Summer '24 Literary Fiction

Table for Two

Fictions

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

“I like very few short story collections. I can literally count them on one hand. This maybe completes the hand, as the fifth. And honestly I think it's because Towles is SUCH a talented writer. I bookmarked numerous places in my audiobook that I want to transfer to my print copy because I loved how he wrote something and want to be able to look... Read more

Lies and Weddings

A Novel

By: Kevin Kwan
Narrated by: Jing Lusi
Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

“Lies and Weddings is everything I was hoping it would be (and more): The footnotes (I'm here for all of them), the unlikeable matriarch (all those unachievable expectations), the commentary on excess (wealth, debt, drugs), and of course the love story (or, really, stories). A must add to your summer TBR! Read more

Same As It Ever Was

A Novel

By: Claire Lombardo
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK BY PEOPLE AND PARADE • The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had (“wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing”—NPR) returns with another brilliantly observed family drama in which the enduring, hard-won affection of a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past... Read more

Malas

A Novel

By: Marcela Fuentes
Narrated by: Christine Avila & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

A Bookpage Best Historical Fiction Book of 2024

“A vivacious, page-turning novel of rebellion and rebirth.” —Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a... Read more

Real Americans

A novel

By: Rachel Khong
Narrated by: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang & Eunice Wong
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“Real Americans is a novel about people doing their best for the people they love, the vast spectrum of what that can mean, and how anyone lives with the impossible choices they make in pursuit of that noble goal. This is also a novel about what makes a person who they are - their experiences, genetics, community, environment, place in history,... Read more

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“In Colm Tóibín’s new book, Long Island, his masterful language and ability to draw quietly engaging characters is on full display. When a stranger knocks on Eilis Lacey’s door with an alarming message, her life and that of her family is thrown into disarray. After receiving the news, she returns to her hometown of Enniscorthy, where she... Read more

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

A Novel

By: Briony Cameron
Narrated by: Angel Pean
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

This “thrilling, swashbuckling story” (People) based on true events illuminates a woman of color’s rise to power as one of the few female pirate captains to sail the Caribbean, and a forbidden love story that will shape the course of history.

In the tumultuous town of Yáquimo, Santo Domingo, Jacquotte Delahaye is an up-and-coming shipwright, but... Read more

Margo's Got Money Troubles

A Novel

By: Rufi Thorpe
Narrated by: Elle Fanning
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“I loved Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe. A freshman in college decides to have the baby. Her father, an ex pro-wrestler, moves in. She starts an Only Fans account. This is a SUPERB, fun, dynamic, revelatory novel. I devoured it and was so won over by Margo and her money troubles. Highly recommended for fans of Catherine Newman and... Read more

Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

“From his porch, Charles Lamosway watches his daughter Elizabeth’s life unfold across the river on Maine’s Penobscot Reservation. As he copes with his mother’s dementia and the ghosts of his past, he wrestles with whether to reveal his secret connection to Elizabeth. A poignant, masterfully written tale of family, culture, and what we pass on to... Read more

The Titanic Survivors Book Club

A Novel

By: Timothy Schaffert
Narrated by: Max Meyers
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of The Perfume Thief, a remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books and second chances, following the Titanic librarian who opens a bookshop in Paris where he meets a secret society of survivors.

"Deeply moving and rich with vivid detail . . . Timothy Schaffert is an exquisite storyteller."—Lara... Read more

The Ministry of Time

A Novel

By: Kaliane Bradley
Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“This is an incredible listen of a wonderful debut from Bradley. A great premise about how time travel could work and the challenges of messing with time. A wonderful sci-fi story interspersed with a love story, betrayal and the mystery of what is afoot. The research behind the protagonist makes the depth of the background a super entertaining... Read more

All Fours

A Novel

By: Miranda July
Narrated by: Miranda July
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Well, this might be the best book I've read so far this year. For all the flutter of "quirkiness" that surrounds July, she is a stone cold serious artist, in whatever form she chooses, and this is a capital-N Novel in all the best ways: morally serious, formally surprising and ambitious, and frigging hilarious. Imagine a character somewhat like... Read more

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“Haunting yet hopeful, this futuristic tale will hit close to home with its honesty and pertinent observation of what it is to be human. I Cheerfully Refuse is proof of the power of a well-told story to ask the reader to live and feel deeply. Read more

All Friends Are Necessary

A Novel

By: Tomas Moniz
Narrated by: Andrew Joseph Perez
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

In this “tender and open-hearted novel," (Nina LaCour, author of Yerba Buena) Tomas Moniz—a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Lambda Literary awards—delivers a commanding new story about the power of friendship, community, and the families we create for ourselves.

Efren “Chino” Flores has just moved back to the Bay Area from Seattle, jumping... Read more

Moonbound

A Novel

By: Robin Sloan
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“In a post-apocalyptic far-future, where the animals speak and the sky is shrouded, there are no children, save one—a boy meant for more, who must choose between a story written for him, and writing his own. This is pure, old-school adventure, a legend crossing roads and forests, wizards and spaceships, robots, beavers, and scholars, a narrator... Read more

Exhibit

A Novel

By: R. O. Kwon
Narrated by: Ami Park & Sue Jean Kim
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

“Exhibit is my favorite kind of novel. Sentences that hold you tight. A sharp eyed narrator. A story about story, creativity, and artistic vision. Longing and fear. Best read in one sitting, so you can gulp it right up like I did. Read more

Sandwich

A Novel

By: Catherine Newman
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Look for Wreck, the new novel by Catherine Newman—a deeply moving story of laughter and heart, about marriage, family, and what happens when life doesn’t go as planned—Coming October 2025. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Sandwich is joy in book form. I laughed continuously, except for the parts that made me cry. Catherine Newman does a... Read more

Swift River

A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Essie Chambers
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Janina Edwards & Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

“Diamond is such a raw and worthy character, I loved every minute of her. Read more

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

A Novel

By: J. Ryan Stradal
Narrated by: Aspen Vincent
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

“This book is delicious and midwestern and will rip out your heart and serve it with a relish tray. Read more

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

A Novel

By: Patti Callahan Henry
Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo & Patti Callahan Henry
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

“Inspired by Operation Pied Piper, this dual timeline book is the tale of two sisters who were orphaned and separated during the Second World War. Years later the older sister comes upon a children’s book that is suspiciously like a story she used to tell her sister. A story no one else would know. Like Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Once Upon a... Read more