Fiction audiobooks

Little Women - Abridged

By: Louisa Alcott

Narrated by: Jamie Lee Curtis

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With humor and pathos, Little Women follows the lives of four young women and their mother as they face the daily struggles of life in the 19th century. First published in 1868, this memorable and touching coming-of-age masterpiece is beloved by generations. Set in Concord, Massachusetts, this is the story of four sisters who learn hard lessons... Read more

Sioux Dawn - Abridged

By: Terry Johnston

Narrated by: Ed Asner

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This historically accurate tale describes one of the worst military disasters ever suffered by the U.S. Army on the Great Plains.At the end of the Civil War, a tremendous stream of soldiers and settlers began moving westward along the Bozeman Trail, cutting deep into sacred Sioux hunting grounds. For Red Cloud and his warriors, a bloody fight to... Read more

Federation - Abridged

By: Judith Reeves-Stevens

Narrated by: Mark Lenard

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This thrilling Star Trek adventure spanning time and space features both of the famous crews of the USS Enterprise led by Captain Kirk and Captain Picard.

Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 are faced with their most challenging mission yet—rescuing renowned scientist Zefram Cochrane from captors who want to use his skills to... Read more

Shadow Song - Abridged

By: Terry Kay

Narrated by: Terry Kay

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

It was a wonderful summer, a great memory, the kind of love everybody ought to have. It changed my life -- or almost did -- and I think about it more than I should, but that was a long time ago.

In the summer of 1955, Madison Lee "Bobo" Murphy was a waiter at the Catskills' Pine hill inn, where the eccentric Avrum Feldman became his unlikely... Read more

Hollywood Kids - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wherever there's money and glamour, trouble can't be too far behind—in Hollywood Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the Hollywood Hills for another absorbing page-turner of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge.

At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings whose parents (all major players) thought that... Read more

Dixie City Jam - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.

It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New... Read more

Star Trek: Cacophony - Abridged

By: J.j. Molloy

Narrated by: George Takei & Simon Jones

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the planet Stentor, silence is not only golden; it is the key to maintaining peace in world devastated by a great war. But that calm is shattered when a group known as the Ghazi create a new technology that intercepts old Earth radio signals and rebroadcasts them across the planet. Each day the din grows more deafening. When Captain Sulu and... Read more

The Butcher Boy - Abridged

By: Patrick Mccabe

Narrated by: Patrick Mccabe

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.

Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to... Read more

The Ship Who Won - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey & Jody Lynn Nye

Narrated by: Constance Towers

Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carialle was born so physically disadvantaged that her only chance for life was as a shellperson. As the brain, Carialle, is a bodiless human wired into a spaceship, while her human partner, Keff, is the brawn. Their mission: to search the galaxy for intelligent beings. Intelligent life is thin on the galactic ground, so when Carialle and Keff... Read more

Forrest Gump - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Winston Groom

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale.

When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a... Read more

Nothing Lasts Forever

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Candy Clark

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In this medical thriller, three female doctors struggle to survive in a San Francisco hospital's “boy's club,” as they encounter the challenges of the medical profession, a murder charge, and a deadly wager. The only three females in a group of new residents, the women quickly become roommates and friends, face long hours, a frenetic work pace,... Read more

Q-Squared - Abridged

By: Peter David

Narrated by: John de Lancie

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In all of his travels Captain Jean-Luc Picard has never faced an opponent more powerful that Q, a being from another continuum that Picard encountered on his very first mission as Captain of the Starship Enterprise™. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard and his crew. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes merely obnoxious,... Read more

Night Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

John Sandford's bestselling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up... Read more

All Good Things... - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum -- a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, but now a decision has been reached: The human race will be eliminated, not only in the... Read more

Dragonsinger - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the world of Pern, Harpers are more powerful than kings, for the music they play can control the minds of others. Harper Hall is a type of music conservatory for harpers (minstrels/educators) and other music professionals. For young Menolly, her dreams of becoming a Harper have nothing to do with power, but rather her love of music. But as... Read more

The Big Kill - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar.  Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone.  But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse.  By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys... Read more

Fallen Heroes - Abridged

By: Dafydd ab Hugh

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade -- a prisoner no one on Deep Space NineTM knows anything about -- Commander Benjamin Sisko has a deadly fight on his hands. Under sudden attack from the heavily armed warriors, Sisko and his crew struggle desperately to repel the invaders and save the lives of everyone on... Read more

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In... Read more

Crystal Line - Abridged

By: Anne McCaffrey

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Killashandra, one of the most gifted singers on Ballybran, is drawn like a magnet to the song of crystal. In order to work with crystal, singers are infected with a symbiotic life form that heals them and gives them near eternal life—but slowly destroys their memories. Since crystal singing brings Killashandra ecstasy, she doesn't mind the... Read more

Charms for the Easy Life - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A family without men, the Birches live gloriously offbeat lives in the lush, green backwoods of North Carolina. In a sad and singular era, they are unique among women of their time. For radiant, headstrong Sophia and her shy and brilliant daughter Margaret possess powerful charms to ward off loneliness, despair, and the human misery that all too... Read more

Second Nature - Abridged

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Kate Nelligan

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Sarek - Abridged

By: A.C. Crispin

Narrated by: Mark Lenard

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The novel begins after the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country™. Spock's mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wife's illness grows worse, duty calls Sarek away -- once again sowing seeds of conflict between father and son.... Read more

Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko & John Weisman

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Richard Marcinko wrote his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in ROGUE WARRIOR II: RED CELL -- a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself... Read more

The Comedians

By: Graham Greene

Narrated by: Joseph Porter

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, where corruption and terror reign under the dictatorship of Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Disillusioned and noncommittal, they are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Brown is a disenchanted English hotel owner; the Smiths are an American couple on a good-will mission;... Read more