Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Girls - Abridged

By: Lori Lansens

Narrated by: Lolita Davidovich & Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Rose and Ruby Darlen have been known simply as "the girls." They make friends, fall in love, have jobs, love their parents, and follow their dreams. But the Darlens are special. Now nearing their 30th birthday, they are history's oldest craniopagus... Read more

A Farewell to Arms

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel of love during wartime.

Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming... Read more

The Old Man and the Sea

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Donald Sutherland

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male

*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize*
“A beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and pitfalls both trivial and profound, what sustains us,... Read more

For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from “the good... Read more

Gone Fishin' - Abridged

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Paul Winfield

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the road in a “borrowed” '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas—Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather.... Read more

Not a Sparrow Falls - Abridged

By: Linda Nichols

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Mama were here, everything would still be right. Or at least not as bad wrong as it had become. But Mama was dead, and Papa was gone, her brother and sisters scattered. And she was here…Mary Bridget Washburn was tired of running, tired of being haunted by the empty shell her life had become. How in the world did the little girl she’d once... Read more

Light in August

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner—one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the twentieth century—a novel set in the American South during Prohibition about hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality.

Light in August features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn... Read more

Beautiful Lies

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a... Read more

Elements of Style

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess (“Utterly delicious”—Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York’s urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world—the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the... Read more

Until I Find You

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 35 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns – his life, loves, celebrity and astonishing search for the truth about his parents.

When he is four years old, Jack travels with his mother Alice, a tattoo artist, to several North Sea ports in search of his father, William Burns. From Copenhagen to Amsterdam, William, a brilliant church... Read more

Atonement - Abridged

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's privileged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's... Read more

Elements of Style - Abridged

By: Wendy Wasserstein

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and author of the essay collection Shiksa Goddess (“Utterly delicious”—Judith Thurman), a dazzling debut novel, a comedy about New York’s urban gentry living in a post-9/11 world—the arbiters of fashion and the doyennes of charity balls; about the rich and the nouveau rich(er), the glamorous and the... Read more

Beautiful Lies - Abridged

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a... Read more

Challenger Park

By: Stephen Harrigan

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts.

At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel... Read more

Black Swan Green

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

Selected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post Book World, The Christian Science Monitor, Rocky Mountain News, and Kirkus... Read more

The Poseidon Adventure - Abridged

By: Paul Gallico

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey.When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. As the unstable... Read more

Challenger Park - Abridged

By: Stephen Harrigan

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of the acclaimed and best-selling The Gates of the Alamo, a novel of extraordinary power about what it’s like, and what it means, to journey into space as one of today’s astronauts.

At the novel’s center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel... Read more

Fortunate Son

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Lorraine Toussaint

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong.After tragedy rips their makeshift family apart, the lives of these boys diverge astonishingly:... Read more

Paradise Alley

By: Kevin Baker

Narrated by: Kevin Baker

Length: 22 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

At the height of the Civil War, word spreads through the poorest quarters of New York City that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son can buy an exemption. The outrage this inspires escalates into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Down in the waterfront slum of Paradise Alley, three... Read more

Right Ho, Jeeves

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Mayhem has broken out at Brinkley Court and there would seem to be a desperate need for Jeeves. But Bertie is fed up with the assumption that he is merely an addendum to his personal attendant. There are more brains in the Wooster household than just Jeeves, you know! Stand back—Bertram Wooster is on the case. Read more

The Brief History of the Dead

By: Kevin Brockmeier

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is... Read more

Abide With Me

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).

“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human... Read more

Abide with Me - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Gerrianne Raphael

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton comes a “deeply moving” (The Washington Post) novel that “confirms Strout as the possessor of an irresistibly companionable, peculiarly American voice” (The Atlantic Monthly).

“Superb . . . a shimmering tale of loss, faith, and human... Read more

Labyrinth

By: Kate Mosse

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth.

Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young... Read more