Fiction - Literary audiobooks

New England White

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 22 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

With the powers of observation and richness of plot and character, the author of The Emperor of Ocean Park returns to the New England university town of Elm Harbor, where a murder begins to crack the veneer that has hidden the racial complications of the town’s past, the secrets of a prominent family, and the most hidden bastions of... Read more

Peony in Love

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.”

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live... Read more

Disteln für Hagen Vol. 02

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Das Nibelungenlied so, wie es noch nie erzählt wurde. Die Nacherzählung des Nibelungenlieds als Geschichtsdeutung und Gegenwartsdeutung: Joachim Fernau zeigt nicht, wie die Deutschen sind oder gestern waren, sondern - und das ist das Spannende dieser Darstellung - wie sie gestern, heute und künftig sein müssen. Read more

Midwives - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

"Superbly crafted and astonishingly powerful. . . . It will thrill readers who cherish their worn copies of To Kill A Mockingbird." --People

With a suspense, lyricism, and moral complexity that recall To Kill a Mockingbird and Presumed Innocent, this compulsively readable novel explores what happens when a woman who has devoted herself to... Read more

Disteln für Hagen Vol. 01

By: Joachim Fernau

Narrated by: Johannes Steck

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Siegfried war kein Königssohn, sondern ein hofloser Abenteurer." Wenn Fernau das Nibelungenlied nacherzählt, dann bedeutet das den Sturz falscher Götter, falscher Tabus und den Dornröschenkuss für die schlafenden Schönheiten. Ein Hörbuchdownload, der Geschichts- und Gegenwartsdeutung, wie von Fernau gewohnt, scharfsinnig pointiert. Read more

Peony in Love - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, amid the scent of ginger, green tea, and jasmine, a small theatrical troupe is... Read more

New England White - Abridged

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK, INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES

Lemaster Carlyle, the president of the country's most prestigious university, and his wife, Julie, the divinity school's deputy dean, are America's most prominent and powerful African American couple. Driving home through a... Read more

Forgive Me

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of How to Be Lost comes a gorgeous new novel about love, memory, and motherhood.

Nadine Morgan travels the world as a journalist, covering important events, following dangerous leads, and running from anything that might tie her down. Since an assignment in Cape Town ended in tragedy and regret, Nadine has not returned... Read more

The Maytrees

By: Annie Dillard

Narrated by: David Rasche

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems. In spare,... Read more

The Nick Adams Stories

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the 20th century's greatest voices comes the complete volume of his short stories featuring Nick Adams, Ernest Hemingway's memorable character, as he grows from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent—a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.

The complete collection of Ernest Hemingway's Nick... Read more

Michael Tolliver Lives

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityNearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero Michael Tolliver—the... Read more

The Pesthouse

By: Jim Crace

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage... Read more

White Jazz

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own... Read more

The Blood of Flowers

By: Anita Amirrezvani

Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A sensuous and richly-imagined historical novel that centers on a skilled young carpet weaver, her arranged marriage, and her quest for self-determination in 17th-century Persia.

In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and... Read more

The Beautiful Miscellaneous

By: Dominic Smith

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed award-winning author of The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre comes this moving story of a boy trapped in the shadow of his father's genius. Nathan Nelson is the ordinary son of a brilliant physicist. From an early age, his father has doggedly prodded him toward greatness, enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps and... Read more

The Shadow Catcher

By: Marianne Wiggins

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant, complex, and layered story, The Shadow Catcher takes its title from the name bestowed upon Edward Curtis by the American Indians when he showed them photographs of themselves. In this remarkable novel, Wiggins weaves parallel tales of this famous artist and an unsung soldier, husband, and father. With its vast Western landscape and... Read more

Jesus Out To Sea Collection - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

INCLUDES THE STORY “WINTER LIGHT,” THE BASIS FOR THE FILM GOD’S COUNTRY STARRING THANDIWE NEWTON?

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered around the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

In this moving collection of short stories, James Lee Burke... Read more

The Big Girls

By: Susanna Moore

Narrated by: Robin Miles, Tom Stechschulte, Elisabeth Rodger...

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls. Helen, a troubled inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison, is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, the recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, has forsworn the Park Avenue practice for which she trained in... Read more

The Rope Walk

By: Carrie Brown

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

At her tenth birthday party in the garden of her Vermont village home, Alice meets two people unlike any she's known before: Theo is a mixed-race New York City kid visiting his white grandparents for the summer; Kenneth is a cosmopolitan artist with AIDS who has come home to convalesce. Alice and Theo form an instant bond and almost as quickly... Read more

The Secrets of a Fire King

By: Kim Edwards

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The first story collection from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter

With The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards touched hearts across the nation. In this, her first collection of stories-now with three new stories added-she explores the lives of those who exist on the fringes of society: a fire-eater,... Read more

Divisadero

By: Michael Ondaatje

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who... Read more

Rant

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: James Yaegashi, Stina Nielsen, Andy Paris, Juli...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Buster "Rant" Casey just may be the most efficient serial killer of our time. A high school rebel, Rant Casey escapes from his small town home for the big city where he becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. Rant Casey will die a spectacular highway death, after which his friends gather the testimony needed to... Read more

Falling Man

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.

Falling Man is a... Read more

After Dark

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore.
At its center are two sisters–Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into oblivion, and Mari, a young student soon led from solitary... Read more