Saucy September Staff Picks

Conversations with Friends

A Novel

By: Sally Rooney
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comrade-in-arms is the beautiful and endlessly self-possessed Bobbi. At a... Read more

Perish

A Novel

By: LaToya Watkins
Narrated by: Jeremy Michael Durm, Keyonni James, Chanté McCormick, Lisa Renee Pitts & Kacie Rogers
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”
—The New York Times Book... Read more

The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Narrated by: Morgan Hallett
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

In this powerful novel of survival and resilience, New York Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman takes readers on a gripping, emotional journey as one brave young woman’s search for the truth about her sister leads her to an infamous institution called Willowbrook …

Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though... Read more

Beartown

By: Fredrik Backman
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

“After a family tragedy, former NHL player Peter Andersson moves his family back to Beartown, where he's gotten a job as general manager for the local hockey club. Beartown is on its way back up, riding the heels of its most successful junior team in years. On the cusp of that victory, news breaks of a crime that shakes the community to its core.... Read more

The Bear

By: Andrew Krivak
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 4 hours

In an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some books, a pane of glass, a set of flint and steel, a comb. The father teaches the girl how to fish and hunt, the secrets of the seasons and the stars. He is preparing her for an adulthood in harmony... Read more

Malibu Rising

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

“This ode to Malibu in the 1980s is the perfect beach read. Four famous siblings throw a star-studded party and over the course of 24 hours find their lives changed forever. It’s enthralling and layered and so vivid it could be a memory. Perfectly paced and suspenseful from page one! Read more

The Mosquito Bowl

A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John GrishamAn extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author... Read more

Solito

A Memoir

By: Javier Zamora
Narrated by: Javier Zamora
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

“Solito follows the journey of nine-year-old Javier Zamora, a boy from El Salvador, as he attempts to cross into the United States on his own. Though Zamora is supported and loved by his family in El Salvador, they are unable to make the voyage with him, meaning that he must face the challenges and unfamiliar terrain with a group of strangers... Read more

Furies of Calderon

Book One of the Codex Alera

Codex Alera: Book #1

By: Jim Butcher
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 19 hours 57 minutes

In this extraordinary fantasy epic, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own...
 
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive and threatening races that inhabit the world,... Read more

Foundryside

A Novel

The Founders Trilogy: Book #1

By: Robert Jackson Bennett
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 19 hours 34 minutes

“Foundryside is the first book in Robert Jackson Bennett’s The Foundry trilogy. Not only did this book get me out of my reading slump, it was a book that I just couldn’t stop listening to. The cover grabbed my attention and the story surpassed every expectation that I had. Foundryside is about a well-trained thief, Sancia. She’s good at what she... Read more

Stardust

By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Neil Gaiman
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Catch a fallen star . . .Tristran thorn promised to bring back a fallen star. So he sets out on a journey to fulfill the request of his beloved, the hauntingly beautiful Victoria Forester—and stumbles into the enchanted realm that lies beyond the wall of his English country town. Rich with adventure and magic, Stardust is one of master... Read more

Something Wilder

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Patti Murin, Jon Root & Christina Lauren
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

The “reigning romance queens” (PopSugar) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love.

Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much... Read more

Violet Made of Thorns

By: Gina Chen
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

“Loved this reverse fairy tale where the prince falls for the witch. Here, Violet, the seer (and sometimes liar), is sharp tongued, prickly and snarky. Love how she calls Cyrus, princey, or sarcastically, Prince Charming. Violet soon becomes entangled in her own lies and must find a solution before political intrigue and war devastates the... Read more

Lightlark

Lightlark: Book #1

By: Alex Aster
Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

“I don't remember the last time I had this much fun with a YA fantasy! This roller coaster of a book took me through so many twists and turns I could barely stay in my seat. I started it as an audiobook, and finished with a physical copy in my hands because I just could not consume it fast enough through my ears, but man was it just as fun both... Read more

The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, Book 1)

The Raven Cycle

By: Maggie Stiefvater
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

“I reread The Raven Boys every year, but now I always re-listen! Just the best production for the best series! The narrator does a fantastic job bringing beloved characters to life, and there’s music composed and played by the author herself! Read more

Pony

By: R. J. Palacio
Narrated by: Ian M. Hawkins & R. J. Palacio
Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN’S BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

“Perfection.” –The Wall Street Journal

The bestselling author of Wonder returns with an enthralling adventure about a boy on a quest to rescue his father, with only a ghost as his companion and a mysterious pony as his guide.... Read more

Hatchet

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Peter Coyote
Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

13-year-old Brian Robeson learns to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed with his hatchet and resourcefulness. Read more

The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Emily Windsnap

By: Liz Kessler
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

For as long as she can remember, twelve-year-old Emily Windsnap has lived on a boat. And, oddly enough, for just as long as her mother has seemed anxious to keep Emily away from the water. But when Mom finally agrees to let her take swimming lessons, Emily makes a startling discovery--about her own identity, the mysterious father she's never... Read more

Mushroom Rain

By: Laura K. Zimmermann
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 15 minutes

What can smell like bubblegum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by humans, and even help create rain? The answer is mushrooms! From their hidden networks underground to the fruiting body above, mushrooms can do incredible things. But don't call them plants—mushrooms are fungi. They're more closely related to animals... Read more