Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Ellen Foster - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."

So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more

The Age of Innocence - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Joanne Woodward

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterful portrait of desire and betrayal that takes place during the sumptuous Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence questions the morals and assumptions of elite 1870s New York society when "scandal was more dreaded than disease." Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly... Read more

Accordion Crimes - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion.

E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the... Read more

The James Joyce Collection

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more

In the Country of Last Things - Abridged

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A dystopian novel about one woman' s efforts to preserve her humanity despite great loss.From a life of ease and comfort, Anna Blume embarks on a search for her missing brother. Soon she finds herself trapped in a city obsessed with last things— with the means and manner of death. In this culture of doom, the masses are... Read more

Sophie's World - Abridged

By: Jostein Gaaardner & Kitt Weagant

Narrated by: Jacob Needleman

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls... Read more

Emerald City

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse, Madeleine Lambert & Charlie...

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

These eleven masterful stories—the first collection from acclaimed author Jennifer Egan—deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. Egan’s characters—models and housewives, bankers and schoolgirls—are united by their search for something outside their own realm of experience. They set out from locations as exotic as China and Bora Bora,... Read more

The Moral Compass - Abridged

By: William J. Bennett

Narrated by: William J. Bennett

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Moral Compass is the inspiring and instructive companion volume to William J. Bennett's bestselling work, The Book of Virtues, offering many more examples of good and bad, right and wrong, in great works from literature and in exemplary stories from history.

Organized by the stages along life's journey, these stories and poems serve as... Read more

Streets Of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Daniel Von Bargen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy—an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.

Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit.... Read more

First Words

By: Paul Mandelbaum, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood,...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was “ Johnathan and the Witchs.” And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's... Read more

Dead Man's Walk

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)... Read more

Sights Unseen - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads "her best novel since Ellen Foster."

Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the "story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that... Read more

Politically Correct Holiday Stories - Abridged

By: James Finn Garner

Narrated by: James Finn Garner

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.
Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype... Read more

Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson

Narrated by: Boots Martin

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Lesley Ann Warren

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tackles the subjects of social stigma, shame, and judgment. Hester Prynne is at the forefront of the scandal, subject to public humiliation for bearing a child out of wedlock. Forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing for the rest of her life, she cannot run from her sin. Hester refuses... Read more

Gump & Co. - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Gump phenomenon continues!

Forrest Gump is back!

The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his own unique way, he is... Read more

Sacrifice of Isaac - Abridged

By: Neil Gordon

Narrated by: Tony Shaloub & Cynthia Nixon

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of John Le Carre...a stunning debut thriller.
A legacy of shadows...
Luke Benami thought his father Yossef was the great man the world said he was: professor, general, Israeli national hero. Luke also thought his brother Danni was the prodigal his family said he was: army deserter, political exile, criminal. But when his father's... Read more

From Time to Time - Abridged

By: Jack Finney

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again.

Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret,... Read more

Time and Again - Abridged

By: Jack Finney

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 50th anniversary edition of the beloved classic that Stephen King has called “THE great time-travel story.” Featuring a brand-new introduction by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion, Blake Crouch.

When advertising artist Si Morley is recruited to join a covert government operation exploring the possibility of time travel, he... Read more

The Fountainhead

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 32 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the century’s most challenging novels of ideas, The Fountainhead champions the cause of individualism through the story of a gifted young architect who defies the tyranny of conventional public opinion. The struggle for personal integrity in a world that values conformity above creativity is powerfully illustrated through three... Read more

The Invisible Circus

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Madeleine Lambert

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jennifer Egan's highly acclaimed first novel, the political drama and familial tensions of the 1960s form a backdrop for the world of eighteen-year-old Phoebe O'Connor.Phoebe is obsessed with the memory and death of her sister Faith, a beautiful idealistic hippie who died in Italy in 1970. In order to find out the truth about Faith's life and... Read more

Madame Bovary - Abridged

By: Gustave Flaubert

Narrated by: Glenda Jackson

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Emma Bovary is the original desperate housewife. Beautiful but bored, Emma is not content to be the mere dutiful wife of a French country doctor. She believes she was meant for something more—a life of luxury, leisure, and, above all, true and passionate love. She spends lavishly on clothes and on her home and throws herself headlong into a... Read more

Closing Time - Abridged

By: Joseph Heller

Narrated by: Elliott Gould

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22.

In Closing Time, Joseph Heller returns to the characters of Catch-22, now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and... Read more