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See picks from all bookstoresThe Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Zadie Smith
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestsellerĀ ā¢Ā One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the YearĀ ā¢ One of NPR's Best Books of the YearĀ ā¢Ā Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly
ā[A] brilliant new entry in Smithās catalog . . . The Fraud is not a change for Smith, but a demonstration of how expansive her talents are.ā āLos Angeles Times
From... Read more
There There
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuer...
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST ā¢ NATIONAL BESTSELLER ā¢ A wondrous and shattering award-winning novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize.
A contemporary classic, this āastonishing literary debutā (Margaret Atwood, bestselling... Read more
Broken Horses
By: Brandi Carlile
Narrated by: Brandi Carlile
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was... Read more
View audiobookDivine Rivals
By: Rebecca Ross
Narrated by: Alex Wingfield & Rebecca Norfolk
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"This captivating production will leave listeners wanting more."- AudioFile
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever.
After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her... Read more
Delilah Green Doesn't Care
By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting loveāwith all its complicationsāfrom the author of Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail.
Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Fallsānothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant... Read more
The Last House on Needless Street
By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King
"Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine,... Read more
American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club)
By: Jeanine Cummins
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 16 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller
OPRAHāS BOOK CLUB PICK
āExtraordinary.āāStephen King
āThis book is not simply the great American novel; itās the great novel of las Americas. Itās the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.āāSandra Cisneros
TambiƩn de este lado hay sueƱos. On this side too, there are dreams.
Lydia... Read more
The Ex Hex
By: Erin Sterling
Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times BestsellerErin Sterling casts a delightful spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong.āA delightful and witty take on witchy mayhem.ā āĀ PopsugarNine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble bathsā¦and a curse on the horrible... Read more
View audiobookApples Never Fall
By: Liane Moriarty
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
Length: 18 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
2021 AudioFile Best Audiobooks
2021 Washington Post Best Books of the Year
From Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers, comes Apples Never Fall, an audiobook that looks at marriage, siblings, and how the people we love the most can hurt us the deepest.
The Delaney family love one... 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
This Time Tomorrow
By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Emma Straub
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
āThe pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more."āAnn Patchett
āOne of the most moving and intelligent time travel novels I have ever read. Nostalgic, wise, funny, and filled with love."āGabrielle Zevin
āThe kind of book that will make you laugh, make you... Read more
The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is āa trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.ā--Entertainment Weekly
Iām embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had... Read more
A Thousand Ships
By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the YearāGorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.āāMadeline Miller, author ofĀ CirceShortlisted for the Womenās Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many... Read more
View audiobookAncillary Justice
By: Ann Leckie
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.Ā
"There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John Scalzi
On a remote, icy... Read more
Happy-Go-Lucky
By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
An Audie Award Winner
David Sedaris, the āchampion storyteller,ā (Los Angeles Times) returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso.
Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a maskāor notāwas a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As... Read more
Matrix
By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE 2022 JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, NPR, The Financial Times, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Vulture, Marie Claire, Vox, The Los... Read more
Rock Paper Scissors
By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Stephanie Racine
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Rock Paper Scissors is the latest exciting domestic thriller from the queen of the killer twist, New York Times bestselling author Alice Feeney.
Think you know the person you married? Think againā¦
Things have been wrong with Mr and Mrs Wright for a long time. When Adam and Amelia win a weekend away to Scotland, it might be just what their marriage... Read more
The Only Good Indians
By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a āmasterpieceā (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled āone of 2020ās buzziest horror novelsā (Entertainment Weekly), this is a remarkable horror story that āwill give you nightmaresāthe... Read more
The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
Narrated by: Kerry Shale & Ruth Ozeki
Length: 18 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner ofĀ the Womenās Prize for Fiction
āNo one writes like Ruth Ozekiāa triumph.ā āMatt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library
āInventive, vivid, and propelled by a sense of wonder.ā āTIME
āIf youāve lost your way with fiction over the last year or two, let The Book of Form and Emptiness light your way home.ā āDavid... Read more
The Book of Magic
By: Alice Hoffman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
Length: 12 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
āHoffman certainly knows how to enchantā (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic seriesāa spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?
For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from loveābut all of that is about to change. The novel begins... Read more
Mary Jane
By: Jessica Anya Blau
Narrated by: Caitlin Kinnunen
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
""The best book of the summer."" -- InStyle""I LOVED this novel....If you have ever sung along to a hit on the radio, in any decade, then you will devour Mary Jane at 45 rpm.""Ā āNick HornbyAlmost Famous meets Daisy Jones & The Six in this ""delightful"" (New York Times Book Review) novel about a fourteen-year-old girlās coming of age in... Read more
View audiobookLeave the World Behind
By: Rumaan Alam
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan AlamA Read with JennaĀ TodayĀ Show Book Club Pick! Finalist... Read more
View audiobookThe Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo, Karen Chilton & Prentice Onayemi
Length: 29 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
An instantĀ New York Times, Washington Post and USA TodayĀ BestsellerĀ ā¢ AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION ā¢ ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021 ā¢ WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR:Ā New York TimesĀ ā¢Ā TimeĀ ā¢Ā Washington PostĀ ā¢ Oprah Daily ā¢Ā PeopleĀ ā¢Ā Boston... Read more
View audiobookHow Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
By: Angie Cruz
Narrated by: Kimberly M. Wetherell & Rossmery Almonte
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This program features original sound design.
"Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Caraās success." - Library Journal
"Rossmery Almonte's pitch-perfect narration of Angie Cruz's inventive new novel... Read more