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![How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063072671_1120.jpg)
![How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063072671_1120.jpg)
How High We Go in the Dark
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Brian Nishii, Keisuke Hoashi, Mac...
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review""Haunting and luminous . . .... Read more
View audiobook![The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549119736_1120.jpg)
![The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549119736_1120.jpg)
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
![How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135250_1120.jpg)
![How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135250_1120.jpg)
How to Be Perfect
By: Michael Schur
Narrated by: Michael Schur, Kristen Bell, D'Arcy Carden, Ted...
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawing on 2,500 years of deep thinking from around the world. Read by the author, this one-of-a-kind audio production features guest appearances by members of the cast of The Good Place.
Most people think... Read more
![A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250824851_1120.jpg)
![A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250824851_1120.jpg)
A Marvellous Light
By: Freya Marske
Narrated by: David Thorpe
Length: 14 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin and
Edwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm." -- Booklist, starred review
An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!
An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best... Read more
![City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert](http://covers.libro.fm/9781984888471_1120.jpg)
![City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert](http://covers.libro.fm/9781984888471_1120.jpg)
City of Girls
By: Elizabeth Gilbert
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.
"A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own... Read more
![Real Americans by Rachel Khong](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593825945_1120.jpg)
![Real Americans by Rachel Khong](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593825945_1120.jpg)
Real Americans
By: Rachel Khong
Narrated by: Louisa Zhu, Eric Yang & Eunice Wong
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA’S MAY BOOK CLUB PICK • From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our futures?
"Mesmerizing"—Brit... Read more
![Little Weirds by Jenny Slate](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549142352_1120.jpg)
![Little Weirds by Jenny Slate](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549142352_1120.jpg)
Little Weirds
By: Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).
You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of... Read more
![Devil House by John Darnielle](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250818942_1120.jpg)
![Devil House by John Darnielle](http://covers.libro.fm/9781250818942_1120.jpg)
Devil House
By: John Darnielle
Narrated by: John Darnielle
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
This program will include original music from the author and his bandmate Matt Douglas from The Mountain Goats.
"Darnielle brings a lyrical, literary tone to a novel that's part crime, part horror and wholly original."- Bookpage
From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an... Read more
![The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549150289_1120.jpg)
![The Third Rainbow Girl by Emma Copley Eisenberg](http://covers.libro.fm/9781549150289_1120.jpg)
The Third Rainbow Girl
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an... Read more
![The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135458_1120.jpg)
![The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797135458_1120.jpg)
The School for Good Mothers
By: Jessamine Chan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel
Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize
Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2022!
In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young... Read more
![An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525641797_1120.jpg)
![An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525641797_1120.jpg)
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
By: Hank Green
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh & Hank Green
Length: 9 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” —San Francisco Chronicle
In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green—cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow—spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a... Read more
![Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063084957_1120.jpg)
![Ophie’s Ghosts by Justina Ireland](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063084957_1120.jpg)
Ophie’s Ghosts
By: Justina Ireland
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation makes her middle grade debut with a sweeping tale of the ghosts of our past that won’t stay buried, starring an unforgettable girl named Ophie, performed by Audible Hall-of-Famer Bahni Turpin.Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the... Read more
View audiobook![Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063140202_1120.jpg)
![Be a Revolution by Ijeoma Oluo](http://covers.libro.fm/9780063140202_1120.jpg)
Be a Revolution
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important... Read more
View audiobook![Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797145310_1120.jpg)
![Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797145310_1120.jpg)
Fight Like Hell
By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
This revelatory and inclusive book “unearths the stories of the people—farm laborers, domestic workers, factory employees—behind some of the labor movement’s biggest successes” (The New York Times) from independent journalist and Teen Vogue labor columnist Kim Kelly.
Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South.... Read more
![Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797136172_1120.jpg)
![Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott](http://covers.libro.fm/9781797136172_1120.jpg)
Bomb Shelter
By: Mary Laura Philpott
Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Editors’ Choice
One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
“A beautifully wrought ode to life…a precious gift to the world.” —The Washington Post
From the bestselling author of I Miss You When I Blink comes a poignant and powerful new memoir that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope.
As a... Read more
![Fight Night by Miriam Toews](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705046685_1120.jpg)
![Fight Night by Miriam Toews](http://covers.libro.fm/9781705046685_1120.jpg)
Fight Night
By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.
“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more
![Seek You by Kristen Radtke](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593460832_1120.jpg)
![Seek You by Kristen Radtke](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593460832_1120.jpg)
Seek You
By: Kristen Radtke
Narrated by: Kristen Radtke
Length: 1 hour 58 minutes
Abridged: No
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This—a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society. • One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2021
There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of... Read more
![Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593154496_1120.jpg)
![Oak Flat by Lauren Redniss](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593154496_1120.jpg)
Oak Flat
By: Lauren Redniss
Narrated by: Lauren Redniss, Darrell Dennis, Kyla Garcia, Ki...
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the... Read more
![Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062958914_1120.jpg)
![Wandering in Strange Lands by Morgan Jerkins](http://covers.libro.fm/9780062958914_1120.jpg)
Wandering in Strange Lands
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more
View audiobook![The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata](http://covers.libro.fm/9781488207822_1120.jpg)
![The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata](http://covers.libro.fm/9781488207822_1120.jpg)
The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
By: Michael Zapata
Narrated by: Coral Peña
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*
A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of 2020
A Most Anticipated Book of 2020 from the Boston Globe and The Millions
A Best Book of February 2020 at Salon, The Millions, LitHub and Vol 1.... Read more
![Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593155745_1120.jpg)
![Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith](http://covers.libro.fm/9780593155745_1120.jpg)
Year of the Monkey
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Riveting, elegant, and humorous, New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times.
Following a run of new year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds herself tramping the coast of Santa Cruz, about to embark on a year of solitary wandering. Unfettered by... Read more
![My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing](http://covers.libro.fm/9781984846822_1120.jpg)
![My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing](http://covers.libro.fm/9781984846822_1120.jpg)
My Lovely Wife
By: Samantha Downing
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
USA Today bestseller
Edgar + ITW Thriller Award nominee for Best First Novel
“Think: Dexter but sexier.”—theSkimm
“A dark and irresistible debut.”—People
“Will shock even the savviest suspense readers.”—Real Simple
Dexter meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this wildly compulsive debut... Read more
![The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525638025_1120.jpg)
![The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh](http://covers.libro.fm/9780525638025_1120.jpg)
The Water Cure
By: Sophie Mackintosh
Narrated by: Hannah Murray, Gemma Whelan & Morfydd Clark
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR • GLAMOUR • GOOD HOUSEKEEPING • LIT HUB • THRILLIST
King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are protected from the chaos and violence of men on the mainland. The... Read more
![In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781478995845_1120.jpg)
![In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt](http://covers.libro.fm/9781478995845_1120.jpg)
In the House in the Dark of the Woods
By: Laird Hunt
Length: 5 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.
"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has... Read more
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