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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
Midnight is the Darkest Hour
By: Ashley Winstead
Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
For fans of Verity and A Flicker in the Dark, Midnight is the Darkest Hour is a twisted tale of murder, obsessive love, and the beastly urges that lie dormant within us all . . . even the God-fearing folk of Bottom Springs, Louisiana. In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains... Read more
View audiobookThe Pole
By: J.M. Coetzee
Narrated by: Colin Mace
Length: 3 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
An indelible tale of life, love, death, and Chopin—from the Novel Prize–winning author of Disgrace.
Renowned for his sparse yet powerful prose, J. M. Coetzee is unquestionably among the most influential—and provocative—authors of our time. With characteristic insight and a “brittle wit that forces our attention on the common terrors we don’t want... Read more
Pockets
By: Hannah Carlson
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
A thought-provoking microhistory of the humble pocket that uncovers what pockets reveal about us—and why it matters.
It’s a subject that stirs up plenty of passion: Why do men’s clothes have so many pockets and women’s so few? In her captivating book, Hannah Carlson, a lecturer in dress history at the Rhode Island School of Design, shows us how... Read more
This is How We End Things
By: R.J. Jacobs
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Riley Sager meets If We Were Villains in a compelling new psychological thriller by R. J. Jacobs, following a tight-knit group of graduate students studying the psychology of lying. When one of them is discovered dead after an experiment, everything the group thought they knew about deception crumbles . . .
Campus is empty, a winter storm is... Read more
The Long Game
By: Elena Armas
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo & Shane East
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: No
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a children’s team in this small-town love story in the vein of It Happened One Summer—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception.
Adalyn Reyes has spent years perfecting her daily routine: wake up at... Read more
Midnight at the Houdini
By: Delilah S. Dawson
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
A girl discovers a surreal hotel where no one ever leaves. When the clock strikes midnight, she'll be trapped there forever unless she's able to break free from magic that in turn breaks all her rules. Perfect for fans of Caraval and The Starless Sea!
Life has gone according to plan for Anna—she stays in the background, letting her sister, Emily,... Read more
Amazing Grace Adams
By: Fran Littlewood
Narrated by: Claire Skinner
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
An Instant New York Times Bestseller
A Today Read With Jenna Book Club Pick
"I dare you not to fall wildly in love with Grace...It's a book about love, about grace, about even when we fall from those we love we can always find our way home...You will laugh on the first page and you will keep laughing until you're crying on the last page." ―Jenna... Read more
Learned by Heart
By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.
Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love... Read more
The Detective Up Late
By: Adrian McKinty
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
“Adrian McKinty is a gifted storyteller I love to read, and Sean Duffy is a character you will never forget.”—Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling authorFrom New York Times bestselling author Adrian McKinty comes the next thrilling mystery in the Edgar Award–winning Sean Duffy detective seriesSlamming the door on the hellscape of 1980s... Read more
View audiobookLooking Glass Sound
By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland & Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
“If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.” —Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dog
From Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.
In a... Read more
Gone Tonight
By: Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by: Kate Mara
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by Kate Mara, best known for her roles in hit TV shows like A Teacher and House of Cards, as well as films such as The Martian and Chappaquiddick.
New from the #1 bestselling co-author of The Golden Couple and The Wife Between Us!
"I'm a huge fan of Sarah Pekkanen's books, and Gone Tonight is her best yet." —Colleen... Read more
The Peach Seed
By: Anita Gail Jones
Narrated by: Anita Gail Jones
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
"Anita Gail Jones's narration transports listeners across centuries and continents as she details the complex history of a Southern Black family."- AudioFile
This program is read by the author, who brings more than twenty-five years of experience as a professional oral-tradition storyteller of global folklore as well as original and personal... Read more
Sun Damage
By: Sabine Durrant
Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Reminiscent of the works of Patricia Highsmith and Lucy Foley, a compulsive psychological thriller—“the perfect poolside reading” (Guardian)—involving gorgeous grifters on the loose in the south of France who prey on a group of unsuspecting vacationers . . . and each other.The heat is intense. The secrets are stifling. And there is no escape.In... Read more
View audiobookCutting Teeth
By: Chandler Baker
Narrated by: Chandler Baker & January LaVoy
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
This program includes a bonus conversation between the author and Emma Rosenblum, author of Bad Summer People.
"LaVoy is a well-accomplished audio narrator across multiple genres, and most audiobook lovers will immediately recognize her virtuosic voice with its incisive tones. Here, for the large cast, she gives exceptional and distinct narration... Read more
To Have and to Heist
By: Sara Desai
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
To exonerate her best friend, one woman must mastermind a jewelry heist during the wedding of the season in this hilarious romantic-comedy caper from the author of The Dating Plan.
Simi Chopra is on a bad-luck streak. She’s lost yet another job, her student loan debt won’t stop growing, her basement apartment is a certifiable flood zone, and... Read more
Stars, Hide Your Fires
By: Jessica Mary Best
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
A wanted thief. A murdered emperor. A killer loose on the station.Knives Out goes sci-fi in this gripping YA mystery set in space.As an expert thief from a minor moon, Cass knows a good mark when she sees one. The emperor’s ball is her chance to steal a fortune for herself, her ailing father, and her scrappy crew of thieves and market... Read more
View audiobookNight's Edge
By: Liz Kerin
Narrated by: Chase Sui Wonders
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook is narrated by actor Chase Sui Wonders, known for her work on Genera+ion, Bodies, Bodies, Bodies and the upcoming Apple TV original City On Fire
“This one’s a killer.” —Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse
Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to the ones we... Read more
Through the Groves
By: Anne Hull
Narrated by: Anne Hull
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author,
“Anne Hull has written some of the most important stories of our time, beautifully, unflinchingly.”
—Rick Bragg
"Hull delivers her book with a gentle twang and the unpretentious tone of someone who has lived the experiences she describes. Through her character work and emotionally intelligent delivery, Hull helps... Read more
The Shadow Cabinet
By: Juno Dawson
Narrated by: Nicola Coughlan
Length: 15 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
“This entrancing mix of feminism, queerness, magic and power-hungry villains makes for an intoxicating reading experience.” —Nerd Daily
In the second installment of Juno Dawson's "irresistible" fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of... Read more
Return to Valetto
By: Dominic Smith
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
"Edoardo Ballerini’s adroit narration conveys the subtle changes in
the family, set against the splendor of Valetto’s changing landscape."- Bookpage
From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith’s Return to Valetto tells of a nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from... Read more
The Whispers
By: Ashley Audrain
Narrated by: Jill Winternitz
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
“Expertly, subtly and powerfully rendered….[The Whispers] delivers a sucker-punch ending you’ll have to read twice to believe.”—The New York Times Book Review
“[An] electrifying…razor-sharp page-turner.” —Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
Featured in summer reading recommendations by Good Morning America,... Read more
At the Edge of the Woods
By: Kathryn Bromwich
Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
Length: 4 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Kathryn Bromwich's masterful debut novel is a rich, gorgeously descriptive account of a woman hiding from old ghosts and new in the Italian Alps, while rekindling her own sense of self through nature.
Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the forest, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent... Read more
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea
By: Rita Chang-Eppig
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
For listeners of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a riveting, roaring adventure novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of powerWhen Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die.... Read more
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