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Greywaren (The Dreamer Trilogy #3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The majestic conclusion to Maggie Stiefvater’s Dreamer Trilogy.The war between dreams and reality intensifies... with Ronan at its center. Read more

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By: Chelsea Manning

Narrated by: Chelsea Manning

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"Manning reads her book in a sharp voice that is clearly accustomed to marshaling information..."- Washington Post

"[Manning's] text and performance create a blistering autobiography that is both observant and instructive."- AudioFile

"In both content and narration, Manning displays a keen ability to imbue this detailed account of her life and... Read more

Ejaculate Responsibly

By: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Narrated by: Gabrielle Stanley Blair

Length: 3 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Ejaculate Responsibly, Gabrielle Blair offers a provocative reframing of the abortion issue in post-Roe America. In a series of 28 brief arguments, she deftly makes the case for moving the abortion debate away from controlling and legislating women’s bodies and instead directs the focus on men’s lack of accountability in preventing unwanted... Read more

The Last Chairlift

By: John Irving

Narrated by: Jacques Roy, Raquel Beattie, Cassandra Campbell...

Length: 32 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

John Irving’s fifteenth novel is “powerfully cinematic” (The Washington Post) and “eminently readable” (The Boston Globe). The Last Chairlift is part ghost story, part love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.

In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray,... Read more

My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird

By: 18 Afghan Women

Narrated by: Sitara Attaie

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

A landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by Afghan women that are "powerful, profound, and deeply moving" (Elif Shafak, author of The Island of Missing Trees, a Reese's Book Club pick)

"My pen is the wing of a bird; it will tell you those thoughts we are not allowed to think, those dreams we are not allowed to dream."

Eighteen... Read more

When We Were Sisters

By: Fatimah Asghar

Narrated by: Farah Kidwai, Kamran Khan & Deepti Gupta

Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • “This exquisite debut wrestles with gender, siblinghood, family, and what it means to be Muslim in America—all through the lens of love.”—Time
 
“Haunting . . .  a knife-sharp story of self-discovery.”—People

WINNER OF THE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOR FICTION • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker,... Read more

A Dark and Stormy Tea

By: Laura Childs

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A possible serial killer on the loose sends tea maven Theodosia Browning into a whirlwind of investigation in this latest installment of the New York Timesbestselling series.It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning’s troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia sees two figures locked in a... Read more

Don't Look Back

By: Achut Deng & Keely Hutton

Narrated by: Nedra Marie Taylor

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this propulsive memoir from Achut Deng and Keely Hutton, inspired by a harrowing New York Times article, Don't Look Back tells a powerful story showing both the ugliness and the beauty of humanity, and the power of not giving up.

I want life.

After a deadly attack in South Sudan left six-year-old Achut Deng without a family, she lived in... Read more

Savor

By: Fatima Ali & Tarajia Morrell

Narrated by: Nikhaar Kishnani & Deepa Samuel

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.

“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines... Read more

Little Eve

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Carolyn Bonnyman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From Catriona Ward, the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street comes Little Eve, a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist.

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.

“A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”

On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off... Read more

Declassified

By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch

Narrated by: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The best masterclass in classical music you never knew you needed.

Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life. After... Read more

When the Dark Spoke to Me

By: Christabelle Marbun

Narrated by: Christabelle Marbun

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A profound poetry collection shrouded in tenderness and empathy, created to comfort the growing pains we all experience in life.
Teen breakout poet Christabelle Grace Marbun brings her latest collection When the Dark Spoke to Me to life through words wise beyond her years. Her uniquely positive perspective on life, death, and everything in... Read more

Long Shadows

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The 6:20 Man, “Memory Man” Amos Decker—an FBI consultant with perfect recall—delves into a bewildering double homicide in this thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and... Read more

Nerd

By: Maya Phillips

Narrated by: Maya Phillips

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sexuality, and more through the lens of her favorite pop culture fandoms.

From the moment Maya Phillips saw the opening scroll of Star Wars, Episode V:... Read more

Somewhere Sisters

By: Erika Hayasaki

Narrated by: VyVy Nguyen

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Identical twins Isabella and Hà were born in Vietnam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence, until they were reunited as teenagers, against all odds.
 
The twins were born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1998, where their mother struggled to care for them. Hà was taken in by their biological aunt,... Read more

Bad Vibes Only

By: Nora McInerny

Narrated by: Nora McInerny

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—called “a gift” by The New York Times—a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby.

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A... Read more

Blackmail and Bibingka

By: Mia P. Manansala

Narrated by: Danice Cabanela

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

When her long-lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows that big trouble can’t be far behind in this new mystery by Mia P. Manansala, author of Arsenic and Adobo.
 
It’s Christmastime in Shady Palms, but things are far from jolly for Lila Macapagal. Sure, her new business, the Brew-ha Cafe, is looking to... Read more

Over My Dead Body

By: Greg Melville

Narrated by: Will Tulin

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our deadThe summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its... Read more

When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world

"Meticulously reported, and ultimately devastating, this is an important... Read more

You're a Mean One, Matthew Prince

By: Timothy Janovsky

Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Matthew Prince is young, rich, and thoroughly spoiled. So what if his parents barely remember he exists and the press is totally obsessed with him? He's on top of the world. But one major PR misstep later, he's cut off and shipped away to spend the holidays in his grandparents' charming small-town hellscape. Population: who cares? It's bad... Read more

Prince of Song & Sea

By: Linsey Miller

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Twisted Tales and Villains is a brand new YA series that retells the classic Disney stories you thought you knew from the Disney Princes' perspectives. Before Prince Eric's mother, the Queen of Vellona, went missing two years ago, she reminded him about the details of the deadly curse that has plagued his entire life. The curse? If... Read more

One Woman's War

By: Christine Wells

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALLFrom the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy when a volatile socialite and Austrian... Read more

When Life Gives You Vampires

By: Gloria Duke

Narrated by: Meg Sylvan

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-five-year-old Lily Baines is used to waking up hungover, overweight, and underemployed. Waking up with fangs? Not so much. But when a little light necking has more serious consequences than she ever imagined, Lily is determined to get to the bottom of it or die (again) trying. Tristan hadn't meant to turn Lily—it's against vampire... Read more

The Hero of This Book

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken

Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Los Angeles Times * Boston Globe * BookPage * Book Riot * The Millions * Publishers Weekly * LitHub * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Town & CountryA taut, groundbreaking new novel from bestselling and award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken, about a writer’s relationship with her larger-than-life mother—and... Read more