Fiction - Literary audiobooks

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything - Abridged

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer from the author of Watch Me Disappear and Pretty Things

When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for—until she... Read more

Black Dogs

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Whitbread Award and the Booker Prize, Ian McEwan is one of the most highly regarded contemporary authors in the English language. A fictional memoir set in late 1980s Europe, Black Dogs contemplates individuals responding to vast impersonal forces. Orphaned at the age of eight, Jeremy finds the course of his life transient and... Read more

The Last Girls

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This national best-seller is a breakthrough book for Lee Smith, an author who fills her marvelous novels with humor, pathos, and powerful wisdom. The Last Girls are a group of coeds, inspired by Huck Finn, who traveled the Mississippi on a raft in 1965. Now four of them have reunited on a luxurious steamboat to cruise the river again. As they... Read more

Rudyard Kipling Tales of the Elephant

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Three stories by Rudyard Kipling, all about the marvelous nature of elephants. In "The Elephant's Child", we learn how the elephant got his trunk--one of the favorite tales from the Just-So Stories. In "Moti Guj, Mutineer," we learn what happens when an elephant has made a bargain--and humans have failed to do their part! In "Toomai of the... Read more

The Ground Beneath Her Feet

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 27 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie is widely considered one of a handful of truly great living writers. The internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author's storytelling shines in this epic love story, a modern retelling of the myth of Orpheus. Energetic and musical, Rushdie's prose is positively mesmerizing when you hear it read aloud. This panoramic work... Read more

The Sugar Queen

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season,... Read more

Executive Privilege

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Includes a teaser excerpt from Capitol Murder, the third book in the Washington Trilogy!The first book in Phillip Margolin's New York Times bestselling Washington Trilogy, a powerful tale of murder that snakes its way through Washington, D.C.'s halls of power, leading straight to the White House and the most powerful office on earth.When private... Read more

The Sugar Queen - Abridged

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Ariadne Meyers

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this irresistible follow-up to her New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown is her favorite season,... Read more

Wolf Totem

By: Jiang Rong

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 22 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

China's runaway bestseller and winner of the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize

Published in China in 2004, Wolf Totem has broken all sales records, selling millions of copies (along with millions more on the black market).. Part period epic, part fable for modern days, Wolf Totem depicts the dying culture of the Mongols-the ancestors of the... Read more

City of Thieves

By: David Benioff

Narrated by: Ron Perlman

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour and When the Nines Roll Over and co-creator of the HBO series Game of Thrones, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime.

During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the... Read more

The Magician's Assistant

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself.” (Newsweek)When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also... Read more

Bright Shiny Morning

By: James Frey

Narrated by: Ben Foster

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel—a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original.Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines—some never to be seen again—but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the... Read more

The Art of Racing in the Rain

By: Garth Stein

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNERMEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMANThe New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two starkly different sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. While Elinor is thoughtful, considerate, and calm, her younger sister is emotional and wildly romantic. Both are looking for a husband, but neither... Read more

The Song of the Lark

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Thea Kronberg has a voice that can call down angels and the soul of a Colorado pioneer girl. But as she develops her talents and devotes herself to the life of an artist, she must consider the cost of the creative path she follows. Willa Cather's classic novel is full of the breathtaking beauty of the American frontier and the spirit of the... Read more

Exit Ghost

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathan Zuckerman returns to New York in the long-awaited final installment of Philip Roth's renowned Zuckerman series. Alone for eleven years on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been nothing but a writer: no media, no terrorist threats, no women, no tasks other than his work and the enduring of old age. Walking the streets of New York... Read more

The Coast of Akron

By: Adrienne Miller

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda, Carol Monda & Norm Lee

Length: 19 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Miller has been hailed as "one of the wittiest and most humane writers we have" by critically acclaimed author Dave Eggers. She makes a splash with this ambitious debut novel, a humorous tale of a dysfunctional family of eccentrics. It has been five years since famed artist Lowell Haven painted one of his gloriously narcissistic... Read more

The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions.



This is India now.



Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in... Read more

The Tenth Gift

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: John Lee & Susan Duerden

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An enthralling story of secrets and discovering love where you least expect it, in The Tenth Gift the art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories

In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that changes her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite... Read more

The Plague of Doves

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Peter Francis James & Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American... Read more

Rolf trifft Zacher - Abridged

By: Rolf Zacher

Narrated by: Rolf Zacher

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Nicht die Erwartung anderer Menschen zu erfüllen, das ist Freiheit" (Rolf Zacher). "Wenn ich eine Traumrolle hätte, dann wäre es Till Eulenspiegel" - sagt Rolf Zacher über sich. Den Anekdoten seines Lebens folgend - Zacher würde seinem Vorbild gerecht werden. In seiner Skurrilität und Schrägheit hält er uns einen Spiegel vor, lässt uns... Read more

The Tenth Gift - Abridged

By: Jane Johnson

Narrated by: Susan Duerden & John Lee

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories.

In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite seventeenth-century embroidery patterns belonging to a woman named Catherine Ann Tregenna. Yet... Read more

Flesh House - Abridged

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ – one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers. Panic strikes the Granite City… ... Read more

Orchard

By: Larry Watson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonja Skordahl, a Norwegian immigrant, came to America looking for a new life. Instead, she settled in Door County, Wisconsin, and married Henry House-only to find herself defined by her roles as wife and mother. Destiny lands Sonja in the studio of Ned Weaver, an internationally acclaimed painter. There she becomes more than his model and more... Read more