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Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)

By: Danzy Senna

Narrated by: Kristen Ariza

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia

Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year,... Read more

The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

Narrated by: Zadie Smith

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller • One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • One of NPR's Best Books of the Year • Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly

“[A] brilliant new entry in Smith’s catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.” —Los Angeles Times

From... Read more

The City of Brass

By: S. A. Chakraborty

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 20 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Library Journal | Vulture | The Verge | SYFYWireStep into The City of Brass, the spellbinding debut from S. A. Chakraborty perfect for fans of The Golem and the Jinni, The Grace of Kings, and Uprooted, in which the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom rests in the hands of a clever and defiant... Read more

The God of Endings

By: Jacqueline Holland

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 16 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Maarleveld's narration takes the exquisite prose of this story and elevates it to a lyrical listening experience. Her consistently skilled delivery moves through a variety of accents and time periods. This audiobook is a fascinating story told by a masterful performer."- AudioFile

By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first... Read more

Number One Chinese Restaurant

By: Lillian Li

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

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Citizen Reporters

By: Stephanie Gorton

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating history of the rise and fall of influential Gilded Age magazine McClure’s and the two unlikely outsiders at its helm—as well as a timely, full-throated defense of investigative journalism in America.The president of the United States made headlines around the world when he publicly attacked the press, denouncing reporters who... Read more

Speak No Evil

By: Uzodinma Iweala

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi & Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation shared between two privileged teenagers from very different backgrounds sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, D.C., he’s a top... Read more

How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems

By: Mikeas Sánchez

Narrated by: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call & Shook

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmology, lineage, feminism, and environmental activism... Read more

The Wanderers

By: Meg Howrey

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever.
 
“A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross planetary journey into the mysteries of space and... Read more

Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton

“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett

WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • A BEST BOOK OF... Read more

Trust Exercise

By: Susan Choi

Narrated by: Adina Verson, Jennifer Lim & Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare and splendid” (The Boston Globe) • “Remarkable” (USA Today) • “Delicious” (The New York... Read more

If, Then

By: Kate Hope Day

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“A must-read—a gorgeous literary novel that asks us to imagine all the possible versions of ourselves that might exist.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Saints for All Occasions

The residents of a sleepy mountain town are rocked by troubling visions of an alternate reality in this dazzling debut that combines the... Read more

Mutual Interest

By: Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Mutual Interest by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, read by Laurel Lefkow.

"A timeless queer love story and a meditation on power, capitalism, and the flow of history . . . This novel is a revelation and a joy.” —Anna North, New York Times bestselling author of Outlawed

A classic in the making: a mesmerizing novel about marriage and... Read more

Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut!

Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar.

Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin... Read more

The Midnight Cool

By: Lydia Peelle

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Whiting Award—winning author of the story collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing delivers her enchanting debut novel, set in 1916 Tennessee: a rich and rewarding tale of two flawed yet endearing grifters who pursue women, wealth, and a surprisingly valuable commodity for the troops in Europe—mules.A middle-aged Irish immigrant,... Read more

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra & Ingrid Rojas ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I’ve read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice — she has something powerful to say.”
—Entertainment Weekly

A mesmerizing debut... Read more

Empty Theatre

By: Jac Jemc

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.

History knows them as King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Elizabeth of Austria, icons of the late nineteenth century who died young and left behind magnificent portraits and palaces. But... Read more

Strange Weather

By: Joe Hill

Narrated by: Joe Hill, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen La...

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill.""One of America’s finest horror writers"" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Letham. In Strange... Read more

Children of the New World

By: Alexander Weinstein

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

AN EXTRAORDINARILY RESONANT AND PROPHETIC COLLECTION OF SPECULATIVE SHORT FICTION FOR OUR TECH-SAVVY ERA BY DEBUT AUTHOR ALEXANDER WEINSTEIN

Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these... Read more