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The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Kimberly M. Wetherell & Shiromi A...

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

"Shiromi Arserio, Julia Whelan, and Kimberly Wetherell are the perfect trio to narrate this thriller about an Italian villa with a haunted past."- AudioFile

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.

As kids,... Read more

Foster

By: Claire Keegan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller and one of the Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a stand-alone book for the first time ever in the US



It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to... Read more

Maame

By: Jessica George

Narrated by: Heather Agyepong

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

One of BookPage's Best Audiobooks of 2023

"The patchwork elements cooperate with one another both on the page and in the audiobook, thanks to Heather Agyepong’s elegant narration." —New York Times

"Maame is a deeply funny yet emotional novel that comes alive with narration. A great pick for the... Read more

A Little Devil in America

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A sweeping, genre-bending “masterpiece” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity—from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The... 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

The Family Remains

By: Lisa Jewell

Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn, Bea Holland, Hugh Quarshie, J...

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Other authors are at a ten out of ten, for me, and Lisa is a solid hundred.” —Gillian McAllister, The Sunday Times (London) bestselling author of Wrong Place Wrong Time

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell weaves a “simply masterful” (Samantha Downing, internationally bestselling author)... Read more

The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal

"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile

A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more

A Song to Drown Rivers

By: Ann Liang

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick • An October 2024 Indie Next Pick • An October 2024 LibraryReads Pick

“Exquisite and devastating. It won’t fail to move you.” —Shelley Parker-Chan, #1 bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun

Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown Rivers is an... 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

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

When the Angels Left the Old Country

By: Sacha Lamb

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn’t have a name other than Shtetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When... Read more

Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 18 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize • “A rugged, riveting novel . . . This superb family saga will satisfy fans of Richard Powers’s The Overstory.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“There... Read more

We Met in December

By: Rosie Curtis

Narrated by: Jessica Preddy & Oliver Walker

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a year in the life of a twenty-something British woman who falls hard for her London flat mate, this clever, fun, and unforgettable romantic comedy is the perfect feel-good holiday listen.Two people. One house. A year that changes everything.Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s December, and she’s... Read more

The Spanish Love Deception

By: Elena Armas

Narrated by: Scarlette Hayes

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author).

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little... Read more

Scorched Grace

By: Margot Douaihy

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn). When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos.... Read more

The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

Narrated by: Tim Carroll

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A zany case of mistaken identity allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family in this warm, life-affirming debut novel.“A funny, heartfelt story about found family and seeing the silver lining in life. Fans of Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove and Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures will especially enjoy this new... Read more

Full Speed to a Crash Landing

By: Beth Revis

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg & David Bendena

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy. Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter’s rights won’t get her far when she’s got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a... Read more

The Crane Wife

By: CJ Hauser

Narrated by: CJ Hauser

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love... Read more

Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by award-winning narrator Dion Graham.

"Devil Is Fine is self-deprecatingly tender, often bracingly hilarious, and at its heart is a runaway train through the haunted house of us. And I loved it. Don't miss it." —Dion Graham

"Graham’s rich, inviting, sigh-inducing voice magically weaves another irresistible aural web...Graham... Read more

Together We Will Go

By: J. Michael Straczynski

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dan Bittner, Neo Cihi, Mi...

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Breakfast Club meets The Silver Linings Playbook in this powerful, provocative, and heartfelt novel about twelve strangers who come together to make the most of their final days, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author J. Michael Straczynski.

Mark Antonelli, a failed young writer looking down the barrel at thirty, is... Read more

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

By: Deepa Anappara

Narrated by: Indira Varma, Himesh Patel & Antonio Aakeel

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma).
 
WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S... Read more

The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

This instant New York Times bestseller that is “captivating in every sense of the word” (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author) follows a group of researchers uncovering a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New... Read more

The Darkness Manifesto

By: Johan Eklöf

Narrated by: Owen Findlay

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

*Winner of the Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American*

This timely and captivating look at the hidden impact of light pollution is “rich in revelation and insight…lyrical” (The Wall Street Journal) and urges us to cherish natural darkness for the sake of the environment, our own... Read more

Teach Me

By: Olivia Dade

Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Their lesson plans didn't include love. But that's about to change . . .



When Martin Krause arrives at Rose Owens's high school, she's determined to remain chilly with her new colleague. Unfriendly? Maybe. Understandable? Yes, since a loathsome administrator gave Rose's beloved world history classes to Martin, knowing it would hurt her.



But... Read more