Bookseller picks

Stygian

By: Sherrilyn Kenyon

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 26 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon brings us back to the astonishing world of the Dark-Hunters in Stygian, with a hero misunderstood by many…but most of all by himself.I have lived for thousands of years, believing myself to be something I’m not. Someone I’m not.Trained as a slayer and predator, I’ve learned to become a tool... Read more

Harbor Me

By: Jacqueline Woodson

Narrated by: N'Jameh Camara, Jacqueline Woodson, Toshi Widof...

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature

Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories.

It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with... Read more

Musashi

By: Eiji Yoshikawa

Narrated by: Brian Nishii

Length: 53 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsmanMiyamoto Musashi was the child of an era when Japan was emerging from decades of civil strife. Lured to the great Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 by the hope of becoming a samurai—without really knowing what it meant—he regains consciousness after the battle to find... Read more

Darius the Great Is Not Okay

By: Adib Khorram

Narrated by: Michael Levi Harris

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Darius doesn't think he'll ever be enough, in America or in Iran. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this unforgettable debut introduces a brilliant new voice in contemporary YA.

Winner of the William C. Morris Debut Award

“Heartfelt, tender, and so utterly real. I’d live in this book forever if I could.”
—Becky Albertalli, award-winning author of... Read more

French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow and her adult son who flee New York for Paris in the wake of scandal and financial disintegration.Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her... Read more

Ohio

By: Stephen Markley

Narrated by: Caitlin Davies, Jayme Mattler, Joy Osmanski, Jo...

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR

“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social novel’ by way of Jonathan Franzen: epic fiction that lays bare contemporary culture clashes, showing us who we are and how we got here.” —O,... Read more

Putney

By: Sofka Zinovieff

Narrated by: Michelle Ford

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by... Read more

Whiskey When We're Dry

By: John Larison

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book by Entertainment Weekly, O Magazine, Goodreads, Southern Living, Outside Magazine, Oprah.com, HelloGiggles, Parade, Fodor’s Travel, Sioux City Journal, Read it Forward, Medium.com, and NPR’s All Things Considered.
 
"A thunderclap of originality, here is a fresh voice and fresh take on one of the oldest stories we tell about... Read more

How Are You Going to Save Yourself

By: JM Holmes

Narrated by: Damien Christopher

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).

Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young... Read more

Tragedy Plus Time

By: Adam Cayton-Holland

Narrated by: Adam Cayton-Holland

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Inspiring, tragic, and at times heart-rendingly funny.” —People

Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.

Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands, a trio of brilliant, acerbic teenagers from Denver, Colorado,... Read more

Vox

By: Christina Dalcher

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S AND SHEREADS' BOOKS TO READ AFTER THE HANDMAID'S TALE

“[An] electrifying debut.”—O, The Oprah Magazine 
“The real-life parallels will make you shiver.”—Cosmopolitan

Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one... Read more

The Bad Seed

By: William March

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.



There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers... Read more

The Sea Queen

By: Linnea Hartsuyker

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

An exhilarating Viking saga filled with the rich history, romantic adventure and political intrigue that have made Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander, George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, as well as Phillippa Gregory’s historical fiction and Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology popular bestsellers. Six years after The Half-Drowned King, Ragnvald Eysteinsson... Read more

If You Leave Me

By: Crystal Hana Kim

Narrated by: Greta Jung & Keong Sim

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

""If You Leave Me is graced with truly wonderful writing; great poise, lyricism, intelligence, and an utterly engrossing portrayal of life.""—Richard Ford""An unforgettable story of family, love, and war set against the violent emergence of modern Korea.""—Gary Shteyngart ""A gripping, heartrending tale of the birth of modern Korea filtered... Read more

Goodbye, Paris

By: Anstey Harris

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

* International Bestseller * A Book of the Month Club Pick*

The Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

From the simple melody of running her violin shop to the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David,... Read more

The Middleman

By: Olen Steinhauer

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

"Steinhauer once again demonstrates his mastery in creating suspense...Ari Fliakos calmly narrates while capturing colorfully the array of characters in this multilayered book." — Washington Post

In The Middleman, Olen Steinhauer, New York Times bestselling author of ten titles, including The Tourist and The Cairo Affair, delivers a compelling... Read more

Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne & Johanna Parker

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Baby, You’re Gonna Be Mine, Kevin Wilson’s first story collection in nearly a decade, Wilson combines his signature quirkiness with his keen eye for emotional complexity to explore the fraught relationship between parents and children.“Wildfire Johnny” is the story of a man who discovers a magic razor that allows him to travel back in time.... Read more

Under a Dark Sky

By: Lori Rader-Day

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically-acclaimed author of The Day I Died comes a terrifying twist on a locked-room mystery that will keep listeners guessing until the last words.Only in the dark can she find the truth . . .Since her husband died, Eden Wallace's life has diminished down to a tiny pinprick, like a far-off star in the night sky. She doesn't work,... Read more

The Black and the Blue

By: Matthew Horace & Ron Harris

Narrated by: Matthew Horace

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

During his 28-year career, Matthew Horace rose through the ranks from a police officer working the beat to a federal agent working criminal cases in some of the toughest communities in America to a highly decorated federal law enforcement executive managing high-profile investigations nationwide. Yet it was not until seven years into his... Read more

If They Come for Us

By: Fatimah Asghar

Narrated by: Fatimah Asghar

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

“A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice.”—Booklist
“Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones.”—Elle
“[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed or flexible.”—The New Yorker

NAMED ONE OF... Read more

The Reservoir Tapes

By: Jon McGregor

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham, Justine Eyre, Sarah Nichols, ...

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning us to the extraordinary territory of Jon McGregor’s Man Booker Prize long-listed novel Reservoir 13, The Reservoir Tapes take us deep into the heart of an English village that is trying to come to terms with what has happened on its watch.A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And... Read more

Tiffany Blues

By: M. J. Rose

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts “an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train) about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists’ colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany... Read more

Forks, Knives, and Spoons

By: Leah DeCesare

Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers who love Adriana Trigiani, Jennifer Weiner and Liane Moriarty, Forks, Knives, and Spoons is a light-hearted, thought-provoking coming of age story that takes readers on a nostalgic journey back to the 1980s and 1990s. Romantic, witty and warm.

There are three kinds of guys: forks, knives, and spoons. That is the final lesson that... Read more

Fruit of the Drunken Tree

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez, Almarie Guerra & Ingrid Rojas ...

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most dazzling and devastating novels I’ve read in a long time...Readers of Fruit of the Drunken Tree will surely be transformed.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“Simultaneously propulsive and poetic, reminiscent of Isabel Allende...Listen to this new author’s voice — she has something powerful to say.”
—Entertainment Weekly

A mesmerizing debut... Read more