Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Men without Women

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.

First published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war,... Read more

Steppenwolf

By: Hermann Hesse

Narrated by: Peter Weller

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With its blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture, Hesse’s best-known and most autobiographical work is one of literature’s most poetic evocations of the soul’s journey to liberationHarry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational... Read more

Are We There Yet?

By: Stuart Dybek, Dorothy Thomas, Annie Proulx, Edw...

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka, Mia Dillon, Andrea Marcovicci...

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A lot can happen on the way from one place to another, especially when an overnight flight makes for an unexpected romantic encounter between strangers seated together; a trucker finds life beyond the ranch where he grew up; and a bored Midwestern housewife tries to escape Kansas City.

This anthology of tales about people in transit features... 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

Armageddon in Retrospect

By: Kurt Vonnegut

Narrated by: Rip Torn

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace.

A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve previously unpublished writings. Imbued... Read more

Angelica

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Egyptologist and Prague comes an even more accomplished and entirely surprising new novel. Angelica is a spellbinding Victorian ghost story, an intriguing literary and psychological puzzle, and a meditation on marriage, childhood, memory, and fear. The novel opens in London, in the 1880s, with the Barton... Read more

Pilgrims

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The debut by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls; a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist and New York Times Notable Book


When it appeared in 1997, Elizabeth Gilbert’s story collection, Pilgrims, immediately announced her compelling voice, her comic touch, and her amazing ear for dialogue. “The heroes of... Read more

Wit's End

By: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] delightful and eccentric new tale"(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club

In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club once again delivers top-notch storytelling, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is utterly and memorably... Read more

Sepulchre

By: Kate Mosse

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 20 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Labyrinth-"a rich brew of supernaturalism and intrigue."(Kirkus Reviews)

In 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive at the home of their widowed aunt in Rennes-le-Bains, in southwest France. But nothing is as Léonie had imagined. Their aunt is young, willowy, and beautiful, and the estate... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the best-loved nineteenth-century American novel, Mark Twain's tale of boyhood adventure overflows with comedy, warmth, and slapstick energy. It brings to life an array of irresistible characters—the awesomely self-confident Tom, his best buddy Huck Finn, indulgent Aunt Polly, and the lovely, beguiling Becky—as well as such unforgettable... Read more

MIR... ... so viel wie nie - Abridged

By: Hans Koch, Michael Stauffer & Fabian Kuratli

Narrated by: Michael Stauffer

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Dichter Michael Stauffer und die Musiker Hans Koch und Fabian Kuratli legen mit "So viel wie nie" ein Werk voller Magie und schräger Komik vor. Stauffer brabbelt, summt, buchstabiert, schnorrt, singt, erzählt und fantasiert. Er wechselt fliessend zwischen Dialekt, Kauderwelsch, Gesang und Laut-Improvisation. Die Instrumentalisten Koch und... Read more

Our Story Begins

By: Tobias Wolff

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Tobias Wolff’s first two books, In the Garden of the North American Martyrs and Back in the World, proved how the short story can “provoke our amazed appreciation” (New York Times Book Review). In the years since, he’s written a third collection, The Night in Question, as well as several other astounding works. Now he returns with fresh... Read more

The Woman Who Wouldn't

By: Gene Wilder

Narrated by: Gene Wilder

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved actor and screenwriter’s second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from accomplished adagios with the Cleveland Orchestra to having a complete breakdown onstage. If he hadn’t poured a glass of water down the throat of a tuba, maybe he wouldn’t have been sent to a health resort in... Read more

Winter’s Tale

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 27 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 New York Times Bestseller: Mark Helprin’s masterpiece transports you to New York of the Belle Epoque, to a city clarified by a siege of unprecedented snows…A Winter’s Tale is a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, and Jennifer Connelly.This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love,... Read more

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Huckleberry Finn, rebel against school and church, casual inheritor of gold treasure, rafter of the Mississippi, and savior of Jim the runaway slave, is the archetypal American maverick.



Fleeing the respectable society that wants to "sivilize" him, Huck Finn shoves off with Jim on a rhapsodic raft journey down the Mississippi River. The two bind... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Pride and Prejudice captures the affections of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. This story of the Bennet family and the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, is told with a wit that author Jane Austen feared might prove "rather too light and bright, and sparkling."



The... Read more

Under the Greenwood Tree

By: Thomas Hardy

Narrated by: Margaret Hilton

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Dick Dewy and Fancy Day, the lovers; the simpleton Leaf; Penney the shoemaker; and the rest of the Mellstock rustics inhabit this charming sunlit novel, the first in the great Wessex canon. The book is divided into the four seasons of the year and, like a happily-remembered childhood, a tranquil timelessness and Arcadian appropriateness is... Read more

Saving Grace

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Having justly earned her reputation as a master storyteller, Lee Smith's name evokes images of authentic country folk struggling through some of life's most arduous tests. Saving Grace adds a stunning spiritual dimension. The daughter of a snake-handling preacher who ignores the needs of his destitute family, Florida Grace doesn't think much of... Read more

Rise and Shine

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Monday morning when Meghan Fitzmaurice blows her perfect life to bits. The host of "Rise and Shine," the country's highest rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break, but not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, a household face who is not equipped to deal... Read more

A Sound Like Thunder

By: Sonny Brewer

Narrated by: Steven Boyer

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the critically acclaimed book The Poet of Tolstoy Park (J0001), Sonny Brewer writes compelling Southern novels that resonate strongly with readers. When 80-year-old Rove MacNee sets about to tell his life's story, he begins a coming-of-age narrative taking place in the small gulf coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. The son of an alcoholic... Read more

Sufficient Grace

By: Darnell Arnoult

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Darnell Arnoult has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly and critical acclaim for her debut novel, the story of a woman coming to terms with mental illness. Gracie Hollaman finally decides to follow the voices in her head. She leaves behind her family for the small African-American town of Rockrun to join Mama Toot and Mattie.... Read more

Tambourines to Glory

By: Langston Hughes

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, author and playwright Langston Hughes was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance in the late 1950s. His writings capture the spirit of black culture as it struggled for recognition and acceptance. Tambourines to Glory is a morality fable illustrating the perpetual fight between good and evil. Angelic Essie Belle Johnson and devilish Laura... Read more