Bookseller picks

The Silver Arrow

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"I loved every page. This is middle grade fiction at its best."-- Ann Patchett
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians comes a must-read, wholly original middle-grade debut perfect for fans of The Chronicles of Narnia and Roald Dahl.

Dear Uncle Herbert,
You've never met me, but I'm your niece Kate, and since it is my birthday... Read more

Wandering in Strange Lands

By: Morgan Jerkins

Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more

A Song Below Water

By: Bethany C. Morrow

Narrated by: Andrea Laing & Jennifer Haralson

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Bethany C. Morrow's A Song Below Water is the story for today’s listeners — a captivating modern fantasy about black mermaids, friendship, and self-discovery set against the challenges of today's racism and sexism.

In a society determined to keep her under lock and key, Tavia must hide her siren powers.

Meanwhile, Effie is fighting her own family... Read more

The Hilarious World of Depression

By: John Moe

Narrated by: John Moe

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"Inspired by his podcast of the same name, this combination memoir and informational text is narrated by its author with sincere emotional investment and subtle humor." -- AudioFile Magazine

A moving portrait of depression, from the host of the podcast The Hilarious World of Depression

"This book is an excellent life raft for those of us who are... Read more

They Went Left

By: Monica Hesse

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A tour de force historical mystery from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat. Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal, her mind feels broken. And her... Read more

Sin Eater

By: Megan Campisi

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post).

The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard
Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers
Following Her to the grave, unseen, unheard
The Sin Eater Walks Among Us.

For the... Read more

Actress

By: Anne Enright

Narrated by: Anne Enright

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand hermother’s hidden truths.Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. As her daughter, Norah, retraces her mother’s celebrated career andbohemian life, she delves into long-kept secrets, both her mother’s and her own. Katherine began her career... Read more

When We Were Vikings

By: Andrew David MacDonald

Narrated by: Phoebe Strole

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

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“Zelda... Read more

Cog

By: Greg van Eekhout

Narrated by: James Fouhey

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Five robots. One unforgettable journey. Their programming will never be the same. Wall-E meets The Wild Robot in this middle grade instant classic about five robots on a mission to rescue their inventor from the corporation that controls them all. Cog looks like a normal twelve-year-old boy. But his name is short for “cognitive development,” and... Read more

Frankly in Love

By: David Yoon

Narrated by: Raymond J. Lee

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller • A William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalist • An Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Honor Book

“Extraordinary . . . a beautifully layered novel about first love, tribalism and that brief, magical period when kids have one foot in high school, one foot out the door. . . Yoon explores themes of... Read more

Things You Save in a Fire

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes... Read more

Gingerbread

By: Helen Oyeyemi

Narrated by: Helen Oyeyemi

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review"[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue 

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and Peaces returns with a bewitching and imaginative... Read more

The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

Narrated by: Yangsze Choo

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"Choo narrates this richly complex novel herself, her gorgeous writing delivered in a voice that is deep and precise and lovely, both British and not quite. Her tone and words transport us..." — San Francisco Chronicle

This program is read by the author.

A sweeping historical audiobook about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle... Read more

Sea Witch

By: Sarah Henning

Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Wicked meets ""The Little Mermaid"" in the captivating origin story of the sea's most iconic villainess, perfect for fans of Heartless and Dorothy Must Die.Ever since her best friend Anna died, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt.Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance... Read more

Isola

By: Allegra Goodman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Allegra Goodman

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An epic saga about a French noblewoman deserted on an island where her survival depends on the power of her faith and love—from the New York Times bestselling author of Sam.

Heir to a chateau with its own village and lands, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and Jean Francois de la Rocque de... Read more

Havoc

By: Christopher Bollen

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Bad Seed comes a twisty, atmospheric psychological suspense about a meddlesome elderly guest at a decadent luxury hotel who believes she has left her problematic past behind, until she decides to interfere in the lives of a young mother and her eight-year-old son, and finally meets her wicked match.The war between age and... Read more

How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

By: Anna Montague

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road tripMost days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates.... Read more

Make Me a Mixtape

By: Jennifer Whiteford

Narrated by: AJ Bridel

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A guarded punk-rocker-turned-barista meets a big-hearted sound tech who charms his way into her life and helps her revisit her musical past in this truly charming, cozy fall romance.

Allie Andrews gave up on the music world ten years ago. No wild tours, no late nights, no career-ending inter-band blowouts. Just day after comfortable day of... Read more

I'll Be Waiting

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatural horror involving a haunted house, seances, lost loved ones, and a sinister spirit out for blood...

Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her... Read more

William

By: Mason Coile

Narrated by: Honey St. Dennis

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read—a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI.

Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William.

No... Read more

The Sherlock Society

By: James Ponti

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Nancy Drew, four kids and one grandfather in Miami tackle a decades-old mystery in this first book in the action-packed and funny Sherlock Society middle grade series from New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author James Ponti!

Siblings Alex and Zoe Sherlock take their last name as inspiration when choosing a... Read more

Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

Narrated by: Maddy Withington

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus conversation between the author and New York Times–bestselling author Sally Hepworth.

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback.

Katy Sweeney is looking for her sister. A year earlier,... Read more

The Palace of Eros

By: Caro De Robertis

Narrated by: Caro De Robertis

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“It’s a literary gift to see gender expansiveness depicted in an ancient myth with such grace and ease.” —Electric Literature

Fans of Circe and Black Sun, “prepare to be astonished” (R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries) with this bold and subversive feminist and queer retelling of the Greek myth of Psyche and Eros.

Young, headstrong Psyche has... Read more

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

By: Edward Dolnick

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed.... Read more