National Book Award Fiction Longlist
The National Book Award Fiction Longlist titles available in digital audio.
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)
A Novel
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 »
Imagine Me Gone
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 »
The Association of Small Bombs
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 »
Another Brooklyn
A Novel
By Jacqueline Woodson / Narrated by Robin Miles / 2 hours 43 minutes
National Book Award finalist
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 friendship was... Read More »
News of the World
A Novel
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 »