Challenge Your Shelf 2024 (Taylor's Version)

The Science of Breakable Things

By: Tae Keller
Narrated by: Jennifer Kim
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY • KIRKUS REVIEWS
 
The spectacular debut novel from the Newbery Award winning author of When You Trap a Tiger. This is an uplifting story about friendship, family, and the complicated science of the heart.

When Natalie’s science teacher suggests that she enter an egg drop... Read more

A Show for Two

By: Tashie Bhuiyan
Narrated by: Ariana Delawari
Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

"Wholly heartwarming and enchanting." —Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends

New from the author of Counting Down with You comes a sparkling YA romance about an aspiring screenwriter who falls for the indie film star who goes undercover at her school.
 
All Mina Rahman wants is to finally... Read more

The Darkening

The Darkening Duology: Book #1

By: Sunya Mara
Narrated by: Rachel Petladwala
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

In this thrilling and epic YA fantasy debut the only hope for a city trapped in the eye of a cursed storm lies with the daughter of failed revolutionaries and a prince terrified of his throne.Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen’s soldiers, they gave her a choice: death... Read more

Shark Heart

A Love Story

By: Emily Habeck
Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Shaun Taylor-Corbett & Soneela Nankani
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“This story is an allegory for grief, loss, and losing what makes you, you. The author makes you feel for the characters instantly and the story breaks your heart several times throughout the book. An interesting part of the book is that parts are set up like a play. Highly recommend this title! Read more

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

A Novel

The Brown Sisters: Book #3

By: Talia Hibbert
Narrated by: Ione Butler
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“If you want an instant mood lifter, these books are for you! Hibbert writes a romance that is both cute and fun and STEAMY. Over the course of three books, she follows three sisters and their love lives. The Brown family is delightfully erratic. The sisters each have their own unique personalities and life troubles though were born into a... Read more

An Ember in the Ashes

An Ember in the Ashes: Book #1

By: Sabaa Tahir
Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham & Steve West
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia... Read more

House of Hunger

By: Alexis Henderson
Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge
Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.

Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where... Read more

To Shape a Dragon's Breath

The First Book of Nampeshiweisit

By: Moniquill Blackgoose
Narrated by: Charley Flyte
Length: 16 hours 52 minutes

“Moniquill Blackgoose expertly crafts a world reflective of our own history but also exists in its own right. A world full of myths, science, culture, conflict, and rebellion. For fans of fantasy, dragons, and alternative histories told from indigenous perspectives. My favorite book of the year! Read more

Middle School's a Drag, You Better Werk!

By: Greg Howard
Narrated by: Michael Crouch
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

In this heartfelt and hilarious new novel from Greg Howard, an enterprising boy starts his own junior talent agency and signs a thirteen-year-old aspiring drag queen as his first client.

Twelve-year-old Mikey Pruitt--president, founder, and CEO of Anything, Inc.--has always been an entrepreneur at heart. Inspired by his grandfather Pap Pruitt,... Read more

The Fifth Season

The Broken Earth: Book #1

By: N. K. Jemisin
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

“This book has the most high altitude world building I’ve ever seen. Tolkien may have written volumes and volumes of history of Middle Earth, but Jemisin’s world building goes beyond - considering how environment shapes culture, civilization, history, systems of oppression. At the same time, the series is so grounded in its utterly compelling... Read more

The Dreamatics

By: Michelle Cuevas
Narrated by: Megan Hilty
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

In this exhilaratingly original novel, a fantastical theatre and its troupe perform a young girl’s dreams, until nightmares take over. Will one devoted stagehand be able to bring joy back into the spotlight?

Have you ever awakened from a dream and thought, what was THAT?! A platypus waddling through my school while singing the word farfanoogle?... Read more

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder: Book #1

By: Holly Jackson
Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny & Various
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an addictive, impossible to put down crime thriller. Jackson’s debut is tightly plotted and filled with wonderful twists. The format of the novel allows you to feel like you are part of the investigation, alongside the great cast of characters. This is a very fun listen start to finish. Read more

Delilah Green Doesn't Care

A Bright Falls Novel: Book #1

By: Ashley Herring Blake
Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

“When Delilah is hired to photograph her stepsister's wedding, she makes the mistake of falling for one of the bridesmaids. This fun and sexy small-town rom-com is perfect if you're looking for something delightfully queer for grown-ass adults. Read more

If Beale Street Could Talk

A Novel

By: James Baldwin
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless” (The New York Times Book Review)."One of the best... Read more

The Invisible String

By: Patrice Karst
Narrated by: Patrice Karst
Length: 12 minutes

With over 1.5 million copies sold, this accessible, bestselling book phenomenon about the unbreakable connections between loved ones has healed generations of children and adults alike. 

Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety,... Read more

Camp Sylvania

Camp Sylvania

By: Julie Murphy
Narrated by: Katie Ladner
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

From Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin’, comes a hilarious and creepy middle grade summer camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp and diet culture. Perfect for fans of Spooky Stories and Starfish.Magnolia “Maggie” Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight . . . if she can just get over her stage fright. This... Read more

Wretched Waterpark

The Sinister Summer Series: Book #1

By: Kiersten White
Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

“Lemony Snicket and Roald Dahl fans rejoice! There’s a new entry in the eerie, slightly bent, odd-ball middle-grade spooky stories. The Sinister Summer series by Kiersten White splashes down with Wretched Waterpark following the adventures of the aptly named Sinister-Winterbottom twins and their teen-aged sister who are dropped off at the worst... Read more

Bloodmarked

The Legendborn Cycle

By: Tracy Deonn
Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
Length: 22 hours 19 minutes

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller!
“Deonn expertly weaves together a universe that both shines a light on the pervasive nature of racism and also harnesses the complexity of Black identity within this space. Deonn writes so much more than simple fantasies or Arthurian retellings.” —Booklist (starred review)

The “worthy successor to an... Read more

The Family Fortuna

By: Lindsay Eagar
Narrated by: Maria Liatis
Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

“Yes, my angel, what a monster you are!”

Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her circus tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She’s the most lucrative act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna.

Avita feeds on the fear, the screams, the gasps. But when a handsome... Read more

In the Dream House

A Memoir

By: Carmen Maria Machado
Narrated by: Carmen Maria Machado
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

“Welcome to the Dream House in this daring new kind of memoir that defies boundaries and boldly discards the conventions of genre. Inside, Carmen Maria Machado bares her soul in all of its pain and beauty, offering an intimate and profoundly vulnerable look at her own life, love, and sexuality. Machado has a gift for exposing the raw nerves and... Read more