Creative Minds & Artistic Hearts

We Play Ourselves

A Novel

By: Jen Silverman
Narrated by: Renata Friedman
Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

After a humiliating scandal, a young writer flees to the West Coast, where she is drawn into the morally ambiguous orbit of a charismatic filmmaker and the teenage girls who are her next subjects.

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • ONE OF BUZZFEED’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “A blistering story about the costs of creating art.”—O: The Oprah... Read more

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A novel

By: Gabrielle Zevin
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim & Julian Cihi
Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

“As twelve-year-olds, Sam and Sadie nurture a friendship based on shared tragedy and a love for video games. Ten years later, the pair create the video game Ichigo, an instant international phenomena. When their friendship is tested- first by the excesses of success and then by the tragedy of loss- Sam and Sadie must learn to survive this game of... Read more

The Violin Conspiracy

A Novel

By: Brendan Slocumb
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Brendan Slocumb
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

“I listened to the audiobook of Brendan Slocumb's The Violin Conspiracy and thoroughly enjoyed it. Though it is a mystery novel about a missing violin, and the mystery is pretty engaging, the primary appeal for me was a window into the life of a Black classical musician. Also loved learning, after I finished the audiobook, that Slocumb is not... Read more

The Swan Thieves

By: Elizabeth Kostova
Narrated by: John Lee, Treat Williams, Sarah Zimmerman, Anne Heche & Erin Cottrell
Length: 17 hours 55 minutes

Psychiatrist Andrew Marlow, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a... Read more

The Miniaturist

A Novel

By: Jessie Burton
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Now a television miniseries, as seen on Masterpiece on PBSSet in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant.”There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed . . .“On... Read more

The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

By: Donna Tartt
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 32 hours 24 minutes

“The Goldfinch was always one of those books I was intimidated to start. It's so long! And sprawling! Was I really going to commit to thirty hours of a book about a painting? The answer is: I waited much too long to get to this truly incredible story, and if you--like me--are daunted by this book's length and scope, the audiobook is for you. Read... Read more

The Farewell Tour

A Novel

By: Stephanie Clifford
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“Carrington MacDuffie (the narrator) brings Clifford's Water Lil, a Nashville country singer by way of Walla Walla, WA to life with a perfect raspy voice and twangy sound. The story of Lillian Waters is a wild ride full of deep personal moments propelled by the evolution of country music and American history. Listening to Lillian's 'hell-bent'... Read more

The Bassoon King

My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy

By: Rainn Wilson
Narrated by: Rainn Wilson
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
 
For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who played him even more. Rainn founded a website and... Read more

The Artist's Way

25th Anniversary Edition

Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

"Without The Artist's Way, there would have been no Eat, Pray, Love.” —Elizabeth GilbertThe Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was... Read more

The Accidental Pinup

By: Danielle Jackson
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Rival photographers are forced to collaborate on a body-positive lingerie campaign, but they might have to readjust their focus when sparks fly.

Photographer Cassie Harris loves her job—her company Buxom Boudoir makes people look beautiful and feel empowered with her modern twist on classic pinup photography. Cassie’s best friend, Dana, is about... Read more

Swing Time

By: Zadie Smith
Narrated by: Pippa Bennett-Warner
Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

“In her gracefully written new work, the author of NW and White Teeth addresses the frustrations of family relations, the complications of race, the tyranny of celebrity, and the travesty of cultural appropriation. Smith looks at the fragile threads that tie friends together and how easily they can snap, and her prose flows without effort,... Read more

Dickens and Prince

A Particular Kind of Genius

By: Nick Hornby
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

“An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o’ the Times.” —Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and... Read more

Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Tie-in Edition)

A Novel

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Narrated by: Jennifer Beals, Benjamin Bratt, Judy Greer & Pablo Schreiber
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

“Written in interviews given by various members of the band Daisy Jones & The Six and those they encountered, the novel is an engrossing look at a fictional band in 1970s Los Angeles. It reads like a rock memoir, so much so that you often forget they were not a real band. I highly recommend listening to this one on audio from Libro.fm: it's... Read more

A Visit from the Goon Squad

By: Jennifer Egan
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption "features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human" (The Chicago Tribune).

Bennie is an aging... Read more

Unraveled

The Life and Death of a Garment

By: Maxine Bedat
Narrated by: Maxine Bedat
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
 
A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet

Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe... Read more

The Soloist

By: Mark Salzman
Narrated by: David Chandler
Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Acclaimed best-selling author Mark Salzman delivers a humorously poignant tale in this novel of disappointment and redemption. Renne Sundheimer's life is a shadow of his youth, when he was a celebrated genius cellist. Now a college professor, he struggles to regain his gift. But in one week he is drafted into jury duty and reluctantly agrees to... Read more

The Knitting Circle

A Novel

By: Ann Hood
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

In the spirit of How to Make an American Quilt and The Joy Luck Club comes this novel about friendship and redemption.After the sudden loss of Stella, her only child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle in Providence, Rhode Island. Seeking a way to fill the empty hours and lonely days, she little realizes that the circle will change her... Read more

Saint Sebastian's Abyss

By: Mark Haber
Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Former best friends who built their careers writing about a single work of art meet after a decades-long falling-out. One of them, called to the other’s deathbed for unknown reasons by a “relatively short” nine-page email, spends his flight to
Berlin reflecting on Dutch Renaissance painter Count Hugo Beckenbauer and his masterpiece, Saint... Read more

Real Men Knit

Real Men Knit series: Book #1

By: Kwana Jackson
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

"If you're looking for an easy charmer, this is the novel for you."—Shondaland
 
When their foster-turned-adoptive mother suddenly dies, four brothers struggle to keep open the doors of her beloved Harlem knitting shop.

Jesse Strong is known for two things: his devotion to his adoptive mom, Mama Joy, and his reputation for breaking hearts. When... Read more

Sky Color

By: Peter H. Reynolds
Narrated by: Sisi Aisha Johnson
Length: 5 minutes

When Marisol sets out to create a sky for the class mural she discovers the blue missing from her paints. This story celebrates the creative process and what it means to be an artist. Includes an interview with author, Peter Reynolds. Read more