Listen To: Small Gems
Enjoy audiobooks but can’t commit to long hours of listening? The fiction and nonfiction audiobooks on this list all clock in at six hours or less. All of these titles are available in the Adult Audiobook section of the Library.
| Fiction |
| Nonfiction |
Fiction
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Also available: Digital Player
Atwood, Margaret. The Penelopiad.
Also available: eAudiobook
Balogh, Mary. A Matter of Class.
Also available: eAudiobook
Berg, Elizabeth. Joy School.
Beaton, M. C. Death of a Cad.
Brockmann, Suzanne. Time Enough for Love.
Brookner, Anita. Leaving Home.
Brown, Sandra. Love's Encore.
Camus, Albert. The Stranger.
Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness.
Crusie, Jennifer. Anyone but You.
Also available: eAudiobook
Dai, Sijie. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Also available: eAudiobook
De Bernières, Louis. A Partisan's Daughter.
Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet.
Also available: eAudiobook
Erdrich, Louise. Shadow Tag.
Evanovich, Janet. Back to the Bedroom.
Also available: eAudiobook
Hoag, Tami. Mismatch.
Howard, Linda. Ice.
Also available: eAudiobook
Isherwood, Christopher. A Single Man.
Johnson, Denis. Nobody Move.
Lelord, François. Hector and the Search for Happiness.
Martin, Steve. Shopgirl.
McCall Smith, Alexander. Portuguese Irregular Verbs.
Michaels, Fern. Family Blessings.
Némirovsky, Irène. Fire in the Blood.
Also available: eAudiobook
Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club.
Patterson, James. Sundays at Tiffany's.
Also available: eAudiobook
Rahimi, Atiq. The Patience Stone.
Robinson, Marilynne. Housekeeping.
Rosoff, Meg. The Bride's Farewell.
Roth, Phillip. Everyman.
Schlink, Bernhard. The Reader.
Also available: eAudiobook
Spark, Muriel. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
Talarigo, Jeff. The Ginseng Hunter.
Tey, Josephine. The Daughter of Time.
Trevor, William. Love and Summer.
Turow, Scott. Limitations.
Watson, Larry. Montana 1948.
Vreeland, Susan. Girl in Hyacinth Blue.
Nonfiction
Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith. (296.7 A).
Also available: eAudiobook
Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. (818.54 D556.ye).
Also available: Digital Player
Ephron, Nora. I Feel Bad About My Neck. (818.54 E635.i).
Also available: eAudiobook
Hawking, Stephen. The Grand Design. (530.142 H).
Hiaasen, Carl. The Downhill Lie: A Hacker’s Return to a Ruinous Sport.
(796.352092 H).
Also available: eAudiobook
Lewis, Michael. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood. (306.8742 L).
Kotlowitz, Alex. Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago. (977.311 K875ne).
Martin, Steve. Born Standing Up. (792.7028092 M).
Mayle, Peter. French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew.
(394.10944 M).
Schneider, Helga. Let Me Go. (306.8743 S).
Taylor, Jill Bolte. My Stroke of Insight. (362.19681 T).
Also available: eAudiobook