Picks of the Month

Dayswork

A Novel

By: Jennifer Habel & Chris Bachelder
Narrated by: Janet Metzger
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.



In the endless days of the pandemic, a woman spends her time sorting fact from fiction in the life and work of Herman Melville. As she delves into Melville's impulsive purchase of a Massachusetts farmhouse, his fevered revision of Moby-Dick there, his intense... Read more

Once Upon a Prime

The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

By: Sarah Hart
Narrated by: Sarah Hart
Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

This program is read by the author.

"An exuberant enthusiasm for mathematics (and life in general) shines through Dr. Hart." —The New York Times

“An absolute joy to read!" —Steven Levitt, New York Times bestselling author of Freakonomics

"Listeners, however well versed in literature and mathematics, or not, will relish author/narrator Sarah Hart's... Read more

Liliana's Invincible Summer (Pulitzer Prize winner)

A Sister's Search for Justice

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

“Liliana of the title has been thirty years dead at the writing of this book but Cristina Rivera Garza brings her sister in her into full three-dimensional view with this book. Written as only a poet can write, Liliana's Invincible Summer is the story of a vivacious college student murdered at the hands of her ex-boyfriend. The ex-boyfriend is... 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 captivating cast of characters and highly provocative plot make this a page turner to the very end. After many years, Bodie returns to visit her boarding school where her roommate died under suspicious circumstances. While there, she is startled to re-examine that event through today’s filters and starts asking new questions about privilege... Read more

Murder Your Employer

The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes
Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris & Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“Wickedly funny is the perfect description for this comedic thriller from Edgar Award-winning author Rupert Holmes. Wicked, because, the premise of this novel is the existence of a secret school dedicated to learning how to commit the perfect murder. Funny, because this novel is filled with word play, dry humor, witty twists, and characters you... Read more

I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger
Narrated by: David Aaron Baker
Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

“It’s set in the near future America where societal collapse has happened after irreversible climate change and evil people are in charge, hopelessness abounds. Lake Superior is so beautifully and vividly described that she felt like a character herself. The main character Rainy was especially likable. He was tough, resilient, clever, sweet and... Read more

Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman
Narrated by: John Hastings
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day,... Read more

The Dog of the North

A Novel

By: Elizabeth McKenzie
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“This is a story about a woman left adrift after her parents disappear. She's left her husband, is contending with the most cantankerous and unusual grandmother I've ever met, a frustrated sister, a soothing and brilliant grandfather, and an accountant and his brother. There's a trip to Australia, a love twist, mysteries to resolve, and so much... Read more

VenCo

A Novel

By: Cherie Dimaline
Narrated by: Michelle St. John
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

“Rage, love, and hope permeate every page of Dimaline’s newest epic novel. Witches rise from the ashes, forming covens to save the world from the patriarchal capitalist practices that left it in flames. A North American coven is gathering, picked by spoons blessed by an ancestor and maybe fate itself. VenCo is an excellent story with beautifully... Read more

Moby Dyke

An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America

By: Krista Burton
Narrated by: Sarah Beth Pfeifer
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

“Follow author Krista Burton as she embarks on a pilgrimage to the last remaining lesbian bars in the country. Part memoir, part travel essays, part social history of why lesbian bars are important, this book is both enlightening and delightful (and will make you want to sing Goodbye Earl at your next queer karaoke night). Read more

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days

The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner
Narrated by: Rebecca Donner
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award 
Winner of the Chautauqua Prize
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award
Finalist for the Plutarch Award
A New York Times Notable Book of 2021
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New... Read more

The Postcard

By: Anne Berest
Narrated by: Barrie Kealoha
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“Wrapped around the mystery of a postcard sent in the mail, this is the story of three generations of a French Jewish family impacted by the Holocaust. Heartbreaking, beautiful, mysterious, and informative. Based on archival research, interviews, and family documents, the author tells this factual story using the tools of fiction for dialogue, an... Read more

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

The Fight for Our Future

By: Maria Ressa
Narrated by: Maria Ressa & Rebecca Mozo
Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account.Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades, she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines, on its rocky... Read more

How to Catch a Mole

Wisdom from a Life Lived in Nature

By: Marc Hamer
Narrated by: Marc Hamer
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

“Sublimely touching (and with the softest of hands), this book has that balance of warmth and cold that makes for good nature writing. Hamer’s observations demonstrate both a refusal to look away and a tender love for the environment around him. His memoir of a life spent catching moles waxes and wanes, at times gruesome, sensual, violent, and... Read more

Fellowship Point

A Novel

By: Alice Elliott Dark
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 19 hours 32 minutes

“I am loving the audio of Fellowship Point so much that I am going to read it again in paper immediately! Set in Philadelphia and the coast of Maine across the 20th century, Fellowship Point traces the lifelong friendship between two women now in their 80's, Agnes a writer and Polly a wife and mother, who's friendship nears a breaking point as... Read more

Unraveling

What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein
Narrated by: Peggy Orenstein
Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

“Peggy Orenstein creates a pandemic project of knitting a sweater from start to finish — as in shearing the sheep, dying the wool, creating the pattern. Orenstein is smart, funny, curious, and self-reflective. I would recommend this to anyone who knits and to those of us who don't knit but love hearing about the process, who have children leaving... Read more

Brave the Wild River

The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

“A wonderful true tale of two women who joined a crew of men on a Grand Canyon river exploration in 1938. At a time when women weren’t considered capable they had to win the confidence of the sponsors, the media and their fellow explorers. Exciting descriptions of running the rapids, near death experiences and interesting characters. And guess... Read more

The Bandit Queens

A Novel

By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

“The dark and hilarious escapades of a women's loan group plagued by abusive husbands in a small Indian village. While the topics are serious and all too real, Shroff handles them with wit, wickedly sharp humor, and occasional absurdity, making for a reflective read that will have you laughing out loud. Nankani's excellent narration will have you... Read more

Girly Drinks

A World History of Women and Alcohol

By: Mallory O'Meara
Narrated by: Mallory O'Meara
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

“What! A! Book! As an avid nonfiction reader I don't say this lightly: Girly Drinks might be one of the best written 'untold stories' I've ever come across. O'Meara covers several centuries and nearly every continent in this sweeping history. Her tone is playful without dismissing the importance of her record-correcting work. Girly Drinks updated... Read more

Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger
Narrated by: Chad Lowe
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Born with no air in his lungs, it was only when Reuben Land's father, Jeremiah, picked him up and commanded him to breathe that Reuben's lungs filled. Reuben struggles with debilitating asthma from then on, making him a boy who knows firsthand that life is a gift, and also one who suspects that his father is touched by God and can overturn the... Read more