Mysterious Galaxy Books

Women and Other Monsters

By: Jess Zimmerman

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism

The folklore that has shaped our dominant culture teems with frightening female creatures. In our language, in our stories (many written by men), we... Read more

A Spindle Splintered

By: Alix E. Harrow

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Amy Landon's lively narration unites present-day Ohio and Perceforest, a fairy-tale realm, in this immersive reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty universe." - AudioFile Magazine

USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original... Read more

Radiant Sin

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

As a disgraced member of a fallen house, Cassandra Gataki has seen firsthand what comes from trusting the venomous Thirteen. But when the maddeningly gorgeous and kind Apollo asks her to go undercover as his plus-one at a week-long party hosted by a dangerous new power player...Cassandra reluctantly agrees to have his back. But she has one... Read more

Rabbits

By: Terry Miles

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and... Read more

Lost Boy

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Alice takes readers through a dark tale of Peter Pan, who turns his best friend into his nemesis, Captain Hook. On an island lives a boy called Peter and his band of merry lost boys, young forever. That is, unless they get sick or killed by pirates or eaten by crocodiles or unless-inexplicably-they grow old. For some of them do... Read more

Nocturna

By: Maya Motayne

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a sweeping and epic debut fantasy trilogy—set in a stunning Latinx-inspired world—about a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must team up to defeat a powerful evil they accidentally unleashed. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Leigh Bardugo, and V. E. Schwab.To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the... Read more

Iron Hearted Violet

By: Kelly Barnhill

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling... Read more

Grave Importance

By: Vivian Shaw

Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A charmingly witty fantasy adventure in the world of Strange Practice, starring Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies.
Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in... Read more

Heart of Iron

By: Ashley Poston

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

*A 2019 Rainbow Book List Selection*An action-packed tale full of romance, royalty, and adventure, inspired by the story of Anastasia. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows, Cinder, and the cult classic television show Firefly. Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a... Read more

Four Dead Queens

By: Astrid Scholte

Narrated by: Amy Shiels & Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Four dead queens. Three days to catch a killer. Two forbidden romances.
One shocking twist you won’t see coming.

Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she’s, in fact, one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara’s most enlightened region, Eonia. He... Read more

Defy the Stars

By: Claudia Gray

Narrated by: Nate Begle

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls "startlingly original and achingly romantic...nothing short of masterful."

She's a soldier--Noemi Vidal is willing to risk anything to protect her planet, Genesis,... Read more

Atalanta

By: Jennifer Saint

Narrated by: Beth Eyre

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eyre's British accent gives the production the feeling of a literary classic..."- AudioFile

From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts

Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero

When Princess... Read more

Dry

By: Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

Narrated by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Jenni Barbe...

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives... Read more

The Mask of Mirrors

By: M. A. Carrick

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: 23 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars.

Ren is a liar and a thief, a pattern-reader and a daughter of no clan. Raised in the slums of Nadežra, she fled that world to save her sister. Now, she has returned with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house, securing her fortune and her sister’s future.

But in the city of dreams, her... Read more

LIFEL1K3 (Lifelike)

By: Jay Kristoff

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline.

On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble--she's too busy... Read more

Spin

By: Neil Fishman, Harvey Edelman & David B. Coe

Narrated by: Jim Dale, Johnny Heller, Nicola Barber, Khristi...

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 Audie Winner – Best Original Work2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Best Voiceover in Children's Audiobook2018 SOVAS Voice Arts Award – Outstanding Production in Audiobook2018 Parents Choice Award – Silver Honor for AudiobookSPIN - THE AUDIOBOOK MUSICAL: A witty musical re-imagining of Grimm’s fairy tale, Rumpelstiltskin, created by... Read more

Dark Restraint

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

He was my savior. My monster. My obsession. My destruction. A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Ariadne and her Minotaur. Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father—and his dangerous benefactor—and now she's left to rely on Olympus' questionable mercy. But in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a sham... Read more

The Therapist

By: B.A. Paris

Narrated by: Olivia Dowd & Thomas Judd

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"You’ll find yourself listening to the suspenseful reading by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd way past your bedtime." - Jersey's Best

The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist—a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret.

When Alice and Leo... Read more

Sea of Rust

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic ""robot western"" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots.... Read more

The First Bright Thing

By: J.R. Dawson

Narrated by: Petrea Burchard & Tim Campbell

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?

"This is the magic circus book that I have been looking for all my life."―Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart A Doorway

"With earnestness that matches the author's poignant story, narrator Petrea Burchard introduces listeners to the Circus of the... Read more

Poison for Breakfast

By: Lemony Snicket

Narrated by: Patrick Warburton

Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Washington Post Bestseller

A stand-alone adventure—appropriate for all ages—by Lemony Snicket, one of the twenty-first century’s most beloved authors.

In the years since this publishing house was founded, we have worked with an array of wondrous authors who have brought illuminating clarity to our bewildering world. Now, instead, we bring you... Read more

Taking a Shot

By: Jaci Burton

Narrated by: Lucy Malone

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The last thing Jenna Riley needs is more sports in her life. While her brothers are off being athletic superstars, she's stuck running the family's sports bar, whether she likes it or not. Then, in walks pro hockey stud Tyler Anderson. As much as Jenna would like to go to the boards with him, she's vowed to never fall for a jock—even one as hot... Read more

The Merciful Crow

By: Margaret Owen

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author Margaret Owen crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, survival, and sacrifice--perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Kendare Blake--in The Merciful Crow.

One way or another, we always feed the crows.

A future chieftain

Fie abides by one rule: look after your own. Her Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than... Read more

Tell Me I'm Worthless

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.

"Nicky Endres pulls out all the stops when performing this horror story about a haunted house and the shocking trauma it inflicts on three people...This is... Read more