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Vita Nostra

By: Marina & Sergey Dyachenko

Narrated by: Jessica Ball

Length: 18 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Russian novel—a brilliant dark fantasy with ""the potential to be a modern classic"" (Lev Grossman), combining psychological suspense, enchantment, and terror that makes us consider human existence in a fresh and provocative way.Our life is brief . . .While... Read more

I Must Betray You

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Ruta Sepetys

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times Bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal!

A gut-wrenching, startling historical thriller about communist Romania and the citizen spy network that devastated a nation, from the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray.

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across... Read more

Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour,... Read more

Black Cake

By: Charmaine Wilkerson

Narrated by: Lynnette R. Freeman & Simone Mcintyre

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

NOW A HULU STREAMING SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to her traditional Caribbean black cake—in this immersive family saga, “a character-driven, multigenerational story that’s meant to be savored” (Time).... Read more

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By: Neil Gaiman

Narrated by: Neil Gaiman

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliantly imaginative and poignant fairy tale from the modern master of wonder and terror, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is Neil Gaiman’s first new novel for adults since his #1 New York Times bestseller Anansi Boys.This bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery and survival, and memory and magic, makes the impossible all too real... Read more

No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK
WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE
ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS
  
“A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

“Wow. I... Read more

Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez

Length: 8 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

MOST ANTICIPATED: WASHINGTON POST, TIME, & MORE • A BBC AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bold-faced lies, and Javier Perez is willing to cross it. Victim is a fearless satire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash... Read more

Celestial Monsters

By: Aiden Thomas

Narrated by: André Santana

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

"Listeners will be captivated...André Santana keeps the tension in his narration taut as Teo wrestles with both physical challenges and his own feelings of inferiority." —AudioFile on The Sunbearer Trials

New York Times-bestselling author Aiden Thomas returns to the beloved world of The Sunbearer Trials in Celestial Monsters, a heart-stopping... Read more

Bunny

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Soon to be a major motion picture

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter

"A wild, audacious and ultimately unforgettable novel." —Michael... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.

“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San... Read more

City of Girls

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person.

"A spellbinding novel about love, freedom, and finding your own... Read more

The Book of Hope

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams

Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?

This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.

Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.

In this urgent... Read more

The Complete Poppy War Trilogy

By: R. F. Kuang

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 66 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Babel, this collection features the novels in her historical military fantasy trilogy—The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God—a complete epic inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.The Poppy... Read more

Night of the Living Rez

By: Morgan Talty

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep... Read more

The Woman in the Window

By: A. J. Finn

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss AJ Finn’s eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY!“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.” — Washington PostThe #1 bestseller that gripped... Read more

Take My Hand

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Narrated by: Lauren J. Daggett

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction

“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.”—Celeste Ng

Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a searing and compassionate new novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the... 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

Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Soneela ...

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Editors’ Choice
A USA TODAY Bestseller
A Booklist Editor’s Choice
A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee
A Massachusetts Book Awards Fiction Honors Selection
Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize

A “beautifully written” (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See) debut novel of... Read more

Ender's Game

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Harlan Ellison

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game—adapted to film starring Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford—is the classic Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction novel of a young boy's recruitment into the midst of an interstellar war.

In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack,... Read more

Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton explores the mysteries of marriage and the secrets we keep, as a former couple reckons with where they’ve come from—and what they’ve left behind.
 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s... 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 Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

By: Kim Michele Richardson

Narrated by: Katie Schorr

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA USA TODAY BESTSELLERA LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERA PBS BOOK PICKThe hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything―everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.Cussy’s not only... Read more

When the World Tips Over

By: Jandy Nelson

Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Alex McKenna, Briggon Snow, Cai...

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

* An Instant New York Times Bestseller *

"Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book." —Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and Imogen, Obviously

The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson,... 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