Dandy Books

Lemon

By: Isabella J Mansfield
Narrated by: Isabella J Mansfield
Length: 39 minutes

lemon is an exploration of body and health. The poems in this chapbook come from learning to navigate life with a disability, anxiety and depression, bodily changes, illness and associated medical trauma, and the intersection of physical and mental health. Read more

One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

“Pragmatic researcher Lyla and her gorgeous wannabe-actor boyfriend Nico are chosen to be part of a reality television show filmed on a sun-drenched tropical island. What could possibly go wrong? In this cleverly constructed, heart-stopping thriller, plenty. When the survival game becomes real and the contestants find themselves at the mercy of a... Read more

The Great Divide

A Novel

By: Cristina Henriquez
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“A fascinating novel about a wide cast of characters whose lives all intersect during the construction of the Panama Canal. The larger story emerges from many individual experiences; from laborers to housemaids to fishermen, all of whom play a part in the famous engineering feat. Read more

Long Island

By: Colm Toibin
Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“So this was lovely – full of Toíbín’s signature yearning and uncommunicated desire. There’s something to be said for writers who keep coming back to the same characters and settings – there’s a long list of them but Strout, Russo and Vonnegut immediately come to mind. It’s comforting and nostalgic and as a reader can make for an enriching... Read more

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose
Narrated by: Jeneva Rose, Brittany Pressley, Andrew Eiden, January LaVoy & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

A New York Times and USA Today bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She... Read more

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“Haunting yet hopeful, this futuristic tale will hit close to home with its honesty and pertinent observation of what it is to be human. I Cheerfully Refuse is proof of the power of a well-told story to ask the reader to live and feel deeply. Read more

Wandering Stars

A novel

By: Tommy Orange
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett, MacLeod Andrews, Alma Cuervo, Curtis Michael Holland, Calvin Joyal, Phil Ava, Emmanuel Chumaceiro, Christian Young & Charley Flyte
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

“Beautiful, nuanced important. The ensemble voice cast does an incredible job with Orange’s characters, who have come to feel like old friends. Read more

Darling Girls

A Novel

By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Jessica Clarke
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“Darling Girls was a twisting story of three foster sisters and the foster mother who put them through so much psychological abuse. That was many years ago and the damaged sisters are all going about their lives, still as close as they were as children, but their lives as they know it explode when they get a call that the skeletal remains of a... Read more

The Day Tripper

By: James Goodhand
Narrated by: James Meunier
Length: 11 hours 13 minutes

“The Day Tripper by James Goodhand is one of those books I think I'm going to be thinking about for a long time. Alex Dean gets in a fight and then starts waking up on random days of his life in no particular order. I thought in the beginning that audio may have been a bad format choice for this book, but as the plot developed, it turned out that... Read more

Listen for the Lie

A Novel

By: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“For 2024, I've decided to make the majority of the books I read from the mysteries and thrillers category as a challenge since they are not my usual go to's. This book did not disappoint as my first book of 2024! Calling all fans of true crime podcasts and whodunnit novels; Listen for the Lie throws so many curves and twists that will leave you... Read more

The Twilight Garden

A Novel

By: Sara Nisha Adams
Narrated by: Shaheen Khan, Mikhail Sen & Emily Stride
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling... Read more

Daughter of Mine

A Novel

By: Megan Miranda
Narrated by: Inés del Castillo
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

“The book started slow but steadily builds into a novel with a fantastic setting, backstory and suspense. Hazel grew up in the town of Mirror Lake where her entire family is in law enforcement. She returns after getting a call that her father has passed away. Following the funeral, a car is found submerged in the lake due to a drought... As the... Read more

Shelterwood

A Novel

By: Lisa Wingate
Narrated by: Christine Lakin, Jenna Lamia & Dan Bittner
Length: 14 hours 1 minute

“Lisa Wingate does it again. This book kept me listening in my car even after I’d arrived at my destination. Her characters are so realistic and her historical research is on point. There’s a reason her books shoot to the top of my TBR and Shelterwood was no exception. Read more

Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick

A novel

By: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Sura Siu
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Told from the first person perspective of a very perceptive "Artificial Friend", Klara and the Sun, brings up questions of what it means to be human and the depths of the human heart. In a future where teenagers are all doing school online (future or present?) and they have required socialization parties and AI who are there to be their... Read more

Sea of Tranquility

A novel

By: Emily St. John Mandel
Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey & Kirsten Potter
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

“Sea Of Tranquility is a singular time-travelling novel: it contains a few characters from Mandel's previous books, but it also plays with a possibility that could change the way we view humanity, and our own time on Earth completely - or very much leave it untouched. Written with melancholic prose, and filled with hope, it's an outstanding work... Read more

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Length: 21 hours 2 minutes

“Incredible! The narrator was born for this role. Read more

Mad Honey

A Novel

By: Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

“Extremely well written and had me by the collar through the entire book. Finished in a week. Beautifully done plot twists and ending. Well thought out characters, too. One of my favorite things was the fact she had added some facts about honey and bee keeping into the book, it didn’t seem like any thing was just blustered. It’s a must read. Read more

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

A Novel

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“Set in an uncomfortably plausible dystopian near-future, Our Missing Hearts pulls no punches. Ng wrestles with how to find hope for ourselves and our children against forces that bend toward authoritarianism and nationalism. Read more

Carrie Soto Is Back

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Stacy Gonzalez, Mary Carillo, Patrick Mcenroe, Rob Simmelkjaer, Brendan Wayne, Max Meyers, Reynaldo Piniella, Vidish Athavale, Tom Bromhead, Heath Miller, Julia Whelan & Sara Arrington
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“Carrie Soto is Back is Taylor Jenkins Reid at the top of her game. She introduces Carrie Soto, a tennis phenom who has been groomed by her father, Javier, to be a champion before she could walk. When Nikki Chan threatens to unseat her as G.O.A.T. Carrie comes out of retirement at thirty-seven to defend her title. Part father/daughter love story,... Read more

Lucy by the Sea

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Strout
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

“Lucy Barton and her former husband leave New York City to stay in a house by the sea in Maine during the early days of the COVID lock-down. Interior explorations of family and other personal relationships, careers, life choices, and how to stay safe in the scary days of the pandemic. Brilliant writing, as always, and the choice of narrator was... Read more