Sarah's Picks

The Book of M

A Novel

By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

“Very good audio, keeps you pulled in. Great for fans of "Station Eleven." Read more

Fox 8

A Story

By: George Saunders
Narrated by: George Saunders
Length: 37 minutes

“Another charming, inventive, and bizarre short story from a master of the form, Fox 8 will pinch your heart and make you cackle with laughter. With gorgeous illustrations by Chelsea Cardinal, this is an Aesop’s fable for the modern era. As with all of George Saunders’s other work, Fox 8 will leave you feeling like you’ve ridden a roller coaster... Read more

Everything Under

A Novel

By: Daisy Johnson
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER PRIZEAn eerie, watery reimagining of the Oedipus myth set on the canals of Oxford, from the author of FenThe dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private... Read more

Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition)

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pablo Schreiber
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“Judy Greer and Benjamin Bratt as narrators should be enough of a reason to listen, however, I think this is how the book was supposed to be taken in our minds. Hearing the 'interviews,' spins you into a bliss of a great fictional music documentary. Read more

Wounds

Six Stories from the Border of Hell

By: Nathan Ballingrud
Narrated by: Corey Brill, Danny Campbell, Matthew Lloyd Davies, Rebekkah Ross & Jacques Roy
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“Stretch[es] the boundaries of the genre...It’s horrifying, but there’s beauty.” —The New York Times
“One of the field’s most accomplished short story writers.” —The Washington Post

A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson... Read more

The Need

By: Helen Phillips
Narrated by: Alex Allwine
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“I firmly believe I will be hard-pressed to pick up a book in 2019 I love more than The Need, a genre-bending novel that explores motherhood and identity. Molly is the most authentic character I’ve had the pleasure of reading in quite some time, accompanied by baby Ben and lively Viv, the most fully realized fictional four-year-old ever. Is The... Read more

The Farm

A Novel

By: Joanne Ramos
Narrated by: Fran de Leon
Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

“The Farm was eerily haunting and a bit too real at times while being a captivating page turner. Ramos describes women from different backgrounds all with the the need or desire for a better life, all subjecting themselves to be "Hosts" for mysterious clients who would rather pay top dollar than go through with pregnancy themselves. Providing a... Read more

Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

“Keiko loves rules. Having worked a part-time job in a Japanese convenience store for 18 years, she loves having a corporate script to recite, sales goals to reach, and a list of tasks to complete. What she doesn't love - or even understand - are the more complicated rules of society at large. She doesn't want a husband, or children, or a real... Read more

Little Weirds

By: Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

“Magical, delightful and amusing book of daydreams with a cupful of nonsense. Read more

Grasshopper Jungle

By: Andrew Smith
Narrated by: Philip Church
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.

This is the truth. This is history.
It’s the end of the world. And nobody knows anything about it.
You know what I mean. 
Funny, intense,... Read more

Bunny

A Novel

By: Mona Awad
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

“This is a crazy weird read and that is just how I like it! Keep an open mind and let yourself fall down the rabbit hole! Read more

The Girl at the Door

A Novel

By: Veronica Raimo
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella & P.J. Ochlan
Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

While on vacation on an idyllic island called Miden, a seemingly aimless woman meets an attractive man and leaves her country to be with him. A few months later, newly pregnant and just beginning to feel comfortable in her lover's space, her life is upended when a girl arrives at the door.

Slight and pretty, the girl discloses a drawn out and... Read more

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Delightfully creepy. Dread builds steadily throughout the book. As a listener, you know that something is wrong but it’s hard to put your finger on it. Like the main character, you will doubt everything: the characters, their motivations and even your own deductive abilities. This book keeps you on your toes, flitting from one theory to the... Read more

Blacktop Wasteland

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

This... Read more

The Only Good Indians

By: Stephen Graham Jones
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“I loved this book. Jones has a unique narrative voice, allowing ‘the entity’ to step in and take over unexpectedly, amping up the horror. Also, each character has a distinct voice that brings them to life. Jones combines the culture and traditions of the Blackfeet and Crow people with the social truths of their contemporary life. It is... Read more

The Travelers

A Novel

By: Regina Porter
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin & Dominic Hoffman
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

“Spanning over 50 years and the intersection of two centuries, The Travelers weaves together the stories of two families and in the process gives an incisive portrait of a country and society in the midst of massive social change. The author artfully moves back and forth in time as the stories emerge and converge, probing the dynamics of love and... Read more

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

“A darkly comic novel in which a young woman, bogged down by the daily stresses and grievances of life commits to sleeping for an entire year. Perfect in literally every way. A druggie New York City diva living her best Xanax-fueled life. Brat before Brat was a thing. Drug abuse, bodega coffee, and deep dark bouts of depression abound. Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“I never expected to enjoy this book as much as I did. I broke my cardinal rule of only listening to books while I walk. From the moment I turned this book on I did not turn it off until I finished it. I don't know whether I would have liked the book as much if I read it. The narrator did an outstanding job reading. I highly recommend this... Read more

Crosshairs

A Novel

By: Catherine Hernandez
Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

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“A beautiful, unapologetic, and unwatered-down...dystopian [novel] that holds a sobering mirror up to our own world”... Read more

The Invention of Sound

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold.
Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly, a shocking new development provides Foster with... Read more