Local bookseller recommendations

Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

By: Amélie Wen Zhao

Narrated by: Annie Q

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past—and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic fantasy series inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China.

“Brims with pure magic. Zhao has woven together a story of self-discovery, slow-burning... Read more

Funny Feelings

By: Tarah DeWitt

Narrated by: Nelson Hobbs & Stephanie Bentley

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When falling in love is the punchline . . .



Farley Jones is being forced to date Meyer Harrigan, the man she has come to love, in order to make all of her stand-up dreams come true.



It's agony—a tragedy, even. In lieu of flowers, please send cash . . .



Meyer and his daughter Hazel have been everything to her since they came into her life three... Read more

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly

By: Margareta Magnusson

Narrated by: Natascha McElhone

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning—now a TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions—a book of humorous and charming advice for embracing life and aging joyfully.

In her international bestseller The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning Margareta Magnusson introduced the world to the... Read more

The Lost Witch

By: Paige Crutcher

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Paige Crutcher, author of the “mystical, magical, and wildly original”* The Orphan Witch, weaves a spellbinding tale of contemporary fantasy, romance, and Irish mythology as a woman torn out of time faces a dangerous coven, otherworldly creatures, and a seductive demigod to save the souls of a cursed island in The Lost Witch.

1922. The town of... Read more

Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

Narrated by: Anne Lamott

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times). 

“Superb... Read more

A Hard Day for a Hangover

By: Darynda Jones

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Lorelei King delivers a highly enjoyable listening experience." - AudioFile Magazine

A Hard Day for a Hangover is another humorous installment in Darynda Jones's wine mystery series deemed: "Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful fun." —New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan

"Narrator Lorelei King works well with the... Read more

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

By: Bushra Rehman

Narrated by: Bushra Rehman

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For fans of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community

"I LOVED EVERY MOMENT." —Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!

"Bushra Rehman performs her novel of a queer Pakistani American girl who is coming of age... Read more

Running to Fall

By: Kalisha Buckhanon

Narrated by: Shari Peele

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspenseful, truthful look into the lives of women who drink to survive or just to cope, with a provocative narrator who carries readers along an emotional journey to acceptance.Tragedy and Victor Powell have moved to the desirable but dark Grayson Glens enclave of dream homes just outside of Chicago. Stressed urbanites, they’ve got to live... Read more

The Circus Train

By: Amita Parikh

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

International Bestseller and #1 LibraryReads Pick

Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl’s coming-of-age during the darkest of times.

“A powerful reminder that to live is not just to survive, but to be seen and known for ourselves.” —Pam... Read more

The Least Among Us

By: Gwen Florio

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Public defender Julia Geary’s star is rising, and now she’s got her first murder case defending local denizen Ray Belmar in the death of a homeless man. But Julia’s professional and personal challenges are mounting. First, she’s assigned an intern whose arrogance is insufferable. Then, her widowed mother-in-law, whose home Julia and her son... Read more

The Intimate City

By: Michael Kimmelman

Narrated by: Michael Kimmelman, William DeMeritt, Karen Murr...

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best

As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians,... Read more

Never Ever Getting Back Together

By: Sophie Gonzales

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Enjoy this rambunctious performance by glowing narrators Barrie Kreinik and Natalie Naudus."- AudioFile

When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls—one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance—get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other... Read more

None of This Would Have Happened if Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this “laugh-out-loud gem” (Beck Dorey-Stein, New York Times bestselling) of a debut novel follows Ramona through the forty-eight hours after her life has been upended by the discovery of her husband’s affair and an approaching hurricane.

Ramona has a bratty boss, a potty-training toddler, a... Read more

The Wilderwomen

By: Ruth Emmie Lang

Narrated by: Anna Caputo

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Anna Caputo draws listeners into Lang's novel immediately, suggesting that this story has more depth than the plot at first might lead one to believe."- AudioFile

"Exquisitely drawn characters imbue Lang’s unconventional plot with verisimilitude and heart, inspiring readers to ponder whether the world is stranger and more beautiful... Read more

I'm Wearing Tunics Now

By: Wendi Aarons

Narrated by: Wendi Aarons

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

An honest and hilarious memoir about second acts, self-acceptance, and celebrating what happens when a woman gets older, wiser, and a lot more excited by sales at Eileen Fisher.
A late bloomer who came to her career later in life, humorist Wendi Aarons shares the joys, stumbles, and outfit mishaps she’s experienced on her road to no longer giving... Read more

Paperback Jack

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

1946. Fresh from the War in Europe, hack writer Jacob Heppleman discovers a changed world back home. The pulp magazines he used to write for are dying, replaced by a revolutionary new publishing racket: paperback novels, offering cheap excitement for the common man and woman. Although scorned by the critics, the tawdry drugstore novels sell like... Read more

Dickens and Prince

By: Nick Hornby

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and... Read more

Have I Told You This Already?

By: Lauren Graham

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes an “insightful, honest, funny, and moving collection of captivating stories” (BuzzFeed).

“Graham is fast and furiously funny. . . . Where Graham leads, we will definitely follow.”—E! Online

Lauren Graham... Read more

The Fall of Númenor

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Brian Sibley & Samuel West

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume. J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a ‘dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told’. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of... Read more

The Q

By: Amy Tintera

Narrated by: Kyla Garcia & Robbie Daymond

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their only chance for survival.

Seventeen-year-old Maisie Rojas has spent her entire life in the Q—a post-pandemic quarantine zone that was once... Read more

Whiteout

By: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Ston...

Narrated by: Danielle Shemaiah, Nic Stone, Shayna Small, Bah...

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Atlanta is blanketed with snow just before Christmas, but the warmth of young love just might melt the ice in this novel of Black joy, and cozy, sparkling romance—by the same unbeatable team of authors who wrote the New York Times bestseller Blackout!As the city grinds to a halt, twelve teens band together to help a friend pull off the most epic... Read more

Blackwater Falls

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan

Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Girls from immigrant communities have been disappearing for months in the Colorado town of Blackwater Falls, but the local sheriff is slow to act and the fates of the missing girls are largely disregarded. At last, the calls for justice become too loud to ignore when the body of a star student and refugee—the Syrian teenager Razan Elkader—is... Read more

Punk Paradox

By: Greg Graffin

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins & Greg Graffin

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the legendary singer-songwriter of Bad Religion comes a historical memoir and cultural criticism of punk rock’s evolution.  Greg Graffin is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as “America's most significant punk band.” Since its inception in Los Angeles in 1980, Bad Religion has produced 18 studio albums,... Read more

Dawnlands

By: Philippa Gregory

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 19 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Palace intrigue, defiant heroism, and a long-awaited love fulfilled from New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory in her Fairmile series.

It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do... Read more