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The Bonfire of the Vanities

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 27 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This bitingly hilarious American satire will forever define late twentieth-century New York style.Tom Wolfe’s bestselling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress, until one wrong turn... Read more

Couple Found Slain

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Christina Delaine & Mikita Brottman

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

“Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.”
—The New York Times Book Review

Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories... Read more

Chasing Cassandra

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Everything has a price . . .Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything—or anyone—is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife—and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he’s determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra... Read more

The Unfinished

By: Cheryl Isaacs

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In her stunning debut, Cheryl Isaacs (Mohawk) pulls the reader into an unsettling tale of monsters, mystery, and secrets that refuse to stay submerged.When small-town athlete Avery’s morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook’s Falls have long forgotten.The black water has... Read more

Endpapers

By: Jennifer Savran Kelly

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this page-turning novel set in 2003 New York City, a genderqueer book conservator feels trapped by her gender presentation, her ill-fitting relationship, and her artistic block—until she discovers a decades-old hidden queer love letter and becomes obsessed with tracking down its author. 

It’s 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder... Read more

It's Kind of a Funny Story

By: Ned Vizzini

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he... Read more

Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy.The war between dreams and reality intensifies... with Ronan at its center. Read more

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C. G. Jung

Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung)

In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But what started as an exercise in autobiography soon... Read more

Every Day Is a Gift

By: Tammy Duckworth

Narrated by: Tammy Duckworth

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this New York Times bestselling book, learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today.​

In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing—and amazingly true—stories from her incomparable life. In November of... Read more

Finding Mrs. Ford

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in... Read more

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen... Read more

How Quickly She Disappears

By: Raymond Fleischmann

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen in PEOPLE • Entertainment Weekly • New York Post Best Book of the Week

“A novel paced like a thriller but written with the aching grace of literary fiction. A gorgeously dark, harrowing debut.”—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Lock Every Door

The Dry meets The Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary... Read more

Leopard at the Door

By: Jennifer McVeigh

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Kenya in the 1950s against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love from the author of The Fever Tree.
 
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she’d longed for is much changed. Her father’s new... Read more

Beauty Queens

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: Libba Bray

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island.Teen beauty queens. A "Lost"-like island. Mysteries and dangers.... Read more

Lying in Wait

By: Liz Nugent

Narrated by: Caoilfhionn Dunne, David McFetridge & Lesley Mc...

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond and Unraveling Oliver—a brilliantly plotted, utterly immersive novel lauded by A.J. Finn—#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window—as “extraordinary…crackles and snaps like a bonfire on a winter’s night.”

My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but... Read more

The Silence in Her Eyes

By: Armando Lucas Correa

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar Young

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Paula Hawkins and Ruth Ware, a bold and suspenseful psychological thriller about a young woman with a rare neurological condition who is convinced her neighbor is going to be murdered—from the author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl.

Leah has been living with akinetopsia, or motion blindness, since she was a... Read more

At the Wolf's Table

By: Rosella Postorino

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Polly Stone gives us a believable depiction of Rosa Sauer...The story is compelling, and the performance memorable." — AudioFile Magazine

At the Wolf's Table is a moving audiobook based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler’s food tasters, from internationally bestselling author Rosella Postorino.

"They called it... Read more

It Had To Be You

By: Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the latest thrilling entry of the bestselling Under Suspicion series by Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke, television producer Laurie Moran investigates the unsolved murder of a beloved couple celebrating the college graduations of their successful twin sons.

The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way—handsome,... Read more

This Is Home

By: Lisa Duffy

Narrated by: Renata Friedman & Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of book club favorite The Salt House comes a deeply affecting novel about a teenage girl finding her voice and the military wife who moves in downstairs, united in their search for the true meaning of home.

Sixteen-year-old Libby Winters lives in Paradise, a seaside town north of Boston that rarely lives up to its name. After the... Read more

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape

By: Joe Pera

Narrated by: Joe Pera

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This fully sound designed program is read by Joe Pera

A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape by Joe Pera is a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom.

Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend, Joe Bennett, does too. They both have... Read more

Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

Narrated by: Maia Kobabe, Trini Alvarado, Stephen Graybill, ...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 ALA Alex Award Winner
2020 Stonewall — Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book

The ground-breaking, bestselling graphic novel is now available on audio.

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only... Read more

A Game in Yellow

By: Hailey Piper

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness.

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an... Read more

Devils Kill Devils

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that listeners fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters—angels, devils, vampires—and a heart-pounding race to save the world.

When all hell breaks loose, you... Read more

A Catalogue of Catastrophe

By: Jodi Taylor

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time. Her books are a swashbuckling joyride through History' C. K. MCDONNELL

BOOK 13 IN THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S SERIES

For fans of Richard Osman's Thursday Murder Club series, Jasper Fforde and Doctor Who.

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Finally - finally! - Max has that nice office job she's always... Read more