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Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Diaz

Narrated by: Natalie Diaz

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry
Finalist for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection

Postcolonial Love Poem, the brilliant second collection from Natalie Diaz, holds in its pages the urgent appeal for all bodies―bodies of... Read more

Lady Sunshine

By: Amy Mason Doan

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“A delicious daydream of a book.” —Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers

“With lyrical writing and a page-turning plot, this sun-dappled book has it all.” —Karen Dukess, author of The Last Book Party

ONE ICONIC FAMILY. ONE SUMMER OF SECRETS. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA.

For Jackie Pierce, everything changed... Read more

Small Cures

By: Della Hicks-Wilson

Narrated by: Della Hicks-Wilson

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime.
Small Cures is at once a compelling reminder to anyone struggling with heartbreak, mental health, or trauma, that they are not... Read more

The Betrayals

By: Bridget Collins

Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Sam Woolf & Sarah Ovens

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller!“Dizzyingly wonderful . . . a perfectly constructed work of fiction, with audacious twists . . . Collins plays her own game here with perfect skill.” — The Times (UK) An intricate and utterly spellbinding literary epic brimming with enchantment, mystery, and dark secrets from the highly acclaimed author of the #1... Read more

Madam

By: Phoebe Wynne

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe Wynne's Madam is a riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls’ boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula.

They want our silence…
They want our obedience…
Let them see our fire burn

For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs,... Read more

On Juneteenth

By: Annette Gordon-Reed

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Weaving together American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s On Juneteenth provides a historian’s view of the nation’s long road to Juneteenth, recounting both its origins in Texas and the enormous hardships that African-Americans have endured in the century since, from Reconstruction... Read more

Are You Enjoying?

By: Mira Sethi

Narrated by: Mira Sethi

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart.

From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly... Read more

Caul Baby

By: Morgan Jerkins

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins's fiction debut,  an electrifying novel for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous... Read more

We Run the Tides

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoTeenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and... Read more

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

By: Cherie Jones

Narrated by: Danielle Vitalis

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, a brilliant Caribbean writer delivers a powerful story about four people each desperate to escape their legacy of violence in a so-called "paradise."

In Baxter’s Beach, Barbados, Lala’s grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister. It’s a cautionary tale, about what happens to girls... Read more

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enriquez

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“The beautiful, horrible world of Mariana Enriquez, as glimpsed in The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, with its disturbed adolescents, ghosts, decaying ghouls, the sad and angry homeless of modern Argentina, is the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”—Kazuo Ishiguro, The Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE •... Read more

D (A Tale of Two Worlds)

By: Michel Faber

Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

“Glorious. A story that will be found and enjoyed and dreamed about for years to come.”—Neil Gaiman

A stunning modern-day Dickensian fable and a celebration of friendship and bravery for freethinkers everywhere.

It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from language. First, it vanishes from Dhikilo’s parents’ conversation at breakfast,... Read more

Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

Narrated by: Agnes Borinsky

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel.



Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough.... Read more

The Lies You Told

By: Harriet Tyce

Narrated by: Sarah Durham

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Blood Orange, a dark new psychological thriller about the perfect mother, the perfect wife, the perfect family -- and the perfect murder.
In the playground it's the law of the jungle

But at the school gate, there are no rules at all...

When Sadie Roper moves back to London, she's determined to pick up the pieces of her... Read more

The Thirty Names of Night

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

Narrated by: Samy Figaredo & Lameece Issaq

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction
Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award
Named Best Book of the Year by Bustle
Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions, Electric Literature, and HuffPost

​​From the award-winning author of The Map of Salt and Stars, a new novel about three... Read more

Barry Squires, Full Tilt

By: Heather Smith

Narrated by: Irene Poole

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Squires, Full Tilt takes readers on a romp through the streets of St. John's and into the Squires household, a place where tragedy strikes but love prevails. Derry Girls meets Billy Elliot with an East coast twist.

It's 1995. When the Full Tilt Dancers give an inspiring performance at the opening of the new bingo hall, twelve-year-old... Read more

Soulswift

By: Megan Bannen

Narrated by: Hayden Bishop

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everything she believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raised her—from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of The Winner’s Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song.... Read more

The Decameron Project

By: The New York Times

Narrated by: Alex Allwine, Dennis Boutsikaris, Edwidge Danti...

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning collection of new fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic first spread across the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Tóibín, Charles Yu, and more.

When reality is... Read more

The Love Lives of Birds

By: Laura Erickson

Narrated by: Laura Erickson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

From the lifelong devotion of the American crow to the dalliances of the eastern bluebird, from the bald eagle’s dazzling aerial display to the male ruby-throated hummingbird’s reputation as a “deadbeat dad” — courtship, mating, and parenting differ dramatically among birds. Ornithologist and author Laura Erickson takes readers on a... Read more

Confessions on the 7:45

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

COMING TO NETFLIX

“Intricate and nuanced—on par with the best top-flight psychological suspense.” —L.A. Times

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

From master of suspense Lisa Unger comes a riveting thriller about a chance encounter that unravels a stunning web of lies.

Selena Murphy is commuting home on the train when she strikes up a conversation with a... Read more

Cuyahoga

By: Pete Beatty

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

“Cuyahoga is tragic and comic, hilarious and inventive—a 19th-century legend for 21st-century America” (The Boston Globe).

Big Son is a spirit of the times—the times being 1837. Behind his broad shoulders, shiny hair, and church-organ laugh, Big Son practically made Ohio City all by himself.... Read more

Em

By: Kim Thúy

Narrated by: Eve Landry & Kim Thúy

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Em, c’est le fil qui relie les ouvriers des plantations de caoutchouc et les femmes des salons de manucure aux orphelins de l’opération Babylift, qui a évacué des enfants de Saigon en 1975. Em, c’est celle qui aime." Read more

Before the Ever After

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: Guy Lockard

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD

WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.

For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a... Read more

Wandering in Strange Lands

By: Morgan Jerkins

Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more