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Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

Narrated by: Kate Berlant

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Berlant adds that extra pizazz, so you really get a window into the creative mind as it shifts quickly from moments of despair to lightbulbs of insight to incidents of sexual desire to the recollection of totally random literary facts."—Vulture on Alphabetical Diaries

"Heti's candid revelations will stir listeners."—AudioFile on Alphabetical... Read more

The Q

By: Amy Tintera

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia & Robbie Daymond

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their only chance for survival.

Seventeen-year-old Maisie Rojas has spent her entire life in the Q—a post-pandemic quarantine zone that was once... Read more

Sunshine Nails

By: Mai Nguyen

Narrated by: Carolina Ðo, David Lee Huynh, Quyen Ngo, Vyvy N...

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

This “insightful, moving story with striking depth” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author) follows a Vietnamese Canadian family in Toronto who will do anything to protect their no-frills nail salon after a new high-end salon opens up—even if it tears the family apart.

Vietnamese refugees Debbie and Phil Tran have built a... Read more

Literary Critters

By: Zondervan

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland, Mike Read & Rachel Louise ...

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Literary Critters is a truly unique book, introducing young readers to classic literary figures and encouraging them to use their imaginations. As William Shakesbear visits his fellow Literary Critter Guild members, he’s greeted with lots of advice from his author friends and has some adventures along the way.This playful story promotes literacy... Read more

City of the Dead

By: James Ponti

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls.

Codename Kathmandu, better known as Kat, loves logic and order, has a favorite... Read more

A Likely Story

By: Leigh McMullan Abramson

Narrated by: Mia Barron, Cynthia Farrell, James Fouhey, Adam...

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

CBS New York Book Club with Mary Calvi and Belletrist Book Club Pick

“Raw, complex, and utterly unforgettable.” —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author

The only child of a famous American novelist discovers a shocking family secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her parents, her gilded childhood, and her own stalled... Read more

The Last Ballad

By: Wiley Cash

Narrated by: Karen White & Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary woman’s struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile mill, The Last... Read more

Force of Nature

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Stephen Shanahan...makes it sizzle to the very end. Both story and narrator are not to be missed." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING ERIC BANA

"I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries." —Stephen King
Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (Mystery & Thriller, 2018)
BookBrowse Best Books of... Read more

The Promise

By: Damon Galgut

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A modern family saga written in gorgeous prose by three-time Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted... Read more

The Jazz Club Spy

By: Roberta Rich

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) The Midwife of Venice, a fresh and sweeping historical novel following a Jewish woman attempting to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II.

New York City, 1939: At the height of the Great Depression, a time when President Roosevelt is trying to keep America out of World War II,... Read more

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

By: Avi

Narrated by: Alexandra O'Karma

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet,... Read more

The Arrangement

By: Ashley Warlick

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Absolutely dazzling.” –Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

“Filled with food and passion...If you love historical fiction, you'll fall hard for this one.”  —Bustle.com


She’d made it sound as though her husband would be joining them for dinner. She’d made it sound that way on purpose, and then she arrived alone.

Los Angeles, 1934. Mary Frances... Read more

Nobody Is Ever Missing

By: Catherine Lacey

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

You can run all the way to New Zealand, but eventually you’ll catch up with yourself.Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable but unfulfilling life in Manhattan. As her husband scrambles to figure out what happened to her, Elyria hurtles into the unknown, testing fate by hitchhiking,... Read more

Lab Girl

By: Hope Jahren

Narrated by: Hope Jahren

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
 
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... Read more

The Charm Bracelet

By: Viola Shipman

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Lose yourself to the magic of The Charm Bracelet.

Through an heirloom charm bracelet, three women will rediscover the importance of family and a passion for living as each charm changes their lives.

On her birthday each year, Lolly’s mother gave her a charm, along with the advice that there is nothing more important than keeping family memories... Read more

I Might Regret This

By: Abbi Jacobson

Narrated by: Abbi Jacobson

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a "poignant, funny, and beautifully unabashed" (Cheryl Strayed) New York Times bestselling essay collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.
When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned... Read more

Reading with Patrick

By: Michelle Kuo

Narrated by: Michelle Kuo

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading with Patrick.”—The Atlantic

A memoir of the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta

FINALIST FOR THE DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE

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Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of 2023 by Time, Huffington Post, Kirkus, and more * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection * A Marie Claire Book Club Pick

A surreal novel with “a dark, delicious edge” (Time) about a woman in Silicon Valley who must decide how much she’s willing to... Read more

Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more

Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

Narrated by: Eleanor McCormick

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent



We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones.



In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched... Read more

I'm Not Done with You Yet

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

Narrated by: Yu-Li Alice Shen, Saskia Maarleveld, Leiana Ber...

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Some friends—and friendships—are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by national bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.

Jane is unhappy.  

A struggling midlist writer whose novels barely command four figures, she feels trapped in an underwhelming marriage, just scraping by to pay a crippling Bay Area mortgage for a house—a... Read more

Worst Case Scenario

By: T.J. Newman

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Following her explosive debut thriller Falling and its harrowing follow-up Drowning, #1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back with Worst Case Scenario.

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesota, which... Read more

Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

Narrated by: Alfred Vines, Anthony Lopez, Brad Sanders, Chri...

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2024 Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production for Young Adults!

"Skilled vocal performances from more than a dozen narrators immerse listeners in a schoolyard murder mystery involving race, wealth, and power."- AudioFile

This audiobook features a full cast, musical accompaniment, and sound design. Listen along and become... Read more

The Paragon Hotel

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds... Read more