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The Bookshop of Second Chances

By: Jackie Fraser

Narrated by: Ell Potter

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman desperate to turn a new page heads to the Scottish coast and finds herself locked in a battle of wills with an infuriatingly aloof bookseller in this utterly heartwarming debut, perfect for readers of Evvie Drake Starts Over.

“Humor and charm abound. . . . [This] love story hits the spot.”—Publishers Weekly

Thea Mottram is having a bad... Read more

How to Examine a Wolverine

By: Philipp Schott, DVM

Narrated by: Geet Arora

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Crammed with useful info, funny recollections, heartfelt anecdotes, and lots of cute furry creatures, a collection for all animal lovers! This collection of over 60 stories and essays, drawn from Dr. Schott’s 30 years in small animal practice, covers an astonishing breadth of experiences, emotions, and species. Schott has tales of... Read more

Lost and Wanted

By: Nell Freudenberger

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Best Seller
Named a Best Book of 2019 by Vogue and NPR's Maureen Corrigan

"Freudenberger's brilliant and compassionate novel takes on the big questions of the universe and proves, again, that she is one of America's greatest writers." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

An emotionally engaging, suspenseful new... Read more

A Room Called Earth

By: Madeleine Ryan

Narrated by: Madeleine Ryan

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“A resolute deep dive into an inner self, a transcendent character study, and a timely reminder that there’s an entire universe inside of everyone we meet. You will be moved.” —Matthew Quick, New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook

“[N]uanced and uplifting.” —Buzzfeed

An unforgettable story of a fiercely original young... Read more

My Journey with Maya

By: Tavis Smiley

Narrated by: Tavis Smiley

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courage.

When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often, of art, politics, history, race, religion, music,... Read more

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna

By: Alda P. Dobbs

Narrated by: Ana Osorio

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting tale of one girl’s dangerous journey to cross the U.S. border, based on a true story.It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna’s mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and... Read more

A Little Blood and Dancing

By: Tyler Parker

Narrated by: Jenny Pudavick

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

It’s a tale as old as time: doomed romance, bloody revenge, fast food, and the voice of God. Welcome to Tyler Parker’s Oklahoma, and one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year from one of our best, funniest new writers.

Check out Sylvia Table: he drives a seafoam-green 1968 Ranchero, owns a badass sword, and is one dead uncle away from... Read more

The Guide

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The best-selling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado, where he uncovers a plot of shocking menace amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests.

“Peter Heller is the poet laureate of the literary thriller." —Michael Koryta,... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more

Sycamore

By: Bryn Chancellor

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Steven Jay Cohen, Sara Mors...

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this masterful performance, Bryn Chancellor explores the loss around which an entire community has calcified with humanity and wisdom. Chancellor digs deep in these pages, unearthing broken hearts, secrets, betrayals, passion and—most impressively—grace. What a joy to find a book that is both propulsive and perfectly composed.”—Cynthia... Read more

Familiar Violence

By: Heather Montgomery

Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history, looking at what constituted cruelty towards children in the past and at the... Read more

The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE



AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR



From one the most virtuosic authors in the English language: a powerful novel, written with urgency and moral force, that explores life—and love—among the Nazi bureaucrats of Auschwitz.



"A masterpiece . . . Profound, powerful, and morally urgent . . . A benchmark for what serious literature... Read more

Wild Massive

By: Scotto Moore

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson & Liv Anderson

Length: 16 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and humor in a breakneck nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an entire... Read more

One Woman's War

By: Christine Wells

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy when a volatile socialite and Austrian... Read more

Abolitionist Intimacies

By: El Jones

Narrated by: Aiza Ntibarikure

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In Abolitionist Intimacies, El Jones examines the movement to abolish prisons through the Black feminist principles of care and collectivity. Understanding the history of prisons in Canada in their relationship to settler colonialism and anti-Black racism, Jones observes how practices of intimacy become imbued with state violence at carceral... Read more

The Wreckage of My Presence

By: Casey Wilson

Narrated by: Casey Wilson

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

""Magnificent."" —People MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming... Read more

Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all—from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses
 
“Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan... 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

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

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

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

When Life Gives You Vampires

By: Gloria Duke

Narrated by: Meg Sylvan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five-year-old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily is determined to get to the bottom of it or die (again) trying. Tristan hadn't meant to turn Lily—it's against vampire... Read more

Trust Exercise

By: Susan Choi

Narrated by: Adina Verson, Jennifer Lim & Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare and splendid” (The Boston Globe) • “Remarkable” (USA Today) • “Delicious” (The New York... Read more