Bookseller picks

Kiss of the Fur Queen

By: Tomson Highway

Narrated by: Patricia Cano

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into a magical Cree world in snowy northern Manitoba, Champion and Ooneemeetoo Okimasis are all too soon torn from their family and thrust into the hostile world of a Catholic residential school. Their language is forbidden, their names are changed to Jeremiah and Gabriel, and both boys are abused by priests.

As young men, estranged from... Read more

Motorcycles & Sweetgrass

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

Narrated by: Drew Hayden Taylor

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of magic, family, a mysterious stranger . . . and a band of marauding raccoons.
 
Otter Lake is a sleepy Anishnawbe community where little happens. Until the day a handsome stranger pulls up astride a 1953 Indian Chief motorcycle – and turns Otter Lake completely upside down. Maggie, the Reserve’s chief, is swept off her feet, but Virgil,... Read more

Our Woman in Moscow

By: Beatriz Williams

Narrated by: Nicola Barber & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

""A captivating Cold War page-turner."" — Real SimpleThe New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion.In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked... Read more

Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer

By: Jamie Figueroa

Narrated by: Joana Garcia

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A fableistic, "curious and dazzling" debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for fans of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (Booklist, starred review).



In the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend... 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

Marcus Makes a Movie

By: Kevin Hart

Narrated by: Kevin Hart

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Stand-up comedian and Hollywood box-office hit Kevin Hart keeps the laughs coming in a middle-grade novel about a boy who has big dreams of making a blockbuster superhero film. Perfect for readers of James Patterson's Middle School series and Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate series.
 
Marcus is NOT happy to be stuck in after-school film class . . .... Read more

Satisfaction Guaranteed

By: Karelia Stetz-Waters

Narrated by: Lori Prince

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Casey McQuiston and Abby Jimenez comes a bold, hilarious, and out-of-the-box novel about mixing business with battery-operated pleasure . . .

When it comes to her career, Cade Elgin has it all figured out. Only “professional talk” has become her default mode, relationships are nonexistent, and don’t even mention the word “orgasm.” All... Read more

One Great Lie

By: Deb Caletti

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Four starred reviews!

A “quietly triumphant” (Horn Book Magazine) and atmospheric YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in lush, sultry Venice—from the Printz Honor–winning author of A Heart in a Body in the World.

When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the... Read more

The 2000s Made Me Gay

By: Grace Perry

Narrated by: Grace Perry

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman.

"Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating.” —Anna Drezen, co-head... Read more

The (Un)Popular Vote

By: Jasper Sanchez

Narrated by: TL Thompson

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. Optics can make or break an election. Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned... Read more

Palace of the Drowned

By: Christine Mangan

Narrated by: Emily Pennant-Rea

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Emily Pennant-Rea delivers a first-rate narration of Mangan's intense novel...Pennant-Rea's subtlety and nuance keep the suspense high and the mystery edgy." -- AudioFile Magazine

From the bestselling author of Tangerine, a "taut and mesmerizing follow up...voluptuously atmospheric and surefooted at every turn” (Paula McLain, author of The Paris... Read more

Ridgeline

By: Michael Punke

Narrated by: Amanda Stribling, Michael Punke & Tatanka Means

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes supplemental material read by the author.

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant

In 1866, with the country barely recovered from the Civil War, new war breaks out on the western frontier—a clash of cultures between a young, ambitious nation and the Native tribes who have... Read more

We Are Inevitable

By: Gayle Forman

Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"No one writes about love like Gayle Forman. Lose yourself in her passionate mash note to rock music, indie bookstores and best of all, the miracles that can happen when you take chances on other people." — E. LOCKHART, #1 New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Again Again

A poignant and uplifting novel about the power of... Read more

Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating

By: Adiba Jaigirdar

Narrated by: Reena Dutt & Shubhangi Karmakar

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone likes Humaira "Hani" Khan―she’s easy going and one of the most popular girls at school. But when she comes out to her friends as bisexual, they invalidate her identity, saying she can’t be bi if she’s only dated guys. Panicked, Hani blurts out that she’s in a relationship…with a girl her friends absolutely hate―Ishita "Ishu" Dey. Ishu... Read more

Revival Season

By: Monica West

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about her father that puts her at odds with both her faith and her family in this debut novel.

“Spellbinding…Revival Season should be read alongside Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” —The Washington Post
A... Read more

Day Zero

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure—from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust—noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel’s Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world.It was a day like any other. Except it was our last . . .It’s on this day that... Read more

Made in Korea

By: Sarah Suk

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee & Joy Osmanski

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Frankly in Love meets Shark Tank in this feel-good romantic comedy about two entrepreneurial Korean American teens who butt heads—and maybe fall in love—while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school.

There’s nothing Valerie Kwon loves more than making a good sale. Together with her cousin Charlie, they run V&C... Read more

Running Out

By: Lucas Bessire

Narrated by: John Chancer

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for the National Book Award This audiobook narrated by John Chancer recounts an intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland The Ogallala aquifer has nourished life on the American Great Plains for millennia. But less than a century of unsustainable irrigation farming has taxed much of the aquifer beyond repair.... Read more

Madam

By: Phoebe Wynne

Narrated by: Nathalie Buscombe

Length: 13 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe Wynne's Madam is a riveting, modern gothic debut with shades of The Secret History, The Stepford Wives, and a dash of Circe, set at a secretive all girls’ boarding school perched on a craggy Scottish peninsula.

They want our silence…
They want our obedience…
Let them see our fire burn

For 150 years, high above rocky Scottish cliffs,... Read more

Call Me Indian

By: Fred Sasakamoose

Narrated by: Wilton Littlechild

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"Fred Sasakamoose played in the NHL before First Nations people had the right to vote in Canada. This page turner will have you cheering for 'Fast Freddy' as he faces off against huge challenges both on and off the ice--a great gift to every proud hockey fan, Canadian, and Indigenous person."
--Wab Kinew, Leader of the Manitoba... Read more

The Betrayals

By: Bridget Collins

Narrated by: Bridget Collins, Sam Woolf & Sarah Ovens

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller!“Dizzyingly wonderful . . . a perfectly constructed work of fiction, with audacious twists . . . Collins plays her own game here with perfect skill.” — The Times (UK) An intricate and utterly spellbinding literary epic brimming with enchantment, mystery, and dark secrets from the highly acclaimed author of the #1... Read more

Proof of Life

By: Daniel Levin

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

​“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and despair.”
—Daniel Kahneman, New York Times bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow 
  
“In laying bare the raw human toll of the ferocious and cruel Syrian conflict, Proof of... Read more

Chasing the Thrill

By: Daniel Barbarisi

Narrated by: Daniel Barbarisi

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

“Daniel Barbarisi plunges into an adventure from another era when he goes in search of buried treasure, guided only by a cryptic poem, a mischievous art collector, and the footsteps another pursuer who died on the quest… Every page draws you deeper into this no-man’s-land where fortune—or tragedy—awaits.” —Christopher McDougall, author of Born... Read more

The Summer Job

By: Lizzy Dent

Narrated by: Emma Sidi

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

“My perfect summer read! Sure to be one of the sweetest, funniest, and sexiest books of the year.” —Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation
 
Named a Best Beach Read by Cosmopolitan, Entertainment Weekly, New York Post, Bustle, Country Living, Parade, Fortune, and more.

What if you could be someone else?... Read more