Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Birds Without Wings

By: Louis de Bernieres

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 23 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart

By: Alice Walker

Narrated by: Alfre Woodard

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey.

In Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, Alice Walker has created a work that ranks among her finest ... Read more

Angels Crest

By: Leslie Schwartz

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

It only takes a moment for a life to change forever.

Ethan Denton is a lucky man. Most things have gone his way, and being granted full custody of Nate, his young son and “North Star,” has given him a near-perfect life. On a crisp winter morning just before the start of deer season, Ethan and Nate set off together to discover the beauties of the... Read more

High Fidelity - Abridged

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: David Cale

Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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"I've always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It's funny and heartbreaking all at the same time."—Zoë Kravitz

From the bestselling author of About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and... Read more

About a Boy - Abridged

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: David Cale

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and A Long Way Down. 

Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic... Read more

Divining Women

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful new novel from the bestselling author of Ellen Foster
Autumn, 1918: Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy. Her husband, Troop -- cold... Read more

The Book of Joe - Abridged

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: Tom Cavanagh

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke,... Read more

The Laments

By: George Hagen

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Sleeping with Schubert

By: Bonnie Marson

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

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 John Updike Audio Collection

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

I Know This Much Is True - Abridged

By: Wally Lamb

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection""Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget.""  — USA TodayDominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers,... Read more

Cold Mountain

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Charles Frazier

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished American in all its savagery, solitude, and splendor.

Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at... Read more

The John Cheever Audio Collection

By: John Cheever

Narrated by: Meryl Streep, Ben Cheever & Peter Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are twelve magnificent stories in which John Cheever celebrates—with unequaled grace and tenderness—the deepest feelings we have.As Cheever writes in his preface, ""These stories seem at times to be stories of a long-lost world when the city of New York was still filled with a river light, when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a... Read more

Queen of the South

By: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Narrated by: Lina Patel

Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Few authors inspire the kind of passion that Arturo Pérez-Reverte does. Reviewers, readers, and booksellers alike have embraced his fiction as the perfect blend of suspense and literary ambition. A global bestseller, he is one of the most admired and widely read authors in the world. And his stunning new novel is his best yet.

A remarkable tale,... Read more

The Lady and the Unicorn

By: Tracy Chevalier

Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld & Terry Donnelly

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction of a unicorn, but the story behind their making is... Read more

The Forest Lover

By: Susan Vreeland

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture,... Read more

Something Rising (Light and Swift)

By: Haven Kimmel

Narrated by: Chelsey Rives

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Something Rising (Light and Swift), Haven Kimmel’s second novel, is the heart-wrenching story of a female pool hustler who takes care of her family after her rakish father abandons them. Read more

The Innocent

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible. Read more

Enduring Love

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the Booker Prize winner and bestselling author of Atonement—a brilliant and compassionate novel of love, faith, and suspense, and of how life can change in an instant.The calm, organized life of science writer Joe Rose is shattered when he sees a man die in a freak hot-air balloon accident. A stranger named Jed Parry joins Rose in helping... Read more

The Princes of Ireland

By: Edward Rutherfurd

Narrated by: Richard Matthews

Length: 26 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of London and Sarum, a magnificent epic about love and battle, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of eleven centuries.  The Princes of Ireland brilliantly weaves impeccable historical research and mesmerizing storytelling in capturing the essence of a place and its people.
 
Edward Rutherfurd... Read more

The Book of Joe

By: Jonathan Tropper

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke,... Read more

Sacred Time

By: Ursula Hegi

Narrated by: Annabella Sciorra, Mercedes Ruehl & Bobby Canna...

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Stones From the River delivers her most ambitious and dramatic novel yet -- the unforgettable story of an endearing, but flawed, Italian American family.
In December 1953 Anthony Amedeo's world is nested in his Bronx neighborhood, his parent's Studebaker, the Paradise Theater, Yankee Stadium -- and in his imaginatin,... Read more