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I'm Glad My Mom Died
By: Jennette McCurdy
Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD!
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook... Read more


One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
By: Omar El Akkad
Narrated by: Omar El Akkad
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values
"[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."—The New York Times
“I can’t think of a more important piece of writing to read right now. I found hope here, and help, to face what the world is now, all... Read more


Jade City
By: Fonda Lee
Narrated by: Andrew Kishino
Length: 19 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis.
*Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Book Of All Time
* World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, winner
* Aurora Award for Best Novel, winner
* Nebula Award for Best Novel, nominee
* Locus Award for... Read more


Daughter of the Moon Goddess
By: Sue Lynn Tan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 15 hours
Abridged: No
The acclaimed national and international bestseller“Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish.”—Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series“An all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense.""—BookPage, starred reviewA captivating and romantic debut... Read more
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Uncommon Type
By: Tom Hanks
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and... Read more


The Map of Salt and Stars
By: Zeyn Joukhadar
Narrated by: Lara Sawalha
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly... Read more
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
By: Carrie Brownstein
Narrated by: Carrie Brownstein
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
From the guitarist of the pioneering band Sleater-Kinney, the book Kim Gordon says "everyone has been waiting for" and a New York Times Notable Book of 2015-- a candid, funny, and deeply personal look at making a life--and finding yourself--in music.
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific... Read more


Who Is Vera Kelly?
By: Rosalie Knecht
Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She’s working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she’s in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman... Read more
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Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
Narrated by: Emma Roberts
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and “explosive” (People) novel about “what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning” (Esquire).
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring... Read more


Normal
By: Warren Ellis
Narrated by: John Hodgman
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller audiobook straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer
Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you.
There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about... Read more


The Prey of Gods
By: Nicky Drayden
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal... Read more
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Mercury Pictures Presents
By: Anthony Marra
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction • The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles—a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
“A... Read more


Deep Cuts
By: Holly Brickley
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“Tender as a ballad and pleasurable as a pop song, Deep Cuts is both a romp into the indie sleaze era of the early aughts and a timeless love story.”—Coco Mellors, New York Times bestselling author of Blue Sisters
“Warm, nostalgic, totally engrossing. I loved this novel.”—Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods
Look,... Read more


Visible Empire
By: Hannah Pittard
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From a writer who "deserves the attention of anyone in search of today's best fiction"* comes an epic novel-based on true events-of wealth, race, grief, and love, charting one sweltering summer in Atlanta that left no one unchanged (*Washington Post) It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight... Read more
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