All is Vanity
By: Christina Schwarz
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
In All is Vanity, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood and now living on opposite coasts, reach their mid-thirties and begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides the best way to rectify this is to quit her job and whip out a literary tour de force.... Read more
View audiobookSwan
By: Frances Mayes
Narrated by: Debra Monk
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.
In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. ... Read more
I Don't Know How She Does It - Abridged
By: Allison Pearson
Narrated by: Emma Fielding
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental... Read more
View audiobookThe Little Friend
By: Donna Tartt
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review
The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve... Read more
The Piano Tuner - Abridged
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: Yes
An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.
In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more
Samaritan
By: Richard Price
Narrated by: Richard Allen
Length: 14 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to... Read more
View audiobookSpoon River Anthology - Abridged
By: Edgar Lee Masters
Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more
View audiobookThe Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Stacy Keach
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.
Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more
In Her Shoes - Abridged
By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Karen Ziemba
Length: 5 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.
Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide... Read more
The Last Girls
By: Lee Smith
Narrated by: Lee Smith
Length: 12 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The Last Girls centers around four middle-aged Southern women who, as students at an idyllic Blue Ridge women's college thirty years before, were inspired by Huckleberry Finn to take their own raft trip down the Mississippi River. Now a tragedy brings them back together for a repeat voyage under very different circumstances--aboard a luxurious... Read more
View audiobookPride and Prejudice
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: Kate Redding
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed to be the greatest novel ever written, the story of Mrs. Bennet's finding husbands for her daughters is told with wit and charm. A must for lovers of good literature.
Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first twenty-five years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local... Read more
I Don't Know How She Does It
By: Allison Pearson
Narrated by: Josephine Bailey
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental... Read more
View audiobookJackson's Dilemma
By: Iris Murdoch
Narrated by: Juliet Mills
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Edward Lannion is to marry the lovely Marian Fox. But on the eve of the wedding, Marian's note leaves everyone in a tizzy and full of questions: Where is Marian? And who is Jackson? In this intricately plotted novel, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancé, sending them both... Read more
View audiobookThe Piano Tuner
By: Daniel Mason
Narrated by: Richard Matthews
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.
In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more
Her - Abridged
By: Laura Zigman
Narrated by: Ilana Levine
Length: 6 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A smart, deeply satisfying romantic comedy about a woman's obsession with the return of her fiancé's ex.
On the Delta Shuttle between New York and Washington, Elise finds herself sitting next to Donald—tall, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. She’s left the world of women's magazines in Manhattan for graduate school in D.C. He’s left... Read more
The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Abridged
By: Ann Packer
Narrated by: Scarlett Johansson
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do we owe the people we love?
THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay, anyone who has ever felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of their own love, Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin... Read more
The Buffalo Soldier
By: Chris Bohjalian
Narrated by: Alison Fraser
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Midwives and Trans-Sister Radio comes a hauntingly beautiful story of the ties that bind families—and the strains that pull them apart.
In northern Vermont, a raging river overflows its banks and sweeps the nine-year-old twin daughters of Terry and Laura Sheldon to their deaths. In the... Read more
Everything's Eventual
By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Oliver Platt & Judith Ivey
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Includes the story “The Man in the Black Suit”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the iconic, spine-tingling story collection that includes winners of an O. Henry Prize and other awards, and “Riding the Bullet,” which attracted over half a million online readers and became the... Read more
Three Weeks in Paris - Abridged
By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Legendary storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford presents a spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they meet again at a school reunion in Paris.
As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi share... Read more
Tepper Isn't Going Out - Abridged
By: Calvin Trillin
Narrated by: Calvin Trillin
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.
Tepper... Read more
A Fine Balance - Abridged
By: Rohinton Mistry
Narrated by: Madhur Jaffrey
Length: 24 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more
View audiobookBlessings
By: Anna Quindlen
Narrated by: Joan Allen
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of... Read more
View audiobookA Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 24 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more
View audiobookThe Shipping News - Abridged
By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Joy
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.
Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... Read more