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Evvie Drake Starts Over: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Linda Holmes

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Linda Holmes

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today • “Everything a romantic comedy should be: witty, relatable, and a little complicated.”—People

A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF... Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: M. L. Rio

Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, M. L. Rio, Max Meyers, Si Chen, ...

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.

Every night, in the college’s ancient cemetery, five people cross paths as they work the late shift: a... Read more

Assembly

By: Natasha Brown

Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner

Length: 1 hour 59 minutes

Abridged: No

This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision.

Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a... Read more

A Woman of No Importance

By: Sonia Purnell

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London

Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography

“Excellent…This book is as riveting as... Read more

The Guest

By: Emma Cline

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A young woman pretends to be someone she isn’t in this “spellbinding” (Vogue), “smoldering” (The Washington Post) novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls.
 
“Under Cline’s command, every sentence as sharp as a scalpel, a woman toeing the line between welcome and unwelcome guest becomes a fully... Read more

Everything I Know About Love

By: Dolly Alderton

Narrated by: Dolly Alderton

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller""There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women“Dolly Alderton has always been a sparkling Roman candle of talent. She is funny, smart, and explosively engaged in the wonders and weirdness of the world.... Read more

Temporary

By: Hilary Leichter

Narrated by: Carly Robins

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the... Read more

The Cloisters

By: Katy Hays

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

This instant New York Times bestseller that is “captivating in every sense of the word” (Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author) follows a group of researchers uncovering a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.

When Ann Stilwell arrives in New... Read more

Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail

By: Ashley Herring Blake

Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

An interior designer who is never without the perfect plan learns to renovate her love life without one in this new romantic comedy by Ashley Herring Blake, author of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care.
 
For Astrid Parker, failure is unacceptable. Ever since she broke up with her fiancé a year ago, she’s been focused on her career—her friends might say... Read more

Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman & Kiersten White

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this “skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ‘90s nostalgia” (Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Woods) from the author of Hide.

“[A] propulsive, exciting, often genuinely... Read more

Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner & Michelle Burford

Narrated by: Andia Winslow & Brittney Griner

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.

“Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner’s time held captive in Russia. Coming Home reads as a... Read more

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

By: Aaron Bastani

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism

In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance... Read more

Carve the Mark

By: Veronica Roth

Narrated by: Austin Butler & Emily Rankin

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth delivers a breathtaking fantasy featuring an unusual friendship, an epic love story, and a galaxy-sweeping adventure.#1 New York Times bestseller * Wall Street Journal bestseller * USA Today bestseller * #1 IndieBound bestsellerPraise for Carve the Mark:“Roth skillfully weaves the careful... Read more

STFU

By: Dan Lyons

Narrated by: Dan Lyons

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"Lyons is an able narrator who brings self-deprecation and humor to parts that may lose their impact in print. His emphatic delivery is dynamic, and listeners may find themselves nodding along in agreement."- Library Journal

New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons is here to tell you—and don't take this the... Read more

Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

Narrated by: Darrell Dennis

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An addictive and groundbreaking debut thriller set on a Native American reservation and hailed by CJ Box as ""a hell of a debut""

""Winter Counts is both a propulsive crime novel and a wonderfully informative book."" —Louise ErdrichVirgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.  When justice is... Read more

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

By: Marianne Cronin

Narrated by: Sheila Reid & Rebecca Benson

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A beautiful debut, funny, tender, and animated by a willingness to confront life’s obstacles and find a way to survive. . . . It celebrates friendship, finds meaning in difficulty and lets the reader explore dark places while always allowing for the possibility of light. Lenni and Margot are fine companions for all our springtime... Read more

Once Upon a Tome

By: Oliver Darkshire

Narrated by: Oliver Darkshire

Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd (est. 1761) to apply for a job. Allured by the smell of old books and the temptation of a management-approved afternoon nap, Darkshire was soon unteetering stacks of first editions and placating the store's resident ghost (the late Mr. Sotheran, hit by a... Read more

Songlight

By: Moira Buffini

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish, Saffron Coomber, Sam Crerar, J...

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Star-crossed lovers, against-all-odds friendship, and a brutally unforgiving world make this first in a trilogy utterly unforgettable.We’re two songs joined. And there’s a word for that. A harmony.Elsa is used to hiding the most important parts of herself—her feelings for Rye, her distaste for a world ruled by men, and, most crucially, her gift... Read more

No One Goes Alone

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt & Erik Larson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history.

Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search... Read more

Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

By: g. haron davis

Narrated by: Qamar Yochanan, Nicky Endres, Vico Ortiz & Avi ...

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy literature for trans and gender nonconforming stories. Transness is as varied and colorful as magic can be. In Transmogrify!, you’ll embark on fourteen different adventures alongside unforgettable characters who embody many different genders and... Read more

Fear the Flames

By: Olivia Rose Darling

Narrated by: Hannah Van Der Westhuysen

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exiled princess teams up with the last man she thought she could trust in the start of a dazzling and unforgettable epic fantasy romance series.

As a child, Elowen Atarah was ripped away from her dragons and imprisoned by her father, King Garrick of Imirath. Years later, Elowen is now a woman determined to free her... Read more

Epitaph

By: Mary Doria Russell

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.A deeply divided nation.... Read more

The Exceptions

By: Kate Zernike

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Book

As late as 1999, women who succeeded in science were called “exceptional” as if it were unusual for them to be so bright. They were exceptional, not because they could succeed at science but because of all they accomplished despite the hurdles.

“Gripping…one puts down the book inspired by the women’s grit, tenacity,... Read more

Daydream

By: Hannah Grace

Narrated by: CJ Bloom & Emmanuel Ingram

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestseller!

The third in the New York Times bestselling Maple Hills series follows fan-favorite Henry and a bookish fellow student who come up with a plan to help them both overcome their respective challenges in a difficult year.

When his procrastination lands him in a difficult class with his least favorite professor, Henry... Read more