BTB Book Club Picks

The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable
Narrated by: Emilia Clarke
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

“Feminist rage, music, historical fiction, and Emilia Clarke as the narrator. The prose is breath takingly captivating, and it's rather easy to get lost and feel as if you are a member at this orphanage. Read more

Cloud Atlas (20th Anniversary Edition)

A Novel

By: David Mitchell
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Kim Mai Guest, Kirby Heyborne, John Lee, Richard Matthews, David Mitchell & Gabrielle Zevin
Length: 20 hours 35 minutes

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction

Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and... Read more

The Ministry of Time

A Novel

By: Kaliane Bradley
Narrated by: George Weightman & Katie Leung
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“A fresh approach to time-travel fiction, this one resists being pigeonholed into any one category. It is funny but not goofy, sexy but not centered around love scenes, science-fictional but not so much that you couldn’t shelve it with the 'regular' fiction, literary yet not un-commercial, realistic about humans’ impact on the earth but not... Read more

Little Fires Everywhere: Reese's Book Club

By: Celeste Ng
Narrated by: Jennifer Lim
Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

“Little Fires Everywhere is a breathtaking novel about art, motherhood, and truth. Mia and her daughter, Pearl, move to the perfectly planned community of Shaker Heights as the last stop on their nomadic adventure, bringing some much-needed permanence to teenager Pearl's life. They both find friendship, but the connections they create with their... Read more

Mad Honey

A Novel

By: Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Narrated by: Carrie Coon, Key Taw, Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

“Mad Honey entranced me by using honeybee metaphors to describe communities, with a provocative plot and one especially memorable character coming to grips with their gender identity. Read more

Psyche and Eros

A Novel

By: Luna McNamara
Narrated by: Rachel Petladwala & Joshua Riley
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“I went into this book blind and was absolutely blown away by the astonishing, magical tale of Psyche and Eros! This is how Greek mythology is meant to be told, felt, and experienced. This novel is about love and sacrifice set against ancient Greece's beautiful and brutal landscape, where the gods roam free and are a force to be reckoned with.... Read more

Untamed

By: Glennon Doyle
Narrated by: Glennon Doyle
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“I read this book non-stop for a week, underlining, reading passages to my friends & recommending it to anyone with a pulse. There are many great stories inside, but their charm & power, really, is all Glennon. She is a spiritual seeker & leader who loves reality tv, a formidable activist on the global scale who gets anxiety sweats... Read more

Hijab Butch Blues

A Memoir

By: Lamya H
Narrated by: Ashraf Shirazi
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“Lamya H details their life from early childhood through adulthood in juxtaposition to stories in the Quran. In doing so, they deliver a profound and masterfully crafted memoir with nuances about their immigrant and queer identity. Hijab Butch Blues is such a beautiful memoir that from the opening chapter felt like a story demanding to be heard... Read more

Is She Really Going Out with Him?

By: Sophie Cousens
Narrated by: Kerry Gilbert
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“If you want a book that feels like you're watching one of your favorite rom com movies, then I 100% recommend this one. It was such a great book! Read more

Beautiful Ugly

A Novel

By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Richard Armitage & Tuppence Middleton
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

“Thriller, mystery, love story all in one. This book let you wondering what was happening until the last page. With twists and turns in the plot, Alice Feeney hooks the reader and doesn't let go. Read more

Moloka'i

By: Alan Brennert
Narrated by: Anne Noelani Miyamoto
Length: 17 hours 29 minutes

The powerful debut novel from Alan Brennert, Moloka'i tells the story of Rachel Kalama, a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl who contracts leprosy and is quarantined on the island of Moloka'i during the 1890s. Separated from her family and forced to grow up in the leper colony of Kalaupapa, Rachel experiences intense isolation. But she remains strong,... Read more

Clytemnestra

By: Costanza Casati
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Length: 14 hours 54 minutes

Monarch. Mother. Murderer. Magnificent.

You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. Because this was not the first offense against you. This was not the life you ever... Read more