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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

The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

Narrated by: Jessica Regan

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“I loved this novel. All the female characters are complex and fascinating, and full of anger and hope. I found it an addictive read.”—actor Gillian AndersonA poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it.Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story... Read more

Just Some Stupid Love Story

By: Katelyn Doyle

Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Tim Paige

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Emily Henry, a debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup

"Christine Lakin and Tim Paige deliver a fun, sexy, and relatable romance."—AudioFile

Molly Marks writes Hollywood rom-coms for a living—which is... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

Narrated by: Stephanie Willing

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane, filled with big emotions, all amplified by grief. Molly is a wholly... Read more

A Pose Before Dying

By: Alex Erickson

Narrated by: Amy Melissa Bentley

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Sure to appeal to fans of Miranda James, Cate Conte, Eileen Watkins, Laurien Berenson, and all lovers of cozy mysteries featuring animal companions!



Finding this killer will be a real stretch . . .



Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It's a place for humans to find inner wellness—and adopt adorable cats... 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

Better Left Unsent

By: Lia Louis

Narrated by: Ashley Tucker

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

So many ways to torpedo your career and your love life… So little time.

A woman accidentally reveals all her secrets in this witty and charming novel from the author of Eight Perfect Hours.

Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing 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

Perfume and Pain

By: Anna Dorn

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“Perceptive and witty—like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“It’s this author’s best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A controversial LA author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this hilarious nod to 1950s lesbian pulp fiction.

Having... Read more

And Then? And Then? What Else?

By: Daniel Handler

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

YOU NEVER LOVE A BOOK THE WAY YOU LOVE A BOOK WHEN YOU ARE TEN.

Writing as Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler has led several generations of young readers into that special and curious space of being hopelessly lost, and joyfully finding yourself, in the essential strangeness of literature. The wondrous and perilous journey of the Baudelaire orphans... Read more

Collide

By: Bal Khabra

Narrated by: Julia Knippen & Max Meyers

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

She’s an honors student with ambitious graduate school plans and he’s a jock with only hockey on his mind, but once their worlds collide, their connection is hot enough to melt an ice rink.

An ultimatum from Summer Preston’s thesis advisor thrusts her into an unexpected collision with the hockey team’s captain, Aiden... Read more

Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A historical drama set against the backdrop of the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multiethnic army of ten thousand coal miners against mine owners, state militia, and the United States government in the largest labor uprising in American historyRednecks is a tour de force, big-canvas historical novel that dramatizes the West Virginia Mine... Read more

Love at First Book

By: Jenn McKinlay

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading.

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and... Read more

Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“[January] LaVoy's ability to convey tension and intrigue makes this audiobook a captivating listen.”—AudioFile

A gripping, darkly comic novel from the national bestselling author of Bad Summer People about a team of wealthy and powerful executives on retreat in Miami when one of them goes missing . . .

Every year, executives at the trendy tech... Read more

The InvestiGators Audio Collection: Books 1 & 2

By: John Patrick Green

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by a full cast, including the author and Christopher Hastings, a coauthor of InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T.S. It offers an immersive audio experience, fully sound designed to enhance your enjoyment. Listen out for the sounds of the Batter Down bakery, S.U.I.T. Headquarters, Crackerdile's Lair, and the Robotics Lab at the... Read more

Look What You Made Me Do

By: Kat McKenna

Narrated by: Jade Ewen

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What does it mean to be a FAN?
If you're a Swiftie, you know that it takes commitment and dedication to be in a fandom. And there's nothing more rewarding than sourcing news and updates, anticipating new music and meeting fellow fans. But fan culture today is more intense than ever, from trolling to stalkers to online warfare.

So how did we get... Read more

The Once & Future Witch Hunt

By: Alice Markham-Cantor

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.



Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth:... Read more