Quail Ridge Books

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

By: James Hannaham

Narrated by: James Hannaham & Flame Monroe

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.

Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a... Read more

The Puppeteer's Daughters

By: Heather Newton

Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test—and a will that places a condition on each daughter’s inheritance—suggest that the missing daughter isn’t a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father’s... Read more

Accomplished

By: Amanda Quain

Narrated by: Deva Marie Gregory

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Georgiana Darcy gets the Pride & Prejudice retelling she deserves in Amanda Quain's Accomplished, a sparkling contemporary YA featuring a healthy dose of marching band romance, endless banter, and Charles Bingley as a ripped frat boy.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Georgiana Darcy should have been expelled after The Incident with... Read more

Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws

By: Adrienne Mayor

Narrated by: Nancy Crane & Adrienne Mayor

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Adrienne Mayor and Nancy Crane narrate this treasury of astonishing mythic marvelsAdrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights—glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth—embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing... Read more

I Hate the Ivy League

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A compendium about one of host Malcolm Gladwell’s greatest obsessions: education. Malcolm Gladwell has long relished the opportunity to skewer the upper echelons of higher education, from the institution of U.S. News & World Report’s Best College rankings to the LSATs to the luxe Bowdoin College cafeteria. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and... Read more

Hurricane Girl

By: Marcy Dermansky

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A propulsive and daring new novel by the author of Very Nice about a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, a swimming pool, and for someone who can perhaps stop the bleeding from her head.

“The novel surprises us by blending visceral horror with laugh-out-loud humor.... A wickedly entertaining read from first to last.” —New... Read more

The Cherry Robbers

By: Sarai Walker

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

""Sarai Walker has done it again. With The Cherry Robbers she upends the Gothic ghost story with a fiery feminist zeal."" —Maria SempleThe highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her “slyly subversive” (EW) cult-hit Dietland—a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be... Read more

Four Treasures of the Sky

By: Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Narrated by: Jenny Tinghui Zhang & Katharine Chin

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“Narrator Katharine Chin’s outstanding performance will have listeners weeping as they hear Zhang’s debut novel, based on actual events.” – Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Reader Katharine Chin has a young, clear voice that captures Daiyu’s determination and spirit. Chinese names and phrases flow easily, and Chin voices the cast of characters... Read more

Worser

By: Jennifer Ziegler

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A bullied twelve-year-old boy must find a new normal after his mother has a stroke and his life is turned upside down.William Wyatt Orser, a socially awkward middle schooler, is a wordsmith who, much to his annoyance, acquired the ironically ungrammatical nickname of “Worser" so long ago that few people at school know to call him anything... Read more

The Other Dr. Gilmer

By: Benjamin Gilmer

Narrated by: Benjamin Gilmer

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of all time

“A remarkable medical detective story–cum–memoir,... Read more

The Ranger

By: Ace Atkins

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

After years of war, Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns home to the rugged, rough hill country of northeast Mississippi to find his native Tibbehah County plagued by corruption, decay, meth runners, and violence. His uncle, the longtime county sheriff, is dead. A suicide, he’s told, but others—like tomboy Deputy Lillie Virgil—whisper murder.In the... Read more

Jane and the Year Without a Summer

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

May 1816: Jane Austen is feeling unwell, with an uneasy stomach, constant fatigue, rashes, fevers and aches. She attributes her poor condition to the stress of family burdens, which even the drafting of her latest manuscript—about a baronet’s daughter nursing a broken heart for a daring naval captain—cannot alleviate. Her apothecary recommends a... Read more

The Runaway Duchess

By: Joanna Lowell

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A runaway bride dumps a duke and rewrites her own love story in this enchanting Victorian historical romance from the author of The Duke Undone.
 
Pretty and pampered, Lavinia Yardley always dreamed of becoming a duchess. But family disgrace forces her into marriage with the most vile duke in England, and she finds herself desperate for a way... Read more

Organizing for the Rest of Us

By: Dana K. White

Narrated by: Dana K. White

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

READ BY THE AUTHOR. Listen while you organize in real time! So you want to keep your kitchen counter clean but you aren't ready to toss the toaster? You want to be able to find your kids' socks but aren't looking to spend your 401(k) on clear bins? You long for a little more peace but minimalism isn't sparking joy? Discover 100 practical,... Read more

The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Mandy Weston

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021

From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.

"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more

An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed

By: Helene Tursten

Narrated by: Ann Richardson

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't let her age fool you. Maud may be nearly ninety, but if you cross her, this elderly lady is more sinister than sweet.



Just when things have finally cooled down for eighty-eight-year-old Maud after the disturbing discovery of a dead body in her apartment in Gothenburg, a couple of detectives return to her doorstep. Though Maud dodges their... Read more

When Ghosts Come Home

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the SIBA Southern Book Prize for Fiction“I loved it and devoured it with fury, straight to its blazing end.” —Lily King, author of Writers & LoversFrom the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, a tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory.When the roar of a... Read more

Blood Like Magic

By: Liselle Sambury

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic…unputdownable.” —Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys

A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the... Read more

When the Stars Begin to Fall

By: Theodore R. Johnson

Narrated by: Theodore R. Johnson

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America

“Racism is an existential threat to America,” Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book. It is a refutation of the American Promise enshrined in our Constitution that all men and women are... Read more

The 2000s Made Me Gay

By: Grace Perry

Narrated by: Grace Perry

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman.

"Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen, co-head... Read more

Bewilderness

By: Karen Tucker

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in rural, poverty-stricken North Carolina, this “beautiful, gritty, and piercing” novel follows two young women—best friends—as they “journey through the highs and lows of friendship, love, and addiction,” perfect for readers of Julie Buntin’s Marlena (Erika Carter, author of Lucky You).

Irene, a lonely nineteen-year-old in rural North... Read more

Laundry Love

By: Patric Richardson & Karin B. Miller

Narrated by: Patric Richardson

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author, and includes audio-exclusive bonus tips.

Patric Richardson, aka the "Laundry Evangelist,” reveals his revolutionary methods for cleaning clothes—and making laundry loads more fun.

Doing laundry is rarely anyone’s favorite task. But to Patric Richardson, laundry isn't just fun—it's a way of life. After years of... Read more

Gone to the Woods

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen's bittersweet life...The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on... Read more

No Time Like the Future

By: Michael J. Fox

Narrated by: Michael J. Fox

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Michael J. Fox.

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.

The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin... Read more