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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Monsters
By: Claire Dederer
Narrated by: Claire Dederer
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • 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... 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 »
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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A Life of One's Own
By: Joanna Biggs
Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times, The Week, Vulture, Elle, and The MillionsA piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves—and how others might do the sameI took off my wedding ring for the last time—a gold band with... 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 »
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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Playing In The Dark
By: Toni Morrison
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner
Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that... Read more »
Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Jhumpa Lahiri
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Sneha Mathan narrates these luminous essays on translation and self-translation by award-winning writer and literary translator Jhumpa Lahiri
With an introduction, afterword, and acknowledgements read by the author
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa... Read more »
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
By: Kerry Howley
Narrated by: Nikki Massoud
Length: 7 hours
Abridged: No
A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown
"At 25, [Reality] Winner—yoga teacher, beloved sister, AR-15 owner—was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking classified documents about a Russian election attack. Howley deftly analyzes the brutal, surreal conditions that underlie this... Read more »
An Odyssey
By: Daniel Mendelsohn
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday
A Kirkus Best Memoir of 2017
Shortlisted for the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's... 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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See What Can Be Done
By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 16 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America’s most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary—appearing in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Guardian, Harper’s... Read more »
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Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always careful, always right there.” — Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?A New York Times BestsellerBest Book of the Year: NPR • Boston Globe •... 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 »
Shakespeare
By: Bill Bryson
Narrated by: Bill Bryson
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100 color and black-and-white illustrations throughout, and... Read more »
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In Search of the Color Purple
By: Salamishah Tillet
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic... Read more »
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In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
Narrated by: Ako Mitchell
Length: 5 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This audiobook narrated by Ako Mitchell provides an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores
Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch—the director of Chicago’s Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the... Read more »
Novelist as a Vocation
By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Kotaro Watanabe
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running.
"Murakami is like a magician who explains what he's doing as he performs the trick and still makes you... Read more »
How a Poem Moves
By: Adam Sol
Narrated by: Adam Sol & Soraya Peerbaye
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol’s popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of contemporary poems. Sol is a dynamic teacher, and in these essays, he has captured the humor and engaging... Read more »
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Read Dangerously
By: Azar Nafisi
Narrated by: Azar Nafisi
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood."[A] stunning look at the power of reading. ... Provokes and inspires at every turn." —Publishers... 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 »
Red Comet
By: Heather Clark
Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Length: 45 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The highly anticipated 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 art.
“One of the most beautiful biographies I've ever read." —Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller, Untamed
With a... Read more »
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 have called James Baldwin's most influential work!Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained... Read more »
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