Chelsia’s Favorites

Carrie

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek & Margaret Atwood
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD •  Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a... Read more

Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again

By: Johann Hari
Narrated by: Johann Hari
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again

“Read this book to... Read more

Poor Deer

A Novel

By: Claire Oshetsky
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

“Poor Deer is a fantastic reminder that only we can see the burdens we carry. Oshetsky writes about the way we shape our memories of trauma, guilt, and loss in order to cope an earnest, heartfelt way. This book will linger in the corners of my mind. Read more

Chouette

By: Claire Oshetsky
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“A strange and insightful meditation on motherhood: the main character has given birth to a child who is half owl. I love the way the author writes about family dynamics & relationships. (Needless to say, the husband and his family are not really supportive of the mother or her owl baby.) This is literary, smart, and fun. Read more

Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke
Narrated by: Pete Cross
Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days protecting the welfare of a nearby homeless encampment, observing obnoxious hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities... Read more

Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Naomi Klein
Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

“Born out of the author’s constantly being confused with the feminist-turned-conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf, Doppelganger examines the concept of doubles and mirroring in art and in life, with special focus on disinformation and the MAGA movement. Klein illustrates how ideas throughout history have been co-opted by opposing factions to create... Read more

It's On Me

Accept Hard Truths, Discover Your Self, and Change Your Life

By: Sara Kuburic
Narrated by: Sara Kuburic
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

“A masterful guide to help all those who are building self-awareness.”—yung pueblo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lighter

A revolutionary guide to identifying self-loss—that feeling of being adrift, disconnected from your true Self—and discovering the freedom that comes from taking responsibility for how we live and who we become, from... Read more

Wanderers

A Novel

Wanderers: Book #1

By: Chuck Wendig
Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman & Xe Sands
Length: 32 hours 21 minutes

“Wanderers is the best science fiction book I have ever read.Wonderfully performed by the readers! A young girl walks out of her home for no reason, then a young man, a young mother, a businessman, soon the group has grown to hundreds. Why are these people who respond to nothing and can be stopped by nothing walking? Where are they going? Will... Read more

The Trees Grew Because I Bled There

Collected Stories

By: Eric LaRocca
Narrated by: Todd Menesses
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

"The stories collected here are by turns confident, brutal, and breathtaking . . . must-read horror" —the New York Times



A beautifully crafted, devastating short fiction collection from the Bram Stoker Awards® finalist and author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. Includes an introduction from acclaimed bestselling author Chuck... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“Definitely makes one rethink the America we know and how the roll of poverty can fly in the face of the American Dream which should be available to all. Read more

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“Tova Sullivan is the pragmatic, diminutive widow who diligently scrubs the Sowell Bay Aquarium each night after the guests have gone. Cameron is a brilliant, yet clumsy man-child without parents, a job, or a plan. Marcellus is an octopus. And he is literally counting the days until his death. In this funny, bittersweet, beautifully... Read more

When the Moon Turns to Blood

Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile
Narrated by: Leah Sottile
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Inspired by Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven and Jess Walter’s Every Knee Shall Bow, WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD explores modern-day survivalism and end-times extremism through the story of Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check... Read more

Gay Bar

Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Narrated by: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“Atherton Lin's part memoir, part gay history uses beautiful prose interspersed with biting nuggets of snark to commemorate the long tradition of queer gatherings - sexual, communal, important, and slowly fading. Infusing a dejected sense of feeling into his stories of sexualization, internalized homophobia, and otherness, Gay Bar: Why We Went... Read more

The Best American Essays 2023

Best American

By: Vivian Gornick & Robert Atwan
Narrated by: Will Tulin, Marie Hoffman, Elena Rey, Elyse Dinh, Katharine Chin, Pun Pandhu, Ewan Chung, Isabella Star LaBlanc & Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves... Read more

All About Love

New Visions

By: bell hooks
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

“There’s nothing I can say about bell hooks that hasn’t already been said. This book is excellent and did cause me to think about love in a different way. It’s beautifully-written and philosophically brilliant. Read more

Radical Acceptance

Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

By: Tara Brach, PhD
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

"Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious
suffering," says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book.
This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our
relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and
overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and
unfulfilled.... Read more

Ma and Me

A Memoir

By: Putsata Reang
Narrated by: Putsata Reang
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

"Putsata Reang's quiet narration of her beautiful, poignant memoir holds both deep compassion and raw pain. Reang's ability to capture both her own and her mother's histories, desires, and dreams--in her voice and her prose--is remarkable." -AudioFile on Ma and Me

This program is read by the author.

"A nuanced mediation on love, identity, and... Read more

True Biz

A Novel

By: Sara Novic
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan & Kaleo Griffith
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding school for the deaf, from the acclaimed author of Girl at War

“For those who loved the... Read more

Body Work

The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

By: Melissa Febos
Narrated by: Melissa Febos
Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

“This book is both a self-reflection piece and a tender yet valiant meditation on the power of writing. Anyone that approaches their work through an autoethnographic lens would benefit from tools Febos so kindly lends to us in Body Work. Read more

The Nineties

A Book

By: Chuck Klosterman
Narrated by: Chuck Klosterman & Dion Graham
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

“The Nineties is a collection of short essays addressing, drum roll please, the 1990s (shocker, right?). Ultimately lacking a single unifying thesis, Klosterman dives into facets of 90s culture—sports, politics, music, film, TV, etc—discussing the effects of different key events and changes occurring in the decade. Klosterman explores the... Read more