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Good Omens

A Full Cast Production

By: Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
Narrated by: Rebecca Front, Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Katherine Kingsley, Arthur Darvill, Peter Forbes, Gabrielle Glaister, Louis Davison, Pixie Davies, Chris Nelson, Ferdinand Frisby Williams, Adjoa Andoh, Allan Corduner, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, John Hopkins, Lorelei King, Matt Reeves & Lemn Sissay
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

A brand new full cast audiobook production of the classic collaboration from internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett starring Rebecca Front as the Narrator, Michael Sheen as Aziraphale, and David Tennant as Crowley!""Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don... Read more

Hench

A Novel

By: Natalie Zina Walschots
Narrated by: Alex McKenna
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“Hench is absolutely terrific! Walschots has found a fresh, original, feminist angle on the tropes of superheroes and supervillains in this smart, lively novel. Anna is barely subsisting from temp job to temp job — even supervillains need someone to do their data entry — when she becomes collateral damage in a superhero’s intervention. Injured... Read more

Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters Book Set

Get a Life Chloe Brown, Take a Hint Dani Brown, Act Your Age Eve Brown

The Brown Sisters

By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh & Ione Butler
Length: 31 hours 6 minutes

“A brilliant writer.” — New York Times Book ReviewThe bestselling and beloved Brown Sisters series, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Talia Hibbert, now in a single volume!This bundle includes the following novels:GET A LIFE, CHLOE BROWN: Tired of being boring, chronically ill computer geek Chloe Brown asks her mysterious,... Read more

Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Imbolo Mbue
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

“This might be the best audiobook I've ever listened to. It's definitely the one I recommend the very most. Prentice Onayem does such a delicious job of showcasing the beautiful nuance of different voices and accents and the production inserts just enough music to make sure that the audience is able to really feel immersed into the story. There's... Read more

The Scorpio Races

By: Maggie Stiefvater
Narrated by: Steve West & Fiona Hardingham
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

“One reviewer wrote, "This is a difficult book to sum up," and that is true. All I can say is the story is written with a sense of magic in the air. Stiefvater writes with wonderful description and builds stories with tension that keeps me at the edge of my seat. I have enjoyed Stiefvater's books, both reading and listening to them. If you can't... Read more

Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)

By: Maggie Shipstead
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Alex McKenna
Length: 25 hours 16 minutes

“Like so many big, statement-making novels, Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle is an inviting, ambitious, and commodious work. But unlike so many of them, Great Circle makes the statement without dragging across its page count. It gallops, in fact, in its telling of Marian Graves's triumphant and ill-fated trek across the globe and of the Hollywood... Read more

Half the Sky

Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

By: Nicholas D. Kristof
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope, two of our most fiercely moral voices

With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an... Read more

A Deadly Education

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #1

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Magic school like you have never seen or imagine it before. A seemingly unlikeable yet much appreciated heroine and oh, that last line of the book....I LOVED it! The audiobook was engaging, the narrator a pleasure, and I am still thinking about it. Read more

The Guncle

THE GUNCLE: Book #1

By: Steven Rowley
Narrated by: Steven Rowley
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

“Absolutely adored this. I laughed so hard while also feeling moved by the characters navigating grief associated with losing a mother / sister-in-law/best friend. Rowley plays with expectations surrounding grief – to be sad, to mourn, not to laugh – and the need for joy, survival, and life after loss. "Gup" (Gay Uncle Patrick) imparts his wisdom... Read more

This Time Tomorrow

A Novel

By: Emma Straub
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Emma Straub
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

“Straub brings her trademark humor, insight, and disarming charm to a time-travel novel that is at its core a love letter to her real-life dad, novelist Peter Straub (who died after this book was published). Alice, a rudderless almost-40-year-old is not necessarily happy with her life, but is not sure of what her happy life might look like. When... Read more

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Amina Koroma & Jonathan Andrew Hume
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud story about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to survive the great outdoors—and each other.

Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect. He’s a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top... Read more

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

The First Book of Nampeshiweisit

By: Moniquill Blackgoose
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

“This fantastically imagined alt-historical fantasy is full of fierce and lovable dragons, with a steampunk academia setting, a wise and courageous young indigenous woman at the helm, queer and neurodivergent rep, and so much to say about colonialism, knowledge, story-telling, and resistance! Fans of R. F. Kuang’s Babel and Rachel Hartman’s... Read more

How to Love Your Daughter

A Novel

By: Hila Blum
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

“A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” —Flynn Berry, New York Times Book Review

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love?

Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark... Read more

Iron Widow (Book 1)

Iron Widow: Book #1

By: Xiran Jay Zhao
Narrated by: Rong Fu
Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

“Iron Widow is such a cinematic blockbuster of a book, with an inventive setting, sci-fi action, great characters, and excellent romance. I listened to it through Libro.fm, and now I’m counting down the days until the sequel. Read more

Winter's Orbit

The Resolution Universe

By: Everina Maxwell
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

"Narrator Raphael Corkhill deftly navigates a range of situations and voices in this novel, a blend of romance, mystery, and space opera...A satisfying love story with plenty of political machinations, this audiobook will please fans of romance and sci-fi alike." -- AudioFile Magazine

Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in... Read more

Sorrowland

A Novel

By: Rivers Solomon
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

“Vern is a captivating protagonist from page one: gritty, determined, flawed, clever, and resourceful. The story slowly fills in all the details of a life that wasn’t what it seemed, and offers an ending you can’t predict. Sorrowland is beautiful, ugly, engaging, and awe-inspiring. Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“Never have we needed Becky Chambers' "hopepunk," sci-fi self-care visions of the future more than now. Part hilarious odd-couple road-trip, part soulful parable for a lost and battered world, A Psalm for the Wild-Built brings all the warmth, comfort, and elusive wisdom of a steaming mug of tea poured by someone who loves you. Take a deep breath,... Read more

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #2

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“Just as wonderful and as tender as A Psalm for the Wild-Built. A sweet and earthy cup of tea to warm the soul. New and old characters to giggle with, cry with, and just flat out fall in love with. A book that I will return to again and again. Read more

Light From Uncommon Stars

By: Ryka Aoki
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

“So I am NOT a fantasy reader but this book rocks. In theory, it sounds like it would be cringey but it is not. It's super unique and I love how everything is treated (from a moral standpoint). It was hard to read anything after this because nothing was quite as gripping as this world. Read more

The Feeling of Falling in Love

By: Mason Deaver
Narrated by: Zach Barack
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

From the bestselling author of I Wish You All the Best, comes a new kind of love story, about the bad decisions we sometimes make... and the people who help get us back on the right path.Perfect for fans of Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and What If It's Us by Adam Silvera and Becky Albertalli.Just days before spring break, Neil... Read more