2021 Vancouver Writers Fest

The Mystery of Right and Wrong

By: Wayne Johnston
Narrated by: Patrick Garrow, Brad Hodder, Kelly Van Der Burg & Frank Cox-O'Connell
Length: 16 hours 48 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a masterwork from one of the country’s most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the vital truth it unfolds. In a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston reveals haunting family secrets he’s... Read more

Hana Khan Carries On

By: Uzma Jalaluddin
Narrated by: Ulka Simone Mohanty
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

One of Amazon's Best Romances of the Month!

For fans of "You’ve Got Mail," a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last. 

Sales are slow at Three Sisters Biryani Poutine, the only halal... Read more

Matrix

A Novel

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

“Lauren Groff has created an incredibly powerful portrait of the compelling Marie de France, banished to 12th-century England to live in a failing abbey. I fell in love with Marie and the sisters she lives with. Read more

The Lying Life of Adults

By: Elena Ferrante
Narrated by: Marisa Tomei
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“Ferrante’s latest novel gives an insightful and intriguing look at the life of a budding Italian teenage girl, both internally and externally. I found Ferrante’s ability to delve into Giovanna’s psyche fascinating, especially since I’ve never parented a girl and don’t always feel like I understand them. Her sensitivity to the myriad of issues... Read more

Monkey Boy

A Novel

By: Francisco Goldman
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of "going home again." It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again. Soon he is beckoned back to Boston by the high school girlfriend... Read more

Ghost Forest

A Novel

By: Pik-Shuen Fung
Narrated by: Pik-Shuen Fung
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

This “powerful” (BuzzFeed) award-winning debut about love, grief, and family welcomes you into its pages and invites you to linger, staying with you long after you’ve closed its covers.
 
“Quietly moving . . . connected by a kind of dream logic . . . deeply felt . . . There is joy and tenderness in . . . Fung’s elegant storytelling.”—The New York... Read more

A Calling for Charlie Barnes (read by Nick Offerman)

By: Joshua Ferris
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

From a National Book Award Finalist comes a novel about an American family and one man's attempt to understand the many lives of his father.

Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and... Read more

What Strange Paradise

A Novel

By: Omar El Akkad
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • From the widely acclaimed, bestselling author of American War—a beautifully written, unrelentingly dramatic, and profoundly moving novel that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child.

"Told from the point of view of two children, on the ground and at sea, the story so astutely... Read more

Cloud Cuckoo Land

A Novel

By: Anthony Doerr
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Simon Jones
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“Spanning centuries and continents—from 15th-century Constantinople to a small-town library in present-day Idaho to a spaceship in the not-so-distant future—this story follows five dreamers whose lives are unexpectedly connected by an ancient tale about a man who longs to become a bird and fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. It's a sweeping,... Read more

Hunting by Stars

(A Marrow Thieves Novel)

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Meegwun Fairbrother & Michelle St. John
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and ability to dream.

Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped... Read more

Find You First

A Novel

By: Linwood Barclay
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

The New York Times bestselling author of Elevator Pitch and master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a dying tech millionaire are mysteriously being eliminated, one by one. “Find You First starts with a bang and ends with an even bigger one. . . . It’s the best book of his career.”  —... Read more

The Vanishing Half

A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Brit Bennett
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

“This is an intriguing story, part family saga, part social commentary, about twin sisters whose lives diverged into two very different directions. Desiree and Stella grew up in Mallard, Louisiana, a place that didn't show up on any map and a community that in the 1960s was racist in a peculiar way: the population was almost exclusively very... Read more

Owed

Penguin Poets

By: Joshua Bennett
Narrated by: Joshua Bennett
Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

From a 2021 Whiting Award and Guggenheim Fellow recipient, a “rhapsodic, rigorous poetry collection, which pays homage to everyday Black experience in the U.S.” (The New Yorker)

Gregory Pardlo described Joshua Bennett's first collection of poetry, The Sobbing School, as an "arresting debut" that was "abounding in tenderness and rich with... Read more