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By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction.... Read more
The City We Became
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City.
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But... Read more
Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H
Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this “raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations” (Linah Mohammad, NPR).
“A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust... Read more
Hench
By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
“This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." -- Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest... Read more
View audiobookMigrations
By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
"Seasoned narrator Kreinik showcases her prowess as a dialect coach as she embodies McConaghy’s vast cast...With deft agility, Kreinik guides McConaghy’s spectacular Moby Dick-esque journey towards an all-too imminent dystopia in which humanity faces a future alone." -- Booklist, starred review
* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER *
"Visceral and... Read more
One Last Stop
By: Casey McQuiston
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*
"Narrator Natalie Naudus brings a quiet intensity to this genre-crossing audiobook...the perfect fit for a tale of queer joy, first love, and self-discovery." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
From the New York Times bestselling author of... Read more
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a real monster.Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to... Read more
View audiobookBeowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A new,... Read more
Vesper Flights
By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Animals don’t exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they
teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the
human relationship to the natural world.
Helen Macdonald brings together a... Read more
Look Both Ways
By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin...
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!
UK Carnegie Medal winner
A National Book Award Finalist
Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Time Best Children’s Book of 2019
A Today Show Best Kids’ Book of 2019
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2019
A School Library... Read more
Theft of Swords
By: Michael J. Sullivan
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 22 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Acclaimed author Michael J. Sullivan created instant best-sellers with his spellbinding Riyria Revelations series. This first volume introduces Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater, two enterprising thieves who end up running for their lives when they're framed for the death of the king. Trapped in a conspiracy bigger than they can imagine,... Read more
View audiobookEnter the Aardvark
By: Jessica Anthony
Narrated by: Matt Amendt
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire).
It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine... Read more
The Falcon Thief
By: Joshua Hammer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more
Owls of the Eastern Ice
By: Jonathan C. Slaght
Narrated by: Jonathan C. Slaght
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia
When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He... Read more
Dead Astronauts
By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 7 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own.Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of... Read more
View audiobookMary Toft; or, the Rabbit Queen
By: Dexter Palmer
Narrated by: Susan Lyons
Length: 13 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In 1726, in the town of Godalming, England, a woman confounded the nation’s medical community by giving birth to seventeen rabbits. This astonishing true story is the basis for Dexter Palmer’s stunning, powerfully evocative new novel.
Surgeon’s apprentice Zachary Walsh knows that his master, John Howard, prides himself on his rationality. But... Read more
Full Throttle
By: Joe Hill
Narrated by: Zachary Quinto, Wil Wheaton, Kate Mulgrew, Neil...
Length: 16 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
2020 Audie Awards® WINNER - Short Stories/Collections
The number one New York Times best-selling author of The Fireman and Strange Weather returns with a dark and ingenious collection of 13 compelling short stories that showcase his ability to “push genre conventions to new extremes” (New York Times Book Review), performed by a stunning... Read more
Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Gabrielle de Cuir
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
“I’m sick to death of this particular self. I want another.”Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply... Read more
View audiobookCold
By: Drew Hayden Taylor
Narrated by: Wesley French, Lawrence Bayne, Susan Roman, Jan...
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.
Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself... Read more
The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
Narrated by: Ayoola Smart & Bert Seymour
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Daring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel.”—Colm Tóibín An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apartMeet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple.Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than... Read more
View audiobookDisruptions
By: Steven Millhauser
Narrated by: Gisela Chípe, Vas Eli & Arthur Morey
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
AN NPR AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • An exquisite new collection from a Pulitzer Prize–winning master of the short story, the culmination of a five-decade career: work that takes us beneath the placid surface of suburban life into the elusive strangeness of the everyday
Here are eighteen stories of astonishing range and precision. A... Read more
Reality
By: John Lanchester
Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Hugh Quarshie, Emilia Fox & A...
Length: 4 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
Ghost stories for the digital age by the Booker Prize–longlisted author of The Wall.
A mysterious tall man haunts a country house in search of a cell signal; a translator at an academic conference starts hearing things over his headset that nobody should hear; a family discovers their dependence on the latest technological gadget goes to the... Read more
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians
By: H. G. Parry
Narrated by: Andrew Kingston
Length: 20 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in... Read more
Cinders and Sparrows
By: Stefan Bachmann
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
A suspenseful tale of witches, family, and magic from internationally bestselling author Stefan Bachmann. When a twelve-year-old orphan unexpectedly becomes the mistress of a seemingly abandoned castle, she is thrust into a mysterious plot involving murderous spells, false identity, and a magical battle of wills between the living and the dead.... Read more
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