Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Blue Star

By: Tony Earley

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years ago, readers everywhere fell in love with Jim Glass, the precocious ten-year-old at the heart of Jim the Boy. Now a teenager, Jim returns in a tender and wise story of young love on the brink of World War Two.

Jim Glass has fallen in love, as only a teenage boy can fall in love, with his classmate Chrissie Steppe. Unfortunately,... Read more

Dreamers of the Day

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

“I suppose I ought to warn you at the outset that my present circumstances are puzzling,even to me. Nevertheless, I am sure of this much: My little story has become your history. You won’t really understand your times until you understand mine.” So begins the account of Agnes Shanklin, the charmingly diffident narrator of DREAMERS OF THE DAY.... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

If Max Brod had obeyed Franz Kafka's dying request, Kafka's unpublished manuscripts would have been burned, unread. Fortunately, Brod ignored his friend's wishes and published The Trial, which became the author's most famous work. Now Kafka's enigmatic novel regains its humor and stylistic elegance in a new translation based on the restored... Read more

A Room with a View

By: E.M. Forster

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Written when he was 25, E.M. Forster's turn-of-the-century novel contains all the essential elements of a great love story: social comedy, unavoidable mishaps, a beautiful setting, and a young man and woman at crossed purposes. One of the author's lighter, less sardonic novels, A Room with a View features a heroine unique for her time.... Read more

Sweet and Vicious

By: David Schickler

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of Kissing in Manhattan pens a comic tale of violence that is also a fully realized love story. Grace McGlone, waiting for her one true love, falls hard for Henry Dante. But little does she know he is carrying "The Planets," a set of famous Spanish diamonds that might cost them their lives. Read more

The Rabbit Factory

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, Larry Brown weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning, fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results. Set in Memphis and North Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory... 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

Tigers in the Snow

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of At Play in the Fields of the Lord, national Book Award winner Peter Matthiessen is an accomplished naturalist and one of the most acclaimed writers in the world. This book is a stirring look at the tiger, a magnificent animal that has long fueled human fascination. In critical danger of extinction, only a few thousand of these giant... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Flo Gibson

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

America's first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment... Read more

Train

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Train is a 18-year-old black caddy at an exclusive L.A. country club. He is a golf prodigy, but the year is 1953 and there is no such thing as a black golf prodigy. Nevertheless, Train draws the interest of Miller Packard, a gambler whose smiling, distracted air earned him the nickname "the Mile Away Man." Packard's easy manner hides a... Read more

The Texicans

By: Nina Vida

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Nina Vida comes a powerful novel set in the 1840s. The Texicans provides an illuminating glimpse at the rugged lives of the downtrodden in pioneer society- immigrants, slaves, Indians, and Mexicans. Joseph Kimmel is heading to San Antonio to settle his deceased brother's estate but becomes stranded on the vast open prairie... 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

Dreamers of the Day - Abridged

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A schoolteacher still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic travels to the Middle East in this memorable and passionate novel

“Marvelous . . . a stirring story of personal awakening set against the background of a crucial moment in modern history.”—The Washington Post
 
Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old... Read more

Prague

By: Arthur Phillips

Narrated by: Andy Paris

Length: 20 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1990s, five young American expatriates meet in Budapest. As they seeks fortune and success, their lives reflect various facets of a city that is shaped by its history, culture, and the aftermath of Communism. Read more

Oral History

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, C.J. Critt, Ruth Ann Phimister, T...

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Oral History, the lyrical saga of a Virginia mountain family, follows four generations of Cantrells over more than a century. With each chapter, Lee Smith, a master of regional voices, adds another branch to a family tree that sings with secrets and sadness, beauty and joy. Researching an assignment for an Oral History course, Jennifer drives to... Read more

Plum Wine

By: Angela Davis-Gardner

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Critically acclaimed author Angela Davis-Gardner's Plum Wine earned starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, which hailed the "wonderfully inventive plot" and a "protagonist as self-possessed as she is sensitive." Set in 1960s Japan, Plum Wine is a powerful tale about cultural differences, romantic hardships, and the legacy of... Read more

North River

By: Pete Hamill

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In North River, critically acclaimed, best-selling author Pete Hamill whisks listeners back to 1934-when the Great Depression held New York City in its relentless grip-for a story of one remarkable man's perseverance. Haunted by the horrors ofWorldWar I, Dr. James Delaney's personal life is a nightmare. But everything changes when he returns... Read more

One Mississippi

By: Mark Childress

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Childress is the author of the New York Times best-seller Crazy in Alabama. Here he again turns his keen literary eye to smalltown Southern living. Yankee transplant Daniel Musgrove can't seem to fit in at his Mississippi high school. When he meets fellow outsider Tim Cousins, things look up. Then the two boys' battles with a local bully... Read more

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The ideal introduction to the genius of Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction.

Selected from Winner Take Nothing, Men Without Women, and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, this collection includes "The Killers," the first of... Read more

Moo

By: Jane Smiley

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres, instantly captured the admiration and laughter of readers everywhere when Moo was published. A New York Times best- seller, it is a hilarious tour through the inner sanctums of a Midwestern university. Everyone at the large agricultural college dubbed Moo U. has an agenda.... Read more

Me and My Baby View the Eclipse

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Linda Stephens & Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A storyteller in the very best southern tradition, Lee Smith pens unexpected plots vibrant with luminous prose. Her powerful short stories in Me and My Baby View the Eclipse capture those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface. This collection was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of... Read more

The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character. A stranger, offended by the pious reputation of the town, devises a plan to bring its honored residents to shame. Is there even one righteous man in Hadleyburg? Read more

Silas Marner

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Silas Marner, a gentle linen weaver, is framed by his best friend for a heinous theft. Exiled from his small community, Marner retreats into bitter and miserly reclusion, caring only for the gold he receives for his work. When his small treasure horde is stolen, Marner feels betrayed by life yet again—until one fateful New Year's Eve, an... Read more

Liza of Lambeth

By: W. Somerset Maugham

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinarily popular author during his lifetime, W. Somerset Maugham created a literary legacy that includes such classics as The Moon and Sixpence and The Razor' s Edge. Maugham' s first novel, Liza of Lambeth is the story of 18-year-old Liza Kemp, a London factory worker near the beginning of the 20th century who falls deeply in love... Read more