Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Golf in the Kingdom - Abridged

By: Michael Murphy

Narrated by: John Hannah

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The perennially bestselling golf title, Golf in the Kingdom, hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as the "masterpiece on the mysticism of golf," is a wonderfully told romp through the Scottish links, the most beautiful and challenging golf courses in the world where, truly, anything is possible. This audio discusses the essential deep truths... Read more

Ishmael - Abridged

By: Daniel Quinn

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
 
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an... Read more

Half A Heart - Abridged

By: Rosellen Brown

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson & LisaGay Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Rosellen Brown's extraordinary new novel, Half a Heart, tells the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980's. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her... Read more

The Bluest Eye - Abridged

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison & Ruby Dee

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
 
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose... Read more

Great American Suspense

By: various authors

Narrated by: Geraint Wyn Davies

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself. Savor the best storytelling from the greatest authors of the supernatural; the haunting language and brilliant rendition create an extraordinary atmosphere.This audio recording includes:"Ethan Brand" by Nathaniel Hawthorne: a lime-burner and his young son encounter the man searching for the Unpardonable Sin."The Yellow Sign" by... Read more

Wonderful Town - Abridged

By: David Remnick

Narrated by: Tyne Daly, Maria Tucci, Joe Morton & Timothy Je...

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City is not only The New Yorker magazine's place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood, it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town, an anthology of superb short fiction by many of the magazine's most accomplished contributors, celebrates the seventy-five-year marriage between a preeminent publication and its... Read more

Strong for Potatoes - Abridged

By: Cynthia Thayer

Narrated by: Amanda Karr

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A striking literary debut reminiscent of Barbara Kingsolver and Dorothy Allison.Blue, a lonely adolescent, overcomes a disfiguring accident and misguided parents to create a rich life on her own terms. Aided by her Native American grandfather— a Passamaquoddy basket-maker— and the memory of a twin who died at birth, Blue... Read more

Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of the enigmatic Kurtz and his outpost in deepest Congo as told by Marlow is an adventure story that examines the intent and effects of colonization. It remains one of the most controversial and profound writings of world literature.

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, on December 3, 1857, in Russian... Read more

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Walter Zimmerman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Introduction by Colm Tóibín

One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis... Read more

Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"When my country, into which I had just set foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir," wrote Paine. This pamphlet, which he had published in 1776, put into print the word every man was thinking but no man dared say: Independence! It captured the imagination of the colonists as no other document had. Read more

Ahab's Wife - Abridged

By: Sena Jeter Naslund

Narrated by: Maryann Plunkett

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab.

Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter Naslund has created an entirely new universe -- an... Read more

Raj

By: Gita Mehta

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Raj is the remarkable story of a woman of royal birth coming of age during India’s fight for independence.Jaya Singh, the intelligent, beautiful and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer, has been raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission. But with the... Read more

True At First Light

By: Ernest Hemingway

Narrated by: Brian Dennehy

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer.

A blend of... Read more

Duane's Depressed

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of... Read more

Turn of the Century - Abridged

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Falling Bodies - Abridged

By: Andrew Mark

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more

Bucking the Sun - Abridged

By: Ivan Doig

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bucking the Sun is the story of the Duff family, homesteaders driven from the Montana bottomland to work on one of the New Deal’s most audacious projects—the damming of the Missouri River.

Through the story of each family member—a wrathful father, a mettlesome mother, and three very different sons, and the memorable women they marry—Doig conveys... Read more

Der kleine Prinz (Gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Narrated by: Ulrich Mühe

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar." Der Kleine Prinz lebt zusammen mit seiner Rose auf dem Planeten Asteroid B 612 und besucht die Erde. Hier lernt er neben dem Erzähler, der mit seinem Flugzeug in der Wüste notlandete, unter anderem den Fuchs kennen, der ihm das Vertraut-machen erklärt: "Du bist... Read more

The Rum Diary - Abridged

By: Hunter S. Thompson

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp, The Rum Diary—a national bestseller and New York Times Notable Book—is Hunter S. Thompson’s brilliant love story of jealousy, treachery, and violent lust in the Caribbean.

Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy,... Read more

Mama Flora's Family - Abridged

By: Alex Haley & David Stevens

Narrated by: Debbi Morgan

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant story of three generations of an African-American family who start out as destitute sharecroppers in Tennessee.

Mama Flora is the heart and strength... Read more

On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Polly Holliday

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like America in the mid-nineteenth century, Emma Garnet Tate is a woman at war with herself. Born to privilege on a James River plantation, she grows up increasingly aware that her family's prosperity is inextricably linked to the institution of slavery.

As she tells her story in 1900, she is still prey to her childhood, to the memories of a life... Read more

The Wedding - Abridged

By: Dorothy West

Narrated by: Regina Taylor

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, The Wedding is an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, this is the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner... Read more

The Mermaids Singing - Abridged

By: Lisa Carey

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Muruch—the Island of the Mermaids—a world where myth is more powerful than truth, where the sea sings with the healing and haunting voices of women, and where death is never as strong as the redemptive power of family and love. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual... Read more