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By Any Other Name

By: Erin Cotter

Narrated by: James Meunier

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“A high-stakes, high-drama mystery…led by a plucky, determined hero I would have followed anywhere…[A] romantic, delightful romp!” —Mackenzi Lee, New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this... Read more

The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't... Read more

Light From Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cindy Kay masterfully narrates this unique audiobook, which combines a variety of genres to tell a moving story of self-acceptance and finding safety even in the bleakest of times." - AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award review

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful... Read more

Knife

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Salman Rushdie

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Town & Country, New... Read more

The Bromance Book Club

By: Lyssa Kay Adams

Narrated by: Andrew Eiden & Maxwell Caulfield

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club.

Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He’s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it’s the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks... Read more

How to Know a Person

By: David Brooks

Narrated by: David Brooks

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain

“More than a guide to better conversations, it’s a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

By: Sabrina Imbler

Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live (Ed Yong, author of An Immense World). A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation... 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 Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace ...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Three women. One daring mission.

1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Sean Astin

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman... Read more

Mary Jane

By: Jessica Anya Blau

Narrated by: Caitlin Kinnunen

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

""The best book of the summer."" -- InStyle""I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm."" —Nick HornbyAlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this ""delightful"" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girl’s coming of age in... Read more

Fear the Flames

By: Olivia Rose Darling

Narrated by: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exiled princess teams up with the last man she thought she could trust in the start of a dazzling and unforgettable epic fantasy romance series.

As a child, Elowen Atarah was ripped away from her dragons and imprisoned by her father, King Garrick of Imirath. Years later, Elowen is now a woman determined to free her... Read more

In a Holidaze

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Patti Murin

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This instant New York Times bestseller from Christina Lauren will wrap you “in its cozy, jolly embrace like a beloved holiday sweater” (Entertainment Weekly) as Maelyn Jones discovers what happens when Christmas wishes comes true.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her... Read more

One of Us Knows

By: Alyssa Cole

Narrated by: Susan Dalian

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past. Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical... Read more

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features original sound design.

"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal

"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more

Guillotine

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Elisabeth Ashby

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.



Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their... Read more

Same Bed Different Dreams

By: Ed Park

Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac, Dominic Hoffman & Shannon Tyo

Length: 18 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, pop bands and the perils of social media

“Your view of twentieth-century history will be enlarged and altered. . . . A Gravity’s Rainbow for another war, an unfinished war.”... Read more

In Five Years

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Megan Hilty

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Good Morning America, FabFitFun, and Marie Claire Book Club Pick

“In Five Years is as clever as it is moving, the rare read-in-one-sitting novel you won’t forget.” —Chloe Benjamin, New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists

​Perfect for fans of Me Before You and One Day—a striking, powerful, and moving... Read more

The Authenticity Project

By: Clare Pooley

Narrated by: Anna Cordell

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller

A WASHINGTON POST “FEEL-GOOD BOOK guaranteed to lift your spirits”

“A warm, charming tale about the rewards of revealing oneself, warts and all.”
—People

The story of a solitary green notebook that brings together six strangers and leads to unexpected friendship, and even love

Clare Pooley's next book, Iona Iverson's... Read more

Ancillary Justice

By: Ann Leckie

Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh

Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. 

"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John Scalzi
On a remote, icy... Read more

The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla & Patti ...

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrators Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla, and Patti Murin provide outstanding performances, creating such believable characters that listeners might wonder if the story is based in fact."—Library Journal

This program features multicast narration.

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins returns with a twisted new gothic suspense... Read more

When Breath Becomes Air

By: Paul Kalanithi

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question, What makes a life worth living?

“Unmissable . . . Finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an... Read more

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

Narrated by: Michael Pollan

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review

From #1 New York Times bestselling author... Read more