Fiction audiobooks
A Confederacy of Dunces
By: John Kennedy Toole
Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears... Read more
View audiobookThe Washington Irving Library
By: Washington Irving
Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist
Length: 3 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Washington Irving's tales of romance, travel, biographical discourse, and literary musing introduced such classic characters as Rip Van Winkle, Ichabod Crane, and the Headless Horsemen of Sleepy Hollow. A sage, storyteller, and wit, Irving earned his preeminence in early American literature with these miniature masterpieces that have stood the... Read more
View audiobookA Virtuous Woman - Abridged
By: Kaye Gibbons
Narrated by: Terry Beaver & Kaye Gibbons
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the carefully raised daughter of Carolina gentry and he was a skinny tenant farmer who had never owned anything in his life. She was newly widowed after a disastrous marriage to a brutal drifter. He had never asked a woman to do more than help him hitch a... Read more
View audiobookThe Old Curiosity Shop - Abridged
By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Paul Scofield
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In London, Little Nell lives in The Old Curiosity Shop with her grandfather, who has a weakness for gambling. Hoping to mend his finances, the old man borrows money from Quilp, a moneylender and swindler. After losing that money as well, the grandfather flees to the country with Nell in a desperate attempt to escape the clutches of Quilp, who... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Valentine - Abridged
By: James Pratt
Narrated by: Vyto Ruginis
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
On February 14, 1944, Caroline Thomas said goodbye to her beloved husband, a Navy pilot sent to the Pacific. For half a century, she waited for him to return— until a miracle happened and she received his "Last Valentine." Their son, Neil Thomas, Jr., wants to share the powerful message of his parents' tragic, yet triumphant, 50-year... Read more
View audiobookLegends of the Ferengi - Abridged
By: Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Narrated by: Armin Shimmerman
Length: 1 hour 33 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A collection of the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs, using coveted Ferengi wisdom and recounting legendary tales of profit.
For centuries the famous Ferengi "Rules of Acquisition" have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. But the wisdom behind them was not won without a high... Read more
Caesar - Abridged
By: Colleen McCullough
Narrated by: Michael York
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: Yes
It is 54 B.C. Gaius Julius Caesar is sweeping through Gaul. While his victories in the name of Rome are epic, the conservative leaders of the Republic are not pleased -- they are terrified. Where will the boundless ambition of Rome's most brilliant soldier stop? He must be destroyed before he can overthrow the government and install himself as... Read more
View audiobookComanche Moon
By: Larry McMurtry
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The epic four-volume cycle that began with Larry McMurty's Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, Lonesome Dove, is completed with this brilliant and haunting novel—a capstone in a mighty tradition of storytelling.
Texas Rangers August McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, now in their middle years, are just beginning to deal with the enigmas of the adult... Read more
The Best Laid Plans
By: Sidney Sheldon
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more
View audiobookThe Best Laid Plans - Abridged
By: Sidney Sheldon
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more
View audiobookThe Angel of Darkness - Abridged
By: Caleb Carr
Narrated by: Boyd Gaines
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year... Read more
Only Love - Abridged
By: Erich Segal
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 5 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A wealthy man with a critically ill wife seeks the help of Matthew Hiller, a world-class neurosurgeon with a thriving practice. In addition to facing a difficult professional challenge, Matthew confronts the most brutal emotional crisis of his life: the lovely patient, Silvia, was his lover years ago. Fighting to save her, Matthew recalls their... Read more
View audiobookViolin - Abridged
By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Maria Tucci
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation.
At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into... Read more
Windmills of the God - Abridged
By: Sidney Sheldon
Narrated by: Lee Remick
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her... Read more
View audiobookThe Letter - Abridged
By: Richard Paul Evans
Narrated by: Richard Thomas
Length: 2 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is... Read more
View audiobookAnother City, Not My Own - Abridged
By: Dominick Dunne
Narrated by: Dominick Dunne
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding “ ... Read more
View audiobookUnderworld - Abridged
By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Richard Poe
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books
“A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.” —San Francisco Chronicle
*With a... Read more
Life Support - Abridged
By: Tess Gerritsen
Narrated by: Megan Gallagher
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic.
The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine—until she admits a man in critical condition from a... Read more
Men in Black - Abridged
By: Steve Perry & Ed Soloman
Narrated by: David Dukes
Length: 3 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: Yes
While much of the world watches and waits for signs of extraterrestrial life, a select group of individuals know the truth: alien beings are already here and walking among us in human form. Members of a top-secret agency— an organization known only as “ Men in Black” — are dedicated to tracking and... Read more
View audiobookNight Train to Memphis
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Another exciting tale following the adventures of art history professor Vicky Bliss—who keeps getting involved in international crime.An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a PhD in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a... Read more
View audiobookThe Menace from Earth, and Other Stories
By: Robert A. Heinlein
Narrated by: Rob McQuay
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
From a master of science fiction comes eight startling stories of time and space.In “The Year of the Jackpot,” a statistician charts a curve of unusual happenings throughout the earth, only to find that his facts and figures prove the approach of the end of the world.In “By His Bootstraps,” a man steps thirty thousand years into time and is... Read more
View audiobookThe New Frontier - Abridged
By: Peter David
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Sector 221-G: For the whole of Federation history, this large
area of space has been controlled by the Thallonians, a cruel,
militaristic race of which little is knownexcept that they rule
the other races in their sector with vicious iron hand.
Now the Thallonian Empire has collapsed and the systems it once
ruled are in chaos. Old hatreds are... Read more
Star Trek: The Original Series: Vulcan's Forge - Abridged
By: Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Narrated by: Leonard Nimoy
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Just over a year ago, Captain James T. Kirk was lost to the Nexus while saving the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B from destruction. Aboard the science ship Intrepid II, Captain Spock, commanding some of his old crewmates, must face the loss of his closest friend. But while still in mourning for one friend, he must come to the aid of another. Decades... Read more
View audiobookCimarron Rose - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.
Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His... Read more