Bookseller picks

Jackie and Maria

By: Gill Paul

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a story of love, passion, and tragedy as the lives of Jackie Kennedy and Maria Callas are intertwined—and they become the ultimate rivals, in love with the same man.
The President's Wife; a Glamorous Superstar; the rivalry that shook the world...Jackie Kennedy was beautiful, sophisticated,... Read more

Impersonation

By: Heidi Pitlor

Narrated by: Dylan Moore

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“By turns revealing, hilarious, dishy, and razor-sharp, Impersonation lives in that rarest of sweet spots: the propulsive page-turner for people with high literary standards.” —Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers

Allie Lang is a professional ghostwriter and a perpetually broke single mother to a young boy. Years of navigating her own... Read more

Grown Ups

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

Narrated by: Chloe Massey

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“[E]ssential reading for our dismal times.” —The Wall Street Journal
One of Bustle’s “Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020”
Good Housekeeping’s “25 New Fall Books You Have to Read This Season”
Lit Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2020”

Fleabag meets Conversations with Friends in this brutally honest, observant,... Read more

Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything

By: Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

Narrated by: Inés del Castillo

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“In a world where we are so often dividing ourselves into us and them, this book feels like a kind of magic, celebrating all beliefs, ethnicities, and unknowns.” —The New York Times Book Review

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets Roswell by way of Laurie Halse Anderson in this astonishing, genre-bending novel about a... Read more

Coraline

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neus Sendra

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Acompaña a Coraline y déjate transportar al mundo de fantasía y terror creado por el premiado autor Neil Gaiman. «Damas y caballeros, niñas y niños, pónganse en pie y aplaudan: Coraline es una obra maestra.»
Philip Pullman, The Guardian Al día siguiente de mudarse de casa, Coraline explora las catorce puertas de su nuevo hogar. Trece se pueden... Read more

The Girl and the Ghost

By: Hanna Alkaf

Narrated by: Mirai Booth-Ong

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

* Chosen as a 2020 Kirkus Prize Finalist for Young Readers' Literature! *A Malaysian folk tale comes to life in this emotionally layered, chilling middle grade debut, perfect for fans of The Book of Boy and The Jumbies. I am a dark spirit, the ghost announced grandly. I am your inheritance, your grandmother’s legacy. I am yours to command.... Read more

How to Argue With a Racist

By: Adam Rutherford

Narrated by: Adam Rutherford

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Race is not a biological reality. Racism thrives on our not knowing this.



Racist pseudoscience is on the rise—fueling hatred, feeding nationalism, and seeping into our discourse on everything from sports to intelligence. Even the well-intentioned repeat stereotypes based on "science," because cutting-edge genetics are hard to grasp—and all too... Read more

Universe of Two

By: Stephen P. Kiernan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of The Baker’s Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemption—a fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician... Read more

The Buddhist on Death Row

By: David Sheff

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row.

Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was... Read more

The Eighth Detective

By: Alex Pavesi

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dizzying, dazzling… When did you last read a genuinely original thriller? The wait is over."
—A.J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective.

Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked all the rules out –... Read more

True Story

By: Kate Reed Petty

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh, Alexander Cendese & Cassandra Cam...

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“A gripping, ripped-from-headlines tale.” —People 

“Spellbinding.” —Megan Abbott, The New York Times Book Review 

Tracing the fifteen-year fallout of a toxic high school rumor, a riveting, astonishingly original debut novel about the power of stories—and who gets to tell them

2015. A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living... Read more

Paris Never Leaves You

By: Ellen Feldman

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Masterful. Magnificent. A passionate story of survival and a real page turner. This story will stay with me for a long time." —Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey

Living through World War II working in a Paris bookstore with her young daughter, Vivi, and fighting for her life, Charlotte is no victim, she is a... Read more

The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals

By: Becky Mandelbaum

Narrated by: Tim Paige, Rebekkah Ross & Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a “heartwarming and sharp-witted debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are tested in the wake of an estranged daughter’s homecoming.

The... Read more

Lobizona

By: Romina Garber

Narrated by: Sol Madariaga

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garber’s gorgeous novel combines the wonder of a Hogwarts-style magic school with the Twilight-esque dynamics of a hidden magical species that has strict rules about interacting with the human world." -- BOOKLIST (Starred Review)

Some people ARE illegal.

Lobizonas do NOT exist.

Both of these statements are false.

Manuela Azul has been crammed... Read more

Scary Stories for Young Foxes

By: Christian McKay Heidicker

Narrated by: Christian McKay Heidicker

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

THE HAUNTED SEASON HAS ARRIVED IN THE ANTLER WOOD. NO FOX KIT IS SAFE.Seven little foxes in the twisted Antler Wood, listening to stories much later than they should.THE FIRST flees the teacher with dark, gooey eyes.THE SECOND from six sisters whose tongues tell lies.THE THIRD escapes a woman who peels foxes’ skins.THE FOURTH slinks away from... Read more

Crossings

By: Alex Landragin

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Raphael Corkhill

Length: 24 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Landragin's Crossings is an unforgettable and explosive genre-bending debut—a novel in three parts, designed to be read in two different directions, spanning a hundred and fifty years and seven lifetimes.

*To listen to this novel straight through, just play the program from the beginning. To listen to the Baroness Sequence, start with... Read more

The Butterfly Lampshade

By: Aimee Bender

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in ten years from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake, a luminous, poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, mental illness, and the fluctuating barrier between the mind and the world

On the night her single mother is taken to a mental hospital after a psychotic episode, eight... Read more

Afterland

By: Lauren Beukes

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 14 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "smartly written" and "splendid" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Stephen King).

Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues—but a world... Read more

Fathoms

By: Rebecca Giggs

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction * Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

A “delving, haunted, and poetic debut” (The New York Times Book Review) about the awe-inspiring lives of whales, revealing what they can teach us about... Read more

Deep Delta Justice

By: Matthew Van Meter

Narrated by: Brad Sanders

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for 2021 Audie Award in History/Biography

The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou

2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist

The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).

In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary... Read more

The Suicide House

By: Charlie Donlea

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting new novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips. Inside the walls of Indiana’s elite Westmont Preparatory High School, expectations run high and rules are strictly enforced.... Read more

The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows

By: Olivia Waite

Narrated by: Morag Sims

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When Agatha Griffin finds a colony of bees in her warehouse, it’s the not-so-perfect ending to a not-so-perfect week. Busy trying to keep her printing business afloat amidst rising taxes and the suppression of radical printers like her son, the last thing the widow wants is to be the victim of a thousand bees. But when a beautiful beekeeper... Read more

A Star Is Bored

By: Byron Lane

Narrated by: Noah Galvin

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Noah Galvin, who starred in The Good Doctor, Dear Evan Hansen, The Real O'Neals, and Booksmart.

"A Star is Bored is an absolute knockout. Riotously funny and wickedly tender."
— Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six

People Magazine Best Book of Summer 2020 - Named a Must-Read... Read more

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

By: Laura van den Berg

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears draws listeners into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories that linger in the mouth and mind like rotten, fragrant fruit. Both timeless and urgent, these eleven stories confront misogyny, violence, and the impossible economics of America with van den Berg's trademark spiky humor and surreal eye. Moving from... Read more