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Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
By: Laura Warrell
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 13 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
GMA BUZZ PICK • How do we find belonging when love is unrequited? A "gorgeously written debut" (Celeste Ng, best-selling author of Little Fires Everywhere) filled with jazz and soul, about the perennial temptations of dangerous love, told by the women who love Circus Palmer—trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man—as they ultimately discover... Read more
View audiobookThe Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream
By: Jeannie Zusy
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where’d You Go, Bernadette in this “funny and insightful” (Real Simple) novel about one woman whose life is turned upside down when she becomes caregiver to her sister with special needs.
Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in... Read more
What the Fact?
By: Seema Yasmin
Narrated by: Seema Yasmin
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
From acclaimed writer, journalist, and physician Dr. Seema Yasmin comes a “savvy, accessible, and critical” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the importance of media literacy, fact-based reporting, and the ability to discern truth from lies.
What is a fact? What are reliable sources? What is news? What is fake news? How can anyone make... Read more
The Book of Goose
By: Yiyun Li
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
Length: 9 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.
Fabienne is dead. Her... Read more
All That's Left Unsaid
By: Tracey Lien
Narrated by: Aileen Huynh, Yen Nguyen & Amelia Nguyen
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
2022 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA Phenomenal Book Club Pick!For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother’s shocking murder, determined to discover what happened—a... Read more
View audiobookAlways the First to Die
By: R. J. Jacobs
Narrated by: Petrea Burchard
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
After her husband's death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on the Florida Keys because there are too many hard memories on that strip of land, including the memories of meeting her husband on the set of an iconic horror movie, being cast as an extra, watching herself get killed on screen, and scoffing at the rumors of the... Read more
View audiobookRuination
By: Anthony Reynolds
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin, Misty Lee, Sean J. Teale,...
Length: 12 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
This audiobook features dramatized audio performances by a full cast - featuring some of your favorite Riot voices.
Discover an epic tale of magic, revenge, and an empire on the verge of ruin in the first ever novel set in the blockbuster universe of League of Legends.
Camavor is a brutal land with a bloody legacy. Where the empire’s knights go,... Read more
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
By: Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
Narrated by: Liz Femi & Korey Jackson
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
“I couldn’t put this book down and I loved spending time in the lives of Nonso, Remi, Aisha, and Solape. Truly this book will grab hold of your heart and mind and everything in between.”—Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist?“Poignant and beautiful. . . . Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi will sweep you away with these subtle yet profound stories.... Read more
View audiobookLessons
By: Ian McEwan
Narrated by: Simon McBurney
Length: 17 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines’s life is turned upside down. He is two thousand miles from his mother’s protective love, stranded at an unusual
boarding school, when his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a... Read more
On the Rooftop
By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
A Reese’s Book Club Pick“An utterly original and brilliant story.” –Reese WitherspoonA stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters’ ambitions for their own lives—set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoAt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The... Read more
View audiobookHappier Hour
By: Cassie Holmes
Narrated by: Cassie Holmes
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Learn how to reframe your time around life’s happiest moments to build days that aren’t just full but fulfilling with this “joyful guide” (Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author) that is the antidote to overscheduling.
Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture... Read more
Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake
By: Mazey Eddings
Narrated by: Summer Morton & Will Peters
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Mazey Eddings, author of the “witty, fast-paced rom-com”* A Brush with Love, mixes passion and humor to create a luscious love story between two people stumbling through life and learning to open their hearts in Lizzie Blake’s Best Mistake.
Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety),... Read more
One Hundred Saturdays
By: Michael Frank
Narrated by: Michael Frank
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A 2022 Audible Editor's Selection
One of Wall Street Journal’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal
The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose... Read more
Lost in Time
By: A.G. Riddle
Narrated by: John Skelley
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ..."—Diana Gabaldon
"Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise … with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
PANGEA, 202,320,641 BC
Quantum physicist... Read more
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
By: James Hannaham
Narrated by: James Hannaham & Flame Monroe
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In this “dangerously hilarious” novel (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in a men’s prison, over one consequential Fourth of July weekend—from the author of the PEN/Faulkner Award winner Delicious Foods.
Carlotta Mercedes has been misunderstood her entire life. When she was pulled into a... Read more
Bully Market
By: Jamie Fiore Higgins
Narrated by: Jamie Fiore Higgins
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A “riveting and powerful” (Gretchen Carlson, cofounder of Lift Our Voices) insider’s account on Wall Street where greed coupled with misogyny and discrimination enforces a culture of exclusion in the upper echelons of Goldman Sachs.
Jamie Fiore Higgins became one of the few women at the highest ranks of Goldman Sachs. Spurred on by the obligation... Read more
California Burning
By: Katherine Blunt
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)
A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost... Read more
My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
Narrated by: Jelani Alladin
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by actor, singer, and dancer Jelani Alladin, who originated the role of Kristoff in Broadway's Frozen musical.
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and... Read more
Lightlark
By: Alex Aster
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL
Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them—and save themselves and their realms—one ruler will... Read more
The Drowned Woods
By: Emily Lloyd-Jones
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
In this magical, ethereal fantasy novel from the bestselling author of The Bone Houses a crew led by a magic welding woman fight to take down the overpowered prince that used and abused them.
Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the... Read more
This Story Will Change
By: Elizabeth Crane
Narrated by: Elizabeth Crane
Length: 4 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage and how life can fall apart and be rebuilt in wonderful and surprising ways.
One minute Elizabeth Crane and her husband of fifteen years are fixing up their old house in Upstate New York, finally setting down roots after stints in Chicago, Texas,... Read more
Path Lit By Lightning
By: David Maraniss
Narrated by: David Maraniss
Length: 23 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
A biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete that “goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe’s life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty” (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled... Read more
Egg Island
By: Sara Flemington
Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Two laconic teenage runaways plunge deep into backcountry, farther and farther away from civilization, searching for an extraordinary place that may or may not exist.
On the move for who knows how long, Julia, age unknown, walks into a gas station. There, the tall, ominous kid with a studded belt and crusty eyebrow ring who's stocking the... Read more
Stay Awake
By: Megan Goldin
Narrated by: Imogen Church & January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A murder she doesn’t remember committing. A killer she doesn’t remember meeting. Megan Goldin’s Stay Awake is an electrifying novel that proves memory can be deadly.
Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she’s dropped off at the door of her brownstone, a stranger answers—a stranger who... Read more