Fiction - Literary audiobooks

There Will Never Be Another You

By: Carolyn See

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

It is a moment in the near future when the threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic across the country. For Phil, a dermatologist at the UCLA hospital, it is a time of unease, in contrast to the days when he coasted through life on his good looks and middling charm. In addition to having to deal with his mother, Edith, who's... Read more

The Shawl

By: Cynthia Ozick

Narrated by: Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Two award-winning works of fiction by one of America's finest writers, together in one collection.



In "The Shawl," a woman named Rosa Lublin watches a concentration camp guard murder her daughter. In "Rosa," that same woman appears thirty years later, "a mad woman and a scavenger" in a Miami hotel. She has no life in the present because her past... Read more

The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.

When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time... Read more

The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Narrated by: various narrators, Ric Jerrom, Cameron Stewart,...

Length: 22 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond its importance as a literary work of unvarnished genius, Geoffrey Chaucer’s unfinished epic poem is also one of the most beloved works in the English language—and for good reason: it is lively, absorbing, perceptive, and outrageously funny. But despite the brilliance of Chaucer’s work, the continual evolution of our language has rendered... Read more

And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks

By: Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More than sixty years ago, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, two novice writers at the dawn of their careers, sat down to write a novel about the summer of 1944, when one of their friends killed another in a moment of brutal and tragic bloodshed. Alternating chapters, they pieced together a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World... Read more

A Mercy

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In “one of Morrison’s most haunting works” (The New York Times), the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a mother and a daughter—a mother who casts off her daughter in order to save her, and a daughter who may never exorcise that... Read more

Just After Sunset

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Jill Eikenberry, Holter Graham, G...

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise... Read more

Leaving Cheyenne

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Mark Hammer, John Randolph Jones & C.J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Texas. Even as it enters a new century, it is still a clean, lean, and hungry country—its passions quickly felt and quickly spent, its hopes as clear and forthright as the morning sun.Bound inextricably to the land, its future is forged by young men and women like Gideon Fry, Johnny McCloud, and Molly Taylor. Gideon, a circumspect young man, is... Read more

The Heretic Queen

By: Michelle Moran

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning novel of passion, power, and redemption, a forgotten princess in ancient Egypt must overcome her family’s past and remake history—from the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Maria.

“Moran’s careful attention to detail and her artful storytelling bring these people to vivid life, imbuing ancient history with... Read more

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, with eBook

By: Howard Pyle

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In Merry England, in the time of old when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades of Sherwood Forest near Nottingham Town a famous outlaw whose name was Robin Hood. No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore... Read more

The School on Heart's Content Road

By: Carolyn Chute

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass, earning comparisons to William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O’Connor. Now, Chute returns to the unforgettable town of Egypt, Maine, and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of another group of lives on the margins of our society. The School on Heart’s... Read more

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

By: Carolyn Chute

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Upon its initial publication, The Beans of Egypt, Maine became a beloved national bestseller, launching Carolyn Chute’s literary career and clinching her reputation as the preeminent voice of America’s working poor. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “startling and original,” The Beans of Egypt, Maine introduced the world to the... Read more

The Eleventh Man

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Driven by the memory of a fallen teammate, TSU's 1941 starting lineup made Montana football history, charging through the season undefeated. Two years later, the "Supreme Team" is caught up in World War II. Ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war's various lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been... Read more

Songs for the Missing

By: Stewart O'Nan

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling portrait of one family in the aftermath of a daughter’s disappearance.It was the summer of her Chevette, of J.P. and letting her hair grow. It was also the summer when, without warning, popular high school student Kim Larsen disappeared from her small midwestern town. Her loving parents, her introverted sister, her friends and... Read more

The Bachelors

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

A barrister, a “priest,” a detective, a lovelorn Irishman, a handwriting expert, a heinous spiritual medium … the very British bachelors of Muriel Spark’s supreme 1960 novel come in every stripe. First found contentedly chatting in their London clubs and shopping at Fortnum’s, the cozy bachelors are not set to stay cozy for long. Soon enough,... Read more

The Wreck of the Titan & Morgan Robertson the Man

By: Morgan Robertson

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1898, a struggling author wrote this novel about a fabulous Atlantic liner, far larger than any that had ever been built, that sinks after it collides with an iceberg. The details of the book bear a chilling resemblance to the Titanic disaster fourteen years later.Moran Robertson’s tale, however, doesn’t end with the passengers’ watery... Read more

Game Control

By: Lionel Shriver

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human race. Surely, Calvin whispers seductively... Read more

The Given Day

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 23 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River and Shutter Island, comes the paperback edition of The Given Day, an unflinching family epic that captures the political unrest of a nation caught between a well-patterned past and an unpredictable future. This beautifully written novel of American history tells the story of... Read more

The Time Machine, with eBook

By: H. G. Wells

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"I've had a most amazing time..."



So begins the Time Traveler's astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H. G. Wells's successful career and earned him the reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave... Read more

Cry Me A River

By: Ernest Hill

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Sent to prison, Tyrone Stokes left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17- year-old Marcus is on Louisiana's death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his son's innocence, Tyrone will sacrifice everything to keep Marcus alive. Cry Me a River offers the distinctive blend of emotional power, vivid... Read more

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world’s most famous intellectual ghost stories, The Turn of the Screw is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some evil purpose. No one else can see the ghosts, and the children themselves... Read more

The Widows of Eastwick

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike’s The Witches of Eastwick. The three divorcées–Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie–have left town, remarried, and become widows. They cope with their grief and solitude as widows do: they travel the world, to such foreign lands as Canada, Egypt, and China, and renew old... Read more

The Witches of Eastwick

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“John Updike is the great genial sorcerer of American letters [and] The Witches of Eastwick [is one of his] most ambitious works. . . . [A] comedy of the blackest sort.”—The New York Times Book Review

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie,... Read more

Testimony

By: Anita Shreve

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff, Eve Bianco & Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices -- those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal -- that details the ways in which... Read more