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Monsters
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?
"A lively, personal... Read more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman...
Length: 14 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.
For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA... Read more
Poetry Unbound
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and... Read more
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Meet Me in the Margins
By: Melissa Ferguson
Narrated by: Talon David
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
You’ve Got Mail meets The Proposal—this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade’s dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah’s been secretly writing. The only problem: she’s an editor for a different company, and... Read more
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Minor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• ONE OF TIME’S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE• A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
In... Read more
Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage—an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love.
Leslie Jamison has become one of our most beloved contemporary voices, a scribe of the real, the true, the complex. She has been compared... Read more
Pandora's Jar
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
“Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!”—Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's TaleThe national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on the remarkable women at the heart of classical stories Greek... Read more
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One in a Millennial
By: Kate Kennedy
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millennial zeitgeist
One In a Millennial is an exploration of pop culture, nostalgia, the millennial zeitgeist, and the life lessons learned (for better and for worse) from coming of age as a member of a much-maligned... Read more
The Maximum Security Book Club
By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Beverley A. Crick
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehran.On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind... Read more
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Why We Read
By: Shannon Reed
Narrated by: Paige McKinney
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile, and Thurber Prize Semifinalist
We read to escape, to learn, to find love, to feel seen. We read to encounter new worlds, to discover new recipes, to find connection across difference, or simply to pass a rainy afternoon. No matter the reason, books have the... Read more
How to Think Like a Woman
By: Regan Penaluna
Narrated by: Angie Kane
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
As a young woman growing up in Iowa, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we, and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she fell in love with philosophy and chose to pursue it as an academic—the first step, she believed, to becoming a self-determined person living a life of the mind. What she didn’t... Read more
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Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
By: Jessica Brody
Narrated by: Jessica Brody
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.
Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing.... Read more
Committed
By: Suzanne Scanlon
Narrated by: Suzanne Scanlon
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A raw and masterful memoir about becoming a woman and going mad—and doing both at once.
When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
After nearly three... Read more
Reading Like a Writer
By: Francine Prose
Narrated by: Nanette Savard
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters and discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a... Read more
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A Poetry Handbook
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 3 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“Mary Oliver would probably never admit to anything so grandiose as an effort to connect the conscious mind and the heart (that’s what she says poetry can do), but that is exactly what she accomplishes in this stunning little handbook.”—Los Angeles TimesFrom the beloved, legendary poet, the ultimate guide to writing and understanding poetry.With... Read more
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Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
What is astrology? Fiction for the bourgeoisie. The Tour de France? An epic. The brain of Einstein? Knowledge reduced to a formula. Like iconic images of movie stars or the rhetoric of politicians, they are fabricated. Once isolated from the events that gave birth to them, these "mythologies" appear for what they are: the ideology of mass... Read more
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C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity
By: George M. Marsden
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 5 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian faith, originated as a series of BBC radio talks broadcast during the dark days of World War Two. Here is the story of the extraordinary life and afterlife of this influential and much-beloved book. George Marsden describes how Lewis gradually went from being an... Read more
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The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
By: Robert Jordan & Teresa Patterson
Narrated by: Paul Woodson
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns... Read more
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
By: Henry Miller
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In his great triptych "The Millennium," Bosch used oranges and other fruits to symbolize the delights of Paradise. Whence Henry Miller's title for this, one of his most appealing books; first published in 1957, it tells the story of Miller's life on the Big Sur, a section of the California coast where he lived for fifteen years. Big Sur is the... Read more
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James Joyce
By: Edna O'Brien
Narrated by: Donada Peters
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Ireland's best current novelists provides a thumbnail sketch of Ireland's greatest writer. A passionate and sensuous portrait, James Joyce is a return to the land of politics, history, saints, and scholars that shaped the creator of the twentieth century's groundbreaking novel Ulysses. O'Brien traces Joyce's early days as a rambunctious... Read more
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Girl Sleuth
By: Melanie Rehak
Narrated by: Melanie Rehak
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the YearThe plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the... Read more
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The Washington Book
By: Carlos Lozada
Narrated by: Carlos Lozada
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist at The New York Times explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings and, in so doing, illuminates the personal, political, and cultural conflicts driving Washington and the nation.
As a long-time book critic and columnist in Washington, Carlos Lozada dissects all... Read more
The Science of Stephen King
By: Meg Hafdahl & Kelly Florence
Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Melissa Moran, Anneliese Rennie & T...
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Uncover the theories behind the Master of Horror's macabre tales: It, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, Misery, Pet Semetary, and so much more!
Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters and The Science of Women in Horror, and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out... Read more
Mythology
By: Edith Hamilton
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more
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