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Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

Narrated by: Neill Thorne

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“The best kind of thriller. . . . Suspenseful, sentimental, and ultimately redemptive, Assassins Anonymous is a can’t-miss novel.” — S. A. Cosby,  author of All the Sinners Bleed

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life only to find himself under siege by mysterious assailants. It’s a... Read more

Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Robb Moreira & Stephanie Németh-P...

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient.

Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes... Read more

When the Sea Came Alive

By: Garrett M. Graff

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Garrett M. Graff

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post • “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Watergate comes the most complete and up-to-date account... Read more

Forgotten on Sunday

By: Valérie Perrin

Narrated by: Elisabeth Lagelée

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

An unforgettable story about an unlikely friendship and about healing the wounds of a broken past, from the million-copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers. Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and her cousin Jules since the death of her parents. As a nursing assistant at a retirement home, she spends much of... Read more

Isabel and The Rogue

By: Liana De la Rosa

Narrated by: Ruby Hunt

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Mexican heiress defies Victorian society to protect her country a British war hero makes it his new mission to protect her…

Isabel Luna Valdés has long since resigned herself to being the “forgotten” Luna sister. But thanks to familial connections to the Mexican ambassador in London, wallflower Isabel is poised to unearth any British... Read more

I Fight, You Fight

By: Alex Noble

Narrated by: Alex Noble

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us all how to live life to the fullest, no matter what it throws at us.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Noble was a high school rugby star with a promising sporting career ahead of him when an on-field injury left him fighting for his... Read more

Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

Narrated by: Simone Collins

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST for the WOMEN’S PRIZE for FICTION * One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s “lyrical and incisive” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

Soldier Sailor takes readers deep inside the early... Read more

I've Tried Being Nice

By: Ann Leary

Narrated by: Ann Leary

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ann Leary offers a literary feast of humor and wisdom told from the perspective of a recovering people pleaser.

Having arrived at a certain age (her prime), Ann Leary casts a wry backward glance at a life spent trying—and often failing—to be nice. With wit and surprising candor, Leary recounts the bedlam of home... Read more

Triple Sec

By: TJ Alexander

Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A jaded bartender is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom-com, set in the glamorous world of high-end cocktail bars—from the acclaimed author of the “tender, decadent, and sparklingly funny” (Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author) Chef’s Choice.

As a bartender at Terror & Virtue, a swanky... Read more

Holy City

By: Henry Wise

Narrated by: Chris Henry Coffey

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

No one innocent. No one free. Nothing sacred.After a decade of exile precipitated by the tragic death of his mother, Will Seems returns home from Richmond to rural Southside Virginia, taking a job as deputy sheriff in a landscape given way to crime and defeat. Impoverished and abandoned, this remote land of tobacco plantations, razed forests,... Read more

Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Devil's Kitchen is a fast-paced, heart racing thriller from Candice Fox, "a bright new star in crime fiction." (James Patterson)

The firefighting crew of Engine 99 has spent years rushing fearlessly into the hot zone of major fires across New York City. This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of... Read more

The God and the Gumiho

By: Sophie Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Intae Kim

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sly and dazzling contemporary fantasy, the most notorious nine-tailed fox in Korea pairs up with a trickster god–turned–detective to track down a wrathful demon . . . before it can destroy the mortal world.

“Enchanting fantasy . . . With an intoxicating mix of action, mystery, and deliciously angsty romance, this reads like the most... Read more

Lockjaw

By: Matteo L. Cerilli

Narrated by: Breton Lalama, Mich Anger & Arlen Aguayo Stewart

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington in this debut trans YA horror book for fans of Rory Power and Danielle Vega.

Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt.... Read more

Lady of Steel and Straw

By: Erica Ivy Rodgers

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers grapple with forbidden attraction and a growing army of ghostly dead in this swashbuckling YA fantasy debut.

After ten years of exile, following regicide in the House of Tristain, an alarming royal edict is delivered to the immortal scarecrow Guardians who once defended the crown: surrender themselves to the church of the... Read more

The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“The last great book I read . . . an early proof of debut novelist Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road, about women in ’90s Ireland negotiating the complexities of marriage in a country where divorce is illegal. It will no doubt be a bestseller.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and... Read more

Becoming Ted

By: Matt Cain

Narrated by: Samuel Barnett

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle returns with a joyful and surprising tale about love, acceptance, and self-discovery.If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice-cream flavors made by his family’s company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla—sweet, inoffensive, and... Read more

The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

By: Jordan Lees

Narrated by: Nathaniel Curtis

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Doll Bones meets Skandar and the Unicorn Thief in this spooky, illustrated middle grade novel about a boy who doesn’t believe in magic discovering a supernatural world full of danger.

It began with a crack in the wall.

Eleven-year-old Benjamiah Creek believes in science, logic, and the power of reason. He definitely does not believe in magic. But... Read more

First Frost

By: Craig Johnson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

THE PAST AND FUTURE COLLIDE IN THIS GRIPPING NEW ADDITION TO THE BELOVED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING LONGMIRE SERIESIt’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for... Read more

Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl

“Tender, nuanced, and hilarious.”—Oprah Daily
15 LGBTQ+ Books to Read for Pride—Time
BookTok’s 11 Most-Talked... Read more

The Ride of Her Life

By: Jennifer Dugan

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, about a wedding-obsessed city girl who inherits a horse farm from her estranged late aunt, and clashes with the cocky, unfairly hot farrier who thinks she’s going to run the barn into the ground.Molly... Read more

Pretty

By: KB Brookins

Narrated by: KB Brookins

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective—the tropes, the presumptions—Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for... Read more

Twelfth Knight

By: Alexene Farol Follmuth

Narrated by: Alexandra Palting & Kevin R. Free

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Reese's Book Club Summer YA Pick '24

"YA is a feeling. It's a warm summer day reading in the sun, lots of nostalgia, gushing together over the characters in Twelfth Knight." —Reese Witherspoon

“Kevin R. Free and Alexandra Palting’s nuanced voices help listeners enjoy the twists and turns of this enjoyable young adult romance.”—AudioFile


From the... Read more

Swiped

By: L.M. Chilton

Narrated by: Georgia Maguire

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman must unmask a serial killer and prove her innocence, all before her best friend’s wedding in this hilarious “sultry summer thriller” (The New York Times).

Gwen Turner has made a bloody mess of her life. She recently broke up with the best man she’s ever known for reasons she can’t even admit to herself and quit a lucrative job to... Read more

The Great State of West Florida

By: Kent Wascom

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 2026, and Rally is thirteen years old. The long, hot Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop, and the country is talking civil war while his adoptive family acts more vicious than ever. Rally spends his days wondering about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, who long ago led a failed... Read more