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Literary Audiobooks

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    Gravity's Rainbow

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...
    Series series Penguin Audio Classics

    Unabridged

    37 hours 21 min

    Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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    The Book Censor's Library

    A Novel

    by Bothayna Al-Essa ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 26 min

    FINALIST, National Book Award for Translated Literature, 2024A perilous and fantastical satire of banned books, secret archives, and the looming eye of an all-powerful government.The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish—allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Leopard

    A Novel

    by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa ...
    Narrated by Paul Woodson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 36 min

    Set in the 1860s, The Leopard tells the spellbinding story of a decadent, dying Sicilian aristocracy threatened by the approaching forces of democracy and revolution. The dramatic sweep and richness of observation, the seamless intertwining of public and private worlds, and the grasp of human frailty imbue The Leopard with its particular melancholy beauty and power, and place it among the greatest ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    The Woman in the Woods

    A Charlie Parker Thriller

    by John Connolly ...
    Narrated by Jeff Harding ...
    Series Audiobook 17 - Charlie Parker

    Unabridged

    14 hours 34 min

    **“**With its singular characters, eerie subject matter, and socko style” (The New York Times), this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Connolly follows Private Investigator Charlie Parker as he is hired to track down the identity of a dead woman—who apparently died in childbirth—and her missing child.In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Vikas Adam, Inés del Castillo ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 42 min

    From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades.The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us—and in which we might ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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    All the Colors of the Dark

    by Chris Whitaker ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 36 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl).Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayThe Boston Globe’s #1 Thriller/Mystery of 2024 So FarA Washington Post and Kirkus Reviews Best B... ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Rules for Ghosting

    A Novel

    by Shelly Jay Shore ...
    Narrated by Shelly Jay Shore, Petey Gibson ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 42 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • To save his family's failing funeral home—and his own chance at a queer love story—a reluctant clairvoyant must embrace the gift he long ignored in this poignant and warmhearted debut.“For top-notch drama, this year’s medal goes to Rules for Ghosting. . . . Here, actual ghosts haunt the quiet and tender moments, and it’s the scenes at family holidays that leave you rattled ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

    by N. K. Jemisin ...
    Narrated by Casaundra Freeman ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Inheritance Trilogy

    Unabridged

    11 hours 47 min

    After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season.Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    The Death of Bunny Munro

    A Novel

    by Nick Cave ...
    Narrated by Nick Cave ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    Twenty years after the publication of his first novel, And the Ass Saw the Angel, Nick Cave brings us the final days of Bunny Munro, a salesman in search of a soul.Set adrift by his wife's suicide and struggling to keep some sort of grasp on reality, Bunny Munro drives off in his yellow Fiat Punto, Bunny Jr. in tow. To his son, waiting patiently in the car while he peddles beauty wares and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 9 min

    A colonel receives five seeds in the mail-and dies within weeks. A young bride disappears immediately after her wedding. An old hat and a Christmas goose are the only clues to a stolen jewel. A son is accused of his father's murder. These mysteries-and many more-are brought to the house on Baker Street where detective Sherlock Holmes resides. No case is too tricky for the world's most famous ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Visible Man

    A Novel

    by Chuck Klosterman ...
    Narrated by Annabella Sciorra, Scott Shepherd ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours

    New York Times bestselling author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Downtown Owl, “the Ethicist” of the New York Times Magazine, Chuck Klosterman returns to fiction with his second novel—an imaginative page-turner about a therapist and her unusual patient, a man who can render himself invisible.Therapist Victoria Vick is contacted by a cryptic, unlikable man who insists his situation is unique ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    James

    A Novel

    by Percival Everett ...
    Narrated by Dominic Hoffman ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    **AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewIn development as a feature film to be produced by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Eligible

    A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice

    by Curtis Sittenfeld ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 21 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Wonderfully tender and hilariously funny, Eligible tackles gender, class, courtship, and family as Curtis Sittenfeld reaffirms herself as one of the most dazzling authors writing today.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE TIMES (UK)This version of the Bennet family—and Mr. Darcy—is one that you have and haven’t met before: Liz is a magazine writer in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    The Winter Palace

    A Novel of Catherine the Great

    by Eva Stachniak ...
    Narrated by Beata Pozniak ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 38 min

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Wall Street Journal • The Washington PostFrom award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of history’s boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Great’s improbable rise to power—as seen through the ever-watchful eyes of an all-but-invisible ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Girl on the Train

    A Novel

    by Paula Hawkins ...
    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.**“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw ... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Small Things Like These

    by Claire Keegan ...
    Narrated by Aidan Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    The landmark new novel from award-winning author Claire KeeganIt is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man, faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Snow

    A Novel

    by John Banville ...
    Narrated by John Lee ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Strafford and Quirke

    Unabridged

    8 hours 22 min

    *NATIONAL BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*A Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick“Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book ReviewThe incomparab... ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    All Fours

    A Novel

    by Miranda July ...
    Narrated by Miranda July ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 13 min

    **A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S “100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024”NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:THE NEW YORKERVOGUEOPRAH DAILYVULTURE*VOXThe New York Times* bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a ... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Headshot

    A Novel

    by Rita Bullwinkel ...
    Narrated by Cassandra Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 24 min

    **LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZEONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024Named a Best Book of 2024 by The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Time, Elle, Vulture, Lit Hub, and The Guardian“Make room, American fiction, for a meaningful new voice.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book ReviewAn electrifying debut novel from an “un... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wolf Hall

    A Novel

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Narrated by Simon Slater ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Wolf Hall Trilogy

    Unabridged

    23 hours 1 min

    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONIn inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's New York Times bestselling Wolf Hall **is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe).The basis for the TV series on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.**England in the 1520s ... ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Slow Fire Burning

    A Novel

    by Paula Hawkins ...
    Narrated by Rosamund Pike ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    **AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe scorching new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train.**“A Slow Fire Burning twists and turns like a great thriller should, but it's also deep, intelligent and intensely human.” – Lee Child“Only a clairvoyant could anticipate the book’s ending” – New York TimesWith the same propulsion that... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

    A Novel

    by Celeste Ng ...
    Narrated by Celeste Ng, Lucy Liu ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    **An instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book • Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily, and more • A Reese's Book Club Pick • New York Times Paperback Row SelectionFrom the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unshakeable love. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Jonny Appleseed

    A Novel

    by Joshua Whitehead ...
    Narrated by Joshua Whitehead ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 41 min

    WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Georges Bugnet Award for FictionFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction; Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Indigenous Voices Award; Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award; Firecracker Award for FictionLonglisted for the Scotiabank Giller PrizeA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqu... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    Dance Dance Dance

    A Novel

    by Haruki Murakami ...
    Narrated by Josh Bloomberg ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - The Trilogy of the Rat

    Unabridged

    12 hours 34 min

    In this propulsive novel, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller, and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami’s protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides ... Read more

    $22.99 USD