Hamnet
By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 12 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
*A New York Times Best Seller*
*One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year*
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
“Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life… here is a novel … so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston Globe
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor... Read more »
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders, Phylicia Rashad, Nick Offerman, Glenn Close, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, BD Wong & Renée Elise Goldsberry
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 »
Minor Feelings
By: Cathy Park Hong
Narrated by: Cathy Park Hong
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness and the struggle to be human
“Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY... Read more »
Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, the New York Times Bestseller and Best Book of the Year at NPR, the Boston Globe, Newsweek, and many more
A collection of essays spanning politics, criticism, and feminism from one of the most-watched young cultural observers of her generation, Roxane Gay.
“Pink is my favorite color. I used to say... Read more »
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Trick Mirror
By: Jia Tolentino
Narrated by: Jia Tolentino
Length: 9 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia... Read more »
The Toni Morrison Book Club
By: Juda Bennett & Winnifred Brown-Glaude
Narrated by: Daniel Henning & Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In this startling group memoir, four friends—black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born—use Toni Morrison’s novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty. Tackling everything from first love and Soul Train to police brutality and... Read more »
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Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Ron Butler
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
At last, a new audio edition of the book many havecalled James Baldwin’s most influential work!
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, whenBaldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and blackthought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowlygained... Read more »
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M Train
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 6 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
National Best Seller
From the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as “a roadmap to my life.”
M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes... Read more »
The Art of Memoir
By: Mary Karr
Narrated by: Mary Karr
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Bestselling author and renowned professor Mary Karr offers a master class in the essential elements of great memoir—delivered with her signature wit, insight, and candor.
Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash... 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 »
Too Much
By: Rachel Vorona Cote
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar & Rachel Vorona Cote
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Lacing cultural criticism, Victorian literature, and storytelling together, "TOO MUCH spills over: with intellect, with sparkling prose, and with the brainy arguments of Vorona Cote, who posits that women are all, in some way or another, still susceptible to being called too much." (Esmé Weijun Wang)
A weeping woman is a monster. So too is a fat... Read more »
Jane Austen's Greatest Novels
By: Jane Austen
Narrated by: PJ Roscoe & Kate Redding
Length: 75 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Delve into the romanticism and imagination of Jane Austen in this collection of Austen’s greatest novels. Covering the span of her career, these five novels are just as charming now as they were two centuries ago in their first publications.
Sense and Sensibility – Austen’s first novel tells the story of the Dashwood ladies – Elinor, Marianne,... Read more »
The Secret Life of the American Musical
By: Jack Viertel
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in actors, and reaches its passionate zenith when it comes time for love, marriage, and children, who will start the cycle all over again. Americans love musicals. Americans invented... Read more »
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Bookends
By: Michael Chabon
Narrated by: Michael Chabon & George Newbern
Length: 4 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A brilliant, idiosyncratic collection of introductions and afterwords (plus some liner notes) by New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon—“one of contemporary literature’s most gifted prose stylists” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times).
In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a... Read more »
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The Shakespeare Book
By: DK
Narrated by: Roger May
Length: 16 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems.
With detailed plot summaries and an in-depth analysis of the major characters and themes, this is a brilliant, innovative... Read more »
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Cassandra Speaks
By: Elizabeth Lesser
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers?
Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women’s voices had been equally heard and respected... Read more »
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Dark Archives
By: Megan Rosenbloom
Narrated by: Justis Bolding
Length: 6 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand? In Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom seeks out the historic and scientific truths behind anthropodermic bibliopegy?the... Read more »
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Red Comet
By: Heather Clark
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 45 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
“Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement.” —Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
The highly anticipated new biography of Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and... Read more »
Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by... Read more »
Every Tongue Got to Confess
By: Zora Neale Hurston
Narrated by: Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant... Read more »
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The Recovering
By: Leslie Jamison
Narrated by: Leslie Jamison
Length: 16 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams comes this transformative work showing that sometimes the recovery is more gripping than the addiction.
With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage, The Recovering turns our understanding of the traditional addiction... Read more »
At Blackwater Pond
By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Mary Oliver
Length: 1 hours
Abridged: No
Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this audio, she has recorded forty of her favorite poems,... Read more »
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The Partly Cloudy Patriot
By: Sarah Vowell
Narrated by: Conan O'Brien, Seth Green, Stephen Colbert, Paul Begala, Michael Chabon, Norman Lear & They Might Be Giants
Length: 5 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through the American past and in doing so ponders a... Read more »
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
By: Susan Sontag
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre,... Read more »
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