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Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Jim Colby

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden,... Read more

The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”—People (Book of the Week)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY REAL SIMPLE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS • “In the smart, breezy, sweet spot between Meg Wolitzer and Elin Hilderbrand.”—Entertainment Weekly

No matter what the world throws her way, at least... Read more

Brighton

By: Michael Harvey

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary thriller—gripping, haunting, and marvelously told—about two friends growing up in a rapidly changing Boston, who must face the sins of their past in the midst of a series of brutal murders.“You came back here to bury your past. . . . Thing is, you gotta kill it first.”Kevin Pearce—baseball star, honor student, the pride of... Read more

The Art of Catching Feelings

By: Alicia Thompson

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A professional baseball player and his heckler prove that true love is worth going to bat for in the next swoony romance by USA Today bestselling author Alicia Thompson.

Daphne Brink doesn’t follow baseball, but watching “America’s Snoozefest” certainly beats sitting at home in the days after she signs her divorce... Read more

Bird Suit

By: Sydney Hegele

Narrated by: Sydney Hegele

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A tourist town folk tale of stifled ambition, love, loss, and the bird women who live beneath the lake.



Every summer the peaches ripen in Port Peter, and the tourists arrive to gorge themselves on fruit and sun. They don't see the bird women, who cavort on the cliffs and live in a meadow beneath the lake. But when summer ends and the visitors go... Read more

The Chalk Man

By: C. J. Tudor

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Want to read something good?. . . If you like my stuff, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King • WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • WINNER OF THE STRAND MAGAZINE AWARD FOR BEST DEBUT NOVEL

A riveting psychological suspense debut that weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry, and will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking... Read more

Palestinian Walks

By: Raja Shehadeh

Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic, and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home is Ramallah, on the Palestinian West Bank, and the landscape he traverses is now the site of a... Read more

Deadly Game

By: Michael Caine

Narrated by: Eddie Marsan

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive international thriller from the Hollywood legend and British icon Sir Michael Caine.

DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals.

And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is... Read more

Honor

By: Thrity Umrigar

Narrated by: Sneha Mathan

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

THE JANUARY 2022 REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“In the way A Thousand Splendid Suns told of Afghanistan’s women, Thrity Umrigar tells a story of India with the intimacy of one who knows the many facets of a land both modern and ancient, awash in contradictions.” —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours 

In this... Read more

The Flood Girls

By: Richard Fifield

Narrated by: Kathleen Early

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This snappy, sassy redemption story set in small-town Montana is “a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer” (Jackie Collins), filled with an uproarious and unforgettable cast of characters you won’t want to leave behind.Welcome to Quinn, Montana, population: 956. A town where nearly all of the volunteer firemen are named Jim,... Read more

How to Be a Good Creature

By: Sy Montgomery

Narrated by: Sy Montgomery

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Understanding someone who belongs to another species can be transformative. No one knows this better than author, naturalist, and adventurer Sy Montgomery. To research her books, Sy has traveled the world and encountered some of the planet's rarest and most beautiful animals. From tarantulas to tigers, Sy's life continually intersects with and... Read more

Silent Sister

By: Megan Davidhizar

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The must-read suspense novel of the summer about a mysterious girl's disappearance, her biggest betrayal and a deadly truth screaming to come out.

Two sisters went missing on their class trip—Grace, the outgoing athlete who is friends with just about everyone, and Maddy, the wallflower wilting in her sister’s shadow who'd rather absorb herself in... Read more

Reputation

By: Sara Shepard

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Allyson Ryan, Phoebe Strole, Bri...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.

Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the... Read more

Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

Narrated by: Gabriel Smith

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying and having a family.” —Financial Times

“The novel crackles with gothic horror, deadpan humor, and a damning sense of alienation that you won’t soon shake.” —Chicago Review of Books

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable... Read more

The New York Times: Footsteps

By: New York Times

Narrated by: David Colacci & Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Before Nick Carraway was drawn into Daisy and Gatsby's sparkling, champagne-fueled world in The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald vacationed in the French Riviera, where a small green lighthouse winked at ships on the horizon. Before the nameless lovers began their illicit affair in The Lover, Marguerite Duras embarked upon her own scandalous... Read more

Atlas of AI

By: Kate Crawford

Narrated by: Larissa Gallagher

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence—from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality, and freedom



What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate... Read more

Harry's Trees

By: Jon Cohen

Narrated by: Josh Bloomberg

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A grieving widower, a determined girl, a courageous librarian and a mysterious book come together in an uplifting tale of love, loss, friendship and redemption.

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, Harry, despairing, retreats north to lose himself in the remote woods of the... Read more

Monstrous Regiment

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Wickedly satirical . . . nothing short of brilliant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett explores the inanity of war, sexual politics, and why the best man for the job is often a woman in this acerbically funny and poignant Discworld novel.In the small country of Borogravia, there are strict... Read more

Lore

By: Alexandra Bracken

Narrated by: Fryda Wolff

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Darkest Minds comes a sweepingly ambitious, high-octane tale of power, destiny, love, and redemption. Every seven years, the Agon begins. As punishment for a past rebellion, nine Greek gods are forced to walk the earth as mortals. They are hunted by the descendants of ancient bloodlines, all... Read more

The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Narrated by: Ruta Gedmintas

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""If some prose sings, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s truly dances. Although set in the early sixteenth century, The Dance Tree addresses issues of the utmost importance today—the subjection of women, class inequality, the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Ultimately, however, the book’s wisdom, compassion, and beauty transcend historical... Read more

Fortunately, the Milk

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An absolute delight of a madcap story for the young (and young-at-heart) by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with equal parts pirates and piranhas, adventure and aliens, oddity and love. ""I bought the milk,"" said my father. ""I walked out of the corner shop, and heard a noise like this: t h u m m t h u m m. I looked up and saw a... Read more

Ask Gary Fu*king Anything

By: Gary John Bishop

Narrated by: Gary John Bishop

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

No topic off limits, Gary John Bishop fields real questions from readers on issues like money, personal growth, success, and relationships in his trademark no bullsh*t tone, empowering you to make real and lasting change in your life. Like a personal coaching session in your ear buds, Gary will give you the tough love you need to get your life... Read more

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

By: Courtney Walsh

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

She’s out to prove that there’s no such thing as choosing happiness.Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes that happiness is something that flat-out doesn’t exist in her life—and never will.As a university researcher, Isadora keeps to herself as much as possible. She avoids the students... Read more

Salt Kiss

By: Sierra Simone

Narrated by: Oscar Reyes

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

After being a soldier, working as a bodyguard should have been simple: keep the owner of DC’s ultra-secret club safe, don’t think about his midnight eyes or his devil’s smile, don’t surrender my body to his wicked desires.But I underestimated Mark Trevena and the power of his dark, seductive world. I underestimated the hold he’d have on me, the... Read more