Bookseller picks

Dark Matter (Movie Tie-In)

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+

A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy

“Are you happy with your... Read more

Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

Narrated by: Ferdia Lennon

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history.

On the island of Sicily amid the Peloponnesian War, the Syracusans have figured out what to do with the surviving Athenians who had the gall to invade their city: they’ve herded the sorry prisoners of war into a rock quarry and left them to rot. Looking... Read more

Meet Me in the Margins

By: Melissa Ferguson

Narrated by: Talon David

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve Got Mail meets The Proposal—this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade’s dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah’s been secretly writing. The only problem: she’s an editor for a different company, and... Read more

Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders, Tina Fey, Michael McKean, Edi ...

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Tenth of December

The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores... Read more

Gone Girl

By: Gillian Flynn

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes

ONE OF TIME'S 100... Read more

Jesus and John Wayne

By: Kristin Kobes du Mez

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

How did a libertine who lacks even the most basic knowledge of the Christian faith win 81 percent of the white evangelical vote in 2016? And why have white evangelicals become a presidential reprobate's staunchest supporters? These are among the questions acclaimed historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez asks in Jesus and John Wayne, which explains how... Read more

The Book of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series—a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?

For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love—but all of that is about to change. The novel begins... Read more

Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

Narrated by: Melissa Broder

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times ("incandescent...hilarious...a triumph"), Oprah Daily ("surreal, absurd, lucid, and wise"), Vanity Fair ("Broder [is] a genius and a sorceress"), and more!

From the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief and a “magical tale of survival” (Publishers Weekly,... Read more

The Next Best Fling

By: Gabriella Gamez

Narrated by: Ruby Corazon

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Two broken hearts decide that the best way to get over their first loves is with a no-strings-attached relationship in this spicy and charming debut romance.

Librarian Marcela Ortiz has been secretly in love with her best friend for years—and when he gets engaged, she knows it’s long past time to move on. But before she gets the chance, she has... Read more

A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

“Imagine The Life of Pi, The Alchemist, and The Midnight Library rolled into one fantastical fable.” —The New York Times Book Review * “An epic adventure…rich with all the possibilities the world can hold.” —People

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe... Read more

Sisters

By: Daisy Johnson

Narrated by: Daisy Edgar-Jones & Anna Koval

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

“[A] skillfully crafted gothic mystery . . . Johnson pulls off a great feat in this book.” —Financial Times

“It reminded me, in its general refusal to play nice, of early Ian McEwan.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Johnson crafts an aching thriller about the dangers of loving too intensely.” —Time

From a... Read more

Dragon Rider

By: Taran Matharu

Narrated by: Tom Babbage

Length: 17 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Taran Matharu’s debut adult fantasy series introduces an immersive story written in the tradition of the viral cultivation genre. Discover a rich world of magic, warriors, and dragons, in which a fearless orphan and an ambitious handmaiden flee from the empire that would imprison them, with a dream to return to... Read more

I'll Get Back to You

By: Becca Grischow

Narrated by: Allison Grischow

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

“Full of humor and tenderness...a cozy, sexy romance." –Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care

A charming home run of a queer holiday romance where two former classmates’ plan to fake-date their way to freedom goes immediately awry—but, perhaps, exactly the way they need it to

Murphy was supposed to be settling into her junior... Read more

The Bride Test

By: Helen Hoang

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny—but not important emotions, like love. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands... Read more

The Violin Conspiracy

By: Brendan Slocumb

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Brendan Slocumb

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.

“I... Read more

You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

Narrated by: Gabriel Porras

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

"Enrigue’s genius lies in his ability to bring readers close to its tangled knot of priests, mercenaries, warriors and princesses while adding a pinch of biting humor." --Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Los Angeles Times

“Riotously entertaining... A triumph of solemnity-busting erudition and mischievous invention that will delight and... Read more

Throne of the Fallen

By: Kerri Maniscalco

Narrated by: Marisa Calin & Shane East

Length: 18 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Kerri Maniscalco makes her adult debut with this New York Times bestselling sensation, a "hot" new standalone fantasy romance (Jennifer L. Armentrout) about a dark prince battling an impossible curse—and the artist who might be the only one who can set him free.

Sinner. Villain. Wicked.

The Prince of Envy has... Read more

Episode Thirteen

By: Craig DiLouie

Narrated by: Gregory D. Barnett, Sam Slade, Kimberly Bonny, ...

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the macabre mind of a Bram Stoker Award-nominated author, this heart-pounding novel of horror and psychological suspense takes a ghost hunting reality TV crew into a world they could never have imagined.

Fade to Black is the newest hit ghost hunting reality TV show. Led by husband and wife team Matt and Claire Kirklin, it delivers weekly... Read more

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River, which sold more than a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I... Read more

Quietly Hostile

By: Samantha Irby

Narrated by: Samantha Irby

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established fans and newcomers alike (Parade).
 
“Brilliant and one... Read more

You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

Narrated by: Zehra Jane Naqvi

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a twelve-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s... Read more

A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New... Read more

Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench & Brendan O'Hea

Narrated by: Barbara Flynn, Brendan O'Hea & Judi Dench

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

"In a remarkable performance, Flynn laughs, jokes, and calls O'Hea to task when he's wrong--all sounding very much like the famous Dench...The final segment has Dench (in her own voice) and O'Hea engaged in friendly, very funny, squabbling. Informative, educational and altogether brilliant listening!"—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)


This... Read more

Fever Dream

By: Samanta Schweblin

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIX

"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize!

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...

A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together,... Read more