakoff 's richly drawn and immensely satisfying first novel details the lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives in Brooklyn during the... Read more

The Wish Maker

By: Ali Sethi

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

From the world-renowned singer-songwriter, a debut novel about a fatherless boy growing up in a family of outspoken women in contemporary Pakistan, The Wish Maker is a brilliant tale about sacrifice, betrayal, and indestructible friendship.

Zaki Shirazi and his female cousin Samar Api were raised to consider themselves “part of the same litter.”... Read more

The Year That Follows

By: Scott Lasser

Narrated by: Mel Foster & Tanya Eby

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a woman’s search for her brother’s lost son, orphaned in the wake of his sudden death, drives Scott Lasser’s riveting novel - a work of stunning economy and momentum about a woman’s quest and a family’s longing for wholeness and completion. Cat is a single mother living in Detroit when her brother is killed in New York, and she... Read more

Between the Assassinations

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: Harsh Nayyar

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the New York Times-bestselling winner of the Man Booker Prize 2008 -- a powerful and striking new collection

Welcome to Kittur, India. Of its 193,432 residents, only 89 declare themselves to be without religion or caste. And if the characters in Between the Assassinations are any indication, Kittur is an extraordinary crossroads of the... Read more

The Trumpet-Major

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the larger-than-life backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, Hardy’s only historical novel tells of the loves and sorrows of ordinary people caught in extraordinary times.When an anticipated invasion brings several regiments to her small rural community, young country maid Anne Garland is courted by three men in uniform: the loyal... Read more

The Magic Skin, with eBook

By: Honore de Balzac

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"The possession of power, no matter how enormous, does not bring the knowledge how to use it."



Raphael, a failed writer, finds himself deep in debt and unrequited in love, so he decides to take a suicidal plunge into the Seine River. Before he can, however, he discovers a magic leather skin in an antiquity shop. Its supernatural powers grant him... Read more

The Winter Vault

By: Anne Michaels

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1964, a newly married Canadian couple settle into a houseboat on the Nile just below Abu Simbel. Avery is one of the engineers responsible for the dismantling and reconstruction of the temple, a "machine-worshipper" who is nonetheless sensitive to their destructive power. Jean is a botanist by vocation, passionately interested in everything... Read more

Ein Winter auf Mallorca - Abridged

By: George Sand

Narrated by: Barbara Nüsse

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im Herbst des Jahres 1838 brach die gefeierte Schriftstellerin George Sand zu einer Reise nach Mallorca auf, um, begleitet von ihrem Freund Frédéric Chopin und ihren beiden Kindern, dem Treiben und Klatsch der Pariser Gesellschaft zu entfliehen. Trotz zahlreicher Widrigkeiten, von denen Sand mit viel Humor zu berichten weiß, zeigte Mallorca sich... Read more

Das Fräulein von Scuderi

By: Ernst Thomas Amadeus Hoffmann

Narrated by: Barbara Nüsse

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Spannend geht es zu in der 1819 erschienenen Erzählung von E.T.A. Hoffmann: Eine vermeintliche Mörderbande geht um in den nächtlichen Straßen von Paris. Als nach einer Serie von Mordtaten auch der berühmte Juwelier Cardillac den Tod findet, wird dessen Gehilfe der Überfälle beschuldigt. Auf mysteriöse Weise wird das Fräulein von Scuderi, eine... Read more