National Book Award Fiction Longlist 2016

By Colson Whitehead  /  Narrated by Bahni Turpin  /  10 hours 43 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially... Read More »

By Adam Haslett  /  Narrated by Ellen Archer  /  10 hours 52 minutes

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION

TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, Newsday

TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 -- San Francisco Chronicle

20 BOOKS THAT DEFINED OUR YEAR -- Wall Street Journal

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Barnes & Noble, BookPage, BuzzFeed, Elle, Financial Times, Huffington... Read More »

By Karan Mahajan  /  Narrated by Neil Shah  /  9 hours 12 minutes

The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in empathy, dazzling in acuity, and ambitious in scope.When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without... Read More »

By Jacqueline Woodson  /  Narrated by Robin Miles  /  2 hours 43 minutes

Longlisted for the National Book Award

New York Times Bestseller

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.

Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read More »

By Paulette Jiles  /  Narrated by Grover Gardner  /  5 hours 58 minutes

National Book Award Finalist—Fiction

It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.

In Wichita Falls, he is offered a... Read More »