Bookseller picks

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

Born to Run

By: Christopher McDougall

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The astonishing and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt?

“Equal parts quest, physiology treatise, and running history.... The climactic race reads like a sprint.... It simply makes you want to run.” —Outside... 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

Revelation Space

By: Alastair Reynolds

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 22 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with... 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 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

Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Jim Colby

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Every weekend, in basements and car parks across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything.

Fight Club is the invention of Tyler Durden,... Read more

Lord Valentine’s Castle

By: Robert Silverberg

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 19 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The search for his lost past leads to a battle for his future.The planet Majipoor is shared by humans and several alien races, including four-armed Skandars, three-eyed Liiman, and the native, shape-shifting Metamorphs. All are watched over by the King of Dreams, the labyrinth-dwelling Pontifex, and the Lady of the Isle of Sleep, while the... Read more

Comfort Food

By: Kate Jacobs

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A smart and deliciously funny novel by the bestselling author of The Friday Night Knitting Club—and “readers will be cheering” (Bookreporter.com)...

Shortly before turning the big five-oh, Cooking with Gusto! TV personality Augusta “Gus” Simpson finds herself planning a birthday party she’d rather ignore—her own. To make things worse, the network... Read more

Doomsday Book

By: Connie Willis

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 26 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most respected and awarded of all contemporary science fiction writers, Connie Willis repeatedly amazes her many admiring fans with her ability to create vivid characters in unusual situations. With Doomsday Book, she takes listeners on a thrilling trip through time to discover the things that make us most human. For Oxford student... Read more

All Over But the Shoutin' - Abridged

By: Rick Bragg

Narrated by: Rick Bragg

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly destined for either the cotton mills or the penitentiary, and instead became a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times. It is the story of Bragg's father, a... Read more

Master and Commander

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 16 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the dawn of the nineteenth century; Britain is at war with Napoleon's France. Jack Aubrey, a young lieutenant in Nelson's navy, is promoted to command of H.M.S. Sophie?, an old, slow brig unlikely to make his fortune. But Captain Aubrey is a brave and gifted seaman, his thirst for adventure and victory immense. With the aid of his friend... Read more

Before Green Gables

By: Budge Wilson

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A must-read for generations of book lovers, this remarkable prequel to the classic Anne of Green Gables was specially authorized by L. M. Montgomery's heirs to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of the original novel.



Before Green Gables is the story of Anne Shirley's life before her arrival at Green Gables—a heartwarming tale of... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: H.G. Wells

Narrated by: Victoria Morgan

Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

" I had not expected the suffering. A night of racking anguish, sickness and fainting. I became insensible and woke languid in the darkness. I shall never forget that dawn, and the strange horror of seeing that my hands had become as clouded glass, and watching them grow clearer and thinner as the day went by. My limbs became glassy, the bones... Read more

The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

Narrated by: George K Wilson

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.

When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal... Read more