Bookseller picks

The Wanderer

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Dana Lubotsky

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The personal journey she takes brings her deeper... Read more

Lord Valentine’s Castle

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 19 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for his lost past leads to a battle for his future.The planet Majipoor is shared by humans and several alien races, including four-armed Skandars, three-eyed Liiman, and the native, shape-shifting Metamorphs. All are watched over by the King of Dreams, the labyrinth-dwelling Pontifex, and the Lady of the Isle of Sleep, while the... Read more

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

By: Sloane Crosley

Narrated by: Sloane Crosley

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural History Museum to provoking the ire of her first boss to siccing the cops on her mysterious neighbor, Crosley can do no right despite the best of... Read more

Comfort Food

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and deliciously funny novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club—and “readers will be cheering” (Bookreporter.com)...

Shortly before turning the big five-oh, Cooking with Gusto! TV personality Augusta “Gus” Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she’d rather ignore—her own. To make things worse, the network... Read more

Doomsday Book

By: Connie Willis

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most respected and awarded of all contemporary science fiction writers, Connie Willis repeatedly amazes her many admiring fans with her ability to create vivid characters in unusual situations. With Doomsday Book, she takes listeners on a thrilling trip through time to discover the things that make us most human. For Oxford student... Read more

All Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more

Before Green Gables

By: Budge Wilson

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.



Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her arrival at Green Gables—a heartwarming tale of... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Victoria Morgan

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more

The Ghost Brigades

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human... Read more

Charmed Life

By: Diana Wynne Jones

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Guardian Award for Children's Fiction (UK)American Bookseller Pick of the ListsA bewitching comic fantasy by a master of the supernaturalCat doesn't mind living in the shadow of his sister, Gwendolen, the most promising young witch ever seen on Coven Street. But trouble starts brewing the moment the two orphans are summoned to live in... Read more

The Picture of Dorian Gray

By: Oscar Wilde

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure—an attitude encouraged by the company he keeps. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his... Read more

The Coldest Winter - Abridged

By: David Halberstam

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book about the Vietnam conflict. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivaled research and formidable journalistic skills... Read more

Garden Spells

By: Sarah Addison Allen

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The Waverleys have always been a curious family, endowed with peculiar gifts that make them outsiders even in their hometown of Bascom, North Carolina. Even their garden has a reputation, famous for its feisty apple tree that bears prophetic fruit, and its edible flowers, imbued with special powers. Generations of Waverleys tended this garden.... Read more

Sula

By: Toni Morrison

Narrated by: Toni Morrison

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom—a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma’s girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond stronger than anything, stronger even than the dark secret they have to bear. Strong enough, it seems, to last a... Read more

Jayber Crow

By: Wendell Berry & Paul Michael

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the simple setting of his own barber shop, Jayber Crow, orphan, SEMInarian, and native of Port William, recalls his life and the life of his community as it spends itself in the middle of the twentieth century. Surrounded by his friends and neighbors, he is both participant and witness as the community attempts to transcend its own decline.... Read more

Lightning

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz’s brilliantly thrilling novel of suspense.In the midst of a raging blizzard, lightning struck on the night Laura Shane was born. And a mysterious blond-haired stranger showed up just in time to save her from dying. Years later, in the wake of another storm, Laura will be saved again. For someone... Read more

One Thousand White Women

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Based on an actual historical event, this is the story of May Dodd—a remarkable woman who, in 1875, travels through the American West to marry the chief of the Cheyenne Nation.One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd’s journey into an unknown world. Having been committed to an insane asylum by her blue-blood family for the crime of loving a... Read more

I Feel Bad About My Neck

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Nora Ephron

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
The woman who brought us When Harry Met... Read more

Sharp Objects

By: Gillian Flynn

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRL

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen... Read more

Framed

By: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Narrated by: Jason Hughes

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A few things to know about DylanHe is the only boy in his entire town—so forget about playing games of football.His best friends are two pet chickens, Michaelangelo and Donatello—named after (who else?) the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.His family owns the town's only gas station/copy shop/coffee house—their Picasso Pies are to die for, but... Read more

The Tiger Rising

By: Kate DiCamillo

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of Because of Winn-Dixie comes the moving story of an eleven-year-old-boy, Rob Horton, who finds a caged tiger in the woods behind the hotel where he lives with his father. With the help of his new friend, Sistine Bailey, Rob must decide what to do with his discovery and at the same time come to terms with his past. Read more

Persuasion

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The last novel completed by Jane Austen before her death, Persuasion is often thought to reflect on the author’s own lost love.Sir Walter Elliot has raised his three daughters with his own sense of haughty pride. Elizabeth, at twenty-eight, has found no one good enough to marry, while Mary has, with some condescension, married the son of the... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Austen’s debut novel is a brilliant tragicomedy of flirtation and folly in which two sisters who represent “sense” and “sensibility,” or restraint and emotionalism, experience love and heartbreak in their own separate ways.One daughter, the impetuous Marianne, falls passionately in love with the dashing John Willoughby and makes no secret... Read more

Anne of Green Gables

By: L. M. Montgomery

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Shirley, the orphan child who brings happiness and love into the lives of her foster family, is one of the most beloved heroines in all of literature.Anne, a wildly imaginative, red-headed chatterbox, tries to fit into the narrow confines of Victorian expectations, but her exuberant spirit keeps leaping delightfully beyond the bounds.When... Read more