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Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

Narrated by: Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill &...

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss this “breakneck thriller” that examines “our culture’s obsession with serial killers and true crime” (Harper’s Bazaar) as it follows two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. “A fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that’s as thoughtful as it is gripping” (People).

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
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Hell Bent

By: Leigh Bardugo

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"The magic and violence of 'Hell Bent' comes to life in audiobook form." - USA Today

"This fervently delivered audiobook engrosses the listener through every twist and turn, making this sequel nearly impossible to pause."- AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award)

Wealth. Power. Murder. Magic. The Ivy League is going straight to hell in the sequel to... Read more

The Book of Azrael

By: Amber V. Nicole

Narrated by: Ruthie Bowles

Length: 21 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

!! NOW WITH AN EXCLUSIVE BONUS CHAPTER !!

'Amber's series breaks the rules in the best way. Her main character is strong, capable, and unapologetically powerful. There is no damsel here. This story is filled with fast-paced action, an in-depth world, and a romance that goes from simmer to boil. If you like romantasy, read this!' RAVEN... Read more

Tender is the Flesh

By: Agustina Bazterrica

Narrated by: Joseph Balderrama

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.

His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made... Read more

The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Adrienne King

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today

A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle,... Read more

Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to live.



Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood after living abroad for six decades. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.



Helen retreats into her home on Westminster... Read more

The Book of Lost Names

By: Kristin Harmel

Narrated by: Madeleine Maby

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday

Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis... Read more

Hungerstone

By: Kat Dunn

Narrated by: Perdita Weeks

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rolling Stone 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Town & Country Must Read Book of the Winter • A Goodreads Readers’ Most Anticipated Horror Novel of the Year • A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Them 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Polygon Most Exciting Fantasy... Read more

Someone You Can Build a Nest In

By: John Wiswell

Narrated by: Carmen Rose

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

East of Eden

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 25 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. Read more

Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Erin Ruth Walker & Janina Edwards

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“Bold and imaginative.” —Tananarive Due
“This stunning allegory will spark much discussion.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A truly powerful and riveting story.” —Booklist

In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black?

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of... Read more

That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Robb Moreira

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

It was a mistake to trust him.

Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don’t know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He’s been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos.

He is... Read more

Big Magic

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant #1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller

"A must read for anyone hoping to live a creative life... I dare you not to be inspired to be brave, to be free, and to be curious.” —PopSugar

From the worldwide bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls: the path to the vibrant, fulfilling life you’ve dreamed of.
 
Readers of all ages and walks... Read more

Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller

“This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.” —Los Angeles Times

“The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire. Beneath his coifed prose Towles is a master of the shiv,... Read more

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to... Read more

Soldiers and Kings

By: Jason De León

Narrated by: Jason De León

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

A TIME 10 Best Nonfiction Book of 2024 • An NPR Book We Love 2024 • A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 • A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024

“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.”
—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New... Read more

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible

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

“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in... Read more

All We Can Save

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson

Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson...

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.
 
There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection,... Read more

Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman & Kiersten White

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this “skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ‘90s nostalgia” (Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Woods) from the author of Hide.

“[A] propulsive, exciting, often genuinely... Read more

My Sister, the Serial Killer

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite

Narrated by: Adepero Oduye

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES

"The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S... Read more

Incidents Around the House

By: Josh Malerman

Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire

A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling... Read more

Spinning Silver

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.

NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library

With the... Read more

Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Mx. Nicky Endres, Linda Jones, Elizabeth Knowel...

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

“Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning author of Malice

A CRIMEREADS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Her name was written... Read more