Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Charles Frazier

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

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One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at... Read more

Queen of the South

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Lina Patel

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet.

A remarkable tale,... Read more

The Forest Lover

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture,... Read more

The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld & Terry Donnelly

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is... Read more

Something Rising (Light and Swift)

By: Haven Kimmel

Narrated by: Chelsey Rives

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Something Rising (Light and Swift), Haven Kimmel’s second novel, is the heart-wrenching story of a female pool hustler who takes care of her family after her rakish father abandons them. Read more

The Book of Joe

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke,... Read more

Enduring Love

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping... Read more

The Innocent

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible. Read more

The Princes of Ireland

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 26 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of London and Sarum, a magnificent epic about love and battle, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of eleven centuries.  The Princes of Ireland brilliantly weaves impeccable historical research and mesmerizing storytelling in capturing the essence of a place and its people.
 
Edward Rutherfurd... Read more

Sacred Time

By: Ursula Hegi

Narrated by: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl & Bobby Canna...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family.
In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imaginatin,... Read more

The Birth of Venus

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more

Dubliners

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Dan O'Herlihy, Patrick McCabe, Ciaran Hinds, Ma...

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland.  Unabridged.The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies.  First published in 1914, the stories are as... Read more

The Short Stories Gift Edition

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bald... Read more

Love

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.

May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend,... Read more

The Pleasure of My Company

By: Steve Martin

Narrated by: Steve Martin

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Shopgirl comes the tender story of a troubled man who finds love, and life, in the most unexpected place. Daniel resides in his Santa Monica apartment, living much of his life as a bystander: He watches from his window as the world goes by, and his only relationships seem to be with people who barely know he... Read more

A Christmas Carol

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Bah Humbug!" That's how Ebeneezer Scrooge feels about Christmas--until the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future decide to show the crotchety old miser the error of his ways. Together they travel through time, revisiting all the people who have played an important role in Scrooge's life. And as their journey concludes, Scrooge is... Read more

Our Lady of the Forest

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars—an emotionally charged, provocative new novel about a teenage girl who claims to see the Virgin Mary.

Ann Holmes seems an unlikely candidate for revelation. A sixteen-year-old runaway, she is an itinerant mushroom picker who lives in a tent. But on a November afternoon, in the foggy woods of... Read more

Last Car to Elysian Fields

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.

For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt... Read more

Last Car to Elysian Fields - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series.

For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt... Read more

The Fortress of Solitude

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."

This is... Read more

The Namesake

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrated by: Sarita Choudhury

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT. Ashoke is forward-thinking, ready to enter into... Read more

Bleachers

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: John Grisham

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the... Read more

The Italian Quartet

By: Jane Candia Coleman

Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of... Read more

After the Plague

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here... Read more