Fiction audiobooks

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features original sound design.

"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal

"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work."... Read more

Banyan Moon

By: Thao Thai

Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Catherine Ho & Elyse Dinh

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick""A riveting mother-daughter tale."" — Elle""Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes along the way.” — Washington PostA sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American... Read more

Rogue Protocol

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The third thrilling book in the increasingly popular Murderbot Diaries, which began with All Systems Red. SciFi's favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And... Read more

A Memory Called Empire

By: Arkady Martine

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019
A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of Geek
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee
A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee

"A Memory... Read more

The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S BAZAAR and others

“Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, The Vaster Wilds is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay... Read more

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

By: Ocean Vuong

Narrated by: Ocean Vuong

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller • Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction • Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 

“A lyrical work of self-discovery that’s shockingly intimate and insistently... Read more

Sorrow and Bliss

By: Meg Mason

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction!""Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know."" — Ann PatchettThe internationally bestselling sensation, a compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp,... Read more

The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

Narrated by: Tara Flynn

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People

"If you’ve ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if... Read more

Shadow of Night

By: Deborah Harkness

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, book two of the All Souls series. 

Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew... Read more

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

By: Django Wexler

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge

Length: 14 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Groundhog Day meets Guardians of the Galaxy in Django Wexler’s laugh-out-loud fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending humanity from the Dark Lord, decides to become the Dark Lord herself.

Davi has done this all before. She’s tried to be the hero and take down the all-powerful Dark Lord. A hundred times she’s rallied humanity and... Read more

Sunbringer

By: Hannah Kaner

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliant mythology-inspired world-building paves the foundation for Kaner’s fantasy adventure, but it’s the fully realized ensemble cast that, ultimately, makes the series so memorable.”— Elle“An epic fantasy odyssey.” — Entertainment WeeklyReturn to the world of Godkiller in this thrilling sequel to the #1 internationally bestselling fantasy... Read more

The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi & Nikki Massoud

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing... Read more

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xochitl Gonzalez

Narrated by: Jessica Pimentel, Jonathan Gregg & Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by a full cast of Stacy Gonzalez, Jonathan Gregg, and Jessica Pimentel, best known for her role on Orange Is the New Black.

"The book is clever and original, but what’s more, Jessica Pimentel, a star of Orange Is the New Black, reads Anita as if she’s in a fever dream. There’s a vibrant wickedness to her performance that no... Read more

The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

Narrated by: Angie Kane

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't... Read more

The Honey Witch

By: Sydney J. Shields

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this deliciously sweet debut novel of magic, hope, and love overcoming all.
 
Twenty-one-year-old Marigold Claude has always preferred the company of the spirits of the meadow... Read more

Our Wives Under the Sea

By: Julia Armfield

Narrated by: Annabel Baldwin & Robyn Holdaway

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri... Read more

The Great Believers

By: Rebecca Makkai

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER
THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER

Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

“A page turner . . . An absorbing and... Read more

Leviathan Falls

By: James S.A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning Expanse series, now a major TV series.

The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war... Read more

The Bear and the Nightingale

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel spins an irresistible spell as it announces the arrival of a singular talent with a gorgeous voice.
 
“A beautiful deep-winter story, full of magic and monsters and the sharp edges of growing up.”—Naomi Novik, bestselling author of Uprooted

Winter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian... Read more

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Gilda, a twenty-something,... Read more

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Jessie Buckley

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Stunning.” —People * “Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world’s best living literary writers.” —The Boston Globe * “Momentous and hugely affecting.” —The Wall Street Journal *

From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving... Read more

A Talent for Murder

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Stephen Graybill, Saskia Maarleve...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularly twisty and deviously clever novel by Peter Swanson, New York Times bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing and Eight Perfect Murders. Martha Ratliff conceded long ago that she’d likely spend her life alone. She was fine with it, happy with... Read more

The Butcher Game

By: Alaina Urquhart

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Joe Knezevich

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.   Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher,... Read more