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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 12 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
"A gorgeous, aching love letter to stories, storytellers and the doors they lead us through...absolutely enchanting."--Christina Henry, bestselling author of Alice and Lost Boys
LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER!Finalist for the 2020 Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards
In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of... Read more
Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Chosen as a best book of the year by The New York Times | Time | NPR | USA Today | Elle | Harper’s Bazaar | Town & Country | Vogue | BBC | POPSUGAR | Goodreads | theSkimm
“The season’s first beach read, a delicious romp of a debut featuring family crises galore.”— The New York... Read more
My Mother's Boyfriends: Stories
By: Samantha Schoech
Narrated by: Samantha Schoech
Length: 5 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
For lovers of Catherine Newman, Lorrie Moore, and Ottessa Moshfegh comes a debut collection of 14 insightful, witty, and often laugh-out-loud stories.My Mother’s Boyfriends is populated by angels, earthquakes, sibling complexity, love affairs gone bad, and children left to figure it out on their own. Woven throughout is an abiding sympathy for... Read more
View audiobookBeowulf: A New Translation
By: Maria Dahvana Headley
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Maria Dahvana Headley
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
"Narrator JD Jackson addresses his listener as "bro" in this decidedly contemporary retelling of the classic saga...His brilliant performance captures all the artistry, wit, and immediacy of this fresh translation, and breathes new life into what for most has been a literary fossil." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner
A new,... Read more
The Mercies
By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani).
Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen,... Read more
"Cat Person" and Other Stories
By: Kristen Roupenian
Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will D...
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
*Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film*
A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.
“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado,... Read more
Motherhood
By: Sheila Heti
Narrated by: Sheila Heti
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring audiobook about whether to have children.
In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential... Read more
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
By: Denis Johnson
Narrated by: Nick Offerman, Michael Shannon, Dermot Mulroney...
Length: 5 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden is the long-awaited new story collection from Denis Johnson. Written in the luminous prose that made him one of the most... Read more