Fiction - Literary audiobooks

A Thread of Grace

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find... Read more

Captain Alatriste

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Scott Brick & Margaret Sayers Peden

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte have captivated readers around the world and earned him a reputation as “the master of the intellectual thriller.” (Chicago Tribune) His books have been published in fifty countries. Now, beginning with Captain Alatriste, comes Pérez-Reverte’s most stunning creation to date: a riveting series featuring the... Read more

A Thread of Grace - Abridged

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Jay Gregory

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerfully imagined novel . . . [a] profoundly moving book that engages the heights and depths of human experience.”—Los Angeles Times

It is September 8, 1943, and fourteen-year-old Claudette Blum and her father are among the thousands of Jewish refugees scrambling over the Alps toward Italy, where they hope to find... Read more

Be Cool

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Get Shorty’s Chili Palmer is back in Be Cool, a classic novel of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard. But this time it’s no more Mr. Nice Guy.After a smash hit and a flop, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea—until the... Read more

The River King

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a century, the small town of Haddan, Massachusetts, has been divided, as if a line was drawn down the center of Main Street, separating those born and bred in the village from those who attend the prestigious Haddan School. But one October night the two worlds are thrust together due to an inexplicable death, and the town’s divided... Read more

Possession

By: A.S. Byatt

Narrated by: Virginia Leishman

Length: 22 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of England's Booker Prize and a literary sensation Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. As a pair of young scholars research the lives of two Victorian poets, they uncover their letters, journals, and poems, and track their movements from London to Yorkshire... Read more

Le Morte D'Arthur - Abridged

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For over 1,000 years, tales of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have enthralled people, among them Henry VIII and T. E. Lawrence. Proof of the Arthurian legend's timeless appeal is the fact that scarcely a year goes by without a new adaptation. Published in 1485, Sir Thomas Malory's epic poem Le Morte d'Arthur became the standard... Read more

Lullaby

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the New York Times bestseller Choke and the cult classic Fight Club, a cunningly plotted novel about the ultimate verbal weapon, one that reinvents the apocalyptic thriller for our times.Ever heard of a culling song? It’s a lullaby sung in Africa to give a painless death to the old or infirm. The lyrics... Read more

GraceLand

By: Chris Abani

Narrated by: Chris Abani

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Elvis Oke of Chris Abani's novel is a child left to fend for himself in the urban jungle of Lagos, Nigeria. He has a talent for Elvis impersonations (hence the name) and wants to make it big so he can escape his violent and tumultuous life. In a place where angels fear to tread and only fools rush in, Elvis searches for redemption and a... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 8 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition features a full piece cloth... Read more

The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book“Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder.” —Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich captures the essence of a time and the spirit of a woman who felt compelled by her beliefs to serve... Read more

Baker Towers

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a stunning follow-up to her bestselling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh returns with Baker Towers, a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on... Read more

Bad Dirt

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Annie Proulx follows the success of Close Range with another remarkable collection of stories. Bad Dirt is filled with the vivid characters for which Proulx has become known. In "The Contest," the male population of Elk Tooth, Wyoming, vows to put aside their razors for two seasons, ante up ten dollars each, and wait to see who has the longest... Read more

The Darling

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Mary Beth Hurt

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When... Read more

A Bit on the Side

By: William Trevor

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey & Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

William Trevor is truly a Chekhov for our age, and a new collection of stories from him is always a cause for celebration. These twelve stories include:



The waiter who divulges his shocking life of crime to his ex-wife.
A woman repeats the story of her parents' unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy.
The schoolgirl who regrets gossiping about... Read more

The Master Butchers Singing Club

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase... Read more

Four Souls/Tracks

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the world of interconnected novels by Louise Erdrich, Four Souls is most closely linked to Tracks. All these works continue and elaborate on the intricate story of life on a reservation peopled by saints and false saints, heroes and sinners, clever fools and tenacious women. Louise Erdrich reminds us of the deep spirituality and the ordinary... Read more

The Antelope Wif - Abridged

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A fiercely imagined tale of love and loss, a story that manages to transform tragedy into comic redemption, sorrow into heroic survival.”
—New York Times “[A] beguiling family saga….A captivating jigsaw puzzle of longing and loss whose pieces form an unforgettable image of contemporary Native American life.”
—PeopleA New York Times bestselling... Read more

Beyond Suspicion - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Tom Wopat

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued.At the trial,... Read more

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios

By: Yann Martel

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso, Jeff Woodman, David Ledoux, Joh...

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes. In "The Time I Heard the Private Donald... Read more

Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest,...

Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction
 
One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize
 
Cloud Atlas... Read more

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl - Abridged

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).

Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America.... Read more

I Am Charlotte Simmons

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 31 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

2005 Audie Award Finalist

America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketball

Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition...Or so it appears to... Read more

I Am Charlotte Simmons - Abridged

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2005 Audie Award Finalist

America's "peerless observer" (People) uncovers college life—from jocks to mutants, dormcest to tailgating—plus race, class, sex, and basketball

Dupont University—the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition...Or so it appears to... Read more