Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Ambush at Fort Bragg

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Edward Norton

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

As the producer of a prime-time TV newsmagazine, Irv Durtscher fancies himself the Federico Fellini of television journalism. For who else can draw 50 million viewers, satisfy the network's gluttony for profits, and advance the cause of social justice? The only problem is that no one else recognizes Irv's genius. Instead, all the accolades go to... Read more

The Running Mate

By: Joe Klein

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by The New York Times, and "written perfectly" by The Washington Post, Joe Klein's #1 bestseller, Primary Colors, was the most-talked-about political novel of the past century. Now acclaimed journalist and author Joe Klein returns with another brilliant and slyly subversive novel set in the gladiatorial arena... Read more

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Tom Robbins has a grasp on things that dazzles the brain and he's also a world-class storyteller."
--Thomas Pynchon

In Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, his seventh and biggest novel, the wise, witty, always gutsy Tom Robbins brings onstage the most complex and compelling character he has ever created.

Switters is a contradiction for all... Read more

The Man Who Ate the 747

By: Ben Sherwood

Narrated by: David Schramm

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of the greatest love, ever....

J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed... Read more

The Golden Age

By: Gore Vidal

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline... Read more

A Painted House

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: David Lansbury

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the town... Read more

East of the Mountains

By: David Guterson

Narrated by: Don Hastings

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes ”a strikingly joyful book and a monumental achievement” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) about a dying man’s final journey through the American West.

When he discovers that he has terminal cancer, retired heart surgeon Ben Givens refuses to simply sit... Read more

The Buffalo Soldier

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Alison Fraser

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Midwives and Trans-Sister Radio comes a hauntingly beautiful story of the ties that bind families—and the strains that pull them apart.


In northern Vermont, a raging river overflows its banks and sweeps the nine-year-old twin daughters of Terry and Laura Sheldon to their deaths. In the... Read more

Seek My Face

By: John Updike

Narrated by: Kathryn Walker

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting novel that takes place in one day about an elderly painter and the New Yorker interviewing her—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. • “A brief novel of deep feeling.”—Time

On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old... Read more

The Piano Tuner

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century.

In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma, where a rare Erard grand piano is in need of repair.... Read more

I Don't Know How She Does It

By: Allison Pearson

Narrated by: Josephine Bailey

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just don't know how you do it," out a window, here's a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental... Read more

Samaritan

By: Richard Price

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him beaten nearly to death. Ray refuses to name his assailant, which makes him intensely interesting to... Read more

The Little Friend

By: Donna Tartt

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. •  “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve... Read more

A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 24 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers--a spirited... Read more

The World Below

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Judith Ivey

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of While I Was Gone, a stunning new novel that showcases Sue Miller's singular gift for exposing the nerves that lie hidden in marriages and families, and the hopes and regrets that lie buried in the hearts of women.

Maine, 1919. Georgia Rice, who has cared for her father and two siblings since her mother's death, is diagnosed,... Read more

The Cold Six Thousand

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the... Read more

Memoirs of A Geisha

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more

The Fourth Hand

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

While reporting a story from India, New York journalist Patrick Wallingford inadvertently becomes his own headline when his left hand is eaten by a lion. In Boston, a renowned surgeon eagerly awaits the opportunity to perform the nation’s first hand transplant. But what if the donor’s widow... Read more

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

By: Dai Sijie

Narrated by: B.D. Wong

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller.

At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of... Read more

Swan

By: Frances Mayes

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

By the #1 bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, Bella Tuscany and In Tuscany, Swan is a haunting novel set in the deep South -- a resonant tale of long-buried family secrets and mysteries brought suddenly to light.

In her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a powerful and shaping place. ... Read more

Thirteen Moons

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 15 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading... Read more

All is Vanity

By: Christina Schwarz

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In All is Vanity, Margaret and Letty, best friends since childhood and now living on opposite coasts, reach their mid-thirties and begin to chafe at their sense that they are not where they ought to be in life. Margaret, driven and overconfident, decides the best way to rectify this is to quit her job and whip out a literary tour de force.... Read more

Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”

Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.

Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a... Read more

Haunted

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Various

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you’ll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined “Writers’ Retreat: Abandon Your Life for Three Months,” and who... Read more