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The Fifth Season
By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)
This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.
It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent,... Read more
The Demon of Unrest
By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Will Patton & Erik Larson
Length: 17 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los Angeles Times).
“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best,... Read more
Legends & Lattes
By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
"Even nonfantasy listeners will enjoy hanging out at the intersection of coffeehouse culture and Dungeons & Dragons, and hope that Baldree fails to shake his new writing habit." - The Seattle Times
This program is read by the author.
The much-beloved BookTok sensation, Travis Baldree's Legends & Lattes is novel of high fantasy and low... Read more
Just for the Summer
By: Abby Jimenez
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Zachary Webber & Abby Jimenez
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A sharp and scintillating summer novel that will make readers laugh out loud and cry happy tears from the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly. Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his... Read more
View audiobookI Have Some Questions for You
By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of 2023 by The Washington Post, People, USA Today, NPR, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, The Boston Globe, CrimeReads and more
“A twisty, immersive whodunit perfect for fans of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History.” —People
"Spellbinding." —The New York Times Book Review
"[An] irresistible literary... Read more
Someone You Can Build a Nest In
By: John Wiswell
Narrated by: Carmen Rose
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and... Read more
View audiobookTable for Two
By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & J. Smith-Cameron
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
“A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York Times
“Superb ... This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef’s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all,... Read more
The Dawn of Everything
By: David Graeber & David Wengrow
Narrated by: Mark Williams
Length: 24 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
"An all-encompassing treatise on modern civilization, offering bold revisions to canonical understandings in sociology, anthropology, archaeology and political philosophy that led to where we are today." - The New York Times
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social... Read more
Dune
By: Frank Herbert
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Orlagh Cassidy, Euan Morton, Simon...
Length: 21 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Stellan Skarsgård, and Charlotte Rampling
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would... Read more
An Unfinished Love Story
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Narrated by: Doris Kearns Goodwin
Length: 17 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Doris Kearns Goodwin with the star of Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston! The audio edition also includes archival recordings of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Robert F. Kennedy.
The #1 New York Times bestseller from “America’s historian-in-chief” (New York magazine).
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by... Read more
Cloud Cuckoo Land
By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021
On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more
“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post... Read more
Nightbitch
By: Rachel Yoder
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING AMY ADAMS • In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture
One... 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 Call—a 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 doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and... Read more
Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
Narrated by: Ari Fliakos, Dani Martineck, Micky Shiloah, Mic...
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Instant New York Times bestseller!A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and The Cabin at the End of the World.In June 1993, a group of young guerilla filmmakers spent four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror flick.The weird part? Only three of the film’s... Read more
View audiobookBookshops & Bonedust
By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 8 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
"Read by the author, a talented and animated fantasy narrator who also voiced Legends, the book presents a colorful cast of new and familiar characters that is sure to ensorcell and delight listeners." —Booklist
When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need... Read more
On Tyranny
By: Timothy Snyder
Narrated by: Timothy Snyder
Length: 1 hour 47 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)
“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has... Read more
The Mercy of Gods
By: James S.A. Corey
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse, James S. A. Corey, comes the start of a monumental new space opera series. HOW HUMANITY CAME TO THE PLANET CALLED ANJIIN IS LOST IN THE FOG OF HISTORY, BUT THAT HISTORY IS ABOUT TO END.The Carryx—part empire, part hive—has waged wars of conquest for centuries,... Read more
View audiobookA Gentleman in Moscow
By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Length: 17 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers—Now a Paramount+ with Showtime series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who... Read more
Educated
By: Tara Westover
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
“Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”—The New York... Read more
The Hunter
By: Tana French
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 16 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A New York Times Bestseller • A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year (So Far) • An NPR Favorite Fiction Read of 2024 • A Parade Best Book of 2024 So Far • A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year (So Far) • Named a Best Beach Read of 2024 by Entertainment Tonight and Harper’s Bazaar
“Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French... Read more
Incidents Around the House
By: Josh Malerman
Narrated by: Delanie Nicole Gill
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
“Simply put—and I do not say this lightly—Incidents Around the House is the most purely effective horror novel I have ever read.”—Neil McRobert, Esquire (Best Horror Books of 2024, So Far)
A chilling horror novel about a haunting, told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,”... Read more
Get a Life, Chloe Brown
By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
“Absolutely charming... a flawless balance of humor, heat, sweetness, and depth, and I loved every page.” – Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Bride TestTalia Hibbert, one of contemporary romance’s brightest new stars, delivers a witty, hilarious romantic comedy about a woman who’s tired of being “boring” and recruits her... Read more
View audiobookSapiens
By: Yuval Noah Harari
Narrated by: Derek Perkins
Length: 15 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21st Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill GatesOfficial U.S. edition From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the... 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."
—New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Riley Sager returns with a Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to... Read more