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Clear
By: Carys Davies
Narrated by: Russ Bain
Length: 3 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Tender, riveting, and inventive is Clear, the newest offering and masterpiece from the brilliant Carys Davies. It will take your breath away…What a thrill.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Historical Fiction Book of 2024
A Vogue, The Washington Post, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, and The Globe and Mail (Toronto)... Read more


The September House
By: Carissa Orlando
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."– Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author... Read more
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Recollections of My Nonexistence
By: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses
In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her... Read more


Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Maya Hawke
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things.
"Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register
"Didion’s timeless essays shine with Hawke at the helm. This audiobook will bring... Read more


The Secret Hours
By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 12 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Something happened in 1994 Berlin that forever changed MI5. Very few know that story and those who do will do anything to keep it secret.
Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service.
Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by... 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


Black Sheep
By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Best Horror Book of the Year
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irreverent horror novel from the author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle.
Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked... Read more


Cackle
By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Dylan Moore
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return.
All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that... Read more


Broken Souls and Bones
By: LJ Andrews
Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus & Will Thorne
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Together they’ll restore a divided kingdom—or burn it down—in this new romantasy from USA Today bestselling author and TikTok sensation LJ Andrews.
Lyra Bien intended to live a quiet life to avoid the attention of the magic-obsessed king in the fortress of Stonegate. Until Roark Ashwood—the prince’s silent guard and rumored killer for the... Read more


Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
Narrated by: Adina Verson
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
“A quirky, gruesome, utterly original feminist horror experience.” —The New York Times Book Review
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with... Read more


Every Heart a Doorway
By: Seanan McGuire
Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Series, Alex Award, Locus Award, and Nebula Award
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, British Fantasy Award, and Tiptree Honor List
"A mini-masterpiece of portal fantasy — a jewel of a book that deserves to be shelved with Lewis Carroll's and C. S. Lewis' classics" —NPR
New York Times bestselling... Read more


The City in the Middle of the Night
By: Charlie Jane Anders
Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell & Laura Knight Keating
Length: 13 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!
Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.
WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD?
Humanity clings to life on January—a colonized planet divided... Read more


When the Wolf Comes Home
By: Nat Cassidy
Narrated by: Helen Laser & Nat Cassidy
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Nat Cassidy, author of the acclaimed horror Mary, returns with When the Wolf Comes Home, an unabashed, adrenaline-fueled pop horror thriller where the darkest fears can become reality.
“This is the kind of great, big, epic horror novel we got back in the '80s that came out swinging for the fences and left everything on the field. Welcome back,... Read more


The Otherwhere Post (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick)
By: Emily J. Taylor
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick!
The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique returns with this stunning dark academic fantasy full of deadly magic and dangerous secrets, perfect for fans of Divine Rivals and A Study in Drowning.
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate... Read more


The Library at Hellebore
By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
DELUXE EDITION—a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring cobalt blue sprayed edges!
A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and An Education in Malice who are hungry for something more diabolical.
The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for... Read more


Men Have Called Her Crazy
By: Anna Marie Tendler
Narrated by: Anna Marie Tendler
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriating reign.” —Carmen Maria Machado, author of the National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties and the Lambda Literary Award winner In... Read more


The Free People's Village
By: Sim Kern
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change rather than a War on Terror. Green infrastructure projects have transformed U.S. cities into lush paradises (for wealthy, white neighborhoods, at least), and the Bureau of Carbon Regulation levies carbon taxes on every financial transaction.
Maddie... Read more


The Universe in Verse
By: Maria Popova
Narrated by: Maria Popova & Lili Taylor
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes
Abridged: No
In this audiobook Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian, presents a celebration of the human search for truth and beauty through the lenses of science and poetry.
Poetry and science, as Popova writes in her introduction, "are instruments for knowing the world more intimately and loving it more deeply." In 15 short essays on subjects ranging... Read more


This Summer Will Be Different
By: Carley Fortune
Narrated by: AJ Bridel & Carley Fortune
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A glorious and tantalizing escape from #1 New York Times bestselling author Carley Fortune.
This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won't give into temptation. This summer will be different.
Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a... Read more


My Brilliant Friend
By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 12 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery... Read more
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When the Sea Came Alive
By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Garrett M. Graff
Length: 19 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for... Read more


The Haunting of Alejandra
By: V. Castro
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive . . . story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” (Library Journal, starred review).
“Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might... Read more


Hotel Cuba
By: Aaron Hamburger
Narrated by: Marie Hoffman
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
“Deeply moving, compulsively readable, Hotel Cuba chronicles the early twentieth century immigrant experience with a profound understanding and crackling urgency I’ve not previously encountered. I could not put it down and I could not stop thinking about it long after I’d reached its stunning conclusion. In short: You need to read this book.... Read more
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Band Sinister
By: KJ Charles
Narrated by: Cornell Collins
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He's a rake and an atheist, and the rumours about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It's orgies.)
Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks her leg in a riding accident, she's forced to recuperate... Read more