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James
By: Percival Everett
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
Length: 7 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST â˘Â ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ⢠SHORTLISTED FOR THE... Read more


Wild Dark Shore
By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Cooper Mortlock, Katherine Littrell, Saskia Maa...
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features multicast narration.
An ENTHRALLING new novel from the NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves
"A WILDLY TALENTED writer." âEmily St. John Mandel
A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers... Read more


Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â A REESEâS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠READ BY MERYL STREEPâPatchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.ââThe GuardianIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of Americaâs finest writers.In the spring of 2020, Laraâs three... Read more
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times BestsellerSoon to be a Netflix FilmA Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!âRemarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightest touch from another living thing.â -- Kevin Wilson, author of Nothing to See HereFor fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming,... Read more
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this âincredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magicâ (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
âA darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.ââSangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of... Read more


The Thursday Murder Club
By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Lesley Manville
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture
The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves
A female cop with her first big case
A brutal murder
Welcome to...
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four... Read more


The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick
By: Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer & Ariel Lawhon
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠GMA BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR ⢠From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name HÊlène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American... Read more
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Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
Narrated by: Arian Moayed
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD ⢠ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ⢠A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR ⢠A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a... Read more
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Lessons in Chemistry
By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 GLOBAL BESTSELLER WITH MORE THAN 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD ⢠Meet Elizabeth Zott: âa gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social conventionâ (The Washington Post) in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show. ⢠STREAM ON APPLE TV+
This novel is... Read more


Babel
By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is... Read more
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Gideon the Ninth
By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 16 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense. Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants.... Read more
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The Tainted Cup
By: Robert Jackson Bennett
Narrated by: Andrew Fallaize
Length: 13 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A Holmes and Watsonâstyle detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett
âGreat fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennettâ[a] rising star of fantasyâmore than delivers.ââCharlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
âA thoroughly satisfying delight from... Read more


Victorian Psycho
By: Virginia Feito
Narrated by: Anna Burnett
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
SOON TO BE A FEATURE FILM STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY AND THOMASIN MCKENZIE Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Oprah Daily, Reader's Digest, Polygon, and Paste âSimmering with rage, propulsive and laugh out loud funny, Victorian Psycho speaks profoundly of horror both within and without us.ââCatriona Ward From the acclaimed author... Read more
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Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands
By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠When mysterious faeries from other realms appear at her university, curmudgeonly professor Emily Wilde must uncover their secrets before itâs too late, in this heartwarming, enchanting second installment of the Emily Wilde series.
AN ELLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore who just... Read more


Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
Narrated by: Sarah Naudi
Length: 5 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024Winner of the 2024 Hawthornden Prize Shortlisted for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political FictionShortlisted for the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for FictionA singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six... Read more
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The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The renowned author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tellâand the ones we donâtâshape our realities.
âTa-Nehisi Coates always writes with a purpose. . . . These pilgrimages, for him, help ground his powerful writing about... Read more


Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & L...
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR ⢠FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION â˘Â A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠NATIONAL BESTSELLER â˘Â Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from Americaâs own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York... Read more
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Bookshops & Bonedust
By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fantasy! This program is read by the author.
"Read by the author, a talented and animated fantasy narrator who also voiced Legends, the book presents a colorful cast of new and familiar characters that is sure to ensorcell and delight listeners." âBooklist
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her... Read more


Tress of the Emerald Sea
By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple... Read more
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The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
Length: 31 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Timesâbestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major... Read more


The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick
By: Laila Lalami
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Barton Caplan
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER â READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY â From Laila Lalamiâthe Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a âmaestra of literary fictionâ (NPR)âcomes a riveting and utterly original novel about one womanâs fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.
Sara has just... Read more


The Poppy War
By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 19 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
An AudioFile Magazine Best Audiobook of 2018!A Library Journal, Paste Magazine, and ENTROPY Best Books of 2018 pick!Washington Post ""5 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel of 2018"" pick!A Bustle ""30 Best Fiction Books of 2018"" pick!âI have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year [...] I have absolutely no doubt... Read more
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Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Ăanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"[B]rilliant narration by the actor Ăanna Hardwicke."âFinancial Times
"Ăanna Hardwicke's narration highlights the rich emotionality of Rooney's newest novel. Hardwicke's smooth voice shifts to capture every mood--becoming desperately angry, bitter, and frantic yet also achingly tender, patient, and loving--as he performs a story of two grieving... Read more


Under the Whispering Door
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Kirt Graves
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Kirt Groves provides an excellently distinct cast of voices."- Locus
A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and... Read more