Carmichael's Bookstore

Careless People

By: Sarah Wynn-Williams

Narrated by: Sarah Wynn-Williams

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller

“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times

“When one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other... Read more

Daisy Jones & The Six

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pa...

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • COMING SOON AS AN ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES... Read more

A Little Life

By: Hanya Yanagihara

Narrated by: Matt Bomer

Length: 28 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE

A Little Life follows four college... Read more

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

Narrated by: Maggie Smith

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NPR Best Book of the Year • Time Best Book of the Year • Oprah Daily Best Memoir of the Year

“A bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” ­—Time

“A sparklingly beautiful memoir-in-vignettes” (Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author) that explores coming of age in your middle age—from the... Read more

The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale."—The Washington Post

"Yangsze Choo again takes on narration... Read more

The Harder I Fight the More I Love You

By: Neko Case

Narrated by: Neko Case

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a "heartbreaking and funny" memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful). ... Read more

Rock Paper Scissors

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Stephanie Racine

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.

Think you know the person you married? Think again…

Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage... Read more

The Humanity Archive

By: Jermaine Fowler

Narrated by: Jermaine Fowler

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller
This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all.
"An innovative reading of Black history, gracefully joining it to the larger history of all humankind." — Kirkus Starred Review
Using history as a foundation, The Humanity Archive uses... Read more

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

By: Mackenzi Lee

Narrated by: Christian Coulson

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kirkus Prize nominee with five starred reviews! A New York Times bestseller! 2018 Audie Award® nominee for Best Male Narrator!Named one of the best books of 2017 by NPR and the New York Public Library!""The queer teen historical you didn’t know was missing from your life.”—Teen Vogue""A stunning powerhouse of a story.""—School Library... Read more

Heartbreak Is the National Anthem

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Rob Sheffield

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

***The Instant New York Times Bestseller!***An intimate look at the life and music of modern pop’s most legendary figure, Taylor Swift, from leading music journalist Rob Sheffield.A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There’s no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world’s... Read more

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

By: Dawnie Walton

Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Bahni Turpin, James Langton, An...

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

2022 FICTION AUDIE AWARD WINNER!

An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the dark secrets unearthed when they try to reunite decades later for one last tour.

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY BARACK OBAMA * THE WASHINGTON POST * NPR *... Read more

Soft Core

By: Brittany Newell

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman’s madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany Newell’s savage, tender Soft Core.

Ruth is lost. She’s living in a drafty Victorian with her ex-boyfriend Dino, a ketamine dealer with a lingerie habit, overdosing on television and regretting her master’s degree. When she starts dancing... Read more

Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison. When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads... Read more

The Almost Sisters

By: Joshilyn Jackson

Narrated by: Joshilyn Jackson

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are.Superheroes have always been Leia... Read more

Infinite Country

By: Patricia Engel

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION

“A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story... Read more

A Long Time Dead

By: Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

With an introduction by Max Allan Collins: the first collection of stories starring legendary Mike Hammer, the toughest private investigator in historyIt starts with a few near-accidents: A car almost swipes Mike Hammer when he’s crossing the street. A junkie robs the notoriously hardboiled detective at knifepoint. A fight on a subway platform... Read more

A Piece of the World

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth’s mysterious and iconic painting Christina’s World. ""Later he told me that he’d been afraid to show me the painting. He thought I wouldn’t like the way he portrayed me:... Read more

Like Streams to the Ocean

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We

You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for,... Read more

Bruno's Challenge

By: Martin Walker

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin Walker presents his first collection of stories featuring the familiar characters from his Bruno, Chief of Police novels and the glories of the Périgord, with ample helpings of food and wine.

After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a... Read more

Exit Interview

By: Kristi Coulter

Narrated by: Kristi Coulter

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon.com, from the author of Nothing Good Can Come from This.

"A unique and brilliant book." —Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks

What would you sacrifice for your career? All your free time? Your sense of self-worth?... Read more

Murder Is Easy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.But within hours, Miss... Read more

State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A nail-biting narrative, setting stark human dilemmas against a lush, exotic backdrop.”— People“Extraordinary. . . . Nothing is as it seems, and the ending is as shocking as it’s satisfying.” — Boston GlobeFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and... Read more

The Legend of the Christmas Witch

By: Aubrey Plaza & Dan Murphy

Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From Parks and Recreation star Aubrey Plaza and creative partner Dan Murphy comes the long lost tale of the Christmas Witch, Santa Claus's much misunderstood twin sister. The perfect gift for the holiday season and beyond!

Gather ‘round the fire to hear a Christmas legend that has never been told before...until now. Each year a mysterious figure... Read more