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By: Jason Rekulak
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
“I loved it." —Stephen King
From Jason Rekulak, Edgar-nominated author of The Impossible Fortress, comes a wildly inventive spin on the classic horror story in Hidden Pictures, a supernatural thriller about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.
Fresh out of rehab, Mallory Quinn takes a job as a babysitter... Read more
Radiant Sin
By: Katee Robert
Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
As a disgraced member of a fallen house, Cassandra Gataki has seen firsthand what comes from trusting the venomous Thirteen. But when the maddeningly gorgeous and kind Apollo asks her to go undercover as his plus-one at a week-long party hosted by a dangerous new power player...Cassandra reluctantly agrees to have his back. But she has one... Read more
View audiobookFevered Star
By: Rebecca Roanhorse
Narrated by: Christian Barillas, Darrell Dennis, Cara Gee, N...
Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
USA TODAY Bestseller
Return to The Meridian with New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s sequel to the most critically hailed epic fantasy of 2020 Black Sun—finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, and Locus awards.
There are no tides more treacherous than those of the heart. —Teek saying
The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun... Read more
This Spells Love
By: Kate Robb
Narrated by: Khaya Fraites
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect
A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical... Read more
Kiss Her Once for Me
By: Alison Cochrun
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Romance
A Best New Holiday Romance by PopSugar, BuzzFeed, Refinery29, and more!
The author of the “swoon-worthy debut” (Harper’s Bazaar) The Charm Offensive returns with a festive romantic comedy about a woman who fakes an engagement with her landlord…only to fall for his sister.
One year ago,... Read more
No Two Persons
By: Erica Bauermeister
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik, Braden Wright, Carol Jacobanis,...
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Multi-voiced Performance!
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator.
"The production's 10 outstanding real-life narrators portray the fictional audiobook's author and its nine narrators. Each of the talented real-life narrators brings their character vividly to life."-... Read more
The Atlas Paradox
By: Olivie Blake
Narrated by: Alexandra Palting, Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly,...
Length: 18 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to Olivie Blake's New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six—guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos.
Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.
Five are now members of the Society.
Two paths lay before them.
All must pick a... Read more
One Two Three
By: Laurie Frankel
Narrated by: Emma Galvin, Jesse Vilinsky & Rebecca Soler
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
"The smart choice of narrators Emma Galvin (One), Jesse Vilinsky (Two), and Rebecca Soler (Three) as the Mitchell triplets is entertaining in addition to their amazing synergy." -- Booklist (starred review)
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.
From Laurie Frankel, the New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It... Read more
The Shadow of the Gods
By: John Gwynne
Narrated by: Colin Mace
Length: 18 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed fantasy author John Gwynne comes the first in the Bloodsworn trilogy, an epic of wild lands and wilder magic, where not all monsters fight with tooth and claw...and the treasures of the gods come at a price.
This is the age of storm and murder.
After the old gods warred and drove themselves to extinction, the cataclysm of their... Read more
The Rage of Dragons
By: Evan Winter
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this blockbuster debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival.
Winner of the Reddit/Fantasy Award for Best Debut Fantasy Novel
The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable war for almost two hundred years. The lucky ones are... Read more
Amari and the Night Brothers
By: B. B. Alston
Narrated by: Imani Parks
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a series filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not... Read more
View audiobookHello Stranger
By: Katherine Center
Narrated by: Patti Murin
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
The glorious new novel from the beloved author whose bright, hopelessly romantic New York Times bestsellers have been called “My perfect 10 of a book” (Emily Henry) and cheered for their “speedy pacing and sexual tension for miles” (People).
"Patti Murin offers a fun, vivacious performance of this lively romance...with steady pacing and a... Read more
The Blacktongue Thief
By: Christopher Buehlman
Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
"This irreverent fantasy is narrated superbly by author Christopher Buehlman. Along with his firsthand knowledge of the text and how he means it to be conveyed, Buehlman uses nuance, inflection, and a casual way of saying outrageous things to continually tickle the funny bone." -- AudioFile Magazine
Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized... Read more
The Christmas Murder Game
By: Alexandra Benedict
Narrated by: Ana Clements
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House—the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago—until she receives a letter from her aunt, asking her to return to take part in an annual tradition: the Christmas Game. The challenge? Solve twelve clues to find twelve keys. The prize? The deeds to the manor house.... Read more
View audiobookRabbits
By: Terry Miles
Narrated by: Christine Lakin
Length: 14 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A deadly underground game might just be altering reality itself in this all-new adventure set in the world of the hit Rabbits podcast.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • “A wild ride . . . impossible to put down.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
It’s an average work day. You’ve been wrapped up in a task, and... Read more
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
By: Roshani Chokshi
Narrated by: Steve West & Sura Siu
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
""A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly."" — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House“Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every... Read more
View audiobookMortal Follies
By: Alexis Hall
Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this irresistible sapphic romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material.
“Fresh and delightful . . . All the interpersonal drama of Jane Austen meets all the complex treachery of Greek mythology.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK... Read more
Dinosaurs
By: Lydia Millet
Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
"Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since A Children’s Bible, tells the story of an Arizona man’s relationship with the family next door, whose house has one... Read more
View audiobookThe Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Narrated by: Lee Osorio
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Goodreads, CrimeReads, The Millions, StyleCaster, The EveryGirl, Sunset, Book Riot, and HipLatina
January Recommended Reading by The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Nerd Daily, The Mary Sue, and Reading Between the Spines
“Mesmerizing...wildly entertaining...Gonzalez is a great storyteller, bringing... Read more
A Magic Steeped in Poison
By: Judy I. Lin
Narrated by: Carolyn Kang
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Judy I. Lin's sweeping debut A Magic Steeped in Poison, first in a duology, is sure to enchant fans of Adrienne Young and Leigh Bardugo.
I used to look at my hands with pride. Now all I can think is, "These are the hands that buried my mother."
For Ning, the only thing worse than losing her mother is knowing that it's her own fault. She was the... Read more
Happily Never After
By: Lynn Painter
Narrated by: Helen Laser & Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
Their name? The objectors.
Their job? To break off weddings as hired.
Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.
When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want... Read more
The Light Pirate
By: Lily Brooks-Dalton
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman’s lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world.
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak... Read more
Signal Fires
By: Dani Shapiro
Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of Inheritance: "a haunting, moving, and propulsive exploration of family secrets” (Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings)
Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
A TIME Best Fiction Book of the Year • A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction • A Real Simple Best Book... Read more
Motherthing
By: Ainslie Hogarth
Narrated by: Adina Verson
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
“A quirky, gruesome, utterly original feminist horror experience.” —The New York Times Book Review
When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with... Read more