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We Run the Tides

By: Vendela Vida

Narrated by: Marin Ireland

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

An achingly beautiful and wickedly funny story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance, set in the changing landscape of San FranciscoTeenage Eulabee and her alluring best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy, oceanside San Francisco neighborhood. They know the ins and outs of the homes and... Read more

Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

Narrated by: Melissa Broder

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Esquire, BookPage, and more

This darkly hilarious and “delicious new novel that ravishes with sex and food” (The Boston Globe) from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today is a “precise blend of desire, discomfort, spirituality, and existential ache”... Read more

What Could Be Saved

By: Liese O'Halloran Schwarz

Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan

Length: 15 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When a mysterious man claims to be her long-missing brother, a woman must confront her family’s closely guarded secrets in this “delicious hybrid of mystery, drama, and elegance” (Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author).

Washington, DC, 2019: Laura Preston is a reclusive artist at odds with her older sister Beatrice as their elegant,... Read more

The Liar's Dictionary

By: Eley Williams

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton & Jon Glover

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “You wouldn’t expect a comic novel about a dictionary to be a thriller too, but this one is. In fact, [it] is also a mystery, love story (two of them) and cliffhanging melodrama.” —The New York Times Book Review

An award-winning novel that chronicles the charming misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the... Read more

Better Luck Next Time

By: Julia Claiborne Johnson

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

""Do you want to read something funny?  Let’s say, a novel set at a divorce ranch in Reno in the 1930s?  A book with memorably eccentric characters, sparkling dialogue, a satisfying plot twist, and some romance and sex?  A feel-good literary comedy/western?  Here it is, then, the book you've been looking for: Julia Claiborne Johnson’s Better... Read more

The Chicken Sisters: Reese's Book Club

By: KJ Dell'Antonia

Narrated by: Xe Sands & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—NOW A HALLMARK+ ORIGINAL SERIES!

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

“A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share. Also, a great present for your sister for the holidays!!”—Reese Witherspoon

Three generations. Two chicken shacks. One recipe for disaster.

In tiny... Read more

Goodnight Beautiful

By: Aimee Molloy

Narrated by: Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland & Joe...

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award From “master of clever misdirection” (Kirkus Reviews) Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing.Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter... Read more

Owls of the Eastern Ice

By: Jonathan C. Slaght

Narrated by: Jonathan C. Slaght

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia



When he was just a fledgling birdwatcher, Jonathan C. Slaght had a chance encounter with one of the most mysterious birds on Earth. Bigger than any owl he knew, it looked like a small bear with decorative feathers. He snapped... Read more

She Come By It Natural

By: Sarah Smarsh

Narrated by: Sarah Smarsh

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People).

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular... Read more

Silver in the Wood & Drowned Country

By: Emily Tesh

Narrated by: Cornell Collins & Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Silver in the Wood



There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a perfectly unremarkable existence with his cottage, his cat, and his dryads.



When Greenhollow Hall acquires a handsome, intensely curious new owner in Henry... Read more

Utopia Avenue

By: David Mitchell

Narrated by: Ralph Lister

Length: 25 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • “Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavor is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.”—The Washington Post
 
“A... Read more

The Safe Place

By: Anna Downes

Narrated by: Anna Downes

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

"A captivating narration by author Anna Downes adds that extra spark to her neo-gothic novel...Downes knows her characters and delivers them with professional expertise, original plotting, and a masterful performance." -- AudioFile Magazine

Superbly tense and oozing with atmosphere, Anna Downes's debut, The Safe Place, is the perfect summer... Read more

Florence Adler Swims Forever

By: Rachel Beanland

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Tim Paige, Carly Robins, Jonath...

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“The perfect summer read” (USA TODAY) begins with a shocking tragedy that results in three generations of the Adler family grappling with heartbreak, romance, and the weight of family secrets over the course of one summer.

*A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * One of USA TODAY’s “Best Books of 2020” * One of Good Morning America’s “25... Read more

Weird but Normal

By: Mia Mercado

Narrated by: Mia Mercado

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Birth control. Body hair removal cream. Boobs. It’s all weird, but also pretty normal.Navigating racial identity, gender roles, workplace dynamics, and beauty standards, Mia Mercado's hilarious essay collection explores the contradictions of being a millennial woman, which usually means being kind of a weirdo. Whether it’s spending $30 on a... Read more

The Imperfects

By: Amy Meyerson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GOOD MORNING AMERICA · PARADE · OK! MAGAZINE · ELLE CANADA · CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR · PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“A page-turning family saga, this book will entertain readers of all generations.” —Good Morning America

“Compassionate, thoughtful, and surprisingly moving… [The Imperfects] will satisfy fans of Maggie Shipstead and... Read more

Little Family

By: Ishmael Beah

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of A Long Way Gone.

A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they have lost with the one they have created together.

Hidden away from a harsh outside world, five young people have improvised a home in an abandoned airplane, a relic of their... Read more

Enter the Aardvark

By: Jessica Anthony

Narrated by: Matt Amendt

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A young congressman discovers a mysterious stuffed aardvark on his doorstep and sets out on a journey to find out what it means in this "weird, wonderful" novel about the secrets we keep from ourselves and their history-shaping consequences (Esquire).

It's early one morning on a hot day in August, and millennial congressman Alexander Paine... Read more

Murder Is Easy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gemma Whelan

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.But within hours, Miss... Read more

Of Curses and Kisses

By: Sandhya Menon

Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio & Jason Carpenter

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Fans of Menon’s frothy, contemporary rom-coms will be excited for this venture into new territory.” —Booklist
“[A] dreamy, sassy confection of a romance…Funny, extravagant, and satisfying.” —Shelf Awareness

From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite boarding... Read more

The Falcon Thief

By: Joshua Hammer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more

Highfire

By: Eoin Colfer

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana—and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked... Read more

Cleanness

By: Garth Greenwell

Narrated by: Garth Greenwell

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Garth Greenwell’s superb narration makes a powerful case for authors reading their own work. This bleak, honest novel is about the impossibility of knowing all the complicated truths of a person. Though the novel includes dialogue, Greenwell doesn’t alter his voice as he shifts between characters, a choice that adds to the intensity and power... Read more

Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 3 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a timely middle-grade road-trip story through landmarks of the Civil Rights movement and the map they lay for contemporary race relations.

How to Go on an Unplanned Road Trip with Your Grandma:
Grab a Suitcase: Prepacked from the big spring break trip that got CANCELLED.
Fasten Your... Read more

She Came to Slay

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bestselling tradition of The Notorious RBG comes a lively, informative, and illustrated tribute to one of the most exceptional women in American history—Harriet Tubman—a heroine whose fearlessness and activism still resonate today.

Harriet Tubman is best known as one of the most famous conductors on the Underground Railroad. As a leading... Read more