Quail Ridge Books

Rebecca

By: Daphne du Maurier

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier -- winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century -- is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. 

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and... Read more

Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

Narrated by: Hope Newhouse

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“I've loved Maggie Thrash's work for years, and Rainbow Black is going to set so many new hearts aflame—murder, intrigue, queer love, dark humor AND satanic panic? Welcome to the Maggie Thrash Fan Club, world!”—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time TomorrowFor readers of Donna Tartt and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a brilliant,... Read more

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA USA TODAY BESTSELLERA LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERA PBS BOOK PICKThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything―everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Cussy’s not only... Read more

Celestial Monsters

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated...André Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." —AudioFile on The Sunbearer Trials

New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping... Read more

Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Soneela ...

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A USA TODAY Bestseller
A Booklist Editor’s Choice
A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
A Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors Selection
Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize

A “beautifully written” (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See) debut novel of... Read more

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Martyn Swain

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels?until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the... Read more

Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was... Read more

I Was A Teenage Slasher

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Stephen Graham Jones

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY Bestseller

From New York Times bestselling horror writer Stephen Graham Jones comes a classic slasher story with a twist—perfect for fans of Adam Cesare and Grady Hendrix.

1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good... Read more

Consumed

By: Aja Barber

Narrated by: Aja Barber

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it's created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system. 
We live in a world of stuff. We dispose of most of it in as little as six months after we receive it. The byproducts of our quest to consume are... Read more

Mixed Signals

By: B.K. Borison

Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Julio Maxwell

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Layla Dupree has given up on love. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life—despite her best efforts. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and... Read more

Plain Bad Heroines

By: Emily M. Danforth

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE“Brimming from start to finish with sly humor and gothic mischief. Brilliant.”  — SARAH WATERS
Named a Most... Read more

Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to... Read more

Shit, Actually

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched**
New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from... Read more

Meet Me in the Margins

By: Melissa Ferguson

Narrated by: Talon David

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won't be able to put down!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of A Happier LifeYou've Got Mail meets The Proposal--this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief... Read more

Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to live.



Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.



Helen retreats into her home on Westminster... Read more

So Let Them Burn

By: Kamilah Cole

Narrated by: Keylor Leigh & Kamali Minter

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whip-smart and immersive, this Jamaican-inspired fantasy follows a gods-blessed heroine who’s forced to choose between saving her sister or protecting her homeland—perfect for fans of Iron Widow and The Priory of the Orange Tree. 
 
Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island... Read more

A Darker Shade of Magic

By: V. E. Schwab

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Kell is one of the last Travelers—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes—as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing... Read more

The Other Wes Moore

By: Wes Moore

Narrated by: Wes Moore

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

The... Read more

Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

Narrated by: Melissa Broder

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!

From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly,... Read more

The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being... Read more

The Blacktongue Thief

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman. Along with his firsthand knowledge of the text and how he means it to be conveyed, Buehlman uses nuance, inflection, and a casual way of saying outrageous things to continually tickle the funny bone." -- AudioFile Magazine

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized... Read more

Book and Dagger

By: Elyse Graham

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the... Read more

The School for Good Mothers

By: Jessamine Chan

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022!

In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young... Read more

That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon

By: Kimberly Lemming

Narrated by: Hazel Addison

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Spice trader Cinnamon's quiet life is turned upside down when she ends up on a quest with a fiery demon in this irreverently quirky rom-com fantasy that is sweet, steamy, and funny as hell—perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and The Dragon's Bride. 

All she wanted to do was live her life in peace—maybe get a cat, expand the family spice... Read more