Bookseller picks

Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.

Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect... Read more

The Intimate City

By: Michael Kimmelman

Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best

As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more

Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus."- AudioFile

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other... Read more

None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this “laugh-out-loud gem” (Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling) of a debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband’s affair and an approaching hurricane.

Ramona has a bratty boss, a potty-training toddler, a... Read more

Dickens and Prince

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and... Read more

Paperback Jack

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering cheap excitement for the common man and woman. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like... Read more

I'm Wearing Tunics Now

By: Wendi Aarons

Narrated by: Wendi Aarons

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and hilarious memoir about second acts, self-acceptance, and celebrating what happens when a woman gets older, wiser, and a lot more excited by sales at Eileen Fisher.
A late bloomer who came to her career later in life, humorist Wendi Aarons shares the joys, stumbles, and outfit mishaps she’s experienced on her road to no longer giving... Read more

The Wilderwomen

By: Ruth Emmie Lang

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Anna Caputo draws listeners into Lang's novel immediately, suggesting that this story has more depth than the plot at first might lead one to believe."- AudioFile

"Exquisitely drawn characters imbue Lang’s unconventional plot with verisimilitude and heart, inspiring readers to ponder whether the world is stranger and more beautiful... Read more

The Fall of Númenor

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Brian Sibley & Samuel West

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of... Read more

The Q

By: Amy Tintera

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia & Robbie Daymond

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their only chance for survival.

Seventeen-year-old Maisie Rojas has spent her entire life in the Q—a post-pandemic quarantine zone that was once... Read more

Cursed

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by longtime series narrator, Rebecca Soler.

“When it comes to reimagined fairy tales, the reigning queen of the genre is Marissa Meyer.” —The New York Times

Be still now, and I will tell you a tale.

#1 New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer brings the haunting fairytale-inspired Gilded duology to a thrilling conclusion... Read more

Blackwater Falls

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls are largely disregarded. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee—the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader—is... Read more

Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...

Narrated by: Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bah...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance—by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout!As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic... Read more

Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man

By: Emily J. Edwards

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city’s top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won’t marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. It... Read more

Dawnlands

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Palace intrigue, defiant heroism, and a long-awaited love fulfilled from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory in her Fairmile series.

It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do... Read more

Punk Paradox

By: Greg Graffin

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins & Greg Graffin

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution.  Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums,... Read more

Every Word You Never Said

By: Jordon Greene

Narrated by: Tyler Pirrung

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacob Walters′s dad has worked to make his son′s life a living hell. But when the cute new transfer student suffers his father′s wrath, Jacob must make the hardest decisions of his life.Skylar Gray is adopted, nonverbal, and he feels most comfortable wearing skirts. Life has never been easy, but with a fresh start at a brand-new school, with new... Read more

The Ones We Burn

By: Rebecca Mix

Narrated by: Roisin Rankin

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant New York Times bestseller!

Love and duty collide in this richly imagined young adult debut about a witch whose dark powers put her at the center of a brewing war between the only family she’s ever known and the enemy who makes her question everything. Featuring a brand-new short story and character art!

Monster. Butcher. Bloodwinn.
... Read more

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Ewan Goddard

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. 

Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have... Read more

The Prisoner

By: B.A. Paris

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With Behind Closed Doors, New York Times bestselling author B. A. Paris took the psychological thriller to shocking new heights. Now she’ll hold you captive with THE PRISONER—a stunning new thriller about one woman wed into a family with deadly intentions.

Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it... Read more

My First Popsicle

By: Zosia Mamet

Narrated by: Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Da...

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.

Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter... Read more

Gilded Mountain

By: Kate Manning

Narrated by: Dawn Harvey

Length: 16 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“Immersive…awe-inspiring.” —The New York Times “An epic story of love, hope, and perseverance.” — #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline

This “stellar read” (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who bravely exposes the corruption that enriched her father’s employers in early 1900s... Read more

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

Narrated by: Franny Choi

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending,... Read more

Toad

By: Katherine Dunn

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Delaine has the perfect deadpan narration that conveys the hopelessness of our protagonist."- Booklist

Sally Gunnar has withdrawn from the world.

She spends her days alone at home, reading drugstore mysteries, polishing the doorknobs, waxing the floors. Her only companions are a vase of goldfish, a garden toad, and the door-to-door salesman who... Read more