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Hope by Terry Fox

By: Barbara Adhiya

Narrated by: Sarah Wilson & Evan Mackenzie

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring excerpts from Terry’s very own Marathon of Hope journal, Hope by Terry Fox shares the untold story of a well known hero — the goofy, resilient, and courageous 21-year-old who rallied a nation behind his mission. In 1976, when Terry Fox was just eighteen years old, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and his right leg was amputated... Read more

The Guilt Trip

By: Sandie Jones

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel The Guilt Trip will have listeners gripped to the very last sentence.

They went away as friends.
They came back as suspects.

Rachel and Jack. Paige and Noah. And Will. Five friends who’ve known one another for years. Then along... Read more

Bad Fruit

By: Ella King

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Just graduated from high school and waiting to start college at Oxford, Lily lives under the scrutiny of her volatile Singaporean mother, May, and is unable to find kinship with her elusive British father, Charlie. When May suspects that Charlie is having an affair, there's only one thing that calms May down: a glass of perfectly spoiled orange... Read more

The Devil of the Provinces

By: Juan Cardenas

Narrated by: Asa Siegel

Length: 3 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.



When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled... Read more

We Keep the Dead Close

By: Becky Cooper

Narrated by: Becky Cooper

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour

Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more

The Last Dangerous Visions

By: Harlan Ellison

Narrated by: J. Michael Straczynski, Jim Meskimen, Mark San...

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An anthology more than half a century in the making, The Last Dangerous Visions is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series.In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with... Read more

Strangers to Ourselves

By: Rachel Aviv

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Book Review Ten Best Books of 2022
A Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of 2022

The acclaimed, award-winning New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv offers a groundbreaking exploration of mental illness and the mind, and illuminates the startling connections between diagnosis and identity.

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and... Read more

Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus."- AudioFile

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other... Read more

Eight Very Bad Nights

By: Tod Goldberg

Narrated by: Johnny Heller, Emily Lawrence, Robb Moreira & J...

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

THIS WRY COLLECTION OF HANUKKAH NOIR FEATURES ELEVEN STORIES BY CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AUTHORS THAT RUN THE GAMUT FROM HARDBOILED TO HEARTFELT, CURATED BY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR TOD GOLDBERG.

Across eleven stories, award-winning authors spin tales of family, corruption, buried treasure and delightful yet twisted capers that will... Read more

Putney

By: Sofka Zinovieff

Narrated by: Michelle Ford

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by... Read more

Diamond Doris

By: Doris Payne

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab... Read more

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

By: Shaun Bythell

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 2 hours

Abridged: No

A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers by the curmudgeonly shop owner and author of Confessions of a Bookseller. Shaun Bythell knows them all—from the “Person Who Doesn’t Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover)” to the “Parents Secretly after Free Childcare.” The business of books has never been funnier.In a... Read more

Find Your People

By: Jennie Allen

Narrated by: Jennie Allen

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE ECPA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • The author of Get Out of Your Head offers practical solutions for creating true community, the kind that’s crucial to our mental and spiritual health.

“My dear friend Jennie Allen shows us how to make true emotional connections with the right people so that our authentic... Read more

Uses for Obsession

By: Ben Shewry

Narrated by: Ben Shewry

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

An intimate, searing and hopeful memoir meets manifesto that reframes the way we think about restaurants, cooking, hospitality, leadership and humanity from one of the most respected chefs in the world.

Chef and restaurateur Ben Shewry knows obsession well. Whether it's crispy-edged lasagne, saltwater crocodile ribs or the perfect potato,... Read more

The Shadow Land

By: Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Fred Berman, Barbara Caruso & G...

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country.

A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon... Read more

The Distance Between Us

By: Kasie West

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain-doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence—he's tall, handsome, and oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and the fact that he seems to be one of... Read more

The Morning Star

By: Karl Ove Knausgaard

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, A...

Length: 23 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.

One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her... Read more

The Road to Unfreedom

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Timothy Snyder

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read more

Not Here to Make Friends

By: Jodi McAlister

Narrated by: Matty Morris & Aileen Huynh

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

She’s the reality TV villain everyone will love to hate. He’s the producer tasked with making it happen. What could go wrong? A hilarious, heartfelt rom-com for fans of The Unhoneymooners.

‘A full-on villain romance, with all the lying, scheming and blazingly tumultuous sex you could hope for.’ New York Times

Reality TV producer Murray O’Connell... Read more

The Only Harmless Great Thing

By: Brooke Bolander

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette



Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards



The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.



In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of... Read more

Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

Narrated by: Tamala Shelton

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'Dirrayawadha is full of heart and hope, truth-telling and history – and shimmers with language too' Guardian

'A story from the past given vivid life for new understanding’​ Kate Grenville
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Bathurst, 1820s

Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a... Read more

Big Chief

By: Jon Hickey

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub
Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Spring 2025

There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past.

Mitch Caddo, a young law... Read more

Unloved

By: Peyton Corinne

Narrated by: Caitlin Elizabeth & Bradley Ford

Length: 14 hours

Abridged: No

The USA TODAY bestselling follow-up to Peyton Corinne’s “unputdownable and unforgettable” (Bal Khabra, author of Collide) TikTok sensation Unsteady follows hopeless romantic Ro and player—on and off the ice—Freddy as they forge an unexpected bond that slowly turns into a life lesson in self-worth and the healing quality of love.

Matt “Freddy”... Read more

Key of Light

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Fate brings three women together for a chance to unlock their deepest desires.What happens when the very gods depend on mortals for help? That's what three very different young women find out when they are invited to Warrior's Peak.The Malory Price Life Plan does not include a quixotic quest—but the strangers on Warrior's Peak claim that she... Read more