Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Crazyladies of Pearl Street - Abridged

By: Trevanian

Narrated by: Tom Bosely

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Legendary writer Trevanian brings readers his most personal novel yet: a funny, deeply felt, often touching coming-of-age novel set in 1930s America.

Six-year-old Jean-Luc LaPointe, his little sister, and his spirited but vulnerable young mother have been abandoned—again—by his father, a charming con artist. With no money and nowhere else... Read more

A Long Way Down

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.

Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come... Read more

Specimen Days

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly anticipated, bold new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours—three linked visionary narratives set in the ever-mysterious, turbulent city of New York

In each section of Michael Cunningham's new book, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost... Read more

Specimen Days - Abridged

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A highly anticipated, bold new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours—three linked visionary narratives set in the ever-mysterious, turbulent city of New York

In each section of Michael Cunningham's new book, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost... Read more

The Stranger

By: Albert Camus

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

With millions of copies sold The Stranger is one of the most widely read novels in the world. It stands as perhaps the greatest existentialist tale ever conceived. When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. This remarkable translation by Matthew Ward has been considered the... 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

The History of Love

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: George Guidall, Barbara Caruso, Andy Paris & Ju...

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicole Krauss' first novel, Man Walks Into a Room, was shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and her short fiction has been collected in Best American Short Stories. Now The History of Love proves Krauss is among our finest and freshest literary voices. It has been decades since Leo Gursky first surrendered his heart, then wrote a... Read more

The Bright Forever

By: Lee Martin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark, harrowing novel about a nine-year-old girl's disappearance and the lasting impact it has on her close-knit community

On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books.

This simple act is at the... Read more

Leeway Cottage - Abridged

By: Beth Gutcheon

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In this beautifully written tour de force of a novel, Beth Gutcheon takes readers back to the coastal village of Dundee, Maine. There, in a Victorian summer house called Leeway Cottage, we witness the scenes of a long 20th century marriage.In April of 1940, a rich girl of the Dundee summer colony named Sydney Brant marries a gifted Danish... Read more

Oh My Stars - Abridged

By: Lorna Landvik

Narrated by: Judith Ivey

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.

Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child,... Read more

Lettres à un jeune poète - Abridged

By: Rainer Maria Rilke

Narrated by: François Garagnon

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En 1903, un poète de vingt ans, Franz Xaver Kappus, alors étudiant à l'Académie militaire de Wiener-Neustadt, décide d'envoyer à Rainer-Maria Rilke, ses premiers essais poétiques accompagnés d'une lettre dans laquelle il lui avoue douter de sa vocation. Il ne pouvait espérer plus belle écoute et plus juste accueil à ses incertitudes. Pendant 5... Read more

Rules for Old Men Waiting

By: Peter Pouncey

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge, Rules for Old Men Waiting is about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage. In a house on the Cape “older than the Republic,” Robert MacIver, a historian who long ago played rugby for Scotland, creates a list of rules by which to live out his last days. The most... Read more

Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, Verne's hero traverses the far reaches of the earth, all the while tracked by the intrepid... Read more

The Journeys of Socrates - Abridged

By: Dan Millman

Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The international bestselling author is back with a page-turning tale of the origins of the peaceful warriorIn the heart of nineteenth century Tsarist Russia an orphaned boy born of both Jewish and Cossack blood desperately seeks to find a place in a dangerous world. Sergei Ivanov’s (Socrates’) journey from a military academy to America is a... Read more

Sudden Rain - Abridged

By: Maritta Wolff

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A novel set in the fall of 1972, it perfectly captures, with expansive emotion and keen observation, the domestic trends. Read more

Oh My Stars

By: Lorna Landvik

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

I am convinced that at birth the cake is already baked. Nurture is the nuts or frosting, but if you’re a spice cake, you’re a spice cake, and nothing is going to change you into an angel food.

Tall, slender Violet Mathers is growing up in the Great Depression, which could just as well define her state of mind. Abandoned by her mother as a child,... Read more

The Breakdown Lane

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Where can a woman turn when her own life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her children safe? New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard takes the readers of her newest novel on a wry and moving journey of loss and healing.Giving advice is what Julieanne does for a living -- every Sunday she doles it out in a column in her... Read more

Lost in the Forest

By: Sue Miller

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly two decades, since the publication of her iconic first novel, The Good Mother, Sue Miller has distinguished herself as one of our most elegant and widely celebrated chroniclers of family life, with a singular gift for laying bare the interior lives of her characters. In each of her novels, Miller has written with exquisite precision... Read more

Plasma (Completo)

By: Guadalupe Santa Cruz

Narrated by: Nicolás Echiburú

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Guadalupe Santa Cruz nos traslada esta vez a la geografía del desierto, su gente, sus oficios, sus anhelos y opacidades. Esta es una novela cuya trama gira en torno al seguimiento de una aparente narcotraficante. Una trama simple, aparentemente, con un lenguaje personal que expone con relativa transparencia, y rescatando palabras del habla local... Read more

The Man in My Basement

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Ernie Hudson

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.

The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to... Read more

Shoot the Moon - Abridged

By: Billie Letts

Narrated by: Lou Diamond Phillips

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From one of America's best-loved storytellers - the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Where the Heat Is - comes a tale of a small Oklahoma town and the mystery that has haunted its residents for years.

In 1972, windswept DeClare, Oklahoma, was consumed by the murder of a young mother, Gaylene Harjo, and the disappearance of her baby,... Read more

Everything Changes

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan Tropper’s novel The Book of Joe dazzled critics and readers alike with its heartfelt blend of humor and pathos. Now Tropper brings all that–and more–to an irresistible new novel. In Everything Changes, Tropper delivers a touching, wickedly funny new tale about love, loss, and the perils of a well-planned life.

EVERYTHING CHANGES

To... Read more

Dead Eyes - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The notes are signed Admirer. At first respectful, they become increasingly bizarre and are accompanied by roses, then other, more macabre offerings. Chris Calloway, a rising young Hollywood actress, finds the letters irritating, then frightening, but when a freak accident takes away her sight, Admirer turns her world into a nightmare.Joe... Read more

HEAT - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime.Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he's serving after being convicted of a plan he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he's ready to... Read more