Instant Reader Gratification: Hear the Biggest Fall Fiction on Audio
Dearest book nerds, our season is at hand. With new novels from Marlon James, Kate Atkinson, Chloe Benjamin, John Green, and more literary super stars, we never have to be without a banger of a book this fall. Which means that when Dwight Garner of The New York Times calls Marlon James’s new novel The Disappearers “A masterpiece, the novel of the decade and possibly of the century thus far,” we can, with the cool of a thousand cucumbers, simply download the full cast audiobook. In fact, why wait to start any of the hot numbers on this list?
The Disappearers by Marlon James
Long listed for the 2026 Booker Prize, hear this electrifying novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its far-reaching consequences, read by a full cast.
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
A Good Morning America Book Club pick. The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story—and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, and what might lie beyond it.
Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
A thrilling tale of post–World War II London, where peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past, from the #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life.
Hollywood, Ending by John Green
#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. Read by Zachary Chastain and Julia Whelan.
Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, hear Rebecca Soler, MacLeod Andrews, and Julia Whelan narrate this riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman—a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State—searches for answers. Read by a full audio cast.
Dèy by Edwidge Danticat
From the bestselling author of Everything Inside comes a vivid, timely story, moving from Haiti to Brooklyn to Miami, of a woman whose sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence.
Switzy by Emma Cline
Longlisted for the Booker Prize, hear Robert Petkoff narrate this mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest.
