Fiction audiobooks

The Pickwick Papers - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nearly two centuries after The Pickwick Papers first appeared in 1837, listeners continue to enjoy the vigorous humor and heartwarming optimism of Dickens' first great literary achievement. Actor Paul Scofield evokes all the warmth and laughter of the unlikely adventures of the immortal Samuel Pickwick, Esq., and the other members of the... Read more

The Bull from the Sea - Abridged

By: Mary Renault

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in classical Greece, this is the riveting sequel to Mary Renault' s The King Must Die.Slaying the minotaur was only the beginning. Theseus's legendary exploits continue in this magnificent tale of mythological adventure in classical Greece. Picking up where The King Must Die left off, this stirring sequel recounts Theseus's... Read more

A Southern Family - Abridged

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Nina Foch

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This profound portrait of family life takes listeners inside the hearts and minds of members of the Quick family, whose raw-edged emotions are stirred up by a visit home. An inexplicably violent death and painful confrontations leave every family member forever changed. Rich in insight and psychological entanglements, A Southern Family is a... Read more

Mercury Rising - Abridged

By: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS -- AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES.
The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap -- a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle a Chinese freighter's cargo of nuclear hardware and its crack crew of naval commandos. It's a leave-no-tracks, take-no-prisoners operation,... Read more

Dust - Abridged

By: Charles Pellegrino

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.

The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old... Read more

Night Train - Abridged

By: Martin Amis

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell—astrophysicist and darling of the community—had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is... Read more

Malice Domestic 3

By: Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Dorothy Cannell, ...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time— Agatha Christie— this collection... Read more

Sharp Edges - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more

Thrill - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jackie Collins’s most outrageous, erotically charged New York Times bestseller is a sexy, shattering roller-coaster thrill ride!

From chic New York and the exclusive Hamptons to the hungry heart of LA, this high-suspense tale pulses with deadly obsessions and relentless desires in the seemingly perfect world of a gorgeous film actress. She could... Read more

Pandora

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.

The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora.... Read more

No Safe Place

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book since the national best-seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.
        In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick... Read more

The Street Lawyer

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

He gave up the money.  He gave up the power.  Now all he has left is the law.

Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm.  One step away from partnership, Michael has it all.  Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage... Read more

Backflash

By: Richard Stark

Narrated by: Robert Davi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A gritty novel featuring resourceful criminal Parker, the anti-hero of Payback.Steel-nerved master thief Parker has his eyes on a fat prize: a gambling casino on the Hudson River. But it' s not in Parker's nature to gamble, so he leaves nothing to chance. From the phony politician to the getaway boat, from bringing guns on board to... Read more

Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

Narrated by: Marni Webb

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr’s parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal... Read more

Claudine à paris

By: Colette

Narrated by: Isabelle Carré

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudine et son père ont quitté leur village de Montigny pour s'installer à Paris, où la jeune fille va découvrir la vie parisienne avec le soutien de son cousin Marcel, son ami, son confident et son complice. Elle finit par s'habituer à la vie dans cette ville qu'elle trouvait dure au début, et commence à sortir et à mener une vie mondaine.... Read more

Stealer of Souls

By: Larry Weiner

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Katey Sagal ("Peg Bundy" on TV's Married With Children, and "Leela" from Futurama) makes a special guest appearance in this hilarious horror about a wickedly bad soul who tries to swipe the essence of innocents, leaving them with a blank look and an overwhelming desire to watch Maury Povich. The only opposition is a fumbling English professor... Read more

Claudine à l'école

By: Colette

Narrated by: Isabelle Carré

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudine, 15 ans, vit à Montigny avec son père, homme distrait, plus préoccupé par les mollusques que par l'éducation de sa fille. Celle-ci fréquente la petite école du village, cadre principal des aventures décrites dans ce livre, présenté comme le journal intime de la jeune fille. Son quotidien est rythmé par les promenades avec sa soeur de... Read more

Our Mutual Friend

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: David Case

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A satiric masterpiece about the allure and peril of money, Our Mutual Friend revolves around the inheritance of a dust-heap where the rich throw their trash. When the body of John Harmon, the dust-heap’s expected heir, is found in the Thames, fortunes change hands surprisingly, raising to new heights “Noddy” Boffin, a low-born but kindly clerk... Read more

C.S.A. - Abridged

By: Howard Means

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For President Spencer Jefferson Lee— the great-great-grandson of both Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee— it's politics as usual. On one side, the lily-white Senate wants quid pro quo; on the other, the all-Black House has an agenda of its own. The powers-that-be agree on one thing: Utter separation between the races is... Read more

The Fall of a Sparrow - Abridged

By: Robert Hellenga

Narrated by: David Birney & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After the violent death of his oldest daughter during a terrorist bombing, small town college professor Alan "Woody" Woodhall finds himself standing in the cemetery where she was buried. Woody is convinced that life has taught him all the lessons he has to learn: His wife has left him, and his two remaining daughters have grown up and moved... Read more

Attack on the Queen - Abridged

By: Richard Henrick

Narrated by: William Atherton

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aboard the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the world's most powerful leaders meet to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal. They infiltrate the ship— and in a... Read more

The Blood Artists - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Gordon Thomson

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives— making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo... Read more

Red Prophet - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The second installment of Orson Scott Card' s best-selling series The Tales of Alvin Maker.In the first tale of Alvin Maker— Seventh Son— listeners are introduced to a pioneer America where magic works and special talents are utilized in marvelous ways. In this second installment in the Tales of Alvin Maker,... Read more