NOVEMBER 21

People Want to Live

By: Farah Ali
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Set primarily in Pakistan, these award-winning stories follow people living on the brink of abandonment—in their personal relationships and their place in the world.

A mother, coping with the sudden death of her son, uncovers long buried secrets in his absence. An anguished girl grabs a chance for a life beyond the orphanage walls where she... Read more

The Book of Mother

A Novel

By: Violaine Huisman
Narrated by: Tosca Hopkins
Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Longlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize
A New York Times Notable Book
A Library Journal Best Book of 2021

A “marvelous…superbly effective” (The New Yorker) debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.

Met by rave reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and... Read more

Tacky

Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

By: Rax King
Narrated by: Rax King
Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column "Store-Bought Is Fine”

Tacky is about the power of pop... Read more

Go Home, Ricky!

By: Gene Kwak
Narrated by: Tristan Wright
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

From a rising literary star comes a fresh, satirical novel about masculinity and tenderness, fatherhood and motherhood, set in the world of semi-professional wrestling
After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some... Read more

speculation, n.

By: Shayla Lawz
Narrated by: Author
Length: 54 minutes

Shayla Lawz’s debut collection, speculation, n., brings together poetry, sound, and performance to challenge our spectatorship and the reproduction of the Black body. It revolves around a central question: what does it mean—in the digital age, amidst an inundation of media—to be a witness? Calling attention to the images we see in the news and... Read more

This Thing Between Us

A Novel

By: Gus Moreno
Narrated by: Robb Moreira
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

"A surreal excursion into heartache and horror narrated by a man undone by grief . . . Along with allusions to Rod Serling and The Exorcist, there are shades of H. P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, zombie literature and, at least once, A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . . . You don't want to read this book right before bed." —Sarah Lyall, The New... Read more

Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

A perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen.Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her... Read more