Local bookseller recommendations

Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik & Luis Alberto Urrea

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross.

“Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary... Read more

Hell of a Book: National Book Award Winner

By: Jason Mott

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Ronald Peet

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

***2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER***

***THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER***

Winner of the 2021 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Finalist, 2022 Chautauqua Prize Finalist, Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing Shortlist, 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Shortlist, 2022 Maya Angelou Book Award Shortlist, 2022 Carnegie... Read more

The Fury

By: Alex Michaelides

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

"Alex Jennings' impeccable accent keeps the already propulsive novel quite engaging, and moving like a steam train about to run you over."—Vulture

"Narrator Alex Jennings offers a sparkling performance, providing layered character portraits and enlivening the story with British, American, and Greek accents...listeners who enjoy whodunits and... 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 Mothers

By: Brit Bennett

Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 

“Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review

"Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post

From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big secret in a small community. 

Set within a contemporary black community... Read more

Moon of the Turning Leaves

By: Waubgeshig Rice

Narrated by: Billy Merasty

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Waubgeshig Rice's stories are good medicine. Moon of the Turning Leaves is a restorative balm for my spirit.” — Angeline Boulley, New York Times bestselling author of Firekeeper's DaughterIn this gripping stand-alone literary thriller set in the world of the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow, a scouting party led by... Read more

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

By: KJ Charles

Narrated by: Martyn Swain

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels?until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the... 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

The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 15 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

*The #1 New York Times bestseller*

The next audiobook sensation from Kristin Hannah, bestselling author of The Nightingale.

This program is read by acclaimed narrator Julia Whelan, whose enchanting voice brought Gone Girl and Fates and Furies to life. Kristin Hannah reads the acknowledgements.

Alaska, 1974.
Unpredictable. Unforgiving. Untamed.
For a... Read more

The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

Narrated by: Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, Nicole Lewis, Rebe...

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY Bestseller

In this “page-turning suspense novel, shrewd character study, and captivating mystery” (Stephen King) Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call that Ellie Black, a girl who disappeared years earlier, has resurfaced in the woods of Washington state—but her reappearance leaves Chelsey with... Read more

We Will Rest!

By: Tricia Hersey

Narrated by: Tricia Hersey

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Escape from grind culture and dehumanizing systems with this visionary guide from the author of the New York Times bestseller Rest Is Resistance
 
We don’t believe we are worthy of rest unless we burn ourselves out to accomplish it. Our thinking has been limited by disconnection, sleep deprivation, and the unattainable call for perfection. The... Read more

My Roommate Is a Vampire

By: Jenna Levine

Narrated by: Gilli Messer

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A September Indie Next Pick
One of Amazon's Best Romances of September
One of Apple's Best Books of September

True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy.

Cassie Greenberg loves being an artist, but it’s a tough way to make a living. On the brink of eviction, she’s desperate when she finds a... Read more

Moonglow

By: Michael Chabon

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Following on the heels of his New York Times–bestselling novel Telegraph Avenue, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Chabon delivers another literary masterpiece: a novel of truth and lies, family legends, and existential adventure—and the forces that work to destroy us.In 1989, fresh from the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of... Read more

Beartown

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO Original Series

“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People

Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.

By the lake in Beartown... Read more

Clap When You Land

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo & Melania-Luisa Marte

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An Odyssey Honor AudiobookIn a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives.Don't miss the audiobook, read by Elizabeth Acevedo, the beloved... Read more

Solito

By: Javier Zamora

Narrated by: Javier Zamora

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award

A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping... Read more

Lovely War

By: Julie Berry

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Allan Corduner, Julie Berry, D...

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of Divine Rivals, a critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals in their hands.

"Pick an adjective—sweeping, sprawling, epic, Olympian—and yet none quite conveys the emotional width and depth of... Read more

The Bookshop

By: Evan Friss

Narrated by: Jay Myers

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

"A spirited defense of this important, odd and odds-defying American retail category." —The New York Times

"It is a delight to wander through the bookstores of American history in this warm, generous book."
—Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author and owner of... Read more

The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Adrienne King

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today

A can't-miss summer read, selected by The New York Times, Oprah Daily, Time, USA Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, CNN, LitHub, BookRiot, Bustle,... 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

Wish You Were Here

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes “a powerfully evocative story of resilience and the triumph of the human spirit” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six)

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available August... Read more

Stories of Your Life and Others

By: Ted Chiang

Narrated by: Abby Craden & Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

This new edition of Ted Chiang's masterful first collection, Stories of Your Life and Others, includes his first eight published stories. Combining the precision and scientific curiosity of Kim Stanley Robinson with Lorrie Moore's cool, clear love of language and narrative intricacy, this award-winning collection offers listeners the dual... 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

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

By: Maggie O'Farrell

Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The author of award-winning Hamnet brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable fictional portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.

“I could not stop reading... Read more