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Bright Ruin

By: Vic James

Narrated by: Avita Jay

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In the “thrilling conclusion”* to the dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City, the people of Britain rise up against their magically gifted masters. They must break the system—or be broken.

MAGIC RUINS. WE RISE.

The rules are simple, the system cruel: the lower classes must give ten years in service to Britain’s... Read more

Heartless

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Rebecca Soler, narrator of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles, returns to narrate this program.

“Narrator Rebecca Soler delivers a take-no-prisoners performance for the third title in The Lunar Chronicles. Her instinctive delivery of Meyer's humor makes the story an addictive listen. Series fans and new listeners will be equally entranced.”... Read more

Good Neighbors

By: Sarah Langan

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this “wickedly funny, unnerving puzzle box of a novel” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will) about the downward spiral of a Long Island community after a tragedy exposes its residents’ depths of deception.

Welcome to Maple Street, a... Read more

Body Horror

By: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Narrated by: Anne Elizabeth Moore

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether for entertainment, under the guise of medicine, or to propel consumerism, heinous acts are perpetrated daily on women’s bodies. In Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, award-winning journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy. Weaving together unflinching research and... Read more

Booth

By: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living

Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a... Read more

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow

By: Jessica Townsend

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times bestselling author: our beloved heroine battles a new evil as a strange, frightening illness takes hold of Nevermoor in this captivating and heart-pounding tale. Morrigan Crow and her friends have survived their first year as proud scholars of the elite Wundrous Society, helped bring down the nefarious Ghastly Market, and... Read more

When You Read This

By: Mary Adkins

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by... Read more

The Impossible Fortress

By: Jason Rekulak

Narrated by: Griffin Newman

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last One at the Wedding—a sweet coming-of-age story about young love that’s an “endearing, full embrace of the late 1980s” (USA TODAY) and a delightful blend of humor, heart, and the universal experience of growing up.

Fourteen-year-old Billy Marvin is living the dream of every nerd in New... Read more

Flowers for Algernon

By: Daniel Keyes

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and... Read more

Proof of Life

By: Daniel Levin

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

​“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair.”
—Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow 
  
“In laying bare the raw human toll of the ferocious and cruel Syrian conflict, Proof of... Read more

Human Acts

By: Han Kang

Narrated by: Sandra Oh, Deborah Smith, Greta Jung, Jae Jung,...

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
 
“[Han Kang writes in] intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”—from the Nobel Prize citation

The internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian presents a “rare and astonishing” (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and... Read more

Divine Might

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora’s Jar.Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might is a female-centered look at Olympus and the Furies, focusing on the... Read more

Arrowood

By: Laura McHugh

Narrated by: Sarah Scott

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Superb and subtle psychological suspense.”—Lee Child

A haunting novel from the author of The Weight of Blood about a young woman’s return to her childhood home—and her encounter with the memories and family secrets it holds

ITW THRILLER AWARD FINALIST

Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River... Read more

Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

By: Michelle Cuevas

Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A TIME magazine Top 10 Children's Book of 2015The whimsical "autobiography" of an imaginary friend who doesn't know he's imaginary--perfect for fans of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Toy StoryJaques Papier has the sneaking suspicion that everyone except his sister Fleur hates him. Teachers ignore him when his hand is raised in... Read more

How to Be Fine

By: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Narrated by: Jolenta Greenberg & Kristen Meinzer

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A humorous and insightful look into what advice works, what doesn’t, and what it means to transform yourself, by the co-hosts of the popular By the Book podcast.In each episode of their podcast By the Book, Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer take a deep dive into a different self-help book, following its specific instructions, rules, and... Read more

The Honey-Don't List

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Patti Murin & Jon Root

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author behind the “joyful, warm, touching” (Jasmine Guillory, New York Times bestselling author) The Unhoneymooners comes a delightfully charming love story about what happens when two assistants tasked with keeping a rocky relationship from explosion start to feel sparks of their own.

Carey Duncan has worked... Read more

Pearce Oysters

By: Joselyn Takacs

Narrated by: Xavier Casals

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A fractured family, a devastated community, and the disaster that brings them together.
Pearce Oysters, a lush, evocative, finely-drawn debut novel set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic 2010 oil spill, follows the Pearce family, local oyster farmers whose business, family, and livelihood are all on the brink of collapse.
Eye-opening,... Read more

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

By: Gail Crowther

Narrated by: Samantha Desz

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

An expansive and illuminating study of legendary writer Dorothy Parker’s life and legacy in Hollywood from the author of the “fascinating” (Town & Country) Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz.

The glamorous extravagances and devasting lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy... Read more

Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

By: Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Narrated by: Amy Krouse Rosenthal & John Green

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of Encyclopedia an Ordinary Life returns with a literary experience that is unprecedented, unforgettable, and explosively human. 
 
Ten years after her beloved, groundbreaking Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, #1 New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal delivers a book full of her distinct blend of nonlinear... Read more

Geiger

By: Gustaf Skördeman

Narrated by: Claire Corbett

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge‑of‑your‑seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man.

It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline phone rings. The caller says just one word: "Geiger." Agneta... Read more

Better Left Unsent

By: Lia Louis

Narrated by: Ashley Tucker

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life… So little time.

A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to... Read more

Deep Delta Justice

By: Matthew Van Meter

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography

The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou

2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist

The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).

In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more

Sister Stardust

By: Jane Green

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

A PARADE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK POST BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK

In her first novel inspired by a true story, Jane Green re-imagines the life of troubled icon Talitha Getty in this transporting story from a forgotten chapter of the Swinging '60s
 
From afar Talitha's life seemed perfect. In her twenties, and... Read more

More Miracle than Bird

By: Alice Miller

Narrated by: Polly Lee

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more