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By: Iain Reid

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the “evocative, spine-tingling, and razor-sharp” (Bustle) I’m Thinking of Ending Things that inspired the Netflix original movie and the “short, shocking” (The Guardian) Foe returns with a new work of suspense following an elderly woman trapped in a mysterious facility.

Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades,... Read more

Yellow Bird

By: Sierra Crane Murdoch

Narrated by: Sierra Crane Murdoch

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.

“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than... Read more

The Love Match

By: Priyanka Taslim

Narrated by: Reena Dutt

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Jane Austen meets Bengali cinema” (Publishers Weekly) in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family’s financial security—just as she’s falling in love with someone else.

Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn’t pay the... Read more

Vinegar Girl

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.
 
Kate Battista feels stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she’s always in trouble at work... Read more

The Book of Night Women

By: Marlon James

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings

"An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of... Read more

Patsy

By: Nicole Dennis-Benn

Narrated by: Sharon Gordon

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible... Read more

Jasmine Is Haunted

By: Mark Oshiro

Narrated by: Vico Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Jasmine Garza has a problem: a ghost has been following her for years, ever since her Papi died. Not that Mami will admit anything supernatural is going on. But even the ghost she won’t acknowledge makes real trouble, so Jasmine and her mami are moving (again) to a new apartment in East Hollywood. This time Jasmine is committed to living a... Read more

Tripping Arcadia

By: Kit Mayquist

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From debut author Kit Mayquist, a propulsive and atmospheric modern gothic with all the splendor of The Great Gatsby . . . and all the secrets, lies, and darkness that opulence can hide

Med school dropout Lena is desperate for a job, any job, to help her parents, who are approaching bankruptcy after her father was injured and laid off nearly... Read more

Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ""a hell of a debut""

""Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book."" —Louise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is... Read more

Ill Will

By: Dan Chaon

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Edoardo Ballerini, Michael Crouch,...

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two sensational unsolved crimes—one in the past, another in the present—are linked by one man’s memory and self-deception in this chilling novel of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Dan Chaon.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Wall Street Journal • NPR • The New York Times • Los Angeles Times •... Read more

A Letter to Three Witches

By: Elizabeth Bass

Narrated by: Emily Durante & Nick Mondelli

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sleepy college town of Zenobia, New York, the only supernatural trace on display is the name of Gwen Engel’s business—Abracadabra Odd Job Service. But Gwen’s family has some unusual abilities they’ve been keeping under wraps—until one little letter spells big trouble... Nearly a century ago, Gwen Engel’s great-great-grandfather cast a... Read more

Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ms. Haigh is an expertly nuanced storyteller long overdue for major attention. Her work is gripping, real, and totally immersive, akin to that of writers as different as Richard Price, Richard Ford, and Richard Russo.”—Janet Maslin, New York TimesThe highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—“a... Read more

The Lost Year

By: Katherine Marsh

Narrated by: Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, Jesse Vilins...

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Anna Fikhman, Christopher Gebauer, and Jesse Vilinsky combine talents in this compelling historical fiction, which takes place during the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s."- AudioFile

Author's note read by the author.

From the author of Nowhere Boy—called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times—comes a brilliant... Read more

The Door-to-Door Bookstore

By: Carsten Henn

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.

Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people... Read more

Unlearning Silence

By: Elaine Lin Hering

Narrated by: Elaine Lin Hering

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Unlearning Silence is the book I wish I had when I started my career….This book is going to change the workplace for the better."—Pooja Lakshmin MD, psychiatrist & best-selling author of Real Self-Care

“A necessary read…Unlearning Silence offers an opportunity and tools to change things within and around us – for... Read more

Max and the Midknights

By: Lincoln Peirce

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio, Marc Thompson, Christopher ...

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-filled adventure from theNew York Times bestselling author of the Big Nate series!


"Max is epic fun!" --JEFF KINNEY, New York Times bestselling author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series

Max wants to be a knight! Too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's... Read more

Carry the Dog

By: Stephanie Gangi

Narrated by: Cheryl Smith

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powered by insight and true wit.” —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion

“I can’t remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman.” —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and... Read more

White Smoke

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: Marcella Cox

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The Haunting of Hill House meets Get Out in this chilling YA psychological thriller and modern take on the classic haunted house story from New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson!Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small California... Read more

Fallen

By: Linda Castillo

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

In New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo’s new thriller Fallen, a rebellious Amish woman leaves the Plain life, but the secrets she takes with her will lead Chief of Police Kate Burkholder down a dark path to danger and death.

When a young woman is found murdered in a Painters... Read more

The Man Who Caught the Storm

By: Brantley Hargrove

Narrated by: Jacques Roy

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post).

At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last... Read more

Beautiful Villain

By: Rebecca Kenney

Narrated by: Ruby Cherise

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven years ago, I lost him for good. Now he's back, but is he still the Jay Gatsby I used to know…or is he something more? Something… darker. Daisy Finnegan is looking forward to the endless golden freedom of summer. No more college, no more pressure, no more worries. But when her cousin goes missing at an exclusive house party, Daisy is all... Read more

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

By: Aaron Bastani

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism

In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance... Read more

All That She Carried

By: Tiya Miles

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
 
WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize,... Read more

The Girl He Used to Know

By: Tracey Garvis Graves

Narrated by: Fred Berman & Kathleen McInerney

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of On the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic audiobook of unconditional love.

Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the... Read more