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A Little Hope

A Novel

By: Ethan Joella
Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

A Read with Jenna Bonus Selection

An “immersive…illuminating” (Booklist) and life-affirming novel following the residents of an idyllic Connecticut town over the course of a year, A Little Hope explores the intertwining lives of a dozen neighbors as they confront everyday desires and fears: a lost love, a stalled career, an illness, and a... Read more

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

A Novel

The Art of Hearing Heartbeats Series: Book #1

By: Jan-Philipp Sendker
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

A poignant and inspirational love story set in Burma, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats spans the decades between the 1950s and the present.When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be—until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese... Read more

The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

A Novel

By: Robert Dugoni
Narrated by: Robert Dugoni
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni’s coming-of-age story is, according to Booklist, “a novel that, if it doesn’t cross entirely over into John Irving territory, certainly nestles in close to the border.”Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or... Read more

Fifty Words for Rain: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

By: Asha Lemmie
Narrated by: Robin Eller, Siho Ellsmore, Katharine Lee McEwan, Jeena Yi, Sarah Skaer & Louis Ozawa
Length: 13 hours 13 minutes

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller!
 
From debut author Asha Lemmie, “a lovely, heartrending story about love and loss, prejudice and pain, and the sometimes dangerous, always durable ties that link a family together.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Nightingale

Kyoto, Japan, 1948. “Do... Read more

The People We Keep

By: Allison Larkin
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

BOOK RIOT’S BEST BOOKS OF 2021

“This is a novel of great empathy, about connections and coming-of-age, built families and self-acceptance. It contains heartbreak and redemption, and a plucky, irresistible protagonist…[A] propulsive, empathetic novel.” —Shelf Awareness

Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome... Read more

Reconstructing Amelia

By: Kimberly McCreight
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

New York Times Bestseller“Like Gone Girl, Reconstructing Amelia seamlessly marries a crime story with a relationship drama. And like Gone Girl, it should be hailed as one of the best books of the year.”  — Entertainment WeeklyThe stunning debut novel from Kimberly McCreight in which a single mother reconstructs her teenaged daughter Amelia’s... Read more

The Language of Flowers

A Novel

By: Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Narrated by: Tara Sands
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

“Lately, as I work in the gardens and flowerbeds at my new house, I've found myself reminiscing about this book more and more. It's a sweet and sometimes sad story about a foster child who's grown up but can't leave her life before entirely behind. She uses the language of flowers that her foster mother taught her to try and express the emotions... Read more

The Great Believers

By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 18 hours 16 minutes

“A finalist for the Pulitzer, The Great Believers is a heartbreaking and beautiful look back at the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. This book will put you through the proverbial emotional ringer but you will be so very glad you read it. This book should be required reading for those who were born after the harrowing AIDS period of history. Read more

The Most Fun We Ever Had

A Novel

By: Claire Lombardo
Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Length: 20 hours 33 minutes

“Claire Lombardo has written a rich and rewarding novel brimming with the messiness of families. Secrets kept and revealed provide a backdrop for the life-long love affair of Marilyn and David Sorenson as they raise their four daughters. The years are filled with joy, angst, anger, longing, and love as the members of the Sorenson family struggle... Read more

Fates and Furies

A Novel

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: Will Damron & Julia Whelan
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

“It didn’t take long for me to fall in love with this book. It’s the kind of novel where I don’t mind if nothing happens, because the prose itself is gorgeous enough to sink into. But plenty does happen in this portrait of a lifelong marriage, seen first from Lotto’s point of view and then from Mathilde’s. The many plaudits and plentiful praise... Read more

The Last Days of Night

A Novel

By: Graham Moore
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”—Erik Larson
 
“A model of superior historical fiction . . . an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”—The Washington Post
  
From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times... Read more

Moloka'i

By: Alan Brennert
Narrated by: Anne Noelani Miyamoto
Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

The powerful debut novel from Alan Brennert, Moloka'i tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of Kalaupapa, Rachel experiences intense isolation. But she remains strong,... Read more

Dancing on Broken Glass

By: Ka Hancock
Narrated by: Amy Landon & Zach Villa
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. They're both plagued with faulty genes—he has bipolar disorder and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry.

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Rules of Civility

A Novel

By: Amor Towles
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“I have a select few favorite books and A Gentleman In Moscow is one of them. After a friend told me that Rules of Civility was quite different, I was hesitant to read it as I didn’t want to be disappointed. I wasn’t! What a wonderful storyteller, so fun to be transported to an earlier time in our nation’s history and get a glimpse of what it... Read more

The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

A Novel

By: Jenny Wingfield
Narrated by: Catherine Taber
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

“This is one of those reads that I picked up and instantly became wrapped up in, the whole time one small part of my brain being so excited that I had at last found that long sought perfect summer read. Mostly told through the point of view of high-spirited and fiercely determined 11-year-old Swan, one cannot help but fall in love with this... Read more

To Be Sung Underwater

A Novel

By: Tom McNeal
Narrated by: Susan Boyce
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Judith Whitman always believed in the kind of love that "picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio." Long ago, she once experienced that love. Willy Blunt was a carpenter with a dry wit and a steadfast sense of honor. Marrying him seemed like a natural thing to promise. But Willy Blunt was not a person you could pick up in Nebraska and... Read more

Ordinary Grace

By: William Kent Krueger
Narrated by: Rich Orlow
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

From "New York Times "bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961. New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Halderson's Drug Store soda counter, and "Hot Stuff "comic books were a... Read more

A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

By: Dina Nayeri
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Spellbinding in its narration, A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea is the story of an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live.Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister... Read more

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan & Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“Evelyn Hugo has lived a lavish life with many husbands. Finally ready to tell her story to only one journalist in particular, Monique Grant. Monique is not a well known journalist by any means, but jumps at the opportunity to interview Old Hollywood star Evelyn. Monique discovers all of Evelyn's deepest secrets and her rise to fame. She also... Read more

The Immortalists

By: Chloe Benjamin
Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin is a unique story investigating fate and destiny. Four siblings visit a fortune teller whose talent is predicting the date of death for her clients. Does this knowledge at an impressionable age inform life decisions that render the prediction true or is it a hoax? You will get to know these siblings very well... Read more