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Charlotte's Web

By: E. B. White

Narrated by: E. B. White

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

This Newbery Honor Book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect."
 
Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. Charlotte's spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply... Read more

Bringing Down the Duke

By: Evie Dunmore

Narrated by: Elizabeth Jasicki

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Dunmore is my new find in historical romance. Her A League of Extraordinary Women series is extraordinary.”—Julia Quinn, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“This series balances friendship, politics, history, and romance in just the right mix.”—U.S. Representative Katie Porter

A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists... Read more

We're Going to Need More Wine

By: Gabrielle Union

Narrated by: Gabrielle Union

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary WorkNamed a Best Book of the Year by The RootChosen by Emma Straub as a Best New Celebrity Memoir“A book of essays as raw and honest as anyone has ever produced.” — Lena Dunham, Lenny LetterIn the spirit of Amy Poehler’s Yes Please, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind... Read more

The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands

By: Sarah Brooks

Narrated by: Katie Leung & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Katie Leung, who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films.

For fans of Piranesi and The Midnight Library, a stunning historical fantasy novel set on a grand express train, about a group of passengers on a dangerous journey across a magical landscape

“Breathtaking…Abounding with mysteries and... Read more

Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

Narrated by: Carolyn Kang

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction

Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.

Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory... Read more

youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From Sophia Bannion’s first day on the Storytelling team at HEBE, a luxury skincare/wellness company based in New York’s trendy SoHo neighborhood, it’s clear something is deeply amiss. But Sophia, pushing thirty, has plenty of skeletons in her closet next to the designer knockoffs and doesn’t care. Though she leads an outwardly charmed life, she... Read more

The No-Girlfriend Rule

By: Christen Randall

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An instant USA TODAY bestseller
Four starred reviews!

Julie Murphy meets Heartstopper with a D&D twist in this “magical, heartwarming” (Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of She Gets the Girl) queer romance about a teen girl whose foray into fantasy tabletop roleplaying brings her new confidence, true friends, and a... Read more

Interesting Facts about Space

By: Emily Austin

Narrated by: Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced, hilarious, and ultimately hopeful novel for anyone who has ever worried they might be a terrible person—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead.

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major... Read more

How to Protect Bookstores and Why

By: Danny Caine

Narrated by: Danny Caine

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Why bookstores matter, and how we can help Can bookstores save the world? As bastions of culture, anchors of local retail districts, community gathering places, and sources of new ideas, inspiration, and delight, maybe they can. But only if we protect them and the critical roles they fill in our communities. Danny Caine, author of the... Read more

La Finca

By: Corky Parker

Narrated by: Corky Parker

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner, 2022 PNWA Nancy Pearl Award for Memoir! At age forty, Parker surrendered to her Swept Away meets Swiss Family Robinson fantasy of owning an inn in Latin America, far from her home in the Pacific Northwest. For the next twenty-plus years Parker ran La Finca Caribe, an eco-lodge in Vieques, Puerto Rico. What started as a "half-baked... Read more

Leech

By: Hiron Ennes

Narrated by: Abigail Thorn

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A surreal and horrifying debut, Hiron Ennes's Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy.

“A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!”—Tamsyn Muir

MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE

In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the... Read more

Redhead by the Side of the Road

By: Anne Tyler

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

“Tyler's novels are always worth scooping up—but especially this gently amusing soother, right now.” —NPR

From the beloved Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection.

Micah Mortimer is a creature of... Read more

The White Guy Dies First

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker, Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, ...

Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz, André Santana, Angel Pe...

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

"This Young Adult book is a scream to listen to."—The Berkshire Eagle

This program features multicast narration as well as an author's note and acknowledgements read by the author.

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL.

The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this... Read more

The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans & Saraciea J. Fennell

Narrated by: Shayna Small & Tananarive Due

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes a foreword by author, educator, and Jordan Peele collaborator, Tananarive Due.

A YA anthology of horror stories centering Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, and who survive to the end

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one.

Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and... Read more

The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

Narrated by: Lee Osorio

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A “mesmerizing...wildly entertaining” (The Boston Globe) magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The Bullet Swallower follows a Mexican bandido as he sets off for Texas to rob a train, only to encounter a mysterious figure who has come, finally, to collect a cosmic debt generations in the making.

In... Read more

Ander & Santi Were Here

By: Jonny Garza Villa

Narrated by: Avi Roque

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"[Avi] Roque's warm and musical narration is utter perfection. They capture Ander and Santi's fear with vivid immediacy and also infuse their voices with bubbly happiness. In moments of tenderness, their breath catches. They switch easily between Spanish and English and use a half-dozen unique accents for different characters. This audiobook is... Read more

Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

Narrated by: Richard Te Are & Miriama McDowell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and directorA tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman is juggling single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a... Read more

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews

Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.“You’re a small thing,’’ Grandma writes, “and you must learn to fight.’’ Swiv’s grandma, Elvira, has been fighting all her life. From her upbringing in a strict religious community,... Read more

Good Eggs

By: Rebecca Hardiman

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins, Gary Furlong & Siobhan Waring

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Feel-Good Book by The Washington Post

When a home aide arrives to assist a rambunctious family at a crossroads, simmering tensions boil over in this “witty, exuberant debut” (People) that is an “absolute delight from start to finish” (Sarah Haywood, New York Times bestselling author)—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and... Read more

Fable

By: Adrienne Young

Narrated by: Emma Lysy

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK

Filled with all of the action, emotion, and lyrical writing that brought readers to Sky in the Deep, New York Times bestselling author Adrienne Young returns with Fable, the first audiobook in this new captivating duology.

Welcome to a world made dangerous by the sea and by those who wish to... Read more

Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Helen Macdonald

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAnimals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world.Helen Macdonald... Read more

Darling Rose Gold

By: Stephanie Wrobel

Narrated by: Megan Dodds & Jill Winternitz

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

THE USA TODAY AND EDGAR AWARD NOMINATED BESTSELLER

"If you enjoyed The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, read Darling Rose Gold."—Washington Post

“Sensationally good - two complex characters power the story like a nuclear reaction...”—Lee Child
 
A most anticipated book of 2020 by Newsweek ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ Shondaland ∙ PopSugar ∙... Read more

A Good Neighborhood

By: Therese Anne Fowler

Narrated by: Ella Turenne

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

“A feast of a read... I finished A Good Neighborhood in a single sitting. Yes, it’s that good.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology Valerie Alston-Holt is raising her bright and talented... Read more

Upright Women Wanted

By: Sarah Gailey

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.



"That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks."



Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her... Read more