Bookseller picks

The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

By: Cherise Wolas

Narrated by: Michael Dickes & Gabra Zackman

Length: 19 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"That I got so worked up about a person who doesn't exist is a testament to Cherise Wolas's success in creating a complex and distinct fictional character." — The New York Times Book Review

I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just married believes as I do—work is paramount, absolutely no... Read more

Bull

By: David Elliott

Narrated by: Korey Jackson & Cherise Boothe

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

SEE THE STORY OF THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT Minos thought he could Pull a fast one On me, Poseidon! God of the Sea! But I'm the last one On whom you Should try such a thing. The nerve of that guy. The balls. The audacity. I AM THE OCEAN! I got capacity! Depths! Darkness! Delphic power! So his sweet little plan Went big-time... Read more

Home: Where Everyone Is Welcome

By: Deepak Chopra, Kabir Sehgal & Paul Avgerinos

Narrated by: Deepak Chopra

Length: 2 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and composed by immigrants and first generation Americans, Home provides a stronger sense of welcome and belonging for everyone.
The United States is composed of and built by immigrants, and it has been a beacon to those in search of a new life for hundreds of years.

Home is a collection of thirty-four poems and twelve songs inspired by... Read more

The History of Bees

By: Maja Lunde

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski, Steve West & Gibson Frazier

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Leftovers, but with honey” (Elle), and in the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this “spectacular and deeply moving” (Lisa See, New York Times bestselling author) novel follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving a spellbinding story of their relationship to the bees—and to their... Read more

Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss—who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married—and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over... Read more

The Red-Haired Woman

By: Orhan Pamuk

Narrated by: John Lee & Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.

On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating without... Read more

Unraveling Oliver

By: Liz Nugent

Narrated by: Sam O’Mahony

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

“Searing, searching, finally scorching. Think Making a Murderer via Patricia Highsmith: an elegant kaleidoscope novel that refines and combines multiple perspectives until its subject is brought into indelible, tragic focus.” —A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

“Pitch-black and superbly written.” —Ruth... Read more

Home Fire

By: Kamila Shamsie

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ingenious… Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I’ve read in a novel this century.” —The New York Times

WINNER OF THE 2018 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against... Read more

The Party

By: Elizabeth Day

Narrated by: Greg Wagland

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A taut psychological tale of obsession and betrayal set over the course of a dinner party.

"Day's shrewd eye and authorial tone provide a gleeful, edgy wit.... [a] smart, irresistible romp."-New York Times Book Review

Ben, who hails from old money, and Martin, who grew up poor but is slowly carving out a successful career as an art critic, have... Read more

Emma in the Night

By: Wendy Walker

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"Both twisted and twisty, this smart psychological thriller sets a new standard for unreliable narrators." –Booklist, Starred Review

One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of... Read more

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo

By: F.C. Yee

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

American Born Chinese meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this grounded supernatural YA mash-up The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes sixteen-year-old Genie's every waking thought. But when she discovers she's a celestial spirit who's powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is... Read more

Blood Brothers

By: Elias Chacour

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, Elias Chacour lived in a small Palestinian village in Galilee. When tens of thousands of Palestinians were killed and nearly one million forced into refugee camps in 1948, Elias began a long struggle with how to respond. In Blood Brothers, he blends his riveting life story with historical research to reveal a little-known side of the... Read more

Holding

By: Graham Norton

Narrated by: Graham Norton

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller

From Graham Norton—the BAFTA Award–winning and hugely popular BBC America television host—comes a charming debut novel set in an idyllic Irish village where a bumbling investigator has to sort through decades of gossip and secrets to solve a mysterious crime. “With its tale of provincial life, gimlet-eyed spinsters,... Read more

Mrs. Fletcher

By: Tom Perrotta

Narrated by: Finn Wittrock & Carrie Coon

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO series starring Kathryn Hahn!

“Light, zingy, and laugh-out-loud funny” (People), the New York Times bestselling novel about sex, love, and identity as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged woman and her college freshman son.

A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve Fletcher is struggling to... Read more

The Half-Drowned King

By: Linnea Hartsuyker

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 15 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating saga of the Vikings that conjures a brutal, superstitious, and thrilling ninth-century world and the birth of a kingdom—the debut installment in a historical literary trilogy that combines the bold imagination and sweeping narrative power of Game of Thrones, Vikings, and Outlander.Centuries ago, in a blood-soaked land ruled by... Read more

Sour Heart

By: Jenny Zhang

Narrated by: Greta Jung, Jenny Zhang, Kim Mai Guest, Nancy W...

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz

A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant... Read more

The Readymade Thief

By: Augustus Rose

Narrated by: Emily Rankin

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The most must-read of all must-reads.” —Marie Claire

“A kickass debut from start to finish.” —Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad

Lee Cuddy is seventeen years old and on the run.
 
Betrayed by her family after taking the fall for a friend, Lee finds refuge in a cooperative of runaways holed up in an abandoned building they call the... Read more

The Address

By: Fiona Davis

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld & Brittany Pressley

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue comes the compelling national bestselling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota—New York City’s most famous residence.

When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the... Read more

Yesterday

By: Felicia Yap

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-pounding mystery, a woman is found dead—but in a society where only the privileged have memories longer than a day, the chances of solving the crime seem futile. Imagine a world in which classes are divided not by wealth or religion but by how much each group can remember. Monos, the majority, have only one day's worth of memory;... Read more

Fierce Kingdom

By: Gin Phillips

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the New York Times Book Review's Best Crime Novels of 2017

“Warning: you'll finish this in one sitting.” —TheSkimm  

“Expertly made thriller . . . clever and irresistible.” —The New York Times

An electrifying novel about the primal and unyielding bond between a mother and her son, and the lengths she’ll go to protect him.

The zoo is nearly... Read more

The Apprentice Witch

By: James Nicol

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knoweldon

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Will at once open a new and imaginative world and feel like a book you have loved forever." -- Jennifer Nielsen, New York Times bestselling author of The False PrinceA special middle grade debut of magic and courage in a world of witches, written with the charm and enchantment of Circus Mirandus and The Apothecary.Arianwyn has flunked her... Read more

The Unwomanly Face of War

By: Svetlana Alexievich

Narrated by: Julia Emelin & Yelena Shmulenson

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia—from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

“A landmark.”—Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of... Read more

Sons and Soldiers

By: Bruce Henderson

Narrated by: Brett Barry

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Joining the ranks of Unbroken, Band of Brothers, and Boys in the Boat, the little-known saga of young German Jews, dubbed The Ritchie Boys, who fled Nazi Germany in the 1930s, came of age in America, and returned to Europe at enormous personal risk as members of the U.S. Army to play a key role in the Allied victory.In 1942, the U.S. Army... Read more

The Breakdown

By: B.A. Paris

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Georgia Maguire's] overall narration is calm and elegant but emotional and alarming during the horrific moments Grace experiences." - AudioFile Magazine on Behind Closed Doors.

Named One of the Most Anticipated Thriller Novels Of 2017 by Bustle!

THE NEWEST PROPULSIVE AUDIOBOOK FROM THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY INSTANT BESTSELLER,... Read more