Local bookseller recommendations

When Stars Are Scattered

By: Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed

Narrated by: Faysal Ahmed, Barkhad Abdi, Victoria Jamieson, ...

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor audiobook and National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel—adapted for audio—is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.

Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life... Read more

Seed to Dust

By: Marc Hamer

Narrated by: Owen Teale

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk

A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review)

"With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed... Read more

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?

By: Chris Payne

Narrated by: Graham Halstead & Chris Abell

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive oral history of emo’s takeover from 1999 to 2008, featuringMY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, FALL OUT BOY, PARAMORE, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, JIMMY EAT WORLD, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, AND MANY MOREIf Meet Me in the Bathroom traced New York City's early 2000’s rock scene, Where Are Your Boys Tonight? gives the inside story of the... Read more

Fierce Fairytales

By: Nikita Gill

Narrated by: Nikita Gill

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of fairytales poetically retold for a new generation of women.

Traditional fairytales are rife with cliches and gender stereotypes: beautiful, silent princesses; ugly, jealous, and bitter villainesses; girls who need rescuing; and men who take all the glory.

But in this... 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

New Nigeria County

By: Clare Brown

Narrated by: Clare Brown, Ayanna Dookie, Korey Jackson, Andr...

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“A stupendous full-cast, fully-realized production…Buffered in hilarity, Brown also provides a brilliant exposé of undeniable, inescapable inequity and injustice.” —Booklist (starred review)

Written and performed by TikTok star Clare Brown, New Nigeria County is a whip-smart, full-cast satire tackling race, gender, and nationalism in today’s... Read more

A Prayer for Vengeance

By: Leanne Schwartz

Narrated by: Natalie Duke

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer—a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.



Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars and... Read more

The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.

By: Lee Kravetz

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed, Karissa Vacker & Teri Clark Linden

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMA March Reads Pick“Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plot-driven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding approach to history and its wonderous story. It’s a book full of ideas about inspiration and a love for language that translates across borders, physical and... Read more

The Wedding Veil

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

Narrated by: Shannon McManus, Janet Metzger, Rebekkah Ross &...

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This “masterfully woven…literary home run” (New York Journal of Books) follows four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family from the New York Times bestselling author of the Peachtree Bluff series.

Four women. One family heirloom. A secret connection that will change their... Read more

The 6:20 Man

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin & Mela Lee

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance, in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s new thriller.

Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter... Read more

Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.

In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science... 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

Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel

Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of... Read more

All That’s Left in the World

By: Erik J. Brown

Narrated by: Barrett Leddy & Andrew Gibson

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

What If It's Us meets They Both Die at the End in this postapocalyptic, queer YA adventure romance from debut author Erik J. Brown. Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera, Alex London, and Heartstopper by Alice Oseman.When Andrew stumbles upon Jamie’s house, he’s injured, starved, and has nothing left to lose. A deadly pathogen has killed off most of... 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

Chorus

By: Rebecca Kauffman

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The seven Shaw siblings have long been haunted by two early and profoundly consequential events. Told in turns from the early twentieth century through the 1950s, the story builds as each sibling relays their own versions of the memories that surround both their mother’s mysterious death and the circumstances of one sister’s scandalous teenage... Read more

I Know Who You Are

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alice Feeney's latest thriller is a compelling listen...Narrator Stephanie Racine deftly portrays characters from a variety of regions and classes across the U.K. and Ireland. She shines in this first-person narration, capturing Aimee's self-doubt, worry and determination." — BookPage

From the New York Times and international bestselling author... Read more

Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds

Narrated by: Jason Reynolds

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize... 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

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 Accidental Veterinarian

By: Philipp Schott

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he took into his career of veterinary science and anecdotes from his successful small-animal clinic. Dr. Schott brings to his writing the benefit of many years of expertise. Wisdom he imparts on listeners includes the best way to give your cat a pill, how to prevent... Read more

Late Migrations

By: Margaret Renkl

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Selected as a TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna book club pick, Late Migrations is an unusual, captivating portrait of a family―and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world―from beloved New York Times opinion writer Margaret Renkl.Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and... 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

Aru Shah and the End of Time (A Pandava Novel Book 1)

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Rick Riordan introduces this adventure by Roshani Chokshi about twelve-year-old Aru Shah, who has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school.

While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and... Read more