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The Hunting Party

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect...For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . . . and murder and mayhem ensue.All of them are friends. One of them is a... Read more

A Curious Beginning

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angele Masters

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1887. As the city prepares to celebrate Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, Veronica Speedwell is marking a milestone of her own. After burying her spinster aunt, the orphaned Veronica is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry-and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as she is... Read more

Devil in Winter

By: Lisa Kleypas

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

""I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that.""Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London.A marriage of convenience is the only solution.No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount.... Read more

Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

Narrated by: Rasha Zamamiri & Ali Nasser

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Behind You Is the Sea fearlessly confronts stereotypes about Palestinian culture, weaving a remarkable portrait of life's intricate moments, from joyous weddings to heart-wrenching funerals, from shattered hearts to hidden truths—I wept and grew alongside this family. This is a story that challenges perceptions, offering a heartfelt glimpse... Read more

Sometimes I Lie

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Despite the challenges--an unreliable narrator, an intricate plot, a shifting timeline, and myriad characters--Stephanie Racine gives a flawless narration of this audiobook...This intense thriller is made even better by her performance." — AudioFile Magazine

From renowned journalist Alice Feeney comes a riveting new audiobook, Sometimes I... Read more

Red Team Blues

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's Red Team Blues is a grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world really works.

Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable... Read more

The Roommate Risk

By: Talia Hibbert

Narrated by: Rooke Kingston & Keval Shah

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Romance is weakness, and Jasmine Allen doesn’t have time for either. Lifelong cynic Jas is the queen of one-night things—until a plumbing disaster screws everything up and leaves her temporarily homeless. Luckily, she has someone to turn to: her best friend Rahul. For seven years, Rahul Khan has followed three simple rules. -Don’t touch Jasmine... Read more

Razorblade Tears

By: S. A. Cosby

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the ThrillerFest 2022 Audiobook of the Year Award!

“Lazarre-White's commanding performance is equally riveting. He creates an irresistible listening experience” –AudioFile Magazine

“Superb...Cuts right to the heart of the most important questions of our times.” —Michael Connelly,
#1 New York Times bestselling author

A Black father. A... Read more

Too Soon

By: Betty Shamieh

Narrated by: Betty Shamieh, Jacqueline Antaramian & Lameece ...

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women.

“Wonderfully brash and sparkling...This book fills in gaps in our understanding.” —Oprah Daily

Arabella gets an unexpected chance at love when she’s thrust into a... Read more

Spinning Silver

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of the year’s strongest fantasy novels” (NPR), an imaginative retelling of the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale from the bestselling author of Uprooted.

NEBULA AND HUGO AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Public Library

With the... Read more

The Game Changer

By: Lana Ferguson

Narrated by: Zachary Webber & Samantha Summers

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant USA Today bestseller

A hockey player and a baker shoot their shot in this steamy new romance by Lana Ferguson, USA Today bestselling author of The Nanny.

When a very public breakup becomes a PR nightmare for Ian Chase's team, he hopes to focus on his game, but that suddenly seem less likely than a hat trick. With his career and the... Read more

The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK

A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018

“A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post

“CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY... Read more

SPQR

By: Mary Beard

Narrated by: Phyllida Nash

Length: 18 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists. Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power... Read more

The Sanatorium

By: Sarah Pearse

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | An instant New York Times bestseller!

A page-turning thriller from the author of The Retreat.

“An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.” —Reese Witherspoon

“This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all… and twists you’ll never see coming.” —Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling... 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

Thicker than Water

By: Kerry Washington

Narrated by: Kerry Washington

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the bravely intimate story of discovering her truth.

While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of... Read more

Uprooted

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Julia Emelin

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEBULA AWARD WINNER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!”—Rick Riordan
 
“Breathtaking . . . a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm fairy tale yet fresh, original, and totally irresistible.”—Publishers Weekly... Read more

Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more

After Oz

By: Gordon McAlpine

Narrated by: Maria Ru-Djen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head-on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century. Kansas, 1896. After a tornado destroys the Gale family farm, eleven-year-old Dorothy goes missing. As the days pass, the Gales are... 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

The Most Fun We Ever Had

By: Claire Lombardo

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • “A gripping and poignant ode to a messy, loving family in all its glory.” —Madeline Miller, bestselling author of Circe

In this “rich, complex family saga” (USA Today) full of long-buried family secrets, Marilyn Connolly and David Sorenson fall in love in the 1970s, blithely ignorant of... Read more

Even Though I Knew the End

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.An exiled auspex who... Read more

You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s... Read more

The Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family.Beatrice Clayborn is a... Read more