Best Audiobooks of 2023...So Far

Murder Most Royal

A Novel

Her Majesty the Queen Investigates: Book #3

By: SJ Bennett
Narrated by: Jane Copland
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing—and was possibly murdered—near Sandringham House sets Queen Elizabeth II on the path to discover unsavory family secrets and much more in this new installment of the series the New York Times Book Review calls “sheer entertainment.”
Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas... Read more

Rayleigh Mann in the Company of Monsters

By: Ciannon Smart
Narrated by: Jake Fairbrother
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

""A dangerously good time!""—Kwame Mbalia, #1 New York Times bestselling author“This enchanting world will grab hold and never let go. Triumphant!” — Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Marvellers Enter the world of Below London, the magical home of monsters, where causing a ruckus is the best thing you can do.Notorious... Read more

Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein

A Novel

By: Anne Eekhout
Narrated by: Ell Potter
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

“A beautiful, hallucinatory dream of a novel.” –J.M. Miro, Author of the National Bestseller Ordinary Monsters“A fantastically moody, unsettling novel.""–Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests and FingersmithA ""bold ... hypnotic"" (The New Yorker) reimagining of Mary Shelley’s youth, vividly exploring innocence,... Read more

Enchanted to Meet You

A Witches of West Harbor Novel

By: Meg Cabot
Narrated by: Piper Goodeve & Tim Paige
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force—but will she be able to protect her heart?It’s Magic When You Meet Your MatchIn her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and... Read more

Murder in the Family

A Novel

By: Cara Hunter
Narrated by: Lisa Armytage, Olivia Dowd, Rupert Farley, James Goode & Colin Mace
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

ONE BODY. SIX EXPERTS. CAN YOU SOLVE THE CASE BEFORE THEY DO?Mega-bestselling British crime novelist Cara Hunter makes her big American debut with a wholly immersive thriller like none you've seen before: written as the teleplay of a true-crime documentary, it has the reader puzzling away, reviewing photos, maps, coroner's reports and other... Read more

The List

A Novel

By: Yomi Adegoke
Narrated by: Sheila Atim & Arinzé Kene
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

“The List is a tense and agonizing look at the power of social media. When one half of the internet sweetheart couple crowned #couplegoals, #blacklove, is put on a list of abusers, his fiancé will have to decide what to do next. Told with alternating viewpoints between Ola and Michael, this is audio book perfection. Read more

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

A Novel

By: Nina Simon
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer
Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.“I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter."" —Reese WitherspoonThink: Gilmore Girls, but with murder.High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to... Read more

Queen Hereafter

A Novel

By: Isabelle Schuler
Narrated by: Sara Vickers
Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

“I am a Shakespearean nerd to my core, so I obviously was not going to pass up a retelling of Lady Macbeth. In short it is an awesome story of drive, determination, and the will to survive. When you are prophesied to be the greatest force a country has ever seen as a child, it can definitely go to your head as is the case in Queen Hereafter.... Read more

Kill Show

A True Crime Novel

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker
Narrated by: Megan Tusing, Desmond Manny, Pun Bandhu, Melissa Redmond, Byron Wagner, Christine Lakin, Stacy Gonzalez, Xe Sands, Fred Sanders, Sara Morsey, Chris McLinden & Robert Fass
Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

“Riveting, original, and chillingly plausible, Kill Show is both an urgent reckoning with the ethics of true crime and a tense mystery in its own right. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Flynn Berry, Edgar Award–winning author of Northern SpyWhen sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national... Read more

Penance

A Novel

By: Eliza Clark
Narrated by: Hollie-Jay Bowes, Anna Gilthorpe, Emily Goldie, Evie Hargreaves, Salima Saxton & George Weightman
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

One of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023 “Eliza Clark’s writing embraces the socially unacceptable and wryly explores themes of gender, power, and violence.”—Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 2023“Chilling, clever, and unputdownable.”—GuardianFrom the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of... Read more

The Happy Couple

A Novel

By: Naoise Dolan
Narrated by: Ayoola Smart & Bert Seymour
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

“Celine and Luke are supposed to be a happy couple - it's why they're engaged. However, this portrait of their engagement is rendered by many hands, including family members and exes, who all want to have their say on the coupling. Humor, romance, secrets, and doubts persist as the wedding day looms closer. A thoughtful and clever picture of a... Read more

Win Lose Kill Die

By: Cynthia Murphy
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

A high-school slasher with a lethal twist, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson! The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school's best and brightest, the pressure is on.

Failure is fatal...

At the historic Morton Academy, a school for high-achievers, everyone ... Read more

The Society for Soulless Girls

By: Laura Steven
Narrated by: Marisa Calin & Ell Potter
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Welcome to Carvell Academy. . . darkness awaits. This twisty thriller by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Infinite Fates follows two roommates who must solve an infamous cold case on their campus after a new victim is claimed.

"A modern gothic gem."—Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author

Ten years ago, four students... Read more

Perfectly Nice Neighbors

By: Kia Abdullah
Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“One of my ten best reads of the year. Easy five stars.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This is True

A twisty and consuming thriller, Perfectly Nice Neighbors asks: When your dream home comes with nightmare neighbors, how far will you go to keep your family safe?

    Salma Khatun is hopeful about Blenheim, the suburban... Read more

Lazy City

A Novel

By: Rachel Connolly
Narrated by: Ruby Campbell
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

A “truly extraordinary” (Bassey Ikpi) debut novel of modern Belfast that sings a tender hymn to messy love, quiet grief, and the hangovers in between.
Back home after abruptly leaving graduate school in London, Erin numbly teeters through the shock of losing her best friend to an accident she doesn’t want to talk about—especially with her mother.... Read more

Gwen & Art Are Not in Love

A Novel

By: Lex Croucher
Narrated by: Alex Singh & Sarah Ovens
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

“Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher is a queer Arthurian YA rom-com, and it is such a fun romp. It hits all the emotional pitches and has everything you want from a medieval story: a little bit of magic, a tournament, betrayal, subterfuge, romance, and social mishaps. Don't tell the others, but Sydney is my favorite character. I... Read more

The Changing Man

By: Tomi Oyemakinde
Narrated by: Afolabi Alli & Fola Evans-Akingbola
Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school’s decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative thriller by Tomi Oyemakinde

Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE.

If it was left to her, Ife Adebola wouldn’t be starting at Nithercott School. Because despite her being in the Urban... Read more

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

A Novel

By: Michiko Aoyama
Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Susan Momoko Hingley, Kenichiro Thomson, Winson Ting & Shiro Kawai
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

“In a series of heartwarming vignettes Aoyama reminds us of the magic of books and the unexpected treasures we can find when we open our hearts and minds to new possibilities. In each tale, the protagonist, intentionally or not so intentionally, finds themself in the library requesting books on a topic they believe they need to research in order... Read more

Herc

A Novel

By: Phoenicia Rogerson
Narrated by: Full Cast, Kristin Atherton, Marlowe Chan-Reeves, Loreece Harrison, Maryam Grace, Sebastian Humphreys, Jay Lafayette Valentine, Theo Solomon & Gary Turner
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

A queer revisionist retelling of the story of Hercules, for fans of The Song of Achilles, A Thousand Ships and Ariadne.

This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures… everyone’s favorite hero, right?

Well, it’s not.

This is the story of everyone else: Alcmene: Herc’s mother (She has knives... Read more

The Other Mothers

By: Katherine Faulkner
Narrated by: Louise Brealey & Dakota Blue Richards
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

“A deliciously twisted thriller!” —People

A shocking murder rattles an exclusive London neighborhood in this “fast-paced, decadent skewering of upper middle-class motherhood” (Sarah Bonner, New York Times bestselling author) from the author of Greenwich Park.

Four new mothers…one exclusive playgroup…two murders.

New mom Tash is intrigued when a... Read more