Bookseller picks

The Great Gatsby

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Narrated by: Sean Astin

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling parties, unrequited love, and unchecked idealism. Gatsby, surrounded by riches, yearns for the love of a woman... Read more

A Spark of Light

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Jodi Picoult

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington... Read more

Call Me by Your Name

By: André Aciman

Narrated by: Armie Hammer

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"...Hammer's voice is brimming with such melody that, if you listen to it long enough, you can probably get drunk off it." — Vulture.com

*Now a major motion picture from director Luca Guadagnino, starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet. Winner of the 2018 Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay*

Celebrate André Aciman's sensational novel with a... Read more

Moonbound

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Sloan expands the Penumbraverse to new reaches of time and space in a rollicking far-future adventure.

In Moonbound, Robin Sloan has written a novel with the full scope and ambitious imagination of the very books that lit the engines of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: an epic quest as only Sloan could conceive it, mixing science... Read more

The Summer I Turned Pretty

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Lola Tung

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are... Read more

This Is Why They Hate Us

By: Aaron H. Aceves

Narrated by: Alejandro Ruiz

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrique “Quique” Luna has one goal this summer—get over his crush on Saleem Kanazi by pursuing his other romantic prospects. Nevermind that he’s only out to his best friend, Fabiola. Nevermind that he has absolutely zero game. And definitely forget the fact that good and kind and, not to mention, beautiful Saleem is leaving LA for the summer to... Read more

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more

The Lost Queen

By: Signe Pike

Narrated by: Toni Frutin

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“Outlander meets Camelot” (Kirsty Logan, author of The Gracekeepers) in the first book of an exciting historical series that reveals the untold story of Languoreth—a powerful and, until now, tragically forgotten queen of 6th-century Scotland—twin sister of the man who inspired the legendary character of Merlin.

Intelligent, passionate,... Read more

Uncommon Type

By: Tom Hanks

Narrated by: Tom Hanks

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.

A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game--and then another and... Read more

The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you."--The New York Times Book Review

"Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark."--Stephen King

A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party... Read more

American War

By: Omar El Akkad

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad’s debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot... Read more

Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson’s laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before—now with all new covers!AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS.Everything I’d known about the world was a lie.On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don’t... Read more

The Rule Book

By: Sarah Adams

Narrated by: Hathaway Lee & Will Damron

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second-chance romance, the companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet—from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect.

“A really fun, chemistry-filled sports romance you don’t want to... Read more

Sometimes I Lie

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

"Despite the challenges--an unreliable narrator, an intricate plot, a shifting timeline, and myriad characters--Stephanie Racine gives a flawless narration of this audiobook...This intense thriller is made even better by her performance." — AudioFile Magazine

From renowned journalist Alice Feeney comes a riveting new audiobook, Sometimes I... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing

By: Lauren Hough

Narrated by: Cate Blanchett & Lauren Hough

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A memoir in essays about so many things—growing up in an abusive cult, coming of age as a lesbian in the military, forced out by homophobia, living on the margins as a working class woman and what it’s like to grow into the person you are meant to be. Hough’s writing will break your heart." —Roxane Gay, author of... Read more

Invisible Cities

By: Italo Calvino

Narrated by: Richard Higgins

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities

In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed... Read more

Cleat Cute

By: Meryl Wilsner

Narrated by: Dana Varden & Zim Avaltrades

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup.

Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women’s National Team for ten years, even though she’s only 26. But when she’s sidelined with an injury, a bold new... Read more

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

By: Anonymous & Duchess Goldblatt

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, J. Smith-Cameron & Lyle Lovett

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Finalist for an Audie Award in Memoir
One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020

"Unforgettable...Behind her brilliantly witty and uplifting message is a remarkable vulnerability and candor that reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles—and that we can, against all odds, get through them." —Lori Gottlieb, New York... Read more

The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The... Read more

The Echo Wife

By: Sarah Gailey

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had... Read more

Is this Anything?

By: Jerry Seinfeld

Narrated by: Jerry Seinfeld

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The first book in twenty-five years from “one of our great comic minds” (The Washington Post) features Seinfeld’s best work across five decades in comedy.

Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub “Catch a Rising Star” as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and... Read more

The Bookshop of Yesterdays

By: Amy Meyerson

Narrated by: Ann Marie Gideon

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading.

Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy’s bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda’s twelfth birthday, Billy has a... Read more

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

By: Natalie Caña

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly charming… A Proposal They Can't Refuse is a surefire winner!” —Mia Sosa, USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man

Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian... Read more