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Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle Top Ten... Read more

The Warm Hands of Ghosts

By: Katherine Arden

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, January LaVoy & Katherine Arden

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

“A wonderful clash of fire and ice—a book you won’t want to let go... Read more

Beyond the Wand

By: Tom Felton

Narrated by: Tom Felton

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the magical moments on set as Draco Malfoy to the challenges of growing up in the spotlight, get a backstage pass into Tom Felton’s life on and off the big screen in this #1 New York Times bestseller.   Tom Felton’s adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame in beloved films like The Borrowers catapulted him into the... Read more

The Lost Library

By: Rebecca Stead & Wendy Mass

Narrated by: Christopher Gebauer, Jennifer Blom & Rob Dircks

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

"This audiobook, written by two experts in middle-grade fiction, is a perfect family listen."- AudioFile

The New York Times bestselling authors of Bob, Rebecca Stead and Wendy Mass, introduce young listeners to a little free library guarded by a cat and a boy who takes on the mystery it keeps.

When a... Read more

The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen & Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE *

Longlisted for the 2025 Aspen Words Literary Prize • A Best Book of 2024: Time, Kirkus Reviews, BookPage, The Sunday Times (London)

“Remarkable…Compelling…Fine and taut…Indelible.” —The New York Times • “Moving, unnerving, and deeply sexy.” —Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring • “A... Read more

Ghost Station

By: S.A. Barnes

Narrated by: Zura Johnson

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space-horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.

An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger.

Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of... Read more

Supercommunicators

By: Charles Duhigg

Narrated by: Charles Duhigg

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work—and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life

“A winning combination of stories, studies, and guidance that might well transform the worst communicators you know into some of the best.”—Adam Grant,... Read more

Swift and Saddled

By: Lyla Sage

Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Vanessa Edwin

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway.

From the author of the BookTok sensation Done and Dusted comes the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small town romance featuring opposites attract and forced proximity.

“Tender, relatable, and brimming with delicious... Read more

The Great Believers

By: Rebecca Makkai

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER
ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER
THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER

Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy Poehler • One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

“A page turner . . . An absorbing and... Read more

The Empusium

By: Olga Tokarczuk

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!

“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review

The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas

September 1913. A young Pole... Read more

Puck and Prejudice

By: Lia Riley

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Mister Hockey comes a sizzling marriage of convenience romance between a pro hockey player who accidentally travels back in time to Regency Era England and the brazen contemporary of Jane Austen he just can’t help but fall for… It is a truth universally acknowledged that a modern single man in possession of a hockey jersey may... Read more

The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

Narrated by: Abigail Reno

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family’s apartment complex one morning and won’t come out.
 
It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion... Read more

One Last Stop

By: Casey McQuiston

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*
*INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*

"Narrator Natalie Naudus brings a quiet intensity to this genre-crossing audiobook...the perfect fit for a tale of queer joy, first love, and self-discovery." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

From the New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

The Paris Apartment

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sop...

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.”  — Vogue""[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller."" — PeopleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The... Read more

The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

Narrated by: Michael Boatman, Nicole Lewis, Thomas Sadoski, ...

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE of the TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR by THE NEW YORK TIMES * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * SLATE* THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER *

Also named one of the BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by Vanity Fair, Time, NPR, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, Self, Vogue, The New Yorker, BBC, Vulture, and many more!

OLIVIA WILDE to direct A24's TV adaptation of... Read more

How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

By: Anna Montague

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Less and Remarkably Bright Creatures comes a funny and moving novel about love, loss, and new beginnings found on an unlikely road tripMost days, Magda is fine. She has her routines. She has her anxious therapy patients, who depend on her to cure their bad habits. She has her longtime colleagues, whose playful bickering she mediates.... Read more

Leviathan Falls

By: James S.A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning Expanse series, now a major TV series.The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war... Read more

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 32 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight.

Soon, another practicing magician... Read more

Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

Narrated by: Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill &...

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss this “breakneck thriller” examining “our culture’s obsession with serial killers and true crime” (Harper’s Bazaar) following two women on the pursuit of justice against all odds. “A fascinating look at true crime and tabloid culture that's as thoughtful as it is gripping” (People).

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023
New York Times... Read more

His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass (Book 1)

By: Philip Pullman

Narrated by: Philip Pullman, Joanna Wyatt, Rupert Degas, Ali...

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

HIS DARK MATERIALS IS NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING DAFNE KEEN, RUTH WILSON, ANDREW SCOTT, AND LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA!

The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes listeners to a world where humans have animal familiars and... Read more

Dare to Lead

By: Brené Brown

Narrated by: Brené Brown

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

Don’t miss the five-part HBO Max docuseries Brené... Read more

A Marvellous Light

By: Freya Marske

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator David Thorpe’s delicious depictions of steamy encounters between Robin and
Edwin are intricately woven throughout this magical realm." -- Booklist, starred review

An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best... Read more

The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Katherine Center & Patti Murin

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features a bonus scene and an author's note—both audio-exclusives—and acknowledgments read by the author.

“[Patti] Murin's portrayal of Emma is captivating--a blend of sass, humor, and empathy with impeccable timing and nuances.”—AudioFile

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?

Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be... Read more

A Thousand Ships

By: Natalie Haynes

Narrated by: Natalie Haynes

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year“Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.”—Madeline Miller, author of CirceShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many... Read more