Sophie's 2022 Reading List

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Librarian’s Coven

By: Kathryn Moon
Narrated by: Cornell Collins & Sienna Frances
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

From her first step onto Canderfey University's campus, Joanna Wick, the new librarian-in-training, is overwhelmed by the bustle of people and the wealth of magical information now available to her. Most overwhelming of all, she attracts the attention of three handsome professors. But Aiden King, Callum Pike, and Isaac Metclaffe are a coven... Read more

Warriors

Librarian’s Coven

By: Kathryn Moon
Narrated by: Cornell Collins & Sienna Frances
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Joanna just wants to spend the holiday curled up with her coven of handsome professors, but family obligations wait for no one. Instead of wintery cuddles, she's up to her neck in the Pike brothers and their wives, a cast of political figures invited to their dinner parties and, worst of all, Callum's father, Duncan. Duncan Pike is a nasty piece... Read more

The Day the World Stops Shopping

How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping.

We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. The economy says we must always consume more: even the... Read more

Free Love

A Novel

By: Tessa Hadley
Narrated by: Abigail Thaw
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“Exquisite."" —Minneapolis Star Tribune • ""Brilliantly observed.” — People, Pick of the Week“A beguiling novel, deceptively easy to read; beneath the surface swim disturbing and age-old questions about freedom and fate.” — Hilary MantelFrom the bestselling author of Late in the Day and The Past comes a compulsive new novel about one woman’s... Read more

Love & Saffron

A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love

By: Kim Fay
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Cassandra Campbell, Mark Bramhall, Maggi-Meg Reed & Kim Fay
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

“Heartwarming historical fiction that celebrates the best things in life - food, friendship, and open hearts. Set in 1960s America, this epistolary novel shares the story of two women, Joan and Immy, as they navigate an era of cultural and societal change through a shared love of food, writing, and sharing their favorite recipes. A sweet and... Read more

Eating to Extinction

The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino
Narrated by: Dan Saladino
Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

This audiobook is read by the author.

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s vanishing foods and his argument for why they matter now more than ever

Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six... Read more

The Rooted Life

Cultivating Health and Wholeness Through Growing Your Own Food

By: Justin Rhodes
Narrated by: Justin Rhodes
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring, accessible, and beautiful invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life.Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or... Read more

A Letter to Three Witches

By: Elizabeth Bass
Narrated by: Emily Durante & Nick Mondelli
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“What could possibly go wrong when a few members of a family of witches banned from practicing witchcraft for almost 100 years begin to experiment, sometimes unintentionally, with their powers? Find out in this highly entertaining adventure/romance/mystery. Four cousins, one who torments the others, an eccentric aunt, a pair of loving and... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... Read more

Circus of Wonders

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Macneal
Narrated by: Tuppence Middleton
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the “lush, evocative Gothic” (The New York Times Book Review) The Doll Factory comes an atmospheric and spectacular novel about a woman transformed by the arrival of a Victorian circus of wonders—“as moving as it is deeply entertaining” (Daniel Mason, New York Times bestselling author).

Step up,... Read more

Scorpica

Five Queendoms, The

By: G.R. Macallister
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that’s perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe.

Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it... Read more

The Witches of New York

A Novel

By: Ami McKay
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Respectable Lady Seeks Dependable Shop Girl. Those averse to magic need not apply. New York in the spring of 1880 is a place alive with wonder and curiosity. Determined to learn the truth about the world, its residents enthusiastically engage in both scientific experimentation and spiritualist pursuits. Séances are the entertainment of choice in... Read more

Bombshell

A Hell's Belles Novel

Hell’s Belles: Book #1

By: Sarah MacLean
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with a blazingly sexy, unapologetically feminist new series, Hell’s Belles, beginning with a bold, bombshell of a heroine, able to dispose of a scoundrel—or seduce one—in a single night.
After years of living as London’s brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and... Read more

The Final Girl Support Group

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Adrienne King
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

“A love letter to horror movie fans, full of allusions and homages to all our favorite slasher films from the 1980s, and so meta that it’s even narrated by the final girl from the original Friday the 13th. Fun, tense, creepy, and original. A great book for spooky season. Read more

Bright Ruined Things

By: Samantha Cohoe
Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

"A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights

Forbidden magic, a family secret, and a... Read more

The Starless Crown

Moonfall: Book #1

By: James Rollins
Narrated by: James Rollins & Nicola Barber
Length: 22 hours 4 minutes

“Narrated - and I do mean in the Jim Dale sense, with drama and distinct accents - by Nicola Barber, this deeply immersive fantasy novel begins with a tragedy, then launches multiple plotlines that explode into chases and battles, with a promise of sequel(s) to come. Readers who know Rollins' name from his thrillers will find intrigue aplenty as... Read more

The Last Grand Duchess

A Novel of Olga Romanov, Imperial Russia, and Revolution

By: Bryn Turnbull
Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“Powerful and haunting . . . an intimate and unforgettable tale that transports the reader to the heart of Imperial Russia.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba 

This sweeping novel takes readers behind palace walls to see the end of Imperial Russia through the eyes of Olga Nikolaevna Romanov, the... Read more

Start Your Farm

The Authoritative Guide to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Farm

By: Forrest Pritchard & Ellen Polishuk
Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies & Coleen Marlo
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Do you dream of starting your own farm but wonder where to begin? Or do you already have a farm but wish to become more sustainable to compete in today's market? Start Your Farm, the first comprehensive business guide of its kind, covers these essential questions and more:



● Why be a farmer in the 21st century? Do you have what it takes?



● What... Read more