JULY 22

The Last Days of Roger Federer

And Other Endings

By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

One of Esquire's best books of spring 2022

An extended meditation on late style and last works from "one of our greatest living critics" (Kathryn Schulz, New York).

When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In... Read more

Everything I Need I Get from You

How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It

By: Kaitlyn Tiffany
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

A thrilling and riotous dive into the world of superfandom and the fangirls who shaped the social Internet.In 2014, on the side of a Los Angeles freeway, a One Direction fan erected a shrine in the spot where, a few hours earlier, Harry Styles had vomited. “It’s interesting for sure,” Styles said later, adding, “a little niche, maybe.” But what... Read more

Nightcrawling

A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Leila Mottley
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

“Oakland’s own Leila Mottley is the youngest person to be nominated for a Booker Prize. She began writing Nightcrawling, a novel loosely based on the OPD trafficking scandal, when she was attending Oakland School for the Arts, and it was published before she turned 20. The triumph of this story is the way that Mottley manages to present the... Read more

Human Blues

By: Elisa Albert
Narrated by: Mia Barron
Length: 15 hours 31 minutes

“Crackling and bighearted...A powerhouse [that] echoes with the truth that we find harmony when we listen first to ourselves.” —Oprah Daily * “Takes off with magnificent speed and never lets up.” —The New York Times * “Revolutionary.” —NPR’s Morning Edition * A Los Angeles Times and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A provocative and... Read more

Lapvona

A Novel

By: Ottessa Moshfegh
Narrated by: Ottessa Moshfegh
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

“A gritty, grotesque, and desolate narrative centered around a sun-parched medieval fiefdom. Moshfegh, true to her style, shocks the reader with the primal machinations of an abusively pious sheep farmer and his differently-abled son, a repulsive and exploitive lord, and a hermetic forest witch. Not for the faint of heart! Read more

Life Ceremony

Stories

By: Sayaka Murata
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu, various narrators, Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi & Nancy Wu
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

The long-awaited first short story-collection by the author of the cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, tales of weird love, heartfelt friendships, and the unsettling nature of human existenceWith Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan,... Read more

Ways of Being

Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle
Narrated by: James Bridle
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

“An artistic benevolent vision of how being aware of all the forms of intelligence on Earth can be optimistically engineered into our psyche, and how A.I. can serve as a beneficial tool for all. Read more