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The Proposal: Reese's Book Club

By: Jasmine Guillory

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

“There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay

The New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when... Read more

Blended

By: Sharon M. Draper

Narrated by: Sharon M. Draper

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven-year-old Isabella’s blended family is more divided than ever in this thoughtful story about divorce and racial identity from the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Out of My Mind, Sharon M. Draper.

Eleven-year-old Isabella’s parents are divorced, so she has to switch lives every week: One week she’s Isabella with her... Read more

Gmorning, Gnight!

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Narrated by: Lin-Manuel Miranda

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the creator and star of Hamilton comes an audiobook of affirmations to inspire listeners at the beginning and end of each day.

“When the world is bringing you down, Gmorning, Gnight! will remind you that you are awesome.”—Booklist

Good morning. Do NOT get stuck in the comments section of life today. Make, do, create the things. Let others... Read more

The Collector’s Apprentice

By: B. A. Shapiro

Narrated by: Xe Sands

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disowned, and completely alone. Everyone in Belgium, including her own family, believes she stole millions in a sophisticated con game perpetrated by her then-fiancé, George Everard. To protect herself from the law and the wrath of those who lost... Read more

Everything's Trash, But It's Okay

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

DON’T MISS PHOEBE ROBINSON’S COMEDY SERIES EVERYTHING’S TRASH—NOW ON FREEFORM!

New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens Phoebe Robinson is back with a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and the dumpster fire that is our world.

Wouldn't it be great if life came with instructions? Of course, but... Read more

In the House in the Dark of the Woods

By: Laird Hunt

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations -- witchcraft in colonial America -- wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense.

"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law-abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has... Read more

Melmoth

By: Sarah Perry

Narrated by: Jan Cramer

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history’s darkest waters—and now, in Sarah Perry’s breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working... Read more

November Road

By: Lou Berney

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

""When people say they want to read a really good novel, the kind you just can't put down, this is the kind of book they mean. Exceptional."" —STEPHEN KING
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • Washington Post • AARP • Newsweek • Dallas Morning News • South Florida Sun-Sentinel • Chicago Public Library • Real Book Spy •... Read more

Dry

By: Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman

Narrated by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Jenni Barbe...

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman.

The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives... Read more

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy

By: Mackenzi Lee

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In this highly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Felicity Montague must use all her womanly wits and wiles to achieve her dreams of becoming a doctor—even if she has to scheme her way across Europe to do it. A must-have for fans of Mackenzi Lee’s extraordinary and Stonewall... Read more

Virgil Wander

By: Leif Enger

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his... Read more

All You Can Ever Know

By: Nicole Chung

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that... Read more

Bloodlands

By: Timothy Snyder

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 19 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century.

Americans call the Second World War "The Good War."But before it even began, America's wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed... Read more

The Ravenmaster

By: Christopher Skaife

Narrated by: Christopher Skaife

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Christopher Skaife's] natural storyteller's charm results in a performance that is conversational, funny, and self-deprecating...Ravenmaster is a joyful listening experience." — AudioFile Magazine

This program is read by the author.

The first behind-the-scenes account of life with the legendary ravens at the world’s eeriest monument.

The ravens... Read more

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
 
"Inescapably compelling." —VICTORIA SCHWAB, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

"A masterful and monstrous retelling." —STEPHANIE GARBER, #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Caraval... Read more

Washington Black

By: Esi Edugyan

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • “A gripping historical narrative exploring both the bounds of slavery and what it means to be truly free.” —Vanity Fair

Eleven-year-old George Washington Black—or Wash—a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is initially terrified when he is... Read more

How to Invent Everything

By: Ryan North

Narrated by: Ryan North

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An NPR Best Book of 2018

"How to Invent Everything is such a cool book. It's essential reading for anyone who needs to duplicate an industrial civilization quickly." --Randall Munroe, xkcd creator and New York Times-bestselling author of What If?

The only book you need if you're going back in time

What would you do if a time machine hurled you... Read more

She Would Be King

By: Wayétu Moore

Narrated by: Wayétu Moore

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Jessica Parker and the American Library Association Book Club Central Official SelectionA novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formationWayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia’s early years through three unforgettable characters... Read more

Lands of Lost Borders

By: Kate Harris

Narrated by: Amy Landon

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Lands of Lost Borders carried me up into a state of openness and excitement I haven’t felt for years. It’s a modern classic."" —Pico IyerA brilliant, fierce writer makes her debut with this enthralling travelogue and memoir of her journey by bicycle along the Silk Road—an illuminating and thought-provoking fusion of The Places in Between, Lab... Read more

Cherry

By: Nico Walker

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

National Bestseller

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. A young medic returns from deployment in Iraq to two things: the woman he loves, and the opioid crisis sweeping across the Midwest. 

In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall... Read more

His Favorites

By: Kate Walbert

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A “tense, taut, and thrilling” (Marie Claire) novel about a teenage girl, a predatory teacher, and a school’s complicity from the highly acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of Women—“riveting, terrifying, exactly the book for our times” (Ann Patchett).

They were on a lark, three teenaged girls... Read more

Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd & Lars Knudsen

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Warm-hearted, clear-minded, and unexpectedly spellbinding, Meet Me at the Museum is a novel to savor.” — Annie Barrows, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

In Denmark, Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost his wife and his hopes for the future. On an isolated English... Read more

America for Beginners

By: Leah Franqui

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Recalling contemporary classics such as Americanah, Behold the Dreamers, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a funny, poignant, and insightful debut novel that explores the complexities of family, immigration, prejudice, and the American Dream through meaningful and unlikely friendships forged in unusual circumstances.Pival Sengupta has... Read more

From the Corner of the Oval

By: Beck Dorey-Stein

Narrated by: Beck Dorey-Stein

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • What if you lived out the drama of your twenties on Air Force One?
 
“[This] breezy page turner is essentially Bridget Jones goes to the White House.”—The New York Times
 
RECOMMENDED READING theSkimm • Today • Entertainment Weekly • Refinery29 • Bustle • PopSugar • Vanity Fair •  The New York Times Editors’ Choice... Read more