Bookseller Karlie's Audio Reccomendations

What Happened to You?

Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

By: Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
Narrated by: Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“A must read. Even better as an audio book - but grab a physical copy to jot notes in! Read more

The Teachers

A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins
Narrated by: Alexandra Robbins
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

A National Bestseller

*Winner of the 2024 DKG International Educators Book Award*

A riveting, must-read, year-in-the-life account of three teachers, combined with reporting that reveals what’s really going on behind school doors, by New York Times bestselling author and education expert Alexandra Robbins.

Alexandra Robbins goes behind the scenes to... Read more

The 57 Bus

A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives

By: Dashka Slater
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

The riveting New York Times bestseller and Stonewall Book Award winner that will make you rethink all you know about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment. Artfully, compassionately, and expertly told, Dashka Slater's The 57 Bus is a must-read nonfiction book for teens that chronicles the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by... Read more

The Secret Book of Flora Lea

A Novel

By: Patti Callahan Henry
Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo & Patti Callahan Henry
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

“Beautifully written and entrancing from the start, The Secret Book of Flora Lea had me wondering at first if the sister really had disappeared with the fairies - that's how magical the world feels, despite the real trauma these characters were going through in WWII. Told in dual timelines, Hazel's voice is captivating and I was rooting for her... Read more

All Boys Aren't Blue

A Memoir-Manifesto

By: George M. Johnson
Narrated by: George M. Johnson
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

“Both a primer for teens eager to be allies, as well as a reassuring testimony for young queer men of color, All Boys Aren’t Blue covers topics such as gender identity, toxic masculinity, brotherhood, family, structural marginalization, consent and black joy. Johnson’s writing weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by black queer boys. If... Read more

Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 5 hours 40 minutes

“A succinct discussion of the causes, effects, and potential changes required to eradicate poverty in the United States. Read more

Why Smart Kids Worry

And What Parents Can Do to Help

By: Allison Edwards
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Being the parent of a smart child is great—until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often let their imaginations run wild and experience fears beyond their years. So what can you do to help?



In Why... Read more

Quietly Hostile

Essays

By: Samantha Irby
Narrated by: Samantha Irby
Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

“Samantha Irby, modern classic pop culture humorist, holds nothing back in her latest essay collection, whose topics range from how to stay relentlessly positive in the face of the incurably judgmental to ways to ruin Sex and the City (she wrote for the reboot) to too-real family (mis)connections to the time she almost died. Irby’s life and... Read more

The Wind Knows My Name

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Maria Liatis
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The lives of a Jewish boy escaping Nazi-occupied Europe and a mother and daughter fleeing twenty-first-century El Salvador intersect in this ambitious, intricate novel about war and immigration” (People), from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea and Violeta

“Timely, provocative . . . emotionally satisfying . . . [a... Read more

Prisoner B-3087

By: Alan Gratz, Ruth Gruener & Jack Gruener
Narrated by: Steven Kaplan
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Survive. At any cost.10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have... Read more

The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only

By: Katherine Applegate
Narrated by: Adam Grupper
Length: 3 hours 46 minutes

The #1 New York Times bestselling and Newbery Award-winning novel The One and Only Ivan is now a major motion picture streaming on Disney+
This unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendship. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated... Read more

Man Enough

Undefining My Masculinity

By: Justin Baldoni
Narrated by: Justin Baldoni
Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

From the director, executive producer, and star of IT ENDS WITH US Justin Baldoni, a gripping, deeply honest, fearless personal and societal exploration of masculinity and what it means to be a man.The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues of our time. In this engaging and provocative... Read more

They Both Die at the End

They Both Die at the End Series: Book #1

By: Adam Silvera
Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Robbie Daymond & Bahni Turpin
Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

“Embarking on this literary journey, you brace yourself for the emotional impact, and yet, the characters draw you in, making you invest in their stories. Despite the anticipated heartache, there's an inexplicable connection that forms, prompting reflection on what one would do if faced with the certainty of the end. Post-reading, a lingering... Read more

A Molecule Away from Madness

Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin
Narrated by: Ann Richardson
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

A neurologist regales readers with extraordinary stories of the brain under siege.Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the very molecules that allow us to exist can also sabotage our minds. Here are true accounts of unruly molecules and the diseases that form in their wake, from total loss... Read more

Big Tree

By: Brian Selznick
Narrated by: Meryl Streep
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

A 2024 Grammy Nominee for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording!The fate of all life on Earth may depend on the bravery of two little seeds in this epic adventure from the #1 New York Times bestselling creator and Caldecott Medalist of The Invention of Hugo Cabret."The tale of the natural world is the greatest story we have to... Read more