Fiction - Literary audiobooks

The Fortress of Solitude

By: Jonathan Lethem

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 18 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of two boys, Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude. They are friends and neighbors, but because Dylan is white and Mingus is black, their friendship is not simple. This is the story of their Brooklyn neighborhood, which is almost exclusively black despite the first whispers of something that will become known as "gentrification."

This is... Read more

Bleachers

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: John Grisham

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty.

Now, as Coach Rake’s “boys” sit in the... Read more

After the Plague

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here... Read more

The Italian Quartet

By: Jane Candia Coleman

Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of... 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

Atonement

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Ian McEwan has received prestigious awards and international praise for his novels, including Enduring Love. In Atonement, three children lose their innocence--as the sweltering summer heat bears down on the hottest day in 1935--and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's priviledged class; Robbie Turner is the... Read more

Straight Man

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Sam Freed

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

William Henry Devereaux, Jr., spiritually suited to playing left field but forced by a bad hamstring to try first base, is the unlikely chairman of the English department at West Central Pennsylvania University. Over the course of a single convoluted week, he threatens to execute a duck, has his nose slashed by a feminist poet, discovers that... Read more

Nobody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 24 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls, this slyly funny, moving novel about a blue-collar town in upstate New York—and about Sully, one of its unluckiest citizens, who has been doing the wrong thing triumphantly for fifty years—is a classic American story.

"Remarkable.... A revelation of the human heart." —The Washington... Read more

Tar Baby - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones—of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the landscape itself becomes animate, alive with a wild, dark complicity in the fates of the people... Read more

Service with a Smile

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Nigel Lambert

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The description of his ancestral seat as an earthly paradise would, at present, have struck its proprietor as ironical, full as it was with unwanted and troublesome inhabitants. What Lord Emsworth needed above all was a rugged ally at his side to remove from Blandings its superfluous guests, leaving him in peace to tend his beloved pig, Empress... Read more

Peyton Place

By: Grace Metalious

Narrated by: Tim O'Connor

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When Grace Metalious's debut novel about the dark underside of a small, respectable New England town was published in 1956, it quickly soared to the top of the bestseller lists. A landmark in twentieth-century American popular culture, Peyton Place spawned a successful feature film and a long-running television series—the first prime-time soap... Read more

The Kite Runner

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more

The Kite Runner - Abridged

By: Khaled Hosseini

Narrated by: Khaled Hosseini

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan grow up in different worlds: Amir... Read more

The Wandering Hill

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Alfred Molina

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The second volume in Larry McMurtry's four-part historical epic featuring the Berrybender family as they continue their journey through the West during the 1830s.

In The Wandering Hill, Larry McMurtry continues the story of Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family in the still unexplored Wild West of the 1830s. Their journey is one of... Read more

Getting Mother's Body

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

Narrated by: Suzan-Lori Parks

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Billy Beede, the teenage daughter of the fast-running, no-account, and six-years-dead Willa Mae, comes home one day to find a fateful letter waiting for her: Willa Mae’s burial spot in LaJunta, Arizona, is about to be plowed up to make way for a supermarket.

As Willa Mae’s only daughter, Billy is heiress to her mother’s substantial but... Read more

Oryx and Crake

By: Margaret Atwood

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize

Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.

This is Margaret... Read more

Villa Incognito

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War.

Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folklore.

Imagine just those things (don’t even try to imagine the love story) and you’ll have a... Read more

Three Junes

By: Julia Glass

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his... Read more

Cosmopolis

By: Don DeLillo

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day—now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson.

It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism—when the... Read more

Evenings at Five

By: Gail Godwin

Narrated by: Gail Godwin

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Every evening at five o’clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christina’s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with his glass of Scotch. They shared a love of language and music (she... Read more

The Short Stories Volume III

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain bold... Read more

Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori

Length: 21 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a... Read more

Child of My Heart

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Sheryl Bernstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A young girl's astonishing, poignant first look into the turbulent heart of things"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats, the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora, the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had been left under our back steps....... Read more

The Stories of Tevye the Dairyman - Abridged

By: Sholem Aleichem

Narrated by: Theodore Bikel

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the buoyant, ingenious, compassionate, resilient, irrepressible, anxious, philosophical, God-loving, God-fearing, Bible-quoting dairyman whose life embodies the existence of a Jew in Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.This program presents six of the... Read more