East City Bookshop

The Girl Before

By: JP Delaney

Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams & Lise Aagaard Knudsen

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER • Soon to be a BBC One and HBO Max limited four-part series, starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show; Misbehaviour) and multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo (Selma; Les Misérables)
 
“A pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense” (Lee Child) that spins one woman’s seemingly good fortune,... Read more

Sadie

By: Courtney Summers

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Fred Berman, Gabra Zackman & Rebec...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the 2019 Odyssey Award**Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Young Adult Audiobook*

"Courtney Summers's powerful story of love, neglect, abuse, and revenge is narrated with irresistible urgency by Rebecca Soler and Dan Bittner, along with an ensemble of supporting narrators...this is a production that will not be forgotten" — AudioFile... Read more

Ghosted

By: Rosie Walsh

Narrated by: Katherine Press

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times bestseller!

"I absolutely loved this book and didn't want it to end." --Liane Moriarty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies

“This is an ‘accidentally stayed up until 4 a.m. because it's impossible to put down’ kind of novel.” --USA Today

Seven perfect days. Then he disappeared. A love story with a secret... Read more

Come to the Edge

By: Christina Haag

Narrated by: Christina Haag

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep school friends, a skinny kid who lived with his mother and sister on Fifth Avenue and who happened to have a Secret Service detail following him at a discreet distance at all times. A decade later, after... Read more

Sona and the Golden Beasts

By: Rajani LaRocca

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From Newbery Honor and Walter Award–winning author Rajani LaRocca comes a gripping middle grade fantasy perfect for fans of The Serpent’s Secret and The Last Mapmaker. Though music is outlawed in the land of Devia, Sona hears it everywhere. Sona is a Malech, a member of the ruling class that conquered Devia centuries ago. Malechs forbade music... Read more

Against the Currant

By: Olivia Matthews

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Little Caribbean, Brooklyn, New York: Lyndsay Murray is opening Spice Isle Bakery with her family, and it’s everything she’s ever wanted. The West Indian bakery is her way to give back to the community she loves, stay connected to her Grenadian roots, and work side-by-side with her family. The only thing getting a rise out of Lyndsay is Claudio... Read more

Bread and Circus

By: Airea D. Matthews

Narrated by: Airea D. Matthews

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

“Discerning and significant.” —Poetry Foundation
“A sharp memoir in verse.” —LitHub

This powerful and timely collection of autobiographical poems from Yale Young Poets Award Winner and Philadelphia’s former Poet Laureate Airea D. Matthews about the economics of class is a brilliant intellectual and... Read more

Star-Crossed

By: Minnie Darke

Narrated by: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why rely on fate when you can rewrite the stars? In this sparkling romantic comedy, one woman decides to tinker with the horoscopes of the man of her dreams.

“A bright, brilliant, joyful love story.”—Josie Silver, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE

When childhood... Read more

Logical Family

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Armistead Maupin

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

""I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read.""—Mary KarrIn this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his... Read more

Hum If You Don't Know the Words

By: Bianca Marais

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan & Bahni Turpin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.

Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but... Read more

Full Exposure

By: Thien-Kim Lam

Narrated by: David Lee Huynh & Keylor Leigh

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back—with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing?Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from her Washington, D.C.,... Read more

Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss—who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married—and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over... Read more

The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. 

When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more

Not Working

By: Lisa Owens

Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses comes a “a pin-sharp, utterly addictive debut” (Vogue U.K.) told in vignettes that speak to a new generation not trying to have it all but hoping to make sense of it all.

“Everyone’s been talking about this book. . . . Charming and funny, this read is simply delightful.”—Bustle

“A... Read more

The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

Narrated by: Varia Williams & Alexis Rodney

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR best book of the year and recommended by Oprah Daily, Good Housekeeping, Zibby Mag, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and Katie Couric Media!""A summer read with bite.”—NPRDisgraced model-writer Bianca Bridge can’t stand hotshot makeup maven Obadiah Cortland. And he lets her know the feeling is mutual. But when working together is their last resort,... Read more

All Tomorrow’s Parties

By: Rob Spillman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning, esteemed cofounding editor of the legendary Tin House magazine, All Tomorrow’s Parties is an intimate, spirited memoir of a rebellious young man’s fierce pursuit of an artistic life and a portrait of a shifting Berlin in the midst of a cultural renaissance.Rob Spillman has devoted his life to the rebellious pursuit of... Read more

The Futures

By: Anna Pitoniak

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal, a young couple moves to New York City in search of success-only to learn that the lives they dream of may come with dangerous strings attached.

Julia and Evan fall in love as undergraduates at Yale. For Evan, a scholarship student from a rural Canadian town, Yale is a whole new world, and... Read more

Dept. of Speculation

By: Jenny Offill

Narrated by: Jenny Offill

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply 'the wife,' once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a... Read more

Tiny Pretty Things

By: Sona Charaipotra & Dhonielle Clayton

Narrated by: Imani Parks, Nora Hunter, Greta Jung & Laura De...

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix TV show! Black Swan meets Pretty Little Liars in this soapy, drama-packed novel featuring diverse characters who will do anything to be the prima at their elite ballet school.From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Belles, Dhonielle Clayton, and the author of the acclaimed Symptoms of a Heartbreak, Sona Charaipotra.Gigi,... Read more

The Party

By: Elizabeth Day

Narrated by: Greg Wagland

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party.

"Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone provide a gleeful, edgy wit.... [a] smart, irresistible romp."-New York Times Book Review

Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have... Read more

The Hollywood Daughter

By: Kate Alcott

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmaker and A Touch of Stardust, comes a Hollywood coming-of-age novel, in which Ingrid Bergman's affair with Roberto Rossellini forces her biggest fan to reconsider everything she was raised to believe

In 1950, Ingrid Bergman—already a major star after movies like Casablanca and Joan of... Read more

Frances and Bernard

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more

Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Every sentence of Monica Heisey’s writing is a treat. No one makes me laugh like she does.” —Dolly Alderton, New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About LoveRecommended by Los Angeles Times • Washington Post • GQ • Elle • Good Morning America • People • Guardian • The Times • E! News Online • The Globe and... Read more

Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Reader Vacker does a remarkable job.... Mystery and true crime fans will be drawn in and ultimately satisfied by this complex, tense tale read expertly by a talented narrator." —Booklist on All the Dangerous Things

A sharp and twisty exploration of female friendship from the New York Times bestselling author of A Flicker in the Dark and All the... Read more