Literary Fiction/Literature
Look for my personal favorites marked with a blue star!
Ideal Audiobooks
- Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan
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I’ll Be Seeing You
Harmonic Wave
- L. Frank Baum (writing as Laura Bancroft)
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Twinkle and Chubbins
Bee Audio
- Kitty Zeldis
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Not Our Kind
Sedro Publishing
- Abbe Rolnick
Generation of Secrets:
1 — Founding Stones
2 — River of Angels
3 — Color of Lies
Bloomsbury Publishing
- Marisa Silver
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The Mysteries
Metabook
- Wally Lamb
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I’ll Take You There
Blackstone
- Michelle Hoover
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Bottomland
- Alyson Richman
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The Velvet Hours
AudioFile Earphones Award
- Lisa Lutz
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How To Start A Fire
- Nuala O’Connor
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Miss Emily
- Maggie Mitchell
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Pretty Is
- Sari Wilson
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Girl Through Glass
- Stephanie Kallos
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Sing Them Home
AudioFile Earphones Award
- Ann Hood
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The Obituary Writer
AudioFile Earphones Award
- Mary Rickert
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The Memory Garden
- Alice Hoffman
Blackbird House
Angel Landing
- Susan Choi
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My Education
- Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
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Ms. Hempel Chronicles
- Bonnie Nadzam
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Lamb: A Novel
Brilliance
- Liz Rosenberg
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Indigo Hill
Simon & Schuster
- Jo Piazza
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Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win
- Mitchell James Kaplan
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Rhapsody
Dreamscape
- Annie Ernaux
Exteriors
A Frozen Woman
The Possession
- Jean-Phillippe Blondel
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The 6:41 to Paris
- Nino Haratischvili
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The Eighth Life
Earphones Award
- Alison Espach
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The Adults
Library Journal Top 10 Fiction for 2011
Booklist Editor’s Choice Top Adult Audiobooks of 2011
Booklist Starred Review
- Julie Drew
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Daughter of Providence
- Tova Mirvis
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Visible City
- Barbara Wood
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Rainbows on the Moon
Tantor
- Marie NDiaye
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Ladivine
AudioFile Earphones Award
- Nancy Richler
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The Imposter Bride
Audie Finalist 2014
- Mary Sharratt
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Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen
Audie Finalist 2014
AudioFile Earphones Award
- L. Frank Baum
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Publishers Weekly ListenUP Award
- Louisa May Alcott
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Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out
- George Bishop, Jr.
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Letter to My Daughter
- Barbara J. Taylor
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All Waiting Is Long
Harper
- Ron Rash
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Above the Waterfall
- Julia Claiborne Johnson
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Be Frank With Me
Winner, 2017 APA Audie Awards - Best Female Narrator
AudioFile Earphones Award
- Andrea Roth
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The DNA of You and Me
- Joyce Carol Oates
Black Dahlia & White Rose
A Book of American Martyrs
Beautiful Days
- Wally Lamb
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We Are Water
AudioFile Earphones Award
Highbridge
- Will Boast
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Daphne
- Tatjana Soli
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The Last Good Paradise
Macmillan
- Hannah Kohler
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The Outside Lands
- Lisa Gornick
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The Peacock Feast
- Eleanor Morse
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Margreete’s Harbor
- Alice McDermott
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The Bigamist’s Daughter
Audible
- Emily Chenowith
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Hello Goodbye
- Louise Aronson
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A History of the Present Illness
- Thomas Christopher Greene
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The Headmaster’s Wife
Penguin Audio
- Stephanie Dray
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The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Penguin Random House
- Sergio de la Pava
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Lost Empress
- Michiko Kakutani
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread
- Darin Strauss
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The Queen of Tuesday: A Lucille Ball Story
Academic Merit
- Kaye Gibbons
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Ellen Foster
- George Orwell
Animal Farm
1984
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Scarlet Letter
- Ray Bradbury
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Fahrenheit 451
- Harper Lee
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To Kill a Mockingbird
- Aldous Huxley
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Brave New World
- Charles Dickens
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Henry James
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The Turn of the Screw
- L. Carroll
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
Hachette
- Jami Attenberg
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Saint Mazie