Bookseller picks

The Refrigerator Monologues

By: Catherynne M. Valente

Narrated by: Karis A. Campbell

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The lives of six female superheroes and the girlfriends of superheroes. A ferocious riff on women in superhero comics.



From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic... Read more

Five-Carat Soul

By: James McBride

Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Nile Bullock, Prentice Onayemi & ...

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017

“A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King... Read more

Caroline

By: Sarah Miller

Narrated by: Elizabeth Marvel

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In this novel authorized by the Little House estate, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before—Caroline Ingalls, ""Ma"" in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved Little... Read more

The Ninth Hour

By: Alice McDermott

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Euan Morton's] steady, gentle delivery allows McDermott's elegant prose to shine. It's a quiet story about love and sacrifice that manages to be extremely moving without becoming sentimental or maudlin. Morton's performance similarly brims with emotion but never overflows." — AudioFile magazine

A magnificent new audiobook from one of America’s... Read more

The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs

By: Janet Peery

Narrated by: Juliana Francis Kelly

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Janet Peery’s first novel, The River Beyond the World, was a National Book Award finalist in 1996. Acclaimed for her gorgeous writing and piercing gaze into the hearts of people, Peery now returns with a new, unflinching audiobook, The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs.

On a summer evening in the blue-collar town of Amicus, Kansas, the Campbell family... Read more

Thanks, Obama

By: David Litt

Narrated by: David Litt

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRemember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama’s eight years in the White House were defined by young... Read more

Autonomous

By: Annalee Newitz

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut!

Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar.

Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin... Read more

Ranger Games

By: Ben Blum

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times 

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
 
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in... Read more

Warcross

By: Marie Lu

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“A vibrant, action-packed shot of adrenaline.”—Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The Hunger Games meets Minecraft.”—Seventeen

From #1 New York Times bestselling author—when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths.

For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn’t... Read more

Life on Mars

By: Tracy K. Smith

Narrated by: Tracy K. Smith

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. These poems reveal the realities of life lived here, on the... Read more

The Twelve-Mile Straight

By: Eleanor Henderson

Narrated by: Allyson Johnson

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Henderson, an audacious American epic set in rural Georgia during the years of the Depression and Prohibition.Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: in a house full of secrets, two babies--one light-skinned, the other dark--are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper’s daughter. Accused of her rape, field... Read more

The Vengeance of Mothers

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks & Erik Steele

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Narrator Laura Hicks] captures the compelling emotions of these desperate women as they escape their former lives of hardship and dare to dream of a freedom they haven't yet known." — Booklist, starred review

The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women.

9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil... Read more

Forest Dark

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller • A New York Times Notable BookNamed Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Times Literary Supplement, Elle Magazine, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Financial Times, Guardian, Refinery29, PopSugar, and Globe and Mail""A brilliant novel. I am full of admiration."" —Philip Roth""One of America’s most important novelists"" (New York... Read more

Love and Other Consolation Prizes

By: Jamie Ford

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Jamie Ford

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel, inspired by a true story, about a boy whose life is transformed at Seattle’s epic 1909 World’s Fair.

“An evocative, heartfelt, beautifully crafted story that shines a light on a fascinating, tragic bit of forgotten history.”—Kristin Hannah, author... Read more

The Other Alcott

By: Elise Hooper

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Elise Hooper’s debut novel conjures the fascinating, untold story of May Alcott—Louisa’s youngest sister and an artist in her own right.We all know the story of the March sisters, heroines of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. But while everyone cheers on Jo March, based on Louisa herself, Amy March is often the least favorite sister. Now, it’s... Read more

Genuine Fraud

By: E. Lockhart

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"A brilliant, twisty thriller--I loved it!" —KAREN M. MCMANUS, bestselling author of One of Us is Lying

From the author of We Were Liars, which John Green called "utterly unforgettable," comes a mind-bending, New York Times bestselling thriller told in reverse.

"Compulsively readable." —Entertainment Weekly

"An addictive and shocking feminist... Read more

The World of Tomorrow

By: Brendan Mathews

Narrated by: Graham Halstead

Length: 18 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

One whirlwind week of love, blackmail, and betrayal follows three brothers through teeming prewar New York in this "entertaining . . . outsized . . . big, expressive debut" (Wall Street Journal).

June 1939. Francis Dempsey and his shell-shocked brother, Michael, are on an ocean liner from Ireland bound for their brother Martin's home in New York... Read more

The Tender Bar

By: J. R. Moehringer

Narrated by: Adam Grupper & Daniel Thomas May

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy’s Life and The Liar’s Club—with a new Afterword.

J.R. Moehringer grew up... Read more

The Child Finder

By: Rene Denfeld

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s ‘Deliverance’ encased in ice… Denfeld’s novel is indeed loaded with suspense, its resonance comes from its surprising tilt towards storytelling restraint, a rarity in this typical crackling genre. Elegiac, informative and disquieting. . . . The novel gallops to a suitably heart-racing finish.” — New York Times Book ReviewA haunting, richly... Read more

Coming to My Senses

By: Alice Waters

Narrated by: Alice Waters

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant.
 
When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley,... Read more

George and Lizzie

By: Nancy Pearl

Narrated by: Nancy Pearl

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.

George and Lizzie are a couple, meeting as college students and marrying soon after graduation, but no one would ever describe them of being soulmates. George grew up in... Read more

Sea of Rust

By: C. Robert Cargill

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic ""robot western"" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic.It’s been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots.... Read more

A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares

By: Krystal Sutherland

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Our Chemical Hearts comes the hilarious, reality-bending tale of two outsiders facing their greatest fears about life and love—one debilitating phobia at a time.

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Ever since Esther Solar’s grandfather was cursed by Death, everyone in her family has been doomed to suffer one great fear in their lifetime. Esther’s... Read more

The Hidden Light of Northern Fires

By: Daren Wang

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a poignant and authentic tone, narrator Robin Miles brings her love of the theater to the fore in the telling of a little-known true chapter of the Civil War...Miles gives a compelling and very human voice to a time of strife and redemption." — AudioFile Magazine

Rooted in the history of the only secessionist town north of the Mason Dixon... Read more