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By: Laura Sims
Narrated by: Katherine Fenton
Length: 5 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*
In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.
Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between... Read more
In Our Mad and Furious City
By: Guy Gunaratne
Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith & Lou Marie Kerr
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrators Ben Bailey Smith and Lou Marie Kerr expertly intertwine multiple first-person points of view in this gritty debut audiobook...Listeners unfamiliar with the dialects — Irish, Jamaican, and British among them — will be especially buoyed by the power of the performances." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
Long-listed for the... Read more
If You Leave Me
By: Crystal Hana Kim
Narrated by: Greta Jung & Keong Sim
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
""If You Leave Me is graced with truly wonderful writing; great poise, lyricism, intelligence, and an utterly engrossing portrayal of life.""—Richard Ford""An unforgettable story of family, love, and war set against the violent emergence of modern Korea.""—Gary Shteyngart ""A gripping, heartrending tale of the birth of modern Korea filtered... Read more
View audiobookGhosted
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
Anatomy of a Scandal
By: Sarah Vaughan
Narrated by: Julie Teal, Luke Thompson, Esther Wane & Sarah ...
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
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“A nuanced story line perfectly in tune with our #metoo times.” —People, Book of the Week
“One of the season’s most buzzed-about thrillers.” —Bookish
“A strong choice for book clubs. Former political correspondent Vaughan makes an impressive debut with this savvy, propulsive courtroom... Read more
Logical Family
By: Armistead Maupin
Narrated by: Armistead Maupin
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
""A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers, and the story of his life is a story as fascinating, as delightful and as compulsive as any of the tales he has made up for us.""—Neil Gaiman""I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his... Read more
View audiobookThanks, Obama
By: David Litt
Narrated by: David Litt
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRemember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young... Read more
View audiobookYoung 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
View audiobookThe 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
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
I Love Dick
By: Chris Kraus
Narrated by: David de Vries, Susan Ericksen & Teri Schnaubelt
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
In I Love Dick, published in 1997, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tore away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted a host of passionate admirers. The story is gripping... Read more
View audiobookThe Light We Lost: Reese's Book Club
By: Jill Santopolo
Narrated by: Jill Santopolo
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times Bestseller and A Reese’s Book Club Pick
“This love story between Lucy & Gabe spans decades and continents as two star-crossed lovers try to return to each other…Will they ever meet again? This book kept me up at night, turning the pages to find out, and the ending did not disappoint.”—Reese Witherspoon
“One Day meets Me... 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
All Grown Up
By: Jami Attenberg
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Middlesteins comes a wickedly funny novel about a thirty-nine-year-old single, childfree woman who defies convention as she seeks connection. Who is Andrea Bern? When her therapist asks the question, Andrea knows the right things to say: she's a designer, a friend, a daughter, a sister. But it's... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
The Dry
By: Jane Harper
Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
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*Winner of the CWA's Gold Dagger Award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award*
“A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up…You’ll love [her] sleight of hand…A secret on every page.” —The New York Times
“One of the most... Read more
The Inseparables
By: Stuart Nadler
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Kirkus' Best Books of 2016: Crisis is looming for three generations of the Olyphant family.
In less than a year, Henrietta has lost her husband and nearly all of her money, and is about to lose her hard-won anonymity. After a lifetime spent trying to outrun the humiliation her own book caused her, Henrietta has reluctantly agreed to a... 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
The Gilded Years
By: Karin Tanabe
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 11 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
Passing meets The House of Mirth in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of The Kitchen House) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.
Since... 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
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
View audiobookDear Mr. You
By: Mary -Louise Parker
Narrated by: Mary-Louise Parker
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
2017 Audie Award Finalist for Narration by the Author
The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) literary memoir from the award-winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (Elle).
An... 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
View audiobookThe Walls Around Us
By: Nova Ren Suma
Narrated by: Sandy Rustin & Georgia King
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
"Ori's dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She's dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me." "The Walls Around Us" is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside,... Read more
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