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Panorama City

By: Antoine Wilson
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

With its blend of fool’s wisdom and deeply felt humanity, Panorama City is heir to Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and Steve Martin’s The Jerk.　 From his deathbed*, twenty-eight-year-old Oppen Porter—an openhearted, bicycle-riding, binocular-toting, self-described “slow absorber”—unspools into a cassette recorder his tale of self-determination,... Read more

On Immunity

By: Eula Biss
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear—fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world.

In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and... Read more

Emily Dickinson

Selected Poems

By: Emily Dickinson
Narrated by: Mary Woods
Length: 5 hours 23 minutes

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of... Read more

Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald." Published at the author's own... Read more

Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said

By: Philip K. Dick
Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

"Dick skillfully explores the psychological ramifications of this nightmare." —The New York Times Review of BooksFlow My Tears, the Policeman Said grapples with many of the themes Philip K. Dick is best known for—identity, altered reality, drug use, and dystopia—in a rollicking chase story that earned the novel the John W. Campbell Award and... Read more

Ubik

By: Philip K. Dick
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

A mind-bending, classic Philip K. Dick novel about the perception of reality. Named as one of Time's 100 best books.“From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.” —Lev Grossman, TimeGlen Runciter runs a lucrative business—deploying his teams of... Read more

How to Change Your Mind

What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

“Take an over-medicated, moody, middle-aged mother of four, add a month of experimental microdosing with LSD and it makes for A Really Good Day by Ayelet Waldman. This mesmerizing memoir of mental exploration tackles the taboo topic of drug use in our society, the frightening rise of prescription pills and the devastating addictions developing... Read more

Hallucinations

By: Oliver Sacks
Narrated by: Dan Woren & Oliver Sacks
Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Hallucinations don’t belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. Here Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have... Read more

Year of the Monkey

By: Patti Smith
Narrated by: Patti Smith
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

“I’m convinced that Patti Smith is the reincarnation of some spiritual mystic. Someone like Joan of Arc or Hildegard von Bingen. At this point I am committed to only listening to her audiobooks because her words are even more powerful in her own dreamy cadence. I sound like a school girl mooning over her first loved celebrity but, I can’t say... Read more

Mary Coin

By: Marisa Silver
Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Alison Fraser & Mark Zeisler
Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

In her first novel since The God of War, critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother” photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention—a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter.

In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in... Read more

Mouth to Mouth

A Novel

By: Antoine Wilson
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

“While the narrative of Mouth to Mouth skillfully navigates numerous twists and turns, Antoine Wilson is most compelling when he obsessively dissects its philosophical underpinnings—fate and free will, value and values, ethics and aesthetics, the 'eye' and the 'I'—even as his characters toe the line between sinister and self-serving with... Read more

Neuromancer

Sprawl Trilogy

By: William Gibson
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our... Read more

Zen in the Art of Archery - Abridged

By: Eugen Herrigel
Narrated by: Ralph Blum
Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

This intriguing, influential work of literature—an outstanding way to experience Zen—is now available on cd
It is almost impossible to understand Zen by studying it as you would other intellectual pursuits. The best way to understand Zen is, simply, to Zen. This is what author Eugen Herrigel allows us to do by sharing his own fascinating journey... Read more

Rough Magic

Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

By: Lara Prior-Palmer
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

“When Lara Prior-Palmer decided to ride in the 1,000-mile-long horse race known as the Mongol Derby, she had limited prior experience riding horses, almost no time to train for it, and a restless energy she needed to do something with. At the end of a grueling 10 days, she became the youngest person to ever win the world’s longest horse race. In... Read more

Gun, with Occasional Music

By: Jonathan Lethem
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems—not the least of which are the rabbit in his waiting room and the trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is an ominous place where evolved animals function as members of society, the police monitor citizens by their karma levels, and mind-numbing drugs such as Forgettol and Acceptol are all... Read more

The Light Years

A Memoir

By: Chris Rush
Narrated by: Victor Lodato
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

“Rush’s memoir depicts the wild, drug-filled days of his youth with such luminous prose it feels as though we’re with him, careening from one adventure to another. That this book exists is proof that Rush makes it through every situation he encounters, and he brings such generosity to those who were alongside him that it’s impossible not to care... Read more

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

A Novel

By: Haruki Murakami
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
Length: 26 hours 9 minutes

A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then... Read more

Wonder Valley

A Novel

By: Ivy Pochoda
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

“A man running naked among the gridlocked cars of an L.A. freeway is the catalyst for this dark tale set in the rough neighborhoods of a decidedly unglamorous Los Angeles. In this version of the city, it's not only the poor and the powerless who are desperate; even the better-off characters turn out to be broken sinners who crave hope and... Read more

Customs

Poems

By: Solmaz Sharif
Narrated by: Solmaz Sharif
Length: 44 minutes

I said what I meant
but I said it
in velvet. I said it in feathers.
And so one poet reminded me
Remember what you are to them.
Poodle, I said.
And remember what they are to you.
Meat.
—from “Patronage”
In Customs, Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal, a continual series of checkpoints, officers, searches,... Read more

The Dharma Bums

By: Jack Kerouac
Narrated by: Ethan Hawke
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

“ This book is one of those works where it's even better read aloud, the rhythm of the words lending itself well to the narrative. You feel the rhythm of the train cars that Smith hitches rides on, you feel the pulse of the parties where they drink and discuss philosophy until dawn, and you're struck especially by the poetry, which hits much... Read more