The River's End Bookstore

The Queens of Crime

By: Marie Benedict

Narrated by: Bessie Carter

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie—a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder.

London, 1930.... Read more

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Beata Pozniak

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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

"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune

"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work."... Read more

More or Less Maddy

By: Lisa Genova

Narrated by: Tessa Albertson

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy.

Maddy Banks is just like any other stressed-out freshman at NYU. Between schoolwork, exams, navigating life in the city, and a recent breakup, it’s normal... Read more

The Wildes

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers, Damian Lynch, P.J. Ochlan & ...

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. 

In September of 1892, Oscar Wilde and his... Read more

The Book Eaters

By: Sunyi Dean

Narrated by: Katie Erich

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"Katie Erich’s riveting and emotionally rich realization of Dean’s strange and vivid world makes this an entrancing listen from start to finish; we hope to hear much more from author and narrator alike." - The Seattle Times

"Katie Erich narrates Devon with the voice of a true storyteller, providing a mesmerizing performance that communicates the... Read more

The Garden of Small Beginnings

By: Abbi Waxman

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“A quirky, funny, and deeply thoughtful book”* that’s “filled with characters you’ll love and wish you lived next door to in real life”** from the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
 
Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts... Read more

Drowning

By: T. J. Newman

Narrated by: Steven Weber & Laura Benanti

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES * “Reads like Apollo 13 underwater.” —Don Winslow * “Masterful.” —Patricia Cornwell * “A stunningly vivid tour de force!” Gripping. Shocking.” —Brad Thor

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman’s adrenaline-fueled thriller... 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

Sweet Fury

By: Sash Bischoff

Narrated by: Sash Bischoff

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When a beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part.

“Cunningly ambitious, twisty, and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren’t ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths.... Read more

Imaginary Friend

By: Stephen Chbosky

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 24 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author, a young boy is haunted by a voice in his head in this "epic horror" novel, perfect for fans of Stephen King (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will).

Single mother Kate Reese is on the run. Determined to improve life for her and her seven year-old son, Christopher, she flees an abusive relationship in the middle... Read more

Razor Girl

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The new full-tilt, unstoppably hilarious and entertaining novel from the best-selling author of Skinny Dip and Bad Monkey

When Lane Coolman's car is bashed from behind on the road to the Florida Keys, what appears to be an ordinary accident is anything but (this is Hiaasen!). Behind the wheel of the other car is Merry Mansfield--the eponymous... Read more

The Sun Is a Compass

By: Caroline Van Hemert

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This gripping true story follows a biologist's human-powered journey from the Pacific Northwest to the Arctic to rediscover her love of birds, nature, and adventure—perfect for fans of Cheryl Strayed.​ During graduate school, as she conducted experiments on the peculiarly misshapen beaks of chickadees, ornithologist Caroline Van Hemert began to... Read more

The Dakota Winters

By: Tom Barbash

Narrated by: Jim Meskimen

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination.It’s the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his... Read more

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book... Read more

Moonglow

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of... Read more

The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A standout voice in women’s fiction. I was captivated from the very first line.” — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Summer of SongbirdsPerhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her... Read more

The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more

Mouthful of Birds

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.

Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.

Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where... Read more

The Oracle Year

By: Charles Soule

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling comic-book franchise writer Charles Soule comes a clever and witty first novel of a twentysomething New Yorker who wakes up one morning with the power to predict the future—perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Brad Meltzer, or books like This Book Is Full of Spiders and Welcome to Night Vale.Knowledge is power. So when an unassuming... Read more

The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs

By: Janet Peery

Narrated by: Juliana Francis Kelly

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Janet Peery’s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and piercing gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with a new, unflinching audiobook, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.

On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family... Read more

The Diary of a Bookseller

By: Shaun Bythell

Narrated by: Robin Laing

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaun Bythell owns the Bookshop, Scotland’s largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover’s paradise? Well, almost … In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at... Read more