Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Oracle Night

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and... Read more

The Interruption of Everything

By: Terry McMillan

Narrated by: Desiree Taylor

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple and even simultaneous careers: I’ve been a chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A furniture restorer. A personal shopper. A veterinarian’s assistant and sometimes the veterinarian.... An... Read more

The Interruption of Everything - Abridged

By: Terry McMillan

Narrated by: Lynn Whitfield

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Marilyn Grimes is a wife, mother, sister, and daughter. Today she's decided to be something different: herself. First, she has to find out who that is. Read more

A Widow for One Year

By: John Irving

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 24 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ruth Cole is a complex, often self-contradictory character--a "difficult" woman.  By no means is she conventionally "nice," but she will never be forgotten.

Ruth's story is told in three parts, each focusing on a crucial time in her life.  When we first meet her--on Long Island, in the summer of 1958--Ruth is only four.

The second window into... Read more

The Sound and the Fury

By: William Faulkner

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin.  •  The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's Appendix

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the... Read more

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. 

Lily is... Read more

High Plains Tango

By: Robert James Waller

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.

The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the... Read more

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jodi Long

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan is a brilliantly realistic journey back to an era of Chinese history that is as deeply moving as it is sorrowful. With the period detail and deep resonance of Memoirs of a Geisha, this lyrical and emotionally charged novel delves into one of the most mysterious of human relationships: female friendship. 

Lily is... Read more

High Plains Tango - Abridged

By: Robert James Waller

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

With over 10 million copies sold, bestselling author Robert James Waller returns with the haunting, evocative story of a small town, a beautiful and mysterious woman, and the man forever changed by both.

The wild places are where no one is looking anymore. Out there on the high plains, among the Sioux reservations and the silent buttes, among the... Read more

The River

By: Tricia Wastvedt

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

During the summer of 1958 in the English village of Cameldip, two children drown while playing in a leaky boat on the river. Their parents, Isabel and Robert, are bound together in guilt and anger. Thirty years later, a young woman secretly pregnant and determined to make a new start for herself arrives in Cameldip. Taken in by Isabel, she... Read more

The Cigar Roller

By: Pablo Medina

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Amadeo Terra, former cigar-factory worker, is confined in a Florida hospital after a stroke has left him paralyzed. His body no longer works, but his mind is very much alive, as is his ruthless and audacious wit. His only human contact is with the callous nurse who constantly scolds him, the orderly who barely acknowledges him, and the nun who... Read more

An Unfinished Season

By: Ward Just

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An Unfinished Season captures the postwar moment of the 1950s, a time of rabid anti-communism, worker unrest, and government corruption, when the modern world lay just over the horizon.On the margins of Chicago's North Shore, nineteen-year-old Wilson Ravan watches as his father's life unravels. Gruff, unapproachable Teddy Ravan is confronting a... Read more

The Life You Save May Be Your Own

By: Paul Elie

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 22 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing. The four writers were Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy. Called the School of the Holy Ghost, for three decades they... Read more

True North

By: Jim Harrison

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic tale that pits a son against the legacy of his family's desecration of the earth, as well as his father's more personal violations, Jim Harrison's True North is a beautiful and moving novel that speaks to the territory in our hearts that calls us back to our roots.The scion of a family of wealthy timber barons, David Burkett has grown up... Read more

Broken for You

By: Stephanie Kallos

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller, Broken for You is the story of two women in self-imposed exile whose lives are transformed when their paths intersect.Elderly Margaret Hughes is living alone in a mansion in Seattle, with only a massive collection of antiques for company, when she meets Wanda Schultz, a young woman with a broken heart who has come to... Read more

Joy Comes in the Morning

By: Jonathan Rosen

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah Green is a woman of passionate contradictions, a rabbi struggling with her own doubts and desires. Her life changes when she visits the hospital room of Henry Friedman, an older man who has attempted suicide. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust when he was a child, and all his life he has struggled with painful questions. Can... Read more

Arch of Triumph

By: Erich Maria Remarque

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravic is a German doctor and refugee living in Paris in 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, he has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.Forbidden to return to his own country and dodging the everyday dangers of jail and deportation, Ravic... Read more

Haussmann

By: Paul LaFarge

Narrated by: Erik Bauersfeld

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann.Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann was the architect of modern Paris. In two decades, from 1853 to 1869, he transformed the cramped, filthy lanes of the medieval city into the airy boulevards and green... Read more

The Sibyl

By: Pär Lagerkvist

Narrated by: Lorna Raver, Kristoffer Tabori & Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this powerful, poetic, and moving parable, the Wandering Jew of medieval Christian legend journeys to Delphi to consult the famed oracle of the pagans. He is turned away, but not before learning that one of the most adept of the old priestesses, or sibyls, lives in disgrace in the mountains above the temple. In her rude goat-hut he seeks the... Read more

Broken Ground

By: Kai Maristed

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Kaethe Shalk faces a new life of boundless complexity when the Berlin Wall comes down and the ruin of the East stands in stark contrast to the exuberance of the West.Having lived in America for many years, Kaethe Shalk returns to Berlin to try to come to terms with the Berlin of her youth. Her journey from America to the broken ground of... Read more

The Meadow

By: James Galvin

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Through short vignettes that read like a novel, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado-Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seasons, the weather, the wildlife, but most of all he reveals deeply personal portraits of the few people who live there and who do not so much possess but are... Read more

Zermatt

By: Frank Schaeffer

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to his acclaimed novel Portofino, Frank Schaeffer's memorable young narrator, Calvin Becker, returns in a story that is a coming-of-age gem.It is 1966, and Calvin is fourteen, torn between his naturally volcanic sexual curiosity and a fundamentalist family so strict that he has never seen a movie, watched television, or danced—and... Read more

Winesburg, Ohio

By: Sherwood Anderson

Narrated by: various narrators, Bruce Blau, David Thorn, Jim...

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This timeless collection charted a new stylistic path for modern fiction. Through twenty-two connected short stories, Sherwood Anderson looks into the lives of the inhabitants of a small town in the American heartland. These psychological portraits of the sensitive and imaginative of Winesburg's population are seen through the eyes of a young... Read more

An Unpardonable Crime

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses, a man is found horribly mutilated on a building site,another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district, a deathbed vigil ends in theft,and an... Read more