Bookseller picks

Sorcery of Thorns

By: Margaret Rogerson

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!

“A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
“If you loved the Hogwarts Library…you’ll be right at home at Summershall.” —Katherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale

From the New... Read more

Foster

By: Claire Keegan

Narrated by: Aoife McMahon

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An international bestseller and one of the Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a stand-alone book for the first time ever in the US

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to... Read more

The Bride Test

By: Helen Hoang

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny—but not important emotions, like love. His family knows better—that his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, his mother takes matters into her own hands... Read more

Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Matthew Edison

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative and necessary work--as completely unexpected as it is inspired--by the award-winning author of the bestselling novels All My Puny Sorrows and A Complicated Kindness. Based on actual events that happened between 2005 and 2009 in a remote Mennonite community where more than 100 girls and women were drugged unconscious and... Read more

Out On a Limb

By: Hannah Bonam-Young

Narrated by: Victoria Connolly

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Winnifred "Win" McNulty has always been wildly independent. Not one to be coddled for her limb difference, Win has spent most of her life trying to prove that she can do it all on her own. And, with some minor adjustments, she's done just fine.



That is until she has a one-night stand with the incredibly charming Bo, a perfect stranger. And that... Read more

Commonwealth

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Hope Davis

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed, bestselling author—winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize—tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives.One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed... Read more

All's Well

By: Mona Awad

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Bunny, which Margaret Atwood hails as “genius,” comes a “wild, and exhilarating” (Lauren Groff) novel about a theater professor who is convinced staging Shakespeare’s most maligned play will remedy all that ails her—but at what cost?

Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting... Read more

The Bad Muslim Discount

By: Syed M. Masood

Narrated by: Pej Vahdat & Hend Ayoub

Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 1990s to San Francisco in 2016, The Bad Muslim Discount is an inclusive, comic novel about Muslim immigrants finding their way in modern America.

“Masood’s novel presents a stereoscopic, three-dimensional view of contemporary Muslim America: the way historical conflict in the Middle East... Read more

The Hazel Wood

By: Melissa Albert

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler & James Fouhey

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"Highly literary, occasionally surreal, and grounded by Alice's clipped, matter-of-fact voice, it's a dark story that readers will have trouble leaving behind. HIGH-DEMAND: the buzz for this debut is deafening..." Booklist, Starred Review

From rising star Melissa Albert comes a fantastical story of mythic proportions.

Welcome to The Hazel Wood—a... Read more

Notes on a Nervous Planet

By: Matt Haig

Narrated by: Matt Haig

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?

Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024

Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and play, Matt Haig invites us to feel calmer, happier and to... Read more

Fangirl Down

By: Tessa Bailey

Narrated by: Callie Dalton

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey launches a super sexy sports romance series with a rom-com about a bad boy professional athlete who falls for his biggest fan...Wells Whitaker was once golf’s hottest rising star, but lately, all he has to show for his “promising” career is a killer hangover, a collection of broken clubs, and one... Read more

The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

By: Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland

Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Shelley Atkinson, Laural Merl...

Length: 24 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world.When Melisande Stokes, an expert in... Read more

Less Is Lost

By: Andrew Sean Greer

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the follow-up to the “bedazzling, bewitching, and be-wonderful” (NYTBR) best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.

“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”

For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately... Read more

Love & Saffron

By: Kim Fay

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhal...

Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick

In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine.

When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as... Read more

Pretty Things

By: Janelle Brown

Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Lauren Fortgang & Hillary Huber

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who’s really following you on social media? The scam of a lifetime brings together two wildly different women in this page-turning thriller about greed, legacy, and betrayal from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear.

An ID Book Club Selection • “It’s Dynasty meets Patricia Highsmith.”—The... Read more

It Came from the Closet

By: Joe Vallese & various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Graham Halstead, Aven Shore,...

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist... 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

Intimacies

By: Katie Kitamura

Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly

“Intimacies is a... Read more

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama

By: Nathan Thrall

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NONFICTION

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing,... Read more

The Wreckage of My Presence

By: Casey Wilson

Narrated by: Casey Wilson

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

""Magnificent."" —People MagazineThe instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and writer Casey Wilson.Casey Wilson has a lot on her mind and she isn’t afraid to share. In this dazzling collection, each essay skillfully constructed and brimming... Read more

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Joel de la Fuente

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES  NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE

WINNER OF THE ROSENTHAL FAMILY FOUNDATION AWARD, FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND... Read more

Chlorine

By: Jade Song

Narrated by: Catherine Ho & Imani Parks

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between a literary coming-of-age narrative and a dark unsettling horror tale, told from an adult perspective on the trials and tribulations of growing up in a society that puts pressure on young women and their bodies… a powerful, relevant novel of... 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

Yerba Buena

By: Nina LaCour

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"Full of sensory details, vivid characters, and moment after moment of gorgeously rendered ordinary life, this audiobook is a queer must-listen." -AudioFile

This program is masterfully narrated by award-winning "Golden Voice" narrator Julia Whelan.

Yerba Buena is the debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour,... Read more