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When We Were Vikings
By: Andrew David MacDonald
Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Indie Next Pick for February 2020
Book of the Month January 2020
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Bookreporter New Release Spotlight
New York Post “Best Books of the Week”
Goodreads “January’s Most Anticipated New Books”
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Book Riot Best Winter New Releases
“Zelda... Read more
My Salty Mary
By: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton & Jodi Meadows
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A Kirkus Best Young Adult Book of 2024My Lady Jane fixed Jane Grey’s tragic past—and now My Salty Mary will do the same for the infamous pirate Mary Read!Perfect for fans of The Princess Bride and A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, New York Times bestselling authors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows are back with a fantastical,... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Black Girl
By: Zakiya Dalila Harris
Narrated by: Aja Naomi King, Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Heather A...
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Hulu Original Series
“Riveting, fearless, and vividly original” (Emily St. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author), this instant New York Times bestseller explores the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of New York City book publishing.
Twenty-six-year-old editorial assistant... Read more
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
By: Chelsea Devantez
Narrated by: Chelsea Devantez
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
"It’s f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring.” –Jon Stewart
*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BUSTLE, GOODREADS, GOODREADS, SHEREADS, BOOKRIOT, AND MORE*
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious career path into Hollywood, featuring a... Read more
Loveboat, Taipei
By: Abigail Hing Wen
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
-An instant New York Times Bestseller and Indie Bestseller!-Optioned for film by the producers of Jenny Han's Netflix series, TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE -#1 Cosmopolitan Audiobook of the Year-Featured in Entertainment Weekly, Seventeen, Boston Globe, South China Morning Post, World Journal, UK Evening Standard, Book Riot, Bustle, Nerd... Read more
View audiobookTiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition)
By: Cheryl Strayed
Narrated by: Cheryl Strayed
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.
For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the... Read more
Truly, Madly, Deeply
By: L.J. Shen
Narrated by: Lila Winters & Teddy Hamilton
Length: 15 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
This old flame just might set them on fire. Conceited, unattainable, and downright delicious, renowned Michelin-starred chef Ambrose Casablancas has one passion in life: food. Women are a distraction, and he doesn’t do those. Especially Cal Litvin, his baby sister’s best friend. Her entire existence is a complication; she’s awkward, eccentric,... Read more
View audiobookThe Most
By: Jessica Anthony
Narrated by: Abigail Reno
Length: 3 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family’s apartment complex one morning and won’t come out.
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion... Read more
The Last Love Note
By: Emma Grey
Narrated by: Leeanna Walsman
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A December Indie Next PickA Book of the Month SelectionA Washington Post Noteworthy Book
You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again.
Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she’s grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the... Read more
Carnegie's Maid
By: Marie Benedict
Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
From the author of The Other Einstein, the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets.... Read more
The Diamond Eye
By: Kate Quinn
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 12 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet librarian who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.In the snowbound city of Kiev, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s... Read more
View audiobookThe Reading List
By: Sara Nisha Adams
Narrated by: Tara Divina, Sagar Arya & Paul Panting
Length: 12 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
NOW A LILLY'S LIBRARY PICK!""The most heartfelt read...a surprising delight of a novel.""--ShondalandAn unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West... Read more
View audiobookThe Book of Lost Names
By: Kristin Harmel
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
“A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis... Read more
Let's Talk About Hard Things
By: Anna Sale
Narrated by: Anna Sale
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
From the host of the popular WNYC podcast Death, Sex, & Money, Let’s Talk About Hard Things is “like a good conversation with a friend” (The New Yorker) where “no topic is off-limits when it comes to creating meaningful connection” (Lori Gottlieb, author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone).
Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You... Read more
One Perfect Couple
By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None, this high-tension thriller follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them—from Ruth Ware, the New York Times bestselling author who “is turning out to be as ingenious and indefatigable as the Queen of Crime” (The Washington Post).
Lyla is in a bit... Read more
Annie Bot
By: Sierra Greer
Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American, Harper's Bazaar and NPR. Named a Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Elle. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.""Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our... Read more
View audiobookRevelation Space
By: Alastair Reynolds
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 22 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with... Read more
View audiobookLight in Gaza
By: Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Mike Merryman-L...
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Hanne Rickert
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This distinctive anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and struggle for liberation. Light in Gaza is a seminal, moving, and wide-ranging anthology of... Read more
View audiobookThe Line Becomes a River
By: Francisco Cantú
Narrated by: Francisco Cantú
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NONFICTION AWARD
The instant New York Times bestseller, "A must-read for anyone who thinks 'build a wall' is the answer to anything." --Esquire
For Francisco Cantú, the border is in... Read more
The Au Pair Affair
By: Tessa Bailey
Narrated by: Callie Dalton
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with an all-new sports rom-com about a burly, surly, single dad who falls head-over-hockey-stick for his quirky live-in nanny...Tallulah is smart, vivacious, and studying to be a marine biologist. She’s also twenty-six and broke. So when Burgess, a battle-scarred hockey veteran and newly... Read more
View audiobookSlouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
Narrated by: Maya Hawke
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by actor and singer-songwriter Maya Hawke, star of Netflix's Stranger Things.
"Narrating in a voice as clear and sustaining as a cool glass of water, Hawke’s unflashy approach allows the words to reveal their magic."—The Orange County Register
“Maya Hawke performs this classic collection superbly...Hawke gets Didion's measured... Read more
The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
Narrated by: Claire Kinson
Length: 5 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who... Read more
View audiobookThe Shadows
By: Alex North
Narrated by: Hannah Arterton & John Heffernan
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"If you liked The Whisper Man, you’ll love this. Alex North has crafted a second novel which is just as gripping as his first and even scarier. Hugely atmospheric and deliciously creepy, it’s about how the past encroaches on the present, and how dreaming influences reality, until in the frightening world of The Shadows, it becomes harder and... Read more
View audiobookLightfall
By: Ed Crocker
Narrated by: Shakira Shute
Length: 16 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A novel of vampires, werewolves and sorcerers, Lightfall is the stunning debut epic fantasy by Ed Crocker, for fans of Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Vampire and Richard Swan’s The Justice of Kings
For centuries, vampires freely roamed the land until the Grays came out of nowhere, wiping out half the population in a night. The survivors fled to the... Read more