Reading Is a Lifestyle

Didn't See That Coming

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Risa Mei
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL until she unwittingly transfers to his school, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties, The Obsession, and Well, That Was Unexpected.

Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl... Read more

Godly Heathens

A Novel

The Ouroboros: Book #1

By: H.E. Edgmon
Narrated by: Avi Roque
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world.

Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I’m not one.

Gem Echols is a nonbinary Seminole teen living in the tiny town of Gracie, Georgia. Known for being... Read more

Absolution

A Novel

By: Alice McDermott
Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky & Rachel Kenney
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

"Both narrators bring deep emotional tonality...this exceptional listen will foster deep book club discussions." - Booklist

"Alternately gripping, moving, and thought-provoking...this is an audiobook to savor." - AudioFile

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book... Read more

The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac

Stories

By: Louise Kennedy
Narrated by: Brid Brennan
Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Brilliant, dark stories of women’s lives by “a very major talent” (Joseph O’Connor, Irish Times)

In these visceral, stunningly crafted stories by the author of the much-acclaimed Trespasses, women’s lives are etched by poverty—material, emotional, sexual—but also splashed by beauty, sometimes even joy, as they search for the good in the cards... Read more

The Kingdom of Sweets

A Novel of the Nutcracker

By: Erika Johansen
Narrated by: Grace Gray
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

This gloriously transportive reimagining of The Nutcracker tells the tale of twin sisters, divided by envy and magic, set against each another one fateful Christmas Eve.

Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming... Read more

The Other Half

Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp: Book #1

By: Charlotte Vassell
Narrated by: Imogen Wilde & Michael Muyunda
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“First in a series about British Detective Camus Beauchamp, this mystery takes us into London’s high society to solve the murder of one of the gentry’s ‘It’ girls. DI Beauchamp is intriguing — I’m looking forward to more of his cases. Read more

The Curse of Penryth Hall

By: Jess Armstrong
Narrated by: Emma Love
Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She’s always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the... Read more

Wren Martin Ruins It All

By: Amanda DeWitt
Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

From the author of Aces Wild comes a hilarious and compassionate romantic comedy for fans of Casey McQuiston and Netflix’s Love Is Blind!
Now that Wren Martin is student council president (on a technicality, but hey, it counts) he’s going to fix Rapture High. His first order of business: abolish the school’s annual Valentine’s Day dance, a drain... Read more

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces

By: Linda Cheng
Narrated by: Elaine Wang
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

"A glittering, gory page-turner, Gorgeous Gruesome Faces is your next obsession." ―Gina Chen, New York Times-bestselling author of Violet Made of Thorns

Yellowjackets meets She Is a Haunting in this spine-tingling sapphic thriller that follows a disgraced teen idol who comes face to face with the demons of her past in a glittering, cutthroat... Read more

Search History

A Novel

By: Amy Taylor
Narrated by: Maddy Withington
Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

“Curious about a new guy, Ana falls into a social media sinkhole when she sees her predecessor: gorgeous, blonde, and dead. . . . This propulsive debut will give you chills.”—People (Best Books Fall 2023)

“A serious blend of Fleabag and Rebecca with the pulse of modern-day existence.”—Weike Wang, author of Joan Is Okay

The truth could be just a... Read more

A Nearby Country Called Love

A Novel

By: Salar Abdoh
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal
Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

A sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting

Amid the alleyways of the Zamzam neighborhood of Tehran, a woman lights herself on fire in a desperate act of defiance, setting off a chain reaction of violence... Read more

A Power Unbound

The Last Binding: Book #3

By: Freya Marske
Narrated by: Josh Dylan
Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

A Power Unbound is the final entry in Freya Marske’s beloved, award-winning Last Binding trilogy, the queer historical fantasy series that began with A Marvellous Light.

"Josh Dylan gives a stand-out performance in this stunning conclusion to the Last Binding trilogy...action and romance come together in a richly written and beautifully performed... Read more

Love in Winter Wonderland

By: Abiola Bello
Narrated by: Ben Bailey Smith & Nneka Okoye
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Charming, handsome Trey Anderson balances the pressures of school popularity with a job at his family’s beloved local bookshop, Wonderland, London’s oldest Black-owned bookstore.
Quirky, creative Ariel Spencer needs tuition for the prestigious art program of her dreams, and an opening at Wonderland is the answer.
When Trey and Ariel learn that... Read more

Forgive Me Not

By: Jennifer Baker
Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Ryan Alexander Holmes
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

In this searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one teen in detention weighs what she is willing to endure for forgiveness.

All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels’ life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing the accident that kills her little sister, Violetta is... Read more

A Prayer for Vengeance

By: Leanne Schwartz
Narrated by: Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours

An orphan out to find the truth within a warped religion turns his poetry into prayer—a prayer that awakens a cursed girl hungry for revenge.

Centuries after a miracle vanquished Tresttato's monsters and turned the soldiers fighting them to stone, Milo lovingly tends to the statues of those who protected the city. Raised with devout templars... Read more

A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens

A Novel

By: Raul Palma
Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil’s bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.

Hugo Contreras’s world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo’s debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffles between his... Read more

They Called Us Exceptional

And Other Lies That Raised Us

By: Prachi Gupta
Narrated by: Prachi Gupta
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“In this vulnerable and courageous memoir, Prachi Gupta takes the myth of the exceptional Indian American family to task. . . . [Her] resilience and her hope to be fully seen are an inspiration in both personal and political terms.”—The Washington Post

“I read it in one sitting. Wow. It aims right at the tender spot where racism, sexism, and... Read more

Together We Rot

By: Skyla Arndt
Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Jesse Vilinsky
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

A teen girl looking for the truth about her missing mother forms a reluctant alliance with her former best friend...in exchange for hiding him from his cult-leading family.

“All hail the new queen of YA horrormance! Arndt’s unputdownable debut crackles with wit and seethes with terrors just beneath the surface. Equal parts tender and grisly,... Read more

My Father, The Panda Killer

By: Jamie Jo Hoang
Narrated by: Quyen Ngo
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

A poignant coming-of-age story told in two alternating voices: a California teenager railing against the Vietnamese culture, juxtaposed with her father as an eleven-year-old boat person on a harrowing and traumatic refugee journey from Vietnam to the United States.

“A profoundly moving, achingly resonant story of love, family, and coming of age... Read more

A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults)

My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars

By: Hakeem Oluseyi & Joshua Horwitz
Narrated by: Hakeem Oluseyi
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

A NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation's top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring coming-of-age memoir.

Born into extreme poverty and emotional deprivation, James Edward Plummer was blessed with a genius I.Q. and a love of science.... Read more