Bookseller picks

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

Narrated by: Shannon Parks

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This tale, beloved by children and adults everywhere, follows Alice as she falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world, where she meets The Mad Hatter, the Ugly Duchess, the Mock Turtle, the Queen of Hearts and the Cheshire Cat—each character more eccentric than the last. Lewis Carroll, the master of sublime nonsense, has created one of the... Read more

Peter Pan

By: J. M. Barrie

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Barrie works an indisputable magic on listeners of all ages in this classic tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. As a baby, Peter Pan fell out of his carriage and was taken by fairies to Neverland. There, he can fly and is the champion of the Lost Boys and a friend to the fairy Tinker Bell. Revisiting England, Peter becomes involved with Wendy... Read more

From the Mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg

Narrated by: Jill Clayburgh

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)

Run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with E. L. Konigsburg’s beloved classic and Newbery Medal­–winning novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

When Claudia decided to run away, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia... Read more

Wuthering Heights

By: Emily Bronte

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"After a moment he smiled a teasing smile. 'I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality.'
'I think that may be the point,' I disagreed. 'Their love is their only redeeming quality.'"
--Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer
 
Perhaps the most haunting and tormented love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of... Read more

House of Suns

By: Alastair Reynolds

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of... Read more

Flowers for Algernon

By: Daniel Keyes

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and... Read more

The Savage Detectives

By: Roberto Bolaño

Narrated by: Eddie Lopez & Armando Durán

Length: 26 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Márquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolaño tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes—the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself—on a tragicomic quest through a... Read more

Sandman Slim

By: Richard Kadrey

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece.”
—William Gibson“A sharp-edged urban fantasy, drenched in blood and cynicism, tipping its hat to Sam Peckinpah, Raymond Chandler, and the anti-heroes of Hong Kong cinema….A bravura performance.”
—San Francisco Chronicle“I couldn’t put it down.”
—Charlaine HarrisSandman Slim has... Read more

When You Reach Me

By: Rebecca Stead

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Like A Wrinkle in Time (Miranda's favorite book), When You Reach Me far surpasses the usual whodunit or sci-fi adventure to become an incandescent exploration of 'life, death, and the beauty of it all.'" —The Washington Post
 
This Newbery Medal winner that has been called "smart and mesmerizing," (The New York Times) and "superb" (The Wall... Read more

Tender Morsels

By: Margo Lanagan

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik & Michael Page

Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, given to her by natural magic in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters, gentle Branza and curious Urdda, grow up in this soft world, protected from the violence, predation, and village prejudice that once harmed their mother. But the real world cannot be denied forever—magicked men and... Read more

The Bonfire of the Vanities

By: Tom Wolfe

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 27 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This bitingly hilarious American satire will forever define late twentieth-century New York style.Tom Wolfe’s bestselling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader who has it all: wealth, power, prestige, a Park Avenue apartment, a beautiful wife, and an even more beautiful mistress, until one wrong turn... Read more

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

By: Peter Matthiessen

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 28 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot June morning in 1975, a fatal shoot-out took place between FBI agents and American Indians on a remote property near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in which an Indian and two federal agents were killed. Eventually, four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges in the deaths of the two agents. Leonard Peltier,... Read more

The Widow Clicquot

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was this young widow—the Veuve Clicquot—whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune?



In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life for the first time the fascinating woman behind the iconic... Read more

Wait Till Helen Comes

By: Mary Downing Hahn

Narrated by: Ellen Grafton

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their younger stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard.If that's not bad... Read more

The Book of Night Women

By: Marlon James

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings

"An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review

The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force of both voice and storytelling. It is the story of... Read more

Fool

By: Christopher Moore

Narrated by: Euan Morton

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.”
—Dallas Morning NewsFool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish... Read more

Another Country

By: James Baldwin

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race, and America in the 1950s. Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable... Read more

Blood Music

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Vergil's innovative experiment restructuring the cells of a common virus becomes a nightmare when, in order to save his research, Vergil injects the entire culture into his bloodstream. Read more

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

By: Kate Summerscale

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.

At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention;... Read more

The Guns of August

By: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 19 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, historian Barbara Tuchman brings to life the people and events that led up to World War I.This was the last gasp of the Gilded Age, of kings and kaisers and czars, of pointed or plumed hats, colored uniforms, and all the pomp and romance that went along with war. How quickly it all changed—and how horrible... Read more

Nation

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Stephen Briggs

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award * Michael L. Printz Medal honor winnerFrom the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series, comes an epic adventure of survival that mixes hope, humor, and humanity.When a giant wave... Read more

The Scaredy Cats

By: Allan Zullo

Narrated by: John Ratzenberger

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The Scaredy Cats from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Scaredy CatsA cat that boys are... Read more

Tropic of Cancer

By: Henry Miller

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer chronicles the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s with unapologetic gusto, and is now considered, as Norman Mailer said, ""one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century."" The audiobook is narrated by acclaimed actor Campbell... Read more

The Wanderer

By: Sharon Creech

Narrated by: Dana Lubotsky

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

Thirteen-year-old Sophie is the only girl amongst the crew of The Wanderer, made up of her three uncles and two cousins. They sail across the Atlantic toward England, the land of Bompie, her grandfather. The personal journey she takes brings her deeper... Read more