Fiction audiobooks

Like Water for Chocolate - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of... Read more

East of the Mountains - Abridged

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit... Read more

Invisible Life - Abridged

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming-of-age story out of the controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS

Law school, girlfriends, and career choices were all part of Raymond Tyler's life, but there were other, more terrifying issues for him to confront. Being black was tough... Read more

Silent Honor - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a moving novel of families separated and lives shattered by prejudice during one of the most shameful episodes in American history.
 
A man ahead of his time, Japanese college professor Masao Takashimaya of Kyoto had a passion for modern ideas that was as strong as his wife’s belief in... Read more

Daddy - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Oliver Watson's world suddenly dissolves around  him when Sarah his wife of eighteen years, returns  to Harvard to get her master's degree. Oliver is  left on his own, with three children and a freedom  he never wanted and doesn't completely understand.  His family's needs and demands suddenly consume  his life.

When Oliver's mother... Read more

L.A. Requiem - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz

The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same... Read more

The Ionian Mission - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 8th installment in the Aubrey/Maturin Series.

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, veterans now of many battles, return in this novel to the seas where they first sailed as shipmates. But Jack is now senior captain commanding a line-of-battleship in the Royal Navy's blockage of toulon, and this is a longer, harder, colder war than the dashing... Read more

The Patient - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Lisa Harrow

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With one nerve-shattering New York Times bestseller after another, Michael Palmer has demonstrated his extraordinary ability to create medical thrillers that are at once relentlessly suspenseful and chillingly realistic. And now the former ER physician returns with the stunning and explosive tale of a gifted neurosurgeon drawn into a world of... Read more

The Surgeon's Mate - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin are ordered home to bring news of their latest victory. But Maturin is a marked man for the havoc he caused to the French intelligence network in the New World and the British packet carrying them is shadowed by two American privateers.

The chase that follows through the fogs and shallows of the Grand Banks is as... Read more

A Great Deliverance - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.

Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes... Read more

Thank You For Smoking - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The... Read more

The Glass Lake - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Night after night the beautiful woman walked beside the serene waters of Lough Glass. Until the day she disappeared, leaving only a boat drifting upside down on the unfathomable lake that gave the town its name. Ravishing Helen McMahon, the Dubliner with film-star looks and unfulfilled dreams, never belonged in Lough Glass, not the way her... Read more

Vertical Run - Abridged

By: Joseph R. Garber

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A breathless read” (USA Today) featuring “some of the most ingenious military-techno twists this side of Tom Clancy” (San Francisco Chronicle).
 
David Elliot is about to have a very bad day at the office.

Each morning in his forty-fifth floor executive suite, David savors the quiet moments before the workday begins.... Read more

Carnal Innocence - Abridged

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nora Roberts, bestselling author of The Reef and Genuine Lies, mixes scorching passion with icy suspense in her classic novel of murder and infatuation in a southern town--now available in hardcover for the first time.

In the small town of Innocence, Mississippi, days are long, nights are fragrant, and secrets are hard to keep. But when a brutal... Read more

Night Passage - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't... Read more

Fine Things - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Smart, likable Bernie Fine was the wonder boy of Wolff's, New York’s most glamorous department store. A senior VP on the way up, he arrives in San Francisco to open a West Coast store. His career is skyrocketing, but his life lacks a center. When he looks into the wide, innocent eyes of five-year-old Jane O’Reilly,... Read more

The Web - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny... Read more

Playing for the Ashes - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession.... Read more

A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more

Big Stone Gap - Abridged

By: Adriana Trigiani

Narrated by: Adriana Trigiani

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
 
“Delightfully quirky . . . chock-full of engaging, oddball characters... Read more

A Sudden Change of Heart - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past....

Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend....

Nothing hurts like the truth.  A truth that has... Read more

The Clinic - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author.

For three months the police found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller about men. She was found... Read more

Heaven's Price - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown has created a sensation with her contemporary novels. In Heaven’s Price she offers a sexy, tender, and funny story about a woman who thinks she knows her destiny, until she learns that her fate—and her heart—have something else in store.
 
Blair Simpson embraces a life most people merely dream... Read more

Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more