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Running Is a Kind of Dreaming
By: J. M. Thompson
Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life.“Voluntary or involuntary?” asked the nurse who admitted J. M. Thompson to a San Francisco psychiatric hospital in January 2005. Following years of depression, ineffective medication, and therapy that went nowhere, Thompson feared he was... Read more
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The Morning Star
By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Mia Barron, Michael Braun, A...
Length: 23 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Last night a new star appeared in the sky. The morning star. I know what it means. It means that it has begun.One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Their friend Egil has his own place nearby. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her... Read more
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The Magician
By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Gunnar Cauthery
Length: 16 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek
From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the... Read more
Everything I Have Is Yours
By: Eleanor Henderson
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
"Vacker's insightful presentation introduces listeners to this debilitating disease and its effects on marriage and family." - AudioFile Magazine
From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson comes a turbulent love story meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author’s twenty-year marriage defined by her husband’s... Read more
Songbirds
By: Christy Lefteri
Narrated by: George Georgiou, Indira Varma, Art Malik & Loli...
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
“A beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class, that flags the frank truth of the life of migrant workers for whom a flight to freedom can become the most finely woven trap.”—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways
From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo comes... Read more
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
By: Rodrigo Garcia
Narrated by: Rodrigo Garcia
Length: 2 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“(Garcia) now honors his parents in this brief yet profound memoir rendered all the more intimate in García's own voice.”—Booklist (starred review)“This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García... Read more
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Godspeed
By: Nickolas Butler
Narrated by: Jon Orsini
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Longlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
In this riveting new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Shotgun Lovesongs, three troubled construction workers get entangled in a dangerous plan against an impossible deadline.
Why is it being built here, and why so quickly? These are the questions Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three... Read more
The Bright Book of Life
By: Harold Bloom
Narrated by: Stephen Mendel
Length: 21 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition—from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man—in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.
In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom—who for more than half a century was... Read more
More Miracle than Bird
By: Alice Miller
Narrated by: Polly Lee
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife and Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, Alice Miller's sweeping debut novel charts the love story of two of literature’s most fascinating characters: Georgie Hyde-Lees and her husband, W. B. Yeats.On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is introduced to... Read more
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Sontag
By: Benjamin Moser
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read more
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A Pure Heart
By: Rajia Hassib
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"Hassib, herself an Egyptian immigrant living in West Virginia, articulates the full-bodied chorus of Egypt's voices."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Exquisite. . . . Anchoring the story is a pair of Cairo-born sisters whose fates spin in radically different directions in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. . . . A lovely novel that does a... Read more
Call Your Daughter Home
By: Deb Spera
Narrated by: Robin Miles, Adenrele Ojo & Brittany Pressley
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
Featured on Oprah’s Summer Reading List
For readers of Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees, this extraordinary historical debut novel follows three fierce Southern women in an unforgettable story of motherhood and womanhood.
It’s 1924 in Branchville, South Carolina and three women have come to a... Read more
Friday Black
By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Corey Allen & Carra Patterson
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it's like to be young and black in America. From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By... Read more
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The Terrible
By: Yrsa Daley-Ward
Narrated by: Yrsa Daley-Ward & Howard Daley-Ward
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the PEN Ackerley Prize • Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award
“Devastating and lyrical.” —The New York Times
“Suspenseful and affecting.” —The New Yorker
From the celebrated poet behind bone, a collection of poems that tells a story of coming-of-age, uncovering the cruelty and beauty of the world, going under, and finding... Read more
Devotion
By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, an inspired exploration of the nature of creative invention.A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of... Read more
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The Tender Bar
By: J. R. Moehringer
Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Daniel Thomas May
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword.
J.R. Moehringer grew up... Read more
The Guest Cat
By: Takashi Hiraide
Narrated by: David Shih
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of... Read more
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Our Souls at Night
By: Kent Haruf
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 3 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
In the familiar setting of Holt, Colorado, home to all of Kent Haruf’s inimitable fiction, Addie Moore pays an unexpected visit to a neighbor, Louis... Read more
The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño
Narrated by: Eddie Lopez & Armando Durán
Length: 26 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a... Read more
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The Crying of Lot 49
By: Thomas Pynchon
Narrated by: George K Wilson
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal... Read more
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