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Monsters by Claire Dederer
Monsters
Claire Dederer
Monsters by Claire Dederer

Monsters

By: Claire Dederer

Narrated by: Claire Dederer

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?

"A lively, personal... Read more

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Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
Meet Me in the Margins
Melissa Ferguson
Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson

Meet Me in the Margins

By: Melissa Ferguson

Narrated by: Talon David

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won't be able to put down!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of A Happier LifeYou've Got Mail meets The Proposal--this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief... Read more

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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman...

Length: 14 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA... Read more

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Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen's Bookshelf
Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

By: Rebecca Romney

Narrated by: Rebecca Romney

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure that introduces readers to the women writers who inspired Jane Austen—and investigates why their books have disappeared from our shelves.

Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She loved that... Read more

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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Sara Nichols

Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A Room of One's Own" began life as a pair of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge and was published as a stand-alone book in 1929. In this brilliant examination of literature, history and gender discrimination, Woolf posits that the dearth of... Read more

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Joan Didion
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

Narrated by: Maya Hawke

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things.

"Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register

"Didion’s timeless essays shine with Hawke at the helm. This audiobook will bring... Read more

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Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
Divine Might
Natalie Haynes
Divine Might by Natalie Haynes

Divine Might

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the... Read more

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Authority by Andrea Long Chu
Authority
Andrea Long Chu
Authority by Andrea Long Chu

Authority

By: Andrea Long Chu

Narrated by: Andrea Long Chu

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Read by the author, this bold, provocative collection of essays asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?

Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,” the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the... Read more

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
Leah Price
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books by Leah Price

What We Talk About When We Talk About Books

By: Leah Price

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're not alone. Digital-age pundits warn that as our appetite for books dwindles, so too do the virtues in which printed, bound objects once trained us: the willpower to focus on a sustained argument, the... Read more

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Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey
Everything Must Go
Dorian Lynskey
Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey

Everything Must Go

By: Dorian Lynskey

Narrated by: Dorian Lynskey

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world.

As Dorian Lynskey writes, “People have been contemplating the end of the world for... Read more

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The Light Room by Kate Zambreno
The Light Room
Kate Zambreno
The Light Room by Kate Zambreno

The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

Narrated by: Kate Zambreno

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup.“  —Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 

From “one of our most formally ambitious writers” (Esquire), a moving account of caretaking in a time of uncertainty and loss


In The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and... Read more

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Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror
Jia Tolentino
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino

Trick Mirror

By: Jia Tolentino

Narrated by: Jia Tolentino

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire

Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia...
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies
Elizabeth Winkler
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

By: Elizabeth Winkler

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.

The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most... Read more

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Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood
Trauma Plot
Jamie Hood
Trauma Plot by Jamie Hood

Trauma Plot

By: Jamie Hood

Narrated by: Jamie Hood

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival

"Hood descends into the terrifying dark of the unsayable with the dimmest of flashlights and returns bearing verbal gems, treasures, and marvels. Trauma Plot is a glass case of such...
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Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

Minor Feelings

By: Cathy Park Hong

Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE • A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness

“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen


In... Read more

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Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold
Dangerous Fictions
Lyta Gold
Dangerous Fictions by Lyta Gold

Dangerous Fictions

By: Lyta Gold

Narrated by: Amy O'Donnell

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power. Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold traces... Read more

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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 25 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.

“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a... Read more

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All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld
All Things Are Too Small
Becca Rothfeld
All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld

All Things Are Too Small

By: Becca Rothfeld

Narrated by: Ruth Crawford

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as decluttering, mindfulness, David Cronenberg, sadomasochism, and women who wait. All Things Are Too Small is brilliant cultural and literary critic Becca Rothfeld’s plea for derangement: imbalance, obsession,... Read more

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Putting the Fact in Fantasy by Dan Koboldt
Putting the Fact in Fantasy
Dan Koboldt
Putting the Fact in Fantasy by Dan Koboldt

Putting the Fact in Fantasy

By: Dan Koboldt

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of essays from historians, linguists, martial artists, and other experts to help you write more compelling fantasy by getting the facts right

Whether it's correctly naming the parts of a horse, knowing how lords and ladies address one another, or building a realistic fantasy army, getting the details right takes fantasy writing to... Read more

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One in a Millennial by Kate Kennedy
One in a Millennial
Kate Kennedy
One in a Millennial by Kate Kennedy

One in a Millennial

By: Kate Kennedy

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist


One in a Millennial
is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned... Read more

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The Fellowship by Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski
The Fellowship
Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski
The Fellowship by Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski

The Fellowship

By: Philip Zaleski & Carol Zaleski

Narrated by: John Curless

Length: 26 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For three decades, they and their closest associates formed a literary club known as the Inklings, which met weekly in... Read more

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Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk

Istanbul

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a portrait of Istanbul by its foremost writer, revealing the melancholy that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.  

"Delightful, profound, marvelously origina.... Pamuk tells the story of the city through the eyes of memory." —The Washington Post Book World

A... Read more

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She Speaks! by Harriet Walter
She Speaks!
Harriet Walter
She Speaks! by Harriet Walter

She Speaks!

By: Harriet Walter

Narrated by: Harriet Walter

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE
'It is STUNNING and I simply sat and read it right through, and shall start again at once. I had no idea that she is such a sensationally fine poet. Astonishing' JOANNA LUMLEY

'Bold and original . . .... Read more

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The Bright Book of Life by Harold Bloom
The Bright Book of Life
Harold Bloom
The Bright Book of Life by Harold Bloom

The Bright Book of Life

By: Harold Bloom

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 21 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.

In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more

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