Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Intuition

By: Allegra Goodman

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in... Read more

In the Company of the Courtesan

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.

Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s... Read more

Intuition - Abridged

By: Allegra Goodman

Narrated by: Jenna Stern

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hailed as “a writer of uncommon clarity” by the New Yorker, National Book Award finalist Allegra Goodman has dazzled readers with her acclaimed works of fiction, including such beloved bestsellers as The Family Markowitz and Kaaterskill Falls. Now she returns with a bracing new novel, at once an intricate mystery and a rich human drama set in... Read more

L.A. Times - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Vinnie Callabrese toils in the mean world of a Mafia hood, violently enforcing his loan-shark boss's debt collections, but he lives in the world of the movies, one where he can tie a bow tie like Cary Grant and speak with the voice of Tyrone Power.Vinnie is smart, too, and he finds a way to turn his dream world into reality. Arriving on the West... Read more

The Rebels of Ireland - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels of Ireland... Read more

In the Company of the Courtesan - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Richard Grant

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment.

Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s... Read more

The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre

By: Dominic Smith

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this luminous novel, Dominic Smith reinvents the life of one of photography’s founding fathers. In 1839, Louis Daguerre’s invention took the world by storm. A decade later, he is sinking deep into delusions brought on by exposure to mercury, the very agent that allowed his daguerreotype process. Believing the world will end within one year,... Read more

NNNNN

By: Carl Reiner

Narrated by: Carl Reiner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Carl Reiner intersperses plots of biblical heresy, adultery, mild schizophrenia, and quadruplets separated at birth. NNNNN is the title of the protagonist Nat's novel, which is a comic retelling of Cain and Abel's struggles to procreate in the Garden of Eden, parts of which Reiner includes in his story. As Nat reinvents the origin of man, he... Read more

Nowhere Is a Place

By: Bernice L. McFadden

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many family histories, it is fractured and reluctant to reveal its secrets; but Sherry remains... Read more

The Good Life

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and... Read more

The Good Life - Abridged

By: Jay McInerney

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hailed by Newsweek as “a superb and humane social critic” with, according to The Wall Street Journal, “all the true instincts of a major novelist,” Jay McInerney unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in his most powerfully searing work thus far.Clinging to a semiprecarious existence in TriBeCa, Corrine and... Read more

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

By: Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with... Read more

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits - Abridged

By: Ayelet Waldman

Narrated by: Ellen Reilly

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this moving, wry, and candid novel, widely acclaimed novelist Ayelet Waldman takes us through one woman’s passage through love, loss, and the strange absurdities of modern life.Emilia Greenleaf believed that she had found her soulmate, the man she was meant to spend her life with. But life seems a lot less rosy when Emilia has to deal with... Read more

Whale Season

By: N. M. Kelby

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One Christmas Eve, Whale Harbor is visited by a man who thinks he’s Jesus and claims to be looking for a game of poker. But, as usual, things are not quite what they seem. Having some version of the Lord in town for his birthday creates a strange effect on the locals: unlikely couples are breaking up and making up and making out; a luxury mobile... Read more

Crazy Ladies - Abridged

By: Michael Lee West

Narrated by: Michael Lee West

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women--a story of love and laughter, pain and redemption.Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman who can handle any situation, she has her hands full with her two headstrong daughters who happen to be complete opposites -- dour Dorothy and... Read more

Queen of the Underworld

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of... Read more

Leonardo's Swans

By: Karen Essex

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

LEONARDO'S SWANS is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Sexy, inspiring, and... Read more

Queen of the Underworld - Abridged

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Stephanie Zimbalist

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.
In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of... Read more

The Princes of Ireland - Abridged

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence of... Read more

Leonardo's Swans - Abridged

By: Karen Essex

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LEONARDO'S SWANS is the story of the powerful Este sisters, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, and Isabella, Marchesa of Mantua, as they compete for the affections of Italy's most influential prince, the Duke of Milan, and for the larger prize, to be immortalized in oil by his court painter and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci. Sexy, inspiring, and... Read more

The House of Scorta

By: Laurent Gaudé

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes & Barbara Caruso

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a narrative both lyrical and linear, Laurent Gaudé interweaves a compelling story with a timeless message and the recollections of old Carmela as she delivers her final confession to the family priest, exposing the Scortas' most deeply buried secret. Read more

Brooklyn Follies

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man’s accidental redemption Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew,... Read more

The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Reef follows the fancies of George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, intent on proposing to the widowed Anna Leath. Unsettled by Anna's reticence, Darrow drifts into an affair with Sophy Viner, a charmingly naïve and impecunious young woman whose relations with Darrow and Anna's family threaten his prospects for... Read more

A Map of Glass

By: Jane Urquhart

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Urquhart’s stunning new novel weaves two parallel stories, set a century apart. Sylvia Bradley was rescued from her parents’ house by marriage to a doctor whose care has both nourished and imprisoned her. When she meets Andrew Woodman, a historical geographer, her world changes through their devastating and ecstatic affair.A year after... Read more