Bookseller picks

The Innocents

By: Michael Crummey

Narrated by: Mary Lewis

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

People Magazine Book of the Week

"Extraordinary."--Wall Street Journal
"Gripping."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room
"Dazzling."--Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek
"Fantastic."--Kevin Powers, author of Yellow Birds and A Shout in the Ruins
"Brilliant."--Ron Rash, author of Serena

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding... Read more

Not the Girl You Marry

By: Andie J. Christopher

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days gets a millennial makeover in this romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Andie J. Christopher.

“The way Jack sets out to win Hannah back is really the stuff of true romance.”—NPR

Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy,... Read more

The Accomplice

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!

Named “The Book of the Year” by Lee Child in The Guardian

From “master of the genre” (The Washington Post) and author of Leaving Berlin, a heart-pounding and intelligent espionage novel about a Nazi war criminal who was supposed to be dead, the rogue CIA agent on his trail, and the beautiful woman... Read more

Vernon Subutex 1

By: Virginie Despentes

Narrated by: Christopher Harper

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the provocative writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes comes volume one of her acclaimed trilogy of novels, Vernon Subutex—short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize and the basis for the TV series of the same name. But who is Vernon Subutex?

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Paris,... Read more

Legacy of Ash

By: Matthew Ward

Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton

Length: 28 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Legacy of Ash is an unmissable fantasy debut--an epic tale of intrigue and revolution, soldiers and assassins, ancient magic and the eternal clash of empires.   A shadow has fallen over the Tressian Republic.   Ruling families -- once protectors of justice and democracy -- now plot against one another with sharp words and sharper knives.... Read more

Smoke Screen

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Blackstock's intense and twisty story will please fans of her faith-grounded crime dramas." --Publishers WeeklyTerri Blackstock, the "queen of Christian suspense" (CBA Market) delivers a riveting story of the secrets and lies that are too close to home. One father was murdered. Another was convicted of his death. And all because their children... Read more

On Swift Horses

By: Shannon Pufahl

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi

A Lambda Literary Award Finalist and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

“Cinematic . . . The spaces she creates for her characters . . . have the aura of realms.” —The New York Times Book Review

A lonely newlywed and her wayward brother-in-law follow... Read more

Finding Chika

By: Mitch Albom

Narrated by: Mitch Albom

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Performed by Mitch Albom with Chika’s voice featured throughout. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake... Read more

Ordinary Girls

By: Jaquira Diaz

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A fierce, beautiful, and unflinching memoir from a wildly talented debut author



While growing up in housing projects in Puerto Rico and Miami Beach, Jaquira Díaz found herself caught between extremes: as her family split apart and her mother battled schizophrenia, she was surrounded by the love of her friends; as she longed for a family and... Read more

The Only Harmless Great Thing

By: Brooke Bolander

Narrated by: Courtney Patterson

Length: 2 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novelette



Finalist for the Hugo, Locus, Shirley Jackson, and Sturgeon Awards



The Only Harmless Great Thing is a heart-wrenching alternative history by Brooke Bolander that imagines an intersection between the Radium Girls and noble, sentient elephants.



In the early years of the twentieth century, a group of... Read more

Astro Poets

By: Alex Dimitrov & Dorothea Lasky

Narrated by: Alex Dimitrov & Dorothea Lasky

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alternately narrated with just the right amount of earnestness and snark by the two authors, this audiobook eschews the heavy-handedness of some astrologers in favor of a playful approach...The audiobook is accessible to listeners who are not astrology aficionados and is a whole lot of fun." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the... Read more

The Kids in the Hall

By: Paul Myers

Narrated by: Paul Myers

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It's finally here—the definitive, authorized story of legendary sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Meticulously researched and written with the full cooperation and participation of the Kids by critically acclaimed biographer and comedy aficionado Paul Myers, The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy features exclusive interviews with Dave... Read more

A Month in Siena

By: Hisham Matar

Narrated by: Hisham Matar

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
 
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND EVENING STANDARD

After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy. Always... Read more

Lakota America

By: Pekka Hamalainen

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and... Read more

The Queens of Animation

By: Nathalia Holt

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, the untold, "richly detailed" story of the women of Walt Disney Studios, who shaped the iconic films that have enthralled generations (Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Figures).

From Snow White to Moana, from Pinocchio to Frozen, the animated films of Walt... Read more

Twice in a Blue Moon

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Erin Mallon

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners and the “delectable, moving” (Entertainment Weekly) My Favorite Half-Night Stand comes a modern love story about what happens when your first love reenters your life when you least expect it…

Sam Brandis was Tate Jones’s first: Her first love. Her first everything. Including her... Read more

All This Could Be Yours

By: Jami Attenberg

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“All hail Jami Attenberg, the queen of dysfunctional families.” —Refinery29“Big Little Lies meets Succession in the scorching heat of the Big Easy . . . Money, power and family are touched upon through Attenberg’s emotional, humorous and sharply written accounts.” —Parade“This is how you write a very good novel about a very bad man.” —New York... Read more

Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Glenn Davis

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“With Your House Will Pay, Steph Cha has taken a dark moment in Los Angeles’s violent history and cracked it wide open, creating a prism of understanding—of the pull of generational violence and its enduring devastation, but also of the power of human grace against all odds. It’s a touching portrait of two families bound together by a... Read more

Celestial Bodies

By: Jokha Alharthi

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated to Canada.

These three women and their families, their losses and loves, unspool beautifully... Read more

Life Undercover

By: Amaryllis Fox

Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times

Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more

The Infinite Game

By: Simon Sinek

Narrated by: Simon Sinek

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, a bold framework for leadership in today’s ever-changing world.
 
How do we win a game that has no end? Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games... Read more

Erosion

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist

In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of... Read more

Marley

By: Jon Clinch

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author of Finn “digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature” (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this “clever riff” (The Washington Post) on Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

“Marley was dead, to begin... Read more

The Geography of Nowhere

By: James Howard Kunstler

Narrated by: Al Kessel

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In elegant and often hilarious prose, Kunstler depicts our nation's evolution from the Pilgrim settlements to the modern auto suburb in all its ghastliness. The Geography of Nowhere tallies up the huge economic, social, and spiritual costs that America is paying for its car-crazed lifestyle. It is also a wake-up call for citizens to reinvent the... Read more