Fiction audiobooks

Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Norman Dietz

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Fashioned from the same experiences that would inspire the masterpiece Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's most brilliant and most personal nonfiction work. It is at once an affectionate evocation of the vital river life in the steamboat era and a melancholy reminiscence of its passing after the Civil War, a priceless... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

-Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel-perhaps his most popular-Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge-Hugo captures them all in this... Read more

True At First Light

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Brian Dennehy

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.

A blend of... Read more

Lake News - Abridged

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Melissa Leo

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the center of Lake News is Lily Blake, a talented singer who shuns the limelight and cherishes her privacy. Tricked by a devious reporter into unwittingly giving an interview about her friendship with a newly-appointed cardinal, she finds herself accused of having had an affair with him.
Shocked and dismayed, Lily becomes a pariah as... Read more

The Seville Communion - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magnificent old church faces demolition until a handful of supporters rally to save the landmark. But soon the church's defenders begin to die. Accidents or murder? The task of unraveling the mystery falls to the Vatican's handsome and sophisticated Father Lorenzo Quart. But first he must track down the identity of a savvy computer hacker... Read more

The Descent - Abridged

By: Jeff Long

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old....In Bosnia, Major... Read more

Heartwood - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes -- the sometimes... Read more

McNally's Dilemma - Abridged

By: Lawrence Sanders

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.
Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. After finding... Read more

Vulcan's Heart - Abridged

By: Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz

Narrated by: Tim Russ

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2329: Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Commander Saavik. More than a betrothal, less than a wedding, the sacred Vulcan rite is attended by both Spock's father, Sarek, and a nervous young Starfleet lieutenant named Jean-Luc Picard.
2344: Ambassador Spock receives a top-secret communication from... Read more

Transfer of Power - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This “roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.

The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of... Read more

Duane's Depressed

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of... Read more

The Vanishing Men

By: Martin Greenberg, Jan Grape, Susan Dunlap, Edwa...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality. Written by some of the greats— including Edgar Award Grand Masters Tony Hillerman, Edward D. Hoch, John D. MacDonald, and Ed McBain— these classic stories include:
• “ ... Read more

The Fencing Master - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1868, and Spain teeters on the brink of revolution. Don Jaime de Astarola is Spain's greatest fencing master— a man of honor, an anachronism— priding himself on the precision and dignity of his ancient art, and the perfector of the deadly unstoppable sword thrust technique. His friends spend their days in cafes... Read more

Hermit's Peak - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: Ed J Araiza

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.

When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of... Read more

Song of the Exile - Abridged

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the last innocent days of pre-World War II Honolulu, two people meet almost by chance: Keo, a gifted jazz trumpeter native to the islands, and Sunny, a fiercely independent beauty of Hawaiian and Korean heritage. As their love grows, youth and ambition propel them into a world that is spiraling into madness. From New Orleans to Paris to... Read more

Dangerous Kiss - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss.

In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood... Read more

Back to the Moon - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A renegade rocket man haunted by his past. A beautiful daredevil who thinks she can do it all -- until she finds herself on the adventure of her life. A death-defying mission so risky, so audacious, that no one would try it...unless the fate of the world depended on its success.
Thirty years after man's first lunar landing, retired NASA engineer... Read more

Death Du Jour - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions—and danger—forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this “triumphant second appearance” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC... Read more

Alvin Journeyman - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 4 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.In an alternate frontier where America is ruled by folk magic and mysterious charms, hexes, and potions, a man like Alvin Miller is an extraordinary person. The seventh son of a seventh son, Miller is a "Maker," with the power to create a new future for America. But first, he must defeat his ancient enemy, the... Read more

Turn of the Century - Abridged

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Every Dead Thing - Abridged

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

Falling Bodies - Abridged

By: Andrew Mark

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more

The Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more