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The First Bright Thing

By: J.R. Dawson
Narrated by: Petrea Burchard & Tim Campbell
Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

“The First Bright Thing is one of those books that from the very first page you feel like you're falling into the story itself. Read more

The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer
Narrated by: Miranda Raison
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Named a best historical novel of the year by The New York Times Book Review and “reminiscent of both The Scarlet Letter and Hamnet” (Jezebel), The Witching Tide is a powerful debut inspired by the true events behind a deadly witch hunt in 17th-century England.

East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer, and servant, has lived... Read more

The Golden Spoon

A Novel

By: Jessa Maxwell
Narrated by: Andrea Emmes, Andy Garcia-Ruse, Graham Halstead, Kitty Hendrix, Kamran Khan, Jackie Sanders, André Santana & Emily Tremaine
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“A surprising and delightful combination of Agatha Christie and The Great British Baking Show, The Golden Spoon will sweep you off your feet and into a world of cakes, pies and gruesome murders! When six amateur bakers show up at Grafton Manor to compete on Bake Week, the long running television baking show, the well planned competition quickly... Read more

A Most Agreeable Murder

A Novel

By: Julia Seales
Narrated by: Fiona Hampton
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“A light romp of a murder mystery that both honors and pokes fun at Jane Austen's worlds of manners above all. Perfect for fans of cozy mysteries. Read more

A Deadly Education

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #1

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Galadriel Higgins has known the rules of the Scholamance were cruel, but if the deadly monsters don't get to Orion Lake first, then she will. He has saved her an embarrassingly number of times even when she was perfectly capable of doing it on her own. Her mind is made up, only one of them is surviving until graduation, even if the current... Read more

She Who Became the Sun

The Radiant Emperor Duology: Book #1

By: Shelley Parker-Chan
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

“Zhu’s tooth-and-nail fight for her destiny merges hero and antihero into a transcendent figure with an incomparably strong will. She Who Became the Sun carves out a bold and bloody new genre of epic fantasy. Read more

The Last Graduate

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #2

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

“The final year of Galadriel's run at the Scholomance is quite the doozy. The last thing you'd think would arrive at the end would be hope, but that's the strongest feeling imbued into this book. Against the odds and running against the clock you'll find yourself anxiously awaiting the finale. Read more

The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon. The town of Stone in the Glen used to be lovely, but it hasn’t been so in a very long time. 

Once a celebrated town with a vibrant town... Read more

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

By: Shelby Van Pelt
Narrated by: Marin Ireland & Michael Urie
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“Meet a hardworking widow, a lost soul, and a giant Pacific octopus (yes, an octopus) in this heartfelt story that reveals there’s still plenty of living to do for those with their eyes — and hearts — open to the unexpected. A bright debut! Read more

Booth

By: Karen Joy Fowler
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Best Book of the Year
Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living

Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth.

In 1822, a... Read more

When Women Were Dragons

A Novel

By: Kelly Barnhill
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr & Mark Bramhall
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

“The Lottery meets The Handmaid's Tale. Read more

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

Monk & Robot: Book #1

By: Becky Chambers
Narrated by: Em Grosland
Length: 4 hours 8 minutes

“It’s far into the future on an unnamed moon. Humanity has learned to live in harmony without fossil fuels and, generations before, the robots were set free to pursue their own existence. A charming meditation on the meaning of life. Read more

Hester

A Novel

By: Laurie Lico Albanese
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

“I listened to Hester via Libro.fm and loved the book. I was originally a little hesitant but that quickly went away once the story began to unwind. Hester is the fictionalized story of the woman who inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's Hester Prynn in The Scarlet Letter. But this story is so much more than that. It is the story of a woman who... Read more

The Golden Enclaves

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #3

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

“The narrator perfectly catches snarky, sarcastic, and grouchy main character, Galadriel. A super fun and interesting trilogy! Read more

Wildoak

By: C. C. Harrington
Narrated by: Camilia O'Grady
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

When the fates of a snow leopard, a child, and an ancient forest collide, the unimaginable can happen. Perfect for fans of Pax and The One and Only Ivan.**Winner of the 2023 Schneider Family Book Award!*** "Nuanced and empowering." - Publisher's Weekly, starred review* "Memorably atmospheric." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Immersive." - The... Read more

Kiss Her Once for Me

A Novel

By: Alison Cochrun
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

“Love can be a messy affair, especially when you agree to fake marry an attractive man for money and have to spend the holidays with his family, not knowing that his sister is your ex and the sister's best friend was your fiance's ex. Oh boy! Love is in the air, holiday traditions are everywhere, and everyone is a bit of a mess. This is a fun... Read more

Firekeeper's Daughter

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“Firekeeper's Daughter is a wonder! We so rarely hear YA through an Indigenous people's voice and this book does it so very well. Main character Daunis Lorenzo Fontaine lives a fine line between her white French Canadian mother and her Ojibwe father in a complicated family dynamic. She is smart, hockey talented, driven, and tenacious as she... Read more

Yerba Buena

A Novel

By: Nina LaCour
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

“In Yerba Buena, two women in early adulthood navigate out of their traumatic teenage years. Sara Foster ran away from home at 16 and has created a new life as a bartender in LA. Emilie Dubois feels directionless and is still an undergrad after switching majors too many times. Nina LaCour’s debut adult novel shows us a love that tries to... Read more

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

A Novel

By: Shannon Chakraborty
Narrated by: Lameece Issaq & Amin El Gamal
Length: 16 hours 59 minutes

“LOVED this pirate adventure story! Protagonist is an older woman going on one last adventure, and she is BADASS AF. Super fun, and the audiobook was extremely well done! One of my favorite reads of 2023! Read more