Book Club²

The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters
Narrated by: Aaliya Warbus & Jordan Waunch
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

“The four year-old daughter of Indigenous berry pickers is stolen from her family while they are in Maine. Her disappearance will destroy one family and haunt another for decades until the truth comes out. Told in alternating voices by the girl and her brother, this novel is unforgettable. Read more

Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad
Narrated by: Nadia Albina
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“Isabella Hammad's prose is gorgeous and I look forward to reading everything she ever writes, now that I've read everything she's published so far. Sonia was such a nuanced and interesting protagonist and to see Palestine from her outsider/insider POV was such a joy, but left a strange aftertaste (compliment) that made me want to keep reading. Read more

The Hero of This Book

A Novel

By: Elizabeth McCracken
Narrated by: Elizabeth McCracken
Length: 4 hours 32 minutes

“This is a quiet book – and I say this as someone who lacks patience for quiet books – but I loved this one anyway. In The Hero of This Book, an American woman, a writer, spends a Sunday wandering the streets of London, and as she does, she thinks about her mother who recently died. To quote the unnamed writer/narrator, 'I kept walking. It's not... Read more

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

A novel

By: Lorrie Moore
Narrated by: Sophie Amoss
Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and romantic), and the vanishing and persistence of all things—seen... Read more

Migrations

A Novel

By: Charlotte McConaghy
Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“Franny has always longed to be like a bird—free, wandering wherever she likes. In a future world where most animal species have become extinct, her last wish is to follow a flock of Arctic Terns along their last migration—from North Pole to South. She talks her way onto a commercial fishing boat named for the Raven and faces a treacherous... Read more

Lone Women

A Novel

By: Victor LaValle
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

“A great mixture of historical fiction and horror through the unique lens of a woman on the Western Frontier - it’s a chilling tale that touches on the trauma we carry and how we reckon with our past. Read more

Mercury Pictures Presents

A Novel

By: Anthony Marra
Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

“Finally, a new novel from the author of A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena! Mercury Pictures Presents is an intricately researched look at Mussolini's Italy and the government mandated Hollywood propaganda machine of WWII. Following a wide and alive cast of immigrants trying to reinvent themselves to fit in a sharp and changing world, this novel... Read more

Vladimir

A Novel

By: Julia May Jonas
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

“A diverting fun read. The themes of academic privilege, student sensitivity, aging, lust, and self-image are well done, and it has some great food descriptions. It made me giggle. Read more

Glory

A Novel

By: NoViolet Bulawayo
Narrated by: Chipo Chung
Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST

“Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review

"Genius."—#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds

From the award-winning author of the... Read more

Sirens & Muses

A Novel

By: Antonia Angress
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

“Wow! This debut is an astonishingly assured and sophisticated novel about the art world. Set in a Pratt-like school of art, it depicts the trials and tribulations of a trio of art students and a hapless middle-aged artist, no longer productive, who supports himself with gigs in one school after another. Angress writes superbly about the act of... Read more

The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich
Narrated by: Louise Erdrich
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

“A heartfelt and occasionally hilarious account of life and work at an independent bookstore through the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. While the reflections on family and pandemic life are cathartic, this book is also about identity and how our history and present shape it. Through encounters with the ghost of a troublesome lifelong customer, and the... Read more

The Last White Man

A Novel

By: Mohsin Hamid
Narrated by: Mohsin Hamid
Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

“The Last White Man is a thought provoking work of literature filled with empathy and depth that dives beyond the superficial, and explores the depths of what it truly means to be human. Ander awakens one morning to find that his skin has turned dark overnight. Confusion and fear become Ander’s companions. Why did this happen? Will he be accepted... Read more

Other People's Clothes

A Novel

By: Calla Henkel
Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this “hugely entertaining” (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense of humor.
 
“Darkly funny, psychologically rich and utterly addictive... [a] harrowing tale of twisty female friendships,... Read more

Fight Night

By: Miriam Toews
Narrated by: Miriam Toews & Georgia Toews
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“How my bookseller heart leapt when I heard there was a new Miriam Toews novel on the horizon! This tender, funny family portrait, narrated by nine-year-old Swiv in a letter to her estranged father, had me in stitches and in tears and introduced me to a grandmother I won’t soon forget. Read more

Something Wild

A Novel

By: Hanna Halperin
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

"Propulsive . . . . Good books sometimes cut to the bone, and this one feels like a scythe." —The New York Times Book Review

"This wise, brilliant novel is so special, so overflowing with honesty and love—about motherhood, sisterhood, what it’s like to be a woman—that every paragraph feels like an epiphany. Hanna Halperin knows the fierce love... Read more

My Year Abroad

A Novel

By: Chang-rae Lee
Narrated by: Lawrence Kao
Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire

“A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review

“An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and... Read more

Lakewood

A Novel

By: Megan Giddings
Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“Lena just lost her grandmother, her mother has health problems and to top of off they are having financial problems. Lena takes a mysterious job in hopes help her mother and to pay off bills. Lakewood takes you into a dark world of medical testing where human rights are disregarded. This whole story felt more than real and makes you question how... Read more

little scratch

A Novel

By: Rebecca Watson
Narrated by: Ell Potter, Elizabeth Knowelden, PJ Ochlan & Steve West
Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

"Extraordinary"--THE NEW YORKER

In the formally innovative tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport comes a dazzlingly original, shot-in-the-arm of a debut that reveals a young woman's every thought over the course of one deceptively ordinary day.

She wakes up, goes to work. Watches the clock and checks her phone. But... Read more

Red Clocks

A Novel

By: Leni Zumas
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

“I never understood what it meant for someone's writing to be 'lyrical' until I picked up Red Clocks. With beautiful prose, Leni Zumas tells the story of a young girl seeking an abortion in a world where abortion is illegal and dangerous; a woman on the quest to have children when in-vitro fertilization is illegal and folks aren't allowed to... Read more

Nights When Nothing Happened

A Novel

By: Simon Han
Narrated by: James Chen
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

“Most anyone who grows up in a suburb knows these neighborhoods are not always what they purport to be. Simon Han, in his dazzling debut, blows the curtains wide open on the actual lives a onetime model home might conceal. Deftly shifting time frames and points of view, he gives a piercing, often funny, and deeply moving account of a Chinese... Read more