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All of Us Villains

By: Amanda Foody & C. L. Herman

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick...

You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games.
Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil.

After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the remote city of Ilvernath is thrust into worldwide... Read more

Gilded

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Rebecca Soler brings this YA adaptation of Rumpelstiltskin to life. . . This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." - AudioFile Magazine

In Gilded, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer returns to the fairytale world with this haunting tale.

Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a... Read more

The Death of Jane Lawrence

By: Caitlin Starling

Narrated by: Mandy Weston

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Best Books of 2021 · NPR
ALA/The Reading List Best Horror 2021 Pick
Longlisted for the Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a Novel, 2021

From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror—The Death of Jane Lawrence.

"Narrator Mandy Weston's cool narration is the perfect match to this tale, making the... Read more

Ishmael

By: Daniel Quinn

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Morgan Freeman

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.
 
“A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our species on the planet . . . laid out for us with an... Read more

Nowhere Girl

By: Cheryl Diamond

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .

To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a... Read more

Dead Dead Girls

By: Nekesa Afia

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“In this terrific series opener, Afia evokes the women’s lives in all their wayward and beautiful glory, especially the abruptness with which their dreams, hopes and fears cease to exist.”--The New York Times

The start of an exciting new historical mystery series set during the Harlem Renaissance from debut author Nekesa Afia

Harlem, 1926. Young... Read more

Hot Stew

By: Fiona Mozley

Narrated by: Nneka Okoye

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ELMET

“Stunningly clever . . . A deliciously spicy stew indeed.” —Entertainment Weekly

“A story about money and power, love and art, sex work and gentrification . . . Enjoyable and impressive on every page.” —USA Today

In the middle of the bustle of London’s Soho, among the theaters and sex shops and... Read more

Gay Bar

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As gay bars continue to close at an alarming rate, a writer looks back to find out what’s being lost in this indispensable, intimate, and stylish celebration of history. In the era of Grindr and same-sex marriage, gay bars are closing down at an alarming rate. What, then, was the gay bar? Set between Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, Gay... Read more

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Derrick Magolski

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The Great Gatsby: An Exquisitely Crafted 1920s American Tale of Life-Long Obsessions & Ceaseless Devotions“So, we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”On the prosperous Long Island shores sit the grand affluence of West Egg and East Egg — places where a sinister Gatsby’s mansion, with his mysterious... Read more

The Appointment

By: Katharina Volckmer

Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review

For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more

Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country

By: Emily Tesh

Narrated by: Cornell Collins & Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Silver in the Wood



There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.



When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry... Read more

Emma

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Nuria Mediavilla

Length: 16 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin Clásicos rescata esta obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las novelas más importantes de Jane Austen, en una cuidada edición. Traducción de José María Valverde Introducción de Fiona Stafford, profesora de la Universidad de Oxford Obra maestra de la narrativa del siglo XIX y una de las grandes novelas de Jane Austen, Emma... Read more

This Is Chance!

By: Jon Mooallem

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster—and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together

“A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”—BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year)

In the... Read more

Recollections of My Nonexistence

By: Rebecca Solnit

Narrated by: Rebecca Solnit

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography
Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing

An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses

In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her... Read more

Reputation

By: Sara Shepard

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Allyson Ryan, Phoebe Strole, Bri...

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this perfectly-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, the women of a tight-knit college town learn through gossip, scandal, betrayal, and even murder, who their neighbors and husbands really are.

Aldrich University is rocked to its core when a hacker dumps 40,000 people's e-mails—the... Read more

The Geography of Nowhere

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the... Read more

Native Tongue

By: Suzette Haden Elgin

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1984, this classic dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action.

In 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to be perfect interstellar... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more

Band Sinister

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Cornell Collins

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Philip Rookwood is the disgrace of the county. He's a rake and an atheist, and the rumours about his hellfire club, the Murder, can only be spoken in whispers. (Orgies. It's orgies.)



Guy Frisby and his sister Amanda live in rural seclusion after a family scandal. But when Amanda breaks her leg in a riding accident, she's forced to recuperate... Read more

The City in the Middle of the Night

By: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrated by: Jennifer O'Donnell & Laura Knight Keating

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But... Read more

Southern Discomfort

By: Tena Clark

Narrated by: Tena Clark

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

“Southern Discomfort is a raw, thought-provoking examination of privilege, racism, sexism, the masks we wear to conform to society’s expectations, and the journey toward authentic identity.” —Read with Us: Caste, An Oprah’s Book Club Discussion Guide

For fans of beloved memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, a “raw and deeply honest”... Read more

Small Spaces

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Renee Dorian

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic.

After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the... Read more

The Bad Seed

By: William March

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.



There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers... Read more

Witchmark

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Samuel Roukin

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Lammy Award!

C. L. Polk arrives on the scene with Witchmark, a stunning, addictive fantasy that combines intrigue, magic, betrayal, and romance. The New York Times calls it “thoroughly charming and deftly paced … an accomplished... Read more