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By: Joseph Earl Thomas

Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.

Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more

Untethered Sky

By: Fonda Lee

Narrated by: Nikki Massoud

Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From World Fantasy Award–winning author Fonda Lee comes an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs.

Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, overwhelming need to kill the monsters that took her family.

Ester’s... Read more

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By: Naomi Wood

Narrated by: Lynsey Beauchamp

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of American Housewife and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity.CONTAINS “COMORBIDITIES,” WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZEIn my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had... Read more

Iron Hearted Violet

By: Kelly Barnhill

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales...

Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own good. Particularly when it comes to telling... Read more

No Time Like the Future

By: Michael J. Fox

Narrated by: Michael J. Fox

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Michael J. Fox.

A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox.

The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin... Read more

It Devours!

By: Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

Narrated by: Cecil Baldwin

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the... Read more

How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

Narrated by: James O'Brien

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

‘Made me so angry I had to stop listening to it while driving. Superb’ THE SECRET BARRISTER

Something has gone really wrong in Britain.

Our economy has tanked, our freedoms are shrinking, and social divisions are growing. Our politicians seem most interested in their own careers, and much of the media only make things... Read more

Treasure State

By: C.J. Box

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Christina Delaine's spot-on performance ensures that Box's story and dialogue are as entertaining as ever." —AudioFile on C.J. Box's The Bitterroots

#1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box's Treasure State finds Cassie Dewell in Montana on the trail of a con man.

Private Investigator Cassie Dewell’s business is thriving, and her latest case... Read more

Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!

"You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King

"Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . . The ideas are big and the journey is a whole lot of fun." —The New York Times

"[An] excellent page-turner. . . a... Read more

The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

"Talented Barrie Kreinik narrates this complicated contemporary story about the hardships of the Connelly family." - AudioFile

From Tracey Lange, the New York Times bestselling author of We Are the Brennans, comes The Connellys of County Down: a story about fierce family loyalty, good intentions gone awry, and the consequences of improbable love.... Read more

As Bright as Heaven

By: Susan Meissner

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, Jorjeana Marie, Cassandra Morris...

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the War comes a novel set during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, telling the story of a family reborn through loss and love.

In 1918, Philadelphia was a city teeming with promise. Even as its young men went off to fight in the Great War, there were opportunities for a fresh start on its cobblestone... Read more

The Souls of Yellow Folk

By: Wesley Yang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most acclaimed essayists of his generation, Wesley Yang writes about race and sex without the jargon, formulas, and polite lies that bore us all. His powerful debut, The Souls of Yellow Folk, does more than collect a decade's worth of cult-reputation essays—it corrals new American herds of pickup artists, school shooters, mandarin... Read more

Bluebird, Bluebird

By: Attica Locke

Narrated by: J. D. Jackson

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A "heartbreakingly resonant" thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire (USA Today).

"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it."-Ann Patchett

When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules -- a... Read more

Acts of Violet

By: Margarita Montimore

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, Amy McFadden, Brittany ...

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"A multicast presentation of a novel with this many disparate narrative elements could easily become chaotic, so it is testament to the narrators’ talents and Montimore’s brilliant plot structure, compelling characters, and sharp, often hilarious prose that listeners are instead treated to an absolutely delightful audiobook, essential for all... Read more

The Two Doctors Górski

By: Isaac R. Fellman

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman



"Confident and lyrical."—Caitlin Starling



A Most Anticipated Pick for Buzzfeed



Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can't... Read more

The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Hopefuls tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to Washington, D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among the young aspiring elite. 

When Beth arrives in D.C., she... Read more

All the Lost Things

By: Michelle Sacks

Narrated by: Cassandra Morris

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

From "a master of slow-burn suspense" (Shelf Awareness), a simmering family drama about a father and daughter who embark on a road trip through the American South -- but what they're leaving behind is as important as what lies ahead.
When we first meet seven-year-old Dolly, she immediately grabs us with a voice that is both precocious and... Read more

Mrs. Fletcher

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Finn Wittrock & Carrie Coon

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!

“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college freshman son.

A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve Fletcher is struggling to... Read more

Joy at Work

By: Marie Kondo & Scott Sonenshein

Narrated by: Brittany Ishibashi & Dan Woren

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Declutter your desk and brighten up your business with this transformative guide from an organizational psychologist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
The workplace is a magnet for clutter and mess. Who hasn't felt drained by wasteful meetings, disorganized papers, endless emails, and... Read more

The Agathas

By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Narrated by: Mehr Dudeja, Sophie Amoss & Holly Linneman

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks they know what happened. But they're wrong. Two unlikely friends come together to solve the case in this fast-paced, fun, modern Agatha Christie inspired thriller.

"Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and... Read more

The Queens of New York

By: E. L. Shen

Narrated by: Katharine Chin, Vyvy Nguyen & Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author E. L. Shen comes a sun-drenched, cinematic YA novel about three Asian American girls, their unbreakable bond, and one life-changing summer, perfect for fans of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.Best friends Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang are inseparable. But this summer, they won’t be together.Everett, aspiring... Read more

The Intimate City

By: Michael Kimmelman

Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best

As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more

The Storyteller's Secret

By: Sejal Badani

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream.Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her... Read more

Bevelations

By: Bevy Smith

Narrated by: Bevy Smith

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the host of the fabulous and popular show Bevelations on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel, Bevy Smith’s irreverent and inspiring memoir about learning to live a big, authentic, and unapologetic life—and how you can, too.

Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising... Read more