PSB Bookseller Audio Picks: 2023!

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder: Book #1

By: Holly Jackson
Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny & Various
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an addictive, impossible to put down crime thriller. Jackson’s debut is tightly plotted and filled with wonderful twists. The format of the novel allows you to feel like you are part of the investigation, alongside the great cast of characters. This is a very fun listen start to finish. Read more

This Is How You Lose The Time War

By: Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

“I was so enchanted by this book that once I finished it, I started it over from the very beginning. I have reread it many times and each time I find something new to marvel. It's beautiful, lyrical, gripping, epic and incredibly romantic, leaving its scent on readers like a fragrance transferred between loves. Read more

I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

By: Rebecca Makkai
Narrated by: Julia Whelan & JD Jackson
Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

“A literary mystery by the award-winning author of The Great Believers. Makkai cleverly tackles relevant topics in this page-turner. Read more

Bad Cree

A Novel

By: Jessica Johns
Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“Bad Cree is a gem. A gore-laden love song dedicated to Aunties, Sisters, Cousins, and Mothers. When nightmares become all too real, there is rarely anyone better to turn to. Jessica Johns' prose is smooth, original, and paints vividly with the imagination; maintaining a delicate tension throughout and propelling the reader forward. Even in this... Read more

The Wedding Date

By: Jasmine Guillory
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author of the Resse Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick The Proposal.

THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER
#5 LibraryReads Pick

“A swoony rom-com brimming... Read more

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Emily Wilde: Book #1

By: Heather Fawcett
Narrated by: Ell Potter & Michael Dodds
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

“Written in the style of a scientific journal from the point of view of hapless and dour Emily Wilde, when I first started this book, I was a bit worried. But, as soon as the magic of this world blew onto the scene, all my worries were swept away like cobwebs! Bamleberry is the perfect foil to Emily, and their scenes are positively kinetic. So... Read more

Mistakes Were Made

A Novel

By: Meryl Wilsner
Narrated by: Quinn Riley & Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

“What would you do if the one-night stand you couldn't stop thinking about just happens to be your best friend's mom?! Find out in this SIZZLING HOT thoroughly enjoyable sapphic rom-com with real stakes for the romance and friendships involved. Dual POV; Found Family; HOT! HOT! HOT! Read more

The Witchy Homestead

Spells, Rituals, and Remedies for Creating Magic at Home

By: Nikki Van De Car
Narrated by: Yuuki Luna
Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

From the bestselling author of Practical Magic comes an essential guide to cultivating magical self-sufficiency and enchanted resilience through spell work, gardening, herbal remedies, and more.

Whether we live on a farm or in a high rise, we can always create a life that is entwined with the natural world. A homestead is not a log cabin or a... Read more

I Love Orgasms

A Guide to More

By: Dorian Solot & Marshall Miller
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan, Hayden Bishop, Nicky Endres & Corey Carthew
Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

The back-cracking, toe-curling, spine-tingling guide to orgasms that will have you saying, “Let’s do it some more-gasms!”  Whether you’re looking to have your first orgasm, learning to squirt, or hoping to turn up the heat for a partner, I <3 Orgasms is the book for you. Drawing on their over twenty years of experience teaching audiences... Read more

Write for Life

Creative Tools for Every Writer (A 6-Week Artist's Way Program)

By: Julia Cameron
Narrated by: Eliza Foss
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

A 6-Week Artist’s Way Program

Julia Cameron has been teaching the world about creativity since her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, first broke open the conversation around art.

Now, in Write for Life, she turns to one of the subjects closest to her heart: the art and practice of writing.

Over the course of six weeks, Cameron carefully guides... Read more

Jellyfish Age Backwards

Nature's Secrets to Longevity

By: Nicklas Brendborg
Narrated by: Joe Leat
Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

This eye-opening book offers a "clear and captivating" (Dr. Kris Verburgh​)scientific deep dive into how plants and animals have already unlocked the secrets to immortality–and the lessons they hold for us all.  Recent advances in medicine and technology have expanded our understanding of aging across the animal kingdom, and our own timeless... Read more

True Reconciliation

How to Be a Force for Change

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Narrated by: Jody Wilson-Raybould
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

From the #1 bestselling author of 'Indian' in the Cabinet, a groundbreaking and accessible roadmap to advancing true reconciliation across Canada.

There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s... Read more

Tell Me I'm Worthless

By: Alison Rumfitt
Narrated by: Nicky Endres
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

“Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt is a trans, leftist haunted house story that’s not for the faint of heart - it *will* eviscerate you. You know from the start that the house is a metaphor for fascism because the author tells you as much. What you have to confront for yourself are the ways fascism seeps into your life seemingly unnoticed... Read more

How Far the Light Reaches

A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler
Narrated by: Sabrina Imbler
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“Imbler’s full-length debut is as much about their personal evolution as a queer, mixed race writer as it is an exploration of the deep sea creatures whose eccentricities inspire them. Imbler's tender approach and tactile prose toggles between expansive aquatic research and personal experiences, expanding the portrait of our world as we know it... Read more

Self-Portrait with Nothing

By: Aimee Pokwatka
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

"Narrator Jesse Vilinsky creates plenty of suspense in this quirky mystery-sci-fi mix." - AudioFile Magazine

For fans of David Mitchell and Joanne Harris, Aimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with Nothing reminds us that living our best life sometimes means embracing the imperfect one we already have.

"Fraught and deeply moving...the work of a genuinely... Read more

David Copperfield

By: Charles Dickens
Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
Length: 33 hours 46 minutes

David Copperfieldis the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood.Of all Charles Dickens' novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens... Read more

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, Book One)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event... Read more

Catching Fire: Movie Tie-in Edition (Hunger Games, Book Two)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Catching Fire, the second book in the New York Times bestselling Hunger Games series, is now available with all-new cover art from the feature film!The second book in the international bestselling Hunger Games series is now a feature film. Here is the original novel with exciting new movie artwork on the cover. (Original cover version... Read more

Mockingjay (Hunger Games, Book Three)

The Hunger Games

By: Suzanne Collins
Narrated by: Tatiana Maslany
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Emmy Award-winning actress Tatiana Maslany narrates a brand-new recording of the second audiobook in the worldwidebestselling trilogy from Suzanne Collins!Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss’s family issafe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13... Read more

Sentient

How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

By: Jackie Higgins
Narrated by: Joan Walker
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Perfect for fans of The Soul of an Octopus and The Genius of Birds, this “revelatory book” (Sy Montgomery, New York Times bestselling author) explores how we process the world around us through the lens of the incredible sensory capabilities of thirteen animals, revealing that we are not limited to merely five senses.

There is a scientific... Read more