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Sapiens

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 15 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill GatesOfficial U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the... Read more

The Princess and the Goblin

By: George MacDonald

Narrated by: Tamaryn Payne

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic children’s fantasy tale and a major inspiration for The Lord of the Rings, this story chronicles the endeavors, struggles, and triumphs of the beautiful, brave, and kind Princess Irene. Written originally as a serial, this charming adventure never has a dull moment. From magic and secrets to mazes and monsters, Princess Irene and her... Read more

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

By: Benjamin Stevenson

Narrated by: Barton Welch & Megan Smart

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that ""offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it"" (Nita Prose) -- perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz When the Australian Mystery... Read more

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

How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

Narrated by: Safiya Sinclair

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A New York Times Notable Book
Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper’s Bazaar * Vulture * Town & Country * San Francisco Chronicle * Christian Science Monitor * Mother Jones * Barack Obama
A Read with Jenna Today Show... Read more

Becoming

By: Michelle Obama

Narrated by: Michelle Obama

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States
 
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment,... Read more

Revenge of the Tipping Point

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light — this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting... Read more

How to Do Nothing

By: Jenny Odell

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world



Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is... Read more

The Note

By: Alafair Burke

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wife comes a suspenseful story about a vacation in the Hamptons that goes terribly wrong for three friends with a complicated history.

"It's only January, but your perfect Summer thriller is here already."—Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post

“I absolutely loved The Note.... Read more

The Night Circus

By: Erin Morgenstern

Narrated by: Jim Dale

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.

But behind the scenes, a fierce... 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 (Best Horror Books of 2024, So Far)

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,”... Read more

A Walk in the Park

By: Kevin Fedarko

Narrated by: Kevin Fedarko

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times

“A triumph. Fedarko doesn’t describe awe; he induces it.” —The... Read more

Kiss Her Once for Me

By: Alison Cochrun

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Romance
A Best New Holiday Romance by PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more!

The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.

One year ago,... Read more

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 “destined to become a titan of the macabre and unsettling” (Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author), a haunting debut—soon to be a Netflix original movie—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit.

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and... Read more

Love, Theoretically

By: Ali Hazelwood

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"The reigning queen of STEM romance."—The Washington Post

An Indie Next and Library Reads Pick!

Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain.
 
The many lives of theoretical physicist... Read more

The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Choo narrates the book herself with a grace of voice and manner that is rare in authors. Further, she delivers Chinese names and phrases with the intonation of a native speaker, lending another level of authenticity to this odd and wonderful tale."—The Washington Post

"Yangsze Choo again takes on narration... Read more

Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • New York Magazine’s Beach Read Book Club Pick • Belletrist Book Club Pick

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The... Read more

Killers of the Flower Moon

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE

“A... Read more

Why Fish Don't Exist

By: Lulu Miller

Narrated by: Lulu Miller

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian

A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.​

“At one point, Miller dives into the... Read more

A People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

Narrated by: Jeff Zinn

Length: 34 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER""A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future."" –Howard FastHistorian Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing... Read more

The Other Valley

By: Scott Alexander Howard

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick

For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the... Read more

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Jessie Buckley

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

* OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *
* NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London), THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE OBSERVER, and more *

“Stunning.”... Read more

The Book of Love

By: Kelly Link

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.

“A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can... 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 *

“You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King

A gripping, page-turning “masterpiece” (Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling... Read more