Bookseller picks

The Fountains of Silence

By: Ruta Sepetys

Narrated by: Maite Jáuregui, Ruta Sepetys, Richard Ferrone, ...

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.

Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood... Read more

True Grit

By: Charles Portis

Narrated by: Donna Tartt

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mattie Ross, a fourteen-year-old girl from Dardanelle, Arkansas, sets out to avenge her Daddy who was shot to death by a no-good outlaw. Mattie convinces one-eyed "Rooster" Cogburn, the meanest U.S. marshal in the land, to ride along with her. In True Grit, we have a true American classic, as young Mattie -- as vital as she is innocent --... Read more

Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek

By: Thea Glassman

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Life, Dawson’s Creek, Freaks and Geeks, The O.C., Friday Night Lights, and Glee) that shaped the course of modern television and our pop cultural landscape forever.

The modern television landscape is defined by influential and ambitious shows for and... Read more

All You Can Ever Know

By: Nicole Chung

Narrated by: Janet Song

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made the ultimate sacrifice in the hope of giving her a better life, that... Read more

The Escape Artist

By: Jonathan Freedland

Narrated by: Jonathan Freedland

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award · New York Times Bestseller""A brilliant and heart-wrenching book, with universal and timely lessons about the power of information—and misinformation. Is it possible to stop mass murder by telling the truth?"" — Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus:... Read more

Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald

Narrated by: Helen Macdonald

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Animals 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

Akata Witch

By: Nnedi Okorafor

Narrated by: Yetide Badaki

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she has albinism. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent mystical power. Soon she's part of a... Read more

Five Survive

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillion-copy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series comes a new blockbuster thriller about a road trip that turns deadly.

Eight hours. Six friends. Five survive.

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect... Read more

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

By: Natalie Caña

Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

“Utterly charming… A Proposal They Can't Refuse is a surefire winner!” —Mia Sosa, USA Today bestselling author of The Worst Best Man

Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian... Read more

Damnation Spring

By: Ash Davidson

Narrated by: CJ Wilson, Rebecca Lowman, Mark Sanderlin & Can...

Length: 15 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times

“A glorious book—an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” —The New York Times Book Review
“An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” —CBS Sunday Morning
“[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful... Read more

The Midnight Bargain

By: C.L. Polk

Narrated by: Moira Quirk

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

From the beloved World Fantasy Award-winning author of Witchmark comes a sweeping, romantic new fantasy set in a world reminiscent of Regency England, where women’s magic is taken from them when they marry. A sorceress must balance her desire to become the first great female magician against her duty to her family.

Beatrice Clayborn is a... Read more

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By: Rachel Joyce

Narrated by: Jim Broadbent

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

Meet Harold Fry, recently retired. He lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does, even down to how he butters his toast. Little differentiates one day from... Read more

Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

“Equal parts pee-your-pants hilarity and break your heart poignancy- like the perfect brunch date you never want to end!"--America Ferrera, Emmy award-winning actress in Ugly Betty

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is... Read more

Late Bloomer

By: Mazey Eddings

Narrated by: Ellie Gossage

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexy, sapphic, opposites-attract romance with Mazey Eddings' signature sparkling voice!

Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she’d earned minimum wage and even less respect, she’s bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was... Read more

Strange the Dreamer

By: Laini Taylor

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 18 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.

The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost... Read more

Just Add Water

By: Katie Ledecky

Narrated by: Katie Ledecky

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

A candid and inspiring memoir from Olympic gold medalist, world champion, and the most decorated US female Olympian in history: Katie Ledecky.

Katie Ledecky has won more individual Olympic races than any female swimmer in history. She is a four-time Olympian, a nine-time gold medalist, a twenty-one-time world champion,... Read more

Big Summer

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Danielle Macdonald

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A deliciously funny, remarkably poignant “beach read to end all beach reads” (Entertainment Weekly) about the power of friendship, the lure of frenemies, and the importance of making peace with yourself through all of life’s ups and downs—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Good in Bed and Best Friends Forever.

Six years after the... Read more

The Gilded Ones

By: Namina Forna

Narrated by: Shayna Small

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TEEN VOGUE
 
"A dark feminist tale spun with blood and gold. Must read!" –Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles
 
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member... Read more

Uncanny Valley

By: Anna Wiener

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Narrator Suehyla El-Attar has a strong voice for this memoir of a woman's journey into the mostly male world of tech start-ups in Silicon Valley. She is energetic, funny, and swift while telling the story of Anna Wiener's acculturation from book publishing in Manhattan to the dot-com boom in San Francisco." —... Read more

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

Narrated by: Dani Martineck

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine

“HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea)

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town... Read more

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

Hunt on Dark Waters

By: Katee Robert

Narrated by: Simone Lewis & Will Watt

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

A stern captain meets his witchy match in this captivating first fantasy romance novel in the Crimson Sails series from Katee Robert, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok smash-hit Neon Gods.

Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for... Read more

Afterlife

By: Julia Alvarez

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

From the internationally bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents comes “a stunning work of art that reminds readers Alvarez is, and always has been, in a class of her own.” (Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award–winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Poet X)

Antonia Vega, the... Read more

Barracoon

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary event: a never-before-published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God that brilliantly illuminates the horror and injustices of slavery as it tells the true story of one of the last known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade—abducted from Africa on the last ""Black Cargo"" ship to arrive in... Read more