Fiction - Literary audiobooks

Bivouac

By: Kwame Dawes

Narrated by: Beresford Bennett

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ferron Morgan's father dies in suspicious circumstances, his trauma is exacerbated by the conflict within his family and among his father's friends over whether the death was the result of medical negligence or if it was a political assassination. Ferron grew up in awe of his father's radical political endeavors, but in later years he... Read more

Tjejfäktning

By: Anna Winberg

Narrated by: Hanna K Schmitz

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Majas återfunna kärlek till fäktning för henne till klubbhuset Tranan. Hennes vardag börjar mer och mer röra sig runt fäktningen och träningen för att bli bättre. För att bli bäst. Hon är nästan den enda tjejen i laget, och för att nå sitt mål så måste hon även besegra killarna. Maja blir ställd emot Alexander, den stora muskulösa killen som... Read more

The Affairs of the Falcóns

By: Melissa Rivero

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning debut novel about a young undocumented Peruvian woman fighting to keep her family afloat in New York City.Ana Falcón, along with her husband Lucho and their two young children, has fled the economic and political strife of Peru for a chance at a new life in New York City in the 1990s. Being undocumented, however, has significantly... Read more

Son of the Thundercloud

By: Easterine Kire

Narrated by: Aditi Thirani

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After losing all his family in a terrible famine, a man leaves his village with just the clothes on his back, never once looking back. For endless miles he walks through a landscape as desolate as his heart. Until two ancient women who have waited for rain for four hundred years lead him to the Village of Weavers where a prophecy will be... Read more

How to Set Yourself on Fire

By: Julia Dixon Evans

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sheila's life is built of little thievings. Adrift in her mid-thirties, she sleeps in fragments, ditches her temp jobs, eavesdrops on her neighbor's Skype calls, and keeps a stolen letter in her nightstand, penned by a UPS driver she barely knows. Her mother is stifling and her father is a bad memory. Her only friends are her mysterious,... Read more

The Killer in Me

By: Olivia Kiernan

Narrated by: Shelley Atkinson

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A deadly past refuses to stay buried in Olivia Kiernan’s masterful new novel

Death is no stranger to Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan, but she isn’t the only one from her small, coastal suburb to be intimately acquainted with it. Years ago, teenager Seán Hennessey shocked the tight-knit community when he was convicted of the brutal... Read more

The Amateurs

By: Liz Harmer

Narrated by: Stacey DePass

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Harmer takes cues from Margaret Atwood and Cormac McCarthy in this sharp debut, a cautionary tale of tech gone astray." —Toronto Life

In a time and place only slightly removed from now, PINA, the world’s largest tech company, has introduced society to a new product called “Port.” This irresistible space-time travel device is mysteriously powered... Read more

I'm Fine and Neither Are You

By: Camille Pagán

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller.Honesty is the best policy…except maybe when it comes to marriage in this brilliant novel about the high price of perfection from bestselling author Camille Pagán.Wife. Mother. Breadwinner. Penelope Ruiz-Kar is doing it all—and barely keeping it together. Meanwhile, her best friend, Jenny Sweet,... Read more

Beyond the Shadow of Night

By: Ray Kingfisher

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur & Brittany Wilkerson

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic tale of friendship and loss from the author of The Sugar Men, fate pushes childhood friends to opposite sides of a terrible war—but is forgiveness always possible?Ukraine, 1923. On a small farm, two boys are born within days of each other, both Ukrainian, one Jewish. Mykhail and Asher grow up inseparable, together finding... Read more

A Lily in the Light

By: Kristin Fields

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A harrowing debut novel of a tragic disappearance and one sister’s journey through the trauma that has shaped her life.For eleven-year-old Esme, ballet is everything—until her four-year-old sister, Lily, vanishes without a trace and nothing is certain anymore. People Esme has known her whole life suddenly become suspects, each new one hitting... Read more

The Metamorphosis

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Roberto Scarlato

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Step into the surreal world of "The Metamorphosis," where reality blurs and the boundaries between humans and insects become indistinct. Follow Gregor Samsa's bewildering transformation and the subsequent upheaval it brings to his family's life. As you accompany Gregor through his bizarre ordeal, you'll confront profound questions about... Read more

Galatea 2.2

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of Galatea 2.2?Richard Powers?returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of... Read more

Farthest House

By: Margaret Lukas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Conlon

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding debut novel knows the death isn't from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anais, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells the story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave. Following Willow's life and Willow's... Read more

Cheer Up, Mr. Widdicombe

By: Evan James

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmopolitan) in the Pacific Northwest.

The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is suffering from a deep depression. Or so his wife, Carol, believes.... Read more

The Artist's Portrait

By: Julie Keys

Narrated by: Julie Nihill

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MUD LITERARY PRIZE 2020

'An intriguing read with compelling descriptions of early 20th-century Sydney in all its squalor, debauchery and fascinating historical detail.' Who Weekly

'a brisk, original tale written with verve' Mud Literary Prize judging committee

A story about art, murder, and making your place in history.

Whatever... Read more

The Other Americans

By: Laila Lalami

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò, P.J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo, Ozzie ...

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction
Finalist for the Kirkus Prize in Fiction
Winner of the Arab American Book Award in Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, the Washington Post, BookPage, NPR, the Guardian, Variety, New York Public Library, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Dallas Morning News, and Kirkus Reviews. 

From the Pulitzer... Read more

Another Kind of Madness

By: Ed Pavlic

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite:

Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day... Read more

The Hero's Walk

By: Anita Rau Badami

Narrated by: Laara Sadiq

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in... Read more

Mamma, pappa, barn

By: Eva Busch

Narrated by: Lisa Carlehed

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Tänk att det blev Jenny och Kaj tillslut. Jenny kan nästan inte förstå att han valt att vara med henne. Hon som är så vanlig och Kaj som är så stilig och driven i sin karriär. Dagen för bröllopet är en av Jennys lyckligaste dagar, men det visar sig också vara en vändpunkt. Kaj vill att hon slutar jobba på bokförlaget, ett jobb hon älskar, för... Read more

kaddish.com

By: Nathan Englander

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The celebrated Pulitzer finalist and prize-winning author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth and What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank delivers his best work yet, a streamlined comic masterpiece about a son’s failure to say Kaddish for his father.
Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews.  When his father dies,... Read more

Misstänkt

By: Jan Linders

Narrated by: Kristina Leon

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hon kände fingrarna treva mot struphuvudet. Hans hud var kall, precis som hans röst, det var bara andedräkten som var overkligt varm. Ingbritt behövde hjälp, men ingen kunde skydda henne mot mannen med de hemska hotelserna. Hon var utlämnad. I hans våld."Ett beslut taget innan Ingbritt hunnit tänka efter leder henne in i en mardrömslik serie... Read more

Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss

By: Rajeev Balasubramanyam

Narrated by: Ramon Tikaram

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow the eccentric, cantankerous, utterly charming Professor Chandra as he tries to answer the biggest question of all: What makes us happy?

“Searingly funny, uplifting, and wonderful . . . Professor Chandra is as unbending a curmudgeon as one could wish to find scowling from the pages of a novel.”—Helen Simonson, New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Cook

By: Maylis de Kerangal

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of BBC Culture's Ten Books to Read this March and The Rumpus Book Club Pick for MarchMaylis de Kerangal follows up her acclaimed novel The Heart with a dissection of the world of a young Parisian chefMore like a poetic biographical essay on a fictional person than a novel, The Cook is a coming-of-age journey centered on Mauro, a young... Read more

The Kremlin Letters

By: David Reynolds & Vladimir Pechatnov

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 33 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"

Stalin exchanged more than six hundred messages with Allied leaders Churchill and Roosevelt during the Second World War. In this riveting volume—the fruit of a unique British-Russian scholarly collaboration—the messages are... Read more