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Deep End

By: Ali Hazelwood

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Ben Holtzmuller

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.

Scarlett Vandermeer is swimming upstream. A Junior at Stanford and a student-athlete who specializes in platform diving, Scarlett prefers to keep her head down, concentrating on... Read more

Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Meryl Streep

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”—The GuardianIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three... Read more

Circe

By: Madeline Miller

Narrated by: Perdita Weeks

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not... Read more

The Sirens

By: Emilia Hart

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • #1 LibraryReads Pick • Indie Next Pick

A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward.

“Narrator Barrie Kreinik offers a first-rate performance, embodying the characters with distinctive voices and... Read more

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 “incredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magic” (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.

“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of... Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

By: Becky Chambers

Narrated by: Em Grosland

Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile Magazine

In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.

It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more

Isola: Reese's Book Club

By: Allegra Goodman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Allegra Goodman

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • “A shocking story, made all the more stunning by the fact that it has its roots in true history.”—Jodi Picoult, author of By Any Other Name

“A new generation of survival story . . . an extraordinary book that reads like a thriller, written with the care of the most delicate psychological and historical fiction.”—Vogue... Read more

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian
 
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD • NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more

A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Jennifer Pickens

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call—a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.

Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and... Read more

The Vanishing Half

By: Brit Bennett

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • THE WASHINGTON POST • NPR • PEOPLE • TIME MAGAZINE • VANITY FAIR • GLAMOUR

New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST

“Bennett’s tone and style recalls James Baldwin and... Read more

The Guest List

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife Mc...

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient""Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention... 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

Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley & Nell Barlow

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This is a multicast program.

"A spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft."
—Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary

"Narrators Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, and Nell Barlow are a magical, moving trio. Their emotional and expressive performance of the parallel... Read more

The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so... Read more

Say Nothing

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Matthew Blaney

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.

One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews... Read more

The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small... Read more

Wintering

By: Katherine May

Narrated by: Rebecca Lee

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being

“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert  

"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving... Read more

The Reformatory

By: Tananarive Due

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *

“You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King

A gripping, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. This is a remarkable horror story that “will give you nightmares—the good kind of course” (BuzzFeed).

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Arina Ii

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*

*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop... Read more

The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.

"A radically feel-good story about the murder of no-good husbands by a cast of... Read more

Doppelganger

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Naomi Klein

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times

“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben

“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more

The Woman in the Library

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet—until the tranquility is shattered by a woman's terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who'd happened to sit at the same table,... Read more

Compound Fracture

By: Andrew Joseph White

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Joseph White, a queer Appalachian thriller that pulls no punches—following a trans autistic teen who's drawn into the generational struggle between the rural poor and those who exploit them.

On the night Miles Abernathy—sixteen-year-old socialist and proud West Virginian—comes out as trans to his... Read more