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Miracle Country

By: Kendra Atleework

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.



Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the... Read more

A Little Less Broken

By: Marian Schembari

Narrated by: Marian Schembari

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves

Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she’d spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why... Read more

Under Currents

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For both Zane and Darby, their small town roots hold a terrible secret. Now, decades later, they've come together to build a new life. But will the past set them free or pull them under? Find out in Under Currents from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.

Zane Bigelow grew up in a beautiful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina’s... 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

SHOUT

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

Narrated by: Laurie Halse Anderson

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller and one of 2019's best-reviewed books, a poetic memoir and call to action from the award-winning author of Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson!

Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by... Read more

Of Women and Salt

By: Gabriela Garcia

Narrated by: Frankie Corzo

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Roxane Gay.

A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born

In present-day Miami,... Read more

The Whispers

By: Ashley Audrain

Narrated by: Jill Winternitz

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered….[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review

“[An] electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After

Featured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America,... Read more

The Rewind

By: Allison Winn Scotch

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick
One of Amazon's Best Romances of November!

Two exes wake up together with wedding bands on their fingers—and no idea how they got there. They have just one New Year’s Eve at the end of 1999 to figure it out in this big-hearted and nostalgic rom-com from New York Times bestselling author Allison Winn Scotch.

When... Read more

From the Corner of the Oval

By: Beck Dorey-Stein

Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?
 
“[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times
 
RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair •  The New York Times Editors’ Choice... Read more

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

By: Laird Hunt

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.

"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has... Read more

Fleishman Is in Trouble

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST • “A masterpiece” (NPR) about marriage, divorce, and the bewildering dynamics of ambition

Now an Emmy Award–nominated FX limited series on Hulu, starring Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Brody

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Entertainment Weekly, The New York... Read more

Made for Love

By: Alissa Nutting

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be an HBO Max series starring Ray Romano and Cristin Milioti 
NAMED A RECOMMENDED READ BY
GQ • PopSugar • NPR • Huffington Post • Electric Literature • The New Yorker • Publishers Weekly • New York Magazine • Buzzfeed • Refinery29 • Vulture • Nylon
From one of our most exciting and provocative young writers, a poignant, riotously funny... Read more

The Glutton

By: A.K. Blakemore

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times EDITORS’ CHOICE | Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize | MOST ANTICIPATED by The Guardian • Paste Magazine • LitHub • The Millions • Library Journal

From the prizewinning author of The Manningtree Witches, a subversive historical novel set during the French Revolution, inspired by a young peasant boy turned showman, said to... Read more

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

Narrated by: Franny Choi

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending,... Read more

Holiday Country

By: İnci Atrek

Narrated by: Ayse Babahan

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic vacation on the Aegean coast

"A gorgeous exploration." —Raven Leilani, author of Luster

"A book full of pleasures." —Kirkus

Ada always looks forward to her summers at the family villa with her mother and grandmother in a Turkish seaside town. It’s... Read more

Coraline

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film""Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house....""When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But... Read more

Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland & Katherine Fenton

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.” —Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog

From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.

In a... Read more

A Wolf Called Wander

By: Rosanne Parry

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! “Don’t miss this dazzling tour de force.”—Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winning author of The One and Only IvanThis gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf’s incredible journey to find a safe place to call home. This irresistible tale by award-winning author Rosanne Parry... Read more

The Feather Thief

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As heard on NPR's This American Life

“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more

Tell Me Everything

By: Erika Krouse

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"Highly recommended on audio for listeners seeking true-crime with a focus on structural inequities, survivors, and artfully crafted narratives." -- Booklist

“The best story I’ve read in a long, long time." —Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing

“Krouse’s vivid and original memoir is state of the art. Tell Me Everything is our new... Read more

Unraveling

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to... Read more

The American Roommate Experiment

By: Elena Armas

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya & Noah B. Perez

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment.

Rosie Graham has a problem. A few,... Read more

The Other Bennet Sister

By: Janice Hadlow

Narrated by: Carla Mendonça

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"Jane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight." —Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew's Last Stand and The Summer Before the War

Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices... Read more

Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this “gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining” (BuzzFeed) debut

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree • “Captures the ache-inducing quality of art and desire . . . a deeply relatable and profoundly enjoyable read, one... Read more