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The God of the Woods
By: Liz Moore
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Riveting from page one to the last breathless word."âRebecca Makkai, New York Times bestselling author of I Have Some Questions For You
âBrilliant, riveting .. an epic mystery, a family saga and a survival guide...I loved this book.â âMiranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace
When a teenager vanishes from her... Read more
Thank You For Listening
By: Julia Whelan
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelanâs uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narratorâwho has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accidentâand her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel.
For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook... Read more
Bury Your Gays
By: Chuck Tingle
Narrated by: AndrĂŠ Santana, Charlie Jane Anders, CJ Leede, G...
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
"AndrĂŠ Santana brings a personable feel to this satirical sci-fi romp.... This audiobook is a fast-paced cocktail of social commentary, humor, and horror." âAudioFile on Straight
Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a... Read more
Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Dani Martineck, Micky Shiloah, Mic...
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestseller!A chilling twist on the âcursed filmâ genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.The weird part? Only three of the filmâs... Read more
View audiobookIncidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
âSimply putâand I do not say this lightlyâIncidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.ââNeil McRobert, Esquire (Best Horror Books of 2024, So Far)
A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls âOther Mommy,â... Read more
How to Sell a Haunted House
By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times
"Ingenious."-The Washington Post
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your pastâand your familyâcan haunt you like nothing else.
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When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads... Read more
The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
Narrated by: Jaine Ye
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of afemale serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-wonâs life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appaâs extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Hermother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her... Read more
View audiobookThe September House
By: Carissa Orlando
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
âWhy run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."â Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
View audiobookZero Stars, Do Not Recommend
By: MJ Wassmer
Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
VACATION CHECKLIST⢠Pack swim trunks.⢠Apply sunscreen. Survive the apocalypse?Professional underachiever Dan Foster is finally taking a vacation. Sure, his life has been average at best, and yeah, heâs never quite lived up to his potential. But after a few Miller Lites in paradise with his girlfriend, Mara, things are starting to look... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Library
By: Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass
Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Jennifer Blom & Rob Dircks
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
"This audiobook, written by two experts in middle-grade fiction, is a perfect family listen."- AudioFile
The New York Times bestselling authors of Bob, Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, introduce young listeners to a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps.
When a... Read more
Black Sheep
By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Best Horror Book of the YearÂ
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional familyâs dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
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Nobody has a ânormalâ family, but Vesper Wrightâs is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked... Read more
Nicked
By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated by: Euan Morton
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"[An]Â uproarious saga . . . drawing on contemporary accounts, fantastical folk tales, and [Anderson's] own knack for high jinks."âNew York Times Book Review
"[A] rollicking comic novel."âNPR
"M. T. Anderson is one of our greatest and most precious voices."âLev Grossman, author of The Magicians Trilogy
From the award-winning and bestselling author... Read more
Honey Girl
By: Morgan Rogers
Narrated by: York Whitaker
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Oprah Magazine * Marie Claire * Ms. Magazine * E! * Parade Magazine * Buzzfeed * Cosmo * The Rumpus * GoodReads * Autostraddle * Brit & Co * Refinery29 * Betches * BookRiot and others!
A LibraryReads Pick
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âHONEY GIRL is an emotional, heartfelt, charming debut, and I loved every moment of it.â
â Jasmine... Read more
Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
Narrated by: Ferdia Lennon
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.
On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: theyâve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking... Read more
Small Great Things
By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell & Ari Fliakos
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠A stunning page-turner with richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race
Look for Jodi Picoultâs new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!
â[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America... Read more
Finding Freedom
By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
"[Erin French's] memoir treats listeners to a smooth ride through an anything-but-smooth life. French's engrossing narration delivers polished consistency, and her gentle tone ushers listeners through her story. She speaks with passion and grace, creating a compelling narrative--with plenty of mouthwatering food descriptions." -- AudioFile... Read more
View audiobookNatural 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
Evil in Me
By: Brom
Narrated by: Shahjehan Khan & Stephanie NĂŠmeth-Parker
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
This program contains original music. The title track, "Evil in Me," is performed by The Maxines and written by Brom and AJ Grey of The Maxines.
Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom's newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock 'n' roll, where one woman must get the world singing in order to save her soul.
Aspiring musician Ruby Tucker has... Read more
The Anthropologists
By: AysegĂźl Savas
Narrated by: Kathryn Aboya
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents The Anthropologists by AysegĂźl Savas, read by Kathryn Aboya.
"Like Walter Benjamin, AysegĂźl Savas uncovers trapdoors to bewilderment everywhere in everyday life; like Henry James, she sees marriage as a mystery, unsoundably deep. The Anthropologists is mesmerizing; I felt I read it in a single breath." -Garth Greenwell
âSavas... Read more
youthjuice
By: E.K. Sathue
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From Sophia Bannionâs first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New Yorkâs trendy SoHo neighborhood, itâs clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesnât care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... Read more
View audiobookMaeve Fly
By: CJ Leede
Narrated by: Sosie Bacon
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight." âStephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author
âLeedeâs words and narrator Sosie Baconâs voice imbue Maeve with thought-provoking realism and earnestness, even as her violent acts become more savagely creative.â - Library Journal
A provocative debut... Read more
Jackal
By: Erin E. Adams
Narrated by: Sandra Okuboyejo & William DeMeritt
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW ⢠A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the firstâand she may not be the last. . . .
âI read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night.ââBuzzFeed
âExtraordinary . . . A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by... Read more
We Two Alone
By: Jack Wang
Narrated by: Feodor Chin & Natalie Naudus
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Praised as âutterly remarkableâ and âdeeply resonantâ by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees, which dramatizes the Chinese diaspora across the globe over the past hundred years.Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces... Read more
View audiobookThe First Fossil Hunters
By: Adrienne Mayor
Narrated by: Donna Postel
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Griffins, cyclopes, monsters, and giantsâthese fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? Through careful research and meticulous documentation, Adrienne Mayor... Read more
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