Quail Ridge Books

My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

Narrated by: Alejandra Reynoso

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times

From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation immigrants into second-class citizens—“a well-imagined allegory of... Read more

Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
Winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
Winner of the 2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Award

One of Vanity Fair’s Favorite Books of 2023

“A beautifully fearless contemplation.” –S. A. Cosby

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a... Read more

Ghosted

By: Amanda Quain

Narrated by: Laura Knight Keating

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Never Have I Ever meets The X-Files in this gender-bent contemporary retelling of the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey.Hattie Tilney isn’t a believer. Yes, she’s a senior at America’s most (allegedly) haunted high school, Northanger Abbey. But after her paranormal-loving dad passed away, she hung up her Ghostbusters suit, put away the EMF... Read more

The Tao of the Backup Catcher

By: Tim Brown

Narrated by: Justin Price & Tim Brown

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This fascinating book chronicles the unsung men of baseball who serve the job, the hardships they face, and their love for a game that would not always love them back―told partly through the experiences of an MLB veteran.​

In baseball there are superstars and stars and everyday players and then there are the rest. Within the rest are role... Read more

The Parrot and the Igloo

By: David Lipsky

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 18 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parrots in the Antarctic. In 2010, when science deniers had control of the climate story, Senator James Inhofe and his family built an igloo on the Washington Mall and plunked a sign on top: AL GORE'S NEW HOME: HONK IF YOU LOVE CLIMATE CHANGE. In The... Read more

Like Lava In My Veins

By: Derrick Barnes

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All it takes is a loving teacher to help a boy get control of his sizzling superpowers, in this vibrant audiobook by bestselling author Derrick Barnes.

Bobby Beacon’s got fire flowing through his veins. And now he’s psyched to attend a new school that’ll help him get a better grip on his powers. But right off the bat, his new teacher is not too... Read more

The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—one with explosive consequences for the fate of humanity—in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Angelology

“This novel has it all and more. In the nimble, talented hands of Trussoni the pages fly.”—#1 New York... Read more

Such Kindness

By: Andre Dubus, III

Narrated by: Andre Dubus, III

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife... Read more

A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son) a lonely veteran’s gruesome discovery throws him right into the face of danger as a twisted investigation unravels the secrets of his dark past. One early morning on a Norfolk beach in Virginia, a dead body is discovered by a man taking his daily swim—Arman... Read more

Swamp Story

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: Dave Barry

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling author—and actual Florida Man—Dave Barry returns with a “hilariously funny” (Steve Martin) caper full of oddballs and more twists and turns than a snake slithering away from a gator.

Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend,... Read more

Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

By: Crystal Smith Paul

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Kineta Kunutu & Lynnette Nicholas

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE'S BOOK CLUB MAY 2023 PICK

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of modern-day showbiz

When Kitty Karr Tate, a White icon of the silver screen, dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the St. John sisters, three young, wealthy Black women, it prompts questions. Lots of... Read more

The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz & Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —People

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.

Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of... Read more

A Wing and a Prayer

By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population.

Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking news: nearly three billion birds in North America have vanished over the past fifty years. No species has been spared, from the most delicate jeweled hummingbirds... Read more

Body Horror

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Narrated by: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and... Read more

Rubicon

By: J. S. Dewes

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Eunice Wong smoothly differentiates a diverse cast in this edgy military thriller."- AudioFile

J. S. Dewes, author of The Last Watch and The Exiled Fleet, returns with another science fiction space opera, Rubicon, that melds elements of Scalzi's Old Man's War with Edge of Tomorrow.

Sergeant Adriene Valero wants to die.

She can't.

After enduring a... Read more

The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

By: Daniel Nayeri

Narrated by: Daniel Nayeri

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri

This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams". The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he... Read more

Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

Narrated by: Annie Q

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past—and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China.

“Brims with pure magic. Zhao has woven together a story of self-discovery, slow-burning... Read more

Sisters of the Lost Marsh

By: Lucy Strange

Narrated by: Lucy Strange

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2024 Odyssey Honor Audiobook!From award winning author Lucy Strange comes a thrilling story of six sisters who must fight against circumstance and fate, gorgeously told and steeped in history and legend.On a poor farm surrounded by marshlands, six sisters -- Grace, Willa, Freya, and triplets Deedee, Darcy, and Dolly -- live in fear of their... Read more

They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

Narrated by: Meg Howrey

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022 • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH • A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK • A gripping novel set in the world of professional ballet, New York City during the AIDS crisis, and present-day Los Angeles. • "Beautiful...[A] finger-trap puzzle of a plot."—New York Times Book Review

“They’re Going to Love You is my idea of... Read more

The Fall of Númenor

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Brian Sibley & Samuel West

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of... Read more

We Are the Light

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: Luke Kirby

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*“A treasure of a novel…read it and be healed.” —Justin Cronin * “Beautifully written and emotion-packed.” —Harlan Coben *

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award–winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper—a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a... Read more

The Enchanted April

By: Elizabeth von Arnim

Narrated by: Lucy Scott

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Two unhappily married women, Rose Arbuthnot and Lotty Wilkins, respond to an advertisement offering a month’s rental of a small medieval Italian castle. In order to defray the not inconsiderable cost of such a venture, two other ladies, Lady Caroline Dester and the formidable Miss Fisher, are invited to join them, and thus the four embark on... Read more

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird

By: 18 Afghan Women

Narrated by: Sitara Attaie

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)

"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."

Eighteen... Read more