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The Boy in the Red Dress

By: Kristin Lambert

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts.

New Year's Eve, 1929.

Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans... Read more

Ghosts of Harvard

By: Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

TEEN VOGUE BOOK CLUB PICK • A Harvard freshman becomes obsessed with her schizophrenic brother’s suicide. Then she starts hearing voices.

“A rich, intricately plotted thriller . . . Serritella, who is a Harvard grad herself, writes about the campus with an insider’s savvy.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

“Every time I thought I knew where... Read more

Big Summer

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Danielle Macdonald

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant “beach read to end all beach reads” (Entertainment Weekly) about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all of life’s ups and downs—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever.

Six years after the... Read more

Summer Longing

By: Jamie Brenner

Narrated by: Molly Parker Myers

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

When a baby is left on the doorstep of a Cape Cod beach house, an unlikely group of women risks all they hold dear to harbor and protect her in this page-turning story from a USA Today bestselling author.

Ruth Cooperman arrives in beautiful beachside Provincetown for her retirement, renting the perfect waterfront cottage while she searches for... Read more

Summer Darlings

By: Brooke Lea Foster

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Filled with 1960s nostalgia and a host of deftly drawn characters” (Renée Rosen, author of Park Avenue Summer), Summer Darlings pulls back the curtain on one mysterious and wealthy family as seen through the eyes of their nanny—a college student who, while falling in love on Martha’s Vineyard, is also forced to reckon with the dark side of... Read more

The Book of V.

By: Anna Solomon

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg, Eva Kaminsky & Gabra Zackman

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

**An Audiofile Earphones Award-winning production**

For fans of The Hours and Fates and Furies, a bold, kaleidoscopic novel intertwining the lives of three women across three centuries as their stories of sex, power, and desire finally converge in the present day.

Lily is a mother and a daughter. And a second wife. And a writer, maybe? Or she... Read more

Dirt

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old... Read more

The Lincoln Conspiracy

By: Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Everyone knows that Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, but how many know that there was a previous, unsuccessful attempt on his life? Let narrator Scott Brick tell you all about it...Brick can make a nursery rhyme sound exciting, and he's on fire in this audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine

The bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which... Read more

We Dream of Space

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Newbery Honor Book“A captivating story about family’s enduring bonds.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Another wondrous title from a remarkably talented author.” —Booklist (starred review)“A 10 out of 10. Anyone interested in science, sibling relationships, and friendships will enjoy reading We Dream of Space.” —Time for KidsNewbery Medalist... Read more

Unfinished Business

By: Vivian Gornick

Narrated by: Vivian Gornick

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life.“I sometimes think I was born reading…I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.”Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick’s celebration of passionate... Read more

In Praise of Paths

By: Torbjørn Ekelund

Narrated by: TJ Oberholzer

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

“What [Ekelund is] addressing is the intention to walk one’s way to meaning: the walk as spiritual exercise, a kind of vision quest... A key strategy for finding ourselves, then, is to first get lost.”—The New York Times Book Review

An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped driving and... Read more

Strange Hotel

By: Eimear McBride

Narrated by: Eimear McBride

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

"The narrative is complex, but McBride's indulgent tone, modulated voice, and on-point pacing carry it forward and make it appeal to listeners' emotions. This poignant story of love, loss, and self-exploration will linger in listeners' minds." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

From Eimear McBride, author of the award-winning A Girl... Read more

Keep It Together, Keiko Carter: A Wish Novel

By: Debbi Michiko Florence

Narrated by: Stephanie Komure

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Wendy Mass and Lisa Greenwald are sure to fall head-over-heels for this sweet story about first crushes, friendship drama, and finding the courage to stand up for yourself.Seventh grade is supposed to be a game changer. And Keiko thinks she's got it covered, especially with Audrey and Jenna by her side to shop for a new look, pick out a... Read more

Shuri: A Black Panther Novel #1

By: Nic Stone

Narrated by: Anika Noni Rose

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes an all-new upper middle grade series based on one of the Marvel Universe's break-out characters—Shuri, from Black Panther!An original, upper-middle-grade series starring the break-out character from the Black Panther comics and films: T'Challa's younger sister, Shuri! Crafted by New York... Read more

The Knockout Queen

By: Rufi Thorpe

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE 2021 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

"Full of verve... Revelatory." —Los Angeles Times

A dazzling and darkly comic novel of love, violence, and friendship in the California suburbs

Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore⁠—beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael⁠⁠—with a... Read more

Sea Wife

By: Amity Gaige

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Will Damron & Emily Eiden

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

"Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning.  Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and finally, the nature of survival itself in our broken world. ... Read more

The End of October

By: Lawrence Wright

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.” —New York Post
 
“Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders . .... Read more

Take Me Apart

By: Sara Sligar

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer & Xe Sands

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"What a clever, visceral thriller. A raw, unfiltered twist on gaslighting that challenges how society treats women. It made me sad, angry, and fired up."
—Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty

"I loved this novel so much that I blew off all my responsibilities, turned off my phone, and blistered through the whole thing in one sitting.... Read more

Good Boy

By: Jennifer Finney Boylan

Narrated by: Jennifer Finney Boylan & Kelsey Navarro

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

From bestselling author of She’s Not There, New York Times opinion columnist, and human rights activist Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs, a memoir of the transformative power of loving dogs.

This is a book about dogs: the love we have for them, and the way that love... Read more

How to Pronounce Knife

By: Souvankham Thammavongsa

Narrated by: James Tang & Kulap Vilaysack

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Named one of the New York Times' "7 New Books to Watch Out for in April," this revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home, even as they do the necessary "grunt work of the world." In the title story of Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut collection, a young girl brings a book home from school and... Read more

Kent State

By: Deborah Wiles

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Lauren Ezzo, Christina Del...

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles, a masterpiece exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four American students protesting the Vietnam War.May 4, 1970.Kent State University.As protestors roil the campus, National Guardsmen are called in. In the chaos of what happens next, shots... Read more

Walk the Wire

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Amos Decker—​the FBI consultant with a perfect memory—returns to solve a gruesome murder in a booming North Dakota oil town in the newest thriller in David Baldacci's #1 New York Times bestselling Memory Man series.

When Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are called to London, North Dakota, they instantly sense that the thriving... Read more

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me

By: Jason B. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jason B. Rosenthal, Miles Rosenthal & Baize Buzan

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, whose last act of love before her death was setting the stage for her husband’s life without her in a Modern Love column in the New York Times. On March 3, 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal penned a Modern Love column for... Read more

Home Baked

By: Alia Volz

Narrated by: Alia Volz

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, an underground bakery that distributed thousands of marijuana brownies per month and helped provide medical marijuana to AIDS patients in San Francisco—for fans... Read more