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See picks from all bookstoresThe Half Moon
By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“An insightful, riveting study of marriage.” —People
From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and “absorbing” (The New York Times) novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.
Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, has always dreamed of... Read more
The Soulmate
By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Jessica Douglas-Henry
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
"Listeners will be captivated as the narrators create tension and drop hints about the real problem in this “ideal” family." —Booklist on The Younger Wife
"Narrators Barrie Kreinik and Jessica Douglas-Henry enhance the air of anxiety by weaving an engaging web of emotion. Their Australian accents aid in the immersive nature of the narrative and... Read more
Commitment
By: Mona Simpson
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 14 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORKER AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother’s collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.
“A sweeping family epic that took me from one American coast to another…Simpson is so attuned to the family heart.” —Weike Wang, author of... Read more
Künstlers in Paradise
By: Cathleen Schine
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and... Read more
Your Driver Is Waiting
By: Priya Guns
Narrated by: Priya Guns
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Autostraddle, Shondaland, Booklist • In this electrifyingly fierce and funny social satire—inspired by the iconic 1970s film Taxi Driver—a ride share driver is barely holding it together on the hunt for love, dignity, and financial security...until she decides she's done waiting.
“What you are about to read is a call to... Read more
The Queen of Dirt Island
By: Donal Ryan
Narrated by: Emma Lowe
Length: 6 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
“From its opening pages, this book exerts a quiet, propulsive hold over its reader. The three generations of Aylward women will break your heart and then put it back together again.” –Maggie O'Farrell
"This is a generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family." –Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon and Let... Read more
Chaos Theory
By: Nic Stone
Narrated by: Nic Stone & Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens: a certified genius living with a diagnosed mental disorder and a politician's son who is running from his own addiction and grief. Don't miss this gut punch of a novel about mental health, loss, and discovering you are worthy of love.
Scars exist... Read more
Sink
By: Joseph Earl Thomas
Narrated by: Joseph Earl Thomas
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture.
Stranded within an ever-shifting family’s desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled with a mercurial mother mired in crack... Read more
The Black Queen
By: Jumata Emill
Narrated by: Angel Pean & Erin Spencer
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Nova Albright was going to be the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High—but now she's dead. Murdered on coronation night. Fans of One of Us Is Lying and The Other Black Girl will love this unputdownable thriller.
Nova Albright, the first Black homecoming queen at Lovett High, is dead. Murdered the night of her coronation, her body found the... Read more
Sam
By: Allegra Goodman
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “I’ve been an Allegra Goodman fan for years, but Sam is hands down my new favorite. I loved this powerful and endearing portrait of a girl who must summon deep within herself the grit and wisdom to grow up.”—Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
NEW YORK TIMES... Read more
Back in a Spell
By: Lana Harper
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 9 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
An awkward first date leads to a sparkling romance between one of the most powerful witches in town and a magical newbie in this rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback’s a Witch.
Even though she won’t deny her love for pretty (and pricey) things, Nineve Blackmoore is almost painfully down-to-earth and sensible by... Read more
The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly
By: Margareta Magnusson
Narrated by: Natascha McElhone
Length: 3 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.
In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the... Read more
Five Survive
By: Holly Jackson
Narrated by: Emma Galvin
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.
Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.
Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect... Read more
Lavender House
By: Lev AC Rosen
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
"This is a beautiful, satisfying listen."- AudioFile
"Most audiobook readers are familiar with Vikas Adam’s work. He’s a prolific narrator in the YA and romance space and the perfect choice for Lavender House....The narration kept my attention all the way through!"- Bookcrushin'
A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's... Read more
The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.
Fabienne is dead. Her... Read more
Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Simon McBurney
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a... Read more
View audiobookOn the Rooftop
By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more
View audiobookCalifornia Burning
By: Katherine Blunt
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)
A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more
The Last White Man
By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VOGUE, AND NPR
“Perhaps Hamid’s most remarkable work yet … an extraordinary vision of human possibility.” –Ayad Akhtar, author of Homeland Elegies
“Searing, exhilarating … reimagines Kafka’s iconic The Metamorphosis for our racially charged... Read more
Heat Wave
By: TJ Klune
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Heat Wave is the explosive finale to the thrilling and “uproariously funny” (Sophie Gonzales) Extraordinaries trilogy by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author TJ Klune!
Nick, Seth, Gibby, and Jazz are back in action bringing justice, protection, and disaster energy to the people of Nova City.
An unexpected hero returns to Nova City and... Read more
Bad City
By: Paul Pringle
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.
On a cool,... Read more
Crying in the Bathroom
By: Erika L. Sánchez
Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is... Read more
In Her Boots
By: KJ Dell'Antonia
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Chicken Sisters comes a delightfully entertaining story about a ruse that goes awry and a chaotic homecoming that proves that confronting your past can sometimes set you free.
Sometimes you have to go big to go home.
Rhett Gallagher’s adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0,... Read more
The Clackity
By: Lora Senf
Narrated by: Kimberly Woods
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of Doll Bones and Small Spaces, this “delightfully eerie” (Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows) middle grade novel tells the story of a girl who must rescue her aunt by entering a world of ghosts, witches, and monsters to play a game with deadly consequences.
Evie Von Rathe lives in Blight... Read more