The Namesake

Unaccustomed Earth: Stories

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Jhumpa Lahiri
• Narrated By Sarita Choudhury, Ajay Naidu
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From the internationally best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a superbly crafted new work of fiction: eight stories that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand. In the stunning title story, Ruma, a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father, who carefully tends the earth of her garden, where he and his grandson form a special bond. But he's harboring a secret from his daughter, a love affair he's keeping all to himself.

The Lowland

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 4 mins)
• By Jhumpa Lahiri
• Narrated By Sunil Malhotra
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Born just 15 months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. It is the 1960s, and Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything, risk all, for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother’s political passion; he leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America.

Interpreter of Maladies

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 15 mins)
• By Jhumpa Lahiri
• Narrated By Matilda Novak

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

In Other Words

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 53 mins)
• By Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein - translator
• Narrated By Jhumpa Lahiri

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story - of a long and sometimes difficult courtship and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Khaled Hosseini
• Narrated By Atossa Leoni
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Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them, in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul, they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.

Enrique's Journey

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 41 mins)
• By Sonia Nazario
• Narrated By Catherine Byers

Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of families torn apart, the yearning to be together again, and a boy who will risk his life to find the mother he loves.

Things Fall Apart

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 30 mins)
• By Chinua Achebe
• Narrated By Peter Francis James
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Okonkwo is born into poverty, with a wastrel for a father. Driven by ambition, he works tirelessly to gain the prosperity of many fields and wives and prestige in his village. But he is harsh as well as diligent. As he sees the traditions of his people eroded by white missionaries and government officials, he lashes out in anger.

Americanah

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Narrated By Adjoa Andoh
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As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love in a Nigeria under military dictatorship. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America, where Obinze hopes to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, after so long apart and so many changes, will they find the courage to meet again, face to face?

The Kite Runner

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 6 mins)
• By Khaled Hosseini
• Narrated By Khaled Hosseini

Why we think it’s a great listen: Never before has an author’s narration of his fiction been so important to fully grasping the book’s impact and global implications. Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them.

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Kao Kalia Yang
• Narrated By Kao Kalia Yang

In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States, all in search of a new place to call home. Decades later, their experiences remain largely unknown. Kao Kalia Yang was driven to tell her own family's story after her grandmother’s death. The Latehomecomer is a tribute to that grandmother, a remarkable woman whose spirit held her family together.

Half of a Yellow Sun: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (18 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Narrated By Robin Miles
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Adichie’s brilliant historical novel follows the fortunes of five characters living through the tumultuous 1960s—a time when the Biafran-Nigerian War raged in southern Africa.

The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 50 mins)
• By Colson Whitehead
• Narrated By Bahni Turpin
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The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selection. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood - where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned - Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

White Teeth

• UNABRIDGED (23 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Zadie Smith
• Narrated By Jenny Sterlin
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Archie's life has disintegrated. Fresh from a dead marriage, middle-aged Archie stretches out a vacuum hose, seals up his car and prepares to die. But unbeknownst to him, his darkest hour is also his luckiest day. With the opening of a butcher's shop, his life is saved and soon he is on his way to beginning a new life with a young Jamaican woman looking for the last man on earth.

A Man Called Ove

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Fredrik Backman
• Narrated By George Newbern
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon - the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell". But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness.

The Overcoat: A Russian Ghost Story, with Original Foreword by Kate Shrewsday

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 8 mins)
• By Nikolai Gogol
• Narrated By Kate Shrewsday
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Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.

Pride and Prejudice

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Jane Austen
• Narrated By Rosamund Pike
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One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl). In her bright and energetic performance of this British classic, she expertly captures Austen’s signature wit and tone. Her attention to detail, her literary background, and her performance in the 2005 feature film version of the novel provide the perfect foundation from which to convey the story of Elizabeth Bennett, her four sisters, and the inimitable Mr. Darcy.

The White Tiger: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Aravind Adiga
• Narrated By John Lee
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Through Balram's eyes, we see India as we've never seen it before: the cockroaches and the call centers, the prostitutes and the worshippers, the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger.

With a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, Balram teaches us that religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem.

A Suitable Boy (Dramatised)

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 48 mins)
• By Vikram Seth
• Narrated By Full Cast

A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four middle class families: the Mehras, Kappoors, Khans, and Chatterjis. Lata Mehra, a university student, is under pressure from her mother to get married. But not to just anyone she happens to fall in love with.

Britt-Marie Was Here: A Novel

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 18 mins)
• By Fredrik Backman
• Narrated By Joan Walker
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Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at 63, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless 40-year marriage and finds a job in the only place she can: Borg, a small, derelict town devastated by the financial crisis.

And the Mountains Echoed

• UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 1 min)
• By Khaled Hosseini
• Narrated By Khaled Hosseini, Navid Negahban, Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Khaled Hosseini, the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations.

Native Speaker

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 1 min)
• By Chang-Rae Lee
• Narrated By David Colacci
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Narrator Henry Park, son of a Korean-American grocer, is an undercover operative for a vaguely sinister private intelligence agency. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, Park finds his family, culture, and identity endangered by the secrets he uncovers.

Purple Hibiscus

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 52 mins)
• By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Narrated By Lisette Lecat

In Purple Hibiscus, she recounts the story of a young Nigerian girl searching for freedom. Although her father is greatly respected within their community, 15-year-old Kambili knows a frighteningly strict and abusive side to this man. In many ways, she and her family lead a privileged life, but Kambili and her brother, Jaja, are often punished for failing to meet their father’s expectations. After visiting her aunt and cousins, Kambili dreams of being part of a loving family.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Junot Diaz
• Narrated By Jonathan Davis, Staci Snell
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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku: the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.

The Glass Palace

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 59 mins)
• By Amitav Ghosh
• Narrated By Simon Vance
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Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love will shape his life. He cannot forget her, and years later, as a rich man, he goes in search of her.