Fiction audiobooks

Going All the Way - Abridged

By: Dan Wakefield

Narrated by: Ben Affleck

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During the course of a long summer, it becomes clear to two young, lost, and bored Korean War vets that their future lies outside Indianapolis— amid the gleaming towers of Manhattan, where they will find glory, fame, and lots of women. Set in the 1950s, this novel by acclaimed author Dan Wakefield seethes with pent-up frustration and... Read more

Beauty - Abridged

By: Susan Wilson

Narrated by: Polly Draper

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Beauty and the Beast may be a fairy tale, but for one woman its moral rings true in real life.When Alix Miller goes to New Hampshire to paint a portrait of Leland Crompton, she is following family tradition— Miller artists have always painted the Crompton aristocrats. But the reclusive Leland is hideously disfigured by a rare genetic... Read more

The Invisible Man - Abridged

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This disturbing and insightful novel explores the question of morality when a man is free to do as he pleases without risk of being caught. This masterpiece of science fiction depicts the fascinating story of a young scientist's experiments that allow him to become invisible. Much to his anger and dismay, he realizes his condition is... Read more

The Camelot Caper

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The lethal stuff of legendsFor Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England comes as a wonderful surprise, an opportunity to open doors to a family history that have always been closed to her. But her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown.... Read more

Christmas Box

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 1 hour 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A beautifully packaged 30th anniversary edition of #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s classic tale of faith, hope, and Christmas miracles.

Thirty years ago, Richard Paul Evans wrote a small Christmas tale for his two young daughters—an expression of love celebrating the joy of fatherhood and the beauty of childhood. Evans... Read more

Crossover - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Jonathan Frakes

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy. Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D, and its most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the release of the ambassador. Ambassador McCoy, now over 140 years old, is also sent to assist in the... Read more

Streets Of Laredo

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Daniel Von Bargen

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy—an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest.

Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit.... Read more

First Words

By: Paul Mandelbaum, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Atwood,...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Many kids write stories, but only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. Before there was Carrie, there was “ Johnathan and the Witchs.” And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's... Read more

No Place to Hide

By: Gerry Carroll

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the background of Saigon’s desperate last days, this concluding volume to Carroll’s extraordinary naval aviation trilogy follows the adventures of helicopter pilot Lt. Tim Boyle and his best friend, Lt. Mike Santy, as they struggle to pull off the final American withdrawal from Vietnam. Boyle and Santy find themselves in the midst of... Read more

Dead Man's Walk

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first of Larry McCurtry's Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove tetralogy, showcasing McCurtry's talent for breathing new life into the vanished American West through two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call.

As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)... Read more

The Murders of Richard III

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In a remote English country mansion, modern devotees of the infamous King Richard III, immortally villainized by Shakespeare, have gathered for a grand weekend of role-playing and Ricardian scholarship. Jacqueline Kirby, an attractive American librarian attending the festivities, anticipates only one mystery to be raised: the... Read more

Politically Correct Holiday Stories - Abridged

By: James Finn Garner

Narrated by: James Finn Garner

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestselling author of Once Upon a More Enlightened Time reads his Politically Correct holiday gift.
Holiday tales have long delighted and entertained us, but until now they've always been burdened with society's skewed values and mores. Stories that reinforce the stifling class system (Dickens' A Christmas Carol), legitimize the stereotype... Read more

Raptor Red - Abridged

By: Robert T. Bakker

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A stunning debut in the blockbuster tradition of Jurassic Park -- enhanced with dramatic sound effects.

A pair of fierce but beautiful eyes look out from the undergrowth of conifers. The eyes follow every movement in the great herd of plant-eating dinosaurs that mills around the open meadows, moving back and forth with the rapid scanning of a... Read more

Sights Unseen - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Charms for the Easy Life reads "her best novel since Ellen Foster."

Kaye Gibbons' award-winning novels of Southern family life have won rave reviews coast to coast. Now, she tells the "story of family dislocation and crisis in restrained prose of unflinching clarity, with a honing eye for the small domestic details that... Read more

A Maiden's Grave - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Eight vulnerable girls and their helpless teachers are forced off a school bus and held hostage. The madman who has them at gunpoint has a simple plan: one hostage an hour will die unless the demands are met. Called to the scene is Arthur Potter, the FBI's best hostage negotiator. He has a plan. But so does one of the hostages—a beautiful... Read more

Mansfield Park - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fanny is brought up with her cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. She is treated as an extra pair of hands - except that is, by Edmund. During her uncle's absence at his estates in the West Indeies, both Maria, (who is engaged to the stupid and wealthy Mr. Rushford), and Julia, fall in love with the fascinating Mr. Crawford, who is a man... Read more

Ramona

By: Helen Hunt Jackson

Narrated by: Boots Martin

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

This extraordinarily popular novel weaves together romance, history, and a passionate protest against the oppression of Native Americans in the 1800s. Termed the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the southwestern Indians and the first protest novel of California, the story vividly portrays three cultures—Indian, Mexican, and Anglo—locked in combat. The... Read more

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

By: Tom Robbins

Narrated by: Barry Bostwick

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Imagine this: When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you—an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker—are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you must scramble and scheme to cover your butt, but there's no way you can anticipate the baffling... Read more

God On A Harley

By: Joan Brady

Narrated by: Margaret Colin

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved modern classic about a woman who finds love—and herself—from an unexpected source.

At thirty-seven, Christine Moore has an overwhelming case of burnout with a frustrating career, a few dead-end romances, and a less-than-perfect figure. Little does she know her life is about to change in a way she could’ve never imagined.

“Come out of... Read more

The Good Detective

By: H. R. F. Keating

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A case from his past is about to ruin Assistant Chief Constable Ned French’s career. Heather Jonas, forced into a false confession to murder after a harrowing late-night interview session with French, has now served fifteen years of her twenty-year sentence. In all that time she’s never appealed against her lot; but now, someone else has... Read more

The Scarlet Letter

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Lesley Ann Warren

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter tackles the subjects of social stigma, shame, and judgment. Hester Prynne is at the forefront of the scandal, subject to public humiliation for bearing a child out of wedlock. Forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing for the rest of her life, she cannot run from her sin. Hester refuses... Read more

Tales of the Unexpected

By: SakiSaki

Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Master storyteller H.H. Munro— better known by the pen name “ Saki” — is famous for his witty, mischievous, and macabre stories of suspense. Saki specialized in impudent practical jokes, devilish trickery, and incredible yarns, and his writing became popular in the early 1900s for its witty and... Read more

Burning Angel - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes another brilliant Dave Robicheaux novel—now available in ebook—featuring the Louisiana detective in a race to solve a murder before more blood is shed.

The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can remember. So why are they now being... Read more

Gump & Co. - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Gump phenomenon continues!

Forrest Gump is back!

The lovable man for all ages, who captured America's heart in the #1 bestselling novel Forrest Gump and in the blockbuster film, returns in the long-awaited sequel to the book hailed by Larry King as "the funniest novel I have ever read." A little older, and wiser in his own unique way, he is... Read more