Staff Picks 2024

The Secrets We Kept: Reese's Book Club

A Novel

By: Lara Prescott
Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò, Carlotta Brentan, Saskia Maarleveld, Jonathan Davis, David Pittu & James Fouhey
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

“This perfect historical novel is made of the most alluring ingredients. First, a divine and doomed love affair between Russian author Boris Pasternak and his muse and secretary, Olga Ivinskaya, a woman immortalized in Pasternak’s epic novel Doctor Zhivago, which was banned in Russia for more than 30 years. Second, two American women typists... Read more

Keep Me

Sinful Manor: Book #1

By: Sara Cate
Narrated by: Kelli Tager & Will Watt
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Obsessed!! Sara Cate does it again!!! Read more

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous

A Novel

By: Mae Marvel
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw
Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

“Hot, heartfelt, and second chances. A look at how health and fame can shape one’s life. Marvel hit this out of the park Read more

If You Can Hear This

By: Faith Gardner
Narrated by: Reba Buhr
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

“I devoured this book. The characters were terrific, the plot was fast paced and engaging. Read more

Wild New World

The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores
Narrated by: Clark Cornell
Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the... Read more

Swift and Saddled

A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel

Rebel Blue Ranch

By: Lyla Sage
Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton & Vanessa Edwin
Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

“Someone PLEASE tell me there is artwork out there of Wes carrying a baby calf in the rain with a wet white t shirt OR of Wes shirtless bottle feeding the calf. I NEED IT!!! I loved this book so much and the tension between Wes and Ada was PALPABLE!! I also just loved how vulnerable they were for one another. Read more

11/22/63

A Novel

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Length: 30 hours 39 minutes

One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

ON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK?

In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular... Read more

The House of the Spirits

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Thom Rivera & Marisol Ramirez
Length: 18 hours 51 minutes

This “spectacular… absorbing and distinguished work…is a unique achievement, both personal witness and possible allegory of the past, present, and future of Latin America” (The New York Times Book Review).

The House of the Spirits, which introduced Isabel Allende as one of the world’s most gifted storytellers, brings to life the triumphs and... Read more

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess

By: Rick Riordan
Narrated by: Jesse Bernstein
Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

In his continuing quest to earn college recommendation letters from the gods, Percy has to pet sit the goddess Hecate's polecat and giant mastiff during Halloween week. What could go wrong? Rick Riordan’s newest Percy Jackson adventure is full of hilarious set pieces, a diverse cast of gods and monsters, and many other delightful tricks and... Read more

The Memory Library

By: Kate Storey
Narrated by: Jilly Bond & Imogen Wilde
Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

‘A gorgeous story full of emotion and a very special library.’ – Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost Bookshop Some stories stay with us forever… For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday,... Read more

Lifeform

By: Jenny Slate
Narrated by: Jenny Slate, George Saunders, Vanessa Bayer & Will Forte
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Comedian and New York Times bestseller Jenny Slate’s wild, hilarious, genre-bending essays read in her singular voice depict life and motherhood as you’ve never seen it before. Featuring narration from friends Vanessa Bayer and Will Forte (“Schumacher 2”), and George Saunders (“The Therapist”).
 
What happened was this: Jenny Slate was a human... Read more

Double Apex

Frontrunners

By: Josie Juniper
Narrated by: Jonathan Lake & Mackenzie Cartwright
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A brilliant engineer and a cocky racecar driver pair enter a forbidden arrangement in this spicy enemies-to-lovers romance.

Phaedra Morgan is one of the best race engineers in Formula 1. She’s a math prodigy with dazzling skill, cutting wit, and no patience for matters of the heart. Of course, her job would be a lot easier if she didn’t keep... Read more

We Do Not Welcome Our Ten-Year-Old Overlord

By: Garth Nix
Narrated by: Thomas Larkin
Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

From master storyteller Garth Nix, the chilling story of a strange object that falls into the wrong hands and has the potential to destroy the world. Perfect for fans of STRANGER THINGS and THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH.

It's not fair. Kim's always lived in the shadow of his younger sister, Eila -- which is not how it's supposed to be. Eila is a... Read more

The Last Murder at the End of the World

A Novel

By: Stuart Turton
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

“The inhabitants of a seemingly idyllic island, perhaps the last people alive on post-apocalyptic Earth, have had their memories stripped of the night before, a night in which their most revered scientist was murdered. Now they have to solve that murder, even if it means finding out they’re the suspect, or the victim’s failsafe that has protected... Read more

The War of the Worlds

By: H. G. Wells
Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own…" So begins The War of the Worlds, the science fiction classic that first proposed the possibility that intelligent life exists on other planets.This... Read more

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

By: Rachel Bloom
Narrated by: Rachel Bloom
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different,"... Read more

So Thirsty

By: Rachel Harrison
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“Do you find yourself always making the safe choice, in men, in jobs, in homes, only to find yourself unsatisfied and unfulfilled? Do you accept less because it’s easier than longing for more? Do you ever want to just act immediately on your worst impulses? Do you want to feel wanted? Chased? This is the book for you! Rachel Harrison... Read more

Graveyard Shift

A Novella

By: M. L. Rio
Narrated by: Jess Nahikian, M. L. Rio, Max Meyers, Si Chen, Susan Dalian & Tim Campbell
Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

“As a regular reader of this brand of horror, it was a little easy to see where the plot was going but even so I really enjoyed the build up of the story as it went on! I appreciated how well the author delved into each of the characters in such a small amount of time, while avoiding making it feel like a rush to get everything out. Rio is a... Read more

Our Green Heart

The Soul and Science of Forests

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Narrated by: Diana Beresford-Kroeger
Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

“This is a great book, and an especially lovely audio book ( because the author narrates it). The balance of science that is matched by the telling of soul in our trees will enchant and inspire you to view the world around us from a different perspective. The life force that is within us is carried through the history of trees, which if we pay... Read more

A Hunger Like No Other

Immortals After Dark: Book #2

By: Kresley Cole
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

For fans of Ali Hazelwood’s Bride and Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians series, an innocent young vampire and a powerful werewolf king are drawn together by an unexpected soul bond in the electrifying start to Kresley Cole’s New York Times bestselling Immortals After Dark series—now with a stunning new cover.

Half vampire, half Valkyrie,... Read more