Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Saving Agnes

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the British Whitbread First Novel Award, Saving Agnes is a delight to the ear of any listener who enjoys the English language at its best. Rachel Cusk's prose, rich with poetic imagery and insight, is spell-binding. Agnes Day is not quite certain of her own identity. Defining herself by her past failures and fearful of her future, she... Read more

The New Moon’s Arms

By: Nalo Hopkinson

Narrated by: Gin Hammond

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

What's in a name? A lot, according to Caribbean-born Chastity, who has adopted the more fitting moniker Calamity. Now in her fifties, true to her name, Calamity is confronting two big life transitions: her beloved father has just died, and she is starting menopause, a physical shift that has rekindled her special gift for finding lost things.... Read more

The House in Amalfi

By: Elizabeth Adler

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Adler is a master at depicting lush scenery, gourmet food, and the joys of travel. Here she tells the story of Lamour Harrington, a recent widow. She's immersed herself in landscape architecture, but even creating beautiful outdoor "rooms" can't bring back her happiness. When she's faced with a devastating truth about the husband she... Read more

The Seduction of Water

By: Carol Goodman

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For Iris Greenfeder—all but published, all but a professor, and all but married to her boyfriend of ten years—the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother's... Read more

Eva’s Cousin

By: Sibylle Knauss

Narrated by: Kim Edwards-Fukei

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1944, twenty-year-old Marlene is thrilled to visit her older cousin, Eva Braun—Adolf Hitler’s mistress—at the Führer’s Bavarian mountain retreat. There, Marlene finds herself in a strange paradise, a world of opulence and imminent danger, of freedom and surveillance.The two women sneak off and skinny-dip in a nearby lake, watch... Read more

The Light of Evening

By: Edna O’Brien

Narrated by: Dearbhla Molloy

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; she also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, which alienated mother and daughter, and Dilly's heart rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her... Read more

The Enchantress of Florence

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Firdous Bamji

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most revered literary masters, with a Booker Prize and two Whitbread Awards among his accolades. His unique brand of magic realism is particularly effective in The Enchantress of Florence, the story of a European traveler and the extraordinary tale he shares with 16th-century Mughal emperor Akbar the Great.... Read more

Undiscovered Country

By: Lin Enger

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Unaware that his life is about to change in ways he can't imagine, seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson ventures into the northern Minnesota woods with his father on a cold November afternoon. Perched on individual hunting stands a quarter-mile apart, they wait with their rifles for white-tailed deer. When the muffled crack of a gunshot rings out,... Read more

The 50 Best Fairy Tales: Part 1 - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Diverse

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The unique Compilation "The 50 Best Fairy Tales: Part 1" contains: - PINOCCHIO , 06:21 - HANSEL AND GRETEL , 06:10 - CINDERELLA, 04:57 - RUMPELSTILTSKIN , 05:53 - RIP VAN WINKLE, 04:42 - THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER , 04:03 - THE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS, 00:51 - ANDROCLES AND THE LION, 02:33 - THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES , 05:53 - THE... Read more

The 50 Best Fairy Tales: Part 2 - Abridged

By: Diverse

Narrated by: Diverse

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The unique Compilation "The 50 Best Fairy Tales: Part 2" contains: - SLEEPING BEAUTY , 02:50 - TOM THUMB , 03:44 - SNOW WHITE AND ROSE RED , 04:40 - THE PIED PIEPER OF HAMELIN, 03:04 - THUMBELINA, 06:28 - THE LION AND THE MOUSE, 01:16 - THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA, 02:48 - THE SNOW QUEEN, 04:03 - THE LITTLE RED HEN, 02:18 - MASTER OF ALL... Read more

Alice Adams

By: Booth Tarkington

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Plucky and romantic Alice tries to rise above the crudities of her hopelessly shabby background in this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic about ambition and self-delusion.The lower-middle class Adams family faces a slow disintegration in a small Midwestern town. Alice, a social climber, is ashamed of her unsuccessful family and determined to... Read more

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps James Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable... Read more

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period—in the 1860s and '70s, when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs this... Read more

Somebody Else's Daughter

By: Elizabeth Brundage

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne & Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut, complex psychological thriller from the author of The Doctor's Wife

Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that... Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's final novel is the story of Anne Elliot, a woman who gets a second chance. As a teenager she becomes engaged to a man who seems perfect for her, Frederick Wentworth. But she is persuaded to break the engagement off by her friend Lady Russell, who believes that he is too poor to be a suitable match. The episode plunges Anne into a... Read more

Corpus Christi

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Called a "rising star" by Publishers Weekly, Bret Anthony Johnston has won the James Michener Fellowship and the Christopher Isherwood Prize. His writing has been featured in The Paris Review and in many anthologies, including New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2004 (SV017). Corpus Christi was named a Best Book of the Year by London's... Read more

My Jim

By: Nancy Rawles

Narrated by: Lizzie Cooper Davis & Brenda Pressley

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

American Book Award winner Nancy Rawles pens a moving story about Huck Finn's slave friend Jim, told through the eyes of the wife Jim was forced to leave behind. Sadie shares her story of loss with her granddaughter as they weave Sadie's most treasured items-her mother's knife, a piece of a bowl from Africa, a piece of Jim's hat found when he... Read more

Brida

By: Paulo Coelho

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Brida, a young Irish girl, has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her to trust in the goodness of the world, and a woman who teaches her how to dance to the music of the world. As Brida seeks... Read more

America America

By: Ethan Canin

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life.

In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the... Read more

The Tortilla Curtain

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author T. Coraghessan Boyle weaves together the stories of two families in Southern California - one affluent, the other destitute. As Boyle creates a counterpoint of personal needs, civic responsibility, and social custom, each family's quest for the American Dream fuels a deep fear and anger that ultimately lead to a... Read more

Out Stealing Horses

By: Per Petterson

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Multiple award-winning author Per Petterson delivers an eloquent, meditative novel. Sixty-seven-year-old Trond Sander lives secluded in a far corner of Norway. Casting his mind back to 1948, he recalls a horse stealing prank with his best friend that turned tragic and changed his life forever. ". on a par with . Steinbeck, Berry, and Hemingway,... Read more

Orange Mint and Honey

By: Carleen Brice

Narrated by: Cherise Boothe

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Carleen Brice's debut Orange Mint and Honey is an invigorating and poignant novel. After grad school, Shay Dixon feels like she's had enough for a while. Inspired by her spiritual adviser-a blues player named Nina Simon-Shay calls her estranged mother Nona for the first time in years to ask if it would be alright to stay with her for a while. Read more

The Wednesday Sisters

By: Meg Waite Clayton

Narrated by: Julie Dretzin

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Meg Waite Clayton, St. Martin's Fresh Fiction Pick author and Bellwether Prize Finalist, delights millions with her endearing stories and authentic characters. In this compelling tale of humor and poignancy, five young California homemakers forge a bond of friendship that sustains them through the turbulent 1960s and beyond. Meeting weekly, the... Read more

The Garden Angel

By: Mindy Friddle

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A Southeastern Booksellers Association Best-seller, Mindy Friddle's The Garden Angel has been praised for its comic grace. Cutter is determind to sabotage the sale of her family's dilapidated ancestral home. Her sister Ginny (in the midst of an affair with a professor) doesn't seem to care either way. When the professor's reclusive wife gathers... Read more