Fall/Winter '22: What We're Listening To

Sentient

How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

By: Jackie Higgins
Narrated by: Joan Walker
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this “revelatory book” (Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author) explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, revealing that we are not limited to merely five senses.

There is a scientific... Read more

Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Matthew Edison
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

“This powerful, slim novel is based on a real story of a town of deeply religious families who find that their women are being preyed on by a group of the village men. The women (and girls) finally speak out and the men are "arrested" by the locals but only after one of the women attempts to harm the men are the actual authorities contacted. The... Read more

The Milky Way

An Autobiography of Our Galaxy

By: Moiya McTier
Narrated by: Moiya McTier
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

In this approachable and fascinating biography of the galaxy, an astrophysicist and folklorist details everything humans have discovered—from the Milky Way's formation to its eventual death, and what else there is to learn about the universe we call home. 

After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred... Read more

A Memory Called Empire

Teixcalaan: Book #1

By: Arkady Martine
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

“I loved this winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for the best science fiction novel, and I'm immediately starting on the second book in the Teixcalaan series, A Desolation Called Peace (winner of the 2022 Hugo). This novel moves quickly in a satisfying and rich setting as a new ambassador to the vast Teixcalaan empire arrives from a mining space... Read more

The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of September 11, 2001

By: Garrett M. Graff
Narrated by: A Full 45-Person Cast
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

“This is a book you really need to hear instead of read. I was an adult with 2 children on 9/11 and I learned so much listening to this. This is more than just people recounting what happened to them on that dark day, it is a reenactment from key people told in chronological order. You get the where and learn exactly what they experienced. There... Read more

Signal Fires

A novel

By: Dani Shapiro
Narrated by: Dani Shapiro
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

“A beautifully haunting story of connection. Told from the perspectives of its seven main characters and moving deftly back and forth among the years from the 1970s to the present, this is a narrative full of loss and hope. It opens in 1985 with a tragic accident and unfolds backwards and forwards to tell a complex yet ordinary story of two... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“This book is just wow. Sabrina Imbler describes the most diverse sea creatures and combines them with stories and reports from their lives. This book is not about validating human existence through nature, but about allowing closeness between different lives. Read more

Woman, Eating

A Literary Vampire Novel

By: Claire Kohda
Narrated by: Jane Lui
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

An IndieNext Pick! A Best Book of 2022 in Harper’s Bazaar, Daily Mail, Glamour, and Thrillist!Most Anticipated of 2022 in The Millions, Ms. Magazine, LitHubA young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst humans with her incessant hunger in this stunning debut novel from a writer-to-watch.Lydia is... Read more

Trespasses

A Novel

By: Louise Kennedy
Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

“This book takes place in Northern Ireland during The Troubles and tells the story of a Catholic schoolteacher named Cushla who begins an affair with a married Protestant man. The tensions in Cushla’s community are excruciating, especially knowing that they are heartbreakingly real. This book examines a broken world with an honesty and compassion... Read more

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

A Bright Falls Novel: Book #1

By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“Have you ever run into someone from your childhood, someone that you thought you had all figured out and maybe even disliked, only to find out that you never really knew them at all? Then this is the book for you. Delilah Green the social pariah of her small hometown comes back to Bright Falls to photograph her uptight stepsister, Astrid's... Read more

When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain

Singing Hills Cycle

By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history.



Nghi Vo... Read more

The Empress of Salt and Fortune

Singing Hills Cycle

By: Nghi Vo
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

“Incredibly rich storytelling with amazing voicework. This experience convinced me to continue the series as an audiobook journey. Read more

Harrow the Ninth

Locked Tomb: Book #2

By: Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by: Moira Quirk
Length: 19 hours 50 minutes

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today bestselling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns a
galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor’s haunted
space station.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an
unwinnable war.... Read more

Baggage

Tales from a Fully Packed Life

By: Alan Cumming
Narrated by: Alan Cumming
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

*Read by Alan Cumming himself*""An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate—and most importantly—a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability."" —Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainThere is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life... Read more

Hex

A Novel

By: Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
Narrated by: Jenny Slate
Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far)

A Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020

"As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing." --Vogue

"A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a welcome dose of witchery). Knight's writing feels a little wild and charged, as if you're... Read more

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“Queen Leigh’s first foray into adult fantasy is a sensational success! One of the best fantasy books I’ve read in a long while, Ninth House contains Yale secret societies, ghosts, magic, morally gray characters, and murder. Bardugo balances dual timelines with intricate precision, and the history and world-building of her fantastical New Haven... Read more

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Space, Time, and Motion

By: Sean Carroll
Narrated by: Sean Carroll
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

"A porthole into another world."
—Scientific American

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the... Read more

Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club

A Novel

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Lucy Liu & Celeste Ng
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“Set in an uncomfortably plausible dystopian near-future, Our Missing Hearts pulls no punches. Ng wrestles with how to find hope for ourselves and our children against forces that bend toward authoritarianism and nationalism. Read more

White Horse

A Novel

By: Erika T. Wurth
Narrated by: Tonantzin Carmelo
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“I loved White Horse. Living in Colorado - I loved the journey through all the areas I knew ... as well as those I didn't know. I loved the history and lessons learned from our heritage. I loved the grit of Kari, who won't stop until she finds answers. Read more

Rose Madder

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 17 hours 21 minutes

The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is “one of Stephen King’s most engrossing horror novels. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated...fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming” (Publishers Weekly).

"What woke her up was a single drop of blood, no larger than a dime."

After surviving... Read more