Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Villages

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightful, witty, passionate novel that follows its hero from the Depression era to the early twenty-first century—from a master of American letters and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Rabbit series.

John Updike’s twenty-first novel, a bildungsroman, follows Owen Mackenzie from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town... Read more

Mrs. Kimble

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“Beautiful, devastating and complex.” —Chicago Tribune

The award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, predatory, and enigmaticopportunist: Ken Kimble. Resonating with emotional intensity and... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

Accidental Happiness

By: Jean Reynolds Page

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone once told me that groupings of objects should be displayed in threes. Three provides both tension and balance among items of varying size and heft. My sister’s accident made me an only child; my husband’s accident made me a widow. Part of me will always believe that Angel was the third, the one that left me with hope.

After her husband’s... Read more

March

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Richard Easton

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord.

From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the ache of love and marriage and with the power of war... Read more

The Mermaid Chair

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A transcendent tale of a woman's self-discovery—the New York Times–bestselling second work of fiction by the author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings

Inside the church of a Benedictine monastery on Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and... Read more

The Portrait

By: Iain Pears

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A national bestseller from acclaimed author Iain Pears, The Portrait is a novel of suspense and a tour de force.

An art critic journeys to a remote island off Brittany to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile. The painter recalls their years of friendship, the gift of the critic's... Read more

Before You Know Kindness - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the... Read more

Blonde - Abridged

By: Joyce Carol Oates

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeSoon to be a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child,... Read more

Nights of Rain and Stars

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.

Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as... Read more

Little Earthquakes - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jennifer Weiner

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood.

Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the... Read more

Florence of Arabia - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations–in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight.

Appalled... Read more

The Rule of Four

By: Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius.
THE RULE OF FOUR
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its... Read more

A Bend in the River

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This incandescent novel chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of Africa, a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. Exploring political and individual corruption, it expresses skepticism about the ability of newly decolonized nations to forge... Read more

Tishomingo Blues - Abridged

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Paul Rudd

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.”—Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque ride featuring gamblers, mobsters, murderers, high divers, and... Read more

Birds Without Wings - Abridged

By: Louis de Bernieres

Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences.

But with the ... Read more

The Book of Illusions

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to study the works of... Read more

Tishomingo Blues

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.”—Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque ride featuring gamblers, mobsters, murderers, high divers, and... Read more

Valdez Is Coming - Abridged

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Keith Carradine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance.Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks... Read more

A Carnivore's Inquiry

By: Sabina Murray

Narrated by: Wendy Hoopes

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. Read more

Before You Know Kindness

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the... Read more

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.“A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.”In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic... Read more

Danielle Steel Value Collection - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Richard Thomas, Tim Curry & Boyd Gaines

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection of three titles from one of America's bestselling authors is available at a special value price.

Fine Things
Bernie Fine had everything, even what he wanted most, a family. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and he has to rebuild his life, care for his children and cope with his own loss until he gathers the strength to find a new... Read more

A Home at the End of the World

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts & Blair Brown

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan.

There's Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after... Read more