Fiction Audio

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Attention muggles!
Couldn't score a ticket to "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone" in the record-breaking advance ticket sale? Don't despair -- get your magic fix with an excerpt from the audiobook.
"The Alchemist"
Jeremy Irons reads an excerpt from Paulo Coelho's novel about a shepherd boy who travels from his homeland, Spain, to Egypt in search of a mysterious treasure buried in the Pyramids.
"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
In Book 2 of J.K. Rowling's bestselling series, someone -- or something -- turns Hogwarts students to stone, and the main suspects are Draco Malfoy, Hagrid and Harry Potter himself.
"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
Listen to an excerpt from the third book in the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.
An interview with Jim Crace
Books editor Laura Miller speaks with Jim Crace about his new book, "The Devil's Larder," a sumptuous stew of 64 short fictions about food and other objects of desire.
"The Chronicles of Narnia"
Kenneth Branagh reads from "The Magician's Nephew," abook in C.S. Lewis' Narnia series.
Harry Potter
Prepare yourself for the upcoming movie by listening to excerpts from all four books in the series by J.K Rowling.
"The Fourth Hand"
In John Irving's latest novel, a TV reporter loses his left hand to a lion while reporting live from India.
"The Diamond Age"
In Neal Stephenson's sci-fi thriller a nanotech supercomputer known as "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" falls into the hands of an underprivileged girl whose life is about to change drastically.
"Any Way the Wind Blows"
E. Lynn Harris' latest novel finds two ex-lovers, bisexual former football pro Basil Henderson and bombshell singer Yancey Braxton, reunited in a tangle of sex and scandalous secrets.
"Snow Crash"
Neal Stephenson's sci-fi thriller about ancient and future viruses makes a comeback as an audiobook.
"LT's Theory of Pets"
Listen to a rare live recording of Stephen King reading from his new audio-only release, which picks up where "Pet Sematary" left off.
"Hollywood Wives"
Jackie Collins' latest, "Hollywood Wives: The New Generation," explores the secrets of the women in today's Hollywood: Their loves, their passions, their affairs and, most of all, their ruthless ambitions.
"The Salt Letters"
In her debut novel, set in 1854, Christine Balint tells the story of a young woman's gruesome life aboard the ship that carries her from her native England to Australia.
"Glue"
Irvine Welsh reads from his new book, in which an obese window cleaner enters the hotel room of an American singer celeb to eat her club sandwich.
"Ben, in the World"
Doris Lessing addresses the fate of Ben, the tragic social misfit she gave life to in her novel "The Fifth Child."
"Fearless Jones"
Walter Mosley's new novel finds two black men in Los Angeles in the 1950s trying to fight their way out of a bewildering vortex of betrayal and violence.
"Good in Bed"
In Jennifer Weiner's debut novel, a journalist discovers that her ex-boyfriend is writing sex columns for a women's magazine and sharing the details of their former sex life.
"How the Dead Live"
Will Self reads from his third novel, which tracks Lily Bloom, a cantankerous American divorcée with breast cancer, from this world to the afterlife.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Hear a rare recording of the fantasy master himself reading from "The Two Towers," a book from his famed trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings."
Blue screen of death
In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.
Cruisin' nude
In Maud Casey's novel "The Shape of Things to Come," when two ex-lovers are found getting it on, they flee in their car, naked, with seat belts fastened.
Young Lions, Part 3
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke read from Akhil Sharma's "An Obedient Father," Myla Goldberg's "Bee Season," and "Chang and Eng" by Darin Strauss, all finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.
Young Lions, Part 2
Uma Thurman reads from David Ebershoff's novel "A Danish Girl," and Ethan Hawke reads from Heidi Julavits' "The Mineral Palace," two finalist in the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award.
The Young Lions
Ethan Hawke reads from the works of the finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, with an introduction by Rick Moody.
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