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Dark Restraint

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

He was my savior. My monster. My obsession. My destruction. A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Ariadne and her Minotaur. Ariadne Vitalis is in trouble. She's betrayed her father—and his dangerous benefactor—and now she's left to rely on Olympus' questionable mercy. But in this city, mercy comes with a price. For Ariadne, that means a sham... Read more

Nestlings

By: Nat Cassidy

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Nat Cassidy

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author.

Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the creeping paranoia of Rosemary's Baby and the urban horror of Salem's Lot, set in an exclusive New York City residential building.

“This is the horror book of the year.”—Erika T. Wurth, author... Read more

Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

Narrated by: Erin Tripp & Marcie R. Rendon

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.

All they heard was her scream.

Quill has lived on the Red Pine reservation in Minnesota her whole life. She knows what happens to... 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

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

Where the Dark Stands Still

By: A. B. Poranek

Narrated by: Ola Forman

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller

A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this “dark, devastating, and gothic” (Kirkus Reviews) young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows.

Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are... 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 Black Bird Oracle

By: Deborah Harkness

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series.

“The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood—the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their children.”—Jodi... Read more

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “fun, page-turner of a novel” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author) that’s perfect for fans of Mostly Dead Things and Goodbye, Vitamin, a morbidly anxious young woman stumbles into a job as a receptionist at a Catholic church and soon finds herself obsessed with her predecessor’s mysterious death.

Gilda, a twenty-something,... 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

The Mystery Guest

By: Nita Prose

Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A new mess. A new mystery. It’s up to Molly the maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty, in this standalone novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club pick.

“Polished to perfection!”—Shari Lapena, author of Everyone Here Is Lying
 
“Lives up to the hype . . . both a... Read more

Leviathan Falls

By: James S.A. Corey

Narrated by: Jefferson Mays

Length: 19 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This is how it ends. Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning Expanse series, now a major TV series.The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war... Read more

Station Eternity

By: Mur Lafferty

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes.

From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban... 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

Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

Narrated by: Bríd Brennan

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION

“Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”—J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review
 
“TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry.” —Oprah... 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

Didion and Babitz

By: Lili Anolik

Narrated by: Lili Anolik

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, the Washington Post, Telegraph, and more!

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work "that reads like a propulsive novel" (Oprah Daily) on the mutual attractions—and mutual antagonisms—of Didion and her fellow literary titan,... Read more

How to Hide an Empire

By: Daniel Immerwahr

Narrated by: Luis Moreno

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and... Read more

The Hunting Party

By: Lucy Foley

Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone's invited...everyone's a suspect...For fans of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a shivery, atmospheric, page-turning novel of psychological suspense in the tradition of Agatha Christie, in which a group of old college friends are snowed in at a hunting lodge . . . and murder and mayhem ensue.All of them are friends. One of them is a... Read more

Ten Steps to Nanette

By: Hannah Gadsby

Narrated by: Hannah Gadsby

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Multi-award-winning Hannah Gadsby broke comedy with their show Nanette. In this “enthralling” (The Washington Post) memoir, they take us through the defining moments in their life and their powerful decision to tell the truth—no matter the cost.

Don’t miss Hannah Gadsby’s new stand-up show, Woof!, on tour now!

“Hannah... Read more

The Witches Are Coming

By: Lindy West

Narrated by: Lindy West

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era.

This is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.

From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice,... Read more

Sitting Pretty

By: Rebekah Taussig

Narrated by: Rebekah Taussig

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.Growing up as a paralyzed girl during the 90s and early 2000s, Rebekah Taussig only saw disability depicted... Read more

Count Your Lucky Stars

By: Alexandria Bellefleur

Narrated by: Lauren Sweet

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

""Bellefleur has a droll, distinct voice, and her one-liners zing off the page, striking both the heart and funny bone... There's a sparkling quality here, one that mirrors the starry title. Bellefleur writes as if she's captured fairy lights in a mason jar, twinkly and lovely within something solid yet fragile."" – Entertainment... Read more

Transcendent Kingdom: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Yaa Gyasi

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK! • Finalist for the WOMEN'S PRIZE

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.

Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford... Read more