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Darius the Great Is Not Okay

By: Adib Khorram

Narrated by: Michael Levi Harris

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.

Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award

“Heartfelt, tender, and so utterly real. I’d live in this book forever if I could.”
—Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of... Read more

Kala

By: Colin Walsh

Narrated by: Frank Blake, Moe Dunford & Seána Kerslake

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS • "An enthralling, evocative and heartfelt mystery" (Chris Whitaker) from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.

"The perfect read for hot summer days... Read more

Gold Diggers

By: Sanjena Sathian

Narrated by: Rama Vallury

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2021 * One of NPR's Best Books of 2021 * New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

“Dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise.” —Celeste Ng, #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere

“Sanjena Sathian’s Gold Diggers is a work of... Read more

The Love of My Life

By: Rosie Walsh

Narrated by: Imogen Church & Theo Solomon

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

“Gripping, heartbreaking and impossible to put down.”—Laura Dave

“A dazzling supernova of a book, it picks you up on line one and doesn't let you go until the very end.” —Lisa Jewell

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ghosted comes a love story wrapped in a mystery: an... Read more

Tell Me an Ending

By: Jo Harkin

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Science Fiction Book by The New York Times

“Sharply, beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review
“Intriguing, frightening, witty, and humane.” —The Wall Street Journal

Black Mirror meets Severence in this thrilling speculative novel about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to... Read more

Commitment

By: Mona Simpson

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.

“A sweeping family epic that took me from one American coast to another…Simpson is so attuned to the family heart.” —Weike Wang, author of... Read more

Heat Wave

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Michael Lesley

Length: 12 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and “uproariously funny” (Sophie Gonzales) Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!

Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City.

An unexpected hero returns to Nova City and... Read more

Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, the story builds as each sibling relays their own versions of the memories that surround both their mother’s mysterious death and the circumstances of one sister’s scandalous teenage... Read more

Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • “A deeply felt portrait . . . With gimlet-eyed observation laced with darkly biting wit, Weike Wang... Read more

The Midnight Club

By: Margot Harrison

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

A twisty, nostalgic, emotionally thrilling novel about a group of estranged college friends who experiment with a secret substance that allows them to re-live their memories—and the fallout when they uncover startling truths about a dark event from their past

“A strange, riveting, brilliant fable. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt’s The Secret... Read more

Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

Narrated by: Annie Q

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, VOGUE, VULTURE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, AND ELECTRIC LITERATURE

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE

"Exquisite and wise." – New York Times

“There is so much heart in these pages, so much wisdom on how we love. This book had me in its orbit, from beginning to end.” – Weike Wang, author of Joan is... Read more

We Don't Know Ourselves

By: Fintan O'Toole

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 22 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In We Don't Know Ourselves, Fintan O'Toole weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary "backwater" to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history.



Born to a working-class family in the... Read more

Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

Narrated by: George Georgiou, Indira Varma, Art Malik & Loli...

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes... Read more

The Extraordinaries

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Michael Lesley

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Michael Lesley's upbeat narration captures all the whimsy, humor, and heart of this YA superhero romp...This sweet queer coming-of-age story will please listeners looking for something fun, surprising, and affirming." -- AudioFile Magazine

An Indie Next Pick!

Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The... Read more

Mistakes Were Made

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Quinn Riley & Stephanie Németh-Parker

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will have a devilishly grand time with this rambunctiously robust performance by stellar narrators Quinn Riley and Stephanie Németh-Parker." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

From the critically acclaimed author of Something to Talk About comes Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college... Read more

Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
 
It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the... Read more

Where Sleeping Girls Lie

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Narrated by: Natalie Simpson

Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears.

It’s like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again...

Sade... Read more

Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""Claire Oshetsky’s novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying."" —Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World BehindAn exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremisTiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. “You think this baby is going to be like you, but it’s not like you at all,” she... Read more

Cult Classic

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a surreal and hilarious insight into millennial dating with a big twist, and the narrator will have you hooked from the very beginning." -Buzzfeed

"Crosley reads with an incisive understanding of Lola's psyche. She hits all of the notes of sarcasm and reluctant self-reflection, and somehow even manages to give her searching optimism a... Read more

How Do You Live?

By: Genzaburo Yoshino

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Japanese classic that has delighted millions of readers, in English for the first time.

Following the death of his father, Copper, fifteen, faces enormous changes, and he wonders about things he used to take for granted, including his place in the world, friendship and loyalty, and the role of luck and choice in his future.

Meanwhile,... Read more

Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and... Read more

Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware proves that she is the “new Agatha Christie” (Air Mail) with this adrenaline-fueled thriller about a woman in a race to clear her name and find her husband’s murderer.

Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists... Read more

Several People Are Typing: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Calvin Kasulke

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews, Neil Shah, Dani Martineck, Sop...

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF. • "An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House
 
Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and... Read more

Lavender House

By: Lev AC Rosen

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is a beautiful, satisfying listen."- AudioFile

"Most audiobook readers are familiar with Vikas Adam’s work. He’s a prolific narrator in the YA and romance space and the perfect choice for Lavender House....The narration kept my attention all the way through!"- Bookcrushin'

A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's... Read more