Gaslight Books Staff Picks

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

By: Stuart Turton
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

“An amazingly twisty murder mystery! This book is super creative and I've never ready anything like it, but it is well worth the journey! It will ALL make sense in the end... Read more

Recursion

A Novel

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom & Abby Craden
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

“Blake Crouch has ignited my love for sci-fi! Who would not love a do-over or three in life? False Memory Syndrome is spreading and the weight of memories that have never happened are leading to an increase in suicides. Helena Smith, a neuroscientist has created a memory chair in hopes of helping her mother retain her fading memories after an... Read more

Hello, Universe

By: Erin Entrada Kelly
Narrated by: Ramon de Ocampo & Amielynn Abellera
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Winner of the Newbery Medal“A charming, intriguingly plotted novel.” —Washington PostAcclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly’s Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships.Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and... Read more

On the Road: the Original Scroll

Penguin Audio Classics

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: John Ventimiglia
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published as Kerouac originally composed it
 
“The sparse and unassuming scroll is the living version [of On the Road] for our time. . . . It is a dazzling piece of writing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
During three weeks in 1951, Jack Kerouac wrote the first draft of On the Road—typed as a long,... Read more

The Alchemist

By: Paulo Coelho
Narrated by: Jeremy Irons
Length: 4 hours

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE“Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation”“It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons. [...] A remarkable... Read more

Love Her Wild

Poems

By: Atticus
Narrated by: Atticus
Length: 40 minutes

The first collection of poetry by the New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Between Stars.

Love Her Wild is a collection of new and beloved poems from Atticus, the young writer who has captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of avid followers on his Instagram account @atticuspoetry, including superstars like Karlie Kloss... Read more

Deathless

By: Catherynne M. Valente
Narrated by: Kim de Blecourt
Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to western European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories that have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take... Read more

Looking for Alaska

By: John Green
Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

NOW A HULU LIMITED SERIES!

The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars
Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist • A New York Times Bestseller • A USA Today Bestseller • NPR’s Top Ten Best-Ever Teen... Read more

Wilderness Essays

By: John Muir
Narrated by: Steven Brand
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness... Read more

The Poisoner's Handbook

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

By: Deborah Blum
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their... Read more

Neuromancer

Sprawl Trilogy

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

“if you want to be a hacker, start here. Read more

Circe

By: Madeline Miller
Narrated by: Perdita Weeks
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

“A bold retelling of the Circe episode from Homer's Odyssey that not only captures the interlocking pieces of Greek mythology, but also gives each god, titan, and Grecian a pulsing complexity. Both Circe the book and the character are quiet, sensual and--at times--freewheeling, adventurous, and devastating. Perdita Week's performance here is... Read more

Sharp Objects

A Novel

By: Gillian Flynn
Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

“My favorite book by Flynn, also one of my favorite books ever. Journalist Camille is trying to find a new normal after inpatient treatment for a self-harm addiction (this is a very present part of the book, please read responsibly). Her life is made worse by an assignment to investigate murders in her hometown, where she’s forced to confront... Read more

God's Smuggler

By: Brother Andrew & John Sherill
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

As a boy he dreamed of being a spy - undercover behind enemy lines. As a man he found himself undercover for God. Brother Andrew was his name, and for decades his life story, recounted in God's Smuggler, has awed and inspired millions. This bestseller tells of the young Dutch factory worker's incredible efforts to transport Bibles across closed... Read more

A Monster Calls

Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd

By: Patrick Ness
Narrated by: Jason Isaacs
Length: 3 hours 59 minutes

NOW A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting-- he’s been expecting the one... Read more

The Way of Kings

Book One of the Stormlight Archive

The Stormlight Archive: Book #1

By: Brandon Sanderson
Narrated by: Michael Kramer & Kate Reading
Length: 45 hours 29 minutes

“An epic fantasy novel unparalleled in the genre. The Way of Kings follows a few characters, Kaladin, Shallan, and Dalinar as they navigate war, slavery, magic, and much more. A must read that I couldn't put down, and Sanderson keeps cranking them out! Read more

The Boys in the Boat

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

“This is one of my favorite non-fiction reads of all time, containing everything that I love to find in a book: suspense, unbreakable friendships, insurmountable obstacles, and unlimited perseverance! As told to the readers at the beginning of the book, this story is not one of Brown’s own experience but one that he heard and shared with the... Read more

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

By: Shirley Jackson
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Shirley Jackson’s deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family takes readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, macabre humor, and gothic atmosphere.Six years after four family members died suspiciously of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance;... Read more

Mythos

By: Stephen Fry
Narrated by: Stephen Fry
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

“Stephen Fry has dusted off the Greek myths. Starting with the creation and going through all the infights, back-stabbings, and just plain stupid mistakes of the Greek pantheon, he breaths new life into these tales with his characteristic wry humor and witty asides. A great added feature of the video book is that Fry himself reads it, so sit... Read more

King Leopold's Ghost

By: Adam Hochschild
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 12 hours 41 minutes

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber. Outbound ships carried little more than soldiers and... Read more