Belinda's Picks

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong

“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... Read more

The Door-to-Door Bookstore

A Novel

By: Carsten Henn
Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.

Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening hours after closing time, walking through the picturesque alleys of the city. These people... Read more

To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Harper Lee, coming October 21, 2025.Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American ReadHarper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the... Read more

Lost in Time

By: A.G. Riddle
Narrated by: John Skelley
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

“I am not usually drawn to science fiction, but Lost In Time by A.G. Riddle pulled me in by page 1 - the characters are compelling and the story is mind-bending. I found myself at times - which times?!! past, present, future? - re-reading passages to see how that could possibly happen only to remind my startled self that this is science fiction!... Read more

Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“Raw, gritty and masterful, David Joy's latest novel, Those We Thought We Knew, is set in his beloved Appalachian mountains among folks who believe their town is peaceful and nurturing. But that façade is lifted when Toya Gardner, a young Black artist, comes to stay with her grandmother at the family homestead to finish her MFA thesis project.... Read more

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

By: Bonnie Garmus
Narrated by: Miranda Raison, Bonnie Garmus & Pandora Sykes
Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

“Protagonist Elizabeth Zott's confrontations with 1960s patriarchy will resonate with women who lived it, but how she gets by while staying true to herself will inspire women of all ages. Read it — and give copies to all your friends! Read more

The Book Woman's Daughter

A Novel

By: Kim Michele Richardson
Narrated by: Katie Schorr
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“Rooted in her Appalachian upbringing, sixteen-year-old Honey Lovett's fierce and wilful spirit is nearly crushed when the loving adults in her life are taken from her. I raged at the misogyny, bigotry, racism, and ignorance that worked against her, and celebrated her remarkable resilience as she struggled mightily to maintain her independence. Read more

The Librarian Spy

A Novel of World War II

By: Madeline Martin
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

“A U.S. librarian, Ava goes to Portugal to work as a spy for the Resistance in World War II, while Elaine, a newlywed in France, joins the Resistance to produce vital communiques. A gripping story and testament to the extraordinary courage and resilience of ordinary people who risked, and often sacrificed, their lives in a world gone horrifically... Read more

The Ride of Her Life

The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America

By: Elizabeth Letts
Narrated by: Elizabeth Letts & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a “heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography” (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by riding her horse across America.

“[Letts] vividly portrays an audacious woman whose... Read more

Gone to the Woods

Surviving a Lost Childhood

By: Gary Paulsen
Narrated by: Dan Bittner
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

“Any one of the childhood episodes author Gary Paulsen describes would break many. But his resilience and help from people at key moments who likely did not realize their impact allowed him to overcome and succeed. A must-own book for librarians, who impact lives every day. Read more

The Book of Hope

A Survival Guide for Trying Times

Global Icons Series

By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

“Fascinating interview of naturalist Dr Jane Goodall by biographer Douglas Adams. I listened to the Libro.fm edition which is narrated by both. Interesting to learn how she first got interested in studying animal behavior and how the field has changed. Her research at Gombe National Park has given us an in-depth understanding of chimpanzee... Read more

Survival of the Friendliest

Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

By: Brian Hare & Vanessa Woods
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness

“Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring—and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.”—Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge

For most of the approximately... Read more

No Time Like the Future

An Optimist Considers Mortality

By: Michael J. Fox
Narrated by: Michael J. Fox
Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

“With no hint of self-pity, actor Michael J. Fox gives a clear-eyed take on the daily challenges of living with Parkinson's. His honesty and resilience in coping with the physical devastation he faces every waking moment is no less than remarkable. Read more

The Art Thief

A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“Over the course of eight years, master thief Stephane Breitwieser carried out over 200 brazen heists of fine art from museums and cathedrals across Europe! Amassing a private art collection with an estimated value of two billion dollars (in the top floor of his mother's home where he lived with his girlfriend and accomplice), Breitwieser saw... Read more

The Half Moon

A Novel

By: Mary Beth Keane
Narrated by: Norbert Leo Butz & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

“I so desperately want Malcolm and Jess to be happy, almost as much as they yearn to be. Married and living in the small town where they were raised, their marriage is fractured under the burdens that come with life. They do right, they do wrong - will they survive it all, together? I like these people! You will too! Read more

A Wing and a Prayer

The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds

By: Anders Gyllenhaal & Beverly Gyllenhaal
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell & Stephen Graybill
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

“One-third of the number of birds alive 50 years ago in North America are gone. Vanished. Reading this brief, unflinching analysis in A Wing and a Prayer by Anders and Beverly Gyllenhaal stopped me cold. I closed the book and gazed out at my backyard bird feeder. Nearly 2.913 billion fewer birds than in the early 1970s - not here to fly, chirp,... Read more

This Isn't Going to End Well

The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

“Daniel Wallace’s newest work is a combination memoir and biography, telling his own story alongside that of friend and brother-in-law, William Nealy. This Isn’t Going To End Well begins in 1970s Alabama, capturing laissez-faire parenting and the idleness and creativity of childhood at the time. Fast forward to our beloved Chapel Hill, the book... Read more

All the Lost Things

A Novel

By: Michelle Sacks
Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

“A whip-smart little girl who collects words and is deemed advanced at school, Dolly sets out on an adventure of a lifetime with her father and her one million percent best friend Clemesta, (who looks like a plastic horse but is her actual twin because they both have chestnut hair and are fluent in telepathy and can read each other’s thoughts).... Read more

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

A Novel

By: Kim Michele Richardson
Narrated by: Katie Schorr
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

“Based on the true story of the Pack Horse Library Project which operated in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s and 40s, and inspired by the real life “blue people” of Kentucky (a family with a recessive gene that led to methemoglobinemia, a medical condition that turned skin blue), this historical fiction novel follows the life of Cussy Mary... Read more

Hannah's War

By: Jan Eliasberg
Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy
Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

“Through the fictional character of Dr Hannah Weiss, author Jan Eliasberg brings to life the only woman on the team of scientists working with J. Robert Oppenheimer during World War II to harness the power of atomic energy. In a story full of suspenseful twists, unexpected turns and indignant fury, I could not turn the pages fast enough. A must... Read more