Literary Fiction

O Sinners!

A Novel

By: Nicole Cuffy
Narrated by: JD Jackson & SEVAN
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

In this “engrossing” (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control—and what it takes, ultimately, to find one’s place in the world.

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Hunchback

A Novel

By: Saou Ichikawa
Narrated by: Yuriri Naka
Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibilities of her life—“not only a major achievement in disability literature but great literature period” (Johanna Hedva)

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Split Tooth

By: Tanya Tagaq
Narrated by: Tanya Tagaq
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

“Tanya Tagaq is a musical artist in more ways than one. As a world-renowned Inuit throat singer, she has already stunned the world with her powerful songs and lyrics, but now in her first memoir, an explosive combination of narrative, poetry, myth, truth, and ferocity, she weaves the story of a young girl who comes of age in a small Arctic town,... Read more

Family Meal

A Novel

By: Bryan Washington
Narrated by: André Santana, Bryan Washington & Jake Choi
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

"Achingly and beautifully etched. . . Washington is a generous and gentle writer, with a profound capacity to face the cruelty and pain of contemporary American life while simultaneously offering his characters—and readers—an expansive space for self-forgiveness, hope, and nourishment."—The Washington Post

The ghost of Kai, the love of Cam's... Read more

Rosarita

By: Anita Desai
Narrated by: Meera Simhan
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

“Approached by a tricky stranger, Bonita reluctantly embarks on a haunting and unpredictable stumble through a strange city and through her mother’s past. For fans of Laura van den Berg and Yoko Ogawa, this novella reads like a fever dream. Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn
Narrated by: Tui Asau, G.K. Bowes, Kaleo Griffith & Jolene Kim
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

“Sometimes legends aren’t just stories, they live and walk among us. Washburn’s debut novel follows the path of one native Hawaiian family as they discover what it means to inherit a legend, and live with that inheritance. I fell in love with this family: the mother, Malia, with her lyrical voice and her deep connection to the islands, Dean, the... Read more

The Fetishist

By: Katherine Min
Narrated by: Eunice Wong & Kayla Min Andrews
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

“'Mom [Katherine Min] liked intense, unconventional characters and beautiful prose...the novels we read together were moments of transcendent power...[where] an essential truth about the human condition is revealed.' - Kayla Min Andrews, Afterword. Following the revenge machinations of now-motherless Kyoko, the physical decline of musician Alma,... Read more

I Am Not Sidney Poitier

A Novel

By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Amir Abdullah
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is an irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett



I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk-taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in the world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. I was Not Sidney Poitier.



Not Sidney Poitier is an amiable young man... Read more

Sula

By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a... Read more