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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

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

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Patricia Santomasso

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance.



But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the... Read more

Home Before Dark

By: Riley Sager

Narrated by: Cady McClain & Jon Lindstrom

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020

“A haunted house story—with a twist….[Sager] does not hold back”(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the Night.
 
Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share.

Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents... 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

Recursion

By: Blake Crouch

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom & Abby Craden

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Dark Matter and the Wayward Pines trilogy comes a relentless thriller about time, identity, and memory—his most mind-boggling, irresistible work to date, and the inspiration for Shondaland’s upcoming Netflix film.

“Gloriously twisting . . . a heady campfire tale of a novel.”—The New York... Read more

Love in Color

By: Bolu Babalola

Narrated by: Ajjaz Awad, Nneka Okoye, Bolu Babalola & Olukem...

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER""Love stories by and about marginalized women . . . The heroines are strong and sure . . . Babalola’s writing shines.” — New York Times Book Review""Absolutely intoxicating."" — Casey McQuiston, New York Times bestselling author of Red, White, and Royal Blue and One Last StopA vibrant debut collection of love stories... Read more

The Last House on Needless Street

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King

"Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine,... Read more

The Woman in the Window

By: A. J. Finn

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss AJ Finn’s eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY!“As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last sentence.” — Washington PostThe #1 bestseller that gripped... Read more

Glitterland

By: Alexis Hall

Narrated by: Nicholas Boulton

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Once the golden boy of the English literary scene, now a clinically depressed writer of pulp crime fiction, Ash Winters has given up on hope, happiness, and—most of all—himself. He lives his life between the cycles of his illness, haunted by the ghosts of other people’s expectations. Then a chance encounter throws him into the path of Essex-born... Read more

Sontag

By: Benjamin Moser

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face.No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud... Read more

Migrations

By: Charlotte McConaghy

Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

"Seasoned narrator Kreinik showcases her prowess as a dialect coach as she embodies McConaghy’s vast cast...With deft agility, Kreinik guides McConaghy’s spectacular Moby Dick-esque journey towards an all-too imminent dystopia in which humanity faces a future alone." -- Booklist, starred review

* INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER *

"Visceral and... Read more

The Comfort of Crows

By: Margaret Renkl

Narrated by: Margaret Renkl

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE PERFECT AUDIOBOOK FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces... Read more

VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Michelle St. John

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

""Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy.""  ---Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The SentenceFor fans of The Once and Future Witches and Practical Magic, comes... Read more

Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

""Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us."" — Esquire""Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking."" — New ScientistFor fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot... Read more

The Lost Cause

By: Cory Doctorow

Narrated by: Cory Doctorow

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities... Read more

Raybearer

By: Jordan Ifueko

Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The epic debut YA fantasy from an incredible new talent—soon to be a Netflix prestige series produced and directed by Gina Atwater (Westworld, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy?Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was... Read more