Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Alison's Automotive Repair Manual: A Novel

By: Brad Barkley

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A widow in her mid thirties, Alison has been in mourning for two years. She lives with her sister and brother-in-law in West Virginia, and they are urging her to get on with her life and move back home. Alison promises to leave--just as soon as she renovates a nearly-ruined 1976 Corvette rusting in their garage. Problem is, she doesn't know the... Read more

Clara Callan - Abridged

By: Richard B. Wright

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clara Callan is a deeply moving portrait of two women and of an age heralding seismic changes—the Depression era—that will alter the fabric of their inner lives and the world as they once knew it. Read more

Red Poppies - Abridged

By: Alai

Narrated by: Ping Wu

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tibet, a tiny nation cloaked in mystery and clouded by myth, is the setting for this riveting family saga. Read more

The Little Friend - Abridged

By: Donna Tartt

Narrated by: Donna Tartt

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The hugely anticipated new novel by the author of The Secret History—a best-seller nationwide and around the world, and one of the most astonishing debuts in recent times—The Little Friend is even more transfixing and resonant.

In a small Mississippi town, Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes grows up in the shadow of her brother, who—when she was only a... 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

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

I Don't Know How She Does It - Abridged

By: Allison Pearson

Narrated by: Emma Fielding

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

The Piano Tuner - Abridged

By: Daniel Mason

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

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

Spoon River Anthology - Abridged

By: Edgar Lee Masters

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

In Her Shoes - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Redding

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed to be the greatest novel ever written, the story of Mrs. Bennet's finding husbands for her daughters is told with wit and charm. A must for lovers of good literature.Jane Austen was born in Steventon, England, in 1775, where she lived for the first twenty-five years of her life. Her father, George Austen, was the rector of the local... 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

Jackson's Dilemma

By: Iris Murdoch

Narrated by: Juliet Mills

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Edward Lannion is to marry the lovely Marian Fox. But on the eve of the wedding, Marian's note leaves everyone in a tizzy and full of questions: Where is Marian? And who is Jackson? In this intricately plotted novel, a mysterious, charismatic English butler derails the marriage of his master, a young aristocrat, and his fiancé, sending them both... 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

Her - Abridged

By: Laura Zigman

Narrated by: Ilana Levine

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A smart, deeply satisfying romantic comedy about a woman's obsession with the return of her fiancé's ex.

On the Delta Shuttle between New York and Washington, Elise finds herself sitting next to Donald—tall, with dark wavy hair, a big easy smile. She’s left the world of women's magazines in Manhattan for graduate school in D.C. He’s left... Read more

The Dive From Clausen's Pier - Abridged

By: Ann Packer

Narrated by: Scarlett Johansson

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A suspenseful, richly layered first novel that asks: How much do we owe the people we love?

THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER will speak to all those who have ever thought about leaving when they knew they should stay, anyone who has ever felt trapped, not only by circumstance, but by the strength of their own love, Carrie Bell has lived in Wisconsin... 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

Everything's Eventual

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Oliver Platt & Judith Ivey

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An iconic, spine-tingling story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

“Everything’s Eventual” features Dinky Earnshaw—a nineteen-year-old pizza delivery boy— who gets hired by a mysterious stranger for a unique and totally “eventual” (awesome) job.

“Autopsy Room Four:” The last thing Howard Cottrell remembers is... Read more

Three Weeks in Paris - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Legendary storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford presents a spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they meet again at a school reunion in Paris.

As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Alexandra Gordon, Kay Lenox, Jessica Pierce, and Maria Franconi share... Read more

Tepper Isn't Going Out - Abridged

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Calvin Trillin

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspaper in peace. But he reads while sitting behind the wheel of his parked car, and his car always seems to be in a particularly desirable parking spot. Not surprisingly, he is regularly interrupted by drivers who want to know if he is going out.

Tepper... Read more

A Fine Balance - Abridged

By: Rohinton Mistry

Narrated by: Madhur Jaffrey

Length: 24 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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