Sophie's 2022 Reading List

A Court of Wings and Ruin

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #3

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Amanda Leigh Cobb
Length: 25 hours 9 minutes

The epic series from #1 bestselling global phenomenon author Sarah J. Maas continues with a stunning story of love, war, and revenge.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a... Read more

Bindle Punk Bruja

A Novel

By: Desideria Mesa
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Boardwalk Empire meets The Vanishing Half with a touch of earth magic in this sexy and action-packed historical fantasy set in the luminous Golden Twenties from debut author Desideria Mesa, where a part-time reporter and club owner takes on crooked city councilmen, mysterious and deadly mobsters, and society’s deeply rooted sexism and racism,... Read more

Love in Plain Sight

An Amish Mail-Order Bride Novel: Book #3

By: Kathleen Fuller
Narrated by: Lauren Berst
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

In the town of Birch Creek where the only danger is getting swept off your feet, Katharine Miller hides the secrets of her past . . . until she meets Ezra Bontrager and is forced to face the greatest risk of all—opening her heart to true loveAfter fleeing her hometown, Katharine finds peace and anonymity while working at Stoll’s Inn and keeping... Read more

Breath

The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor
Narrated by: James Nestor
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

“An important book for all to listen to or read. Something as simple as how we breathe, is so important to our overall health. This book breaks down the research of why the breath is important and gives you practice exercises at the end. Read more

Beach Read

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

“ Full of wit and heart I fell hard for BEACH READ. A romance author seeks solace in a lakeside resort town to grieve the loss of her father, only to find her college nemesis and publishing's current literary darling is her next-door neighbor. The heroine is so funny and relatable (I too would like to keep a bottle of wine in purse for... Read more

Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey
Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE! Now with exclusive new content from the paperback edition, the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award–winning actor’s unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater... Read more

Book Lovers

By: Emily Henry
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

“A great summer listen! I loved the behind-the scenes-literary angle and how traditional tropes were addressed head-on. Read more

When Women Were Dragons

A Novel

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Mark Bramhall
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

“The Lottery meets The Handmaid's Tale. Read more

It All Comes Down to This

A Novel

By: Therese Anne Fowler
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This is a warm, keenly perceptive novel of sisterhood, heartbreak, home, and what it takes to remake a life at its halfway point, for fans of Ann Patchett and Emma Straub.

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic, widowed mother, Marti, will be... Read more

Elsewhere

A Novel

By: Alexis Schaitkin
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

“Beautiful and unsettling, Elsewhere is a novel I can't stop thinking about. Not usually one for dystopian fiction, I started listening and soon was captivated by this haunting, cloud-covered place and close-knit community from which women occasionally disappear. (Ell Potter's narration perfectly captures its eerie atmosphere.) The families who... Read more

A Rip Through Time

A Novel

Rip Through Time Novels: Book #1

By: Kelley Armstrong
Narrated by: Kate Handford
Length: 14 hours 11 minutes

“It's a time travel story, it's a police procedural story, it's the beginning of two strong friendships and probably a highly addictive series. Armstrong's devotees will be thrilled to watch this intelligent author pulling apart our assumptions about middle-class Victorian society (with a running gag involving how modern phrases sound to very... Read more

Ordinary Monsters

A Novel

The Talents: Book #1

By: J. M. Miro
Narrated by: Ben Onwukwe
Length: 25 hours 34 minutes

MOST ANTICIPATED SFF BOOK of 2022 by Tor, The Nerd Daily, CrimeReads, BookBub and more!

"Ordinary Monsters is a towering achievement: a dazzling mountain of wild invention, Dickensian eccentrics, supernatural horrors, and gripping suspense. Be warned... once you step into this penny dreadful to end all penny dreadfuls, you'll never want to leave."... Read more

Together We Burn

By: Isabel Ibañez
Narrated by: Ana Osorio
Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

“THIS BOOK!! I want more - more of the world, more Zarela, more Arturo, more Lola, more dragons and dancing! Ibañez has crafted an imaginative Spanish-inspired fantasy rooted in fire, passion, family, and love, where there are dragons, Dragonadors (dragon fighters), and one family's desperate struggle to survive. This book had me glued to every... Read more

NSFW

A Novel

By: Isabel Kaplan
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

“NSFW is an eye-opening commentary on sexism in the workplace. It shows the harsh realities that women not only deal with but have come to accept as a fact of life. It is raw, emotional, and at times heartbreaking with just a touch of humor thrown in for balance. Read more

Cult Classic

A Novel

By: Sloane Crosley
Narrated by: Sloane Crosley
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

“I'm a little in love with Sloane Crossley after this book. It's like a NYC-based, feminist version of Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Lola is 40 and engaged after a long and complicated dating history. Out with friends, she runs into an ex-boyfriend, then another, then another. As she tries to find closure with her love life, wonderfully bizarre and... Read more

The Grand Design

A Novel of Dorothy Draper

By: Joy Callaway
Narrated by: Gina Carlson
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Dorothy Draper has one last chance to prove she chose the right course for her life. With the restoration of The Greenbrier resort at her fingertips, Dorothy aspires to give new life to a place that’s sentimental to her, and to bring a new spark to interior design.In 1908, young Dorothy Tuckerman chafes under the bland, beige traditions of her... Read more

A Blind Corner

By: Caitlin Macy
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

From the author of Mrs. and TheFundamentals of Play comes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong.

In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In Macy’s... Read more

The German Wife

A Novel

By: Kelly Rimmer
Narrated by: Nancy Peterson & Ann Marie Gideon
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London

For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say and The Warsaw... Read more

A Proposal They Can't Refuse

Vega Family Love Stories: Book #1

By: Natalie Caña
Narrated by: Valentina Ortiz
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Three things initially called me to this book: 1) a fake engagement plot between childhood friends turned enemies 2) Puerto Rican family antics that are much too similar to my Dominican family antics and 3) the clever use of Godfather references. I opened it ready for a funny, light read with troublemaking grandpas at the forefront. And I... Read more

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Court of Thorns and Roses: Book #1

By: Sarah J. Maas
Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

“Listening to this book via audio is a journey through a fantastical world full of fairies, beasts and humans. It has a definite Beauty and the Beast feeling about it. Sarah J Maas' writing style could be described as melodramatic and repetitive and at times it was but I also found it immersive and evocative and audio makes it all the more... Read more