Kalli's Favorite Listens - Rediscovered Books

Beating Heart Baby

By: Lio Min
Narrated by: Alejandro Antonio Ruiz & Jensen Silvio
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Lio Min’s Beating Heart Baby is a “dizzying, sexy, and utterly heartfelt” (Mary H. K. Choi) love letter to internet friendships, anime, and indie rock

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy... Read more

Six More Months of June

By: Daisy Garrison
Narrated by: Georgia Garrison & Jesse Aaronson
Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

The program is read by Jesse Aaronson and Georgia Garrison, an actor and the author's sister.

“The narrators work well together, transporting listeners back to high school to endure the teenage experience and all the messy emotions that come with it.” —AudioFile

A romantic debut about the exhilarating highs and messy lows that swirl together when... Read more

Looking for Smoke

By: K. A. Cobell
Narrated by: Julie Lumsden, Katie Anvil Rich, Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Jordan Waunch
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“Great mystery for the Karen McManus and Holly Jackson fans that shines a light on missing and murdered Indigenous women! Perfect don't-know-who-you-can-trust vibes and cast of complex characters, this one isn't to be missed. Read more

skin & bones

a novel

By: Renée Watson
Narrated by: Zenzi Williams
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

“Family, friendship, the many forms of love, betrayal, and triumph. I adored this novel. The short chapters are lyrical to the point of being poetic. Read more

The Fox Wife

A Novel

By: Yangsze Choo
Narrated by: Yangsze Choo
Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

“A moving, deeply emotional story about a woman seeking vengeance for the death of her daughter. Snow is a Fox spirit, an almost immortal being who feeds off qi and are both revered and feared, especially in early 20th century China, at the end of the Qing dynasty. As she seeks her daughter's murderer, a detective with a mysterious tie to foxes... Read more

A Natural History of Dragons

A Memoir by Lady Trent

The Lady Trent Memoirs: Book #1

By: Marie Brennan
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“This is not your conventional fantasy novel with high-flying adventure, magic, and epic battles. Marie Brennan has done a wonderful job writing a fictionalized memoir set in a Victorian-like period, by a young woman who has a love for dragons (which are real), and goes against convention to study them. The narrator is an old woman recalling her... Read more

Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

“Kate DiCamillo at her finest!! My kids and I listened to this and were enraptured by the quirky cast of characters who surround Ferris during her summer between 4th and 5th grade. Her sister is hilariously mischievous, her grandmother endearing, the ghost is mysterious, her uncle creative, her aunt is over the top fabulous, her best friend is a... Read more

City of Ghosts

City of Ghosts

By: Victoria Schwab
Narrated by: Reba Buhr
Length: 5 hours 1 minute

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Schwab comes a sweeping, spooky, evocative adventure, perfect for fans of Stranger Things.Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead . . . and enter the world of spirits. Her... Read more

The Last Cuentista

By: Donna Barba Higuera
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“It’s 2061. Because of their scientific expertise, Petra’s parents have been chosen to accompany a trio of spaceships to colonize a new planet, leaving behind their home—and Petra’s beloved abuelita—in New Mexico just before a comet hits Earth. But even before their ship lifts off, things aren’t going according to plan. Amid the worrying events... Read more

The Anthropocene Reviewed

Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

By: John Green
Narrated by: John Green
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

“I found myself moved by Greene’s intellectual curiosity and humanism. Each review is a tiny, bite-sized memoir that says “I am here, this is my experience." Each essay is a teaspoon of liquid hope, reminding me that the world is filled with wonders large and small. Read more

Fly with Me

A Novel

By: Andie Burke
Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

“I love a romance that has me kicking my feet while also keeping me grounded in my feelings. Fly With Me is so much more than a romance. It tells a story of love and grief, of family both found and chosen. It had so much heart put into it. Read more

Warrior Girl Unearthed

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

“A companion novel to the bestselling Firekeeper's Daughter, I loved this edge of your seat mystery delving into issues of Indigenous artifacts, ancestors and missing girls. Set over the course of a summer Perry Firekeeper-Birch is an intern in for the tribe's affairs and gives us an inside peak at this world. Things heat up quick when she learns... Read more

Cog

By: Greg van Eekhout
Narrated by: James Fouhey
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

“A terrific listen for the whole family, this book would be an awesome road trip book! Join Cog and his friends on their quest to prove that robots deserve to be able to make their own decisions. I really enjoyed this book, it is packed full of laughs and adventure. An insight into what our future with robotics may hold. Read more

Valentine

A Novel

By: Elizabeth Wetmore
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Jenna Lamia
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

“After listening to the first chapter of Elizabeth Wetmore's debut (which I guarantee you will RIP through), it is easy to expect the rest of the book to be either a thriller or a courtroom drama. You would be wrong in these assumptions, but far from disappointed. In February 1976 in Odessa, Texas, after the assault and rape of a... Read more

A Long Petal of the Sea

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

“In this quietly compelling novel, Isabel Allende deftly brings us into the world of the Spanish Civil War and Chilean Revolution, elegantly weaving characters' stories together to produce a stunning tapestry of love, heartbreak, loyalty, and politics. Follow war doctor Victor and accomplished pianist Roser as they struggle down a path that is... Read more

Make a Move, Sunny Park!

By: Jessica Kim
Narrated by: Hannah Choi
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

From the author of Stand Up, Yumi Chung! comes a funny and utterly charming novel about friends—how to make them, how to let go of them, and how to be your own BFF.

This is the story of Sunny Park, a seventh-grade student at Ranchito Mesa Middle who loves the K-pop band Supreme Beat, hanging out with her cool grandma, dancing when no one is... Read more

Nothing to See Here

By: Kevin Wilson
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

“This book was meant to be heard! Wilson creates a narrative in a world so sarcastic and colorful that I would taste cherry cool-aid long after I stopped reading. Flash to me doubled over in my car laughing or sobbing or both at the same time. I actually started to look forward to my hour-long commute every morning just so I could spend time with... Read more

A Deadly Education

A Novel

The Scholomance: Book #1

By: Naomi Novik
Narrated by: Anisha Dadia
Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

“Schools of magic are often dangerous, but few narratives really explore the potential of those hazards. Novik’s take on the fantasy trope displays a school that isn’t just dangerous, but seemingly malevolent. Read more

Violeta [English Edition]

A Novel

By: Isabel Allende
Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

“Before you gas up for your next solo road trip, load up Violeta. With the conversational tone and linear plot line you’ll feel like you’ve got a buddy in the passenger seat who really knows how to tell a story! Read more

Dry

By: Neal Shusterman & Jarrod Shusterman
Narrated by: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman, Jenni Barber, Noah Galvin, Michael Crouch & Kivlighan De Montebello
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“Dry by Neal Shusterman is frightening it its reality. Set in modern day California with a simple thought—what if southern California were to wake up one day, turn on the water faucet to discover that there was NO WATER in the taps. Not absurd at all. Shusterman takes us through a week of “TAP OUT” with a cast of teens in which we see the very... Read more