Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Happiness

By: Will Ferguson

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This biting satire won Canadian author Will Ferguson the prestigious Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction as well as a Leacock Medal for Humour. Lowly editor Edwin de Valu's life moves at a pretty humdrum pace, until he discovers the manuscript for Tupak Soiree's book on his desk. This self-help tome is different-it actually works. And... Read more

How to Sell

By: Clancy Martin

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Bobby Clark is just sixteen when he drops out of school to follow his big brother, Jim, into the jewelry business. Bobby idolizes Jim and is in awe of Jim’s girlfriend, Lisa, the best saleswoman at the Fort Worth Deluxe Diamond Exchange.What follows is the story of a young man’s education in two of the oldest human passions: love and money.... Read more

The Hearts of Horses

By: Molly Gloss

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1917, a big-boned young woman shows up at George Bliss's doorstep. She's looking for a job breaking horses, and he hires her on. Many of his regular hands are off fighting the war, and he glimpses, beneath her showy rodeo garb, a shy but strong-willed girl with a serious knowledge of horses.



So begins the irresistible tale of... Read more

A Reliable Wife

By: Robert Goolrick

Narrated by: Mark Feuerstein

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Goolrick's riveting debut novel is both foreboding and sensual. When a wealthy man first meets his mail-order bride in 1907, he realizes this statuesque beauty is anything but a "simple missionary's daughter." But he doesn't know of her devious plan to leave Wisconsin as a rich widow. Nor does she know of the furious demons he longs to... Read more

Midnight's Children

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Lyndam Gregory

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence. "One of the most important books to... Read more

The Pilgrimage

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes are companions—to truly comprehend one, you must read the other.Step inside this captivating account of Paulo Coehlo's pilgrimage along the road to Santiago. This fascinating parable explores the need to find one's own... Read more

Sunnyside

By: Glen David Gold

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 23 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood... Read more

Tropic of Capricorn

By: Henry Miller

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

""American literature today begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done."" — Lawrence Durrell""There is nothing like Miller when he gets rolling. . . . One has to take the language back to Marlowe and Shakespeare before encountering a wealth of imagery equal in intensity."" — Norman MailerBanned in America for almost thirty years... Read more

David Copperfield, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 33 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

David Copperfield is the quintessential novel by England's most beloved novelist. Based in part on Dickens's own life, it is the story of a young man's journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among its gloriously vivid cast of characters, he encounters his tyrannical... Read more

Give Me Back My Legions!

By: Harry Turtledove

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Publius Quinctilius Varus, a Roman politician, is summoned by the Emperor, Augustus Caesar. Given three legions and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine, his mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others have failed and to bring their land fully under Rome's control.



Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly... Read more

Water Ghosts

By: Shawna Yang Ryan

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Locke, California, 1928. Three bedraggled Chinese women suddenly appear out of the mist one afternoon in a small Chinese farming town on the Sacramento River, and their arrival throws the community into confusion. Two of the women are unknown to the townspeople, while the third is the long-lost wife of Richard Fong, the handsome manager of the... Read more

Port Mungo

By: Patrick McGrath

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Inseparable since childhood, Jack and Gin Rathbone inhabit a world of privilege and eccentricity into which no strangers are permitted. Until, that is, Jack falls passionately in love with Vera Savage: a flamboyant and reckless artist over ten years his senior. When they flee to New York City within weeks of meeting, Gin is forced to witness... Read more

The Little Stranger

By: Sarah Waters

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture, directed by Lenny Abrahamson and starring Domhnall Gleeson and Ruth Wilson.

"The #1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."—Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly

One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a... Read more

The Woman Lit by Fireflies

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Ray Porter, Carrington MacDuffie & Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Across the odd contours of the American landscape, people are searching for the things that aren’t irretrievably lost, for the incandescent beneath the ordinary. An ex-Bible student with raucously asocial tendencies rescues the preserved body of an Indian chief from the frigid depths of Lake Superior in a caper that nets a wildly unexpected... Read more

Home Safe

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In this new novel, beloved bestselling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames–recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her–is beginning to depend far too much on her twenty-seven-year-old daughter,... Read more

The Valkyries

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne. An essential volume alongside Coelho’s other bestselling and influential books, such as The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Brida, and The Winner... Read more

Sag Harbor

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America

The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of... Read more

Native Son

By: Richard Wright

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 17 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels“If one had to identify the single most influential shaping force in modern Black literary history, one would probably have to point to Wright and the publication of Native Son.” – Henry Louis Gates Jr.""The most powerful American novel to appear since The Grapes of Wrath."" —The New YorkerWhen it was... Read more

Nobody Move

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award–winning, bestselling author of Tree of Smoke comes a provocative thriller set in the American West.

Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and... Read more

The Good Terrorist

By: Doris Lessing

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In contemporary London, a loose-knit group of political vagabonds drifts from one cause to the next, picketing and strategizing for hypothetical situations. But within this world, one particular small commune is moving inexorably toward active terrorism.At its center is Alice Mellings, a brilliant organizer who knows how to cope with almost... Read more

Die Frau von der Insel Andros - Abridged

By: Thornton Wilder

Narrated by: Ernie Wilhelmi, Peter Lühr & Ilse Bally

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die auf Andros fremde Hetäre Chrysis liebt Pamphylos, der ihre geistreichen Gastmähler schätzt, aber eine angesehene Griechin heiraten soll. Als Chrysis' Schwester Glykerium von ihm ein Kind erwartet, nimmt das Schicksal für die beiden Frauen eine dramatische Wendung. Thornton Wilders (1897-1975) 1930 erschienene Roman "Die Frau von Andros"... Read more

Astrid and Veronika

By: Linda Olsson

Narrated by: Patricia Connolly, Jill Tanner & Susan Lyons

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is... Read more

Angels & Insects

By: A. S. Byatt

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.In "Morpho Eugenia", a shipwrecked naturalist is rescued by a wealthy family and immediately falls for the eldest daughter. But... Read more

The Secret Agent

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by an actual attempted terrorist attack in nineteenth-century London, The Secret Agent offers a chillingly prophetic portrait of contemporary terrorism, even famously inspiring the Unabomber. The literary precursor to the espionage novels of such writers as Graham Greene and John le Carr├®, Conrad's intense political thriller resonates... Read more