Viewpoint Books

Beautiful Ugly

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Tuppence Middleton

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Richard Armitage, best known for his role in The Hobbit film trilogy, and actress Tuppence Middleton, best known for her role in Downton Abbey.

Beautiful Ugly features sound design and special effects to enhance your listening enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the ocean surrounding the island and the tick tock... Read more

The Third Gilmore Girl

By: Kelly Bishop

Narrated by: Kelly Bishop

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show... Read more

Water Moon

By: Samantha Sotto Yambao

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel.

“Race through a lush world of pure wonder and romance—kites made of wishes that become stars, origami that holds time in its folds, and a night market in the... Read more

Nexus

By: Yuval Noah Harari

Narrated by: Vidish Athavale

Length: 17 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

“Striking original . . . A historian whose arguments operate on the scale of millennia has managed to capture the zeitgeist perfectly.”—The Economist

“This deeply important book comes at a critical... Read more

The Teller of Small Fortunes

By: Julie Leong

Narrated by: Phyllis Ho

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna.

Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with just her trusty mule for company. She only tells "small" fortunes: whether it will hail next... Read more

Taste

By: Stanley Tucci

Narrated by: Stanley Tucci

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a Notable Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.

Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the... Read more

Dirtbag Queen

By: Andy Corren

Narrated by: Andy Corren

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "utterly unhinged, hilarious" memoir, a son pays tribute to his larger than life 'zaftig good time gal' mother and his unusual childhood (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author).

“Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me, and I treat it with the same respect and reverence she... 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 • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • 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... Read more

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

By: Haruki Murakami

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

• NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GlOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar... Read more

Sleeping Giants

By: Sylvain Neuvel

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
 
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a... Read more

Furious Hours

By: Casey Cep

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller
 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read more

The Brides of High Hill

By: Nghi Vo

Narrated by: Cindy Kay

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Nghi Vo's Hugo Award–winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a stand-alone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.



"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling." —NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune



"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today." —Taylor Jenkins Reid on Siren Queen



The Cleric Chih accompanies a beautiful... Read more

We Are the Light

By: Matthew Quick

Narrated by: Luke Kirby

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*“A treasure of a novel…read it and be healed.” —Justin Cronin * “Beautifully written and emotion-packed.” —Harlan Coben *

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Linings Playbook—made into the Academy Award–winning movie starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper—a poignant and hopeful novel about a widower who takes in a... Read more

A Little Less Broken

By: Marian Schembari

Narrated by: Marian Schembari

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

One woman’s decades-long journey to a diagnosis of autism, and the barriers that keep too many neurodivergent people from knowing their true selves

Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she’d spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why... Read more

The Queens of Crime

By: Marie Benedict

Narrated by: Bessie Carter

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by actor Bessie Carter, best known for her role as Prudence Featherington on the Netflix series Bridgerton.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Mystery of Mrs. Christie—a thrilling story of the five greatest women writers of the Golden Age of Mystery and their bid to solve a real-life murder.

London, 1930.... Read more

When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Helen Laser, James Fouhey & Tim Campbell

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if redemption and atonement can be found in embracing what we most fear.

We bear the sword, and we bear the pain of the sword.

Pain is Dymitr’s calling. His family is one in a long line of hunters who... Read more