What if It Were Different

Thrust

A Novel

By: Lidia Yuknavitch
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek, Ron Butler, Cassandra Campbell, Robbie Daymond, Darrell Dennis, Dominique Franceschi, Kathleen Gati, Graham Halstead, Austin Ku, Omar Leyva, Karen Murray & TL Thompson
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

THRUST IS:
“Epic.” –The New York Times
“A triumph.” —Elle
“Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast
“Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books
“A book to take in wide-eyed.”  —Rebecca Makkai

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST

As rising waters—and an encroaching police... Read more

The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club)

A Novel

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

“Ta-Nehisi Coates understands something big and he understands it better than anyone else right now. The Water Dancer led me on a journey up and down the landscape of American slavery with a narrative that feels like The Book of Exodus meets, well, Ta-Nehisi Coates. Over 400 pages I have cried, I have laughed, I have been educated, and I have... Read more

Chain Gang All Stars

A Novel

By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch & Lee Osorio
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

“This book is so many great things: a story of love and companionship; a story of an inhumane prison system not so different than our own; and an incredible adventure. The audiobook performances are first rate! Read more

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

By: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

“Epic, beautifully written, heartwarming, and heartbreaking, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a contemplation on life, death, what it means to make your mark on the world, and why we feel it’s important to do so. Addie makes a deal with a demon so she can live her life the way she wants to. But, like most deals, there are strings attached —... Read more

The Age of Goodbyes

By: Li Zi Shu
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

By one of Southeast Asia's most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.

In 1969, in the wake of Malaysia's deadliest race riots, a woman named Du Li An secures her place in society by marrying a gangster. In a parallel narrative, a critic... Read more

The President and the Frog

A novel

By: Carolina De Robertis
Narrated by: Carolina De Robertis
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

A "sublime and gripping novel ... about hope: that within the world's messy pain there is still room for transformation and healing" (Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe), from the acclaimed author of Cantoras.

“In the president’s excruciating (and sometimes humorous) encounters with his strangely healing frog ... De... Read more

The Man in the High Castle

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Now an Amazon Original seriesWinner of the Hugo Award“The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career”—New York TimesIt’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years... Read more

Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

“Two days before Jane McKeene was born, the dead on the battlefields of the Civil War began to walk the earth. Though she was born to plantation owners, Jane’s mixed-race heritage and dark skin means she is now training at combat school to be an Attendant: a zombie-killer whose job it will be to protect the White woman she is contracted to. But... Read more

11/22/63

A Novel

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Length: 30 hours 39 minutes

One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James Franco

ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?

In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who... Read more

Trinity, Trinity, Trinity

A Novel

By: Erika Kobayashi
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

A literary thriller about the effects of nuclear power on the mind, body, and recorded history of three generations of Japanese womenNine years after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, Japan is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. An unnamed narrator wakes up in a cold, sterile room, unable to recall her past. Across the... Read more

The Shamshine Blind

A Novel

By: Paz Pardo
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 11 hours 1 minute

A beguiling blend of noir detective story and science fiction perfect for fans of Michael Chabon and Emily St. John Mandel, this unputdownable debut imagines a world where emotions have been weaponized, and a small-town law enforcement agent uncovers a conspiracy to take down what’s left of American democracy.

In an alternate 2009, the United... Read more

The Light at the End of the World

By: Siddhartha Deb
Narrated by: Sneha Mathan & Neil Shah
Length: 17 hours 39 minutes

Delhi, the near future: Bibi, a low-ranking employee of a global consulting firm, is tasked with finding a man long thought to be dead but who now appears to be the source of a vast collection of documents. The trove purports to reveal the secrets of the Indian government, including
detention centers, mutated creatures, engineered viruses,... Read more

Widowland

A Novel

By: C. J. Carey
Narrated by: Esther Wane
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

An alternative history with a strong feminist twist, perfect for fans of Robert Harris’s Fatherland, Christina Dalcher’s Vox, and the dystopian novels of Margaret AtwoodTo control the past, they edited history. To control the future, they edited literature.London, 1953, Coronation year—but not the Coronation of Elizabeth II.Thirteen years have... Read more

Queen Wallis

A Novel

By: C. J. Carey
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

London, 1955. The Leader has been dead for two years. His assassination, on British soil, provoked violent retribution and intensified repression of British citizens, particularly women. Now, more than ever, the Protectorate is a place of surveillance and isolation—a land of spies.

Every evening Rose Ransom looks in the mirror and marvels that... Read more

Muse

By: Brittany Cavallaro
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

American Royals meets The Winner’s Curse in the first book of a dazzling duology from New York Times bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro about revolution, love, and friendship in a reimagined American monarchy. The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. Claire’s father is a... Read more

Manifest

By: Brittany Cavallaro
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

New York Times bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro delivers the thrilling conclusion to her YA duology set in a reimagined American monarchy about a girl fighting for her own freedom, trying to change the government from within . . . or burn it all down.For the first time in her life, Claire Emerson isn’t under a man’s control. She’s escaped... Read more

1984

By: George Orwell
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Blackstone Publishing presents a new recording of this immensely popular book.One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, Orwell’s cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state feels more relevant now than ever before.George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its... Read more

Life After Life

A Novel

By: Kate Atkinson
Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual.... Read more

Biography of X : A Novel

By: Catherine Lacey
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

“A fictionalized memoir about a non-existent star of the east village art scene. An America broken in two after the end of World War 2. A woman attempts to understand abuse at the hands of the person she loved. All at once. Read more

Everfair

By: Nisi Shawl
Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from... Read more