Bookseller picks

Beautiful Bad

By: Annie Ward

Narrated by: Xe Sands, Vivienne Leheny & Paul Fox

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A devoted wife, a loving husband and a chilling murder that no one saw coming.

Things that make me scared: When Charlie cries. Hospitals and lakes. When Ian drinks vodka in the basement. ISIS. When Ian gets angry… That something is really, really wrong with me.

Maddie and Ian’s love story began with a chance encounter at a party overseas; he was... Read more

The New Me

By: Halle Butler

Narrated by: Halle Butler

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

“Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest and Relaxation + anxious sweating = The New Me.” —Entertainment Weekly

I'm still trying to make the dream possible: still might finish my cleaning project, still might sign up for that yoga class,... Read more

Radical Kindness

By: Angela Santomero

Narrated by: Angela Santomero & Michael David Axtell

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The beloved creator of Blues Clues and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and protégé of Fred Rogers explores the importance of kindness and how it can change your life in this essential guide and tie-in to the PBS special, “The Power of Radical Kindness.”Angela C. Santomero, the creator, executive producer, and head writer of many of today’s most... Read more

The River

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship... Read more

The Last Woman in the Forest

By: Diane Les Becquets

Narrated by: Emily Rankin, Robert Fass, Rebecca Lowman, Alex...

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller about a woman whose greatest threat could be the man she loves.…

Marian Engström has found her true calling: working with rescue dogs to help protect endangered wildlife. Her first assignment takes her to northern Alberta, where she falls in love with... Read more

The Lady from the Black Lagoon

By: Mallory O'Meara

Narrated by: Mallory O''Meara & Mallory O'Meara

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography

A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist

Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award

The Los Angeles Times Bestseller

A Thrillist Best Book of the Year

A Book Riot Best Book of 2019

One of Booklist’s 10 Best Art Books of the Year

The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of... Read more

Four Dead Queens

By: Astrid Scholte

Narrated by: Amy Shiels & Elizabeth Knowelden

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Four dead queens. Three days to catch a killer. Two forbidden romances.
One shocking twist you won’t see coming.

Seventeen-year-old Keralie Corrington may seem harmless, but she’s, in fact, one of Quadara’s most skilled thieves and a liar. Varin, on the other hand, is an honest, upstanding citizen of Quadara’s most enlightened region, Eonia. He... Read more

Vacuum in the Dark

By: Jen Beagin

Narrated by: Jayme Mattler

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Whiting Award–winning author of Pretend I’m Dead and one of the most exhilarating new voices in fiction, a “thoroughly delightfully, surprisingly profound” (Entertainment Weekly) one-of-a-kind novel about a cleaning lady named Mona and her struggles to move forward in life.

Soon to be an FX television show starring Lola Kirke.

Mona is... Read more

In the Dark

By: Cara Hunter

Narrated by: Lee Ingleby & Emma Cunniffe

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From internationally bestselling author of Murder in the Family, a riveting suspense novel about the shocking secrets revealed when a woman is discovered held captive behind a basement wall—and no one is who they appear to be

Do you know what they’re hiding in the house next door?

A woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive,... Read more

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls

By: Anissa Gray

Narrated by: January LaVoy, Adenrele Ojo, Bahni Turpin & Dom...

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“If you enjoyed An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls...an absorbing commentary on love, family and forgiveness.”—The Washington Post 

“A fast-paced, intriguing story...the novel’s real achievement is its uncommon perceptiveness on the origins and variations of addiction.”—The New York Times... Read more

Trigger

By: David Swinson

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Forced to retire from the D. C. police, newly minted P.I. Frank Marr is recovering from rock bottom when a friend asks for help -- and now, he must revisit the dark, drug-fueled world he left behind.
Ostracized by his family after a botched case that led to the death of his baby cousin, Jeffrey, Frank was on a collision course with catastrophe. ... Read more

Leading Men

By: Christopher Castellani

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

"A timeless and heartbreaking love story." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere

"An extraordinary book." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida

Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century - Tennessee Williams and his longtime... Read more

The Last Thing You Surrender

By: Leonard Pitts, Jr.

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?



Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.



An... Read more

Connections in Death

By: J. D. Robb

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In this gritty and gripping new audiobook in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York.

Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter. They know that the hard life can lead kids toward... Read more

Bowlaway

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley.

From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a... Read more

The Girls at 17 Swann Street

By: Yara Zgheib

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] tour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection" — Booklist, starred review

**A People Pick for Best New Books**

Yara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an... Read more

The Ruin of Kings

By: Jenn Lyons

Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Soneela Nankani & Vikas Adam

Length: 27 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everything epic fantasy should be: rich, cruel, gorgeous, brilliant, enthralling and deeply, deeply satisfying. I loved it."—Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians

Jenn Lyons begins the Chorus of Dragons series with The Ruin of Kings, an epic fantasy audiobook about a man who discovers his fate is tied to the future of an empire.

When destiny... Read more

The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Australian narrator Stephen Shanahan returns for another knockout performance...It's a slow and bleak affair, but no less enthralling than Harper's and Shanahan's previous efforts." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone... Read more

When You Read This

By: Mary Adkins

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.Iris Massey is gone.
But she’s left something behind.For four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by... Read more

Sea Monsters

By: Chloe Aridjis

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomás, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking—recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomás may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track... Read more

The World According to Fannie Davis

By: Bridgett M. Davis

Narrated by: Bridgett M. Davis

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty... Read more

The Falconer

By: Dana Czapnik

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick

“A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, The... Read more

The Lost Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace ...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

Three women. One daring mission.

1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the... Read more

Spin

By: Lamar Giles

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Shawana Carter & Sisi Aisha Johnson

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in murder, the music lives on.When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the local music scene reeling. No one is feeling that grief more than her shunned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and ParSec's chief groupie, Fuse -- two sworn enemies who happened to be the ones who discovered her body. The... Read more