Winter Inkslinger Faves

I Have Some Questions for You

A Novel

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

“A podcaster returns to the scene of a crime committed when she was a teen. With fresh eyes, she and students take another look into the murder. Gets into the ethics of re-examining an old murder, of social justice, how crimes are investigated. Read more

Your Driver Is Waiting

A Novel

By: Priya Guns
Narrated by: Priya Guns
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

“In this book full of snappy writing and clever digs, we follow a few days in the life of a queer Sri Lankan woman whose main hustle is driving for a ride-share in an anonymous big city. Constant urban protests capture the current zeitgeist and Damani's underemployed and over-educated friends want to fight oppression. This book examines class... Read more

Really Good, Actually

A Novel

By: Monica Heisey
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

“Very millenial-core in a way i find extremely comforting. the dialogue, group-chats, and inner monologue all felt very real and very Womanhood (TM). This is the perfect book to recommend anyone, and I love the audiobook narrator and that definitely added to the experience of the book. Read more

The Farewell Tour

A Novel

By: Stephanie Clifford
Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

“Carrington MacDuffie (the narrator) brings Clifford's Water Lil, a Nashville country singer by way of Walla Walla, WA to life with a perfect raspy voice and twangy sound. The story of Lillian Waters is a wild ride full of deep personal moments propelled by the evolution of country music and American history. Listening to Lillian's 'hell-bent'... Read more

Stone Blind

A Novel

By: Natalie Haynes
Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

“This is not just a book about Medusa, it's about the gods who use her, her gorgon sisters, her killer Perseus...and her head. Haynes grounds these characters in the original mythology so well that that each voice is distinct, every action and mistake preceded by its motivating circumstance, and each monster shown with respect and humanity. It is... Read more

Looking for Jane

A Novel

By: Heather Marshall
Narrated by: Sarah Borges
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories.

2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a... Read more

The Applicant

By: Nazli Koca
Narrated by: Günes Sensoy
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

It’s 2017 and Leyla, a Turkish twentysomething living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland–themed hostel after failing her thesis, losing her student visa, and suing her German university in a Kafkaesque attempt to reverse her fate.Increasingly distant from what used to be at arm’s reach—writerly ambitions, tight-knit... Read more

The New Life

A Novel

By: Tom Crewe
Narrated by: Freddie Fox
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, the Prix du Premier Roman Étranger, the Sunday Times Young Writer Award, the Betty Trask Prize, and the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Times (London) • The Sunday Times (London) Novel of the Year... Read more

The World and All That It Holds

A Novel

By: Aleksandar Hemon
Narrated by: Aleksandar Mikic
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

"Narrator Aleksandar Mikic's enchanting narration gives voice to the interplay of romance and violence." - Booklist

"The audiobook is performed in epic fashion by Bosnian actor Aleksandar Mikic, whose accents and syntax embody the many people Rafael meets as he journeys from Saravejo to Shanghai in his quest to escape war and persecution."-... Read more

Victory City

A Novel

By: Salman Rushdie
Narrated by: Sid Sagar
Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of the Year • “Victory City is... Read more

GO AS A RIVER

A Novel

By: Shelley Read
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSet amid Colorado’s wild beauty, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story of a resilient young woman whose life is changed forever by one chance encounter. A tragic and uplifting novel of love and loss, family and survival—and hope—for readers of Great Circle, The Four Winds, and Where the Crawdads Sing.Seventeen-year-old... Read more