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All Fours

By: Miranda July

Narrated by: Miranda July

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 10 FICTION BOOKS OF 2024

ONE OF NPR’S “BOOKS WE LOVE” 2024

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:
THE NEW YORKER ● VOGUE ● FINANCIAL TIMES ● OPRAH DAILY ● VULTURE ● VOX

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy,... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have heard before.
... Read more

Book Lovers

By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington... Read more

Thank You For Listening

By: Julia Whelan

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan’s uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic accident—and her journey of self-discovery, love, and acceptance when she agrees to narrate one last romance novel.

For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook... Read more

Stay True

By: Hua Hsu

Narrated by: Hua Hsu

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu

“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.”—Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling... Read more

When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Cai...

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

* An Instant New York Times Bestseller *

"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously

The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson,... Read more

Dawn

By: Octavia E. Butler

Narrated by: Julienne Irons

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower.

When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali—a seemingly benevolent... Read more

Bear

By: Julia Phillips

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of family, obsession, and a mysterious creature in the woods—“a mesmerizing story about hope, sisterhood, and survival with a truly shocking twist at the end” (People, Book of the Week).

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ... Read more

The Remains of the Day

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
 
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of... Read more

The Phoenix Keeper

By: S. A. MacLean

Narrated by: Stephanie Bentley

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a magical zoo teeming with mythical beasts from dragons and unicorns to kelpies and krakens, The Phoenix Keeper is a fierce joy of a cozy fantasy novel with a soul-restoring queer romance at its heart, for fans ofThe House in the Cerulean Sea and Legends and Lattes.

As head phoenix keeper at a world-renowned zoo for magical creatures,... Read more

Exhalation

By: Ted Chiang

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Dominic Hoffman, Amy Landon ...

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others

Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine,... Read more

Poor Deer

By: Claire Oshetsky

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her... Read more

The Hunting Moon

By: Susan Dennard

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"Davies captures the magic of Dennard's exciting world and illuminates each character" —AudioFile on The Luminaries

The Hunting Moon is the highly anticipated sequel to The Luminaries by New York Times bestselling author Susan Dennard.

Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family... Read more

Enemies in the Orchard

By: Dana VanderLugt

Narrated by: Andy Ingalls, Elizabeth Klett & Rachel Leblang

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW who’s processing the war as he works on Claire’s family... Read more

Beastly

By: Keggie Carew

Narrated by: Pippa Haywood

Length: 16 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Animals have shaped our minds, our lives, our land, and our civilization. Humanity would not have gotten very far without them—making use of their labor for transportation, agriculture, and pollination; their protection from predators; and their bodies for food and to make clothing, music, and art. And over the last two centuries, humans have... Read more

Her Good Side

By: Rebekah Weatherspoon

Narrated by: Marcella Cox & Daniel K. Isaac

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

**A New York Times Best Romance Book of the Year**

A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at the real thing. Perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Jenny Han.

Sixteen-year-old Bethany Greene, though confident and self-assured, is what they... Read more

Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

Narrated by: Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & ...

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply... Read more

Home Is Not a Country

By: Safia Elhillo

Narrated by: Safia Elhillo & Christopher Myers

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
 
“Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
 
From the  acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have... Read more

Sasha Masha

By: Agnes Borinsky

Narrated by: Agnes Borinsky

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Transgender author Agnes Borinsky deftly explores gender identity and queer romance in this heart-wrenching debut novel.



Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he's adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough.... Read more

Miracle Country

By: Kendra Atleework

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero.



Kendra's family raised their children to thrive in this harsh landscape, forever at the mercy of wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Most of all, the... Read more

Brazen and the Beast

By: Sarah MacLean

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape—and the women who bring them to their knees.The Lady’s PlanWhen Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father’s business,... Read more

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: Korey Jackson, Nile Bullock, Adenrele Ojo & Ada...

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir... Read more

Wonder Valley

By: Ivy Pochoda

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Destined to be a classic L.A. novel.”—Michael ConnellyWhen a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.From the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary... Read more

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

By: Frans de Waal

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal comes this groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic.What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future―all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the... Read more