Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Nights of Rain and Stars

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Terry Donnelly

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of four strangers are forever altered when they meet in a Greek seaside village in this compelling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy.

Tourists enter the hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as... Read more

Florence of Arabia - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations–in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight.

Appalled... Read more

Little Earthquakes - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Jennifer Weiner

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Weiner's richest, wittiest, most true-to-life novel yet tells the story of three very different women as they navigate one of life's most wonderful and perilous transitions: the journay of new motherhood.

Becky is a plump, sexy chef who has a wonderfull husband and baby girl, a restaurant that received a citywide acclaim -- and the... Read more

A Bend in the River

By: V. S. Naipaul

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This incandescent novel chronicles both an internal journey and a physical trek into the heart of Africa, a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. Exploring political and individual corruption, it expresses skepticism about the ability of newly decolonized nations to forge... Read more

The Rule of Four

By: Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious coded manuscript, a violent Ivy League murder, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide in a labyrinth of betrayal, madness, and genius.
THE RULE OF FOUR
Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Famous for its... Read more

Tishomingo Blues - Abridged

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Paul Rudd

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.”—Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque ride featuring gamblers, mobsters, murderers, high divers, and... Read more

Birds Without Wings - Abridged

By: Louis de Bernieres

Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in southwest Turkey (Anatolia) in the early part of the last century—a quirky community in which Christian and Muslim lives and traditions have co-existed peacefully over the centuries and where friendship, even love, has transcended religious differences.

But with the ... Read more

The Book of Illusions

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Paul Auster

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to study the works of... Read more

Tishomingo Blues

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Leonard delivers a certifiable masterpiece of such twisted ingenuity that he transcends even his own bad self….Tishomingo Blues is that good.”—Baltimore Sun Crime fiction Grand Master Elmore Leonard heads to the Deep South for a bracing dose of Tishomingo Blues—a wild, Leonard-esque ride featuring gamblers, mobsters, murderers, high divers, and... Read more

Valdez Is Coming - Abridged

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Keith Carradine

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Touching on the themes of the popular FX series Justified featuring U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, Valdez Is Coming is New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard's classic western tale of corruption, justice, and vengeance.Forced to gun down an innocent man, part-time sheriff Roberto Valdez is nearly killed and run out of town when he seeks... Read more

A Carnivore's Inquiry

By: Sabina Murray

Narrated by: Wendy Hoopes

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Katherine, the winning and slightly disturbing twenty-three-year-old narrator of A Carnivore's Inquiry, journeys from literary New York to rural Maine and Mexico City trailed, everywhere she goes, by a string of murders. Read more

Before You Know Kindness

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the... Read more

The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

By: Carson McCullers

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century.“A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the reader.”In a Georgia Mill town during the 1930s, an enigmatic... Read more

Danielle Steel Value Collection - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Richard Thomas, Tim Curry & Boyd Gaines

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This collection of three titles from one of America's bestselling authors is available at a special value price.

Fine Things
Bernie Fine had everything, even what he wanted most, a family. Unfortunately, tragedy strikes and he has to rebuild his life, care for his children and cope with his own loss until he gathers the strength to find a new... Read more

A Home at the End of the World

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts & Blair Brown

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan.

There's Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after... Read more

A Home at the End of the World - Abridged

By: Michael Cunningham

Narrated by: Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts & Blair Brown

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes the acclaimed novel of two boyhood friends A Home at the End of the World, now a feature film starring Colin Farrell and Dallas Roberts Jonathan.

There's Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after... Read more

Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann

Narrated by: Simon Callow & Michael Cunningham

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann—here in a new translation by Michael Henry HeimPublished on the eve of World War I, a decade after Buddenbrooks had established Thomas Mann as a literary celebrity, Death in Venice tells the story of Gustave von Aschenbach, a successful but aging writer who follows his wanderlust to... Read more

Sleeping with Schubert - Abridged

By: Bonnie Marson

Narrated by: Michele Santopietro

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It seems that the legendary composer Franz Schubert is alive—well, sort of—in the twenty-first century: His soul has taken up residence in the body of Brooklyn lawyer Liza Durbin. Even more astonishing, so has his prodigious gift. A mediocre pianist at best as a child, Liza can suddenly pound out concertos and compose masterly music out of the... Read more

The Laments - Abridged

By: George Hagen

Narrated by: Clare Higgins

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Meet the Laments—the affably dysfunctional globetrotting family at the center of George Hagen’s exuberant debut novel.

Howard is an engineer who dreams of irrigating the Sahara and lives by the motto “Laments move!” His wife Julia is a fiery spirit who must balance her husband’s oddly peripatetic nature with unexpected aspirations of her own. And... Read more

In the Moon of Red Ponies

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed Bitterroot.

“James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a... Read more

In the Moon of Red Ponies - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Haunting suspense and captivating villains, the hallmark of James Lee Burke’s bestselling novels of evil and redemption, are brilliantly evoked in his new Billy Bob Holland opus, the follow-up to the popular and critically acclaimed Bitterroot.

“James Lee Burke tells a story in a style all his own, in language that's alive, electric. He's a... Read more

Florence of Arabia

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world–Arab-American relations–in a blistering comic novel sure to offend the few it doesn’t delight.

Appalled... Read more

The Inner Circle

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Right on the heels of his New York Times bestselling and National Award-nominated novel, Drop City, T.C. Boyle has crafted an even more captivating tale with memorable characters and a rollicking plot that will delight both his longtime devotees and a legion of new fans. 

The Inner Circle is a love story narrated by John Milk, a virginal young... Read more

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By: Mark Haddon

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death of a... Read more