Bookseller picks

The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"Australian narrator Stephen Shanahan returns for another knockout performance...It's a slow and bleak affair, but no less enthralling than Harper's and Shanahan's previous efforts." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone... Read more

Bowlaway

By: Elizabeth McCracken

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley.

From the day she is discovered unconscious in a New England cemetery at the turn of the twentieth century—nothing but a bowling ball, a... Read more

At the Wolf's Table

By: Rosella Postorino

Narrated by: Polly Stone

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Polly Stone gives us a believable depiction of Rosa Sauer...The story is compelling, and the performance memorable." — AudioFile Magazine

At the Wolf's Table is a moving audiobook based on the untold true story of the women conscripted to be Hitler’s food tasters, from internationally bestselling author Rosella Postorino.

"They called it... Read more

The Falconer

By: Dana Czapnik

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick

“A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence. It has restored my faith in pretty much everything.” —Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth

“[An] electric debut novel…Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as well.” —Chloe Malle, The... Read more

Golden Child

By: Claire Adam

Narrated by: Obi Abili

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love

WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE • “Golden Child is a stunning novel written with force and beauty.  Though true to herself, Adam's work stands tall beside icons of her tradition like V.S.... Read more

The Wolf in the Whale

By: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Narrated by: Jordanna Max Brodsky

Length: 18 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you liked American Gods by Neil Gaiman or Circe by Madeline Miller, be sure to pick this one up." -- Timeworn

A sweeping tale of forbidden love and warring gods, where a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies in a war that will determine the fate of the new world.

There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that... Read more

Spin

By: Lamar Giles

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Even in murder, the music lives on.When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the local music scene reeling. No one is feeling that grief more than her shunned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and ParSec's chief groupie, Fuse -- two sworn enemies who happened to be the ones who discovered her body. The... Read more

The World According to Fannie Davis

By: Bridgett M. Davis

Narrated by: Bridgett M. Davis

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride).
In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty... Read more

The Lost Girls of Paris

By: Pam Jenoff

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden, Henrietta Meire & Candace ...

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Three women. One daring mission.

1946. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Inside is a dozen photographs—each of a different woman. Grace soon learns that the... Read more

The Weight of a Piano

By: Chris Cander

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

USA TODAY BESTSELLER

In 1962, in the Soviet Union, eight-year-old Katya is bequeathed what will become the love of her life: a Blüthner piano, on which she discovers an enrichening passion for music. Yet after she marries, her husband insists the family emigrate to America—and loses her piano in the process.

In 2012, in Bakersfield, California,... Read more

Ship of Smoke and Steel

By: Django Wexler

Narrated by: Catherine Ho

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Ship of Smoke and Steel is the launch of Django Wexler's cinematic, action-packed epic fantasy Wells of Sorcery trilogy.

In the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss Isoka enforces the will of her criminal masters with the power of Melos, the Well of Combat. The money she collects goes to... Read more

The Color of Compromise

By: Jemar Tisby

Narrated by: Jemar Tisby

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An acclaimed, timely narrative of how people of faith have historically--up to the present day--worked against racial justice. And a call for urgent action by all Christians today in response. The Color of Compromise is both enlightening and compelling, telling a history we either ignore or just don't know. Equal parts painful and inspirational,... Read more

The Gilded Wolves

By: Roshani Chokshi

Narrated by: Laurie Catherine Winkel & P. J. Ochlan

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*

"[P. J. Ochlan and Laurie Catherine Winkel] animate a large cast of well-rounded characters, a complicated plot, and rich descriptions...Their strong characterizations as well as their use of accents and judicious timing suggest an exciting new series ahead." — AudioFile Magazine

This program includes a... Read more

The Orphan of Salt Winds

By: Elizabeth Brooks

Narrated by: Helen Lloyd

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Eowyn Ivey, Rose Tremaine, and Kate Atkinson, The Orphan of Salt Winds is a bewitching debut about the secrets that haunt us.England, 1939. Ten-year-old Virginia Wrathmell arrives at Salt Winds, a secluded house on the edge of a marsh, to meet her adoptive parents―practical, dependable Clem and glamorous, mercurial Lorna. The marsh,... Read more

To Keep the Sun Alive

By: Rabeah Ghaffari

Narrated by: Rabeah Ghaffari

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1979. The Iranian Revolution is just around the corner, as is a once-in-a-lifetime solar eclipse. Meanwhile, in the northeastern city of Naishapur, a retired judge and his wife, Bibi, run an ancient orchard, growing apples, plums, peaches, and sour cherries, and looking after several generations of family members. The days here are... Read more

Inheritance

By: Dani Shapiro

Narrated by: Dani Shapiro

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR according to Elle, Real Simple, and Kirkus Reviews

“Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of identity and the true meaning of family.” —People Magazine

“Beautifully written and... Read more

"Cat Person" and Other Stories

By: Kristen Roupenian

Narrated by: Aubrey Plaza, Jayme Mattler, Molly Pope, Will D...

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

*Includes the story “Cat Person”—now a major film*

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny—connections between gender, sex, and power across genres.

“These stories are sharp and perverse, dark and bizarre, unrelenting and utterly bananas. I love them so, so much.” —Carmen Maria Machado,... Read more

The Last Whalers

By: Doug Bock Clark

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "immersive, densely reported, and altogether remarkable first book [with] the texture and color of a first-rate novel" (New York Times), journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the epic story of the world's last subsistence whalers and the threats posed to a tribe on the brink.

A New York Times Notable Book​
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Winner... Read more

Looker

By: Laura Sims

Narrated by: Katherine Fenton

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

*Featured on Best of Lists in Vogue, People, Entertainment Weekly, Real Simple, Southern Living, and more*

In this “wicked slow burn” (Entertainment Weekly) of psychological suspense from the author of How Can I Help You, a woman becomes fixated on her neighbor—the actress.

Though the two women live just a few doors apart, a chasm lies between... Read more

In an Absent Dream

By: Seanan McGuire

Narrated by: Cynthia Hopkins

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway

This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than... Read more

Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she's sentenced to life in prison. When she's released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads... Read more

Ghost Wall

By: Sarah Moss

Narrated by: Christine Hewitt

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

**Winner of a 2020 Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration award**Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award**

A taut, gripping tale of a young woman and an Iron Age reenactment trip that unearths frightening behavior.

The light blinds you; there’s a lot you miss by gathering at the fireside.

In the north of England, far from the intrusions of... Read more

The Paragon Hotel

By: Lyndsay Faye

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A gun moll with a knack for disappearing flees from Prohibition-era Harlem to Portland's Paragon Hotel.

The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James has just arrived in Oregon with a bullet wound, a lifetime's experience battling the New York Mafia, and fifty thousand dollars in illicit cash. She befriends Max, a black Pullman porter who reminds... Read more

Freefall

By: Jessica Barry

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker & MacLeod Andrews

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie Finalist – Thriller/SuspenseA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019:  Entertainment Weekly | USA Today | Parade | Cosmopolitan | New York Post | PopSugar | Goodreads
“Exhilarating, emotional -- a thriller charged with genuine depth and raw power.” — A.J. Finn author of the #1 bestselling The Woman in the Window""An absorbing treat."" — PEOPLE... Read more