Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Coal Black Horse

By: Robert Olmstead

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Robert Olmstead's work has been called "brilliant and compelling" by the Chicago Tribune. Here, he takes us back to the Civil War. Robey Child, only 14, must go to the battlefield to bring his injured father home. Clad in a homemade uniform-gray on one side, blue on the other-and riding a powerful coal black horse, Robey sets out on a... Read more

The Palace of Illusions

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This vivid reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic Mahabharata takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. It is told by Panchaali, wife of the Pandava brothers, a fiery female redefining for us a world of gods and warriors.The novel traces the princess Panchaali’s life, beginning with her birth in fire and... Read more

The Accident Man

By: Tom Cain

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Breathlessly paced, international in scope, and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's smashing debut surprises the reader at every turn. A thriller that explores the secret of Princess Diana's death, The Accident Man imagines the man who may have killed her. For a certain sum of money, Samuel Carver can... Read more

Jack Maggs

By: Peter Carey

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

With scars on his back and silver in his pocket, the huge figure of Jack Maggs strides across the rich landscape of 19th century London. As this enigmatic man moves through its streets and houses, his single-minded quest to find his son will engender love, deceit, and vengeance in the lives around him. Risking execution if he is discovered,... Read more

All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

By: Tod Wodicka

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 AD; and, at war with the modern world, he enjoys hosting large-scale re-enactments at the Victorian bed and breakfast he calls home.

But Burt has some serious... Read more

Life Class

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Russell Boulter

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spring of 1914, a group of young students gather in an art studio for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant and Elinor Brooke are two components of a love triangle, and at the outset of the war, they turn to each other. After volunteering for the Red Cross, Paul must confront the fact that life, love, and art will never be the same for him.... Read more

Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Fanny Price, a poor relation of the rich Bertrams, is reluctantly adopted into the family to be brought up at Mansfield Park, where she is treated condescendingly. Only her cousin Edmund, a young clergyman, appreciates her fine qualities. Fanny soon falls in love with him, but Edmund is, unfortunately, drawn to the shallow and worldly Mary... Read more

What I Was

By: Meg Rosoff

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

What I Was is a beautifully crafted and heartbreakingly poignant coming-of-age tale that is set mainly in a hut on an isolated strip of land in East Anglia. The narrator is an older man who recounts the story of his most significant friendship—that with the nearly feral and completely parentless Finn, who lives alone in a hut by the sea. He... Read more

My Revolutions

By: Hari Kundzru

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning novelist looks back at the sixties to answer the question "What turns a radical into a terrorist?"

Chris Carver is living a lie. His wife, their teenage daughter, and everyone in their circle know him as Michael Frame, suburban dad. They have no clue that as a radical student in the sixties, he briefly became a terrorist,... Read more

The Commoner

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first nonaristocratic woman to enter the mysterious, almost hermetically sealed, and longest-running monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more

Beautiful Children

By: Charles Bock

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book
 
“One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost... Read more

Beautiful Children - Abridged

By: Charles Bock

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book
 
“One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost... Read more

The Commoner - Abridged

By: John Burnham Schwartz

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1959 when Haruko, a young woman of good family, marries the Crown Prince of Japan, the heir to the Chrysanthemum Throne. She is the first non-aristocratic woman to enter the longest-running, almost hermetically sealed, and mysterious monarchy in the world. Met with cruelty and suspicion by the Empress and her minions, Haruko is controlled... Read more

Voices of the Ghost III: Wicked Wraiths

By: M. R. James & Henry James

Narrated by: Robert Bethune & Susie Berneis

Length: 1 hour 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are two terrifying and sobering stories of ghosts who will stop at nothing!
"The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"
Which did she really want: her sister's husband, or her sister's trousseau? Will her desires cost her her life? In this story by the American master Henry James, a woman loses her heart to a man, but then loses that man to her... Read more

Black Mountain Breakdown

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Linda Stephens

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A consummate storyteller in the Southern tradition, Lee Smith tugs at her listeners' heart strings with this haunting narrative that reads like a country ballad. Touching, funny, and sad, its down-to-earth characters are somehow familiar and endearing as they do their best to meet the demands of daily life. Her mother's pride and joy, young... Read more

Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue

By: Mark Kurlansky

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the boom years of the 1980s, and life is closing in on Nathan Seltzer, who rarely travels beyond his suddenly gentrifying Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City. Between paralyzing bouts of claustrophobia, Nathan wonders whether he should cheat on his wife with Karoline, a German pastry maker whose parents may or may not have been... Read more

Brave New World

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. “One of the most prophetic dystopian works of the 20th century” —Wall Street JournalCloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media—has Aldous Huxley accurately... Read more

Apex Hides the Hurt

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Colson Whitehead has been a finalist for numerous prestigious honors, including the Pulitzer Prize. His works are lauded for their insight into the state of race in America. Here, a small Midwestern town is having an identity crisis-should they have a new techno-savvy name or a name honoring the freedmen who founded the town?... Read more

Being Dead

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jim Crace has been called "one of the brightest lights in contemporary British fiction" by The New York Times Book Review. His novels have won a Whitbread Prize, an E.M. Forster Award, the Guardian Fiction Award, the GAP International Prize for Literature, and have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Far-ranging in its imagery, Being Dead is... Read more

Kyra

By: Carol Gilligan

Narrated by: Justine Eyre & Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable novel about love–and the first work of fiction by the author of the groundbreaking nonfiction bestseller In a Different Voice.

Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and... Read more

Bee Season

By: Myla Goldberg

Narrated by: Myla Goldberg

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But when Eliza sweeps her school and district spelling... Read more

Another World

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker is one of Britain's most powerful contemporary novelists. This eerie story of a troubled family in the north of England lets you experience the full force of Barker's original talent. Filled with startling images and incisive character studies, Another World reveals an uncanny reality where emotions and... Read more

All the Way Home

By: Ann Tatlock

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning author of A Room of My Own and A Place Called Morning, Ann Tatlock returns with the soul-searching inspirational novel, All the Way Home. Augie Schuler recalls her childhood, dim and depressing except for her one true friendship with Sunny Yamagata and her family. Through this gift from God, Augie was able to experience glimpses of... Read more

The Amateur Emigrant

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Donal Donnelly

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during a trip to France, but when Fanny's first husband called her home to California, Stevenson soon followed from Scotland. The sickly Stevenson first made a... Read more