The Song of Achilles

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Frazer Douglas
Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No

The legend begins...

Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. “The best of all the Greeks”—strong, beautiful, and the child of a goddess—Achilles is everything the shamed Patroclus is not. Yet despite their... Read More »

Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE

A NEW YORK TIMES AND TIME MAGAZINE "BEST BOOK OF 2017"

“A breathtaking novel…[that] arrives at an urgent time.” –NPR.org

“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly... Read More »

Swamplandia!

By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Arielle Sitrick & David Ackroyd
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—Los Angeles Times Book Review) comes a blazingly original debut... Read More »

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
People • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New York • The Telegraph • BuzzFeed • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Shelf Awareness

One of the most important and blazingly... Read More »

My Absolute Darling

By: Gabriel Tallent
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST
NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST’S MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017
ONE OF NPR’S ‘GREAT READS’ OF 2017
A USA TODAY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A BUSINESS INSIDER BEST BOOK OF THE... Read More »

Meditations

By: Marcus Aurelius
Narrated by: Duncan Steen
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the most significant books ever written by a head of State, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and... Read More »

Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies is an unabashedly... Read More »

The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
Length: 37 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world’s great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil. Read More »

The Mothers

By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 9 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review

"Luminous… engrossing and poignant, this is one not to miss." –People, Pick of the Week

"Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post

A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about... Read More »

Everything I Never Told You

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No

A haunting debut novel about a mixed-race family living in 1970s Ohio and the tragedy that will either be their undoing or their salvation Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet ... So begins the story in this exquisite debut novel about a Chinese American family living in a small town in 1970s Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn... Read More »

A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

This fantastically inventive, intelligent, and fully realized exploration of music, art, and life is a must-listen.Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose... Read More »

Kafka on the Shore

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Sean Barrett & Oliver Le Sueur
Length: 19 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read and admired for decades to come.

This magnificent new... Read More »

Killers of the Flower Moon

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017

Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's... Read More »

Setting Free the Kites

By: Alex George
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No

From the author of the “lyrical and compelling” (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope.

For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who... Read More »

The Trumpet of the Swan

By: E. B. White
Narrated by: E. B. White
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

Louis is a Trumpeter Swan, but he has no voice. Though he is frightened when his father explains to him that he is different from the other cygnets, Louis is resourceful and determined. Leaving his wild and beautiful home, he finds a young human friend, Sam Beaver, who helps him learn to read and write. When he returns to his lake, Louis... Read More »

Barkskins

By: Annie Proulx
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

From Annie Proulx—the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain—comes her masterpiece, ten years in the writing: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about taming the wilderness, set over two centuries.

In the late eighteenth century Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman,... Read More »

The Mitford Murders

By: Jessica Fellowes
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

*Named one of the best audiobooks of 2017 by The Times (UK)*

This program includes a bonus interview with the author

"The pleasures of this English murder mystery, set in 1920, are many. Rachel Atkins's crisp performance is just right...A concluding interview with author Jessica Fellowes, who wrote the "Downtown Abbey" companion books, promises... Read More »

The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin
Narrated by: Paul Boehmer & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

People’s Book of the Week • USA Today’s #1 “New and Noteworthy” Book •... Read More »

Shelter

By: Jung Yun
Narrated by: Raymond Lee
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

You can never know what goes on behind closed doors.

One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year (Selected by Edan Lepucki)

Kyung Cho is a young father burdened by a house he can’t afford. For years, he and his wife, Gillian, have lived beyond their means. Now their debts and bad decisions are catching up with them, and Kyung is... Read More »

Trainwreck

By: Sady Doyle
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No

She’s everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck.

She’s Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, “crack is whack,” and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.

From Mary Wollstonecraft—who, for decades after her death, was more famous for... Read More »

Mothers of Sparta

By: Dawn Davies
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

This program is read by the author

If you’re looking for a parenting audiobook, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.

This is an audiobook about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue... Read More »

4 3 2 1

By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Paul Auster
Length: 36 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No

This program is narrated by—and includes a bonus interview with—the author.

Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece.

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark,... Read More »

The Reason You're Alive

By: Matthew Quick
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook offers a timely novel featuring his most fascinating character yet, a Vietnam vet embarking on a quixotic crusade to track down his nemesis from the war.

After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to... Read More »

And Again

By: Jessica Chiarella
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross & Corey Brill
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No

In the spirit of Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles, this exciting literary debut novel imagines the consequences when four ordinary individuals are granted a chance to continue their lives in genetically perfect versions of their former bodies.

Would you live your life differently if you were given a second chance? Hannah, David, Connie, and... Read More »