Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Literature, Literary Fiction

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Title: Pieces of Happiness: A Novel of Friendship, Hope and Chocolate

Author: Anne Ostby

Narrator: Jilly Bond

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 29, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Pieces of Happiness by Anne Ostby, read by Jilly Bond. I’ve planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset . Why don’t you join me? Leave behind everything that didn’t work out! When recently-widowed Kat writes to her four old school friends, inviting them to live with her on a cocoa plantation in the South Pacific, they swap icy pavements and TV dinners for a tropical breeze and an azure-blue ocean. Leaving behind loneliness, dead-end jobs and marriages that have gone sour, they settle into the Women’s House, surrounded by palms and cocoa trees; and locals with the puzzling habit of exploding into laughter for no discernible reason. Each of the women has her issues to resolve, and secrets to keep. But together the friends find a new purpose, starting a business making chocolate: bittersweet, succulent pieces of happiness. As they embrace a new culture that views ageing so differently from their own, will they learn to accept and forgive: to discover the value of friendship, and a better way to live?

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Title: Flood: A Novel

Author: Melissa Scholes Young

Narrator: Hallie Ricardo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A sparkling debut set in Mark Twain's boyhood town, Flood is a story of what it means to be lost . . . and found. Laura Brooks fled her hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, ten years ago after a historic flood and personal heartbreak. Now she's returned unannounced, and her family and friends don't know what to make of it. She says she's just home for a brief visit and her high-school reunion, but she's carrying too much luggage for that: literal and metaphorical. Soon Laura is embroiled in small-town affairs--the contentious divorce of her rowdy best friend Rose; the campaign of her twelve-year-old godson, Bobby, to become the town's official Tom Sawyer; and the renewed interest of the man Laura once thought she'd marry, Sammy McGuire. Leaving town when she was eighteen had been Laura's only option. She feared a stifling existence in a town ruled by its past, its mythological devotion to Mark Twain, and the economic and racial divide that runs as deep as the Mississippi River. She can't forget that fateful Fourth of July when the levees broke or the decisions that still haunt her. Now as the Mississippi rises again, a deep wound threatens to reopen, and Laura must decide if running away once more might be the best way to save herself.

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Title: Before Everything

Author: Victoria Redel

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A group of lifetime friends gather together to confront life, love, and now mortality “Everything you want a novel about life, death, and friendship to be—smart, moving, sweeping, poetic, stinging, just beautiful. I loved these women (and their men) and this elegy to their long-reaching bonds.” —Dani Shapiro, author of Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage Before Everything is a celebration of friendship and love between a group of women who have known each another since they were girls. They’ve faced everything together, from youthful sprees and scrapes to mid-life turning points. Now, as Anna, the group’s trailblazer and brightest spark, enters hospice, they gather to do what they’ve always done—talk and laugh and help each other make choices and plans, this time in Anna’s rural Massachusetts home. Helen, Anna’s best friend and a celebrated painter, is about to remarry. The others face their own challenges—Caroline with her sister’s mental health crisis; Molly with a teenage daughter’s rebellion; Ming with her law practice—dilemmas with kids and work and love. Before Everything is as funny as it is bittersweet, as the friends revel in the hilarious mistakes they’ve seen each another through, the secrets kept, and adventures shared. But now all sense of time has shifted, and the pattern of their lives together takes on new meaning. The novel offers a brilliant, emotionally charged portrait, deftly conveying the sweep of time over everyday lives, and showing how even in difficult endings, gifts can unfold. Above all it is an ode to friendship, and to how one person shapes the journeys of those around her. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrightedworks:“Tattered Kaddish”. Copyright © 1991 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright © 2016 by the Adrienne RichLiterary Trust. From Collected Poems 1950-2012 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton& Company, Inc.“Stayin’ Alive,” words and music by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robin Gibb. Copyright © 1977(renewed) Crompton Songs LLC and Gibb Brothers Music. All rights for Crompton Songs LLCadministered by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Used by permission of AlfredMusic.“Sunlight,” words and music by Jesse Colin Young. Copyright © 1969 by Pigfoot Music. Reprinted bypermission of Jesse Colin Young.“Willin’,” by Lowell George. Copyright © 1994 by Naked Snake Music. Reprinted by permission ofElizabeth George.“Angel from Montgomery,” words and music by John Prine. Copyright © 1971 (renewed) Walden Music,Inc. and Sour Grapes Music. All rights administered by WB Music Corp. All rights reserved. Used bypermission of Alfred Music.

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Title: Every Last Lie

Author: Mary Kubica

Narrator: Carly Robins, Graham Hamilton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 44

Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 7

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times bestselling author of THE GOOD GIRL Mary Kubica is back with another exhilarating thriller as a widow’s pursuit of the truth leads her to the darkest corners of the psyche. Clara Solberg’s world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident…until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what really happened on that fateful afternoon. Tormented by grief and her obsession that Nick’s death was far more than just an accident, Clara is plunged into a desperate hunt for the truth. Who would have wanted Nick dead? And, more important, why? Clara will stop at nothing to find out—and the truth is only the beginning of this twisted tale of secrets and deceit. Told in the alternating perspectives of Clara’s investigation and Nick’s last months leading up to the crash, master of suspense Mary Kubica weaves her most chilling thriller to date—one that explores the dark recesses of a mind plagued by grief and shows that some secrets might be better left buried. Don't miss Mary Kubica's chilling upcoming novel, She's Not Sorry, where an ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient's frightening past... And look for the new editions of The Good Girl, Pretty Baby, Don’t You Cry and The Other Mrs. featuring brand new covers! More edge-of-your-seat thrillers by New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica: - The Good Girl - Pretty Baby - Don’t You Cry - When the Lights Go Out - Local Woman Missing - Just The Nicest Couple - The Other Mrs. - She’s not Sorry

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Title: The Cafe by the Sea: A Novel

Series: #1 of Mure

Author: Jenny Colgan

Narrator: Sarah Barron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.05 of Total 39

Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 12

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The beloved author of The Bookshop on the Corner returns with a sparkling, sunny, soulful new novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand. Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious... and hopeleslly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers -- all strapping, loud, and seemingly incapable of basic housework -- and her father. Yet even amid the chaos of their reunion, Flora discovers a passion for cooking -- and find herself restoring dusty little pink-fronted shop on the harbour: a café by the sea. But with the seasons changing, Flora must come to terms with past mistakes -- and work out exactly where her future lies... Funny and heartfelt, The Café by the Sea is a delightful summertime novel that puts a modern twist on the classic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers story.

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Title: The Confusion of Languages

Author: Siobhan Fallon

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.09 of Total 11

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. Both Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the U.S. embassy in Jordan, but that’s about all the women have in common. After two years, Cassie’s become an expert on the rules, but newly arrived Margaret sees only her chance to explore. So when a fender-bender sends Margaret to the local police station, Cassie reluctantly agrees to watch Margaret’s toddler son. But as the hours pass, Cassie’s boredom and frustration turn to fear: Why isn’t Margaret answering her phone, and why is it taking so long to sort out a routine accident? Snooping around Margaret’s apartment, Cassie begins to question not only her friend’s whereabouts but also her own role in Margaret’s disappearance.   With achingly honest prose and riveting characters, The Confusion of Languages plunges readers into a shattering collision between two women and two worlds, affirming Siobhan Fallon as a powerful voice in American fiction and a storyteller not to be missed. “A gripping, cleverly plotted novel with surprising bite.”—Phil Klay “Mesmerizing and devastating....Two military wives must explore a modern-day, cultural labyrinth in this insatiable read.”—Sarah McCoy

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Title: The Birdwatcher

Author: William Shaw

Narrator: Roger Davis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 0 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Police Sergeant William South has a good reason to shy away from murder investigations: he is a murderer himself. A methodical, diligent, and exceptionally bright detective, South is an avid birdwatcher and trusted figure in his small town on the rugged Kentish coast. He also lives with the deeply buried secret that, as a child in Northern Ireland, he may have killed a man. When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, South's world flips. The culprit seems to be a drifter from South's childhood; the victim was the only person connecting South to his early crime; and a troubled, vivacious new female sergeant has been relocated from London and assigned to work with South. As our hero investigates, he must work ever-harder to keep his own connections to the victim, and his past, a secret. The Birdwatcher is British crime fiction at its finest; a stirring portrait of flawed, vulnerable investigators; a meticulously constructed mystery; and a primal story of fear, loyalty and vengeance. **Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year

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Title: Modern Gods: A Novel

Author: Nick Laird

Narrator: Sarah-Jane Drummey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times)   “[Nick Laird’s] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles eye and ear.' –The New York Times Book Review “Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language…[with] fierce tenderness. ” –Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father’s real estate agency, she hopes a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison’s wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world’s newest religion. Both sisters hope to write their own futures, but the past has other ideas. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. While Liz, in a rainforest on the other side of the planet, finds herself increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the charismatic middle-aged woman she has come to film, the leader of a cargo cult. As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide exactly what the living owe to the dead.  Laird’s brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together, and the repercussions of history and belief.

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Title: Quiet Until the Thaw: A Novel

Author: Alexandra Fuller

Narrator: Alma Cuervo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 1

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

The debut novel from the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Leaving Before the Rains Come.    “Awe inspiring . . . An ardent, original, and beautifully wrought book.” —The New York Times Book Review Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, are pitted against each other as their tribe is torn apart by infighting. Rick chooses the path of peace and stays; You Choose, violent and unpredictable, strikes out on his own. When he returns, after three decades behind bars, he disrupts the fragile peace and threatens the lives of the entire reservation. A complex tale that spans generations and geography, Quiet Until the Thaw conjures, with the implications of an oppressed history, how we are bound not just to immediate family but to all who have come before and will come after us, and, most of all, to the notion that everything was always, and is always, connected.

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Title: The Destroyers: A Novel

Author: Christopher Bollen

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Release date: June 27, 2017

Genres: Literary Fiction

Publisher's Summary:

Esquire Best Book of the Year • Recommended by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Vogue, Paste, New York Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Seattle Times, Yahoo!, Refinery29, BBC, PopSugar, and the Boston Herald “A seductive and richly atmospheric literary thriller with a sleek Patricia Highsmith surface.'' —New York Times Book Review ''Equal parts Graham Greene, Patricia Highsmith, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Destroyers is at once lyrical and suspenseful, thoughtful and riveting.'' —Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You “Superb. . . . A read-all-night of a book.” —Alan Furst, author of A Hero of France Arriving on the stunning Greek island of Patmos, Ian Bledsoe is broke, humiliated, and fleeing the fallout from his father’s death. His childhood friend Charlie—rich, exuberant, and basking in the success of his new venture on the island—could be his last hope. At first Patmos appears to be a dream—long, sun-soaked days on Charlie’s yacht and the reappearance of a girlfriend from Ian’s past—and Charlie readily offers Ian the lifeline he so desperately needs. But, like Charlie himself, this beautiful island conceals a darkness beneath, and it isn’t long before the dream begins to fragment. When Charlie suddenly vanishes, Ian finds himself caught up in deception after deception. As he grapples with the turmoil left in his friend’s wake, he is reminded of an imaginary game called Destroyers they invented as children—a game, he now realizes, they may have never stopped playing.