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Everything Is Tuberculosis
By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller! • #1 Washington Post bestseller! • #1 Indie Bestseller! • USA Today Bestseller!
John Green, award-winning author and passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world’s deadliest infectious disease.
“The real magic of Green’s writing is the... Read more


The Diviners
By: Libba Bray
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 18 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
SOMETHING DARK AND EVIL HAS AWAKENED. . . .
Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and... Read more


Second Place
By: Rachel Cusk
Narrated by: Kate Fleetwood
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A haunting fable of art, family, and fate from the author of the Outline trilogy.
A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long, dry summer sets... Read more


The MANIAC
By: Benjamin Labatut
Narrated by: Gergo Danka & Eva Magyar
Length: 9 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Named One of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A National Bestseller • A New York Times Editor's Choice pick • Nominated for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
“Captivating and unclassifiable, at once a historical novel and a philosophical foray... Read more


Elsewhere
By: Alexis Schaitkin
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"The audiobook narrated by Ell Potter is riveting." -- Buzzfeed on Elsewhere
Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply,... Read more


Treacle Walker
By: Alan Garner
Narrated by: Robert Powell
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers.
An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world. Living alone in an old house, he spends his time reading... Read more


Lisbon
By: Neill Lochery
Narrated by: Robin Sachs
Length: 8 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Throughout the Second World War, Lisbon was at the very center of the world’s attention and was the only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis powers openly operated. Portugal was frantically trying to hold on to its self-proclaimed wartime neutrality but in reality was increasingly caught in the middle of the economic, and naval,... Read more
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Infinite Country
By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2021 NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD, LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL, A 2022 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FINALIST, AND A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS “BIG READS” SELECTION
“A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A breathtaking story... Read more


The Six
By: Loren Grush
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures
In this account of America’s first women astronauts “Grush skillfully weaves a story that, at its heart, is about desire: not a nation’s desire to conquer space, but... Read more


Mister Monkey
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children’s musical.Mister Monkey—a screwball children’s musical about a playfully larcenous pet chimpanzee—is the... Read more
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