Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Midnight's Children

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Lyndam Gregory

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors. Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence. "One of the most important books to... Read more

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine

“HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea)

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town... Read more

Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

Narrated by: Hanako Footman

Length: 17 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true storyThere are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine.Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, whom she... Read more

Little Women

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: Susie Berneis

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most young do, something completely different. Little Women, originally written as two volumes, was a great commercial... Read more

Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. 

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and... Read more

Rules of Civility

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society—now with over one million readers worldwide

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is... Read more

Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

Narrated by: Dyfrig Morris, Gabrielle Glaister, Gwyneth Keyw...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community

“Both blunt and exquisite . . . O’Connor’s excellent debut . . .  is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a... Read more

Sing, Unburied, Sing

By: Jesmyn Ward

Narrated by: Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Chris Chalk & Rutina Wesley

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through... Read more

Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer returns with “a romantic gem” (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author) about a young woman who decides to finally live for herself rather than rely on the universe for answers.

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man,... Read more

The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“The last great book I read . . . an early proof of debut novelist Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road, about women in ’90s Ireland negotiating the complexities of marriage in a country where divorce is illegal. It will no doubt be a bestseller.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and... Read more

This is Happiness

By: Niall Williams

Narrated by: Dermot Crowley

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years.
For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling... Read more

Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.

“Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep... Read more

The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Nicole Lewis, Thomas Sadoski, ...

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *

Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!

OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of... Read more

Kala

By: Colin Walsh

Narrated by: Frank Blake, Moe Dunford & Seána Kerslake

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS • A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.

"[A] gritty heartbreaker of a thriller…a spectacular read for Donna Tartt... Read more

One Two Three

By: Laurie Frankel

Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." -- Booklist (starred review)

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It... Read more

A Little Life

By: Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 32 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

A Little Life follows four college... Read more

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

By: Min Jin Lee

Narrated by: Allison Hiroto

Length: 18 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an "extraordinary epic" of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle).

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS... Read more

Matrix

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los... Read more

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen... 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

The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

Narrated by: Kerry Shale & Ruth Ozeki

Length: 18 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

“No one writes like Ruth Ozeki—a triumph.” —Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library

“Inventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder.” —TIME

“If you’ve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.” —David... Read more

The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post

By: Allison Pataki

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Marvelous . . . I just had to be there with the Post cereal heiress through every twist and turn.”—Martha Hall Kelly, New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls

“New-money heiress Marjorie Post isn’t content to remain a society bride as she remakes herself into a savvy entrepreneur, a visionary philanthropist, a... Read more

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By: Marianne Cronin

Narrated by: Sheila Reid & Rebecca Benson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life’s obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot are fine companions for all our springtime... Read more

Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times Bestseller“Small Mercies is thought provoking, engaging, enraging, and can’t-put-it-down entertainment.” — Stephen KingThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the... Read more