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2021 Spring Reading: Fiction

We're sharing some of our favorite new books of the season! Our Spring Reading Guide is filled with staff recommendations for over 30 brand new titles—from novels to mysteries, essays to memoirs—that we think you will love. These are our recommendations in adult fiction.

What's Mine and Yours

By: Naima Coster
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A USA Today bestseller!

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions • Undomesticated Magazine • Paperback Paris

"A once-every-few-years reading experience."—Mary Beth Keane, New York...
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Infinite Country

A Novel

By: Patricia Engel
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

“Starting with one of the best first sentences of a novel that I've ever read, Infinite Country is a moving portrait of the lengths a daughter will go to in an effort to reunite her family. Engel gives an intimate look into the challenges of a Colombian family that has been separated after emigrating to America. She also provides a unique view of... Read more

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The Girl with the Louding Voice

A Novel

By: Abi Daré
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

“This year is overflowing with phenomenal debuts — including this one from Abi Daré. It tells the story of Adunni, a young girl in Nigeria whose dreams and ambition focus in on one thing: education. In a city where girls like her are looked down upon and considered unworthy, she comes to find that change can begin with even the smallest of... Read more

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The Rain Heron

A Novel

By: Robbie Arnott
Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry & Zoe Carides
Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

A gripping novel of myth, environment, adventure, and an unlikely friendship, from an award-winning Australian author.

Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup d'état. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting, farming, trading, and forgetting the contours of what was once a normal life. But her quiet... Read more

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My Year Abroad

A Novel

By: Chang-rae Lee
Narrated by: Lawrence Kao
Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire

“A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review

“An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and...
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The Seed Keeper

A Novel

By: Diane Wilson
Narrated by: Kyla García
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

The Seed Keeper shimmers like the horizon in the summer heat—depending on how you look at it, it is a stunning historical novel, a paean to the land and the plants that people it, a prayer to Dakota women wading through generational trauma. It is all of these things, and so much more. Wilson deftly weaves together multiple voices to bring the... Read more

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Oona Out of Order

A Novel

By: Margarita Montimore
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“With touches of the movies “Big” and “13 Going on 30” and the book “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” this story took me to unexpected places. Starting with Oona’s 19th birthday, her mental presence and consciousness continues aging chronologically while time leaping to different ages of her life each year. It was an imaginative and thought provoking... Read more

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Honey Girl

A Novel

By: Morgan Rogers
Narrated by: York Whitaker
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“As beautiful and golden and syrupy-sweet as its namesake, Honey Girl is a romance that explores how we can be desperately lonely even when we're surrounded by people who love us. Read more

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How Beautiful We Were

A Novel

By: Imbolo Mbue
Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards, Dion Graham, JD Jackson, Allyson Johnson & Lisa Renee Pitts
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

A fearless young woman from a small African village starts a revolution against an American oil company in this sweeping, inspiring novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers.

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, People ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review,The... Read more

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The Bad Muslim Discount

A Novel

By: Syed M. Masood
Narrated by: Pej Vahdat & Hend Ayoub
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

“I loved The Bad Muslim Discount so much I read the acknowledgements just so it wouldn’t end — and they were great, too! This is an insightful and funny novel about faith, family, and being a Muslim American today. Masood offers us a sharp perspective, a seamless style, and unforgettable characters, leaving the reader enriched for the experience. Read more

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Cowboy Graves

Three Novellas

By: Roberto Bolaño
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

One more journey to the universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literature

Cowboy Graves is an unexpected treasure from the vault of a revolutionary talent. Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into fiction is unmistakable in these three... Read more

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We Begin at the End

By: Chris Whitaker
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“An often dark but hopeful tale with a strong-willed young girl at the center. It's kids taking care of parents and old friends falling on their swords for each other... love in its many forms is a character in this story as well. Well written and a great audiobook as well. Read more

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The Vanished Birds

A Novel

By: Simon Jimenez
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

“This book has stuck with me in a way that I know can only be attributed to masterful storytelling. In The Vanished Birds, Earth becomes uninhabitable and humankind spreads out into space using technology that is all of our capitalist, designer-baby, smart-everything, social-media-age fears realized. But this new world is also beautifully poetic... Read more

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Remote Control

By: Nnedi Okorafor
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

“I have absolutely loved everything Nnedi Okorafor has ever written, and this latest book from her is no exception! Her amazing ability to blend traditional African stories and themes with hardcore science fiction is spectacular. While Sankofa cannot remember her name, she does remember her past as she travels from town to town. Even as a child,... Read more

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The Echo Wife

By: Sarah Gailey
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

“Riveting. There's a dark streak in Sarah Gailey's work, and it's really dark here. Come for the clones and the gossipy conceit of a husband having an affair with the wife's clone. Stay, because you can't stop listening. So much menace. So much horror. I lost sleep over this one. Read more

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Eight Perfect Murders

A Novel

By: Peter Swanson
Narrated by: Graham Halstead
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“Malcolm Kershaw is an unassuming bookseller who once wrote a list of the eight most perfect literary murders. He is surprised when the FBI shows up at his door and explains that someone is using this list and recreating the murders. With perfect pacing and shocking twists, this is a murder mystery with a classic feel that will leave you... Read more

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