Katherine's Staff Picks

Murder Crossed Her Mind

A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

By: Stephen Spotswood
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • The latest action-packed installment in the Nero Award–winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series follows Lillian and Will tracking the suspicious disappearance of a woman who might have known too much. From the author of Fortune Favors the Dead and Murder Under Her Skin.

Vera Bodine, an elderly... Read more

Bookshops & Bonedust

Legends & Lattes

By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“Lightning in a bottle really can happen twice. Travis Baldree’s prequel to the perfectly cozy Legends & Lattes is a sensational love letter to storytelling, bookstores, and the beautiful, inherent wackiness that is Dungeons & Dragons. Where else would you find a scholarly homunculus that loves interior design and bodice-ripper romance... Read more

Let Us Descend

A Novel

By: Jesmyn Ward
Narrated by: Jesmyn Ward
Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

“When Jesmyn Ward speaks you listen. Her voice in this new novel is so powerful. This novel should be in everyone's hands as it walks you through the life of a young slave girl before the Civil War. Will make a great book club book! Read more

The Vaster Wilds

A Novel

By: Lauren Groff
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

“If you’ve ever seen an interview with Lauren Groff, you might think it’s all fun and games with her. But when that woman starts writing, she’s full-tilt serious business. Her new novel, The Vaster Wilds, follows a young servant girl, Lamentations, from the colony of Jamestown as she flees traumatic events in the household where she worked. Did... Read more

Crook Manifesto

A Novel

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“Colson Whitehead is a singular talent, (talent isn't a big enough word though.) Crook Manifesto is so rich and evocative. With Dion Graham's narration, it's as if we're also seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling and sometimes fearing along with the characters. Whitehead give us an unvarnished look at the people and goings on in 1970's... Read more

The Raging Storm

A Detective Matthew Venn Novel

Matthew Venn series: Book #3

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Jack Holden
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

“Holy Smokes! The Raging Storm is a twisty, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, wild ride of a novel. If you are lamenting the end of the Shetland series, rejoice in this new Ann Cleeves series starring Matthew Venn, a slightly uptight, gay police detective, who cannot quite believe how much he is loved by his husband, or how deeply he his respected by his... Read more

Legends & Lattes

A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes

Legends & Lattes

By: Travis Baldree
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

“This is the cozy and heartwarming fantasy novel you didn't know you needed! It's a tender story with delightful characters in a snug setting. The kind of tale that Dungeon Masters will feel inspired to have for their next laid-back D&D campaign. So if you are a fan of wholesome, found-family stories do yourself a favor and listen to this book! Read more

The Slow Regard of Silent Things

By: Patrick Rothfuss
Narrated by: Patrick Rothfuss
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Discover #1 New York Times-bestselling Patrick Rothfuss’ epic fantasy universe of The Kingkiller Chronicle, in this illustrated companion novella, The Slow Regard of Silent Things.

“I just love the world of Patrick Rothfuss.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda 

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient... Read more

All the Sinners Bleed

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“S.A. Cosby has given us an early favorite for the best crime fiction novel of the year with All the Sinners Bleed. We are big fans of his two previous books (Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears), and Cosby knocks it out of the park as he writes from the perspective of a town’s first black sheriff and his descent into the mid of a serial... Read more

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

A Novel

By: Shannon Chakraborty
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

“I’ve looked forward to this book for years. I adore Chakraborty’s Daevebad trilogy, and hearing she was working on a new project starring a retired female pirate of the Indian Ocean? I could not contain my excitement. This book blew away every expectation. It was all I hoped it would be and more. It has everything: adventure, magic, and an... Read more

Rubicon

By: J. S. Dewes
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 16 hours 20 minutes

"Eunice Wong smoothly differentiates a diverse cast in this edgy military thriller."- AudioFile

J. S. Dewes, author of The Last Watch and The Exiled Fleet, returns with another science fiction space opera, Rubicon, that melds elements of Scalzi's Old Man's War with Edge of Tomorrow.

Sergeant Adriene Valero wants to die.

She can't.

After enduring a... Read more

Weyward

A Novel

By: Emilia Hart
Narrated by: Aysha Kala, Helen Keeley & Nell Barlow
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“This is an excellent read if you love well-researched historical fiction and multiple familial timelines. While I have read a few reviews that chastise the book's lack of positive male figures, I respectfully disagree. The patriarchy was entirely in charge during the Witch Hunts of the late 17th Century, as it was during the turmoil of... Read more

The Bandit Queens

A Novel

By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

“Parini Shroff uses humor to lighten the complex topics in this novel. Because murder, domestic violence and women's rights in India are real and heavy topics for a book. But she creates the right balance and highlights the strength of friendship among women in this part mystery, part historical fiction, and part social commentary. Read more

Secrets Typed in Blood

A Pentecost and Parker Mystery

A Pentecost and Parker Mystery: Book #3

By: Stephen Spotswood
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Pentecost & Parker Mystery series, Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction.

The Pentecost & Parker series "takes gritty 40s noir, shakes it up, gives it a charming twist, and serves it... Read more

A World of Curiosities

A Novel

Chief Inspector Gamache Novel: Book #18

By: Louise Penny
Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

“As I read the first page of the first Inspector Gamache book by Louise Penny, I knew I was going to love this writer and her Three Pines mysteries. The 18th installment, World of Curiosities, does not disappoint. This story is dark and complex, layered with history and meaning. The sense of a race against unspeakable evil kept me reading late... Read more

Blackwater Falls

Detective Inaya Rahman: Book #1

By: Ausma Zehanat Khan
Narrated by: Fareeda Pasha
Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

“I listened to the audiobook on Libro.fm and really enjoyed it. Inaya, her coworkers and family make for a great cast of characters. Some aspects of the story were stronger than others, but overall this new series is off to a great start and I look forward to the next book. Read more

And There Was Light

Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham
Narrated by: Jon Meacham
Length: 17 hours 49 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham chronicles the life of Abraham Lincoln, charting how—and why—he confronted secession, threats to democracy, and the tragedy of slavery to expand the possibilities of America.

“Meacham has given us the Lincoln for our time.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Winner of the Gilder... Read more

The Night Ship

A Novel

By: Jess Kidd
Narrated by: Fleur De Wit & Adam Fitzgerald
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Based on a true story, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.

1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is... Read more

A Deadly Education

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #1

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Magic school like you have never seen or imagine it before. A seemingly unlikeable yet much appreciated heroine and oh, that last line of the book....I LOVED it! The audiobook was engaging, the narrator a pleasure, and I am still thinking about it. Read more

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

By: R. F. Kuang
Narrated by: Chris Lew Kum Hoi & Billie Fulford-Brown
Length: 21 hours 45 minutes

“What a nice empire you have there...what a shame if something were to....happen to it.... Babel is one of the best fantasies I've read in years - it weaves together a rich alternate history and a heart-pounding plot, and rips into the imperial machine and the whiteness of academia with glee, all while exploring the nuance of language and... Read more