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A Magical Girl Retires
By: Park Seolyeon
Narrated by: Shannon Tyo
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative ode to magical girl manga.Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.But her... Read more
View audiobookThe Other Valley
By: Scott Alexander Howard
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick
For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the... Read more
Not Quite a Ghost
By: Anne Ursu
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us—and the ones we carry inside.The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into... Read more
View audiobookSugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
Narrated by: Sara Novak
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Bloomsbury presents Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare, read by Sara Novak.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 BY VOGUE, ELLE, NYLON, NPR, PURE WOW, SHONDALAND, BOOK RIOT and more!
In the vein of Luster and Queenie, an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of the internet—an intoxicating, bold debut from a dazzling new voice.
Sugar,... Read more
The Good Liars
By: Anita Frank
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of stunning historical fiction books comes a Sunday Times bestselling new story of crime, deceit, and murder, set in the early 1920s… 'A haunting tale that explores the ways in which characters are affected by and deal with the trauma of war… will leave readers satisfied – albeit unsettled' Booklist ... Read more
View audiobookCrow Mary
By: Kathleen Grissom
Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Everything returns with a sweeping and “richly detailed story of a woman caught between two cultures” (Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author) inspired by the real life of Crow Mary—an Indigenous woman in 19th-century North America.
In 1872,... Read more
Chef's Choice
By: TJ Alexander
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
One of the 50 Best Romance Novels to Read Right Now by Time
“Urgent and intimate.” —The New York Times Book Review
A fake dating arrangement turns to real love in this deliciously delightful queer rom-com from the author of the sweetly satisfying Chef’s Kiss.
When Luna O’Shea is unceremoniously fired from... Read more
Atalanta
By: Jennifer Saint
Narrated by: Beth Eyre
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
"Eyre's British accent gives the production the feeling of a literary classic..."- AudioFile
From the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world’s most famous band of heroes, the Argonauts
Princess, Warrior, Lover, Hero
When Princess... Read more
The Salt Grows Heavy
By: Cassandra Khaw
Narrated by: Susan Dalian
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.
“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal
“This brilliant novella is not... Read more
Enter the Body
By: Joy McCullough
Narrated by: Joy McCullough, Valerie Rose Lohman, Annie Q & ...
Length: 4 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply... Read more
View audiobookMadame Restell
By: Jennifer Wright
Narrated by: Mara Wilson
Length: 14 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history—Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.Madame Restell is a sharp, witty Gilded Age medical history which introduces us to an iconic, yet tragically overlooked, feminist heroine: a... Read more
View audiobookThe Secret Life of Albert Entwistle
By: Matt Cain
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In a wonderfully life-affirming and surprising story of human connection and second chances, a shy sixty-something postman opens his heart to love again, transforming the lives of those around him.
Every day, Albert Entwistle makes his way through the streets of his small English town, delivering letters and parcels and returning greetings with a... Read more
Listening Still
By: Anne Griffin
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Narrated by Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton, Derry Girls)
From Anne Griffin, the bestselling author of When All is Said, comes Listening Still, a refreshing new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead—a talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and... Read more
Vladimir
By: Julia May Jonas
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
An NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York Times * “Timely, whip-smart, and darkly funny.” —People (Book of the Week) * One of Shondaland’s 13 Best College-Set... Read more
View audiobookThe Starless Crown
By: James Rollins
Narrated by: James Rollins & Nicola Barber
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
"The story touches on many familiar fantasy plot points — magic, an ancient language, an ability to commune with wild creatures, a climactic battle between the forces of good and evil — yet manages to be satisfying. It’s aided by a capable reading from Barber, who invests Rollins’ characters with a variety of British accents that help make each... Read more
View audiobookSankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
Narrated by: Sara Powell
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The exhilarating story of a mixed-race woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew.
After years of being a daughter, a wife, and a mother, Anna finally has the time to wonder who she really is. But the only person who can tell her—her mother, the only parent who raised her—is dead.
Searching through her mother's belongings... Read more
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light
By: Helen Ellis
Narrated by: Helen Ellis
Length: 2 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.
"Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR
When Helen Ellis and her lifelong... Read more
Animal
By: Lisa Taddeo
Narrated by: Emma Roberts
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
From Lisa Taddeo, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and “explosive” (People) novel about “what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the reckoning” (Esquire).
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring... Read more
The Echo Wife
By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had... Read more
Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You)
By: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy & Griffin McElroy
Narrated by: Justin McElroy, Travis McElroy, Griffin McElroy...
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
From the #1 New York Times bestselling McElroy Brothers, creators of the hit podcasts My Brother, My Brother and Me and The Adventure Zone, comes a helpful and hilarious how-to podcast guide covering everything you need to know to make, produce, edit, and promote a podcast…and get rich* doing it! (*Results not guaranteed.)Justin, Travis, and... Read more
View audiobookFable
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
The Appointment
By: Katharina Volckmer
Narrated by: Katharina Volckmer
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —The Guardian * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —The New Yorker * “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Sexy, hilarious, and subversive.” —The Paris Review
For readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han... Read more
Before the Ever After
By: Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by: Guy Lockard
Length: 2 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD
WINNER OF THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AUTHOR AWARD
National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies.
For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a... Read more
Wandering in Strange Lands
By: Morgan Jerkins
Narrated by: Morgan Jerkins
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
One of Buzzfeed's 24 New Books We Couldn’t Put Down“One of the smartest young writers of her generation.”—Book RiotFrom the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing—a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with”—comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her... Read more
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