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By: Travis Baldree

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fantasy! This program is read by the author.

"Read by the author, a talented and animated fantasy narrator who also voiced Legends, the book presents a colorful cast of new and familiar characters that is sure to ensorcell and delight listeners." —Booklist

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her... Read more

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA Today bestseller
Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback
Audie Award Winner for Mystery
Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery


A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.

Vera Wong is a lonely little old... Read more

Death of the Author

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp & Chris D...

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERRecommended by New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • Rolling Stone • Los Angeles Times • Reader's Digest • and more!“This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin • “As delicious as it is disorienting.” — Zakiya Dalila Harris • “Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt.” — People • “Mind-bending.” — New York Times... Read more

Fourth Wing

By: Rebecca Yarros

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & Teddy Hamilton

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Now with two bonus chapters read by Teddy Hamilton. Re-download the title now to listen to the extended version!

A #1 New York Times bestseller • Optioned for TV by Amazon Studios • Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes & Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR “Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books... Read more

The Song of Achilles

By: Madeline Miller

Narrated by: Frazer Douglas

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”
—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the... Read more

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea

By: Rebecca Thorne

Narrated by: Jessica Threet

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“The sapphic romance is brought to the forefront through Jessica Threet’s emotional depth and compelling lilt.”—Booklist

In the tradition of Legends & Lattes, comes a cozy fantasy steeped in sapphic romance about one of the Queen’s private guards and a powerful mage who want to open a bookshop and live happily ever after…if only the world... Read more

Nettle & Bone

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Amara Jasper

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure.

This isn't the kind of fairytale where the princess marries a prince.
It's the one where she kills him.

Marra never wanted to be a hero.

As the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter, she escaped the traditional fate of princesses,... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have heard before.
... Read more

Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Meryl Streep

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • READ BY MERYL STREEP“Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.”—The GuardianIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three... Read more

Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024

Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told... Read more

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Daniel Henning brings his signature versatility, emotional connection, and perfect comedic timing to the latest in the acclaimed Cerulean Chronicles series."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

"Daniel Henning’s articulate, earnest narration winningly underscores Somewhere Beyond the Sea’s central themes of self-confidence, kindness,... Read more

All Fours

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024

ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
THE NEW YORKER ● VOGUE ● FINANCIAL TIMES ● OPRAH DAILY ● VULTURE ● VOX

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy,... Read more

The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kristin Hannah

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2025 Audie Award winner for Best Fiction Narrator!

"Kristin Hannah’s potent storytelling skills are brilliantly served by narrator Julia Whelan, whose limber, low-pitched voice moves nimbly from person to person, capturing personality and mood, her empathy palpable." —The Washington Post

"A moving, skillfully narrated story about women’s... Read more

The Frozen River: A GMA Book Club Pick

By: Ariel Lawhon

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer & Ariel Lawhon

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GMA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN NPR BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American... Read more

Black Sun

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab & Shaun Ta...

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the “engrossing and vibrant” (Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Riot Baby) first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic.

A... Read more

Wild and Wrangled

By: Lyla Sage

Narrated by: Connor Crais, Savannah Peachwood, Stella Hunter...

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s the one that got away. He’s the one that never let her go.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Done and Dusted and Swift and Saddled, the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance in which past lovers get a second chance to rediscover what they lost

“The perfect farewell . . . I dare you to get... Read more

All About Love

By: bell hooks

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy.  All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring,... Read more

All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl).

Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today
The Boston Globe’s #1 Thriller/Mystery of 2024 So Far
A Best Book of the... Read more

The Favorites

By: Layne Fargo

Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Louisa Zhu, Amy Landon, Elena ...

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice

“Part Wuthering Heights and part Daisy Jones & The Six, this novel is as brilliantly choreographed as a gold... Read more

Babel

By: R. F. Kuang

Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Arina Ii

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*

*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

The first book in the five million-copy bestselling magical realism series

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop... Read more

I'm Glad My Mom Died

By: Jennette McCurdy

Narrated by: Jennette McCurdy

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD!

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook... Read more

Razorblade Tears

By: S. A. Cosby

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the ThrillerFest 2022 Audiobook of the Year Award!

“Lazarre-White's commanding performance is equally riveting. He creates an irresistible listening experience” –AudioFile Magazine

“Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly,
#1 New York Times bestselling author

A Black father. A... Read more

All Systems Red

By: Martha Wells

Narrated by: Kevin R. Free

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

All Systems Red is the first tense science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld and Ex Machina. All Systems Red by Martha Wells begins The Murderbot Diaries, a new science fiction action and adventure series that tackles questions of the ethics of sentient robotics. It appeals to fans of... Read more