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Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

Narrated by: Luke Thompson

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024

NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024

"The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The Financial Times

“Has a commercial-fiction spring in its step.… Vardiashvili also has captured the winking, world-weary humor and... Read more

If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of... Read more

The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two mysterious deaths.

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound... Read more

Isaac's Song

By: Daniel Black

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

*From the Viral Clark Atlanta University Commencement Speaker*
*From the Georgia Author of the Year Award Winner*

The beloved author of Don’t Cry for Me and Perfect Peace returns with a poignant, emotionally exuberant novel about a young queer Black man finding his voice in 1980s Chicago—a novel of family, forgiveness and perseverance, for fans... Read more

The One and Only Ruby

By: Katherine Applegate

Narrated by: Imani Parks

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!From beloved powerhouse author Katherine Applegate comes The One and Only Ruby, starring the adorable baby elephant from the Newbery Medal-winning modern classic The One and Only Ivan and its bestselling sequel, The One and Only Bob. Ruby’s story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only... Read more

Inheritance

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Nora Roberts

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an author's note read by Nora Roberts, sharing her inspiration for The Lost Bride Trilogy and the incredible personal history behind these stories.

Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for... Read more

The Hundred Dresses

By: Eleanor Estes

Narrated by: Bethany Lind

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn’t.... Read more

The How

By: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed poet behind bone, an exploration of how we can meet our truest selves, the ones we've always been meant to become

Yrsa Daley-Ward's words have resonated with hundreds of thousands of readers--through her books of poetry and memoir, bone and The Terrible; through her writing for Beyoncé on Black Is King; and through her always... Read more

Frances and Bernard

By: Carlene Bauer

Narrated by: Angela Brazil & Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers' colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
 
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of... Read more

Mustache Shenanigans

By: Jay Chandrasekhar

Narrated by: Jay Chandrasekhar

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Director, writer, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar tells the hilarious stories behind his films Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2 (out on 4/20/2018!), the history of his comedy group, Broken Lizard, and everything in between.

Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing, and acting in film and TV. With his comedy group, Broken... Read more

Sex, Lies and Sensibility

By: Nikki Payne

Narrated by: Kacie Rogers, Phil Ava & Nikki Payne

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“Nikki Payne skillfully spins the tale of a well-known Jane Austen classic and makes it entirely her own. Thoughtful, hilarious, and smolderingly steamy.”—Kristina Forest, author of The Partner Plot

Two sisters roll up their sleeves to run a dilapidated inn but must learn to work with the locals in this deliciously spicy novel inspired by Sense... Read more

Peter Pan

By: J. M. Barrie

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. As a baby, Peter Pan fell out of his carriage and was taken by fairies to Neverland. There, he can fly and is the champion of the Lost Boys and a friend to the fairy Tinker Bell. Revisiting England, Peter becomes involved with Wendy... Read more

Eternal

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Edoardo Ballerini & Lisa Sc...

Length: 19 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true events, the tale of a love triangle that unfolds in the heart of Rome...in the creeping shadow of fascism.

What war destroys, only love can heal.

Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of... Read more

The Night War

By: Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must decide whether to risk even that to bring others to freedom.

“We... Read more

The Salt Stones

By: Helen Whybrow

Narrated by: Cassidy Brown

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that "belonging more than anything requires participation" and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of... Read more

The Islands

By: Dionne Irving

Narrated by: Chanté McCormick

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Islands follows the lives of Jamaican women—immigrants or the descendants of immigrants—who have relocated all over the world to escape the ghosts of colonialism on what they call the Island. Set in the United States, Jamaica, and Europe, these international stories examine the lives of an uncertain and unsettled cast of characters. In one... Read more

The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: George K Wilson

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.

When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal... Read more

The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

Narrated by: Tanha Dil

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

*"A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups." —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR

In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social... Read more

How to Argue With a Racist

By: Adam Rutherford

Narrated by: Adam Rutherford

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.



Racist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science," because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too... Read more

1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

By: Ai Weiwei

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process
 
“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and... Read more

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Junot Díaz

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 15 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of:
The Pulitzer Prize
The National Book Critics Circle Award
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize
A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine,... Read more

In Other Lands

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Borderlands aren't like anywhere else. Don't try to smuggle a phone or any other piece of technology over the wall that marks the Border—unless you enjoy a fireworks display in your backpack. (Ballpoint pens are okay.) There are elves, harpies, and—best of all as far as Elliot is concerned—mermaids.



Elliot? Who's Elliot? Elliot is thirteen... Read more

Enchantments

By: Mya Spalter

Narrated by: Mya Spalter

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A wise, witchy, and welcoming guide to living life magically

Mya Spalter has spent years among candles, herbs, cats, and spells as an employee at New York City’s oldest occult shop, Enchantments. Since it would get crowded in there if all of you visited, this audiobook will be your guide to its secrets and stories; in the process, Mya will... Read more