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American Pop

By: Snowden Wright

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

""The House of Forster is built on bubbles; watching each wealth-addled generation try not to blow the family fortune and/or disgrace its name provides not only excellent Southern Gothic fun but a panoramic tour of the American Century.""— Jonathan Dee, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The PrivilegesThe story of a family.
The story of an... Read more

The Good Son

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Rich and complex, The Good Son is a compelling novel about the aftermath of a crime in a small, close-knit community.”—Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes the gripping, emotionally charged novel of a mother who must help her son after he is convicted of a... Read more

The Maker of Swans

By: Paraic O'Donnell

Narrated by: Mike Grady & Imogen Wilde

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman—his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe—and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or... Read more

Undercover Latina

By: Aya de León

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal & Aya de León

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A Latina teen spy goes undercover as a white girl to stop a white supremacist terrorist plot in a fast-paced middle-grade debut from a seasoned author of contemporary crime fiction.

In her debut for younger readers, Aya de León pits a teen spy against the ominous workings of a white nationalist. Fourteen-year-old Andréa Hernández-Baldoquín hails... Read more

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

By: Bob Odenkirk

Narrated by: Bob Odenkirk, Steve Rudnick & Leo Benvenuti

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In this“essential” (Entertainment Weekly), “hilarious” (AV Club)memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it’s like to reinvent himself as an action film ass-kicker at fifty.

“I’ve known Bob Odenkirk for more than thirty years, and... Read more

Rosewater

By: Tade Thompson

Narrated by: Bayo Gbadamosi

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.

*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents... Read more

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Steve West & Sura Siu

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

""A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly."" — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House“Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every... Read more

Blackout

By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks,...

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

2022 Audie Award Winner!Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark. This full-cast audio edition is performed by Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Dion Graham, Imani Parks,... Read more

His Hideous Heart

By: Dahlia Adler

Narrated by: amanda lovelace, Caitlin Davies, Caleb Roehrig,...

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"His Hideous Heart is an audiobook dream. Half of the stories are read by their authors and the other half are read by professional narrators; all are delightful and, of course, haunting." -- Paste

Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.

Edgar Allan Poe... Read more

The Spanish Love Deception

By: Elena Armas

Narrated by: Scarlette Hayes

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A TikTok sensation, this rom-com about a young woman who agrees to fake date a colleague and bring him to her sister’s wedding has “everything you could want in a romance” (Helen Hoang, New York Times bestselling author).

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little... Read more

We Are the Brennans

By: Tracey Lange

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.

When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles... Read more

Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December

The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

By: Sylvie Cathrall

Narrated by: Claire Morgan, Kit Griffiths, Justin Avoth & Jo...

Length: 12 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A charming fantasy set in an underwater world with magical academia and a heartwarming penpal romance, perfect for fans of A Marvellous Light, Emily Wilde's Encylopaedia of Faeries and The House in the Cerulean Sea.
 
“An underwater treasure-chest to be slowly unpacked, full of things I adore: nosy and loving families, epistolary romance,... Read more

We Have Always Been Who We Are

By: Sofia T. Romero

Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos, Inés del Castillo & Frankie Corzo

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From Pushcart Prize–nominated author Sofia T. Romero comes a breathtaking debut collection of interrelated stories suffused with magical realism.In stories that evoke the haunting beauty of New England beaches and resonate with a bittersweet loneliness, Romero blurs the lines between life and death, reality and fantasy. A deceased woman counsels... Read more

Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive USA Today bestselling novel from the author of Cackle and The Return.

Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant,... Read more

Light 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

We Need No Wings

By: Ann Dávila Cardinal

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

TO BE FREE, WE MUST LEARN TO FLY.

Tere Sánchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Tere hopes that she can mourn her husband and get back on her feet, but instead, she spends a year consumed by... Read more

The Brides of High Hill

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.



"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune



"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen



The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful... Read more

Tidelands

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestseller from “one of the great storytellers of our time” (San Francisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, living in a dangerous time for a woman to be different.

A country at war
A king beheaded
A woman with a dangerous secret

On Midsummer’s Eve, Alinor... Read more

Exposure

By: Ramona Emerson

Narrated by: Charley Flyte

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. He slips unnoticed through town, hidden in plain sight by his unassuming nature, while the voices in his... Read more

The Current

By: Tim Johnston

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene—half frozen but alive.



What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community's memories of another young woman who lost... Read more

Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

Narrated by: Chris Reilly

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize–winning author of Shuggie Bain Douglas Stuart’s first novel Shuggie Bain, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. Published or forthcoming in forty territories, it has... Read more

Refugee

By: Alan Gratz

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely -- and timeless -- novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge.A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the... Read more

Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

Narrated by: Agnes Borinsky

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel.



Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough.... Read more