Fiction audiobooks

Spoon River Anthology - Abridged

By: Edgar Lee Masters

Narrated by: Patrick Fraley, Edward Asner & a full cast

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deemed "essential" in the canon of American literature, this audiobook masterpiece performed in its entirety by a full cast of fifty makes the classic accessible to everyone. From a cemetery in a fictional mid-American town, the dead speak the truths about their lives. Some speak of hardships and sordid affairs, while others speak of their... Read more

From A Buick 8

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker,...

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none…

Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just... Read more

The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938.

Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers, Hemingway remains a literary force much greater than his image.... Read more

December 6 - Abridged

By: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.

Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true... Read more

In Her Shoes - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide... Read more

War of Honor - Abridged

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WAR
Thomas Theisman didn't. After risking his life and a fresh round of civil war to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution, an interstellar war was the last thing he wanted.
Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly... Read more

Dark Horse

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Beth McDonald

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.

In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is... Read more

Dark Horse - Abridged

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.

In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is... Read more

Selected Stories from the O. Henry Prize Stories 2002 - Abridged

By: Larry Dark

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Established early in the last century as a memorial to O. Henry, this annual collection has consistently offered a remarkable sampling of contemporary short stories. Each year stories are chosen from large and small literary magazines and a panel of distinguished writers is enlisted to award the top prizes. The result is a superb collection of... Read more

Street Boys - Abridged

By: Lorenzo Carcaterra

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys,... Read more

The Apprentice - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak. 

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and... Read more

The Mothman Prophecies

By: John A. Keel

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a strategy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are... Read more

Dark Matter

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakened... Read more

The Last Girls

By: Lee Smith

Narrated by: Lee Smith

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Girls centers around four middle-aged Southern women who, as students at an idyllic Blue Ridge women's college thirty years before, were inspired by Huckleberry Finn to take their own raft trip down the Mississippi River. Now a tragedy brings them back together for a repeat voyage under very different circumstances--aboard a luxurious... Read more

Utopia

By: Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.

Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world on the cutting edge of technology. A theme park... Read more

Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Grammy® Award nominee!It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, but high above the mean streets, a light burns on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, where Guy Noir—hard boiled, world-weary, yet surprisingly articulate—is trying to find the answers to life's questions. In his big swivel chair under the bare bulb beside... Read more

Standing in the Rainbow - Abridged

By: Fannie Flagg

Narrated by: Fannie Flagg

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.

Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his... Read more

Jinxed - Abridged

By: Carol Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carol Higgins Clark, bestselling author of Fleeced and co-author with Mary Higgins Clark of He Sees You When You're Sleeping, returns in top form in her new Regan Reilly mystery, blending her talent for intriguing locales, eccentric characters, and fast-paced suspense laced with humor.

In Jinxed, smart, saucy sleuth Regan Reilly faces a new... Read more

Absolute Rage - Abridged

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Robert. K. Tanenbaum delivers his grittiest, most ethically challenging thriller yet, as New York chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country.
While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is... Read more

Leslie - Abridged

By: Omar Tyree

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To some she's intelligent and beautiful.
To others she's proud and dangerous.
At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions.
In the eyes of her... Read more

Her Father's House - Abridged

By: Belva Plain

Narrated by: Judith Ivey

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beloved storyteller Belva Plain understands the rich tapestry of the human heart like no other. Her many dazzling New York Times bestsellers probe the shifting bonds of marriage and family with insight, compassion, and uncommon grace. And her new novel is no exception. A tale of fathers and daughters, lovers and families, acts of love and acts... Read more

The Fifth Sorceress - Abridged

By: Robert Newcomb

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In The Fifth Sorceress, Robert Newcomb conjures a time and place wrought with exquisite detail, characters vividly drawn and deeply felt, and a history rich in glory and horror, splendor and secrets. . . .

“We gave them a chance once, long ago. . . . We offered to share power equally, and in peace. But they refused and chose war. With... Read more

A Love of My Own - Abridged

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: E. Lynn Harris & Tamara Tunie

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Friendship. Love. Family.

Bestselling author E. Lynn Harris is back with another new tale that embraces his signature themes.

Zola Denise Norwood is a young hot editor in chief of Bling Bling, (the magazine “for people who want everything!) who’s at the top of her game, ruling the roost in business as well as the bedroom. Having discovered... Read more

Science Fiction Favorites - Abridged

By: Isaac Asimov

Narrated by: Isaac Asimov

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

CONTENTS: Introduction; I Just Make Them Up, See; Someday; The Feeling of Power; Living Space; Satisfaction Guaranteed; The Last Question; Jokester; The Immortal Bard; Spell My Name With an "S"; The Ugly Little Boy Read more