Gift Picks from Book Suey Staff

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

A novel

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

“I absolutely loved listening to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. As a Gen X-er, the reference to old school video games like Donkey Kong, Pac Man and Oregon Trail, brought about nostalgia and kept me engaged, even though I don't consider myself much of a gamer. If you love a character-driven story you will love this novel! While I didn't... Read more

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

A Memoir

By: Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Narrated by: Marisol Ramirez
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER  

From the author of the “original, politically daring and passionately written” (Vogue) novel Fruit of the Drunken Tree, comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir reclaiming her family's otherworldly legacy.

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s... Read more

The Marriage Portrait: Reese's Book Club

A novel

By: Maggie O'Farrell
Narrated by: Genevieve Gaunt & Maggie O'Farrell
Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

“Readers who loved Hamnet will find in this novel the same luminous moments, the same perfectly curated details, that made O'Farrell's earlier novel so astonishing and memorable. This time, O'Farrell takes us into the mind of a young artist during the Renaissance, and seldom has a novel so brilliantly captured the terror of darkness, the intense... Read more

The Summer Book

By: Tove Jansson
Narrated by: Natasha Soudek
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia's grandmother, nearing the end of hers, as they spend the summer on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland.... Read more

Jade Legacy

By: Fonda Lee
Narrated by: Andrew Kishino
Length: 28 hours 28 minutes

The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the page-turning conclusion to the Green Bone Saga. Jade, the mysterious and magical substance once exclusive to the Green Bone warriors of Kekon, is now coveted throughout the world. Everyone wants access to the supernatural... Read more

This Woman's Work

Essays on Music

By: Kim Gordon & Sinead Gleeson
Narrated by: Sinead Gleeson, Cindy Kay, Nikki Massoud & Jeanette Illidge
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Edited by iconic musician Kim Gordon and esteemed writer Sinéad Gleeson, this powerful collection of award-winning female creators shares their writing about the female artists that matter most to them. This book is for and about the women who kicked in doors, as pioneers of their craft or making politics central to their sound: those who offer... Read more

The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton
Narrated by: Rosemary Benson
Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

“A warning of warming. This dystopian novel, set in what was something like the Everglades in Florida, gives a sticky, swampy story of the life of a girl born during a devastating hurricane. Reminiscent of Where the Crawdads Sing, but, dare I say, so much more! Fans of Lydia Millet's The Children's Bible and Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven... Read more

A Ghost in the Throat

By: Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrated by: Siobhán McSweeney
Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.



On discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own... Read more

The Hobbit

Lord of the Rings

By: J.R.R. Tolkien
Narrated by: Andy Serkis
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

“It's perfect. Serkis is perfect, the book is perfect, together they are perfect. I do not feel remotely qualified to give a review of this, so you should probably just listen to it yourself. Read more

The Philosophy of Modern Song

By: Bob Dylan
Narrated by: Bob Dylan
Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio is narrated by an all-star lineup including Bob Dylan, Jeff Bridges, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Oscar Isaac, Helen Mirren, Rita Moreno, Sissy Spacek, Alfre Woodard,... Read more

The Story of Jane

The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service

By: Laura Kaplan
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

First published in 1997, The Story of Jane recounts the evolution of Jane, the underground group in Chicago that performed abortion services before the procedure was legalized. An extraordinary history by one of its members, this is the first account of Jane's evolution, the conflicts within the group, and the impact its work had both on the... Read more