Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Stern Men

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writer, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new edition of Gilbert's wise and charming novel for the millions of readers who devoured Eat, Pray, Love and remain hungry for more.... Read more

Rabbit Remembered

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, Rabbit Remembered returns readers to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the scene, bringing with her ghosts from the past. Read more

Candide, with eBook

By: Voltaire

Narrated by: Tom Whitworth

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss.



In the course of his travels in Europe and South America, Candide sees and suffers such misfortune that it is difficult for him to believe that this is... Read more

Happy Days

By: Laurent Graff

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What kind of man buys his grave at the age of eighteen and chooses to spend the rest of his life in a rest home at thirty-five? Meet Antoine, the curious hero of Laurent Graff’s Happy Days, an odd young man who somewhat prematurely acquiesces to his terminal destiny. The ultimate fatalist, Antoine decides to play hooky from life by retiring to... Read more

The Son of Tarzan, with eBook

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Narrated by: Shelly Frasier

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to The Beasts of Tarzan, the Lord of the Apes' old nemesis, Alexis Paulvitch, lures Tarzan's son, Jack, to Africa, where he plans to kill him. His plan is foiled when Jack escapes with the help of Akut, the great ape. The pair flee to the jungle where Tarzan was raised a generation earlier, and Jack establishes his own reputation... Read more

Northanger Abbey, with eBook

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century. But most of all, it is the story of the initiation into life of its naive but sweetly appealing heroine, Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the... Read more

Die kleine Welt am Strom - Abridged

By: Georg Britting

Narrated by: Gerd Burger & Arthur Schnabl

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jakob war aufgestanden im schwankenden Boot, wie der Richter aufsteht, wenn er den Urteilsspruch fällt, und im kalten Richterton sagte er dem Heinrich, daß er jetzt sterben müsse, und er solle jede Hoffnung aufgeben, und bald sei das Wasser so weit, und er wolle bleiben und zusehen. Und er setzte sich wieder, beachtete den Verurteilten nicht... Read more

Pictures at an Exhibition

By: Sara Houghteling

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a Paris darkened by World War II, Sara Houghteling’s sweeping and sensuous debut novel tells the story of a son’s quest to recover his family’s lost masterpieces, looted by the Nazis during the occupation.

Born to an art dealer and his pianist wife, Max Berenzon is forbidden from entering the family business for reasons he cannot... Read more

A Mad Desire to Dance

By: Elie Wiesel

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing exploration of a man haunted by the horrors of the twentieth century, a man who feels he must be going mad but who finds a way out of the darkness.
    
Doriel is a European transplanted to New York who carries with him a profound sense of desperation and loss. His mother, a resistance leader, survives the war but dies in a car crash... Read more

All the Colors of Darkness

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market.”—Stephen King Peter Robinson is one of the very best in the crime fiction business—a teller of dark police tales who stands firmly in the bestseller ranks alongside Ian Rankin and Elizabeth George. In All the Colors of Darkness, the maestro whose... Read more

Rabbit At Rest

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 22 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century brings back ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the late middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, who has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild, and is looking for reasons to live. 

“Brilliant...the best novel about America to... Read more

The Help

By: Kathryn Stockett

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jenna Lamia, Octavia Spence...

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.
 
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who's always taken orders quietly, but lately she's unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her... Read more

Shannon

By: Frank Delaney

Narrated by: Frank Delaney

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1922, Robert Shannon, a young American hero of the Great War, lands in Ireland. A Marine chaplain, he was present at the frightful Battle of Belleau Wood, and he still suffers from shell shock. His mentor hopes that a journey Robert had always wanted to make to find his family roots will restore his equilibrium and his vocation.... Read more

The Women

By: T. C. Boyle

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Having brought to life eccentric cereal king John Harvey Kellogg in The Road to Wellville and sex researcher Alfred Kinsey in The Inner Circle, T. C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on an even more colorful and outlandish character: Frank Lloyd Wright.Boyle’s account of Wright’s life, as told through the experiences of the four women who... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new... Read more

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, Leo Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is... Read more

Shadow Country

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 40 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Shadow Country is Peter Matthiessen’s reimagining of the legend of E. J. Watson, the Everglades sugarcane planter and notorious outlaw of the wild Florida frontier. Vividly capturing the American hinterlands at the turn of the twentieth century, it traces the story of Watson through eyewitness perspectives as he drives himself relentlessly... Read more

Sima's Undergarments for Women

By: Ilana Stanger-Ross

Narrated by: Vanessa Hart

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There are some life-long quests that all women have in common–meaningful work, true love, and a bra that doesn’t leave red marks on your skin.

In the comfort of her Brooklyn basement bra shop, Sima Goldner teaches other women to appreciate their bodies, but feels betrayed by her own. Shamed by her infertility and by a secret from her youth, she... Read more

Cutting for Stone

By: Abraham Verghese

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Covenant of Water: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. • “Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” —USA Today

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of... Read more

Rabbit Is Rich

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The middle-aged hero of Rabbit, Run, returns—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century. 

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a... Read more

Bleak House, with eBook

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 39 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely regarded as Dickens's masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which "whole families have inherited legendary hatreds." Focusing on Esther Summerson, a ward of John Jarndyce, the novel traces Esther's romantic coming-of-age and, in classic Dickensian style, the gradual revelation of... Read more

It’s All Love

By: Marita Golden

Narrated by: Marita Golden & various narrators

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In It's All Love, black writers celebrate the complexity, power, danger, and glory of love in all its many forms: romantic, familial, communal, and sacred.Editor Marita Golden recounts the morning she awoke certain that she would meet her soulmate in "Meeting Joe." Memoirist Reginald Dwayne Betts writes stirringly about serving time in prison... Read more

Rabbit Redux

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"A triumph."

NEWSDAY

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, and sexy story. Harry Angstrom--known to all as Rabbit, one of America's most famous literary characters--finds his dreary life shattered by the infidelity of his wife, Janice. How... Read more

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”—Lisa See

In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel,... Read more