Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't it? In his newest collection of essays,... Read More »

The Marriage of Opposites

By: Alice Hoffman & Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Gloria Reuben, Tina Benko & Santino Fontana
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism.

Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in... Read More »

Ghost

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Guy Lockard
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.

Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe... Read More »

The Science of Sleep

By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 49 minutes
Abridged: No

The Science of Sleep, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to sleep well—in his signature engaging style. Adapted from Medina's Brain Rules for Aging Well:10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp, in this chapter you'll learn how the sleep cycle is born of a constant tension... Read More »

The Sea of Tranquility

By: Katja Millay
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Candace Thaxton
Length: 13 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Read More »

Leonardo da Vinci

By: Walter Isaacson
Narrated by: Alfred Molina
Length: 17 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times Bestseller

“A powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life...a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it.”—The New Yorker

“Vigorous, insightful.”—The Washington Post

“A masterpiece.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Luminous.”—The Daily Beast

He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

The... Read More »

The Outsider

By: Stephen King
Length: 18 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories.

An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens. He... Read More »

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

By: Ruth Ware
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Lying Game comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fourth novel.

On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong... Read More »

Brain Rules for Baby (Updated and Expanded)

By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

What's the single most important thing you can do during pregnancy? What does watching TV do to a child's brain? What's the best way to handle temper tantrums? Scientists know.

In his New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina showed us how our brains really work—and why we ought to redesign our workplaces and schools. Now, in Brain... Read More »

Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded)

By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 8 hours
Abridged: No

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know—like the need for physical activity to get your brain working its best.

How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so... Read More »

Brain Rules for Aging Well

By: John Medina
Narrated by: John Medina
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

How come I can never find my keys? Why don’t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. Brain Rules for Aging Well, by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts—and the prescription to age well—in his signature engaging style.
... Read More »

All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Zach Appelman
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.

Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris... Read More »

Yesterday

By: Felicia Yap
Narrated by: Rory Kinnear
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No

How do you solve a murder when you can only remember yesterday?
Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory; elite Duos have two. In this stratified society, where Monos are excluded from holding high office and... Read More »

Mariam Sharma Hits the Road

By: Sheba Karim
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No

Three Pakistani-American teenagers, on a trip through the land of pork ribs, mechanical bulls, and Confederate flags. It’s going to be quite an adventure.

The summer after her freshman year of college, Mariam is looking forward to working and hanging out with her best friends: irrepressible and beautiful Ghazala, and religious but closeted... Read More »

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Kirby HeyborneJohanna Parker
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No

In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.

“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time.... Read More »

Putney

By: Sofka Zinovieff
Narrated by: Michelle Ford
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.

A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by... Read More »

I Feel Bad About My Neck

By: Nora Ephron
Narrated by: Nora Ephron
Length: 3 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read More »

My Last Continent

By: Midge Raymond
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

An unforgettable debut with an irresistible love story, My Last Continent is a big-hearted, propulsive novel set against the dramatic Antarctic landscape—“original and entirely authentic love story” (Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project).

It is only at the end of the world—among the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters... Read More »

Tuesday Nights in 1980

By: Molly Prentiss
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

An intoxicating and transcendent debut novel that follows a critic, an artist, and their shared muse as they find their way—and ultimately collide—amid the ever-evolving New York City art scene of the 1980s.

Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, quickly gentrifying playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big... Read More »

The Road to Unfreedom

By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated solely to the consolidation and exercise of... Read More »

Spoonbenders

By: Daryl Gregory
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

A NEBULA AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

"Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author of The Nest

Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about... Read More »

In the Midst of Winter

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Jasmine Cephas Jones & Alma Cuervo
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.

In the Midst of Winter begins with a... Read More »

Standard Deviation

By: Katherine Heiny
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

TheSkimm’s Best of Skimm Reads
NPR’s Guide to Great Reads
The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction of the Year
Minnesota Public Radio’s The Best Books to Give and Get: Fiction Picks of the Year

An uproarious novel ("Both heart-piercing and, crucially, very funny." —Louise Erdrich, The New York Times) from the celebrated author of Single,... Read More »

The Windfall

By: Diksha Basu
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

A People Pick
Entertainment Weekly's Must-List
A TIME Magazine Pick
Rolling Stone's Culture Index Pick
One of Esquire's Best 30 Books of 2017

“[A] charming satire…What Kevin Kwan did for rich people problems, Diksha Basu does for trying-to-be-rich-people problems.”
--People

A heartfelt comedy of manners, Diksha Basu’s debut novel unfolds the story of... Read More »