Fiction - Literary audiobooks

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

Blessings

By: Anna Quindlen

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of... 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 Shipping News - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Robert Joy

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday... 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

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

By: Ann B. Ross

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Marie Puckett appears at her door with a youngster in tow and unceremoniously announces that the child is the bastard son of Miss Julia's late husband. Suddenly, this longtime church member and pillar of her small Southern community finds herself in... Read more

Good Harbor - Abridged

By: Anita Diamant

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Anita Diamant, whose rich portrayal of the biblical world of women illuminated her acclaimed international bestseller The Red Tent, now crafts a moving novel of contemporary female friendship.

Good Harbor is the long stretch of Cape Ann beach where two women friends walk and talk, sharing their personal histories and learning life's lessons from... Read more

Swift As Desire - Abridged

By: Laura Esquivel

Narrated by: Elizabeth Pena

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magical, sensuous new love story from the author of the international bestseller Like Water for Chocolate.

Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Jublio was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sind and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as... Read more

Ethan Frome

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterpiece by Edith Wharton, author of The Age of Innocence.Winter in a Massachusetts village serves as a backdrop to Edith Wharton' s masterpiece about a man with little hope of escaping his bleak future. Married to an older woman named Zeena, Ethan Frome finds himself drawn to his wife' s cousin, Mattie. Although he... Read more

Hearts In Atlantis

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: William Hurt & Stephen King

Length: 20 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic collection of five deeply resonant and disturbing interconnected stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King.

Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues... Read more

The Corrections - Abridged

By: Jonathan Franzen

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Corrections is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century -- a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have... Read more

The Smoke Jumper - Abridged

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Luke Perry

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

His first novel, the international phenomenon The Horse Whisperer, became a publishing legend, setting a benchmark for contemporary bestsellers when it hit #1 on the New York Times list faster than any first novel in history.

He returned to enthrall his fans all across the world with his second triumph, The Loop, proving that here was a master... 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

Among the Missing - Abridged

By: Dan Chaon

Narrated by: Dylan Baker & Becky Ann Baker

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psychological landscape of his characters to dazzling effect. Each story radiates with sharp humor,... Read more

Bitterroot - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more