My Sister's Books is 20, and so are these books!

The Lovely Bones

By: Alice Sebold
Narrated by: Alice Sebold
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

So begins the story of Susie Salmon, who is adjusting to her new home in heaven, a place that is not at all what she expected, even as she is watching life on earth continue without her -- her friends trading rumors about her... Read more

The Little Friend

By: Donna Tartt
Narrated by: Karen White
Length: 25 hours 53 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. •  “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” —The New York Times Book Review

The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve... Read more

Middlesex

A Novel

By: Jeffrey Eugenides
Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
Length: 21 hours 19 minutes

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Audie Award for best unabridged fiction, Middlesex marks the fulfillment of a huge talent, named one of America's best young novelists by both Granta and The New Yorker.

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school, Grosse Pointe, MI, finds herself drawn to a... Read more

City of Bones

A Harry Bosch Novel: Book #8

By: Michael Connelly
Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills--and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As the investigation takes Bosch deeper into the past, a beautiful rookie cop brings him alive in... Read more

When the Emperor Was Divine

By: Julie Otsuka
Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis
Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Julie Otsuka’s commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. With crystalline intensity and precision, Otsuka uses a single family to evoke the deracination—both physical and emotional—of a generation of Japanese Americans. In five chapters, each flawlessly executed from a different point... Read more

Three Junes

A novel

By: Julia Glass
Narrated by: John Keating
Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Three Junes is a vividly textured symphonic novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret
sorrows of his... Read more

Jolie Blon's Bounce

By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls.

When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a... Read more

Coraline

By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

“If you like the movie, you will love the book! The perfect short read to please your inner Wednesday Addams. Delightfully creepy, dark, and fun! Read more

Eragon

Inheritance, Book I

The Inheritance Cycle: Book #1

By: Christopher Paolini
Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini—Murtagh!

A new adventure hatches in Book One of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation. 

"Christopher Paolini is a true rarity."... Read more

The Nanny Diaries

By: Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Based on the real-life experiences and the inside story on the real lives of the rich and privileged from the women who know all the secrets—the nannies.

The Nanny Diaries deftly skewers the manner in which America's overprivileged raise les petits—as if grooming them for a best-of-show competition. A poignant satire, it punctures the glamour of... Read more

Running with Scissors

A Memoir

By: Augusten Burroughs
Narrated by: Augusten Burroughs
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of being Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian house in perfect squalor. The doctor's... Read more

Gone For Good

A Novel

By: Harlan Coben
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “Gone for Good contains more plot twists than you can count, with a jarring revelation in nearly every chapter. . . . [Harlan] Coben has crafted a taut thriller with a slew of compelling characters. . . . As subtle as a shotgun, and just as effective.”—San Francisco Chronicle

As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his... Read more

In Her Shoes

By: Jennifer Weiner
Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh
Length: 15 hours 51 minutes

From Jennifer Weiner comes a story of two sisters with nothing in common but a love for shoes learn they are more alike than they thought possible.

Meet Rose Feller, a thirty-year-old high-powered attorney with a secret passion for romance novels. She has an exercise regime she's going to start next week, and she dreams of a man who will slide... Read more

Living Dead in Dallas

Southern Vampire Mysteries: Book #2

By: Charlaine Harris
Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

This is the second book in Charlaine Harris' popular Southern Vampire Mysteries series. Telepathic vampire maven (and cocktail waitress) Sookie Stackhouse has been tasked with locating an abducted vampire and suppressing an upstart anti-undead religious cult. "This is one terrific read."-Kliatt Read more

I Am the Messenger

By: Markus Zusak
Narrated by: Marc Aden Gray
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF AND AN UNFORGETTABLE AND SWEEPING FAMILY SAGA.
 

From the author of the extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller The Book Thief, I Am the Messenger is an acclaimed novel filled with laughter, fists, and love. 


A MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK
FIVE STARRED REVIEWS

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The Summons

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Michael Beck
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years, Judge Atlee is now a shadow of his former self—a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi.

Knowing that the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return... Read more

The Cabinet of Curiosities

A Novel

Agent Pendergast Series: Book #3

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again.

In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City, a charnel house is discovered.

Inside are thirty-six bodies—all murdered and mutilated more than a... Read more

Hoot

By: Carl Hiaasen
Narrated by: Chad Lowe
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

This Newbery Honor winner and #1 New York Times bestseller is a beloved modern classic. Hoot features a new kid and his new bully, alligators, some burrowing owls, a renegade eco-avenger, and several extremely poisonous snakes.

A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIME

Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. Everybody, that is, except the colony of... Read more