Bookseller picks

The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

By: Juliet Grames

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 16 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For Stella Fortuna, death has always been a part of life. Stella’s childhood is full of strange, life-threatening incidents—moments where ordinary situations like cooking eggplant or feeding the pigs inexplicably take lethal turns. Even Stella’s own mother is convinced that her daughter is cursed or haunted.In her rugged Italian village, Stella... Read more

Cape May

By: Chip Cheek

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

"In Chip Cheek's intense, erotic debut novel, narrator George Newbern offers perfect voices for innocent newlyweds Henry, 20, and Effie, 18." — AudioFile Magazine

A mesmerizing debut by Chip Cheek, Cape May explores the social and sexual mores of 1950s America through the eyes of a newly married couple from the genteel south corrupted by... Read more

Mama's Boy

By: Dustin Lance Black

Narrated by: Dustin Lance Black

Length: 14 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal.

Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as... Read more

The Invited

By: Jennifer McMahon

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin & Justine Eyre

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house--they build one....

In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on... Read more

Walking on the Ceiling

By: Aysegül Savas

Narrated by: Mozhan Marnò

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation for the irrationality of existence..." -- The New York Times

"I fell in love with this book." -- Katie Kitamura, author of A Separation

A mesmerizing novel set in Paris and a changing Istanbul, about a young Turkish woman grappling with her past and... Read more

D-Day Girls

By: Sarah Rose

Narrated by: Sarah Rose

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II

“Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true.”—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White... Read more

Dear Boy

By: Paris Rosenthal & Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Paris Rosenthal

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Dear Girl, by beloved children’s book author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and her daughter, Paris Rosenthal.Paris Rosenthal teams up with her father, Jason Rosenthal, the author of the Modern Love article “My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me,” to bring you the heartwarming and inspirational Dear... Read more

Courting Mr. Lincoln

By: Louis Bayard

Narrated by: Robert Fass & Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at... Read more

I Know Who You Are

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alice Feeney's latest thriller is a compelling listen...Narrator Stephanie Racine deftly portrays characters from a variety of regions and classes across the U.K. and Ireland. She shines in this first-person narration, capturing Aimee's self-doubt, worry and determination." — BookPage

From the New York Times and international bestselling author... Read more

A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

By: C. A. Fletcher

Narrated by: C. A. Fletcher

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A "suspenseful, atmospheric tale. . .punctured by a gut-punch twist" (Entertainment Weekly), A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World is a story of survival, courage and hope amid the ruins of our world.

My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, and in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football.... Read more

The Accidental Veterinarian

By: Philipp Schott

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

With insight and humor, Dr. Philipp Schott shares tales from the unlikely path he took into his career of veterinary science and anecdotes from his successful small-animal clinic. Dr. Schott brings to his writing the benefit of many years of expertise. Wisdom he imparts on listeners includes the best way to give your cat a pill, how to prevent... Read more

The Parisian

By: Isabella Hammad

Narrated by: Fiona Button

Length: 20 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle for independence. Midhat Kamal is the son of a wealthy textile... Read more

The Mister

By: E L James

Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn & Jessica O'Hara-Baker

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller—a thrilling new romance from E L James, author of the phenomenal bestselling Fifty Shades Trilogy.

London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he’s never had to work and he’s rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim... Read more

No Country for Old Gnomes

By: Kevin Hearne & Delilah S. Dawson

Narrated by: Luke Daniels

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Go big or go gnome. The New York Times bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy welcome you to the world of Pell, the irreverent fantasy universe that recalls Monty Python and Terry Pratchett.
 
“A complete delight, as fluffy and fun as The Lego Movie and as heartfelt as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”—Locus

War is coming, and it’s gonna... Read more

Next Level Basic

By: Stassi Schroeder

Narrated by: Stassi Schroeder

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover how to embrace your best basic self in this instant New York Times bestselling, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and “refreshing to read” (The Cut) guidebook from the breakout star of Bravo’s hit reality show Vanderpump Rules.

Millions of Vanderpump Rules viewers and podcast listeners know Stassi Schroeder as a major defender of Basic Bitch... Read more

Lost Roses

By: Martha Hall Kelly

Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Tavia Gilbert, Karissa Vacker & ...

Length: 15 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls introduced the real-life heroine Caroline Ferriday. Now Lost Roses, set a generation earlier and also inspired by true events, features Caroline’s mother, Eliza, and follows three equally indomitable women from St. Petersburg to Paris under the shadow of World War I.

“A nuanced tale that speaks to the... Read more

The Book of Dreams

By: Nina George

Narrated by: Steve West, Elizabeth Knowelden & Xalvador Tin-...

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Warm, wise, and magical—the latest novel by the bestselling author of THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP and THE LITTLE FRENCH BISTRO is an astonishing exploration of the thresholds between life and death

Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the... Read more

Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein

Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.” —Questlove
 
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with twenty... Read more

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

By: Saidiya Hartman

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes that altered the character of everyday... Read more

The Magnetic Girl

By: Jessica Handler

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Andrew Eiden

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In rural North Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father’s bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural... Read more

All for One

By: Melissa de la Cruz

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this dazzling finale to the trilogy that began with the New York Times bestselling Alex & Eliza: A Love Story, the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler

1785. New York, New York.
     As a young nation begins to take shape, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler are on top of the world. They're... Read more

Trust Exercise

By: Susan Choi

Narrated by: Adina Verson, Jennifer Lim & Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

“Electrifying” (People) • “Masterly” (The Guardian) • “Dramatic and memorable” (The New Yorker) • “Magic” (TIME) • “Ingenious” (The Financial Times) • "A gonzo literary performance” (Entertainment Weekly) • “Rare and splendid” (The Boston Globe) • “Remarkable” (USA Today) • “Delicious” (The New York... Read more

I Miss You When I Blink

By: Mary Laura Philpott

Narrated by: Mary Laura Philpott

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
One of Esquire’s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
One of NPR’s Favorite Books of the Year
One of the Year’s Most Anticipated Books: BuzzFeed, Bustle, HelloGiggles, Literary Hub, She Reads

“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean... Read more

A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

By: Ann Beattie

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah Magazine

A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel--the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie--about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love

At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben... Read more