Quail Ridge Books

Too Soon

By: Betty Shamieh

Narrated by: Betty Shamieh, Jacqueline Antaramian & Lameece ...

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A Palestinian American Sex and the City.” —The Atlantic • “Wonderfully brash and sparkling...This book fills in gaps in our understanding.” —Oprah Daily • “Shamieh balances her characters’ painful family history and their boisterously funny voices.” —New Yorker

A funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition,... Read more

The Art Thief

By: Michael Finkel

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser.

In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for... Read more

Murder Your Employer

By: Rupert Holmes

Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris & Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated... Read more

When Women Were Dragons

By: Kelly Barnhill

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOODREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fiery feminist fantasy tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are.
 
"Ferociously imagined…and as exhilarating as a ride on dragonback."... Read more

Lady Tan's Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*

From “one of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plot” (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century China—perfect for fans of Lisa See’s classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Tea Girl of Hummingbird... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star... Read more

Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she's different: she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax... Read more

Memorial Days

By: Geraldine Brooks

Narrated by: Geraldine Brooks

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

“Brooks tracks the geography of grief with patience and grace as she comes to terms with the ongoing nature of outliving the ones you love most. ... Her memoir is certainly a testament to her own unique loss, but it’s moreover a lifeline to others who will find themselves in this familiar, shattered landscape of... Read more

Godkiller

By: Hannah Kaner

Narrated by: Kit Griffiths

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!“An epic fantasy odyssey begins.” — Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, then Godkiller should be... Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By: Anthony Doerr

Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post... Read more

The Demon of Unrest

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).

“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best,... Read more

The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith & Lev Grossman

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A New York Times Editors’ Choice • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy and “master storyteller” (New York Times) returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR,... Read more

The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more

A Promised Land

By: Barack Obama

Narrated by: Barack Obama

Length: 29 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND PEOPLE

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post •... Read more

Lost and Lassoed

By: Lyla Sage

Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Samantha Brentmoor & Lyla Sage

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • She thrives in chaos. He prefers routine. The only thing they have in common? How much they hate each other.

From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the highly anticipated next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which enemies turn to lovers when they’re forced to... Read more

Sociopath

By: Patric Gagne

Narrated by: Patric Gagne

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An engrossing, “completely fascinating” (Cosmopolitan) memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own sociopathy and shed light on the often maligned and misunderstood mental disorder.

Patric Gagne realized she made others uncomfortable before she started kindergarten. Something about her caused people to react in a way she... Read more

Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

Narrated by: Elle Fanning

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiobook Narrated by Elle Fanning!“The warmth of Thorpe’s tone, together with the thoroughness of her imagination and the artfulness of her pacing, means that skepticism is kept at bay. She sells us on both the characters and the plot . . . [in] this enormously entertaining and lovable book.” —Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review A bold,... Read more

Never Let Me Go

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.

One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at... Read more

The Age of Magical Overthinking

By: Amanda Montell

Narrated by: Amanda Montell

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2024

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking.

Utilizing the linguistic... Read more

Go Luck Yourself

By: Sara Raasch

Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s enemies to lovers in this sexy and delightful holiday mash up that pairs the spare prince of Christmas with the crown prince of St. Patrick’s Day!

Someone has been stealing Christmas’s joy, and there’s only one clue to the culprit—a single shamrock.

With Coal busy restructuring Christmas—and their dad now having a full midlife crisis in the... Read more

There's Always This Year

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America

“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books... Read more

The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale."—The Washington Post

"Yangsze Choo again takes on narration... Read more

Five Broken Blades

By: Mai Corland

Narrated by: Donald Chang, Greg Chun, Zion Jang, Sophie Oda,...

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

It's the season for treason …
The king of Yusan must die.

The five most dangerous liars in the land have been mysteriously summoned to work together for a single objective: to kill the god king Joon.

He has it coming. Under his merciless immortal hand, the nobles flourish, while the poor and innocent are imprisoned, ruined … or sold.

And now each of... Read more

The Night Circus

By: Erin Morgenstern

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce... Read more