Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Flowers

By: Dagoberto Gilb

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Dagoberto Gilb has won the PEN/Hemingway Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Sonny Bravo is a young Mexican American struggling to become a man while living with his mom and step-father in a small urban community known as the Flowers. There the assorted residents teach Sonny life lessons, even as racial tensions... Read more

The Secret Scripture

By: Sebastian Barry

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at a mental hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life but hides the manuscript.Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating which patients can return to... Read more

Foxfire - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jane Gabbert

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates’s strongest and most unsparing novel yet—an always engrossing, often shocking evocation of female rage, gallantry, and grit. 

The time is the 1950s. The place is a blue-collar town in upstate New York, where five high school girls join a gang dedicated to pride, power, and vengeance on a world... Read more

Waiting to Exhale - Abridged

By: Terry McMillan

Narrated by: Terry McMillan

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and It's Not All Downhill From Here.

When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and... Read more

Rich in Love - Abridged

By: Josephine Humphreys

Narrated by: Josephine Humphreys

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the age of seventeen, Lucille Odom finds herself in the middle of an unexpected domestic crisis. As she helps guide her family through its discontent, Lucille discovers in herself a woman rich in wisdom, rich in humor, and rich in love. Read more

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - Abridged

By: Roddy Doyle

Narrated by: Aidan Gillen

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Booker Prize – Roddy Doyle’s witty, exuberant novel about a young boy trying to make sense of his changing world

It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves Geronimo, the Three Stooges, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He can't stand his little brother Sinbad. His best friend is Kevin, and their names are all over Barrytown,... Read more

On the Road - Abridged

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: David Carradine

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel of freedom and the search for authenticity that defined a generation

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years traveling the North American continent with his friend Neal Cassady, "a sideburned hero of the snowy West." As "Sal Paradise" and "Dean Moriarty," the... Read more

Howards End - Abridged

By: E. M. Forster

Narrated by: Emma Thompson

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

First published in 1910, Howards End is the novel that earned E. M. Forster recognition as a major writer. Soon to be a limited series on Starz.

At its heart lie two families—the wealthy and business-minded Wilcoxes and the cultured and idealistic Schlegels. When the beautiful and independent Helen Schlegel begins an impetuous affair with the... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Claire Bloom

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for "offenses against morality and religion." What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure... Read more

Les Miserables - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Mark McKerracher

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The classic novel--and hit Broadway show--about escaped convict Jean Valjean has been adapted with easy-to-read text, large type, and short chapters.  This engaging adaptation of the timeless tale is ideal for reluctant readers and kids not yet ready to tackle the original. Read more

Dubliners - Abridged

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gerald McSorley

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dubliners was completed in 1905, but a series of British and Irish publishers and printers found it offensive and immoral, and it was suppressed.  The book finally came out in London in 1914, just as Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man began to appear in the journal Egoist under the auspices of Ezra Pound.  The first three stories in... Read more

Downtown Owl

By: Chuck Klosterman

Narrated by: Phillip Baker Hall, Lily Rabe, Wiley Wiggins, C...

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major film! New York Times bestselling author and “one of America’s top cultural critics” (Entertainment Weekly) Chuck Klosterman’s debut novel brilliantly captures the charm and dread of small-town life.

Somewhere in rural North Dakota, there is a fictional town called Owl. They don’t have cable. They don’t really have pop culture, but... Read more

Guernica

By: Dave Boling

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Calling to mind such timeless war-and-love classics as Corelli's Mandolin and The English Patient, Guernica is a transporting novel that thrums with the power of storytelling and is peopled with characters driven by grit and heart.



In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard and flees the Basque fishing village... Read more

The Other Queen - Abridged

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Bianca Amato, Dagmara Dominczyk & Graeme Malcolm

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and “queen of royal fiction” (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory—a dazzling new novel about the intriguing, romantic, and maddening Mary, Queen of Scots.

Fleeing violent rebellions in Scotland, Mary looks to Queen Elizabeth of England for sanctuary. Though promised protection, Mary, perceived as a serious threat... Read more

Art in America

By: Ron McLarty

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the acclaimed novel The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty is an American original whose infectious prose will swiftly ensnare any reader. Art in America tells the story of unknown writer Steven Kearney, an aging man whose lifelong commitment to his art finally brings him to homelessness in NYC. Then miraculously he receives an invitation... Read more

Noa Noa - duftende Erde

By: Paul Gaugin

Narrated by: Achim Höppner

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Gauguins Roman in der Langfassung: Der von seiner Umwelt unverstandene französische Maler Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903) flieht Anfang der 90er Jahre des vorvergangenen Jahrhunderts vor der Zivilisation nach Tahiti, findet dort aber zuerst nur ein pervertiertes Europa wieder. Erst durch sein Zusammenleben mit den Ureinwohnern, den Mahori,... Read more

Fine Just The Way It Is

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, an "unforgettable" (Miami Herald) and "vivid" (Oprah Daily) collection of stories set in Wyoming.

Winner of two O. Henry Prizes, Annie Proulx has been anthologized in nearly every major collection of great American stories. Her bold, inimitable... Read more

What Happened to Anna K.

By: Irina Reyn

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from her tight-knit Russian-Jewish immigrant community in Queens. But a longing for freedom is reignited in this bookish, overly romantic, and imperious woman when she meets her cousin Katia Zavurov's boyfriend, an outsider and aspiring young... Read more

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales, with eBook

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the greatest American writers, is best known for The Great Gatsby, considered by many to be the most important novel of the twentieth century. But Fitzgerald also made his living as a short story writer, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Tales collects four of his best.



The title story is a... Read more

The Return of the Soldier

By: Rebecca West

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

When Captain Chris Baldry, a World War I soldier, is sent home with a severe case of shellshock amnesia, he is a stranger to his wife, Kitty, and his adoring cousin, Jenny. Recoiling from the horrors of war and disillusioned with years of superficial married life, his mind has regressed fifteen years, where his heart may take refuge once again... Read more

The Girls of Slender Means

By: Muriel Spark

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions…” Thus begins Muriel Spark’s tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies’ hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club building itself—“three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit”—its lady... Read more

Ein Tag im Leben des Iwan Denissowitsch - Abridged

By: Alexander Solschenizyn

Narrated by: Hans Korte

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nikita Chruschtschow mahnte eindringlich auf dem 22. Parteitag der KPdSU: "Es ist unsere Pflicht, derartige Angelegenheiten, die mit dem Mißbrauch der Macht zusammenhängen, sorgfältig und allseitig zu klären. Solange wir arbeiten, können und müssen wir vieles klarstellen und der Partei und dem Volk die Wahrheit sagen..." Mit dieser Erklärung... Read more

American Wife

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 23 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gorgeously written novel that weaves class, wealth, race, and fate into a brilliant portrait of a first lady—from the author of Rodham and Eligible

“Terrific . . . an intelligent, bighearted novel about a controversial political dynasty.”—Entertainment Weekly
 
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time •... Read more

My Name Is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 20 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essential” (Los Angeles Times Book Review)—set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of... Read more