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The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
Narrated by: Abraham Verghese
Length: 31 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Timesābestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major... Read more


Mexican Gothic
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢Ā āItās Lovecraft meets the BrontĆ«s in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.āāThe Guardian
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ONE OF TIMEāS 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME ā¢ WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD ā¢ NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more


Bookshops & Bonedust
By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fantasy! This program is read by the author.
"Read by the author, a talented and animated fantasy narrator who also voiced Legends, the book presents a colorful cast of new and familiar characters that is sure to ensorcell and delight listeners." āBooklist
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her... Read more


The Midnight Library
By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Carey Mulligan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon
Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."āThe Washington Post
The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well... Read more


A Deadly Education
By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From theĀ author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver comes the first book of the Scholomance trilogy, the story of an unwilling dark sorceress who is destined to rewrite the rules of magic.
FINALIST FOR THE LODESTAR AWARD ā¢ āThe dark school of magic Iāve been waiting for.āāKatherine Arden, author of the Winternight Trilogy
I... Read more


Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon...
Length: 21 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring TimothƩe Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, LƩa Seydoux, Stellan SkarsgƄrd, and Charlotte Rampling
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul ... Read more


Intermezzo
By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Ćanna Hardwicke
Length: 16 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
"[B]rilliant narration by the actor Ćanna Hardwicke."āFinancial Times
"Ćanna Hardwicke's narration highlights the rich emotionality of Rooney's newest novel. Hardwicke's smooth voice shifts to capture every mood--becoming desperately angry, bitter, and frantic yet also achingly tender, patient, and loving--as he performs a story of two grieving... Read more


Stag Dance
By: Torrey Peters
Narrated by: Lee Osorio, Briggon Snow, Eileen Noonan & Pyrrh...
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ āThis inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.āāPeople
āHot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.āāMiranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All Fours
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORSā... Read more


On Tyranny
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ A ābracingā (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting Americaās turn towards authoritarianism, from āa rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and presentā (The New York Times)
āTimothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more


Tress of the Emerald Sea
By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. Narrated by Michael Kramer. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple... Read more
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Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ The Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making aĀ āprovocative and compellingā (NPR)Ā argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star... Read more


The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Rachel Dulude
Length: 14 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series!The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, includedĀ on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, theĀ Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, theĀ Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Readerās Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's Women's... Read more
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First Lie Wins
By: Ashley Elston
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
REESEāS BOOK CLUB PICK |Ā #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
āThis fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.ā āReese Witherspoon
Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern girl could want: a doting boyfriend, a house with a... Read more


The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science
By: Kate McKinnon
Narrated by: Kate McKinnon & Emily Lynne
Length: 4 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From beloved Saturday Night Live alum Kate McKinnon comes a madcap new adventure about three sisters, a ravenous worm, and a mysterious mad scientist.
So, you want to be a young mad scientist. Congratulations! Admitting it is the first step. The second step is reading the (definitely true) tale of the Porch sistersā¦
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Gertrude, Eugenia, and... Read more


Godkiller
By: Hannah Kaner
Narrated by: Kit Griffiths
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!āAn epic fantasy odyssey begins.ā ā Entertainment Weekly""A richly rendered world . . . Kaner writes action that's both fun and intelligible . . . If ""The Last of Us"" didn't slake your thirst for stories of a grizzled fighter taking a tough kid on the road, thenĀ GodkillerĀ should be... Read more
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The Cruel Prince
By: Holly Black
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
By #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue.
Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.
And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate... Read more


A Psalm for the Wild-Built
By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."āAudioFile Magazine
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more


A Discovery of Witches
By: Deborah Harkness
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 23 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle.
Look for the hit series āA Discovery of Witches,ā now streaming on Netflix
āA wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilightā (People).
Deborah Harknessās sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has... Read more


Katabasis
By: R. F. Kuang
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
DanteāsĀ InfernoĀ meetsĀ Susanna Clarkeās PiranesiĀ in this all-new dark academia fantasyĀ from R. F. Kuang, the #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professorās soulāperhaps at the cost of their own.Ā Katabasis, noun, Ancient... Read more
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The Art Thief
By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worldās most prolific art thief, StĆ©phane Breitwieser.
In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieserās strange worldāunlike most thieves, he never stole for... Read more


Lady Tan's Circle of Women
By: Lisa See
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!*
From āone of those special writers capable of delivering both poetry and plotā (The New York Times Book Review) an immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woman physician in 15th-century Chinaāperfect for fans of Lisa Seeās classics Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Tea Girl of Hummingbird... Read more


The Reformatory
By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 20 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award *
āYouāre in for a treat...one of those books you canāt put down...Due hit it out of the park.ā āStephen King
A gripping, page-turning āmasterpieceā (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more


The Wager
By: David Grann
Narrated by: Dion Graham & David Grann
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martialĀ that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only theĀ captain and crew who ended up on... Read more
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We Used to Live Here
By: Marcus Kliewer
Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker & Corey Brill
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
From an author ādestined to become a titan of the macabre and unsettlingā (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a haunting debutāsoon to be a Netflix original movieāabout two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the houseās previous residents unexpectedly visit.
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and... Read more