Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Dying Animal

By: Philip Roth

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Philip Roth, one of the best-known and awardwinning literary masters of our time, engages his readership with insightful and challenging novels of the human condition. With The Dying Animal, he revisits the character David Kepesh. At age 60, Kapesh is drawn out of his carefully ordered existence and into an obsessive affair with one of his... Read more

Cry, the Beloved Country

By: Alan Paton

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A worldwide bestseller when it was first published in 1948, Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.Cry, the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of Stephen Kumalo, a Zulu pastor, and his son, Absalom. Set in the troubled and changing South Africa of the 1940s, it is also... Read more

In Our Time

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A strikingly original collection of short stories and accompanying vignettes that marked Ernest Hemingway’s American debut.

When In Our Time was first published in 1925, it was widely praised for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and earned Hemingway a place among the most promising American... Read more

Martin Chuzzlewit

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 35 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Wealthy and old, Martin Chuzzlewit Sr. is surrounded by greedy relatives hoping to obtain a portion of his estate upon his death. His two descendants, Martin Jr. and Jonas, have been born and bred in the same heritage of selfishness, the Chuzzlewit tradition.Set partly in America, of which Dickens offers a searing satire, this novel follows and... Read more

Harvesting the Heart

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Jodi Picoult’s Captivating Second NovelFrom the New York Times bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper, Lone Wolf, and the forthcoming The Storyteller, Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice... Read more

The Mill on the Floss

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in nineteenth-century England, this great novel of domestic realism sympathetically portrays a young woman’s vain efforts to adapt to her provincial world.Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is intelligent and imaginative beyond the understanding of her community, her relatives, and particularly... Read more

The Story of a Marriage

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: S. Epatha Merkerson

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery at the heart of every relationship: how we can ever truly know another person.

It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful young housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset District in San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's... Read more

A Thousand Acres

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley’s spellbinding novel also headed bestseller lists for many months. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members.Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of... Read more

John Henry Days

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 17 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

J. Sutter is a bonafide junketeer--a freelance writer, travelling from city to city, hungry for free meals and the discarded sales receipts of others to claim on his expense account. Travelling into the backwoods of West Virginia to write a piece on the unveiling of the new John Henry postage stamp and the ensuing John Henry Days festival, J.... Read more

The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city’s... Read more

Lambrusco

By: Ellen Cooney

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary Resistance movement of the Italian people in the Second World War is brought to life in a captivating, deeply moving story of a mother’s search for her son, by the author of the widely acclaimed A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies.

The year is 1943. Nazis have invaded Italy; American troops have landed. At Aldo’s restaurant on the... Read more

Jennys Geschichte - Abridged

By: Barbara Noack

Narrated by: Hannelore Hoger

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jenny, behütete Tochter aus wohlhabender Hamburger Familie, kommt nach Berlin, um Gesang zu studieren. Zum ersten Mal ist sie in der aufblühenden Stadt der goldenen Zwanzigerjahre ohne ihre dominante Mutter ganz auf sich allein gestellt. Da begegnet sie dem geistvollen Charmeur Björn Jonasson ... Ein Buch voller Spannung, großer Gefühle und mit... Read more

River of Heaven

By: Lee Martin

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“You have to know the rest of my story, the
part I can’t yet bring myself to say. A story
of a boy I knew a long time ago and a
brother I loved and then lost.”

Past and present collide in Lee Martin’s highly anticipated novel of a man, his brother, and the dark secret that both connects and divides them. Haunting and beautifully wrought, River... Read more

Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This classic story shows how a young woman can overcome adversity and find true happiness. It is a story of passionate love, travail, and final triumph.



Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre leads a lonely life until she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the... Read more

The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted

By: Elizabeth Berg

Narrated by: Elizabeth Berg

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Exhilarating short stories of women breaking free from convention

Every now and then, right in the middle of an ordinary day, a woman rebels, kicks up her heels, and commits a small act of liberation.

What would you do, if you were going to break out and away? Go AWOL from Weight Watchers and spend an entire day eating every single thing you... Read more

Beaufort

By: Ron Leshem

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

By turns subversive and darkly comic, brutal and tender, Ron Leshem's debut novel is an international literary sensation, winner of Israel's top award for literature, and the basis for a prizewinning film.



Beaufort. To the handful of Israeli soldiers occupying the ancient crusader fortress, it is a little slice of hell—a forbidding, fear-soaked... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel provides a highly charged examination of human suffering and human sacrifice, private experience and public history, during the French Revolution.



A Tale of Two Cities is one of Charles Dickens's most exciting novels. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it tells the story of a family threatened by the terrible events of... Read more

The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner

By: Andrea Smith

Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In a small town in 1950s South Carolina, Bonnie Wilder's husband finds an abandoned baby by the river. After voicing her concern for local mothers who are unable to raise their children, Bonnie finds more abandoned newborns on her doorstep. Soon she forms a secret network to match the babies with childless families. Thirty years later, one of... Read more

Code of the West

By: Aaron Latham

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 18 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist Aaron Latham dazzles listeners with a colorful Old West tale of epic proportions. "In a captivating barnburner of romance, adventure and gruesome frontier justice, Latham takes the mythical legend of King Arthur . and . create[s] a sweeping saga of three decades of Texas cowboy history."-Publishers Weekly Read more

The Third Angel

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Nancy Travis

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A magical and stunningly original story that charts the lives of three women in love with the wrong men from the bestselling author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, The Rules of Magic
 
“Headstrong women, reckless love affairs and a liberal dusting of the supernatural are the pleasurable trademarks of an Alice Hoffman novel. . . . [The Third... Read more

Certain Girls - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Michele Pawk & Zoe Kazan

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"My mother," Joy Shapiro Krushelevansky writes in her diary late one night, "is the most embarrassing person to have ever been born." It's been almost thirteen years since we've last seen Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey toward happily-ever-after, and peace with her fractured family and plus-size body, made millions of... Read more

Girls in Trucks

By: Katie Crouch

Narrated by: Joshua Ferris

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)

But Sarah can't quite ignore... Read more

The Sportswriter

By: Richard Ford

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Ford won the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his modern classic Independence Day (C2951). In this first volume of his Frank Bascombe trilogy, Bascombe is a sportswriter attempting to cope with his failed marriage and the death of his son. Unable to establish true connections with people, Bascombe drifts into and out of... Read more

Winner Take Nothing

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland”... Read more