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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

By: Iain Reid

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why…

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a... Read more

A Wolf Called Wander

By: Rosanne Parry

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller! “Don’t miss this dazzling tour de force.”—Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal winning author of The One and Only IvanThis gripping novel about survival and family is based on the real story of one wolf’s incredible journey to find a safe place to call home. This irresistible tale by award-winning author Rosanne Parry... Read more

There Is No Ethan

By: Anna Akbari

Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them.

In 2011, three successful and highly educated women fell head over heels for the brilliant and charming Ethan Schuman. Unbeknownst to the others, each exchanged... Read more

My Murder

By: Katie Williams

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND GLAMOUR!

“One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads… Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night.” –The New York Times

“Ingenious…fresh and unpredictable.” –The Washington Post

“Gleefully overturn[s] the age-old ‘woman-in-trouble’ plot…eerie... Read more

Tuesday Mooney Talks To Ghosts

By: Kate Racculia

Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A handsome stranger. A dead billionaire. A citywide treasure hunt. Tuesday Mooney’s life is about to change in ways she—and no reader—could never expect in this ""rollicking"" (Star Tribune), award-winning novel. ¶ A Kirkus Reviews Best Book · An Indie Next Pick · A Library Reads Selection · A New York Post Best Book of the Week · A Publishers... Read more

Sourdough

By: Robin Sloan

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From Robin Sloan, the New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, comes Sourdough, "a perfect parable for our times" (San Francisco Magazine): a delicious and funny novel about an overworked and under-socialized software engineer discovering a calling and a community as a baker.

Named One of the Best Books of the Year... Read more

Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot, Shelf Awareness, and NPR

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “astoundingly great” (Gillian Flynn, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to... Read more

The Guncle Abroad

By: Steven Rowley

Narrated by: Steven Rowley

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER

An Indie Next Pick

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Italy.

Patrick O’Hara is back. It’s been five years since his summer as his niece Maisie and nephew Grant’s caretaker after their mother’s passing. The kids are back in Connecticut with their dad, and... Read more

Things You Save in a Fire

By: Katherine Center

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

"In this charming listen, narrator Therese Plummer portrays Cassie Hanwell--a confident, talented firefighter whose solitary life is upended when her estranged mother asks her to relocate to Boston...A wonderful story of forgiveness, friendship, love, and hope." — AudioFile

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Walk Away comes... Read more

Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A beautifully written, extraordinary quest in which two ordinary, overlooked women embark on an unlikely scientific expedition to the South Seas.”—Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
 
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes an uplifting, irresistible novel about two... Read more

Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Maggie Shipstead

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Alex McKenna

Length: 25 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK • The unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost: an “epic trip—through Prohibition and World War II, from Montana to London to present-day Hollywood—and you’ll relish every minute” (People).

After being rescued as... Read more

When No One Is Watching

By: Alyssa Cole

Narrated by: Susan Dalian & Jay Aaseng

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

""I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. This is a terrific read."" – Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author
Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a... 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 Huntress

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 19 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America.In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the... Read more

The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

Narrated by: Tara Flynn

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three • “O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." —People

"If you’ve ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if... Read more

One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

Narrated by: Nicole Lewis

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propulsive satire set in an all-Black gated community. For fans of The Sellout and Erasure, with a shocking ending you’ll never see coming, Jodi Picoult calls it "Brilliant, provocative, seminal....Your book club will be discussing this one for... Read more

America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

Narrated by: Oliver Wyman

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“O’Brien’s first novel in two decades was well worth the wait. . . . In the age of ‘mythomania,’ O’Brien takes aim at the lies that power this country, and how and why they sustain us. America Fantastica peers straight into the dark heart of the American psyche, and it's unafraid of the comedy and tragedy staring back.” — Esquire, Best Books of... Read more

The Cold Millions

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Gary Farmer, Marin Ireland, ...

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“One of the most captivating novels of the year.” – Washington Post NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Library Reads Pick • An Indie Next Pick A Best Book of the Year: Bloomberg | Boston Globe | Chicago Public Library | Chicago Tribune | Esquire | Kirkus | New York Public Library | New York Times Book Review (Historical Fiction) | NPR's Fresh Air | O... Read more

Nine Lives

By: Peter Swanson

Narrated by: Jacques Roy & Mark Bramhall

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

If you’re on the list, someone wants you dead. From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it—and then begin to die in highly unusual circumstances.Nine strangers receive a list with their names on it in the mail. Nothing else,... Read more

The It Girl

By: Ruth Ware

Narrated by: Imogen Church

Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

“The pages turn themselves” (People) in this white-knuckled mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruth Ware.

April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford.

Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she... Read more

Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor

By: Xiran Jay Zhao

Narrated by: Eric Yang

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Percy Jackson meets Tristan Strong in this hilarious middle grade “edge-of-your-seat adventure” (James Ponti, New York Times bestselling author of City Spies) that follows a young boy as he journeys across China to seal the underworld shut and save the mortal realm.

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage.... Read more

We Begin at the End

By: Chris Whitaker

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A vibrant, engrossing, unputdownable thriller that packs a serious emotional punch. One of those rare books that surprise you along the way and then linger in your mind long after you have finished it.”
—Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds

Right. Wrong.... Read more

Britt-Marie Was Here

By: Fredrik Backman

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, and Anxious People captivates readers with this “warm and satisfying” (People) story “about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis…fans of Backman will find another winner in these pages” (Publishers Weekly).

Britt-Marie... Read more

Dreadful

By: Caitlin Rozakis

Narrated by: Keval Shah

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A sharp-witted, debut high fantasy farce featuring killer moat squid, toxic masculinity, evil wizards, and a garlic festival—all at once.



It's bad enough waking up in a half-destroyed evil wizard's workshop with no eyebrows, no memories, and no idea how long you have before the Dread Lord Whomever shows up to murder you horribly and then turn... Read more