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The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who has lived his life through and for literature, unaware that his own experience is a poignant and affecting narrative in itself. Bob Comet is a retired librarian passing his solitary days surrounded by books and small comforts in a... Read more

Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

Narrated by: Carolyn Kang

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... 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

The Tiger Rising

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie comes the moving story of an eleven-year-old-boy, Rob Horton, who finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father. With the help of his new friend, Sistine Bailey, Rob must decide what to do with his discovery and at the same time come to terms with his past. 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

Afterparties

By: Anthony Veasna So

Narrated by: Jason Sean

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK WINNER OF THE FERRO-GRUMLEY AWARD FOR LGBTQ FICTIONNamed a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times * NPR * Washington Post * LA Times * Kirkus Reviews * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Harper’s Bazaar * TIME *... Read more

Skye Falling

By: Mia McKenzie

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A woman who’s used to going solo discovers that there’s one relationship she can’t run away from in this “hilarious, electric” (The New York Times) novel, a probing examination of the complexities of family, queerness, race, and community

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER• ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston... Read more

On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more

Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.

Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect... Read more

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun

By: Shane McCrae

Narrated by: Shane McCrae

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2023

An unforgettable, “lyrical and poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents.

When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad... Read more

The Book of Goose

By: Yiyun Li

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.

Fabienne is dead. Her... Read more

The Soulmate

By: Sally Hepworth

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Jessica Douglas-Henry

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated as the narrators create tension and drop hints about the real problem in this “ideal” family." —Booklist on The Younger Wife

"Narrators Barrie Kreinik and Jessica Douglas-Henry enhance the air of anxiety by weaving an engaging web of emotion. Their Australian accents aid in the immersive nature of the narrative and... Read more

California Burning

By: Katherine Blunt

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)

A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more

Sink

By: Joseph Earl Thomas

Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.

Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more

Your Driver Is Waiting

By: Priya Guns

Narrated by: Priya Guns

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist • In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting.

“What you are about to read is a call to... Read more

The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted... Read more

Love & Saffron

By: Kim Fay

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhal...

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick

In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine.

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as... Read more

Back in a Spell

By: Lana Harper

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

An awkward first date leads to a sparkling romance between one of the most powerful witches in town and a magical newbie in this rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch.
 
Even though she won’t deny her love for pretty (and pricey) things, Nineve Blackmoore is almost painfully down-to-earth and sensible by... Read more

The Other Merlin

By: Robyn Schneider

Narrated by: Rosie Jones

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR! - Publishers Weekly
 
"Simultaneously heart-pounding and hilarious, Robyn Schneider gives us a veritable romp through Camelot fueled by adventure and romance."
—Kerri Maniscalco, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Kingdom of the Wicked and Stalking Jack the Ripper

Channeling the modern humor of The Gentleman’s... Read more

Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

Narrated by: Minka Kelly

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Kelly is so piercingly honest, you just want to reach out and give her a hug...It’s totally gripping: I couldn’t take my earbuds out." —Vulture

"Kelly reads the book with grace, even when she gets to the tough moments, and you’ll walk away afterward with your jaw on the floor." —Shondaland

“A timely, urgent... Read more

Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Dana Varden & Zim Avaltrades

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.

Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new... Read more

How to Walk Away

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable audiobook about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances.

Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then,... Read more

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

By: Lee Kravetz

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Karissa Vacker & Teri Clark Linden

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMA March Reads Pick“Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It’s a book full of ideas about inspiration and a love for language that translates across borders, physical and... Read more

The Emergency

By: Thomas Fisher

Narrated by: Thomas Fisher

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind

“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are,... Read more