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Wasteland

By: W. Scott Poole

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee W. Scott Poole traces the confluence of history, technology, and art that gave us modern horror films and literature.In the early twentieth century, World War I was the most devastating event humanity had yet experienced. New machines of war left tens of millions killed or wounded in the most grotesque of... Read more

Jane Steele

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: Susie Riddell

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel

The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety.”
 
“A thrill ride of a novel. A must read for lovers of Jane Eyre, dark humor, and... Read more

Southern Discomfort

By: Tena Clark

Narrated by: Tena Clark

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Southern Discomfort is a raw, thought-provoking examination of privilege, racism, sexism, the masks we wear to conform to society’s expectations, and the journey toward authentic identity.” —Read with Us: Caste, An Oprah’s Book Club Discussion Guide

For fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a “raw and deeply honest”... Read more

The Red Notebook

By: Antoine Laurain

Narrated by: Alex Wyndham

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroic bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street. There's nothing in the bag to indicate who it belongs to, although there's all sorts of other things in it. Laurent feels a strong impulse to find the owner and tries to puzzle together who she might be from the contents of the bag. Especially a red... Read more

Wonder Woman: Warbringer

By: Leigh Bardugo

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The award-winning DC Icons story of the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.

"You’ll enjoy this book whether you’re a fan of Wonder Woman comics, the Wonder Woman movie, Leigh Bardugo, or just YA lit in general." —Hypable

She will become one of... Read more

The Deviant's War

By: Eric Cervini

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Vikas Adam draws the listener in, expertly narrating Cervini's work, which charts the beginning of the gay rights movement in the United States...Vikas Adam does an excellent job lending unique voices to real historical figures." -- AudioFile Magazine

A Publishers Weekly most anticipated spring book

From a young Harvard- and... Read more

Little Secrets

By: Jennifer Hillier

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Overwhelmed by tragedy, a woman desperately tries to save her marriage in award-winning author Jennifer Hillier's Little Secrets, a riveting audiobook of psychological suspense.

"Suspenseful and compelling—Hillier is a masterful storyteller." —Chevy Stevens

All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret...

Marin had the perfect life. Married... Read more

Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

Narrated by: Hannah Choi

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites—threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside... Read more

Saints for All Occasions

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017 

"This year’s best book about family." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

A sweeping, unforgettable novel from The New York Times best-selling author of Maine, about the hope, sacrifice, and love between two sisters and the secret that drives them apart.

Nora and Theresa Flynn are... Read more

The Hush

By: John Hart

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"The story is greatly enhanced by narrator Jeremy Bobb. No character is too small for Bobb's vocal attention...A great example of a riveting story enhanced by a creative, consistent narration." — AudioFile Magazine

The only writer in history to win consecutive Edgar Awards for Best Novel, New York Times bestselling author John Hart returns to the... Read more

Bad Men

By: Julie Mae Cohen

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the most irresistible serial killer of the year in this twisty feminist thriller that’s as wickedly fun as it is lethal. Saffy Huntley-Oliver is an intelligent and glamorous socialite; she also happens to be a proficient serial killer. For the past fifteen years, she’s hunted down and dispatched rapists, murderers, domestic abusers—bad men... Read more

The Once and Future Sex

By: Eleanor Janega

Narrated by: Samara Naeymi

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women's beauty, sexuality, and behavior.



What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this high-spirited history, medievalist Eleanor Janega turns to the Middle Ages, the era that bridged the ancient world and modern society, to unfurl its suppositions about... Read more

Holes

By: Louis Sachar

Narrated by: Kerry Beyer & Louis Sachar

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves!

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his... Read more

Fencing with the King

By: Diana Abu-Jaber

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent. Featuring a heartfelt author's note read by the author herself.

Amani is hooked on a mystery―a poem on airmail paper that slips out of one of her father’s books. It seems to have been written by her grandmother, a refugee who arrived in... Read more

Essex Dogs

By: Dan Jones

Narrated by: Ben Miles

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023

The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War.

July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best... Read more

The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more

The Stars My Destination

By: Alfred Bester

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.



When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913–1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the... Read more

The Storyteller

By: Kathryn Williams

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

With the mystery of Maureen Johnson and Brittany Cavallaro and the historical intrigue of Romanov, this genre-bending YA will pull readers into one girl’s journey of discovering the impossible tale of a long-lost aunt—and through her, the importance of being true to yourself. It’s not every day you discover you might be related to Anastasia…or... Read more

Save Me, Stranger

By: Erika Krouse

Narrated by: Adam Ewer & Blair Baker

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

From EDGAR-AWARD WINNING author Erika Krouse, a VISCERAL, DAZZLING collection of stories set across the globe about characters desperate for salvation

“Far-ranging and visionary collection...A dozen little masterpieces of heart and longing and surprise.” —ADAM JOHNSON

“Save Me, Stranger is a book of parables—supernal and sinister. Disturbing but... Read more

Look What You Made Me Do

By: Kat McKenna

Narrated by: Jade Ewen

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a FAN?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that it takes commitment and dedication to be in a fandom. And there's nothing more rewarding than sourcing news and updates, anticipating new music and meeting fellow fans. But fan culture today is more intense than ever, from trolling to stalkers to online warfare.

So how did we get... Read more

A Spark of Light

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jodi Picoult

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington... Read more

No Escape

By: Nury Turkel

Narrated by: Stewart Lang

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel lays bare China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Turkel is cofounder and board chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China has rounded up as many as three million Uyghurs, placing... Read more

Legacy of Ash

By: Matthew Ward

Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton

Length: 28 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires.   A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic.   Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives.... Read more

Wild Spaces

By: S. L. Coney

Narrated by: Nick Mondelli

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog, Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his... Read more