Fiction audiobooks

Swan

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

No Way to Treat a First Lady - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Tim Matheson

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Christopher Buckley, the bestselling author of the comic classics The White House Mess and Thank You for Smoking, returns to the funniest place in America: Washington, D.C.

Elizabeth Tyler MacMann, the First Lady of the United States, has been charged with killing her philandering husband, the President of the United States. In the midst of a... Read more

The Crush

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Tom Wopat

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Rennie Newton is summoned to jury duty, she brings to the courtroom the same level of competence that she displays in the operating room. Her commitment to precision compels her to deliver a not guilty verdict in the murder case against notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada.
It will be the most regrettable decision in her... Read more

The Murder Book

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality—an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and that of longtime friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.

The nightmare begins ... Read more

Chains of Command - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: Robert Culp

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During Desert Storm, Major Darren Mace made a fateful decision to go against orders— to abort a secret mission that was, in his judgment, ill-advised. His actions landed him in military exile. Now Mace has moved on to the Air Force Reserves. There's a new US president, a new era, and a new war is escalating along the Ukraine border.... Read more

The Murder Book - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality—an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and that of longtime friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.

The nightmare begins ... 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

The Crush - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Tom Wopat

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Dr. Rennie Newton is summoned to jury duty, she brings to the courtroom the same level of competence that she displays in the operating room. Her commitment to precision compels her to deliver a not guilty verdict in the murder case against notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada.
It will be the most regrettable decision in her... Read more

Cloud of Sparrows - Abridged

By: Takashi Matsuoka

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Exotic, entertaining . . . [an] exceptional first novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The year is 1861. After two centuries of isolation, Japan has opened its doors to the West. And as foreign ships threaten to rain destruction on the Shogun’s castle in Edo, a small group of American missionaries has arrived to spread the word of their God. They... Read more

Dark Matter - Abridged

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: Byron Jennings

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I swore not to tell this story while Newton was still alive.

1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which... Read more

No One to Trust - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Final Target, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt—and the woman who is determined to hunt him down.

He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. And he has the... Read more

Shadow Puppets

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: David Birney & Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth and The Shadow Series.

Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory... Read more

The 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

Dream of Me

By: Josie Litton

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in ninth-century England and Norway, Dream of Me tells the story of Wolf Hakonson, a fierce Norse chief who falls in love when he kidnaps the sister of his rival, Hawk, a prominent Saxon lord. Wolf marries the lovely Cymbra but their wedded bliss is short-lived. First the women of the settlement refuse to accept their Saxon mistress who... Read more

Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews. Aficionados of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos will revel in Andrews's trademark dry humor, offbeat characters, and disastrous events unfolding at another classic American... 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

The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara: Morgawr - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The action is fast and furious . . . A fitting conclusion to one trilogy and a promising taking-off point for another.”—Booklist

Harrowing confrontations with the merciless Ilse Witch and the monstrous Antrax have taken their toll on the intrepid heroes aboard the airship Jerle Shannara. But their darkest adversary now snaps at their heels, in... Read more

Schattensaiten 3 - Die lebende Statue

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne zittert, als sich der kühle Stahl der Messerklinge an ihre Kehle drückt. Sie ist völlig hilflos. Hoffentlich können ihre Freunde ihr beistehen. Ein Zeitungsartikel über eine verschwundene Statue auf dem Friedhof ruft Daniel, Anne, Christian und Claudia erneut auf den Plan. Die Täter haben keine Spuren hinterlassen, der einzige Zeuge hat nur... Read more

Spoon 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

From A Buick 8

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker,...

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none…

Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just... Read more

The 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

December 6 - Abridged

By: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.

Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true... Read more

War of Honor - Abridged

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR
Thomas Theisman didn't. After risking his life and a fresh round of civil war to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution, an interstellar war was the last thing he wanted.
Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly... Read more