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Milk Blood Heat

By: Dantiel W. Moniz

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A livewire debut from Dantiel W. Moniz, one of the most exciting discoveries in today's literary landscape, Milk Blood Heat depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all. Set among the cities and suburbs of Florida, each... Read more

The Rules of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick from beloved author Alice Hoffman—the spellbinding prequel to Practical Magic.

Find your magic.

For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.

Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the... Read more

All of Us Villains

By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...

You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games.
Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil.

After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide... Read more

The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“A standout voice in women’s fiction. I was captivated from the very first line.” — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Summer of SongbirdsPerhaps the secrets of her mother’s past in this tiny French town hold the key to her own future. . .Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her... Read more

The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that paints a vivid portrait of life in the Great DepressionHurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he’s landed a New Deal... Read more

Stay Up with Hugo Best

By: Erin Somers

Narrated by: Sarah Steele

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

**One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year ** “Incisive, funny, and tinged with melancholy, the timely novel follows two lost but clever souls desperate for connection.” —Entertainment Weekly

June Bloom is twenty-nine, broke, and an aspiring comedy writer. Hugo Best is a beloved late-night TV icon and notorious womanizer who invites her to his... Read more

The Prophets

By: Robert Jones, Jr.

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Book of the Year
NPR • The Washington Post • Boston Globe • TIME • USA Today • Entertainment Weekly • Real Simple • Parade • Buzzfeed • Electric Literature • LitHub • BookRiot • PopSugar • Goop • Library Journal • BookBub • KCRW

• Finalist for the National Book Award
• One of the New York Times Notable Books of the Year
• One of the New York... Read more

A Fortune For Your Disaster

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders them a different version of themselves than the one they knew. It's a book about a mother's death, and admitting that... Read more

Varina

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Molly Parker

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He... Read more

The Grace Year

By: Kim Liggett

Narrated by: Emily Shaffer

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emily Shaffer delivers a dynamic performance of this dystopian audiobook... She masterfully connects listeners to the characters' emotions, creating passionate and realistic performances." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

A speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power.... Read more

My Beloved Monster

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: James Lurie

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling author of The Alienist tells the extraordinary story of Masha, a half-wild rescue cat who fought off a bear, tackled Caleb like a linebacker—and bonded with him as tightly as any cat and human possibly can. Caleb Carr has had special relationships with cats since he was a young boy in a turbulent household, famously peopled by... 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

The Whalebone Theatre: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Joanna Quinn

Narrated by: Olivia Vinall

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II—a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.

“Absolute aces...Quinn’s imagination... Read more

The Ravenmaster

By: Christopher Skaife

Narrated by: Christopher Skaife

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Christopher Skaife's] natural storyteller's charm results in a performance that is conversational, funny, and self-deprecating...Ravenmaster is a joyful listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument.

The ravens... Read more

At the Edge of the Woods

By: Kathryn Bromwich

Narrated by: Gemma Dawson

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathryn Bromwich's masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.



Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the forest, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals.... Read more

Mysterious Ways

By: Wendy Wunder

Narrated by: Georgina Sadler

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Wendy Wunder comes a sharp and hilarious coming-of-age novel for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon about an omniscient teenage girl who must grapple with whether there’s such a thing as knowing too much...

Seventeen-year-old Maya knows everything. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows their history, their private... Read more

Path Lit By Lightning

By: David Maraniss

Narrated by: David Maraniss

Length: 23 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.

Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled... 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

Murder at an Irish Castle

By: Ellie Brannigan

Narrated by: Traci Odom

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she’s on a plane to Ireland, where she discovers that she’s inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin’s will contains a few... Read more

How to Invent Everything

By: Ryan North

Narrated by: Ryan North

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2018

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do if a time machine hurled you... Read more

Funny Feelings

By: Tarah DeWitt

Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs & Stephanie Bentley

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When falling in love is the punchline . . .



Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true.



It's agony—a tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash . . .



Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three... Read more

Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries... Read more

Mouthful of Birds

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Various

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful, eerily unsettling story collection from a major international literary star.

Unearthly and unexpected, the stories in Mouthful of Birds burrow their way into your psyche and don't let go. Samanta Schweblin haunts and mesmerizes in this extraordinary, masterful collection.

Schweblin's stories have the feel of a sleepless night, where... Read more

The Deep Sky

By: Yume Kitasei

Narrated by: Sarah Skaer

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Sarah Skaer uses her considerable vocal skill to make each crewmember instantly recognizable. Asuka is strongly characterized by her insecurity and self-doubt, though listeners will likely have more faith in her.”- Library Journal

Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with... Read more