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Butts

By: Heather Radke

Narrated by: Emily Tremaine

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” —The Washington Post

“Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” —Esquire, Best Books of 2022

A “carefully researched... Read more

Midnight Ruin

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Zara Hampton-Brown & Alex Moorcock

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent one, the sheltered one. No longer. She’s finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her mothers and sisters. After her ex broke her heart, she’s picking up the pieces in the lower city…with the help of Charon, a man she’s drawn to even as she’s not sure she has enough heart left to give.... Read more

Once Upon a Wardrobe

By: Patti Callahan

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of Flora Lea and Becoming Mrs. Lewis comes a fascinating look into the bond between siblings and the life-changing magic of stories.1950: Margaret Devonshire (Megs) is a seventeen-year-old student of mathematics and physics at Oxford University. When her beloved eight-year-old brother... Read more

The Gown

By: Jennifer Robson

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France comes an enthralling historical novel about one of the most famous wedding dresses of the twentieth century—Queen Elizabeth’s wedding gown—and the fascinating women who made it.

“Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of color on the long road we have to travel.”
—Sir... Read more

The Wife Upstairs

By: Rachel Hawkins

Narrated by: Emily Shaffer, Kirby Heyborne & Lauren Fortgang

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller

“Compulsively readable...a gothic thriller laced with arsenic.” ––EW

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021: CNN • Newsweek • Vulture • PopSugar • Parade • BuzzFeed • E!Online • TimeOut • Woman's Day • Goodreads • She Reads • Good Housekeeping • CrimeReads • Frolic • Hello! • Mystery and... Read more

The Color of Water

By: James McBride

Narrated by: JD Jackson & Susan Denaker

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's... Read more

Cinder

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times Bestselling Series!

A wicked mash-up of fairy tale and Terminator—set in a Star Wars kind of world—Marissa Meyer's Cinder is a fresh and fiercely ingenious futuristic retelling of Cinderella

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar... Read more

Ithaca

By: Claire North

Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the multi-award-winning author Claire North comes a daring reimagining that breathes life into ancient myth and gives voice to the women who stand defiant in a world ruled by ruthless men. It’s time for the women of Ithaca to tell their tale . . .

"North brings a powerful, fresh, and unflinching voice to ancient myth.... Read more

The Exiles

By: Christina Baker Kline

Narrated by: Caroline Lee

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROPTIONED FOR TELEVISION BY BRUNA PAPANDREA, THE PRODUCER OF HBO'S BIG LITTLE LIES“A tour de force of original thought, imagination and promise … Kline takes full advantage of fiction — its freedom to create compelling characters who fully illuminate monumental events to make history accessible and forever... Read more

The Ride of Her Life

By: Jennifer Dugan

Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Love at First Set, a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, about a wedding-obsessed city girl who inherits a horse farm from her estranged late aunt, and clashes with the cocky, unfairly hot farrier who thinks she’s going to run the barn into the ground.Molly... Read more

Sharks in the Time of Saviors

By: Kawai Strong Washburn

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, G.K. Bowes, Tui Asau & Jolene Kim

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from Kawai Strong Washburn.In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean.... Read more

The Wife Between Us

By: Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Julia Whelan reads the novel in her low, pleasant voice, moving down a register to capture Richard's infuriating condescension and lightening slightly for the younger Emma. With its perfidious turns, this escapist entertainment is a fine example of the 21st century's more cynical version of the O. Henry ending." — The Washington Post

From Greer... Read more

The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 16 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

"Golden Voice Julia Whelan expertly narrates the unhappy story of the wealthy Oppenheimer family of New York. Whelan narrates as though she were acting out the Oppenheimers' history on stage, playing each character part." -AudioFile on The Latecomer

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

From... Read more

Patron Saints of Nothing

By: Randy Ribay

Narrated by: Ramón de Ocampo

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A powerful coming-of-age story about grief, guilt, and the risks a Filipino-American teenager takes to uncover the truth about his cousin's murder.

"Brilliant, honest, and equal parts heartbreaking and soul-healing." --Laurie Halse Anderson, author of SHOUT

"A singular voice in the world of literature." --Jason... Read more

Poetry Unbound

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Narrated by: Pádraig Ó Tuama

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tumult of our contemporary moment, poetry has emerged as an inviting, consoling outlet with a unique power to move and connect us, to inspire fury, tears, joy, laughter, and surprise. This generous anthology pairs fifty illuminating poems with poet and podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama's appealing, unhurried reflections. With keen insight and... Read more

If I Never Met You

By: Mhairi McFarlane

Narrated by: Sara Novak

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane returns with another heartfelt romantic comedy perfect for fans of Josie Silver, Sophie Kinsella, or Sally Thorne.

If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it’s real? When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling—not only because they work at the same law firm and she... Read more

Animal

By: Lisa Taddeo

Narrated by: Emma Roberts

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and “explosive” (People) novel about “what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning” (Esquire).

Joan has spent a lifetime enduring... Read more

Dopesick

By: Beth Macy

Narrated by: Beth Macy

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hulu limited series inspired by the New York Times bestselling book by Beth Macy.

Journalist Beth Macy's definitive account of America's opioid epidemic "masterfully interlaces stories of communities in crisis with dark histories of corporate greed and regulatory indifference" (New York Times) -- from the boardroom to the courtroom and into the... Read more

A Head Full of Ghosts

By: Paul Tremblay

Narrated by: Joy Osmanski

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New... Read more

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private... Read more

Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE & WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FICTION and THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE

“It was as if Hamid knew what was going to happen to America and the world, and gave us a road map to our future… At once terrifying and … oddly hopeful.” —Ayelet... Read more

Small Great Things

By: Jodi Picoult

Narrated by: Audra McDonald, Cassandra Campbell & Ari Fliakos

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning page-turner with richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race

Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!

“[Picoult] offers a thought-provoking examination of racism in America... Read more

Libby Lost and Found

By: Stephanie Booth

Narrated by: Mia Barron

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Libby Weeks, author of the mega-bestselling fantasy series the Falling Children—written as “F. T. Goldhero” to maintain her privacy. With the final manuscript months overdue to her publisher and rabid fans around the world growing impatient, Libby is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Already suffering from crippling anxiety, Libby’s... Read more

Fates and Furies

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

“Lauren Groff is a writer of rare gifts, and Fates and Furies... Read more