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The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Mandy Weston

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021

From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.

"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more

Stag Dance

By: Torrey Peters

Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan & Pyrrh...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People

“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours

In this collection of one novel and three stories,... Read more

Gilded

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. . . This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine

In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale.

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a... Read more

Born to Run

By: Christopher McDougall

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... Read more

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Tara Sky & Jessica Matten

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

After inadvertently starting rumors of a haunted cemetery, a teen befriends a ghost in this brand-new young adult novel exploring grief and belonging by the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves series.

Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium, all her... Read more

Medusa

By: Nataly Gruender

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate look into the life of a legendary mythical villain who has so often been stripped of her voice and humanity in this debut novel, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller’s Circe and the works of Jennifer Saint.

You know how Medusa’s story ends, but you’ve never heard her tell her own story… until now.
 
The only mortal daughter of two sea... Read more

The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
 
“A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens." —Bustle

“Ultra-readable.” —Vogue 
 
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings, comes an electric novel not just about who we want to be with, but who we want... Read more

Pride and Prejudice

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Introduction by Anna Quindlen
Commentary by Margaret Oliphant, George Saintsbury, Mark Twain, A. C. Bradley, Walter A. Raleigh, and Virginia Woolf
 
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”... Read more

The Islands

By: Dionne Irving

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one... Read more

Twisted Games

By: Ana Huang

Narrated by: Aiden Snow & Cindy Kay

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Stoic, broody, and arrogant, elite bodyguard Rhys Larsen has two rules: 1) Protect his clients at all costs 2) Do not become emotionally involved. Ever. He has never once been tempted to break those rules . . . until her.



Bridget von Ascheberg. A princess with a stubborn streak and a hidden fire that reduces his rules to ash. She's nothing he... 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

Tilt

By: Emma Pattee

Narrated by: Ariel Blake

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set over the course of one day, a heart-racing debut about a woman facing the unimaginable, determined to find safety.

Last night, you and I were safe. Last night, in another universe, your father and I stood fighting in the kitchen.

Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib at IKEA when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon.... Read more

The Bad Seed

By: William March

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.



There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers... Read more

My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories

By: Samantha Schoech

Narrated by: Samantha Schoech

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For lovers of Catherine Newman, Lorrie Moore, and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a debut collection of 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories.My Mother’s Boyfriends is populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for... Read more

What Kind of Mother

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

Narrated by: Megan Tusing & Joe Hempel

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming.After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her... 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

The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Gibson Frazier, St...

Length: 40 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book
“This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you'll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.” —Stephen King

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.

In the first decades of the 21st... Read more

Snake Oil

By: Kelsey Rae Dimberg

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Andi Arndt & Renata Friedman

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A razor-sharp literary thriller about three women vying for power at a wellness startup, where the cost of ambition might be deadlyOne woman’s elixir is another woman’s poisonRhoda West is Silicon Valley’s favorite female CEO: the luminously charismatic founder of the fast-growing startup Radical, a wellness company whose core mission is the... Read more

Mary

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nat Cassidy’s highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark.

Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself.

But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot... Read more

The Future

By: Naomi Alderman

Narrated by: Guinevere Turner, Natalie Naudus, Jeremy Bobb, ...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social... Read more

The Antiquity Affair

By: Lee Kelly & Jennifer Thorne

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Holly Linneman

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An archaeologist’s estranged daughters.1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters—intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and nonconformist Tess, who dreams of following in his... Read more

The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

Narrated by: Caro De Robertis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature

Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros.

Young, headstrong Psyche has... Read more

Inkheart

By: Cornelia Funke

Narrated by: Lynn Redgrave

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the sensational New York Times bestseller The Thief Lord comes a thrilling new adventure about magic and self-discovery.

Meggie lives a quiet life alone with her father, a bookbinder. But her father has a deep secret--he possesses an extraordinary magical power. One day a mysterious stranger arrives who seems linked to her... Read more

All Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more