Bookseller picks

Made in China

By: Amelia Pang

Narrated by: Nancy Wu

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most-Anticipated Book of the Year: Newsweek * Refinery29

“Timely and urgent . . . Pang is a dogged investigator.” —The New York Times

“Moving and powerful.” —Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author 

Discover the truth behind the discounts.
 
In 2012, an Oregon mother named Julie Keith opened up a package of Halloween... Read more

Beneath the Keep

By: Erika Johansen

Narrated by: Mandy Williams

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“A suspenseful, multilayered tale of how the sparks of revolution are kindled, and of those who strive to ignite them.”—Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author

As a kingdom descends into darkness and new alliances are forged under fire, a battle begins over a prophecy that will change the course of history in this much-anticipated... Read more

Love Is an Ex-Country

By: Randa Jarrar

Narrated by: Randa Jarrar

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this provocative memoir of a cross-country road trip, she explores how to claim joy in an unraveling and hostile America.

Randa Jarrar is a fearless voice of dissent who has been called "politically incorrect" (Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times). As an... Read more

The Removed

By: Brandon Hobson

Narrated by: Gary Farmer, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, DeLanna Stud...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted work, full of voices old and new. It is about a family’s reckoning with loss and injustice, and it is about a people trying for the same. The journey of this family’s way home is full—in equal measure—of melancholy and love.” —Tommy Orange, author of There ThereA RECOMMENDED BOOK FROMUSA Today * O, the Oprah Magazine * Entertainment... Read more

The Kindest Lie

By: Nancy Johnson

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Recommended by O Magazine * GMA * Elle * Marie Claire * Good Housekeeping * NBC News * Shondaland * Chicago Tribune * Woman's Day * Refinery 29 * Bustle * The Millions * New York Post * Parade * Hello! Magazine * PopSugar * and more!“The Kindest Lie is a deep dive into how we define family, what it means to be a mother, and what it means to grow... Read more

Fake Accounts

By: Lauren Oyler

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"This novel made me want to retire from contemporary reality. I loved it." —Zadie Smith

A woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “incisive” and “funny” debut novel that “brilliantly captures the claustrophobia of lives led online and personae tested in the real world” (Publishers... Read more

Good Neighbors

By: Sarah Langan

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this “wickedly funny, unnerving puzzle box of a novel” (Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will) about the downward spiral of a Long Island community after a tragedy exposes its residents’ depths of deception.

Welcome to Maple Street, a... Read more

Like Streams to the Ocean

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

Narrated by: Jedidiah Jenkins

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “As inviting, wide-ranging, and philosophical as an all-night conversation with a best friend, and as revealing and thought-provoking as the diary of a curious adventurer.”—Sasha Sagan, author of For Small Creatures Such as We

You can travel the world looking for yourself, but if you don't know what you're looking for,... Read more

The Ash House

By: Angharad Walker

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

An unsettling, gripping middle grade debut about searching for a sense of belonging in the wrong places, and the bravery it takes to defy those who seek to control us. This is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children meets Lord of the Flies for fans of Neil Gaiman and Holly Black.When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House,... Read more

The Girl from the Channel Islands

By: Jenny Lecoat

Narrated by: Deryn Edwards

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!

“Unforgettable” —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author

Inspired by true events, the riveting story of a young Jewish woman trapped on the occupied island of Jersey during World War II.

Summer 1940: Hedy Bercu fled... Read more

Faye, Faraway

By: Helen Fisher

Narrated by: Sophie Roberts

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Heartfelt and irresistible—“a lovely, deeply moving story of loss and love and memory made real” (Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author)—this enchanting debut follows a woman who travels back in time to be reunited with the mother she lost when she was a child.

Every night, as Faye puts her daughters to bed, she thinks of her own... Read more

Highland Treasure

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A Buchanan brother finds a love to treasure in this scintillating historical romance from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands…After escaping from the English soldiers who attacked her home and imprisoned her in a dungeon, Lady Elysande de Valance is grateful for the rugged Scots who are escorting her to safety in the Highlands. Even... Read more

The Wicker King

By: K. Ancrum

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack once saved August's life . . . now can August save him?



August is a misfit with a pyro streak and Jack is a golden boy on the varsity rugby team—but their intense friendship goes way back. Jack begins to see increasingly vivid hallucinations that take the form of an elaborate fantasy kingdom creeping into the edges of the real world. With... Read more

A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians

By: H. G. Parry

Narrated by: Andrew Kingston

Length: 20 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in... Read more

The Ex Talk

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant Indie Bestseller

Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in Rachel Lynn Solomon's sparkling romantic comedy debut.
 
Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague,... Read more

Good Apple

By: Elizabeth Passarella

Narrated by: Jill Blackwood

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated."Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with a Christian mom and a Jewish dad. Then she... Read more

At the Edge of the Haight

By: Katherine Seligman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver

“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror... Read more

The Listening Path

By: Julia Cameron

Narrated by: Eliza Foss & Julia Cameron

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

**An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award-winning production**

A 6-week Artist’s Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron

"A book on better listening seems particularly suited for audio, and careful listeners will be rewarded." -- Booklist

The newest audiobook from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey... Read more

Gone to the Woods

By: Gary Paulsen

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Dan Bittner flawlessly narrates this matchless memoir, which captures writer Gary Paulsen's bittersweet life...The sublime narration and satisfying conclusion contribute to a rewarding listening experience." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A middle grade memoir from a living literary legend, giving listeners a new perspective on... Read more

Hades, Argentina

By: Daniel Loedel

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD FINALIST

CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLIST

“A debut novel as impressive as they come. Tough, wily, dreamlike.” —Seattle Times

A decade after fleeing for his life, a man is pulled back to Argentina by an undying love.

In 1976, Tomás Orilla is a medical student in Buenos Aires, where he has moved in hopes of... Read more

Dear Miss Kopp

By: Amy Stewart

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Split apart by the war effort, the indomitable Kopp sisters take on saboteurs and spies and stand up to the Army brass as they face the possibility that their life back home will never be the same.

The U.S. has finally entered World War I. Constance, the oldest of the Kopp sisters, is doing intelligence work on the home front for the Bureau... Read more

Chlorine Sky

By: Mahogany L. Browne

Narrated by: Mahogany L. Browne

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel-in-verse about a young girl coming-of-age and stepping out of the shadow of her former best friend. Perfect for readers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Nikki Grimes.

"Mahogany L. Browne's debut YA ia an absolute masterpiece. It will leave you breathless." -Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X 

She looks me hard in my... Read more

Bevelations

By: Bevy Smith

Narrated by: Bevy Smith

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

From the host of the fabulous and popular show Bevelations on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel, Bevy Smith’s irreverent and inspiring memoir about learning to live a big, authentic, and unapologetic life—and how you can, too.

Bevy Smith was living what seemed like a glamorous dream as a fashion advertising... Read more

The Center of Everything

By: Jamie Harrison

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this compelling family drama set against the dangerous beauty of the Yellowstone, Polly is still trying to get her life back on track after a recent accident, not always trusting reality.For Polly, the town of Livingston, Montana, is a land charmed by natural beauty and a close network of family extending back generations. But a recent head... Read more