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A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable.” —The New York Times Book Review * “An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold.” —People

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe... Read more

The Echo Wife

By: Sarah Gailey

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had... Read more

Sea Witch

By: Sarah Henning

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wicked meets ""The Little Mermaid"" in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die.Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt.Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance... Read more

The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle

By: Matt Cain

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a wonderfully life-affirming and surprising story of human connection and second chances, a shy sixty-something postman opens his heart to love again, transforming the lives of those around him.Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a... Read more

Under the Same Stars

By: Libba Bray

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Jeremy Carlisle Parker & Major C...

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

"This is an audiobook one wishes would never end." —AudioFile on The King of Crows (an Earphones Award winner)

From New York Times-bestselling author Libba Bray comes an evocative and groundbreaking young adult historical mystery that examines truth, rebellion, reconciliation, and what must be sacrificed... Read more

Love Letters to a Serial Killer

By: Tasha Coryell

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.

Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah... Read more

The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review

For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more

Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty’s debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture and inheritance, and what, if anything, we owe one another.From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on... Read more

Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

Narrated by: Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & ...

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply... Read more

Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light

By: Helen Ellis

Narrated by: Helen Ellis

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.

"Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR

When Helen Ellis and her lifelong... Read more

Frankly in Love

By: David Yoon

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist • An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book

“Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high school, one foot out the door. . . Yoon explores themes of... Read more

The Starless Crown

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: James Rollins & Nicola Barber

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"The story touches on many familiar fantasy plot points — magic, an ancient language, an ability to commune with wild creatures, a climactic battle between the forces of good and evil — yet manages to be satisfying. It’s aided by a capable reading from Barber, who invests Rollins’ characters with a variety of British accents that help make each... Read more

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES  NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more

Looking for Smoke

By: K. A. Cobell

Narrated by: Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-C...

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKIn her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a thriller that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word. A must-pick for readers who enjoy books by Angeline Boulley and Karen McManus!When local girl Loren includes... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

Not Quite a Ghost

By: Anne Ursu

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by the Chicago Public Library, New York Public Library, and NPR!From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us—and the ones we carry inside.The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street,... Read more

Behind the Seams

By: Dolly Parton

Narrated by: Dolly Parton, Holly George-Warren & Rebecca Seaver

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE • A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories, interviews with friends and family, music, and archival interview and performance clips.

In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time,... Read more

Listening Still

By: Anne Griffin

Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls)

From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead—a talent which is both a gift and a curse.

Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and... Read more

Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)

By: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy

Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy...

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible, tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one... Read more

With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - Narration by Author
2020 Audie Awards® Finalist - Young Adult From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright.
Don't miss the audiobook, read by... Read more

Rabbits

By: Terry Miles

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and... Read more

Sleep Tight

By: J. H. Markert

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The sole survivor of a serial killer might hold the key to stopping a new spree of murders in this propulsive horror thriller in the vein of The Black Phone and The Whisper Man. Dark and twisting at every turn, fans of Catriona Ward will love this chilling new tale from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the clear heir... Read more

The Silver Arrow

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann Patchett
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Roald Dahl.

Dear Uncle Herbert,
You've never met me, but I'm your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday... Read more