Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By: Anthony Doerr

Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post... Read more

Playground

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Robin Siegerman, Eunice Wong...

Length: 13 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory and Bewilderment.
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to... Read more

Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

Narrated by: Rachel Kushner

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

2024 AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER!

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and... Read more

Malibu Rising

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • From the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo . . .

“Irresistible . . . High drama at the beach, starring four sexy, surfing siblings and their deadbeat, famous-crooner dad.”—People

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more

There There

By: Tommy Orange

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuer...

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.

A contemporary classic, this “astonishing literary debut” (Margaret Atwood, bestselling... Read more

The Poisonwood Bible

By: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrated by: Dean Robertson

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family... Read more

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.

“I could not stop reading... Read more

Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: James Fouhey, Lisa Flanagan, Graham Halstead, K...

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME

“A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative voices create a story so powerful, reading it feels like watching a... Read more

The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Joanna Lumley & Jordan Stephens

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times Bestseller

“An odyssey of action and awe.” —The New York Times

“A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human.” —Benedict Cumberbatch

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide

“What looks like magic is... Read more

The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

By: Colson Whitehead

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Colson Whitehead

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This follow-up to The Underground Railroad brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. • "One of the most gifted novelists in America today." —NPR

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR... Read more

We Could Be Rats

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A “one-sitting-read" (Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author) about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.

Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always... Read more

Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Hernan Diaz

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò...

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery... Read more

Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cue...

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his... Read more

Long Bright River

By: Liz Moore

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A PEACOCK LIMITED SERIES STARRING AMANDA SEYFRIED

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR—BY THE AUTHOR OF THE GOD OF THE WOODS

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then one of them goes missing.

In a... Read more

Jane Austen Collection: The Complete Novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion...)

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Karen Savage & Elizabeth Klett

Length: 69 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan (starts at Chapter 1) - Sense and Sensibility (starts at Chapter 44) - Pride and Prejudice (starts at Chapter 96) - Mansfield Park (starts at Chapter 159) - Emma (starts at Chapter 209) - Persuasion (starts at... Read more

The Guncle

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor
National Bestseller • Wall Street Journal Bestseller • USA Today Bestseller
An NPR Book of the Year
Finalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards

From the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected... Read more

A Gentleman in Moscow

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 17 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

By: Delia Owens

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
More than 18 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade 

“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon

“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review

For years,... Read more

West with Giraffes

By: Lynda Rutledge

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.“Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…”Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the... Read more

The Measure

By: Nikki Erlick

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!""A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us."" —Jenna Bush Hager A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find... Read more

The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick

For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the... Read more

This is Happiness

By: Niall Williams

Narrated by: Dermot Crowley

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.

For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling... Read more

Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a miraculous job reminding us of all the wonder there is to be found in life.""—Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake“If you like my novels, you will love love love this . . .... Read more

The Lincoln Highway

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland & Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

More than ONE MILLION copies sold

A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

A New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Readers’ Choice Best Book of the Century, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year

“Wise and wildly entertaining . . .... Read more