Bookseller picks

Contagion

By: Teri Terry

Narrated by: Laura Aikman & Kathryn Drysdale

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss this startling first book in a breathtaking new trilogy from Teri Terry, queen of the YA psychological thriller and author of the best-selling Slated trilogy! Urgent! An epidemic is sweeping the country. You are among the infected. There is no cure, and you cannot be permitted to infect others. You are now under quarantine. The 5... Read more

The Lightest Object in the Universe

By: Kimi Eisele

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

What if the end times allowed people to see and build the world anew? This is the landscape that Kimi Eisele creates in her surprising and original debut novel. Evoking the spirit of such monumental love stories as Cold Mountain and the creative vision of novels like Station Eleven, The Lightest Object in the Universe tells the story of what... Read more

The Chain

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

When a mother is targeted by a dangerous group of masterminds, she must commit a crime to save her kidnapped daughter—or risk losing her forever—in this "propulsive and original" award-winning thriller (Stephen King).

It's something parents do every morning: Rachel Klein drops her daughter at the bus stop and heads into her day. But a cell phone... Read more

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

By: Abbi Waxman

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant USA Today bestseller!

“Abbi Waxman is both irreverent and thoughtful.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin

“Meet our bookish millennial heroine—a modern-day Elizabeth Bennet, if you will… Waxman’s wit and wry humor stand out. She is funny and imaginative, and “Bookish” lands a step above run-of-the-mill romantic comedy... Read more

The Flight Girls

By: Noelle Salazar

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

“I read well into the night, unable to stop. The book is unputdownable.”—Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Heart-breaking, validating, exciting.”—Hypable

“Rich historical detail...this saga has it all.”—Woman’s... Read more

Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea

By: Sarah Pinsker

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea is one of the most anticipated science fiction and fantasy collections of recent years. Pinsker has shot like a star across the firmament with stories multiply nominated for awards as well as Sturgeon and Nebula Award wins.



In the baker's dozen stories gathered here, listeners travel to the past and... Read more

Very Nice

By: Marcy Dermansky

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous novelist who is seduced by them both.

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but with his long eyelashes, his silky hair, and the sad, beautiful life he... Read more

Whisper Network

By: Chandler Baker

Narrated by: Almarie Guerra

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“Honest, timely, and completely thrilling.” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick)

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a... Read more

Patsy

By: Nicole Dennis-Benn

Narrated by: Sharon Gordon

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible... Read more

We Walked the Sky

By: Lisa Fiedler

Narrated by: Erin Spencer

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, multigenerational story about two teenagers: Victoria, who joins the circus in 1965, and her granddaughter, Callie, who leaves the circus fifty years later. Perfect for fans of This is Us.

In 1965 seventeen-year-old Victoria, having just escaped an unstable home, flees to the ultimate place for dreamers and runaways--the circus.... Read more

A Nearly Normal Family

By: M. T. Edvardsson

Narrated by: Emily Watson, Georgia Maguire & Richard Armitage

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix Limited Series

New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue)

M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal... Read more

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

By: Felicity McLean

Narrated by: Cat Gould

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered song, and when one came back, she wasn’t the one we were trying to recall to begin with."



Tikka Malloy was eleven and one-sixth years old during the long hot summer of 1992, living in an Australian suburb with her sister and their three best friends.... Read more

Kingdom of Exiles

By: Maxym M. Martineau

Narrated by: Brian Pallino & Jennifer O'Donnell

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

My heart wasn't part of the deal when I bargained for my life, But assassins so rarely keep their word. Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts-an offense punishable by death-and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at... Read more

Technically, You Started It

By: Lana Wood Johnson

Narrated by: Katie Koster, Christian Barillas & Full Full Cast

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A hilarious, snarky, and utterly addicting #ownvoices debut that explores friendship, sexual orientation, mental health, and falling in love (even if things might be falling apart around you).When a guy named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II texts you, it should be obvious who you're talking to. Except there's two of them (it's a long story), and... Read more

Finding Mrs. Ford

By: Deborah Goodrich Royce

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny summer morning by the sea in New England, Susan Ford’s cocoon of privilege is threatened when an Iraqi man from her distant past boards a plane in Baghdad to come find her.Mrs. Ford leads a privileged life. From her Blenheim spaniels to her cottage on the coast of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, she carefully curates her world. Hair in... Read more

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

By: Jackson Ford

Narrated by: Lauren Patten & Graham Halstead

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Full of imagination, wit, and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an irreverent new voice will blow your tiny mind.
For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real.
Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers -- a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her... Read more

The Travelers

By: Regina Porter

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“American history comes to vivid, engaging life in this tale of two interconnected families (one white, one black) that spans from the 1950s to Barack Obama’s first year as president. . . . The complex, beautifully drawn characters are unique and indelible.”—Entertainment Weekly

“An astoundingly audacious debut.”—O: The Oprah Magazine • “A... Read more

The Cutting Room

By: Ashley Dyer

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver, introduced in the electrifying Splinter in the Blood, must stop a serial killer whose victims are the centerpiece of his macabre works of art.While Britain is obsessed with the newest hit true-crime television show, Fact, or Fable? detectives Ruth Lake and Greg Carver are tormented by a fiendish... Read more

Summer of '69

By: Elin Hilderbrand

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the '60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrand's #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel.
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward... Read more

FKA USA

By: Reed King

Narrated by: Dan Bittner & Peter Ganim

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"An epically concocted apocalyptic vision of America in all its faded glory." — Kirkus

"...a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a kitchen sink quest story that reads like someone's high school RPG session gone full-on Technicolor bonkers.” — NPR.org

Reed King’s amazingly audacious audiobook is something of a cross between L.... Read more

The Tenth Muse

By: Catherine Chung

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A RECOMMENDED BOOK OF 2019 FROM:
Buzzfeed * The Rumpus * Entertainment WeeklyThe first thing I remember being said of me with any consistency was that I was intelligent—and I recognized even then that it was a comment leveled at me with as much disapproval as admiration. Still, I never tried to hide or suppress my mind as some girls do, and thank... Read more

The Last Resort

By: Marissa Stapley

Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Lucky, A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK!

NAMED ONE OF 2019’S BEST BEACH READS BY Oprah Magazine • New York Post • PopSugar • The Globe and Mail

FEATURED IN Us Weekly • Parade • Hollywood Reporter • Chatelaine

“Marissa Stapley’s writing is a gift.”—Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author

Miles Markell is missing, and everyone is a... Read more

The Girl in Red

By: Christina Henry

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.

It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come out at night: critters and coyotes, snakes and wolves. But the woman in the red jacket has... Read more

Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT

"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason... Read more