Newtonville Books

The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR, HARPER'S BAZAAR, VOGUE, THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICE, THE IRISH TIMES, NEW REPUBLIC AND KIRKUS REVIEWS

The New York Times–bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection

“I am... Read more

How to Protect Bookstores and Why

By: Danny Caine

Narrated by: Danny Caine

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why bookstores matter, and how we can help Can bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and sources of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our communities. Danny Caine, author of the... Read more

Holler, Child

By: LaToya Watkins

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt, Aaron Goodson, JD Jackson...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the National Book Award

Winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction

Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction

An extraordinary short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness—from a writer whose “spellbinding, buoyant”* storytelling will break your heart as it tends to the wounds.
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The Great Transition

By: Nick Fuller Googins

Narrated by: Stacy Carolan & Stacy Gonzalez

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me.

Emi Vargas, whose parents helped save the world, is tired of being... Read more

Wonder Boy

By: Angel Au-Yeung & David Jeans

Narrated by: Kurt Kanazawa

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"Kurt Kanazawa presents this absorbing story of the initial success and later downward spiral of Tony Hsieh, tech founder and former CEO of Zappos. Kanazawa's youthful tone and vocal energy connect with Hsieh's wealth and celebrity status without glossing over his descent into drugs, alcohol, and mental health problems."-- AudioFile

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Unraveling

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to... Read more

Pandora

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

Narrated by: Olivia Vinall

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Library Journal Best Book of 2023“Lush, evocative and utterly irresistible.”—Jennifer Saint, author of AriadnePrepare to lift the lid on a lush reimagination of the mythological Pandora….Susan Stokes-Chapman’s atmospheric debut, PANDORA, immerses the reader in the dangerous, mysterious world of ancient antiquities... Read more

Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more

The Racism of People Who Love You

By: Samira Mehta

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds

In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being... Read more

Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible, tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one... Read more

Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions

By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi

Narrated by: Liz Femi & Korey Jackson

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist?“Poignant and beautiful. . . . Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi will sweep you away with these subtle yet profound stories.... Read more

If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

Narrated by: Torian Brackett

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. There are no limits to where Jonathan Escoffery will go." —Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

"Torian Brackett's skillful narration fully embodies the family at the center of... Read more

From Below

By: Darcy Coates

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

No light. No air. No escape.Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits...Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more... Read more

Love Marriage

By: Monica Ali

Narrated by: Ayesha Dharker

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2022 So Far by The New Yorker!

“Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose—they’re all here in this romp of a book.” —Oprah Daily

A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection, Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who... Read more

Night Theater

By: Vikram Paralkar

Narrated by: Raj Ghatak

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A surgeon flees a scandal in the city and accepts a job at a village clinic. He buys antibiotics out of pocket, squashes roaches, and chafes at the interventions of the corrupt officer who oversees his work. But his outlook on life changes one night when a teacher, his pregnant wife, and their young son appear. Killed in a violent robbery, they... Read more

Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe?

By: Brock Clarke

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

With the comic unpredictability of a Wes Anderson movie and the inventive sharpness of a John Irving novel, author Brock Clarke introduces listeners to an ordinary man who is about to embark on an absurdly extraordinary adventure.



After his mother, a theologian and bestselling author, dies in a fiery explosion, forty-nine-year-old Calvin... Read more

Cape May

By: Chip Cheek

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Chip Cheek's intense, erotic debut novel, narrator George Newbern offers perfect voices for innocent newlyweds Henry, 20, and Effie, 18." — AudioFile Magazine

A mesmerizing debut by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by... Read more

Passing Through

By: Colin Channer

Narrated by: Dion Graham, Simon Prebble & Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Waiting in Vain and Satisfy My Soul comes a sexy, witty collection of connected stories set on San Carlos, a tiny island with an old volcano in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that... Read more