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Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Length: 11 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â A REESEâS BOOK CLUB PICK ⢠READ BY MERYL STREEPIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of Americaâs finest writers.âPatchett leads us to a truth that feels like life rather than literature.â âThe GuardianIn the spring of 2020, Laraâs three... Read more
View audiobookSay Nothing
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU â˘Â NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER â˘Â From the author of Empire of Painâa stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.
One of The New York Timesâs 20 Best Books of the 21st Century
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"Masked intruders... Read more
Circe
By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).
In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not... Read more
Wintering
By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERÂ
âKatherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.â âKrista Tippett, On Being
âEvery bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.â âElizabeth Gilbert Â
"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving... Read more
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."âAudioFile Magazine
In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their... Read more
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER ⢠A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north in this âincredibly fun journey through fae lands and dark magicâ (NPR), the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
âA darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.ââSangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of... Read more
Mexican Gothic
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â˘Â âItâs Lovecraft meets the BrontĂŤs in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.ââThe Guardian
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ONE OF TIMEâS 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME ⢠WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD ⢠NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity... Read more
The Vanishing Half
By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES ⢠THE WASHINGTON POST ⢠NPR ⢠PEOPLE ⢠TIME MAGAZINE ⢠VANITY FAIR ⢠GLAMOUR
New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
2021 WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST
âBennettâs tone and style recalls James Baldwin and... Read more
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Narrated by: Arina Ii
Length: 6 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
*NOW ANÂ LA TIMES BESTSELLER*
*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*
*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*
If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a cafĂŠ that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffeeâthe... Read more
Hood Feminism
By: Mikki Kendall
Narrated by: Mikki Kendall
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
âThe fights against hunger, homelessness, poverty, health disparities, poor schools, homophobia, transphobia, and domestic violence are feminist fights. Kendall offers a feminism rooted in the livelihood of everyday women.â âIbram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, in The... Read more
A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Jennifer Pickens
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Callâa dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's "The Goose Girl," rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesnât have any doors between roomsâthere are no secrets in this houseâand... Read more
Weyward
By: Emilia Hart
Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley & Nell Barlow
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
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"A spellbinding story about what may transpire when the natural world collides with a legacy of witchcraft."
âSarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary
"Narrators Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley, and Nell Barlow are a magical, moving trio. Their emotional and expressive performance of the parallel... Read more
The Guest List
By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife Mc...
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKâI loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.â â Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient""Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classicsâŚPay close attention... Read more
View audiobookThe Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Awardâwinning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small... Read more
View audiobookThe Only One Left
By: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Dawn Harvey
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a summer book to watch by The Washington Post, Boston Globe, USA Today, Oprah, Paste, Country Living, Good Housekeeping, and Nerd Daily
"Propulsive ... a dizzying Gothic whodunit."
âNew York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to... Read more
Wandering Stars
By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cue...
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE ⢠The Pulitzer Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty."The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange... Read more
View audiobookThe Queen
By: Nick Cutter
Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill & Pete Sim...
Length: 12 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
âOne of the hottest horror authors on the planetâ (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.
On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She... Read more
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
âAbsolutely charming... a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.â â Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride TestTalia Hibbert, one of contemporary romanceâs brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman whoâs tired of being âboringâ and recruits her... Read more
View audiobookStamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
By: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Jason Reynolds
Length: 4 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller!
A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep... Read more
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Ginnifer Goodwin & Kevin Wilson
Length: 6 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives foreverSixteen-year-old Frankie Budgeâaspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat lonerâis determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a... Read more
View audiobookThe 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
By: Stuart Turton
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The Rules of Blackheath
Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.
We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.
Understood? Then let's begin . . .
Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every... Read more
How the Word Is Passed
By: Clint Smith
Narrated by: Clint Smith
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
This compelling #1 New York Times bestseller examines the legacy of slavery in Americaâand how both history and memory continue to shape our everyday lives.
Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarksâthose that are honest about the past and those that are notâthat... Read more
The Splendid and the Vile
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: John Lee & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post ⢠HuffPost ⢠The Seattle Times ⢠Lit Hub ⢠The Week ⢠PopSugar
On Winston Churchillâs first day as... Read more
Hell Followed with Us
By: Andrew Joseph White
Narrated by: Shaan Dasani, Graham Halstead & Avi Roque
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.
"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." âThe New York Times
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run... Read more