Local bookseller recommendations

Only for the Holidays

By: Abiola Bello

Narrated by: Kenton Thomas & Nneka Okoye

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

City girl Tia Solanké is dreading the festive season. She and her boyfriend are on a break and the last thing she wants is to spend Christmas away from London. Dragged to Saiyan Hedge Farm by her mother, Tia takes an instant dislike to the countryside estate. She falls in horse manure, is chased by sheep and the Wi-Fi sucks. How can she stalk... Read more

Let It Glow

By: Marissa Meyer & Joanne Levy

Narrated by: Gabi Epstein & Rebecca Soler

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Soler knows just when to accentuate certain words to pull on one's heartstrings. This audiobook demands to be binged, so listeners should block out some time once they hit play." —AudioFile on Gilded

When Aviva Davis and Holly Martin meet at the holiday pageant tryouts for their local senior’s center, they think they must be seeing double. While... Read more

Anatomy of Desire

By: Dr. Emily Jamea

Narrated by: Dr. Emily Jamea

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

Combining over fifteen years of clinical experience with her groundbreaking research into the science of flow, Dr. Emily Jamea's ANATOMY OF DESIRE delivers a fresh perspective on the untapped potential of our sex lives, intimate partner connections, and personal wellbeing.

"Dr. Emily Jamea makes difficult issues... Read more

Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style

By: Paul Rudnick

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

“A case study in elegant, honest tragicomedy…by the genuinely hilarious Paul Rudnick” (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author) that follows the decades-long, rule-breaking romance between the son of one of America’s wealthiest families and a middle-class aspiring author.

Devastatingly handsome and insanely rich, Farrell Covington is... Read more

The Power of Ritual

By: Casper ter Kuile

Narrated by: Casper ter Kuile

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more... Read more

Ghosts of Gold Mountain

By: Gordon H. Chang

Narrated by: David Shih

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now.



From across the sea, they came by the thousands, escaping war and poverty in southern China to seek their fortunes in America. Converging on the enormous... Read more

The Poet X

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Don't miss this acclaimed audiobook, read by the author—winner of an Odyssey Honor and an AudioFile Earphones Award winner!The Poet X is also the winner of the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, and the Pura Belpré Award.Fans of Jacqueline Woodson, Meg Medina, and Jason Reynolds will fall hard for... Read more

The Last Mrs. Parrish

By: Liv Constantine

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman & Meghan Wolf

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD!“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.” —The SkimmRead The Last Mrs. Parrish before you pick up the new, instant New York Times bestseller, The Next Mrs. Parrish!A mesmerizing... Read more

One Italian Summer

By: Rebecca Serle

Narrated by: Lauren Graham

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

In this “magical trip worth taking” (Associated Press), the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years returns with a powerful novel about the transformational love between mothers and daughters set on the breathtaking Amalfi Coast.

When Katy’s mother dies, she is left reeling. Carol wasn’t just Katy’s... Read more

The Sentence is Death

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Rory KinnearDeath, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.“You shouldn’t be here. It’s too late . . . ”These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful... Read more

His & Hers

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Stephanie Racine

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF Sometimes I Lie

"Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine give an arresting performance of this dark psychological thriller...As secrets are uncovered and additional bodies are found, Armitage and Racine shine with impeccable pacing, building tension that adds to the suspense." -- AudioFile Magazine ... Read more

And Then, Boom!

By: Lisa Fipps

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping new novel in verse by the author of the Printz Honor-winning Starfish, featuring a poverty-stricken boy who bravely rides out all the storms life keeps throwing at him

Joe Oak is used to living on unsteady ground. His mom can’t be depended on as she never stays around long once she gets “the itch,” and now he and his beloved... Read more

The Last Dance

By: Mark Billingham

Narrated by: David Threlfall

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The first new series in two decades from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham that introduces Detective Miller: a man who's unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated.



Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner) Alex. Working with new... Read more

Ruination

By: Anthony Reynolds

Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Misty Lee, Sean J. Teale,...

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This audiobook features dramatized audio performances by a full cast - featuring some of your favorite Riot voices.

Discover an epic tale of magic, revenge, and an empire on the verge of ruin in the first ever novel set in the blockbuster universe of League of Legends.

Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire’s knights go,... Read more

Human Blues

By: Elisa Albert

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

“Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A provocative and... Read more

Lying Beside You

By: Michael Robotham

Narrated by: Joe Jameson

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in this “expertly paced and psychologically acute” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) thriller from Michael Robotham that’s “one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put down” (Stephen King).

Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre. The killer? His brother Elias.

Now Elias is applying for release... Read more

Trick Mirror

By: Jia Tolentino

Narrated by: Jia Tolentino

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire
 
Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia... Read more

The Bad Seed

By: William March

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The bestselling novel that inspired Mervyn LeRoy's classic horror film about the little girl who can get away with anything—even murder.



There's something special about eight-year-old Rhoda Penmark. With her carefully plaited hair and her sweet cotton dresses, she's the very picture of old-fashioned innocence. But when their neighborhood suffers... Read more

The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't... Read more

His Majesty's Dragon

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors rise to Britain’s defense by taking to the skies . . . not aboard aircraft but atop the mighty backs of fighting dragons.

When HMS Reliant captures a French frigate and seizes its precious cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, fate sweeps Capt. Will Laurence from... Read more

My Brilliant Friend

By: Elena Ferrante

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times bestselling “enduring masterpiece” (The Atlantic) about a lifelong friendship between two women from NaplesBeginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante’s four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery... Read more

Goodbye, Paris

By: Anstey Harris

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

* International Bestseller * A Book of the Month Club Pick*

The Little Paris Bookshop meets Jojo Moyes in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that sometimes you have to break your heart to make it whole.

From the simple melody of running her violin shop to the full-blown orchestra of her romantic interludes in Paris with David,... Read more

That Librarian

By: Amanda Jones

Narrated by: Amanda Jones

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents That Librarian written and read by Amanda Jones.

“Amanda Jones started getting death threats, all for standing up for our right to read . . . but she’s not stopped fighting against book bans, or stopped advocating for access to diverse stories.”—Oprah Winfrey, in a speech at the 2023 National Book Awards

"Amanda Jones clearly... Read more

Hester

By: Laurie Lico Albanese

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

"This well-written, well-researched, and masterfully performed novel provides satisfying listening."- AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

A vivid reimagining of the woman who inspired Hester Prynne, the tragic heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, and a journey into the enduring legacy of New England's witchcraft trials.

Who is the... Read more