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Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th... Read more

Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

Narrated by: Siiri Scott

Length: 3 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, beautiful novel meditating on war, violence, memory, and the sufferings of the Palestinian people.



Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people—and the Israelis celebrate as the War of... Read more

The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, ...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial... Read more

The Ghost Brigades

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human... Read more

End of Story

By: A. J. Finn

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp... Read more

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Imbolo Mbue

Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy

New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Longlisted for the PEN/Open Book... Read more

Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

Narrated by: Nicky Endres

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence, and pleasure.

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie’s workplace, she blows up Frankie’s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries... Read more

Thornhedge

By: T. Kingfisher

Narrated by: Jennifer Blom

Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From USA Today bestselling author T. Kingfisher, Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.

There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved... Read more

The Secrets We Kept: Reese's Book Club

By: Lara Prescott

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

At the height of the... Read more

Once Upon a Broken Heart

By: Stephanie Garber

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Once Upon a Broken Heart marks the launch of a new series about love, curses, and the lengths that people will go to for happily ever after from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber

"Soler embodies a fairy-tale world full of vibrant characters with unique voices . . . This sultry fantasy will leave listeners guessing to the very... Read more

The Romance Recipe

By: Ruby Barrett

Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens & Natalie Naudus

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST 

"The feelings in this one are dialed up so high you almost can’t look at them directly: It would be like staring into the sun... Like Rosie Danan or Kate Clayborn, Barrett has a way of making palpable the full journey of a relationship" –New York Times

“Simply put, The Romance Recipe is a treat.” –USA TODAY

Amy... Read more

The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he... Read more

Burn

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence

Every year, Jess and Storey have made an annual pilgrimage to the most remote corners of the country, where they camp, hunt, and hike, leaving... Read more

The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

Narrated by: Sheila Atim & Arinzé Kene

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!Recommended by The New York Times • Vogue • People • NPR • Vulture • The Guardian • Cosmopolitan • Rolling Stone • Publishers Weekly • The Sunday Times • and many more!In this sensational, page-turning debut novel, a high-profile female journalist’s world is upended when her fiancé’s name turns up in a viral... Read more

No Exit

By: Taylor Adams

Narrated by: Sarah Naughton

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most tense, gripping thrillers you will ever read. From UK and US bestselling author Taylor Adams.A KIDNAPPED LITTLE GIRL LOCKED IN A STRANGER'S VAN. NO HELP FOR MILES. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’s on the way home to see her sick... Read more

The Summer I Turned Pretty

By: Jenny Han

Narrated by: Lola Tung

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are... Read more

Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A VOGUE BEST BOOK OF 2024
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY BOOKRIOT, THE MILLIONS, LITHUB AND MORE!

"A moving, strikingly evocative exploration of New York's art, tech, and activism scenes across the decades."–Vogue

The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is... Read more

All That She Carried

By: Tiya Miles

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives.
 
WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize,... Read more

Pride

By: Ibi Zoboi

Narrated by: Elizabeth Acevedo

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timely update of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi skillfully balances cultural identity, class, and gentrification against the heady magic of first love in her vibrant reimagining of this beloved classic. A smart, funny, gorgeous retelling starring all characters of color. Don't miss the audiobook,... Read more

The Bone Season

By: Samantha Shannon

Narrated by: Alana Kerr Collins

Length: 18 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, read by Alana Kerr Collins.

The New York Times bestselling first novel in the sensational Bone Season series, a heart-pounding epic fantasy by the author of The Priory of the Orange Tree.

“Intelligent, inventive, dark, and engrossing.” NPR

Welcome to Scion. No safer place.

The year is 2059.... Read more

Group

By: Christie Tate

Narrated by: Christie Tate

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The refreshingly original and “startlingly hopeful” (Lisa Taddeo) debut memoir of an over-achieving young lawyer who reluctantly agrees to group therapy and gets psychologically and emotionally naked in a room of six complete strangers—and finds human connection, and herself.

Christie Tate had... Read more

Long Way Down

By: Jason Reynolds

Narrated by: Jason Reynolds

Length: 1 hour 43 minutes

Abridged: No

“An intense snapshot of the chain reaction caused by pulling a trigger.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Astonishing.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A Newbery Honor Book
A Coretta Scott King Honor Book
A Printz Honor Book
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize... Read more

Lab Girl

By: Hope Jahren

Narrated by: Hope Jahren

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world
 
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise... 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