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The Dutch House
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Tom Hanks
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Audiobook performed by Tom HanksPulitzer Prize Finalist | New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the YearNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post; O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping,... Read more
View audiobookThere Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall & Elif Shafak
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.
"Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it."—Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize
In the... Read more
The Silent Patient
By: Alex Michaelides
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins & Louise Brealey
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
"The perfect binge listen." — Yahoo Lifestyle
Instant #1 New York Times bestseller.
The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive.
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion... Read more
The Vaster Wilds
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, TIME, ESQUIRE, VOGUE, LA TIMES, SLATE, HARPER'S BAZAAR and others
“Part historical, part horror, part breathless thriller, part wilderness survival tale, The Vaster Wilds is a story about the lengths to which we will go to stay... Read more
The Heart's Invisible Furies
By: John Boyne
Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
Length: 21 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017
Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in... Read more
The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK
A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
“A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” —The Washington Post
“CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” —Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY... Read more
The Book of Delights
By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 5 hours
Abridged: No
The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, written daily over a tumultuous year, reminding us of the purpose and pleasure of praising, extolling, and celebrating ordinary wonders. Ross Gay's The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays- some as short as a paragraph; some as long as... Read more
View audiobookSave Me the Plums
By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delicious insider account of the gritty, glamorous world of food culture.”—Vanity Fair
In this “poignant and hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir, trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet.
A BEST BOOK OF THE... Read more
Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
“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 hopeful.” —Ayelet... Read more
How to Stop Time
By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
Length: 10 hours
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
“A quirky romcom dusted with philosophical observations….A delightfully witty…poignant novel.” —The Washington Post
“She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going… I had existed whole... Read more
Clark and Division
By: Naomi Hirahara
Narrated by: Allison Hiroto
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where they have been detained by the US government since the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, together with thousands of other Japanese Americans. The life in California the Itos were forced to leave behind is gone; instead, they are being resettled two... Read more
View audiobookThe Kindest Lie
By: Nancy Johnson
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Recommended by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more!“The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, and what it means to grow... Read more
View audiobookThe Orchard
By: David Hopen
Narrated by: Micky Shiloah
Length: 17 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book From:
Entertainment Weekly * Electric Literature * AlmaA commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himselfAri Eden’s life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are... Read more
The End of the Day
By: Bill Clegg
Narrated by: Bill Clegg
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns with a “delicate, deeply observed, and deftly crafted” (Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs) second novel about the complicated bonds and breaking points of friendship, the corrosive forces of secrets, the heartbeat of longing, and the... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventurer's Son
By: Roman Dial
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
""A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.""—Jon KrakauerIn the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost forever: These were the haunting last words legendary... Read more
View audiobookChances Are . . .
By: Richard Russo
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls • Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha’s Vineyard in this “gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” (The Boston Globe).
“A cascade of charm…. Russo is an undeniably endearing writer, and chances are this... Read more
The Lager Queen of Minnesota
By: J. Ryan Stradal
Narrated by: Judith Ivey
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A National Bestseller!
“The perfect pick-me-up on a hot summer day.”
—Washington Post
“[A] charmer of a tale. . . Warm, witty and--like any good craft beer--complex, the saga delivers a subtly feminist and wholly life-affirming message.”
—People Magazine
A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a... Read more
Lights All Night Long
By: Lydia Fitzpatrick
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A gripping and deftly plotted narrative of family and belonging, Lights All Night Long is a dazzling debut novel from an acclaimed young writer
"A luminous debut. . . . It's hard not to read the book in a single sitting."--The Los Angeles Times
"Lights All Night Long is utterly brilliant and completely captivating. . . . One of the most... Read more
The Last Whalers
By: Doug Bock Clark
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.
A New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner... Read more
Well, That Escalated Quickly
By: Franchesca Ramsey
Narrated by: Franchesca Ramsey
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp and timely exploration of race, online activism, and real communication in the age of social media rants, trolls, and call-out wars, from veteran video blogger and star of MTV's Decoded Franchesca Ramsey.
Franchesca Ramsey didn't set out to be an activist. Or a comedian. Or a commentator on identity, race, and culture, really. But then... Read more
You Think It, I'll Say It
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
Narrated by: Emily Rankin & Mark Deakins
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
“Every bit as smart, sensitive, funny, and genuine as her phenomenally popular novels,”* a dazzling collection from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible
“I really loved all the characters in this book. They’re so complex and interesting, and in every story, you’ll find them going through these pivotal moments... Read more
Her Every Fear
By: Peter Swanson
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
The author of the wildly popular The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying and downright Hitchcockian psychological thriller—as tantalizing as the cinema classics Rear Window and Wait Until Dark—involving a young woman caught in a vise of voyeurism, betrayal, manipulation, and murder.The danger isn’t all in your head . . . Growing up,... Read more
View audiobookThe Nix
By: Nathan Hill
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Length: 21 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the suburban Midwest to New York City to the 1968 riots that rocked Chicago and beyond, a novel that explores—with sharp humor and a fierce tenderness—the resilience of love and home, even in times of radical change.
“A mother-son psychodrama with ghosts and politics, but it’s also a tragicomedy about anger and... Read more
Carousel Court
By: Joe McGinniss
Narrated by: Joy Osmanski & Corey Brill
Length: 10 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Joe McGinniss Jr., who is “poised to become one of our sharpest observers of life in America at the start of the twenty-first century” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), returns with one of the most engrossing, unnerving, and exhilarating novels in recent memory: a viscerally absorbing look at the seductive—and destructive—cutting edge of... Read more
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