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The Woman in the Dunes

By: Kobo Abe

Narrated by: Julian Cihi

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel.
 
After missing the last bus home following a day trip to the seashore, an amateur entomologist is offered lodging for the night at the bottom of a vast sand pit. But when he attempts to leave the next morning, he... Read more

Tomorrow Will Be Different

By: Sarah McBride

Narrated by: Sarah McBride

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A brave, powerful memoir” (People) that will change the way we look at identity and equality in this country, from the activist elected as the first openly transgender member of Congress in U.S. history

“The energy and vigor Sarah has brought to the fight for equality is ever present in this book.”—Vice President Kamala Harris

“If you’re living... Read more

The Ritual

By: Adam Nevill

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With... Read more

House of Names

By: Colm Toibin

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson, Charlie Anson & Pippa Nixon

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year
* Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch

From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—“brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in... Read more

Welcome to Your World

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings,... Read more

Our Mathematical Universe

By: Max Tegmark

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and... Read more

I Am Malala

By: Malala Yousafzai

Narrated by: Archie Panjabi

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

As seen on Netflix with David Letterman
"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday."

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to... Read more

Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

His extraordinary debut, Those across the River, was hailed as "genre-bending Southern horror" (California Literary Review) and "graceful [and] horrific" (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth.And Lucifer said, "Let us rise... Read more

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private... Read more

Arguably

By: Christopher Hitchens

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 28 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"All first-rate criticism first defines what we are confronting," the late, great jazz critic Whitney Balliett once wrote. By that measure, the essays of Christopher Hitchens are in the first tier. For nearly four decades, Hitchens has been telling us, in pitch-perfect prose, what we confront when we grapple with first principles-the principles... Read more

Wise Blood

By: Flannery O’Connor

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of twentieth-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith. He falls under the spell of a “blind” street preacher named Asa Hawks and his degenerate fifteen-year-old daughter. In an... Read more

A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of twentieth-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.In a nightmarish, ruined... Read more