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Book of Night

By: Holly Black

Narrated by: Sara Amini

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"Award-winning YA author Holly Black has created an imaginary masterpiece yet again with her first foray into adult fantasy, narrated with perfection by Sara Amini." -AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

In the vein of Neil Gaiman and Erin Morgenstern, #1 NYT bestselling author Holly Black’s stunning new audiobook is a dark fantasy of betrayals and... Read more

The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Narrated by: Jessie Buckley

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani).
Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen,... Read more

Furious Hours

By: Casey Cep

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller
 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read more

Brave the Wild River

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to run the Colorado River, accompanied by an ambitious and entrepreneurial expedition leader, a zoologist, and two amateur boatmen. With its churning waters and treacherous boulders, the Colorado was famed as the most dangerous river in the world. Journalists and veteran... Read more

Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1980s Appalachia, sisters Sheila and Angie couldn’t be more different. While their mother works long shifts at the nearby asylum, Sheila cares for their home and keeps to herself, even when enduring relentless bullying. Her fearless younger sister, Angie, is more focused on fighting imaginary zombies and creating tarot-like cards that seem to... Read more

Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel

By: Kiersten White

Narrated by: Mx. Nicky Endres, Linda Jones, Elizabeth Knowel...

Length: 18 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love in this epic and seductive gothic fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.

“Fiercely empowering and gloriously vengeful.”—Heather Walter, award-winning author of Malice

Her name was written in the pages of someone else’s... Read more

This Spells Love

By: Kate Robb

Narrated by: Khaya Fraites

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK • “A romcom-meets-magic delight!”—Sarah Adams, New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect

A young woman tries to heal her heartbreak by casting a spell to erase her ex from her past, but she wakes up in an alternate reality where she’s lost more than she wished for in this witty, whimsical... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

The Mystery Writer

By: Sulari Gentill

Narrated by: Katherine Littrell

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime... Read more

Florida

By: Lauren Groff

Narrated by: Lauren Groff

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The universally-acclaimed return of the New York Times bestselling author of Fates and Furies, Matrix, and the highly-anticipated The Vaster Wilds

In Lauren Groff’s Florida, the hot sun shines, but a wild darkness lurks. Florida is a "superlative" book (Boston Globe), "gorgeously weird and limber" (New Yorker), "frequently funny" (San Francisco... Read more

Wanderers

By: Chuck Wendig

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Xe Sands

Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world’s last hope. From the mind of Chuck Wendig comes “a magnum opus . . . a story about survival that’s not just about you and me, but all of us, together” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • ONE OF... Read more

The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

Narrated by: Lara Sawalha

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and an adventurous mapmaker’s apprentice—“perfectly aligns with the cultural moment” (The Providence Journal) and “shows how interconnected two supposedly... Read more

Happily Never After

By: Lynn Painter

Narrated by: Helen Laser & Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Their name? The objectors.
Their job? To break off weddings as hired.
Their dilemma? They might just be in love with each other.
 
When Sophie Steinbeck finds out just before her nuptials that her fiancé has cheated yet again, she desperately wants to call it off. But because her future father-in-law is her dad’s cutthroat boss, she doesn’t want... Read more

Memorials

By: Richard Chizmar

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024
“Scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night.” —STEPHEN KING

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the... Read more

Familiaris (Oprah's Book Club)

By: David Wroblewski

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 37 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Oprah’s Book Club Pick for Summer 2024“An extraordinary journey that brilliantly interweaves history, philosophy, adventure, and mysticism to explore the meaning of love, friendship, and living your life’s true purpose.”—Oprah WinfreyThe follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris... Read more

The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Something happened in 1994 Berlin that forever changed MI5. Very few know that story and those who do will do anything to keep it secret.Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by... Read more

Hula

By: Jasmin Iolani Hakes

Narrated by: Mapuana Makia

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE“Stunning…an intricately built novel that spans decades, moving in and out of a collective voice, while also telling Hi’i’s deeply personal and devastating story of trying to find her way.” –Los Angeles Times“A full-throated chant for Hawai'i.... Read more

Empire of Wild

By: Cherie Dimaline

Narrated by: Michelle St. John

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!”—Margaret Atwood, From Instagram
“Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive—all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it.”—Tommy... Read more

Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren

Narrated by: Patti Murin, Jon Root & Christina Lauren

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love.

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much... Read more

Bad Vibes Only

By: Nora McInerny

Narrated by: Nora McInerny

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the host of the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—called “a gift” by The New York Times—a raw and humorous essay collection in the spirit of Jenny Lawson and Samantha Irby.

Nora McInerny does not dance like no one is watching. In fact, she dances like everyone is watching, which is to say, she does not dance at all. A... Read more

Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra

Narrated by: Emily Ellet

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Unputdownable · Psychological Suspense · Horror · Tense · Gripping

A FALLON BOOK CLUB PICK

“Pulse-pounding locked-room suspense.” —Elle

“Nightwatching is like nothing I've read before. I wolfed it down in two sittings; it's amazing.”—Lisa Jewell

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything.

Home alone... Read more

Unraveling

By: Peggy Orenstein

Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Orenstein is such a breezy, funny writer, it’s easy to forget she’s an important thinker too.”—PeopleIn this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch—shearing, spinning, dyeing wool—and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft. Orenstein spins a yarn that will appeal to... Read more

Dear Edward

By: Ann Napolitano

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • “Make sure you have tissues handy when you read [this] sure-footed tearjerker” (NPR) about a young boy who must learn to go on after surviving tragedy, from the author of the Oprah’s Book Club pick Hello Beautiful.

Now streaming as an Apple TV+ series starring... Read more

The History of Sound

By: Ben Shattuck

Narrated by: Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, Paul Mescal, Di...

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION

“Polyphonic fiction. . . . A reminder of the short story’s power. . . . The History of Sound marks Shattuck as one of the form’s brightest lights. . . . A terrific writer. . . . Deeply resonant.” —The Boston Globe

“Exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined, exhilaratingly diverse,... Read more