Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Run

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""Engaging, surprising, provocative and moving...a thoroughly intelligent book, an intimate domestic drama that nonetheless deals with big issues touching us all: religion, race, class, politics and, above all else, family."" -- Washington PostFrom New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett comes an engrossing story of one family on one... Read more

Fire in the Blood

By: Irene Nemirovsky

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is a missing piece of the remarkable posthumous legacy of Irène Némirovsky, author of the internationally acclaimed Suite Française.

The novel–only now assembled in its entirety–teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when “peace” was less important as a political state than as a coveted... Read more

Bridge of Sighs

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 26 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize—winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his... Read more

Playing for Pizza

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Christopher Evan Welch

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship game against Denver, to the surprise and dismay of virtually everyone, Rick actually got into the game. With a 17-point lead and just minutes to go, Rick provided what was arguably the worst single performance in the history of the NFL. Overnight, he... Read more

The Used World

By: Haven Kimmel

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Used World Emporium is the sprawling antique store where Hazel, Claudia, and Rebekah pass their days surrounded by dusty furniture, cast-off clothes, and ancient housewares. But with the unexpected arrival of two babies and the unfolding of not one but three love stories, each spanning generations, their formerly used world becomes new... Read more

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Caitlin Greer

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in... Read more

The Spanish Bow

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he... Read more

The Spanish Bow - Abridged

By: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner’s wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master’s daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he... Read more

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York... Read more

Drown

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of eleven stories by a young writer evoke his hard-fought youth in the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the bleak urban landscapes of New Jersey, combining a journalist's dispassionate eye with an ear for poetry.

"This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican... Read more

How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) - Abridged

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A satirical short story by Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and others. Read more

On the Road: the Original Scroll

By: Jack Kerouac

Narrated by: John Ventimiglia

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long,... Read more

The View from Mount Joy

By: Lorna Landvik

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

THE VIEW FROM MOUNT JOY, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about the unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.

When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson moves to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull High’s libidinous head cheerleader. Joe balances Kristi’s... Read more

The Patron Saint of Liars

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable BookAcclaimed author Ann Patchett's debut novel, hailed as ""beautifully written . . . a first novel that second- and third-time novelists would envy for its grace, insight, and compassion” (Boston Herald)St. Elizabeth’s, a home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky, usually harbors its residents for only a little while.... Read more

Tree of Smoke

By: Denis Johnson

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me.


This... Read more

Songs Without Words

By: Ann Packer

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ann Packer’s debut novel, The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a journey into a lifelong friendship pushed to the breaking point.
Liz and Sarabeth were childhood neighbors in the... Read more

Girl in Landscape

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. • "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday

The heroine is young Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just before her family flees a... Read more

As She Climbed Across the Table

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Philip is in love with Alice. As the novel opens, he is beginning to lose her. Not to another man, as he fears, but to, literally, nothing. Alice is a physicist, and a team at the University where both she and Philip work has created a hole, a vacuum, a doorway of nothingness inside the laboratory. They call it "Lack." Alice becomes obsessed... Read more

Lust, Caution

By: Eileen Chang

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.

In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the... Read more

The View from Mount Joy - Abridged

By: Lorna Landvik

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvik’s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life.

When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi... Read more

Saul And Patsy

By: Charles Baxter

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Feast of Love— a National Book Award nominee— comes a light-hearted and deeply moving novel about events and emotions that shape the lives of a young married couple.Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell... Read more

Life on the Refrigerator Door

By: Alice Kuipers

Narrated by: Dana Delany & Amanda Seyfried

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Performed by Dana Delany and Amanda Seyfried""Bittersweet, funny and achingly real. . . . Kuipers captures the anxiety surrounding tragedy and conveys the importance of fully experiencing life.” — Publishers WeeklyHeartfelt, touching and unforgettable, Life on the Refrigerator Door captures the impenetrable fabric that connects mothers and... Read more

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Abridged

By: Ron Hansen

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Recalls the literature of Americana by John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, Willa Cather, and Hamlin Garland . . . Hansen has broadened our perception of the West in much the same way as the best historians . . . and proven himself one of our finest stylists of American historical fiction.” —Christian Science MonitorBestselling author Ron Hansen... Read more

The Office of Desire

By: Martha Moody

Narrated by: Todd McLaren & Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the runaway bestselling novel Best Friends comes a smart, touching novel about the intimate yet fragile relationships among five very different people, thrown together in a small medical office, and how each life affects the others.



Alicia, Brice, and Caroline are the ABCs—three close friends who have been brought together... Read more