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I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

Narrated by: Nasim Pedrad

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Recommended by the New York Times Book Review, Today show, People, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Harper's Bazaar, and more!""Fans of The Office will delight."" — SHELBY VAN PELT • ""Wickedly funny."" — PEOPLE • ""I could not put it down."" — JULIA QUINN • ""A workplace sitcom transformed into a romantic comedy... Read more

The Last One at the Wedding

By: Jason Rekulak

Narrated by: John Pirhalla

Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

"Pirhalla’s excellent narration highlights Frank’s insecurities, which are contrasted with the confidence of Aidan and his family. Pirhalla’s strong characterizations are carefully crafted. Listeners will enjoy having their perceptions change with each twist of the plot, and Pirhalla’s spot-on timing will also help keep them engaged."—AudioFile... Read more

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club

By: Delia Owens

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
More than 18 million copies sold worldwide
A Reese’s Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade 

“I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!”—Reese Witherspoon

“Painfully beautiful.”—The New York Times Book Review

For years,... Read more

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Narrated by: Arina Ii

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

*NOW AN LA TIMES BESTSELLER*

*OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*

*AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*

If you could go back in time, who would you want to meet?

In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee—the... Read more

How to Sell a Haunted House

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Jay Aaseng & Mikhaila Aaseng

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"Wildly entertaining."-The New York Times

"Ingenious."-The Washington Post

New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—and your family—can haunt you like nothing else.
 
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads... Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

2020 Audie  Winner – Best Female Narrator
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland. “I can’t believe how good this book is.... It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect.... Wilson writes with such a light touch.... The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these weirdo characters and... Read more

Killers of the Flower Moon

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE

“A... Read more

The Queen

By: Nick Cutter

Narrated by: Ariel Blake, Zac Aleman, Corey Brill & Pete Sim...

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“One of the hottest horror authors on the planet” (Paste) and writer of the #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She... Read more

One Dark Window

By: Rachel Gillig

Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking.

Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.

Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of... Read more

The Bright Sword

By: Lev Grossman

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith & Lev Grossman

Length: 23 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Time’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 • A New York Times Best Book of the Year (So Far) • A New York Times Editors’ Choice • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the King Arthur legend for the new millennium

“Grossman, who is best known for his The... Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By: Anthony Doerr

Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021

On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more

“If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post... Read more

The Silmarillion

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Andy Serkis

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an... Read more

The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Louise Erdrich

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small... Read more

Bull Moon Rising

By: Ruby Dixon

Narrated by: Felicity Munroe & Hiro Diaz

Length: 17 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The special first edition hardcover will include a gorgeous, shimmering jacket with effects, brilliantly illustrated four-color endpapers, striking and detailed-stained edges, and a beautiful foil-stamped case.

In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman determined to save her family joins... Read more

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & L...

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York... Read more

The Sapling Cage

By: Margaret Killjoy

Narrated by: Jackie Meloche

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in an own-voices story of trans witchcraft. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch—learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and... Read more

The Warmth of Other Suns

By: Isabel Wilkerson

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 22 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE... Read more

Under the Whispering Door

By: TJ Klune

Narrated by: Kirt Graves

Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Narrator Kirt Groves provides an excellently distinct cast of voices."- Locus

A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing.

The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and... Read more

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

Narrated by: January LaVoy

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.”--James PattersonThe provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a... Read more

The Sequel

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

"Fans of The Plot, and they were legion, will rejoice at this sequel, performed with mesmerizing skill by the wonderful Julia Whelan...Whelan's achievement here seems like a little miracle, relentlessly compelling and wonderfully satisfying."—AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner)

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told”... Read more

Uprooted

By: Naomi Novik

Narrated by: Julia Emelin

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

NEBULA AWARD WINNER • HUGO AWARD FINALIST • “If you want a fantasy with strong characters and brilliantly original variations on ancient stories, try Uprooted!”—Rick Riordan
 
“Breathtaking . . . a tale that is both elegantly grand and earthily humble, familiar as a Grimm fairy tale yet fresh, original, and totally irresistible.”—Publishers Weekly... Read more

Doppelganger

By: Naomi Klein

Narrated by: Naomi Klein

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

"An elegant hybrid of memoir and social science that traces the motif of the double throughout history, literature and Klein's personal life."—The New York Times

“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben

“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer... Read more

The Games Gods Play

By: Abigail Owen

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

THE GODS LOVE TO PLAY WITH US MERE MORTALS. AND EVERY HUNDRED YEARS, WE LET THEM …I have never been favored by the gods. Far from it, thanks to Zeus. Living as a cursed office clerk for the Order of Thieves, I just keep my head down and hope the capricious beings who rule from Olympus won’t notice me. Not an easy feat, given San Francisco is... Read more

Talking to Strangers

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a... Read more